First and Second Mind:

just thinking about it

“Well the first thought that occurs

comes wrapped in original insight-

a source blueprint from on high

as a reflection of the most divine

that filters down to settle around

the consciousness so entwined

with aspects and matters of time   

and space and the personal race.”

 On second thoughts, he began,

“What can I say to make it clear

that which I first desire to be dear

passes through fingers like sand

and that which I value as I ought

escape me like birds that can fly

and resolutions repeatedly sought 

vanish in upward vapors on high.”

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

I think what we have here is a look at the levels of consciousness. The First Mind is Infinite, The Ground of Being, or as the formally religious call it, God. The second mind is our everyday waking consciousness, that which identifies with a particular body. It cannot grasp completely the thoughts of the first mind, however hard it tries. Perhaps the purpose of life is hidden in this struggle.

[carl]

Came about from some of my reading - your explanation is very clear and much appreciated - more so than what I have been reading or perhaps I should say than what I understood of what I have been reading - in any event your review is exactly what I was trying to get across - I will add it to my notes on the working page of my poem - many thanks -carl