umunhum: > The books all say we are not the mind, we are consciousness. The consciousness has access to the universal truths through the ajna. The mind is supp

umunhum: > The books all say we are not the mind, we are consciousness. The consciousness has access to the universal truths through the ajna. The mind is suppose to be a tool of the consciousness. It's job is to tell the consciousness what is going on in the body. Somehow the mind has taken over the consciousness making us believe that the mind and body is all you are. You can intellectually believe that this is not true but until you actually shut down the mind, you cannot utilize the full resources of the consciousness and therefore this is not truth to you but merely beliefs. The contents of the mind is made up of current sensory perceptions and stored sensory perceptions. > When the mind is focused on the stored sensory perceptions, you focus on a time based reality. Your life is consumed by memories or a fantasy based future. I believe shutting down the breath takes care of the stored sensory perceptions or the time based reality. The next step is to shut down the current sensory perceptions or body awareness which gives us our present “reality”. I believe the ability to do that comes after the achievement of kechari stage II and so I can't speak intelligently about this. Most of the senses the body has, sight, hearing, smell and taste are near the tongue. I have read that a circuit is completed when the tongue enters the nasal pharynx. What does this allow us to do?