Three Stories of Be-ing

In our classes we frequently talk about psycho-dynamism, vital-dynamism, and the Power-to-be-Conscious. In Practice of the Way, Vitvan gives a detailed definition to help us better define our referent:

"How do we start to get that way? Stop looking ‘out.’ Put away all tendencies to look ‘out,’ and start with just the idea: There is a power with which I feel and desire and pursue ‘objects’ and ‘things.’ There is a power with which I act. You can deny everything else in the world, in the universe, but you cannot deny the power with which you deny. How simple.

Then we learn the way that the power functions in our respective selves. In the vital sense, that power functions in the configuration and the configurational processes. What holds the molecules, the atoms, the electrons and protons together in this configuration that you call your body? What holds them together? There’s a vital force that holds them together. We label it the vital dynamism, which is the Power-to-be-conscious functioning on the configurational level. Now, that’s just the ground floor of the triune man.

With what power do we feel, desire, love, react and think? Now, we’ve stepped up one level to the psychological processes—the Power-to-be-conscious functioning in the psychic nature. We simply give another label to it when it motivates all actions and functions on the psychic-level, we call it the psycho-dynamism, but it’s the same Power-to-be-conscious.

Now, the top story—the Mind level. Never identify the label Mind with intellect, mentations or ratiocinations. Keep the mental sharply differentiated from the Mind. Mind does not think; the thinking processes belong to the mental, the psychic nature. Mind does not think; Mind knows. By nature, Mind is aware -- aware to the limit of the state in which the Power-to-be-conscious is conscious.

Please catch the implication of that last remark. The Mind knows, but not everything, for that’s Christian Science where they reify the phrase Infinite Mind and Infinite Idea. The Mind is unlimited only if the state of consciousness is also unlimited. The Mind, on this Mind level above the ratiocination, mentation and mental activities, is aware to the limits of its field which are determined by the state in which it is conscious of Be-ing..."