... repeated constantly in the operations of the physical mind, and since the physical mind is like a layer on the mind of the cells, it covers up the normal dumb occult consciousness of the cellular mind; the cellular mind, too, under the magic spell of the physical mind betrays a reflected pessimism. But as Mother discovered, pessimism and the resultant illness, disease or death do not form a normal part... was very effective in fixing the Supramental Force in the physical. In the physical, there are several distinguishable elements: the gross physical, the subtle physical, the physical mind and the cellular mind. The gross physical is what we see with our physical eyes and what we touch with our skin and perceive with our physical senses. The subtle physical is ________________ ¹ Ibid., pp... our perception of sensations possible. It is also called sometimes by Sri Aurobindo mental-physical, since it subserves the physical, and it is as mechanical and repetitive as the physical. The cellular mind is the mind of the cells, the mind which is overtly active in the animals, but which has been overlaid in our human psychology by the physical mind. The physical mind, as a product of evolution ...
... that this is not a figure but the shadow thrown by a secret reality. 28 This cellular mind is the missing link between the purely material substance and the primary form of evolved Mind we call the physical Mind. It is through the body that one communicates with the rest of the world, through this cellular mind. It is what makes everything communicate (except us). If we were suddenly reduced to... body itself could find the solution. And her old muzzled filariasis, buried for twenty years, quietly returned from the body's subconscient. The earth itself must find its own miracle. The Cellular Mind This long school of pain was going to accelerate the movement and bring Mother to a major double discovery which seems like nothing—but it is always like that, the discoveries in the body seem... not the cerebral level of our intellectual mind: a vibration that She felt or experienced in her body, and which was subsequently translated by words, sensations and images. A corporeal mind. A cellular mind, she would say, or even atomic. Sri Aurobindo had made the same discovery: And there is too an obscure mind of the body, of the very cells, molecules, corpuscules. Haeckel, the German materialist ...
... is related to Matter's first conscious efforts to become "alive." Yet unfortunately, the bit of initiative this cellular mind does have is always used to attract every possible disorder – through fear – and then to attract death's final unconsciousness as a relief. Yet this cellular mind, which has quite a formidable power if we begin to reflect upon it, likes ants upon an elephant, can put its absurd... then a "physical mind" that repeats the same incidents a thousand times over like a broken record. But there is a deeper layer still, a mental bedrock, as it were, that Sri Aurobindo calls the cellular mind . This is actually a mind of the cells or of groups of cells, very similar to the physical mind in its inexhaustible capacity for repeating the same old refrains, but not limited to the brain area... × 363 Hence the usefulness of a mantra, which can direct a vibration of a certain intensity to any point in the body, or to all points, if the cellular mind picks it up. × 364 Letters on Yoga, 22:340 ...
... instance, when you speak of the "deep blue light" in the physical mind, is it the same cellular mind? I don't think so. Because it's also through japa, mantras, the awakening of the physical consciousness, that the Tantric power operates. I think their power comes from a higher layer [higher than the cellular mind]. Because their action is very cerebral: its effect is always here ( gesture at... cerebral. But how does that power act in Matter? Because they do have a power over Matter. Because it's very material—the brain is material! It's just a little less mechanical than the cellular mind. But it Is material; it isn't the higher mind, certainly: it's a mind confined to the body ( same gesture to the temples ). But the mind I was speaking of, the body-mind, is EVERYWHERE, in every ...
... you understand? It is the most material part, the one that borders on the mind... (what can we call this mind?), we can't even call it “corporeal mind”: it is the mind of the cells, a cellular mind. This cellular mind exists in animals, and there is even a faint beginning (but very faint, like a promise) in plants: they respond to a mental action. They respond. As soon as Life manifests, there is... special FORM of your body, by atavism, and then fully developed by education. No, the physical mind, as soon as you do an integral yoga, you are obliged to deal with it, while this material, cellular mind, I can assure you that it's absolutely new! Absolutely new. It is the mind that was like an uncoordinated substance, with a constant, unorganized activity ( Mother gestures to show a constant ...
... which is our “accident” is also the key to demolishing the original cage. Instead of letting the Power coil up as usual, as it does in other mammals, and follow the small circuit of the simple cellular Mind which endlessly repeats its seasons, marriages, urges and impulses within an open milieu where everything communicates, “feels,” “responds” and lives in a certain harmony that could well seem divine... Hence all the complications, distortions, suffocations, fears and what not, which slowly came to build up the leaden cage of the physical Mind, from the Pleistocene on, to such an extent that the cellular Mind could not even spin its simple, healthy habits without the other one interfering and terrorizing, medicalizing, hypnotizing and deeply traumatizing everything, with all the artifices made necessary... with it came a sort of suggestion of Annihilation, of Nothingness: of eternal Peace [the physical Mind’s great aspiration: the immobility of stone]. And it swept all that away [yes, it is the cellular mind itself that does the sweeping away], as if the whole body straightened up: “Ah, but that's not it! That's not what I want. I want ... ” (and then there was a dazzling burst of light—a dazzling ...
... Sri Aurobindo. Douce August 24, 1974 Something that is neither Good nor Evil — nor Light struggling against Darkness, nor Darkness claiming its right — an Ally apart from all that: the cellular mind? the body. September 4, 1974 (Note from Sujata) Page 103 ... Poor Rajabhai. 38 They are hounding him. A spy in the Workshop. It is a Bengali boy. I’ll give you the details... that is where I receive their sticky, slimy and vicious waves one after the other. So I am made to work in this area, I have to go through this area or rather this layer of mud to reach the cellular Mind. Strangely enough, it is mostly when I do the “japa-walk” that these waves become extraordinarily perceptible, inflated, as it were, as if at that very moment I touched the “pure” thing, the ...
... key. It is the physical mind. The first “mentalization” of matter. It is the barrier. And at the same time, it is the way toward an even more radical discovery, an even deeper layer: that of the cellular mind which not only contains the power to undo our old habits of misfortune, but to undo the typal habit of each species, and finally the old habit of dying. 5 The Physical Mind... may call “the transfer of power”: it is the old power that withdraws. And then, until the body adapts to the new power, there is a period which is, well, critical.... The minutes are long. This cellular mind, I can assure you, is absolutely new — absolutely new. A new body being built from below, but so silently and invisibly, by a slow and innumerable formation of new microscopic ways of being in ...
... Purification of the Cells Mother or The New Species - II 13. The Paths of Universalization The web was not going to be undone in a day and the pure cellular mind simply appear, released from the hypnotism of the physical mind. That would have to wait until 1965. The true body has to be wrested from the night of the world, from the whole world. For the obstacles... we are, before the inevitable physical Mind, the remarkable something that was formed with man and caused the transition from animal to man. There is no physical mind in animals; there is only a cellular mind. The cage exists only for us. The "Inconscient," which every tradition places at the beginning of time like a kind of primal rock, is in fact a human phenomenon. It is a phenomenon of the physical ...
... infinite layers representing the entire formation of the Mind throughout evolution, down to the deepest layer, a first Mind in Matter, what Sri Aurobindo would call the "body-mind” and Mother the “cellular mind,” that which holds the secret of our future (that new "level of understanding”) and probably the key to our next mutation. But as always, the deepest shows up last, the primal or original is the... going to uncover yet another, deeper layer, well hidden beneath the thinking racket of the first one, which She would not so easily penetrate. It is the “physical mind.” The last barrier before the cellular mind, our next evolutionary secret: a liberation, yes—but a genetic one. It would take her years, and the presence of Sri Aurobindo, to cross this next barrier. But the path of descent was open. ...
... we can get through that layer, we discover what Mother and Sri Aurobindo called the "cellular mind." That is, a cellular consciousness that can obey A DIFFERENT KIND of stimulation. Towarnicki: A different program. Yes, a different program. Instead of a mortal and catastrophic program, that cellular mind can obey a solar vibration, a vibration of joy, a vibration of love. Instead of weaving ...
... mind, you must understand. It is the most material part touching the mind.... How can one call this "mind"? You cannot even call it the bodily mind―it is the mind of the cells, it is a cellular mind. This cellular mind exists in animals, and even a little (very little, as a promise) beginning in the plants—they respond to a mental action. They do respond. As soon as Life manifests, there is already ...
... is too early to speak. ( After a silence ) The movements of the body almost in their totality are habitual movements. Behind, there is the consciousness of the physical mind (what I call the "cellular mind"), which is itself constantly conscious of the divine Presence and is keen on accepting nothing but That; so a whole work is going on for changing, shifting the origin of the movements. I mean to ...
... "was" Sri Aurobindo's feet (see in particular Agenda VI , March 10, 1965 ). × This is the pure cellular mind. ...
... material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained in a document of more than 6000 pages, published in 13 volumes. This is L’Agenda de Mere (Mother’s Agenda), an account of her ...
... the material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained in a document of more than 6000 pages, published in 13 volumes. This is L'Agenda de Mère (Mother's Agenda), an account of her ext ...
... material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained in a document of more than 6000 pages, published in 13 volumes. This is L'Agenda de Mere (Mother's Agenda}, an account of her ext ...
... instruments for the stabilization of the supramental Light and Force in material Nature. 105 It is Mother’s whole experience: once delivered from the hypnotism of the physical Mind, this corporeal, cellular mind began to fix the supramental vibration and form a new body. It began to repeat the Mantra as invariably as its old catastrophes. It is the stabilizer. That is why that mind alone was left, She ...
... end. It's too early to speak. ( After a silence ) The near totality of the body's movements are movements of habit. Behind, there is the consciousness of the physical mind (what I call the "cellular mind") which is constantly conscious of the divine Presence and anxious to allow nothing but That; then a whole work is going on to change, to shift the origin of movements. I mean that instead of them ...
... them here (all those I wrote here in 1914): it seems to me cold and dry... yes, dry, lifeless. It's luminous, it's lovely, pleasant, but it's cold, lifeless. Whereas this aspiration here [in the cellular mind], oh, it has a power—a power of realization—quite an extraordinary power. If this becomes organized, it will be possible to do something. There is an accumulated power there. ( silence ) And ...
... mental consciousness which is working in the cells of the body. And such a meaning is even explicitly mentioned by her in April 1967: "there is the consciousness of the physical mind (what I call cellular mind)..."¹ But "the physical mind" figuring in the note sent from her by Nolini to me in 1953 is surely a different proposition. What it was may be perceived from her declaration to me on an earlier ...
... and spiritual researches required for realizing human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. The Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained in a document of more than six thousand pages, published in Thirteen Volumes. This is L'Agenda de Mere (Mother's Agenda), an account ...
... flexible structures in order to give a concrete shape to Sri Aurobindo's concept of integral education. In 1958, she entered upon the "Yoga of the Cells" which led her to the discovery of "a cellular mind" capable of reconstructing the nature of the body. From 1958 to 1973, she slowly uncovered the "Great Passage" to the next species and a new mode of life in Matter. An authentic and scientifically ...
... that the desired change was from a habit thousands of years old, "the automatism of the material consciousness which is, yes, dramatic, almost catastrophic", to the automatism generated in the "cellular mind" by its being "constantly conscious of... the divine Presence and Consciousness". But in all attempts at elucidation words were apt to deform everything: From time to time... all of a sudden: ...
... good sense—all this must cease to have any meaning. But the meaning has to be undone in the body, this sort of hypnotism of the physical Mind that imprisons the free and clear consciousness of the cellular Mind for which all this simply does not exist. One goes into the other room, and it no longer exists. Another life in life. We must be aware of what is. There is an "I wish" to be discovered ...
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