Posted by Colin Wilson’s 1967 classic psychological novel The Mind Parasites remains essential reading more than fifty years on. Researchers into mind programming should keep this book handy.
What Wilson was referring to in his use of the words “the mind” was really “the brain”, as all these years later, those in the spiritual community tend to refer to the “mind” as “consciousness”, which is outside the body, rather than “the brain” which forms a part of the body.
The brain and the physical body have a limited lifespan, whereas ‘consciousness’, the mind, the higher self, (which are all essential ingredients of “the soul”) always survive the death of the human body which hosts the soul for a lifetime.
The brain is the mechanism by which humans learn while living within the “Earth Life System” (as Robert Munroe referred to life on earth) and our experiences, learning, mistakes, successes and so on are all downloaded into our consciousness, our mind, and are the only things that survive the death of our body.
Evolution and development of our souls comes quickly once we understand that we are here to learn and not to allow ourselves to get caught up in the trivialities of daily living, or worry about failures. Nothing we do is a failure, it is only “learning”.
The Mind Parasites explores the following ideas and questions:
What things are entering into our minds and changing us; or undermining our planned path through life; or blocking our realisation that things are not right on earth?
There are of course forces whose only purpose is to prevent us from discovering the world within us, our spirituality, and to keep our attention directed outwards.
But it is more than that, because once we realise that the structure of the world isn’t right, we are a danger to the Controllers. They don’t want people stepping outside the matrix, the quarantined world we are caught in.
And these realisations, as Wilson says, take years of de-programming before the veil of deception is lifted. Uncovering lies and deception is a long and hard road.
But for those that attempt to seek the hidden truths of life on earth, they will realise a deeper truth: the more the veil is lifted, the deeper the rabbit hole becomes. The more one knows, the more one realises that the programming of humanity is far beyond what most people can comprehend. Even our deepest beliefs are revealed to be lies.
People need to be kept enmeshed in their world of petty worries. We are conditioned not just by the system, but by our friends, neighbours and parents too of course, which “saves the parasites work” (as Wilson puts it).
As the 1998 study by the US Army War College concluded: “the body is capable not only of being deceived, manipulated or misinformed but also shut down or destroyed – just like any other data-processing system”
The hero of Wilson’s novel says (when referring to the parasites, the controllers of our minds):
“Everything depends on the human race taking its mental sickness for granted as a natural condition. Once it begins to question it, to fight it, nothing will stand in its way”.
That was written in 1967 but could just as easily have been written today. The reality though is that few really want to take “the red pill”. Most human brains are lazy. They want an easy life.
Ultimately, the only thing that matters is the mind. That is all we take with us when we transition out of our current body.
So, whilst living, we should learn to become “travellers of the mind”, and escape the parasites which are programming us all for purposes of limiting our development.
As Wilson says, “man’s true home is the mind”.
We should make every effort while living to become familiar with it. After all, it is our real “inner self”.
26 June 2023
[Book review: Colin Wilson – “The Mind Parasites”]
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