The higher level of consciousness is the one that includes the lower level and has the fewest rules. When a higher level of consciousness is interacting with a lower level of consciousness too rapidly, the lower level on the way to meet it can experience a kind of altitude sickness. The altitude sickness is unconscious reactivity. It begins with not hearing what was said, then not understanding, then getting angry, then attacking and persecuting.
The math of this interaction is based on the nature of the control-based mind, which has a tendency to explode. When it explodes, it explodes into a kind of righteous indignation, fortified by a legalism that justifies the fact that it could not go to the level of consciousness where it could find acceptance of another viewpoint.
This explosive process escalates quickly along a predictable path, beginning with not hearing. Having never had access to intuitive wisdom, the control-based mind is reliant on rules and regulations. It can only recognize what it already knows. When it feels this foreign consciousness attempting to interact with it, it senses a potency of truth it does not understand. It cannot make sense of its speech, and becomes angry because it feels confused, inadequate, or threatened.
The control-based mind mounts an immune response to protect itself, lest it be cast out into a sea of chaos, or worse, die. The control-based mind will attack, blame, or jab at its imagined foe with whatever it can muster, all in an attempt to have this oppressor relent. It will dig in its heels, insisting this other consciousness or its implied beliefs are objectively wrong.
It cannot imagine admitting that behind control is desire, a desire to express or be what the other party is expressing, a desire to join it. Its only recourse is to resort to victimhood by separating. It will demonize the threat it senses in the higher level of consciousness, then demonize that threat externally in others.
The warden of the mind is always guarding the consciousness it inhabits, not the people outside. It is always imprisoning under the guise of keeping us—our consciousness—safe. It operates from a premise that if we were to believe something else or something different, the world as we know it wouldn't exist, therefore we are in danger. Both the individual as well as the collective have sets of ideas that operate from the tumescent or control-based mind, whereby social agreement or legalism stand in place of truth.
The truth is that divinity—inherent rightness—is in all things, and it is our job to find it rather than attempt to manufacture it by living according to ideas of right or wrong. These ideas necessarily block the very intimacy that would inform us. Only by getting intimate with someone or something, an aspect of ourselves or that of another, are we able to get inside it. And only by getting inside it, can we love it. We cannot love anything from the outside, and right and wrong is too dense of an identity to enter into the sublime aspect located in the center of everything.
More often than not, what we deem as protection against evil is itself evil—evil in the sense that it alienates us from real-time experience, with judgment standing in place of actual contact. Not only this, but it prevents the love that would heal the things we deem negative or dark from ever entering our consciousness, because love and judgment cannot occupy the same space.
The tumescent mind is a shortcut mind, sorting and filtering all of reality into good or bad. By doing this it loses the truth of reality itself with the innumerable gradients located in all things. We know this truth in ourselves—that we are neither all good nor bad—and yet we choose to cast that lens on our reality.
As the expression of Eros increases, so does the raw expression of unadulterated truth, irrespective of what it's about. This truth threatens the control-based mind, which then reacts through legalistic persecution. It is the predictable nature of its process to make others wrong, then to persecute and punish. This is essential in understanding how the reactive mechanism of the control-based mind works.
