Mental Discord

Excerpt from Schizophrenia, Alfred J. Parker

Through mental discord the vibration of the body is changed causing disorder in the chemical processes. For instance, nervous interference can change the chemical formula of the digestive juices and thus interfere with the proper breakdown of the foods in the stomach; this changes the chemical content of the food as it passes into the bloodstream, thus interfering with one's health through starving one's system of the vital elements one needs for health. In this case, the doctor notices the chemical lack and endeavours to feed it into the system via the stomach through concentrated doses of the needed element. This method has not worked out because the interference of the mind and nervous system will still not allow the proper absorption of the concentrated chemical; then again, this is trying to treat effect, not cause. Why not learn more about the mind and the nervous system, the body and its chemical phenomena?

A Divine Rule

All life is but an individualization of the Divine Consciousness or the intelligence of the Universal Mind. We have become lost in this individuality so that we fail to understand whence we came; i.e., we fail to see the forest for the trees. For example, in health, medical science is lost in the many forms of sickness and is trying to find the individual cures for the myriad symptoms, thus bypassing cause for effect.

There is one common basic tie linking all things here upon earth, a common bond between the positive and the negative phases of being. This bond of relativity is a mental phenomenon of balance and harmony, or a divine rule that cannot be ignored: the means of deduction, comparison, perspective, creativeness, mastership, and the ability to walk the middle path. There are so many discords in life, millions of problems that we cannot solve because we have become so lost in each individual phase that we have failed to find the basic yet overall reason for all problems.


Thought for the Day

  • I cannot stress too deeply the importance of one's constructive mental attitude toward life. One gets out of life only what one puts into it; everything must be seeded in different degrees. Always express happy thoughts and keep an uncomplaining mind. A complaining mind is a destructive one-destructive to health and happiness. How easily we may be made unhappy depends upon the weakness and ignorance of our own minds. Happy thoughts expressed are like the sunbeams that create warmth-that stimulate one's sense of well being and make us feel happy. Give happiness and you will receive it in return: it is a natural phenomenon of a balanced and well-ordered mind. Do not complain; instead seek the solution to the problem, and then you can do something constructive about it. This can best be accomplished by forgetting self; too much false value is placed upon self and personality, thus developing an overrated and inflated ego that sees all things in proportion to its own ignorance. –Alfred J. Parker

  • Always be individual; never do things that are not right just to be sociable. Being honest with yourself and the Principle is your first duty. –Alfred J. Parker

  • There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles such as famine and disease, and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts. –Louis L'Amour

  • Learn to think fearlessly; there is no subject too spiritual, no subject that cannot stand the analysis of mind; spirit depends upon the channel, mind, for reality. What is more real than logic? –Alfred J. Parker

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