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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
Anastasia: Through the prism of material thinking? Well said, and the essence is
expressed so accurately.
Rigden: Yes. As you know, the human brain is tuned to the frequency of the Animal
nature since birth. Although it does not mean that one cannot change these settings later.
One can. The brain is programmed to several states of consciousness. But change is
possible only through personal desire and aspiration of man himself. For the most part,
people do not even know about all this; that is why during their lives they behave just
like any other intelligent matter. When a person encounters Knowledge which broadens
his perception of the world, the first thing that triggers in him is the Animal nature.
Roughly speaking, the Animal nature “rears”, revealing the first human vice – pride, so
as not to lose its power over man. The person thinks that he already knows everything
and can do it all. But when he plunges into the Knowledge, he understands that this is
far from the truth and that such initial judgement was wrong.
Anastasia: Yes, pride is a bane of many people, and everyone is exposed to it to some
degree. I believe that everyone needs to know their secret enemy in the face at least in
order to understand oneself and one’s nature better. You once mentioned in a
conversation that pride is a manifestation of the Animal mind’s control over a person.
Rigden: That is true. It is very difficult for man to realise that what he considers his own
thoughts, which form his “Self”, is a mere result of his choice between the Will of the
Spiritual nature and the Will of the Animal nature. This is particularly difficult to
understand for people who since their childhood have lived in a society with the relevant
consumer priorities, such as, for instance, priorities of materialistic psychology and
related values. It is just as difficult for those whose consciousness is limited by one
religious, philosophical or other concept built on the principles of dominance of values
of the material world, which have been covered with spiritual postulates.
It is pride that motivates many thoughts of man. Pride is a feeling. A feeling as such is a
force, energy; this is the basis on which the dominant thought arises. It is very important
what a thought is “coloured” with – desires of the Animal nature or desires of the
Spiritual nature. After all, this determines whether the feeling of, for example, dignity
will turn into pride and a sense of self-love, self-exaltation over others, or into the
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