What Is The ‘Mental Plane’ As Per The

Observer?

Ayad Gharbawi

January 21 2010 – Damascus, Syria

This is a concept I wish to

introduce, given my articles on Consciousness Studies.

Have you ever noticed that you start

your day and you are in a certain mood, and then some several hours

later, by the evening, you find yourself in a completely different mood?

Yes, that is certainly common. But, wait a minute. Notice some basic aspects

here:

1.   

Notice the vast difference in moods - between the

morning and the evening.

2.   

Notice, that more often than not, the Observer, does

not remember that mood that he was in during the day timeline– unless,

of course, if something traumatic occurs.

3.   

Indeed, when questioned or asked, about the mood that

he was in during the morning, he will find himself surprised that he was

indeed, in ‘that mood’ at that time, for, from the mood that he is now,

which is evening time, he will be so far distant from the memory of that

morning mood, so that it will seem somewhat ‘foreign’ to him. He may even ask

himself: ‘Did I really feel and think that way early this morning?’

4.   

Notice, that the word ‘mood’ will soon be far

more thoroughly explained in this particular article, so if there is a sense of

ambiguity here over that word, please wait, and I shall soon explain what I

mean.

I will argue that there has been changes

in ‘mental planes’ of the person involved.

I will now present another example of

what I define as the mental plane (mp).

An Observer is in a certain ‘mood’,

and then goes to see an emotion-enticing film. He leaves the cinema and is, not

surprisingly, affected emotionally speaking by the contents of the film he saw.

We can, therefore, say, that our

Observer (Ob) who existed on being in a mental plane one (mp1), then did change

into mental state of being in (mp2) after he finished seeing the emotion-filled

film.

That is a beginning of our

explanation for the mental plane (mp).

This is the basis of my argument –

but this is not my final explanation of what the mental plane is.

Now, we need to explain, what exactly

is this ‘Mental Plane’?

And how does one (mp) differ from

another (mp)?

Let us go back to that word ‘mood’.

What does that mean? Well, that means that Observer has a collection of

emotions, thoughts and feelings that make him antagonistic and amicable to

certain influences and attributes and emotions that may impinge on him.

The collective summation of these mutually

antagonistic and mutually amicable emotions in relation to the Observer’s Mind and

to his outside world, can well lead us outsiders, to classify or label the

Observer in question as being ‘angry’, or ‘happy’ or ‘introverted’ etc.

That is fine and well, for our point

of view – that is, we the outsiders.

But what about that which is going

inside the mind of our Observer?

For inside the Observer’s Mind, we

enter an entirely different world.

We now inevitably must ask: what,

then, are the difference/s between the ‘mood’ and ‘mental plane’ as per the

individual involved?

And here, the paths of the mood and

the mental plane (mp) do part ways in profound ways.

A mood is a collection of emotions,

feelings and other Constituents of the Mind (CoM) that are not as powerful as

the existence of the Mental Plane (mp).

One of the most obvious definition of

what the (mp) is when a person becomes intoxicated or is under the influence of

mind-altering drugs. Clearly the consumer has different (mp) here than before

he consumed these items.

But, it need not always be drugs and

alcohol.

Take bereavement. Some relative of

yours dies. You suddenly find yourself under a massive emotional change in your

mind, mood, emotions and other (CoM). How long this lasts, is not relevant here,

for Time will not be discussed here.

Let us first of all look at our

Observer (Ob) as he sits there and nothing of any importance is really

happening to him:

Mt1)  (

 +

) }

) .

In other words, Observer (Ob) is

experiencing something routine and without any emotions, negative or positive. He

is looking at his pleasant surroundings and is in a neutral mood.

Next, (Ob) hears that one of his

relatives has just died:

Mt2) 

 {

} ].

The

 ) means: it is a particular Event (Ev) while

the lower number (1) signifies what exactly this event is, which in our

example, is the fact that our Observer (Ob) has just heard the news of the

death in his family.  The top (-1)

implies that this particular Event is of a negative flavour.

Suddenly, upon hearing this awful

news, our Observer is immediately affected, in negative ways, to this sad news.

We can state, within our fluid mind matrix model (f3m) the following

that can go on in the mind of our Observer:

Mt3)    (

{ 

 } ).

Notice, I am deliberately not putting

in the Time Frame here (tf), as our present study here wishes to concentrate on

the mere understanding of how a mental plane is produced., without adding on

the complicating factor of the time frame (tf).

In the above mental transaction (mt3),

we find that Observer (Ob) has, within his mind, 6 Constituents of the Mind

(CoM). Notice, that he experiences three different Emotions (Em), (Em1), (Em2)

and (Em3). That means these 3 emotions are different emotions – they are all

different emotions from one another. Fine. Next, notice, that each Emotion (Em)

has differing degrees of negative intensities – thus (Em1 = -1) in terms of its

negative flavour; whilst (Em2 = -3) which signifies that is a far more bitter

emotion for our Observer. Finally, Emotion 3 (Em3) has flavour negativity of

(-2). Next, we observe, that within our Fluid Mind Matrix Model, (Ob)

experiences 2 memories and both are totally different in their images and,

again, both are negative. Finally, Observer (Ob) experiences a negative thought

(t1 = -1) which is also, not surprisingly negative, given the situation our

(Ob) is in.

Now how do all these activities

factor in with our concept of the Mental Plane?

Clearly, when, during Mental

Transaction 1 (mt1), Observer (Ob) was feeling neutral:

Mt4)   (

 +

) }

) 

(

 +

) }

) 

.

Thus, in our above mental

transaction, our Observer, is in a neutral mood, and we can say that he was in

a Mental Plane condition/flavour of being neutral, or represented by our zero.

However, after hearing the grievous

news, we have seen the welter of emotions, thoughts and memories our Observer

undergoes, and so we can say:

 Mt5)   

(

{ 

 } ).

And that can only mean:

Mt6)        (

{ 

 } ) 

.

Thus, we can now see, given the Fluid

Mind Matrix Model (f3m) that is whirling, interacting and reacting within the

mind of our Observer, his ‘Mind’ has now clearly changed, given the awful news

he has heard, and therefore, we can justifiably state that our Observer,

following his hearing of the negative news (Ev-2), has now had his entire mind

– his entire feeling of his consciousness, his entire feeling of his ‘Self’,

his entire feeling of his own beingness - has changed into another mental realm,

plane, than before he heard of the news, and that is exactly why we must

describe the difference in the reality and structure of the mind of our

Observer before and after hearing the news, as being so totally and radically

different, and therefore as warranting our classifying the two differing mental

situations as being of two minds – that is, these two minds are

existing, feeling, interacting, experiencing different mental planes’. And by

the latter – or, Mental Plane - I mean the complete totality of the feeling,

that only exists for our particular Observer, of ‘what I am being, feeling,

experiencing of “who” I am’ at this particular time’.

What is the importance of the (mp)?

The (mp) is usually short lived in

people. Examples abound: we’ve already mentioned intoxicating drink and drugs;

an emotional movie; any emotional scene (like witnessing a fight, an accident

or a death), a charismatic person who has the ability of being inspirational –

these are all examples of when a person enters a new mental plane.

Where the danger exists is when the

affected person continues to be under the influence of the (mp) – this, of

course happens with extremely charismatic leaders or individuals. Or, this can

happen with ‘love’. Yes, when a person is besotted with another person and all

for the wrong reason and simply cannot extricate himself from that euphoric

feeling he gets every time he is with ‘his’ love and whenever he thinks of

‘his’ love.

The question of ‘false reality’ inevitably

arises here, and we are soon on our way to the next obvious question, which is,

very well, but what then do you mean by ‘reality’?

All I can say here – deliberately leaving

the question of ‘reality’ aside – is that if the (mp) persists in the mind of the

affected person and it is affecting him in negative ways, then he ought to try to

get rid of the particular (mp).