生活中「脫離心智」的好處：【「白色的比喻」the White Parable】-２/2 篇
尼爾：但難道我被單獨放在那白色房間裡時，我的頭腦不會料想到底發生什麼事嗎？它難道不會說「嘿，我是在一間白色房間裡，事實不過如此。放鬆去享受它吧」？
當然，一開始會。但很快的，在缺乏任何進來的資訊之下，頭腦無從得知該怎麼想。終究，處在那全然白色的空間裡，那份空洞、空無和孤單會影響它。
你知道你們的世界曾發明出最厲害的懲罰方式之一是什麼嗎？
尼爾：單獨拘禁。
一點都沒錯。你們無法忍受長期地孤單一人。
尼爾：在不人道監獄中的單人牢房裡，甚至連燈光都沒有。門是緊閉著，你是在絕對的黑暗中。沒東西讀，無事可做，根本沒有任何東西。
由於思考即是創造，你會停止創造你的實相，因為頭腦心智必須有資料才能創造。你們稱自己的心智創造為結論，而當它無法得出任何結論時，你會離開它——你會「脫離你的心智」（out of your mind）。
然而，將自己從心智中抽離並非總是不好。在所有偉大洞見冒出的時刻，你們都是脫離心智的。
尼爾：呃，請再說一遍？
難道你以為洞見是來自你們的頭腦？不會吧？
尼爾：唔，我一向以為……
這正是問題所在，問題就在這裡！你一向以頭腦在思考。試試看偶爾不去想！試試看只是 being （Try simply being. 試著處在心智以外的範疇）。
當你只是與一個問題「同在」 （ just “be” with a problem ）而非持續思考它時，才是最偉大洞見進來的時候。那是因為思考是一種「創作的過程」，而 being 是個「覺知的狀態」。
尼爾：我不大明白。請幫助我理解。我以為不思考才是問題所在，在那白色房間裡的傢伙不是都快發瘋了嗎？
我沒說他發瘋（ crazy ），是你說的。我說他離開了他的頭腦心智。他停止創造他的實相。因為他毫無資料。
如果他停止創造他的實相相當長一段時間，那又是另一回事。但如果他只是這樣做一小段時間？一個短暫的片刻？這樣的一種「片刻的暫停」，是非常有幫助的…
摘自《與神為友》第9章
Neale: But wouldn’t my mind figure out what was going on if I was placed alone in that white room? Wouldn’t it say, “Hey, I’m in a white room, that’s all. Relax and enjoy it”?
It would at first, of course. But soon, in the absence of any more incoming data, it would not know what to think. Ultimately, the whiteness, the emptiness, the nothingness, the aloneness would get to it.
Do you know one of the greatest punishments your own world has devised?
Neale: Solitary confinement.
Exactly. You cannot stand being alone for extended periods.
Neale: In the most inhumane prisons, there is not even light in solitary. The door is closed, and you are in utter darkness. Nothing to read, nothing to do, nothing else at all.
Since thinking is creating, you would stop creating your reality, because your mind must have data in order to create. You call your mind’s creations conclusions, and when it could not come to any conclusions, you would leave it—you would go “out of your mind.”
And yet, leaving your mind is not always bad. You do it in all your moments of great insight.
Neale: Uh, come again?
You don’t believe that insight comes from your mind, do you?
Neale: Well, I’ve always thought…
That’s been the problem, right there! You’ve always thought. Try notthinking once in a while! Try simply being.
It is when you just “be” with a problem, rather than keep thinking about it, that the greatest insight comes. That’s because thinking is a creative process, and being is a state of awareness.
Neale: I don’t quite understand. Help me understand. I thought not being able to think was the problem. The guy in the white room goes crazy.
I didn’t say he goes crazy. You said that. I said he leaves his mind. He stops creating his reality, because he has no data.
Now, if he stopped creating his reality for an extended period, that would be one thing. But what if he did this for only a moment? For a brief period? Would such a “time out” help him…
