Illustration: Tree of Mind
Ra uses a tree’s anatomy as a metaphor to convey the relationship and hierarchical structure of the conscious and unconscious minds, including terminology of “roots” and “trunk.” This illustration is designed to creatively imagine Ra’s conception of the mind as a tree. Moving from top to bottom:
- The individual conscious mind that includes the trunk but that manifests most outwardly and consciously in the upper crown.
- The intuition that conveys information from the roots through the trunk to the conscious mind. It is unclear where on the trunk intuition ends.
- The ground that represents the veil and conveys the delineation between the conscious and unconscious minds.
- The personal subconscious that is the repository of the individual soul’s forgotten or repressed memory, pre-incarnational programming, record of past lives, and the deeper biases, emotions, and wisdoms.
- The racial mind that is essentially a sub-planetary group mind. Ra indicates that many racial minds on this planet derive from various other planetary origins that have incarnated on Earth.
- The planetary mind that is the mass mind containing every third-density entity on the planet, and in some way overlaps with or contains the mind of Gaia herself. Also called the Akashic Mind or Akashic Record.
- The archetypical mind that is the mind of the sub-Logos: the blueprint for the third-density mind within that sub-Logos’s system.
- The cosmic mind that is the final and largest container of mind, being the all-mind or the mind of the Creator which is shared by all the entities in the infinite universe. As Ra said, “the mind contains all things.”
- The starry sky is intended to convey the universe.
- The black band at the bottom is intended to convey the unknown mystery of intelligent infinity.
- The spirit complex is intended to convey a funneling action. As Ra says:
This spirit complex is the channel whereby the inpourings from all of the various universal, planetary, and personal inpourings may be funneled into the roots of consciousness, and whereby consciousness may be funneled to the gateway of intelligent infinity through the balanced intelligent energy of body and mind. – 30.2
See Mind Complex, Spirit Complex, and Archetypal Mind in this guide for further exploration of the Tree of Mind.