The Channel of Abstraction

Gate 64 is the pressure behind the flow, not the gate that resolves confusion. Your mind is filled with a string of disconnected memories and images from your past that need filtering and sorting until you can see or make sense of what really happened. Accepting confusion as the state before order is established is part of the process.

In order to enjoy your mental state, let clips of past experiences simply stream through your mind until the message of the movie becomes clear. Don't put pressure on mind to figure it out with specific methodology, as this may increase both confusion and anxiety. Great inner strength is required to let the process resolve in its own way and time, leaving peace of mind intact.

If Gate 64 remembers the disorganized collection, Gate 47 is the editor. It attempts to assemble them into a meaningful slice of human experience. You won't see the full picture immediately. As new details emerge, you may vacillate between perceiving events this way or that way, a mix of recognitions directing you toward different interpretations.

The process may feel like it's becoming more complicated rather than easier. If you can step back and trust, you will eventually cycle through to the aha moment. Avoid pressure to act on every conclusion. Simply enjoy the array of possibilities moving through your active mind until one stands out.

You have a very active experiential mind that never stops playing with possibilities. You probably wonder if it will ever stop being busy. The constant swirl of images can feel at times like a drunk monkey stung by a scorpion. But confusion can mark the beginning of a new and inspiring journey as you discover what really does make sense.

If you remain patient, gaps and spaces between dots will connect. A picture will appear. A new, unique sequence is created or revealed. An inspiring tale to tell or new perspective to share with others. The intellectual drive to break experiences down and look at them over and over from every possible angle, even if most angles have no value, is how realization eventually arrives.

With this mental definition, you are utterly unequipped to solve your own problems or make sense of your own life. These realizations are for sharing with the outside world, not for guiding your personal decisions. The mind can never be an internal authority for your own life. It will never be 100% sure of anything.

Your mind is a casual storytelling gift for historians. It should never be relied upon for the facts. This part of our genius finds inspiration or confusion in the intellectual drive to break experiences down. To relieve pressure to make sense of life, you have to find a way to share your mind with the outside world. The courage to wait in confusion until meaning mysteriously reveals itself is the true potential of self-reflected consciousness.