Deductive or Inductive Mind?

            Many people have asked me the dynamics of a spiritual life. How do you meditate? How do you keep your cool when everything is falling apart around you? How do you stay faithful to your beliefs? If you are praying and believing for something, how do you stay the course?

            Everything comes down to one question: which mind are you thinking with—the deductive or the inductive mind?

            The deductive mind is purely the potential of your physical, human self. Sometimes that can be very strong. A great deal of people has minds that can decipher codes and break into computers that have been designed to keep countries safe. That kind of mind may be able to convince itself it is strong enough to quit smoking, but I doubt it can get peaceful enough to become an omniscient observer of his/her own mind and learn to create from thought. This is why it needs to break into other people’s computers.

            Power vs force. In the deductive mind, force is often the tool used. And with force there is an equal and opposite reaction.

            But in the inductive, creative mind—power is used to create. With power, there is no opposite reaction. From power worlds are created. From nothing a seed thought forms. From that thought, powerful, exponential force is given it by more creative thought until it becomes form. This is the power of the inductive mind.

            Let’s define the two thought forms.  Deductive thinking is one plus one equals two. It is learned thought. It is thought that is based on fact. It is thought that doesn’t change and will be cyclical in the brain. So, if you are in the deductive mind and trapped there with a thought, you will never be able to fall asleep, because the body can’t sleep as long as you keep the functioning, deductive mind thinking.

            Inductive thought, on the other hand, is creative thought. If you imagine that your mind is not your brain in your head, but much larger, then you can begin to understand Inductive thought. The inductive mind is the watcher side of the brain. If you have ever been in a situation where you have sat outside yourself and were able to observe what was happening from an outside point of view, you have experienced the inductive brain. If you have painted a painting from an image in your mind, or written a poem, or imagined a flower garden in your mind, you have experienced the inductive mind.

            Sitting at a desk and working all day at a job that requires the same mind thought every day is deductive. It’s tiring and requires cyclical thinking. That’s why you feel like you need peace. That’s why you seek spiritual thinking.

            The inductive mind is pure potential. From creative thought and observer thought we can either sit peacefully or dream. This is the difference between living in chaos and living in the world of peace.