Dear Menlo Park City Council, I understand that some concerns have been raised on the subject of abusing lie-detector machines, and I would like to offer you my professional opinion as a holistic counselor. It is not possible to know someone else’s mind, only your own. Using a lie-detector machine to violate the privacy of another human being’s subjective experience is an act of barbaric violence, due to the intention to penetrate the inner world of another human being against their will. The human body is sensitive to intention. Due to the biology of belief, if a human being is fooled into believing that it is possible to know the thoughts of other humans through the use of a machine, damage may result, as the feelings and beliefs of an intact boundary system for one’s mind is imperative for mental health. I do not have a boundary of “no-mind.” The idea of “I am not my mind,” is a way to stop making an identity out of your thoughts, because in my belief system, a human being is more than just their mind; a human being has several components, and their mind is only one of them. When a human being is trapped in mind identification, they may forget their body and their spirit (witness). Repeating the mantra, “I am not my mind,” is a way to move attention out of the realm of thoughts and into the realm of witnessing thoughts; it is simply a way to move your attention into a place that is more balanced and less top-heavy. “I am not my mind,” does not mean you have disowned your mind as not yours, it means you have chosen to avoid making an exclusive identity out of only your mind while you forget to be present in your body. When a person claims to have read the mind of another person, they are speaking to their own subjective experience, and there is nothing to confirm this unless the person whose mind they read willingly volunteers that information, and then it is their choice to share that moment of their subjective inner world with others by speaking their mind; there is no violence in this, as it is the free will choice of the person to confirm or deny whether their mind was read, and to keep their privacy intact. People do this with people they work closely with all the time, “You read my mind! I was going to ask you to do that!” and they are not damaged by volunteering that they were on the same wavelength as this other person. When a person claims to have read the mind or overheard the thoughts of another person, they are speaking to their own subjective experience of what their imagination has brought to them, and it is nothing more than their imagination until it is confirmed by the person whose thoughts they supposedly overheard. Reporting that you have heard the voice of another person in your mind is reporting your subjective experience. In the same way that a person does not preface every statement with, “In my experience…” or, “What I think is….” or “It seems to me….” or “From my viewpoint….” or “What I believe…” it is not necessary to preface a statement about hearing the voice of another person in your mind about being a purely subjective experience, because that is all it ever could be. People receive accurate information about reality through the irrational, artistic, subjective realms of their mind, in the same way that a dream can provide omens or clues about the deeper inner-workings of relationships with others, and this dream is not literal or objective or fact-based, but a mirage of subjective feelings, the imagination conjuring the voice of another person in your mind pay provide realistic clues about real life events without actually ever portraying the truth of that other person’s inner subjective world. Anyone who goes out of their way to prove the contents of another person's mind is pursuing a path of madness and seeking nothing but damage. This type of activity is not only violent and invasive, but a complete waste of time when more pressing issues are at stake, such as child safety. In my opinion it is dysfunctional to prioritize an identity crisis over child safety. Between 100,000 and 300,000 children are sold into sexual slavery every year in this country, and there now exists a technology that could be used to locate and rescue them right now. Let's get this show on the road, and dismiss the paltry and feeble efforts of the human traffickers to terrorize us into inaction with proposals to enter an identity crisis about our conditioned minds. Respectfully yours, Chelsea Wright Received on Sat Dec 16 2017 - 15:48:19 PST
