“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” A.A.Milne.
Elva Thompson – I think it is true to say that all of us start our journey in this dimension with what A.A.Milne calls the third rate mind. After all, we are indoctrinated with theories, conjecture, half truths and lies from the get-go. We take aboard what we learn from our peers and are academically brainwashed with other people’s theories, concepts and constructs that we suck up as truth, and unthinkingly repeat as truth. This enormity of conformity has turned us into mind clones, and as a result, much of our society has become a collective automated consciousness, an integrated mind pattern comparable to the hive mind behaviour of ants or bees.
The second rate mind
The second rate mind is the contrary, the opposing view to the status quo. The matrix game of ‘us versus them’ is dependent on a cause – and the ‘we will win mentality’ is essential to the game, because without the two opposing sides there would be no game – and no loosh, no human emotional energy to harvest. So the firm (see Meet the Firm) has to keep the ball rolling for its armies on the playing field of strife, the stage for drama, misery and death.