Thanks for sharing the history of the Confederation channeling. I did not know much of the information. Do you know anything about the Red Cord channeling group and how they are tied in to this history?
I do. Itās a matter of opinion obviously who belongs in the lineage. I can give you my opinion, but thatās all it is.
Itās actually a variation of something Eckhart Tolle once pointed out:
āA tree is not a tree, itās just called a tree.ā
Iāve found it helpful over the years to apply this insight in different contexts as a way to dissolve the habitual stickiness of words. Labels often feel like understanding, yet in practice they can demystify and even flatten the very phenomena theyāre meant to describe.
On one level it makes sense: we have a fairly good idea of what a tree does ā how it grows, behaves, responds to its environment. Likewise, we have categories for different states of subjectivity, and we can document or describe them to some extent.
But observing behavior of elements - whether physical, psychological, or spiritual - and then treating that practical doing as isness of the (for lack of a better word) āthingā can be misleading. Imposing a fixed sense of what something is can stagnate the flow within perception. A label without a sense of transparency can override the fundamental truth of its unexplainability.
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Donāt worry, weāll keep it light. 
What youāre calling the deep mind feels close to what I describe as the āIā of the storm.
The eye of a storm may appear very different from the rest of it - calm, spacious, quietly aware - yet itās still inseparable from the whole movement. And vice versa. The stillness and the turbulence belong to the same phenomenon, just viewed from different vantage points.
Being grounded in the āIā of the storm can be helpful in daily life, but itās not an aspect to use as a way of disconnecting from the rest of oneself. In my experience, the deep mind (to use your phrasing) is still very much part of mind, not something separate from it.
Made me think of the second half of the āSurfing changeā track 
Mental reflections
can be practical as tools,
Keeping to them blindly though
is the maker of fools
To calm my mind
and steady my heart.
I refrain from indulging,
in taking them apart
I refrain from indulging,
in explaining myself apart
In this step, I release and reset
release and reset
wonderful, challenging and strange,
we are part of the change
part of the āwhat ifāsā
moving along with the shifts,
tending what sustains
and uplifts
Clearing the clutter
out of my mental gutter,
doing what I must
not to get lost in what is lost
Yes. and all of this is happening upon a single plane of awareness, that which we call the mental plane. And the same idea of staleness and limitation applies moving across planes. Hereās a made up example.
Adult human encounters baby human and relates to it on a mental level. Naturally, the scope of the discussion is limited, but some basic thoughts are exchanged.
Switch.
Adult human encounters baby human and relates to it on a heart-to-heart level. Far more information is exchanged, very little of it mental, but through the open channels a much better sense of the other is perceived by both parties.
This is the point I was trying to make about love as known to the mind, as known to the personality and as known to the deep self being very different. The intellect can hardly perceive the vast impersonal acceptance and love offered at the deeper levels.
No, but this would make an excellent topic for a new thread: the levels of self known through experience, not by armchair theorizing.
The deep mind is a standard Confederation term referring to the deeper layers of self one may encounter as the passageways to the origin of Being are slowly explored. It does include the thing you cite, but goes further, beyond individual awareness into group awareness at various levels and, ultimately to All awareness, whatever that becomes for the individual explorer.
There is also a concept of higher awareness, such as your spirit enjoys, and this extends the story furtherā¦
I agree that our present experience of self is layered with aspects, what I donāt agree with is isolating those aspects in the circulation of sensations, the heart guides the mind, but itās a two way street and they share the same witness
the final stage sounds oddly similar to what I experienced during my NDE, is this something you consider an ideal to strive for in life?
As I perceive this, just as you would be foolish to use a ratchet to pound a nail, the heart and mind are formatted for divergent purposes, in general terms. After first accounting for the dissimilarities, one may then reach for one or another when seeking the best tool for a particular job.
Not exclusively, no. These experiences at different layers of self to some degree progress concurrently in their own flow, if you will. One cannot squish them together, even though it might feel better to enforce that kind of personal unity. We come here to experience different things on different levels. The conscious self has to learn to make room for its sister selves, so to speak, to do their own work independently. You seem to know that we simply have to allow space for our patchwork of dramas.
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Agreed to some degree.
Iād put it like this: I may use my feet for walking and my hands for writing, but my hands and feet arenāt oblivious to each otherās activity. If thereās a local sense of pain or pleasure, both āknow.ā And with practice, they can become remarkably adept at cooperating. The mind is only cold if itās out of alignment, it canāt generate love, while it can channel and have a sense of being filled by it.
a pair of loving eyes is very different from someone calculating your demise 
Exactly, its ability there is only passive, creativity comes from elsewhere.
Some say that these distinctions become more apparent as the desire to serve intensifies.
We are on the same page, well done us
Here is something in a similar context, not really adding to what I feel is a fairly closed chapter above, and itās not a perfect reflection of what I think of the brain as an instrument, but I found it an interesting tidbit of information nonetheless:
Logic and emotion seems far more intertwined than most people think.
āpure logicā is probably a myth, at least for humans.
Even: 1+1? 2 feels right.
Thereās actually neuroscience to back this up.
The neurologist Antonio Damasio studied patients who had brain damage separating their emotional centers from their logic centers.
Intellectually, they were fine.
They could list all the pros and cons of a decision.
But in practice, they were paralyzed.
They couldnāt make a choice (like which restaurant to go to) because they had no āgut feelingā or āfeeling of rightnessā to tell them which option was better.
Itās a perfect example of how logic without emotion is functionally useless. Logic can map out the options, but itās our emotional system that gives them value and allows us to act.
Sure. Shallow emotion and shallow reasoning live and work side by side. AND there is a wholly different realm of creative thinking and deep emotion that almost no one gravitates towards. This is very sad because it is the pathway to 4D experience, not shallow operations and indulgence. Again, the Confederation folks have much to say about this, but it seldom is ever discussedāanywhere.
You sound a tad frustrated, my friend.
Isnāt it usually more helpful to work with where we actually are, rather than with an ideal of where we think we should be?
āBe the change you want to see,ā as the saying goes.
Another way to put it: when it comes to teaching or learning, itās often more powerful to show than to tell.
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Actually, at this stage, I feel Iām much better off expressing my BITTERNESS!!!
No, I take your point. It just astonishes me sometimes how a body of material focused on helping Earthlings move to 4D is soāone could call itāādishonoredā by people who make it their business to tell other people what to think about this material by failing to guide them into the deeper areas of self where the transition to 4D might begin.
And, yes, if this were easy, I would be doing it myselfā¦right now, even.
Iāve been trying to launch a project for nearly 3 years, since I went through hypnosis training, and I continue to redesign and redesign and redesign it.
This could be a question for another thread, but I donāt expect it will go anywhere, āWhatās a good way to help people experience their own divinity?ā
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I think thatās something that has to unfold organically. Many people already have glimpses of their own divinity - they just donāt recognize it as such or wouldnāt call it by that name.
Just like I now understand myself to be quite familiar with the deep mind you where referring to, I just didnāt call it that
In my view, the best we can do is tend to ourselves, our environment, and our relationships. Itās not talking about āthe next stage of realityā that brings it about - itās fully participating in this stage until it naturally becomes obsolete.
I do feel weāre in a transitional period, though Iām skeptical of the ā4Dā label. A numerical orientation to reality feels a bit off to me, based on my own ventures both in and out of body.
But Iām open to being wrong about that, as with most things. I might have a change of heart once the phase shift is complete
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Your deepest self vibrates in unconditional love as part of the Creator. Consequently, becoming the Creator is a matter of allowing this impersonal, deeply loving consciousness to become a greater and greater part of your everyday beingness. The āIā of you will become more and more deeply and truly the āIā that is you as you enter more and more into the awareness of consciousness, where the āIā is an āIā that is one with Christ, one with unconditional love. It is not that you become unconditional love, for you were unconditional love the whole time. It is that you find ways, as you come to know yourself and accept yourself just the way you are, to allow consciousness in.
Well said! I think itās a tricky balancing between seeking and becoming. One somehow needs an object to draw one forward, but eventually it canāt be just about the object or it flattens the feeling of being on the path. I like having topics like thought forms to noodle on, but what they show me about the nature of my life is always more rewarding than mere technical discoveries.
For more see May 1, 1983 - Sunday meditation - L/L Research
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Give them time and a space to play,
Love them when they stumble and fall,
And comfort when they lose their way,
Cherish them more when they stand tall.
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That sounds like a pleasant manner of supporting creatures within the illusion, but does not address ways of helping them see through the illusion into their own divinity. Waiting for them to find that on their own is one passive approach, but Iām looking for something more direct.
Iām thinking more along the lines of teaching them to move out of a head full of thoughts, how to create sacred space, things like that.
Who are we to say what should be and what should not be?
Perhaps the āshallowā layers of reality are just as aligned with the divine plan as the depths.
I donāt recall much from my NDE that I can put into words, but one thing was crystal clear: we had peaked in development at our previous level of being. To continue evolving, we had to forget everything, sink deeper, and begin again from scratch.
From what youāve written before, I sometimes get the impression that you see the shallower aspects of self as lesser than the deep ones ā even a bit distasteful. To me, that view carries its own kind of shallowness, because it treats the process as if weāre in a rush. And that doesnāt feel aligned with an eternal perspective, where all modes of experience hold value, and where any number of years ā even any number of lifetimes ā ultimately equals zero in the grand scheme.
Iāve spent time with people whose intellect is simple, even limited, yet whose love and compassion have extraordinary depth. Iām thinking especially of a close friend who recently turned 70. She isnāt particularly sharp in the mental sense, and she faces plenty of physical challenges ā even the stairs to her apartment are a struggle. But the divinity she radiates, the way her presence melts hearts and awakens love, is unmistakable. She would never label herself in any special way, nor recognize the miracle of her own personality. And yet her joy ā in her family, her friends, a good meal, a day with inviting weather, and even in the acceptance of her struggles ā is an unspoken form of grace.
If divinity isnāt permeating her life, I donāt know what is.
Personally, Iād rather spend time with someone who has a shallow depth than someone with a deep shallowness.
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Your response leaves meāahemādeeply mystified.
Iām using the term āshallowā as the Confederation entities do to refer to engaging only with the survival, social and other superficial aspects of life, largely to the exclusion of sensing lifeās deeper feelings and attuning to spirit. This is not about depth of intellectual engagement at all, and often that just gets in the way. If your friend is moved by joy, friendship and such things, thatās different than just checking off boxes and moving on to the next required activity. Of course we all engage differently. Iām not ruling out other peopleās sense of what they want to do with their life.
At the same time, some of us are focused on the changes now afoot in terms of options for continuing to study 3D lessons or moving on to 4D lessons in subsequent lifetimes. If people want to enjoy moving on to the next stage, then they have to focus their attention on that, because the process here has been disrupted many times and is not automatic for most of us. I am interested in assisting in this.