Amazing Mind

I love the fact that we are all so amazing. Our inner lives are unknown territory even sometimes to ourselves. It doesn't matter what our outward circumstances are, there is such rich stuff going on in our minds. Thinking all the time. Even if it's of hamburgers. All of them different in our heads. You may dream of a huge, juicy home-grilled monstrous burger on a fresh-from-the-bakery roll, gently draped with lettuce and tomato. While my perfect burgers may be drifts of White Castle midget-burgers.
Once, I went to a thing called a re-birthing, with a new agey friend. We went to an apartment complex in a nearby town, and in this very white walled, carpeted, badly glazed apartment was a guy who channelled a spirit of some kind named Eon. He had us all lie in a kind of spoked- wheel shape, with our feet almost touching, and began to chant. I just lay there, thinking this is such a pile of horse doo-doo, when I suddenly went into this altered state. I felt really calm, almost sleepy, but also very awake behind my eyes. I started seeing these images. The first was of a sort of tent, in a winter field, but a strange shape, six-sided, with a hole in the top through which good-smelling smoke wafted. There were also blue designs on the side of the tent. I really wanted to go into the tent, but something was stopping me, something in myself. Then I was whisked away into a cloud of red dust, somewhere altogether different. There were chains on my ankles, and I was connected to other chained people, but couldn't see them because of the dust. We were dancing. Chained but dancing. And I felt a wave of tremendous joy. Then I sort of woke up and the first thing I thought of was going to Burger King for a Whopper. Really.
So, I don't know what it all means, but the images, the thoughts, the movies in our heads are wild and mundane and terrible and joyous and totally unique to us.
We should always appreciate this ability we have to project these pictures in our minds. We can even send ourselves into the future, like no other beings can, that we know of. This is what puts us at the top of the food chain, an even greater gift than opposable (sp?) thumbs.
In the spirit of honoring this great gift, the exercise today is Amazing Mind. Get yourself somewhere comfortable to sit, with your Happiness Book and pen handy. Close your eyes. Let your mind go. Don't care what you think about, just sit and let it happen. First you'll probably think that the car needs an oil change, or repeat the conversation you had with your friend who made you so angry, then you'll think of the last time you went to the beach, then you'll think about your vacation in August and what you'll do on Prince Edward Island, and soon you'll be biking on a flat dusty road between dunes and sea. When you 'wake up,' write all your thoughts. Draw what seems interesting. Let your mind amaze you.