The mind plays tricks on itself when it experiences the constraints of 3D space/time, i.e. duality. Hermes personifies a quality of mind that disobeys conventional behavior and in turn, becomes a consubstantial instrument in the orchestration of the creative act.
The Hermetic mind is conditioned to break the rules, confuse issues and push the envelope. At first glance these infusions may appear to be malicious yet they possess the potential of producing a favorable result. The mind can be foolish, cunning and humorous in its desire to bring its own intentions into fruition. At times the mind has designs on fooling itself without its own knowledge.
This issue becomes apparent in our interpretation of consciousness when certain forms of energy, light and information are both felt and experienced yet still remain oblivious to the mind. All the senses have the potential of playing tricks on the mind. The field we describe as “the mind” is embraced within the parametric constraints of a virtual Source field (intelligence) that contains all the potential human experiences “imaginable”. Intelligence is conditioned and placed into specific levels of consciousness, i.e. categories, and in light of the imaginings that are projected from this virtual Source. Concepts that surround any symbolic instrument, e.g. the lyre, allow each design and designer the opportunity to create an intimate relationship between the Source and the observer.
The mind can be both a joker and a trickster, incessantly changing roles when vacillating between the parameters of the intuition and the intellect. The design mind is quite clever, often mischievous and child-like, challenging the world with its humor by using unorthodox means that support its position. The design (creative) mind will always appear to be rebellious in its nature.
Poking fun at the status quo, a creative mind possesses the natural tendency to bring to the surface issues that appear flawed and need to be changed. New methods and systems are apparent to an imaginative mind because its normal state is to question and investigate every situation. This course of action actually masks the desire of the mind to penetrate into the unconscious by means of the imagination. The Hermetic mind becomes the link between the worlds of the conscious and the unconscious by disguising that which is real through an imaginative use and application of the symbol.
Hermes is the personification of the mind, i.e. the medium that both engulfs and transcends the threshold between Olympus and Earth, possesses the potential of becoming his own worst enemy. When passions surround meaning and thereby outweigh purpose, major changes, i.e. transitions and transformations, can occur. These meaningful events are synchronistic in nature and divorce themselves from linear time. Mind is a medium, i.e. a field, activated by the use of the interpretive power of the symbol (design) brought forward and made apparent through the power of Hermes, ex. The lyre. Synchronistic events allow for insights into the unknown (unconscious) by bringing revelations before consciousness through symbolic means.
Along with experience, design’s use of the symbol in conjunction with the imagination, create the patterns necessary to bring into awareness every synchronistic event. These imaginings are symbolically coded within the field of every individualized mind and are founded upon the imaginative capacity intrinsic to the virtual fields from which they emerged. Every synchronistic situation is a subjective event designed to resonate and become imprinted in the mind of the perceiver in a fashion that will never be forgotten.
“He (Hermes) is a metaphor for the evolution of consciousness in the alchemy of time.”
