In order to understand Unmind we need to remind ourselves of the basic premise of Qultura, which is the Principle and the Process.
The Principle and the Process
Existence is a principle. Creativity and interaction is a process. This is all you really need to know about the basic principles of all existence. This is the 'how' and 'what' of life. Asking "What?" gives you a principle. Asking "How?" gives you a process.
Everything in existence has its own unique principle and process. A tree has a principle and a process. This planet has a principle and process. The universe has a principle and a process. You have a principle and a process. So too does everyone else.
You develop a Qultura method to become familiar with your unique principle and process so you can live consciously in relative harmony with your environment and others.
The whole point of coming into the Qultura community to develop a Qultura method is to become 'real' by figuring out your own Principle and Process. Now most people assume that they are already 'real' because they (mistakenly) believe that their Ego and sense of Self and identity is what is real. But see once you become familiar with Qultura methodology and Unmind you learn that Self is actually your Principle or individual conscious perspective, and your Ego, like physical memory, is merely part of your Process.
When you understand this, you start to understand the Ego, and such concepts as society, culture, and identity are merely part of your Process and you start seeing things in their proper context. You also start to understand that certain concepts which are generally taken to be reality are in fact part of the illusions we are sold and taught to believe is 'the truth' as part of our social conditioning. Some examples...
Permanence is a fairly widespread illusion and is what leads to attachment and habit. Physical existence is impermanent. All existence is change, all existence is relationship. The notion of a permanent unchanging state of being is what causes attachment and this is what leads to sorrow, disappointment and conflict. Mindfulness, conscious awareness and faith are all attained by cultivating a mindset of non-attachment.
Cause and effect is an illusion which comes out of confusion between inductive and deductive reasoning. There is no cause and effect there is only process. All existence is change, all existence is relationship. You cannot have cause and effect without separating cause from effect just as many people separate choice from consequence. Just as choice and consequence are one and the same process cause and effect are one and the same process.
Continuity is another illusion which can be clustered together with separateness, cause and effect and permanence. All existence is change, all existence is relationship. A belief in continuity comes from a belief that something in the past will reoccur in the future. This might be true if the basis of your premise is lawful but generally what you believe is continuity is just unfolding process.
Self love is another common illusion that many people believe is real. It's not. The environment creates, the individual (organism) grows, which brings us back to the chain of interdependent origin. Love is a conscious experience, consciousness is something outside of you, and you are always the perceiver and subject of your life experiences, never the object. While it is possible to love someone or something else, it's not possible to love yourself.
Self improvement is another illusion of the type self-love. If you claim to be working on yourself, exactly how are you working on yourself if you can never be the object of your own life experience? You see your desire to be better or different is negated by the reality that you aren't different, because otherwise you would be different and would not need to think about it. You can only be you. You cannot be another human being or person.
In understanding that these illusions are in fact illusions, you begin to liberate yourself from the false illusion of separateness and start to see your social and mental conditioning and Ego structures and development for what they really are, a necessary part of becoming a human being in society. We all have had to start somewhere in life. There was no other way than to start out with various concepts and assumptions about life and about reality. Often in order to get to the truth you have to start out by believing in the illusions and the lies. If you didn't have an Ego or become so attached to roles in life, you wouldn't have a basis to understand what truth actually is.
Here we come to another fundamental mystical principle.
Now hopefully you can start to see the whole meta-physical aspect what lies behind not just the Qultura community but also our Human Library project. Sure you can develop conscious awareness through such practices as meditation and yoga, but through dream weaving and the use of drama, magic, and dream weaving the process becomes much quicker because each and every time you come into the Qultura community and become involved in a Human Library event you gain fresh insights into life and living existence from the other participants.
This is all part of the unfolding nature of life itself and your ever changing identity. The Principle is the same throughout, but who you are when reading this is different to who you were when you woke up this morning, who you were last week, who you were last year, ten years ago, and who you're going to be next week, next year and in 10 years time. Everyone is going through the exact same process each in their own individual ways. This is actually not much different to what you've been doing all along in life. But through Qultura and the Human Library project you're doing this from a different state of consciousness.
Important point
You cannot think or believe your way into a new state of consciousness. To believe you can is merely turning your whole existential or spiritual journey into an Ego trip, which misses the point entirely. Development of conscious awareness comes out of insight and inspiration from your environment and others, which requires perception. You don't need a spiritual teacher, a guru or figure of religious authority, because you can derive insight and conscious awareness from literally any other human being on the planet.
However nobody is better at being you than you, because nobody else understands your Process or whole life story as deeply as you do.