One of the dilemmas of the ajna center is that everything that comes out of the ajna has an agenda, this is not correct. When somebody is talking to you, why are they talking to you? I don't mean to sound banal, but when somebody is talking to you, what are they actually trying to say? Are they telling you the truth? Can they? Is there a reason they're talking to you? And if there's a reason that they're talking to you, what do they want?

Human beings talk to each other in the most ordinary social situations. People communicate with each other because they need something, they want something. It’s not innocent. The not-self mind is never ever, ever, ever innocent. It's not. It’s the conspiracy theory mind.

The not-self mind hides the truth, shrouds it, is careful with its language, and is careful with what it says. It only speaks when it needs something from the other. And if you need something from the other, then you speak in a certain way. There are things that you don't say. There are things that you hide, and you don't do it consciously.

It’s not like you’re aware of the duplicity of your own mind. The not-self just blindly communicates that way and thinks that's what communication is. And because every human being is so afraid for their survival at the mental level, not the splenic level, that human beings are very important for them. Are they friend or foe, are they safe or dangerous? Can they be useful? Can I take advantage of them? And so many other things that the not-self mind is so good at.

And what it strips us of is the potential that is there, this potential of outer authority. Outer authority is expression without purpose. It’s expression; it's communication that is without purpose. Actually a better word is without intent.

We have no choice. We are gregarious creatures. It’s why we have mouths. We have no choice. We’re going to communicate anyway. It's what we do. It’s part of what allowed us as homogenize beings to be able to develop strategies to destroy anything that threatened us. And whether it was pumping arrows into things or DDT onto plants, or you name it, we have communicated our way to being incredible destroyers.

- Ra Uru Hu