MACHIVENTA:  Depression is quite an anomaly that is far more complex than most people understand.  First of all, you are organisms whose organic origins come from the earth.  You, as a species are very old, and so you are affected by the environment where you live, whether it is in the tropics or in the higher latitudes, where the amount of sunlight coming to you has an affect on some people, whereas it has little affect on others.  There are other anomalies associated with where you live on the planet, some of which are not readily apparent.  Certain degrees of magnetic strength in the earth have an effect upon your body and mind mechanism, particularly the junction between the mind and the brain.  There is a mechanism involved—electro-chemical mechanism—that can cause depression due to geographic circumstances.  This is quite an oddity, I know, but it does occur and it occurs in specific places around the world.

Secondly, depression can be a manifestation of genetic disorders in your DNA structure, and can be passed on from one generation to another.  Depression can be latent; it can exist in an individual in the latent manner, and not manifest itself until there are circumstances that are external, which cause the shock to the individual in some emotional way.  The interface between the emotional energy and the spiritual in the individual is very strong; it is also very strong between the emotional generation and the mind mechanism.  Depression such as that may appear to be circumstantial, which it is, and it may be episodic and dependent upon events in the person’s life whether it manifests or does not.  Once it becomes an operational part of the mind mechanism, it is most difficult to root out. 

The specific area we address now in this conversation is that depression is mind-dependent, meaning that the thinking and command-mind, the will-mind, can have a powerful effect upon the mind mechanism and the mind-side of your being.  The will-mind has a choice whether to be passive and accept what the mind presents, or refuse to accept what the mind-presents.  In other words, you can refuse to be depressed.  It is as with many other learned behaviors and expressions in your life, it takes time to learn to be depressed; it takes time as well to learn not to be depressed, and not to allow depression into your mind.  This is where advanced minds are helpful to the individual, that they can be self-observing, even in conversation, even in the conversation of their own mind [during] thinking, to be attentive and aware of the evidences of depression and to make a command decision not to accept those thoughts.