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Preface 1Chapter 2. Reality of Life- A Model
INNER WORLD:
A Model.
This model's purpose is to support self-understanding. The outer world is vast and complex beyond the ability of the human brain to comprehend. The inner world is extensive and subtle beyond the ability of the human brain to perceive. So we create a model. The model is not reality. If a model is too complicated it will be theoretical and out of touch with personal experience. If it is too simple it will not usefully explain what is happening in the inner and outer worlds as a basis for realistic spiritual evolution. When a person develops themselves, their experience of both the outer and the inner world expands. That personal experience gradually fills in the details, modifies, encompasses and later surpasses the whole model. Then the model is lost in reality.
Spirit.
A person is primarily a spiritual being. Spirit (Universal Self) resides on a high energy level (7th. energy level and beyond) and until a person begins to develop themselves, is barely accessible to the Deep Mind while having almost no influence on the Lower Energies or body. The Spirits main quality from our point of view, is unity or all inclusive oneness. Dualistic conceptions and perceptions arise from separation in our Minds between outer life and inner life. At the root of these is the false idea that we are the body. Beyond the Spirit as we conceive it, are boundless higher worlds, un-knowable in the present human condition.
Higher Energies.
Spirit manifests in an individual sense (Real Self or Monad) on the 6th. energy level and expresses itself actively (Higher Self) within the Higher Energies down to the level of the Deep Mind, through 3 Forces. The First (Active) Force projects down fully to the Deep Mind and influences all below that. The Second (Receptive) Force projects only to the 4th. energy level and the Third (Neutralising) Force only to the 5th. energy level. Within the Higher Energies is an individual Inner Teacher (Guide) who filters the forces, from above and below, which influence the Deep Mind.
Deep Mind.
The Deep Mind rests at the junction of the Higher and Lower Energies. It has 2 aspects, Deep Mind Intelligence (spiritual component) and Deep Essence (energy component). The energy component expands at birth, within the Lower Energies, to form the Personal Energy Field. The spiritual component is initially from the Active Force, but with development, the Deep Mind expands upwards to include first the Receptive and later the Neutralising Forces. As awareness is based in the Deep Mind, by the technique of turning this awareness back on itself to deepen the sense of self, the Deep Mind can be experienced.
Lower Energies.
Lower Energies include Mental (3rd.), Astral (2nd.) and Etheric (1st.) energy levels. Within the Field of the Lower Energies the Personal Energy Field operates under the dual influence of the Deep Mind Intelligence and external life. It is centred on the, mostly subconscious, Emotional Mind within the Astral energies, but includes the Mental Mind and Etheric Mind. One consciousness focused through the Personal Energy Field manifests as awareness of the Mental world, the Emotional (Astral) world and the Etheric world.
Body.
The body rests at the junction of the Lower Energies and the physical world. It has two aspects the Shadow Body (etheric component) and the physical body. The physical body is insentient but has a rudimentary organic life. Within the physical body the brain cells can be functionally divided into 3, the moving brain in the spinal column extending into the back of the head, the emotional brain in the solar plexus (some cells also attached to each organ) and the mental brain in the head (superficial mind). The Shadow Body contains the life force and connects the 3 physical brains to the 3 Minds of the Personal Energy Field.
PERSONAL REALITY:
Who Am I?
The initial reality of our life is that we have a body and we have a certain mental consciousness, together with the haunting idea that there is something beyond that, which we may call Spirit or God. Inner work begins from this simple reality. Practically speaking, at this beginning stage, though it is clear deeper levels exist, the Mind operates only on a superficial level with almost no awareness of the Lower Energies and none of the Higher Energies. Body, Mind and Spirit exist but seem unconnected.
Possibilities?
People can survive in this undeveloped state. The body functions efficiently if we don't interfere with it, the superficial mind functions satisfactorily for survival, while below the surface, the Deep Mind is already fully conscious and the Spirit is beyond any concept of self-development.
All possibilities lie in developing the connection between the Deep Mind and the body via the Lower Energies, then later between the Deep Mind and the Spirit within the Higher Energies. Central to the process is the Deep Mind. First it expands, as the Personal Energy Field, down through the Lower Energies, then gradually connects them back to itself from the body up, until body, Lower Energies and Deep Mind become one Deep Mind Sphere. Second, with the Deep Mind now free to direct its attention to the Spirit, it expands up through the Higher Energies. It merges gradually into the Sphere of the Spirit until again, all becomes one. This completes our development within the Solar System and of the stages beyond this we know almost nothing.