Aesthetic Awareness (Part II)

The inconceivable complexity of the Bodyfields in their layeredness means also a tremendous vulnerability in respect to the fulfilment of their optimal functioning, namely the connection between cosmic energies and the material plane.

Ink drawing nr. 3 by Vig

Science has not yet grasped the complicated nature of energy fields in general and especially how information keeps being stored in those fields.

An analogy is the way we use our laptop computers. The laptop is a metaphor for the body, the personality. If we have excess information that we want to keep but don’t need at the moment, we send it to the “cloud”, which is an electric energy field kept up by the collective servers (astral plane), but it is not incarnated in our laptop. There is a little opening to that space of information by the click of one fingertip, which is our willpower. We can on will reintroduce information from this cloud that can lead to material manifestation (printing or birth).

Then what is the personality that we think we are? How does it arise? In my understanding the personality is the “glove” that existence uses to manifest life on the material plane. The glove is dispensable, non-essential, while the “hand” is the real thing

The personality is the bio software; it is an ad-hoc construction that has risen out of the interaction of the human body with its environment. It is needed as a program to support survival, but is only for that.

Now here arises the real problem for humanity. The personality as such, as a functioning machine, has no notion of the depth of its origins. When does a human mind start to “ remember”?

In this case, by “remembering” I mean a very peculiar crisis-like state of mind that makes one realise that one’s actions and thoughts are very mechanical and repetitive in their nature. With this realisation comes the wish to transcend this mechanical character because it is obviously robbing life of its finer qualities.

It need not be a deep spiritual happening, but essentially it is the crisis aspect that makes one turn in and remember.

In the course of its survival, the human mind very often experiences stress, shocks and traumas of an emotional nature, because emotions are bodily phenomena and relate to survival. When they are severe they affect the ability of the nervous system to function smoothly. Negative charges remain in the nerves and diminish their conductivity, leading to mental and bodily malfunction, or diseases. This affects most of us in one degree or another.

It is like the software of a computer that gets damaged, which leads to malfunction, first on the mental level and ultimately also on the hardware level by overheating the system.

Then the question arises, how does one generally deal with this? How is it that some quickly degenerate and others are withstanding the onslaught of crises, facing depravity and still staying healthy till the end? Is there a biological program that evolution has created to deal with this? It is a serious issue; it matters because it is about survival ultimately. Up to now the species have survived and even increased in numbers, so it is reasonable to assume that there is a strategy of the body-mind to deal with this.

What happens in practice is that in most of these cases of invisible damage, because that is what it really is, the individuals survive bodily, but at the cost of something. When energy efficiency goes down through a shocked state of the nerves and overall sensitivity decreases, the body-mind can still defend itself and find food. For such emergencies extra resources in our body system must be available. What or where might that be?

In the Tibetan Pulsing Yoga, healing sessions that I practiced for a number of years, first as participant, later as an assistant and as a group leader, I was witnessing the release of untold spasms and tensions in people. These releases relate to the shocks and traumas that I am talking about. Touching the body on specific points and focusing on the pulse beat causes changes in the nervous system of the recipient that have a definite healing effect on his psyche. Subtle changes can occur, people’s behaviour becomes more fluid and trust in life increases.

That revealed to me the nature of something that has evaded the attention of the allopathic medical science that people trust in these days. This knowledge was known to alternative healers, shamans and yogis, etc but not to our house doctor.

It has far reaching consequences that present themselves over a long stretch of time, the time of different generations.

In the above cases of damage through shock and trauma, two things can happen. Either the shocks are too much to handle and the organism loses its capacity to defend itself and perishes, or the organism survives and comes to terms with it, but at what cost?

I see a connection to the fall of civilizations and empires. A good question here would be: why is it that certain well-established cultures have remained for thousands of years while others disappear within a few hundred years, such as China and Egypt compared to our Europe? Or why is it that successful companies in most cases last only a few generations; the founders start with great ideas and will power, the sons take it further and expand it to a maximum and the grandsons spoil it because they get used to luxury, take it for granted and don’t perform anymore.

Is there a connection?

Our personality is a tool , a complicated software that has been built from the recorded memories of our interactions with the environment we live in. The more harsh, the more violent and extreme that environment is, the more of that is reflected in our personality. It is an interface.

Those reflections of the environment in the psyche is the stuff that cultures and societies are built on. Seeing this it makes sense that in history great civilizations flourished when good opportunities for trade and exchange happened. In other words there was stability, peace and trust in the environment.

Ink drawing nr. 4 by Vig

Up to now the general theory about the demise of the Roman Empire was that the Romans got used to power and luxury, weakened their will to defend their country, and the slaves and heathen horde, who had more vitality, took over. This sounds to me a bit too superficial, as many historians nowadays believe too. There are deeper inter-cultural, meta-cultural aspects in this case that we don’t see as yet. In a recent lecture about the history and the collapse of the Roman empire the following theory was propounded:

An attitude that became prevalent in Roman society in the 2nd and 3rd century was that in social life, as expressed in words and written records, people started to change their thought processes relating to “the other”. Either one was a Roman citizen, with the status going with it of being “good”, a “liberal” in our language, or one was a “barbarian”, which means not having the status of a Roman citizen and therefore being a “bad” person, the equivalent in our modern language would be something like a “fascist”. That means simply black and white thinking. One can predict that when such habits carve a track in the general mindset it will lead to a loss of trust, will create civil strife and will destroy the social fabric of society.

This attitude has a remarkable similarity to the political correctness and cultural Marxism that we face these days.

In fact it means a becoming dumb, becoming insensitive towards nuances of people’s minds. It means a loss of contact with Reality.

From where does that originate? Everything that is successful in securing our survival becomes a structure in our minds that has the habit of becoming a conditioning, like the needle of a gramophone record getting stuck in one groove. It is insensitivity to real life, a reliance too much on thinking processes, instead of the more basic reality of feeling and emotion. This is tearing apart the integrity of thinking, feeling and instinct and it splits up our personality. The rational thought becomes the master and subjugates the juicy and life-giving emotions. However, seen from evolutionary standpoint there might be more intelligence in emotion than in thought!!

The structural fault here might be the incapacity to realise that all rational structures in society that one comprehends as being an enduring certainty have no duration in time at all. In reality all is in a flux, a dynamic balance of forces. “Panta Rhei” as Heraclitus said 2500 years ago. The individual is the only reality.

We only have to look at the faces of and hear the words spoken by the average present-day defenders of the status quo, which means the liberal and politically correct society, to see to what scale our culture has disintegrated. It might be obvious to a lot of us how Christianity has conditioned Europeans to become antagonistic towards certain emotional aspects of their nature and drive these aspects into the unconscious.

There is here a huge practical problem to communicate these facts. There could be lots of people who are reading this article and are saying: what are you talking about? I know my emotions and my mind functions OK.

Chalk drawing by Vig

My experience compels me to say that in the majority of people there are emotions they have never touched consciously and those emotions are hidden in their nervous system and behave like cysts at the cost of their well being, disturbing the natural flow of energy in their body so that the effect is that they feel that life has never any real juice for them in store.

Of course it is difficult to acknowledge this. Doing so is usually painful and the nature of the human mind is geared to prevent one from having a good look at those uncomfortable spots.

I have to come back to my question of what is the cost of surviving shocks and traumas and what are the sources of energy that we rely upon in such emergencies. I have an understanding that is based on the assumption of the existence of the Bodyfields of the human body. When they are integrated, a tremendous amount of energy is available to us.

To summarise this: It means that a growing human being is bound to meet a moment in his lifetime that either he consolidates his defensive structures in the mind under the pressure of a value system that his personality has acquired in order to be successful and thereby sacrifices his sensitivity towards his inner life (which means to stop growing spiritually), or, in rare cases he is aware of the inner wellbeing that the contact with his higher Bodyfields gives him and accepts the conflicts and pains that accompany this choice.

What happens a lot is that the road to material success is taking a heavy toll on the inner life of men, and increasingly also for women; for most men this is between age thirty and forty. The misery that is created forces one to seek an answer to this suffering, but when that happens the road is leading upward to a reestablishment of that inner wellbeing, depending on the willpower and the energy that such a person has. Art and Science are ways that can be helpful on this road to restore fluidity.

It is the commitment to Reality that realises itself in staying in contact with the happenings in one’s body. That is the individual’s Reality. In order to survive we were forced to seek it outside but we forgot that we got the energy to deal with that through the uninterrupted contact with our higher layers. Look into the eyes of a one year old baby.

This is the double edged sword, the double sided task that a real human being faces – the double head, two faces in opposite direction are needed to lead a human life. The ancients knew about this and this sculptured or painted double head of the god “Janus” is found in many civilisations.

How do we find our way back to the Divine in us? It is about watching our energy, our moods and attending to the signals that our physical body gives us.

Having had the experience of living for extended periods in the west as well as in the east my conclusion is :

Spirituality is by its nature neither western nor eastern. There is only a spirituality that is ultimately rooted in the awareness of our bodies. Depending on the challenges we have to face it develops into different paths of spiritual practice.

All sages and enlightened persons of the past have made clear that once one has cleared one’s channels and has restored one’s integrity, energies are available that are extraordinary compared to what we usually experience. In this flow of cosmic energy from up to down there must be a return flow to make the circle round following natures laws.

Ink drawing nr. 5 by Vig

The rare occurrence of enlightened persons shows us that it is an arduous path to dedicate one self to emotional and therefore spiritual growth. It is not so that everybody is born with a full developed soul. Some people just jumped from animal life to human form and others have had thousands of incarnations in the human form and their subtle fields seem to be very different. Actually, the higher fields from 2nd astral onwards have to be built by dedicated effort and commitment of a certain kind. This effort is the upward energy that makes the circle round in the end. An analogy from the latest scientific discoveries can clarify my explanation in this case. As often German scientific excellence shows the way. Prof. Manfred Spitzer (lit. 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tMtV5pOs4E) has shown that the way we think and use our nervous system has a tremendous flexibility that allows us to change exactly that nervous system in a self reinforcing way. By walking a “path” it widens automatically with every “walk”. That means our efforts allow us to change the quality of our brain.

From this observed fact one can conclude that with every continued use of the same track of the brain a reinforcement of the created pattern will be realised in the nervous system. Consequently this has created a reinforcement of the electric field in that specific location, and, following my theory it has also at the same time reinforced the shadow of this pattern in the next higher field, the astral, and depending on how strong and repeatedly enough also in the 2nd and mental fields. It is like a self repairing car!

The upward system seems to work like this: When through dedicated effort and wise living the electric field is freed from the scars of emotional shocks and traumas, it starts to vibrate unhindered, unblocked. This can generally be perceived in a person’s heightened vitality. When this field gets saturated with a build up of effort energy, it matures and it opens up an energy channel to the next body, the astral body. When through dedicated effort this field gets saturated it also opens up an energy channel to the mental field, etc to the last field. Of course the saturation is a decisive process in time. It is a cascading process up and down the scale of the dimensions of the Bodyfields.

Full literature list in part III.


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