Musings on the spirit body
In regard to the spirit body, how does it perceive the extra dimensional realms? If we are to believe that it is indeed separate from the physical body. The reason for this query is thus: Our perception of the material realm is due to a very specific biological process utilising the various parts of our eyes. Therefore we know what something ‘looks’ like due to our ‘seeing’ of it. But if this was completely true then how is it that artists can draw out of their imagination fantastical creatures and landscapes that are not based within reality. Could it be that each of these incredible fantasies are still ground within reality, just taking colours and shapes that can be seen to exist around us and morphing them into something else… are dinosaurs the basis of dragons, goats and men the basis of satyrs etc.
If this is true then, how does a bind person perceive, and if they have no knowledge of material things how do they conjure these up in their imagination? If s blind person was to leave their body and enter the spirit realm what would they ‘see’?
This raises yet more questions, such as how much is imprinted on our spirit bodies through the medium of our physical selves? We know from reincarnation that memories of entire lives can be retained in certain cases when in a new physical body. The goal then is no doubt to retain this apparatus of memory upon death and separation, so that the knowledge of a lifetime is not lost. Initiates who have prepared themselves for the moment of death, so that they are aware of what is going around them, and do not despair as the demons tear away their earthly sins, are surely a more evolved form of being that we should aspire to.
Going back to the original point, should we also ask how much of an object are we seeing, just from our visual perception, and how much of that object is hidden, during this process, certainly vision is not the only sense that has been given to us when we were created, we can also smell, taste, touch, hear and also which is most likely pertinent here: feel. So does a blind person purely ‘feel’ the spirit realm, is this how we would also perceive it? I may even hazard a guess that a blind person finds it easier to reach this state as they have less ‘material’ baggage to cloud their perceiving. The rest of us mired so deeply within the world of the physical must find it harder discount the billions of images bombarding our vision on a daily basis. Whenever we are told a story, or use our imagination we instinctively try to associate images with the words, overlay visuals within our dreams to give us some grounding in ‘reality’. Yet it is this ‘reality’ that stops us from seeing the truth that is around us.
When we are children we are told that there are no monsters. Even though as children we do not believe this is true because children have a more innate sense of the other worlds that flow through our own. Children have yet to be completely filled with lies and images, having more of a capacity for belief in the extraordinary and an immense ability for wonder. Therefore we must be as children again, regress to that state where all things seemed possible, where the thought of a man standing on the moon seemed incredible and impossible, when the small laptop I am writing this on could barely hold a thousand words in memory! When Gods and monsters were simply accepted as being and why not?!
My spirit body is a part of me and not a part of me at the same time, a contradiction for our adult brains, but when we can convert sound to waves and images to streams of numbers that travel down a cable, why is it so hard to believe that other dimensions, other beings, other ways of perceiving, are a viable part of human nature as well? Existing but invisible, known but unknown, seen but not seen!
If we truly can create something that is original, then we must also entertain the idea that thought can arise before form, and if we consider that then we must also consider the possibility that thought came before all matter in the cosmos, and if this is true then there had to be consciousness to create the cosmos!
Most of us will have heard the phrase, ‘In the beginning there was the Word’. Now that we can consider this in the above way, we can see why this statement is true. For consciousness to have thought it needs to have a way of describing that thought, whether unspoken or not, this infers what we call language. Most people will be able to describe what they are creating before they have created it. I can tell you that I am going to paint a dragon, with a long spiky tail and green scales, and you dear reader will be able to ‘imagine’ what this would be like before I have even placed a single brushstroke. You may imagine something slightly different to what I paint, but the fact is you can have the ‘idea’ of a green dragon without me having to paint at all. However if I did paint my picture and title it a green dragon, everyone who then looks at that painting will collectively understand what I mean by a green dragon. Many things in the cosmos may exist but because we have yet to perceive it and so we do not collectively understand it, we can only think that we know it exists (that old chestnut - seeing is believing). Therefore one of the reasons that we may not realise something exists is because we don’t yet have language for it yet. People believe in angels, demons, spirits and any number of beings, but that does not mean that even more entities are not out there, created in the minds of individuals and sent forth into an invisible plane, but because we do not have the language for such an entity and the creator of that entity has not described it to us, as far as we collectively are aware it does not exist. Even stout believers cannot describe God, instead using phrases like endless, boundless, omnipresent, all, does this mean that God does not exist, not at all.
To cast off the physical is to cast off a lifetime of corrupt thinking, and lies based on the ‘truth’ of our seeing. It is certainly not an easy path to walk down, fraught with uncertainty and not knowing. Be not afraid, though madness stalks but two feet behind, we must keep moving forward.
If this is true then, how does a bind person perceive, and if they have no knowledge of material things how do they conjure these up in their imagination? If s blind person was to leave their body and enter the spirit realm what would they ‘see’?
This raises yet more questions, such as how much is imprinted on our spirit bodies through the medium of our physical selves? We know from reincarnation that memories of entire lives can be retained in certain cases when in a new physical body. The goal then is no doubt to retain this apparatus of memory upon death and separation, so that the knowledge of a lifetime is not lost. Initiates who have prepared themselves for the moment of death, so that they are aware of what is going around them, and do not despair as the demons tear away their earthly sins, are surely a more evolved form of being that we should aspire to.
Going back to the original point, should we also ask how much of an object are we seeing, just from our visual perception, and how much of that object is hidden, during this process, certainly vision is not the only sense that has been given to us when we were created, we can also smell, taste, touch, hear and also which is most likely pertinent here: feel. So does a blind person purely ‘feel’ the spirit realm, is this how we would also perceive it? I may even hazard a guess that a blind person finds it easier to reach this state as they have less ‘material’ baggage to cloud their perceiving. The rest of us mired so deeply within the world of the physical must find it harder discount the billions of images bombarding our vision on a daily basis. Whenever we are told a story, or use our imagination we instinctively try to associate images with the words, overlay visuals within our dreams to give us some grounding in ‘reality’. Yet it is this ‘reality’ that stops us from seeing the truth that is around us.
When we are children we are told that there are no monsters. Even though as children we do not believe this is true because children have a more innate sense of the other worlds that flow through our own. Children have yet to be completely filled with lies and images, having more of a capacity for belief in the extraordinary and an immense ability for wonder. Therefore we must be as children again, regress to that state where all things seemed possible, where the thought of a man standing on the moon seemed incredible and impossible, when the small laptop I am writing this on could barely hold a thousand words in memory! When Gods and monsters were simply accepted as being and why not?!
My spirit body is a part of me and not a part of me at the same time, a contradiction for our adult brains, but when we can convert sound to waves and images to streams of numbers that travel down a cable, why is it so hard to believe that other dimensions, other beings, other ways of perceiving, are a viable part of human nature as well? Existing but invisible, known but unknown, seen but not seen!
If we truly can create something that is original, then we must also entertain the idea that thought can arise before form, and if we consider that then we must also consider the possibility that thought came before all matter in the cosmos, and if this is true then there had to be consciousness to create the cosmos!
Most of us will have heard the phrase, ‘In the beginning there was the Word’. Now that we can consider this in the above way, we can see why this statement is true. For consciousness to have thought it needs to have a way of describing that thought, whether unspoken or not, this infers what we call language. Most people will be able to describe what they are creating before they have created it. I can tell you that I am going to paint a dragon, with a long spiky tail and green scales, and you dear reader will be able to ‘imagine’ what this would be like before I have even placed a single brushstroke. You may imagine something slightly different to what I paint, but the fact is you can have the ‘idea’ of a green dragon without me having to paint at all. However if I did paint my picture and title it a green dragon, everyone who then looks at that painting will collectively understand what I mean by a green dragon. Many things in the cosmos may exist but because we have yet to perceive it and so we do not collectively understand it, we can only think that we know it exists (that old chestnut - seeing is believing). Therefore one of the reasons that we may not realise something exists is because we don’t yet have language for it yet. People believe in angels, demons, spirits and any number of beings, but that does not mean that even more entities are not out there, created in the minds of individuals and sent forth into an invisible plane, but because we do not have the language for such an entity and the creator of that entity has not described it to us, as far as we collectively are aware it does not exist. Even stout believers cannot describe God, instead using phrases like endless, boundless, omnipresent, all, does this mean that God does not exist, not at all.
To cast off the physical is to cast off a lifetime of corrupt thinking, and lies based on the ‘truth’ of our seeing. It is certainly not an easy path to walk down, fraught with uncertainty and not knowing. Be not afraid, though madness stalks but two feet behind, we must keep moving forward.
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