Anyone seeking to live a committed spiritual life knows how important it is to maintain oneself in the higher states of consciousness. Many of us become uncomfortable when we experience people or places where the lower heavy emotions of judgement, fear, guilt, anger, control and envy prevail.
We are so much more than our physical bodies but we often fail to recognize this fact because these bodies are the ones we most clearly perceive with our five external senses. Our body that grounds us into the physical world and dominates our perceptions when we are alive. It is the slowest vibrational body with the most solid definition. It is the most limited body and yet we must possess a physical body in order to develop spiritually and ultimately realize enlightenment.
We are however a combination of four different bodies. One is physical and three are energetic. The latter three are identified as the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. These four bodies are individual sheaths composed of four distinct vibrations of matter that surround each life stream, providing the vehicles for the personal entity’s journey through time and space. The mental, emotional and spiritual bodies are located only in subtle matter – that is matter that has a vibratory frequency that lies beyond our physical sensory perceptions. They are composed of fields of energy moving around and through our physical bodies. The sum of these various energetic layers is also known collectively as our aura.
We are however a combination of four different bodies.
Our mental body is the energy field in which we store all of our core beliefs about ourselves, about others and the universe. It assists us to process information, solve problems and generate higher abstract thought. This is where mundane thoughts, analytical reason, logic and everyday memories are produced. Whereas positive feelings like love tend to make ourselves accept and connect with other things and people, the mind always keeps us separate.
By Mary Mageau
An amazing truth occurs to those known as quantum physicists, in that nature’s invisible energy: photons, electrons and atoms move through space in waves, just the way that we would visualize a wave in the ocean. They all move that way until someone observes them. But when someone watches, the wave collapses and a particle, the smallest bit of matter, appears to pop out of nothing. Only when the electron or photon is observed does this occur. If no one is watching the wave form exists, until someone looks and then the particle exists. Physicist John Wheeler states that it is only the presence of conscious observers in the form of ourselves that have collapsed the wave function and made the universe exist. Without the observer there can be nothing. The collapse of the wave function happens to atoms, electrons and photons, the smallest building blocks of matter. Within us the wave function of atoms, electrons and photons collapses whenever we watch, observe or meditate.
We are living in a time of shifting paradigms. Many of the established religions, including Christian churches of all denominations, are currently witnessing an erosion of their memberships. Fewer people today look to the traditional religions and the churches for answers to their contemporary problems. Is this because the profoundly simple words of our great original teachers have been subsumed into an overbearing and controlling man made culture of fixed rules, regulations, rituals and dogmas? Consider the fact that Jesus Christ was never a Christian, Buddha was not a Buddhist, nor was Mohammed a Muslim. And while the traditional religions continue to lament their decline, the roots and branches of a vibrant new spirituality are forming everywhere. Another pathway is being chosen and experienced by many persons world wide.
