2 Planes of Nature And Principles In A Human

Planes of Nature
and Principles in a
Human Being

This knowledge enables us
to . . .
• Understand our own nature
• Know the principles of self-mastery
• Know the difference between personality
and spirituality
• Become familiar with the hidden side of
things
• Understand the phenomena of healing,
psychic phenomena, qigong, etc.

Levels of Consciousness
Vehicle
Higher Self
(Spirit; Atma)

Function
Spark of the Divine; True Self within

Spiritual
Seat of spirituality and true intuition;
Consciousness where illumination and enlightenment
(Buddhi)
occurs
Higher Mental

Abstract thinking; formless

Lower Mental

Concrete thinking; with forms

Emotion

Seat of feelings

Physical
Etheric
Dense

The double; vehicle of prana or ch’i
Physical, liquid and gaseous

Vehicle

Function

Christian equivalent

Spirit

Spirit

Spiritual
Consciousness

Contemplative
Consciousness

Higher
Mental

Individuality

Rational
Soul

Emotion

Desire-Body
Kama-rupa

Animal Soul

Physical
Etheric

Etheric Double
(Linga Sarira)

Lower
Mental

Dense

Dense body

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Vegetable Soul
Physical Body

The Etheric Double
Shaped exactly like the
physical body, except
larger by a few inches.
Generally not separable
from the physical body,
but when it does, it
does not go far from
the body.

Etheric Double
• Carrier of energy
called ch’I or prana,
used in healing and
acupuncture
• The matrix that
forms the shape of
the physical body
• Link between the
physical body and
the inner bodies

Geller was trying to
form the shape of
the “5” which he felt
he was receiving
telepathically.

Kirlian photographs
taken of Geller. At left he
is sending energy to a
key.
Right top picture, his
finger is at rest. Bottom
photo: he is sending
energy toward a watch.

Experiment by J.L Hickman
with Rev. Scudder. Top finger
is a normal finger. Below,
Rev. Scudder sending
energy

Healing
and its
Effects

Effects on Aura of Thoughts
and Feelings

Couple instructed to
think unpleasant
thoughts toward
each other

Same couple
thinking
loving
thoughts

Same couple
kissing

www.kirlian.org/ kirlian2.htm

Phantom Leaf Phenomenon

Kirlian photograph of
normal leaf

shadowboxent.brinkster.net/ lemurkirlian.html

Kirlian photograph of
the same leaf but
almost completely torn
away, leaving only the
stem. The emanation of
the whole life remains
for some time.

Ectoplasm
The etheric
material can at
times be
solidified to be
visible and
tangible and
can produce
various
phenomena
such as the
production of
sounds.

Minnie Harrison

Eva Carriere

Sir William
Crookes
photographed
beside the
materialized
body of Katie
King
March 29, 1874

The Chakras
• The chakras are
energy vortices
between one
plane and another.

Controlling the Ch’i through
Acupuncture

Pranic Healing, Mesmerism,
Healing by Hand, Qigong,
Orgone Therapy, etc.

The Inner Bodies
Astral
body of
savage

The Scientific Intense
anger
Type

Normal
health aura

Causal body of
average person

Causal body
of developed
individual

The Causal
Body of an
Arhat or
Perfected
Being

Astral Projection
The Astral
Body can be
projected
outside of the
physical body.

Group Soul
Rupert
Sheldrake:

Group Soul

Morphic Fields
& Morphic
Resonance

Carl Jung:
Collective
Unconscious

Thought Forms and
Thought Power
Every thought we
make has two
effects:
1. Thought forms –
with shapes and
colors in
accordance with the
thought
2. Thought radiation –
that affect the
surroundings

Lower and Higher Mental
Concrete

Abstract

Red triangle

Triangleness

Outer space and
Galaxies

Pure space without
objects

Yellow

Color

Good act

Goodness

Beautiful flower

Beauty

Higher
Mental
(Devachan)

Adepts and Initiates
Evolved Souls
Average Souls

First Elemental
Essence

Arupa devas

Lower
Mental

Human beings

Second
Elemental
Essence

Rupa devas

Men; Animals
(asleep and
after death)
Shells

Third
Elemental
Essence;
Thought
forms;
Elementals

Kama-devas;
Sylphs

Lower
elementals

Nature spirits

Emotional

Etheric

Atomic
Subatomic
Super-etheric
Etheric

Ghosts

Dense
Physical

Gaseous
Liquid
Solid

Human;
animals;
plants;
minerals

Meditation
Spiritual
Meditation

Preparatory
practices –
concentration,
purification,
health

Mastery of Principles
Abstract
Thought

Meditation

Concrete
Thought

One-pointedness

Emotion

Emotional Processing;
awareness of sensation

Etheric

Breathing; pranayama; thought;
scanning

Physical

Habit; health; diet; exercise

Spiritual and
Psychical (or Personal)
Intuition

Love

Psychic Desire
-al
faculty

ComImperpassion sonal

Duty

Sympa- Person- Person
thy
al
al
motivation

Intuition
• Intuition is to see things
– in their essential nature
– not just understanding things conceptually or from
memory.

• It incorporates conceptual understanding, but
at the same time, transcends it. It is
integrative. It includes, without analysis,
priorities, values or principles.
• It entails awareness of a level of
consciousness subtler than thinking.
• True intuition is identical with spiritual
awareness and the mystical meaning of
“faith.”

The Intuitive Person
• Intuitive persons have judgments that are ultimately
sound and in accord with objective reality.
• Hence, because their view or judgment
encompasses a wider and deeper scope, they are
aptly called wise (not merely being intelligent,
cunning or smart).
• “All great men are endowed with intuition. They
know without reasoning or analysis, what they need
to know.” (Alexis Carrel)
• They are some of the most influential people in
history: Plato, Confucius, Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi,
Einstein, etc.
• They are self-actualizing people

Exploring Intuition
1. Understand what intuition is – and not confuse it
with ESP, emotions, and whims
2. Be clear about your deepest values – your principles
in life and your most important personal values
3. Learn how to enter into inner silence – practice
meditation and daily awareness
4. Check inner response when a decision has to be
made – learn to recognize the inner seeing vs.
emotional reactions

Exercise
• Think of a present life situation that is not trivial – something that
you are concerned about and which is not yet clear yet to you what
you should do. (E.g., to sell or not to sell the house; to reside in
another place; to buy a new piano or not; to go back to school or
not; to enter into a relationship; etc.)
• Enter into inner silence. Drop the thought about the situation entirely
from your mind (if you feel discomfort while thinking about it then
process it first).
• When mind and feelings are calm, indifferent about things, and there
is inward silence, turn your attention to the situation:
–
–
–
–

not deliberate or evaluate it,
just look at it without analysis;
allow the consciousness to “dwell” on the situation,
no attempt to understand or do anything about it, just look

• Stay with this state for five minutes

The existence of the Mahatmas, their
power to travel in the inner, or astral
body at will, to preserve full command
of all their intelligence, and to
condense their “phantom” form into
visibility or dissolve it into invisibility at
their own pleasure, are now facts too
well established to permit us to regard
it as an open question. (CW 5:290-1)

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