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Nothing to post for this area as yet.  In the meantime here is an extract from one of my favorite books "The Power of Now".

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. It merges with the pain from the past which was already there and becomes lodged in your mind and body. This of course includes the pain you suffered as a child caused by the unconsciousness of the world into which you were born.

This accumulated pain is a negative energy field that occupies your body and mind. If you look on it as an invisible entity in its own right you are getting quite close to the truth. Its the emotional pain-body. It has two modes of being: dormant and active. A pain-body may be dormant 90 percent of the time; in a deeply unhappy person though it may be active up to 100 percent of the time. Some people live almost entirely through their pain-body while others may experience it only in certain situations such as intimate relationships or situations linked with past loss or abandonment physical or emotional hurt and so on. Anything can trigger it particularly if it resonates with a pain pattern from your past. When it is ready to awaken from its dormant stage even a thought or an innocent remark made by someone close to you can activate it. Some pain-bodies are obnoxious but relatively harmless for example like a child who won' t stop whining. Others are vicious and destructive monsters true demons. Some are physically violent; many more are emotionally violent. Some will attack people around you or close to you while others may attack you their host. Thoughts and feelings you have about your life then become deeply negative and self-destructive. Illnesses and accidents are often created in this way. Some pain-bodies drive their hosts to suicide. When you thought you knew a person and then you are suddenly confronted with this alien nasty creature for the first time you are in for quite a shock. However it's more important to observe it in yourself than in someone else. Watch out for any sign of unhappiness in yourself in whatever form - it may be the awakening pain-body. This can take the form of irritation impatience a somber mood a desire to hurt anger rage depression a need to have some drama in your relationship and so on. Catch it the moment it awakens from its dormant state. The pain-body wants to survive just like every other entity in existence and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it. It can then rise up take you over become you and live through you. It needs to get its "food" through you. It will feed on any experience that resonates with its own kind of energy anything that creates further pain in whatever form: anger destructiveness hatred grief emotional drama violence and even illness. So the pain-body when it has taken you over will create a situation in your life that reflects back its own energy frequency for it to feed on. Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible. Once the pain-body has taken you over you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain or you want to suffer pain or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this of course and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going for yourself and others. If youweretruly conscious of it the pattern would dissolve for to want more pain is insanity and nobody is consciously insane. The pain-body which is the dark shadow cast by the ego is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is afraid of being found out. Its survival depends on your unconscious identification with it as well as on your unconscious fear of facing the pain that lives in you. But if you don't face it if you don' t bring the light of your consciousness into the pain you will be forced to relive it again and again. The pain-body may seem to you like a dangerous monster that you cannot bear to look at but I assure you that it is an insubstantial phantom that cannot prevail against the power of your presence. Some spiritual teachings state that all pain is ultimately an illusion and this is true. The question is: Is it true for you? A mere belief doesn't make it true. Do you want to experience pain for the rest of your life and keep saying that it is an illusion? Does that free you from the pain? What we are concerned with here is how you can realize this truth - that is make it real in your own experience. So the pain-body doesn't want you to observe it directly and see it for what it is. The moment you observe it feel its energy field within you and take your attention into it the identification is broken. A higher dimension of consciousness has come in. I call it presence. You are now the witness or the watcher of the pain-body. This means that it cannot use you anymore by pretending to be you and it can no longer replenish itself through you. You have found your own innermost strength. You have accessed the power of Now.

What happens to the pain-body when we become conscious enough to break our identification with it?

Unconsciousness creates it; consciousness transmutes it into itself. St. Paul expressed this universal principle beautifully: "Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light." Just as you cannot fight the darkness you cannot fight the pain-body. Trying to do so would create inner conflict and thus further pain. Watching it is enough. Watching it implies accepting it as part of what is at that moment. The pain-body consists of trapped life-energy that has split off from your total energy field and has temporarily become autonomous through the unnatural process of mind identification. It has turned in on itself and become anti-life like an animal trying to devour its own tail. Why do you think our civilization has become so life-destructive? But even the life-destructive forces are still life-energy. When you start to disidentify and become the watcher the painbody will continue to operate for a while and will try to trick you into identifying with it again. Although you are no longer energizing it through your identification it has a certain momentum just like a spinning wheel that will keep turning for a while even when it is no longer being propelled. At this stage it may also create physical aches and pains in different parts of the body but they won't last. Stay present stay conscious. Be the ever-alert guardian of your inner space. You need to be present enough to be able to watch the pain-body directly and feel its energy. It then cannot control your thinking. The moment your thinking is aligned with the energy field of the painbody you are identified with it and again feeding it with your thoughts. For example if anger is the predominant energy vibration of the pain-body and you think angry thoughts dwelling on what someone did to you or what you are going to do to him or her then you have become unconscious and the pain-body has become "you." Where there is anger there is always pain underneath. Or when a dark mood comes upon you and you start getting into a negative mind-pattern and thinking how dreadful your life is your thinking has become aligned with the pain-body and you have become unconscious and vulnerable to the pain-body's attack. "Unconscious the way that I use the word here means to be identified with some mental or emotional pattern. It implies a complete absence of the watcher. Sustained conscious attention severs the link between the painbody and your thought processes and brings about the process of transmutation. It is as if the pain becomes fuel for the flame of your consciousness which then burns more brightly as a result. This is the esoteric meaning of the ancient art of alchemy. the transmutation of base metal into gold of suffering into consciousness. The split within is healed and you become whole again. Your responsibility then is not to create further pain. Let me summarize the process. Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of the one who observes the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens. For many women the pain-body awakens particularly at the time preceding the menstrual flow. I will talk about this and the reason for it in more detail later. Right now let me just say this: If you are able to stay alert and present at that time and watch whatever you feel within rather than be taken over by it it affords an opportunity for the most powerful spiritual practice and a rapid transmutation of all past pain becomes possible.

Ego Identification With The Pain-Body

The process that I have just described is profoundly powerful yet simple. It could be taught to a child and hopefully one day it will be one of the first things children learn in school. Once you have understood the basic principle of being present as the watcher of what happens inside you - and you understand" it by experiencing it -you have at your disposal the most potent transformational tool. This is not to deny that you may encounter intense inner resistance to disidentifying from your pain. This will be the case particularly if you have lived closely identified with your emotional pain-body for most of your life and the whole or a large part of your sense of self is invested in it. What this means is that you have made an unhappy self out of your pain-body and believe that this mind-made fiction is who you are. In that case unconscious fear of losing your identity will create strong resistance to any disidentification. In other words you would rather be in pain –be the pain-body– than take a leap into the unknown and risk losing the familiar unhappy self. If this applies to you observe the resistance within yourself. Observe the attachment to your pain. Be very alert. Observe the peculiar pleasure you derive from being unhappy. Observe the compulsion to talk or think about it. The resistance will cease if you make it conscious. You can then take your attention into the pain-body stay present as the witness and so initiate its transmutation. Only you can do this. Nobody can do it for you. But if you are fortunate enough to find someone who is intensely conscious if you can be with them and join them in the state of presence that can be helpful and will accelerate things. In this way your own light will quickly grow stronger. When a log that has only just started to burn is placed next to one that is burning fiercely and after a while they are separated again the first log will be burning with much greater intensity. After all it is the same fire. To be such a fire is one of the functions of a spiritual teacher. Some therapists may also be able to fulfill that function provided that they have gone beyond the level of mind and can create and sustain a state of intense conscious presence while they are working with you.

Clairvoyance Leeds

On the next plane which we call the [devachanic] mental conditions are very different. There the record is full and accurate and it would be impossible to make any mistake in the reading. That is to say if three clairvoyants possessing the powers of the mental plane agreed to examine a certain record there what would be presented to their vision would be absolutely the same reflection in each case and each would acquire a correct impression from it in reading it. It does not however follow that when they all compared notes later on the physical plane their reports would agree exactly. It is well known that if three people who witness an occurrence down here in the physical world set to work to describe it afterwards their accounts will differ considerably for each will have noticed especially those items which most appeal to him and will insensibly have made them the prominent features of the event sometimes ignoring other points which were in reality much more important. [Page 95]

Now in the case of an observation on the mental plane this personal equation would not appreciably affect the impressions received for since each would thoroughly grasp the entire subject it would be impossible for him to see its parts out of due proportion; but except in the case of carefully trained and experienced persons this factor does come into play in transferring the impressions to the lower planes. It is in the nature of things impossible that any account given down here of a [devachanic] mental vision or experience on the mental plane can be complete since nine-tenths of what is seen and felt there could not be expressed by physical words at all; and since all expression must therefore be partial there is obviously some possibility of selection as to the part expressed. It is for this reason that in all our Theosophical investigations of recent years so much stress has been laid upon the constant checking and verifying of clairvoyant testimony nothing which rests upon the vision of one person only having been allowed to appear in our later books.

But even when the possibility of errors from this factor of personal equation has been reduced to a minimum by a careful system of counterchecking there still remains the very serious difficulty which is inherent in the operation of bringing down impressions from a higher plane to a lower one. This is something analogous to the difficulty experienced by a painter in his endeavour to reproduce a three-dimensional landscape on a flat surface - that is practically in two dimensions. Just as the artist needs long and careful training of eye and [Page 96] hand before he can produce a satisfactory representation of Nature so does the clairvoyant need long and careful training before he can describe accurately on a lower plane what he sees on a higher one; and the probability of getting an exact description from an untrained person is about equal to that of getting a perfectly-finished landscape from one who has never learnt how to draw.

It must be remembered too that the most perfect picture is in reality infinitely far from being a reproduction of the scene which it represents for hardly a single line or angle in it can ever be the same as those in the object copied. It is simply a very ingenious attempt to make upon only one of our five senses by means of lines and colours on a flat surface an impression similar to that which would have been made if we had actually had before us the scene depicted. Except by a suggestion dependent entirely on our own previous experience it can convey to us nothing of the roar of the sea of the scent of the flowers of the taste of the fruit of of the softness or hardness of the surface drawn.

Of exactly similar nature though far greater in degree are the difficulties experienced by a clairvoyant in his attempt to describe upon the physical plane what he has seen upon the astral; and they are furthermore greatly enhanced by the fact that instead of having merely to recall to the minds of his hearers conceptions with which they are already familiar as the artist does when he paints men or animals fields or trees he has to endeavour by the very imperfect means at his disposal [Page 97] to suggest to them conceptions which in most cases are absolutely new to them.

Small wonder then that however vivid and striking his descriptions may seem to his audience he himself should constantly be impressed with their total inadequacy and should feel that his best efforts have entirely failed to convey any idea of what he really sees. And we must remember that in the case of the report given down here of a record read on the mental plane this difficult operation of transference from the higher to the lower has taken place not once but twice since the memory has been brought through the intervening astral plane. Even in a case where the investigator has the advantage of having developed his mental faculties so that he has the use of them while awake in the physical body he is still hampered by the absolute incapacity of physical language to express what he sees.

Try for a moment to realize fully what is called the fourth dimension of which we said something in an earlier chapter. It is easy enough to think of our own three dimensions - to image in our minds the length breadth and height of any object; and we see that each of these three dimensions is expressed by a line at right angles to both of the others. The idea of the fourth dimension is that it might be possible to draw a fourth line which shall be at right angles to all three of those already existing.

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