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7 Princicpal of Spiritualism

Clairvoyance Leicester

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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".

Please try it now. You may find it helpful to close your eyes for this practice. Later on when "being in the body' has become natural and easy this will no longer be necessary. Direct your attention into the body. Feel it from within. Is it alive? Is there life in your hands arms legs and feet - in your abdomen your chest? Can you feel the subtle energy field that pervades the entire body and gives vibrant life to every organ and every cell? Can you feel it simultaneously in all parts of the body as a single field of energy? Keep focusing on the feeling of your inner body for a few moments. Do not start to think about it. Feel it. The more attention you give it the clearer and stronger this feeling will become. It will feel as if every cell is becoming more alive and if you have a strong visual sense you may get an image of your body becoming luminous. Although such an image can help you temporarily pay more attention to the feeling than to any image that may arise. An image no matter how beautiful or powerful is already defined in form so there is less scope for penetrating more deeply. The feeling of your inner body is formless limitless and unfathomable. You can always go into it more deeply. If you cannot feel very much at this stage pay attention to whatever you can feel. Perhaps there is just a slight tingling in your hands or feet. That's good enough for the moment. Just focus on the feeling. Your body is coming alive. Later we will practice some more. Please open your eyes now but keep some attention in the inner energy field of the body even as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity your true nature. Never lose touch with it.

Transformation Through The Body

Why have most religions condemned or denied the body? It seems that spiritual seekers have always regarded the body as a hindrance or even as sinful.

Why have so few seekers become finders? On the level of the body humans are very close to animals. All the basic bodily functions - pleasure pain breathing eating drinking defecating sleeping the drive to find a mate and procreate and of course birth and death - we share with the animals. A long time after their fall from a state of grace and oneness into illusion humans suddenly woke up in what seemed to be an animal body - and they found this very disturbing. "Don't fool yourself. You are no more than an animal." This seemed to be the truth that was staring them in the face. But it was too disturbing a truth to tolerate. Adam and Eve saw that they were naked and they became afraid. Unconscious denial of their animal nature set in very quickly. The threat that they might be taken over by powerful instinctual drives and revert back to complete unconsciousness was indeed a very real one. Shame and taboos appeared around certain parts of the body and bodily functions especially sexuality. The light of their consciousness was not yet strong enough to make friends with their animal nature to allow it to be and even enjoy that aspect of themselves - let alone to go deeply into it to find the divine hidden within it the reality within the illusion. So they did what they had to do. They began to disassociate from their body. They now saw themselves as having a body rather than just being it. When religions arose this disassociation became even more pronounced as the "you are not your body' belief. Countless people in East and West throughout the ages have tried to find God salvation or enlightenment through denial of the body. This took the form of denial of sense pleasures and of sexuality in particular fasting and other ascetic practices. They even inflicted pain on the body in an attempt to weaken or punish it because they regarded it as sinful. In Christianity this used to be called mortification of the flesh. Others tried to escape from the body by entering trance states or seeking outof-the-body experiences. Many still do. Even the Buddha is said to have practiced body denial through fasting and extreme forms of asceticism for six years but he did not attain enlightenment until after he had given up this practice. The fact is that no one has ever become enlightened through denying or fighting the body or through an out-of-the-body experience. Although such an experience can be fascinating and can give you a glimpse of the state of liberation from the material form in the end you will always have to return to the body where the essential work of transformation takes place. Transformation is through the body not away from it. This is why no true master has ever advocated fighting or leaving the body although their mind-based followers often have. Of the ancient teachings concerning the body only certain fragments survive such as Jesus' statement that "your whole body will be filled with light or they survive as myths such as the belief that Jesus never relinquished his body but remained one with it and ascended into heaven" with it. Almost no one to this day has understood those fragments or the hidden meaning of certain myths and the "you are not your body' belief has prevailed universally leading to body denial and attempts to escape from the body. Countless seekers have thus been prevented from attaining spiritual realization for themselves and becoming finders.

Is it possible to recover the lost teachings on the significance of the body or to reconstruct them from the existing fragments?

There is no need for that. All spiritual teachings originate from the same Source. In that sense there is and always has been only one master who manifests in many different forms. I am that master and so are you once you are able to access the Source within. And the way to it is through the inner body. Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than collections of words - and a word is nothing but a signpost as we talked about earlier. All such teachings are signposts pointing the way back to the Source. I have already spoken of the Truth that is hidden within your body but I will summarize for you again the lost teachings of the masters - so here is another signpost. Please endeavor to feel your inner body as you read or listen.

Clairvoyance Leicester

We may presume that if it were possible for a man to be isolated during his evolution from all but the gentlest outside influences and to unfold from the beginning [Page 18] in perfectly regular and normal fashion he would probably develop his senses in regular order also. He would find his physical senses gradually extending their scope until they responded to all the physical vibrations of etheric as well as of denser matter; then in orderly sequence would come sensibility to the coarser part of the astral plane and presently the finer part also would be included until in due course the faculty of the mental plane dawned in its turn.

In real life however development so regular as this is hardly ever known and many a man has occasional flashes of astral consciousness without any awakening of etheric vision at all. And this irregularity of development is one of the principal causes of man's extraordinary liability to error in matters of clairvoyance - a liability from which there is no escape except by a long course of careful training under a qualified teacher.

Students of Theosophical literature are well aware that there are such teachers to be found - that even in this materialistic nineteenth century the old saying is still true that "when the pupil is ready the Master is ready also" and that "in the hall of learning when he is capable of entering there the disciple will always find his Master". They are well aware also that only under such guidance can a man develop his latent powers in safety and with certainty since they know how fatally easy it is for the untrained clairvoyant to deceive himself as to the meaning and value of what he sees or even absolutely to distort his vision completely in bringing it down into his physical consciousness. [Page 19]

It does not follow that even the pupil who is receiving regular instruction in the use of occult powers will find them unfolding themselves exactly in the regular order which was suggested above as probably idea. His previous progress may not have been such as to make this for him the easiest or most desirable road; but at any rate he is in the hands of one who is perfectly competent to be his guide in spiritual development and he rests in perfect contentment that the way along which he is taken will be that which is the best way for him.

Another great advantage which he gains is that whatever faculties he may acquire are definitely under his command and can be used fully and constantly when he needs them for his Theosophical work; whereas in the case of the untrained man such powers often manifest themselves only very partially and spasmodically and appear to come and go as it were at their own sweet will.

It may reasonably be objected that if clairvoyant faculty is as stated a part of the occult development of man and so a sign of a certain amount of progress along that line it seems strange that it should often be possessed by primitive peoples or by the ignorant and uncultured among our own race - persons who are obviously quite undeveloped from whatever point of view one regards them. No doubt this does appear remarkable at first sight; but the fact is that the sensitiveness of the savage or of the coarse and vulgar European ignoramus is not really at all the same thing as the [Page 20] faculty of his properly trained brother nor is it arrived at in the same way.

An exact and detailed explanation of the difference would lead us into rather recondite technicalities but perhaps the general idea of the distinction between the two may be caught from an example taken from the very lowest plane of clairvoyance in close contact with the denser physical. The etheric double in man is in exceedingly close relation to his nervous system and any kind of action upon one of them speedily reacts on the other. Now in the sporadic appearance of etheric sight in the savage whether of Central Africa or of Western Europe it has been observed that the corresponding nervous disturbance is almost entirely in the sympathetic system and that the whole affair is practically beyond the man's control - is in fact a sort of massive sensation vaguely belonging to the whole etheric body rather than an exact and definite sense-perception communicated through a specialized organ.

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