Psychic vs. Spiritual

The whole purpose of life is to restore the balance between the inner and the outer selves. Between those two selves, is the psychic plane. The challenges in our lives are resolved when we embark on this balancing of the inner and outer selves, as a process. I like to think that all of our life challenges are sent by our Higher Self to push us into a process of transformation that leads to our identification with the inner, Higher Self in a state of oneness.

Wholeness by Balancing

The balancing begins an inner communication with the Higher Self. In personality this imbalance is between the intellectual mind-chatter, and our desire nature. This imbalance is what holds mankind focused on physicality, unaware of the spiritual state of peace within. This imbalance of the intellectual side of our desire nature, is the cause of all our challenges in life. As an example: if our desires win and intellect is sublimated, we experience gluttony and disease; if intellect wins, and our desires are sublimated, we experience frustration that leads to binge-drinking, road rage, accidents, and blame.

When balance is restored, even briefly, our desire-nature becomes inspired, and our intellect becomes clear, which causes an influx of creative energy. (As an example, on the level of personality, when you receive a compliment you feel good, you’re in the present moment, you smile and radiate love. Even though it is false pride).

Naturally, this “feeling” of love is within us, but for those who are personality-centered, it is only activated by outside sources. But for those that can temporarily surrender the personality self, and can cause an influx at will, this is felt as a “feeling” of love, radiating. When personality acknowledges the presence of this “feeling” of radiating love, an influx temporarily heightens the awareness. This heightened awareness is felt as a physical sensation in the body. I call this the “feeling-tone” because it is a sound vibration.

Emmanuel Swedenborg talks about a “spirituous fluid that courses through our body, and projects a simple fiber — a flashing organic current.” Biologists call it electrochemical and is said to have “rhythmical waves of electrical potential.” As you encourage this feeling-tone to grow — by imitating it and by sharing it, you begin to move the center of consciousness, from personality, to the perspective of the Higher Self — mind without chatter.

Yet, before we can make this feeling-tone to be identified with our Higher Self, it has to be cleared of its previous vibrations; the stress, the tension, the anxiety, and the anger. Yet, because this feeling-tone vibrates with our mental state, it is effected by what the intellect dwells on — and you therefore attract what you dwell on.

The temperaments and moods of the mind keep our spiritual self hidden, but the veil is only a vibrational one. As an example, anger can create a bad feeling in our body, but the feeling-tone can then hold that memory of the anger for a very long time, until it begins to affect our health.

Essentially, the feeling-tone holds the memory of divine love. On the archetypal plane, our feeling-tone of love is our divine nature. When we dwell on thoughts of strength, compassion and love, we encourage this feeling-tone to become enlivened. Then, when we practice radiating this feeling of love to others, as a pulsating feeling of unity, wholeness, and healing comes over us.

Self-examination can help us understand our particular patterns that block our divine right to Wholeness. In fact, reflection is one of the best counseling tools, for it allows us to bypass the delusions that keep the mind in bondage to old thinking and feeling patterns, getting straight to the problem. Self-examination gives the tools, as esoteric principles of regeneration to take with us all our life, to correct our patterns ourselves.