Part I, Chapter 2. HUMANS -
HOW WE ARE BUILT. (2)
This chapter has 3 sections labelled
Made in the Image 2A, Spirit and Soul 2B,
Conscious and Unconscious 2C, Merge 2D, Dualities 2E, and Filters
2F,
Emotions 2G, and TISP 2H.
In which we explore how we are built psychologically while we are
alive on Earth, as in, the components of our psyche, and thus, this section is
about who we are as a person.
Introduction.
YOU as reader are a separate single human being who is a part of
an enormous whole which we really cannot encompass, and are not meant to; it’s
a Largeness.
This Largeness has an energy and some sort of design or control
that we don’t really comprehend. We call it God, the Universe, Life, and we can
also use the term Nature which does not have to be limited to just our planet
Earth. (On the other hand is Nature on Earth going to be eternal, considering
what we are doing to it?)
What are You as this Spark or Part with a Mind?
We ‘come in’, as in, born on Earth, with some built-in features.
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We are Made in the Image
of God
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We have a Psyche/Mind
of a particular composition and structure.
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We have filters.
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We have a very large
mostly unknown potential.
·
We have a pack of expectations
and assumptions from our previous lives.
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And a ‘larger design’
for our lives including Contracts, which we’ve chosen while off-earth, which we
forget about when we are born.
These points are dealt with over the following topics and
chapters. The first 3 points are discussed in chapter 2.
MAN IS ‘Made in the Image of God’. (2A)
The difference between man and all (?) other forms on Earth is
that we have an internal awareness; which is another difficult concept to
define.
It is not ‘I think therefore I am’, it is ‘I am aware that I am
thinking, therefore I am’. This self-awareness is of key importance. We have an
awareness of our external world (Life ‘out there’) and we also have an
awareness of our internal world (our self ‘in here’). They are two different
things, and we know that. We can shift our attention from one to the other,
although we can’t really attend to both at once, although we may try.
Our inner awareness is our own Mind which can perceive
things for itself. It is entirely individual with its own point of view. We
think of it as ‘myself’.
Within the internal world of our minds are…
Things we are conscious of, which is what we present to the outer
world; our ‘outer self’,
And things we are unconscious of which are actually
completely unknown to this ‘outer self’, living deep within as an ‘inner self’.
These ‘inner and outer selves’ are split in that the conscious does not know
the unconscious (by definition).
God is ‘built’/made in the same way, but the difference
between human beings and God is that God does know Her Inner Self, and
therefore it is not unconscious. She has worked out how to learn about Her
Inner Self and goes on learning because She loves doing so and Creates Life
with it and explores it because it is enormous and there’s always more.
God does not need an external world because God is in
everything. All Life as we know it is God’s manifestation of/from Her Inner
Self. Her manifestation of Her Inner Self is Her Real-ization of Her Inner
Self. She is making it Real, as in, giving it Life. We are part of Her
‘Real-izing’ of Her Self.
But, we are unconscious of our inner self, and the only way short
of having nothing around us, which is what God had to contend with, is to have
an external world ‘out there’ to show us who is ‘in here’ for our own
self. God has worked out that Energy mirrors Life, so Her design for us is to
provide us with Life so that we can use it as a mirror. Life is serving
us as a mirror for us to look into if we want to. She understands that Her
human creations need an external world in order to find out about their own
internal world, and that it is extremely difficult to do it any other way. God
is making it much easier for us than it was for Her. We need these conditions of
our lives on Earth to find and understand our own energy/power/affect for
ourselves, as well as how to use that energy/power/affect. The implication here
is that the more we know and understand our inner selves, the more we are able
to come into a unity of our own. Hence the primary instruction of ‘Know
Thyself’.
Another point I wish to make here is that our internal world and
our external world are as large as each other, and they affect each other each
way.
We think that the world affects us, and it does, but we are
generally unaware that we are affecting our world.
Our minds are built like God’s; they have to be.
The big risk of man being made in the image of God is that man
will start thinking that he is actually god, which is an inflation (which see
below). This is cured by time sooner or later.
WE HAVE A PSYCHE/MIND OF A PARTICULAR STRUCTURE. (2B)
Introduction.
There is a lot of talk about being made up of the trio of
Body, Mind and Spirit, but some people use the terms Body, Mind and Soul.
Spirit and Soul are treated as almost synonymous in our society.
Are they the same or 2 different things? If we have no definitions of these or
don’t even consider them as different, we don’t know what is being talked about
in any previous or current teachings and are unable to communicate clearly with
others and build on our experiences. Without definitions, everyone ends up
reinventing the wheel over and over; not to mention total confusion in trying
to work out what anyone else is trying to say.
Please Note that in this discussion I consider the spirit to be
part of each person. I am not and will not be using the term ‘Spirit’ in the
larger sense as ‘spiritual’ people like to do when referring to God or the
Universe. To reinforce this I will sometimes use spirit and soul without the
upper-case S, but once again, we probably need better names/labels for these
things in the first place.
WHAT IS SOUL AND WHAT IS SPIRIT? (2B1)
Well, in the absence of any agreement whatsoever in trying to
define these terms, I will try my own, and the best way I can think of is
through internal description, as in, how it feels.
I would define spirit as the part of us that can ‘jump’; and soul
as the part of us that feels like a ‘lump’. The spirit part of us has the
imaginative, abstract qualities and the soul has the emotional qualities.
If we define spirit as unlimited in Space and soul as unlimited
in Time, then when Time and Space come together we manifest as a single
human being within a single time-frame, as in, now. But within this single
human being are the 2 parts of spirit and soul, and for most of us they are
split/separate. Not to mention, what about the Body and the Mind? Does that
mean that there are 4 ‘departments’ or ‘sections’?
I’ll deal with the properties of the spirit and the soul first.
What are the differences between them?
SPIRIT PROPERTIES. (2B2)
The part of us that can ‘jump’. It has unlimited space to move and roam.
It lives in the mind and appears to us to be synonymous with it.
It is our imagination. It can ‘see’ the bigger picture,
abstraction (or chunking up) and meaning, as in, the ‘why’. It does have access
to all the knowledge/concepts held in space, although that knowledge can be
theory rather than actuality and is not necessarily congruent with reality on
Earth.
Its characteristics are….
Singular; there is no ‘other’.
Free; singular and unattached; it doesn’t need anyone else.
Detached; minimal to no emotions. Can’t attach, and not much ability to feel or
sense others. Doesn’t understand emotions, basically. Spirit does not deal with
‘the other’.
Feels trapped in the body.
It feels trapped by the body and thinks it doesn’t need it. It
doesn’t understand the body’s abilities, especially that of sensing the
external world. It is prone to treat the body as if it is a
car/machine/robot/mechanical device for carting it around and doing what it
wants. Spirit generally ignores what the body senses because it doesn’t ‘make
sense’ to spirit’s accepted concepts or ways of ‘knowing’.
It can access all ‘knowing/knowledge’ ‘out there’.
It thinks it has all the answers; for itself and everyone else.
(If we think we have all the A’s, how do we ask any Q’s?) Doesn’t listen to
others. Doesn’t understand the difference between theory and practice. Has the
Theory – hence channeling it always ‘sounds’ good. [However, that person may
not have been able to live it.]
Impatient (and lazy); used to ‘no time at all’.
Wants everything now, because it can conceive/imagine things
instantly.
But also, ‘there is all the time in the world’, so no hurry, as
far as it’s concerned, in what it wants to do next.
No memory because no experience of time.
Memories belong in time, but spirit does not experience any time,
hence, no memories.
But above all….
It doesn’t have to do anything.
It is essentially lazy.
It’s not used to it, so it can take a while to think about it when
alive, if it does. As spirit, It doesn’t have a body, and is not
actually alive, even if it thinks so mentally.
SOUL PROPERTIES. (2B13)
The part of us that feels like ‘a lump’.
It resides in the body and feels completely synonymous with it.
(The western world has a long history of referring to bodies as ‘souls’.)
It is our memories and emotions; see below.
It has unlimited time.
The memory of an event with a strong emotional response sends us
back in time, but bits of memory can get stuck and break away, as in,
our memory can become fractured and that particular memory will repeat over and
over in time like a stuck vinyl record forever. It doesn’t move and it doesn’t
change.
The soul is earth-bound because it is unlimited in time,
and time is only experienced on earth; hence ‘lump’.
It carries our history.
We need memories for our resources, our ability to develop/build
on our skills, relate to others (try talking to someone who has lost their
short-term memory), and remembering/storing information for when it’s relevant
next time, and to review our past and/or how we have got to where we are.
It has attachments.
To things and places as well as people, especially in the external
world, and they are not always appropriate.
Attachments are made because of our emotions.
Our emotions are the source of our greatest sadness and our
greatest joy, and of course, love, and really, our search for love and for life
are our alpha and omega, and come from the soul.
Our emotions are our rudders. They are how we work out what’s
important to us and what we value, and point us in the direction of wanting
more of what we like, and set us heading in that direction.
MEMORIES AND EMOTIONS AND THE SOUL. (2B14)
The problem of the soul.
The soul is inextricably entwined within the body. The soul has
‘attachments’ to others and things and places. It’s the body that feels the
emotions, and our emotions are our rudders. They are how, or really why, we
make the choices that we make, and our choices are affected by our memories.
The problem here is that these emotions can be from past lives as
well as this life. We are not a ‘tabula rasa’. So, not only does society
ignore emotions from this life as irrelevant, the concept of having emotions
and issues from past lives is just even more to be ignored, and yet to do so
leaves us without any ‘handle’ on what is actually happening within us at a
very deep level in the unconscious.
A very mild example would be someone who is afraid of water and
can’t learn to swim, with no logical reason why; they just are. Yet for them
even a minimal realization that they may have drowned in a previous life can be
sufficient to change their decisions in this life and view swimming in a
different manner. And really, that’s all that is required; a change of mind and
a fear has gone. Simple, but we don’t believe it, so it doesn’t exist, and yet,
that person knows that something in their life is different. They are no longer
blocked from the pleasure and social context of swimming.
A not so mild example would be that of a destitute father going
out to find food for his starving family during winter and getting caught in a
snowstorm and dying of cold. He has not been able to return, and some/all of
his family may die of cold and/or starvation. The father may decide he is no
good as a father; the mother may decide that others cannot be relied upon, and
the children may decide that parents don’t look after you, or fathers abandon
you or that life’s too hard, and so on and so on. These are the decisions that
get carried with us into the next life, (because there is a big
emotional ‘bang’ or ‘effect’ attached to these decisions; the family members
died thinking these things) and however useless or not such decisions may be,
they hang around like bad smells and affect our next lives because Life
reflects our unconscious back to us, and these decisions stay sitting in there
until we decide something else.
We have already had a range of lives and experiences which have
led us to make such decisions about the things that have happened to us. They
are part of the soul which holds our memories (because of Time). This is not
absolutely all our memories; what is retained are the ones with strong
emotional charge attached to them, whether positive or negative. (However, we
don’t usually complain about the +’ve ones.)
The union of the soul with the spirit within the body (ie, we’re
alive) brings these memories into the unconscious part of the mind, and it is
the body that generates and feels the emotions.
But, some of these memories have such a strong -’ve emotional
charge that they split off from the main ‘body’ of the soul and get stuck in
the time that they occurred, and in this time they just play over and over
(which is what ‘stuck in time’ means), and start feeling like one’s worst
nightmares; in fact, like hell, so we bury/repress them as much as we possibly
can. We get stuck in fear.
If we have any of these ‘lost’ bits, they will ‘pinch’ energy from
now (the present), because they are awful and we want them to stay repressed,
and it takes energy to repress them. If there are more than a few, (and many
people have them), then there can be many bits up and down the time-line through
our previous lives, and the owner may feel fragile or very easily shattered,
and won’t know what’s going on. That person just feels ‘out of control’ and
generally fairly anxious about being in situations in this current life that
trigger off these memories. But really, if you feel shattered easily, you may
well have ‘bits of you’ somewhere else in time.
In fact, these bits can be remembered and retrieved back into the
present, at which time the owner may feel as though they have found some
part/member of themselves back and feel internally stronger or more resilient.
Hence re-membered. (The Egyptian story of Osiris is referring to this
‘dismemberment’.)
However, this process of re-member-ing actually requires the
overview or the ‘bigger picture’ that the spirit is able to bring in. The soul
tends to get stuck in the detail of what happened, and needs the spirit
to provide the bigger picture of the why it happened, within the context
of what else was happening at the time, to find its meaning for us.
Thus, we need both spirit and soul working together to
resolve the problems of these negative emotions, and thus able to bring the
contents of the unconscious into the conscious. In so doing, we feel stronger
or more integrated for it.
WHAT ABOUT THE BODY? (2B5)
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The body is an animal. (We
just don’t like remembering this bit.)
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It is our vehicle in this
Life. But, it is not just a machine/robot to cart the spirit around and do what
it says.
·
It houses the mind, along
with the spirit and the soul.
·
It is made of earth/dust
and will return to this. We like to forget this bit too. We have to maintain it
if we want to stay alive. This involves effort.
·
It is our manifesting
device; we can’t do things or make things or much else without it. It’s
the part that ‘has and can mould the clay’ if we want to make things,
·
It is our energy exploring
device; it’s how we get to experience things.
·
It is our energy sensing
device, (all senses; not just VAKOG plus all the energy vibrations
available to us; not just measurable ones either). We must understand
that we are an animal and part of Nature and have access to the same range of
subtle energies that surround all life. We cannot
perceive/register/sense or ‘pick up’ these ‘vibes’ of Life without a body.
People have enormous variation in their sensitivity to these energies, which is
something we discount, generally because we are unable to measure these things.
(The sooner we get rid of ‘if it’s not empirical, it doesn’t exist’, the
better.) Don’t forget we can pick up others’ emanations as well; they are
‘vibes’ too.
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It is our energy
transmitting device; our own energy basically, as in, our own unique vibration
(’Ident’). This energy that we are transmitting is the energy of our Unconscious;
our Inner Self. We tend to think it’s our outer self or persona or image
that we’re transmitting, and that we can use our will to force this, but it
takes energy to maintain this image if it is not aligned with the unconscious,
which is usually the case.
·
It is how we make our
communication and connection to others including being the way/means by
which God/Nature/Life can communicate with us.
The body is the ‘practice’; the actuality, and we hold the
memories of the differences (our collisions) between theory and practice.
In our current society we are more familiar with spirit. We really
devalue the body and the emotions, and in so doing we have lost the soul. There
is an awful lot of New Age stuff about our being a ‘spiritual person having an
earthly experience’ as if Earth were not our true home, although this may be in
response to a general tendency to simply use the body without ever thinking
about the reason for having life. However, it seems to me that we are really
failing to encompass the importance of the body and its energies and the
importance of addressing our physical health, the lack of which can affect both
the emotions and our mental health. Our physical health is totally wrapped up
in the health of the Earth. (A nice sweeping statement! And of course
completely true. How can we think otherwise?)
WHAT ABOUT THE MIND? (2B6)
Exists only while we have a body; (‘ipso fatso’ as in
‘Perishers’). (We don’t like that one either.)
Has a lot of ‘stuff’ in it when you think about it. (‘Stuff’ being
a technical term, of course.)
·
Data from this present life
experience and all you have accumulated so far.
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Data from all those ‘vibes’
we ‘swim in’.
·
Data from the Autonomic
Nervous System running the body.
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Data from the spirit.
·
History from the soul.
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Our connection to Life and
God.
And some of it is conscious and some of it is unconscious.
MIND AND SPIRIT ARE BOTH 'MENTAL'. (2B7)
Well, what’s the difference between the mind and spirit? They’re
both ‘mental’ or both belong in the world of thought.
The difference is that spirit’s ‘thoughts’ look like ‘answers’
while minds ‘thoughts’ involve data or detail or comparisons collected from
Life. Spirit’s ideas belong to the world of intuition, which also includes the
symbolic, patterns, the abstract, and generalizations. They can be ‘true’, but
they will be true in the abstract, as in, ‘Love is the answer’, which is true,
but it is theory. Your business is to find what ‘love’ is for yourself,
physically and emotionally, and then work out how to live it. Your body
will collect the data, and your mind can compare the theoretical with its own
actual and what it sees as true for others out there.
Now, we can look at some of the consequence of these different
parts or sections or departments as they come together.
RECOGNIZING CONCEPTS THAT COME FROM SPIRIT. (2B8)
Anyone we know??
Freedom, singular ie, detached, and few emotions.
It can ‘jump’ away, and it has no ‘messy’ emotions; hence no
attachments, to people or things and no love either; and no idea of their value
or importance - attachments are seen as a weakness along with the body.
Emotions ‘mess up’ rational decision-making and logical thought. Rational is
good. (This begs the question of what is good.)
It may be able to feel ‘heavenly’ through stilling the mind, but
it is unable to act upon giving love as effort or serve.
There is no other.
It has not had to deal with another during time as spirit. Well,
it has not had to fit in with another’s wishes/commands. It has been able to do
as it pleases. Life is actually quite a shock to it.
Doesn’t like having a body.
Because it’s an animal and vulnerable to pain and death. It
requires effort to maintain, and it’s slow and an encumbrance to freedom, and
for men it is a betrayer and will not stay under control; (hence
many religions’ efforts to punish the body to keep it down for the
lord’s sake, or punish those who might make it to go up!). In fact, as
far as spirit is concerned the body with its soul is a real pill, and the
sooner it can get rid of it or work out how to use it to the max for its own
satisfaction, the better.
And very closely related to this is…
Doesn’t Want to do Anything.
It does not want to do
Anything, and defines ‘heaven’ as not having to do anything.
Thus, it has terrible trouble with ‘Till and Keep’, especially the
boring, routine bits like housework and looking after the body.
In the end, the justification for both of the above, is ‘there is
no need to look after the body because it is ephemeral to this life and in the
end it doesn’t matter, because ‘Heaven’s where it’s at’’.
Has all the Answers already.
Why need anything else? And don’t need anyone else anyway;
especially anyone else’s Answers. It knows it all already and doesn’t need
feedback or actuality to counter that. This translates as thinking that what
someone says is what they do. Well, not! This one is such a trap! Our ‘talking’
society increasingly ignores the difference, and relies upon self-estimation as
the measure.
Impatient.
It’s used to no time. It’s used to imagining it and thinking it’s
true, and no need to check anyway because it’s on to the next thing. No idea of
the amount of time it takes to grow/build/make/real-ize something in the physical;
or of working steadily and patiently to get to this ‘end’.
It’s also unaware of time. There’s all the time in the
world, and there is no ‘other’.
It is used to doing what it wants when it wants, for as long as it
takes.
No memory.
Hence the belief that, if we ‘put it all behind us’ it’s gone.
(However much we may like to think this is so, this concept is entirely and
utterly incorrect.)
No concept of Nurturing, Protecting, Love or Serving.
Well, who to? There is no ‘other’.
It is always trying to dream up ways to escape, and justify it as
well.
Of course, we actually ‘should’ be somewhere else, namely Heaven.
The above list looks to me awfully like most of our mainstream
religions (and men). I suspect that these religions come from spirit’s ideas,
and I will be using the label of Spirit-Based Religions (SBR) for them.
All religions based on Spirit's ideas about itself negate Life and
cannot learn to love it, much less Serve it. This is almost all of current
mainstream religions, at least in the West.
The irony here is that Spirit thinks it has all the answers but
can't work out why it's alive on earth.
But we do need Spirit to..
·
Lift us up to get the
bigger picture and the context.
·
Provide inspiration and
imagine possibilities.
·
Provide the meaning.
·
Provide the metaphors that
form bridges in meaning across PEMS.
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Stop us from getting stuck
in detail and too much emotion which can drown us.
But Spirit is here to learn…
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The value and importance of
love and to discriminate what to be attached to.
·
The value of effort and
serve for love in creativity and relationship.
·
The value of the body and
its senses in its connection to Life and Nature and our Inner Self.
·
The value of collaboration
with the other for better ‘answers’.
·
The value of patience and
time especially in relation to our children and/or our manifestation and/or
creativity.
·
The importance of our
experiences and our memory as communication devices with our Inner Selves.
But for our body with its soul things are altogether different.
OUR BODY WITH ITS SOUL WANTS TO BE… (2B9)
·
Safe - this seems to be no.1 (just). It wants safety PEMS. ie in all
departments/domains/directions.
·
Fed and Watered - no.2. Also, what we ingest needs to be clean - how important
and how ignored!
·
Clean. It doesn’t like feeling dirty or ‘buggy’.
And also…..
·
Comfortable and the correct
temperature for it.
·
Healthy and Well and able
to move with ease and vitality.
·
Touched and stroked.
·
Fully able to play
and explore according to its needs.
And, of course…
Loved. Nurtured, Protected and Served.
It also…
·
Likes to spend time and
sense in to Nature, go with the flow. Patience.
·
Kind of has a mind of its
own, which is usually unconscious.
·
Is the part that can
nurture new growth as long as it understands how to nurture itself.
When we watch a well-fed, secure animal enjoying the sun and just
Being, we can identify with that. That is soul. (And how much do we get to
these, and who does so?)
Creations made with soul have a life of their own.
On the other hand, soul does need to let go of those attachments,
especially things in the external.
Hence, A DIAGRAM OF the relationship between body and mind and
spirit and soul could be…. (2BDiag1)
<======= THOUGHT ==========>
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<======= FEELING ==========>
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But this diagram has a marked resemblance to the 4
directions/domains of PEMS, not to mention a marked resemblance to the MBTI
personality system which I will discuss below. See MBTI chapter.
But if energy has these 4 directions/domains, so must we because
we are made of energy too.
So, what are these 4 directions/domains? I deal with properties of
Energy in Chapter 3. What we come into.
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