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ARTArticleEducating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 3 Methods and TechniquesOne of the prevalent ideas about managing the vital nature has been the idea that punishment in some form or other is beneficial. Spanking of children, for example has been a common method of ‘educating’ them. It is a form of conditioning that administers a negative consequence to a specific behavior that the parent (or other authorized authority figure) wants to eliminate. Modern psychological research indicates that, in fact, this method is not the best approach to what is actually vital education.ARTArticleEffectuating the Formations of Imagination Over Time and CircumstanceCreating a detailed imagination is the first step in a future realisation. The formation so devised will attempt to achieve its actualisation in the world. Yet, it must contend with the readiness of the ground upon which it alights, the preparation of the ‘soil’, the proper support along the way, and avoidance of those forces and influences which will tend to either destroy, distract or delay its coming to fruition. The formation struggles to survive, grow, thrive and bear fruit. It may take time. The more far-reaching the intended outcome, the longer it may take.ARTArticleEmpowering Thought Forms Through Linking of Will and EmotionPerhaps the biggest impediments to the exercise of the occult powers native to the human condition is our lack of willingness to acknowledge these powers for what they are, and our lack of attention and focus on understanding, developing and exercising them. When extraordinary circumstances arise, and we actually concentrate our minds, things may take place that we do not associate with the direct action of our minds. Perhaps they occur out of sequence with our action, or at a distant place, or in an unexpected manner.ARTArticleEncouraging the Dreams of ChildrenWe could say that it is almost a universal experience. A child expresses some sentiment, some idea about what he or she would like to do, something that soars beyond the mundane daily existence, something that makes things better, increases the beauty and harmony of life, cherishes life, and then the elders, parents, relatives, teachers, make it clear to the child that their dreams are not ‘practical’ and they should instead focus on their studies and preparing for a career or job that will provide them a stable livelihood in their adult lives.ARTArticleEndurance Is Required for Progress, Growth and SuccessEach part of the being has its own form of endurance. Endurance is essential for any true and lasting development. Change tends to be mostly incremental. When it comes more rapidly it is usually accompanied by major disruptions to the status quo. In either case, one form of endurance, or another, is required.ARTArticleEverybody Practices Occultism, Whether They Realize It or NotPeople proudly deny occultism with a laugh and a smirk about how unreal it is, and how people are taken in by the occult sciences. They state their dependence on what is “real” and “solid” and palpable to their senses. Seeing is believing, they say! They frequently pound on the table to prove how “real” what they believe in happens to be.
Yet, when given the opportunity to objectify what they do in their lives, they reveal that they too are practitioners of occult arts, things that are not so palpable or ‘solid’ as they profess in their attempt to minimize the value of occultism.ARTArticleExperiencing and Understanding Infinite Worlds of ExperienceScientists nowadays are speaking of infinite numbers of parallel universes, each one carrying out some different ‘choice’ that can be worked out. Not every world is based on the same set of factors and choices as the world we currently inhabit. There are also realms that are not physical in the sense of the materiality of the existence, but which are much more fluid vital domains or worlds of mental formations that exist in a space of pure mentality, etc.ARTArticleExperiencing the Higher and Subtler Levels of ConsciousnessWhen we are rooted in the body consciousness, we experience intensely the reactions of the physical body to circumstances and events. We may experience a feeling of pleasure, or pain, and as the intensity of that experience captures our focus, we are generally unable to pay attention to vital feelings or focus on mental activity. As the attention shifts to the vital level we become fixated on the feelings, emotions and vital sensations and again the mental process is overshadowed. Further subtilisation of awareness brings us to the mental level.ARTArticleExtending a Measure of Validity to Reports of Supra-Physical Perceptions and ExperiencesSri Aurobindo makes an important point. Various aspects of reports about subtle senses and supraphysical realities as they impact our exte
al world, have been documented, and in some cases, extensively studied and verified. Once we accept the fact that there is a real and solid basis for these experiences that we can validate, it provides at least circumstantial support to the idea that, by extension, those experiences outside our range of perception also have a similar validity. This is not to say that every report and every experience is absolutely true and correct in every detail.ARTArticleFaith and ConfidenceThere are countless stories of what may be called the “placebo effect” for confidence in action. Athletes sometimes believe they will perform better if they are wearing a specific shirt or pair of socks. People have their ‘lucky charms’ that they believe provide them success in certain endeavours. There are also certain rituals people carry out with the belief that those rituals ensure success. In all these instances, the faith that the individual placed in the item or the action gave them the confidence to move forward and carry a positive energy into their activity.ARTArticleFaith and Personal EffortThere is a tendency in the human mind to create an artificial division between faith, based in the divine Grace, and effort, based in the mental, vital and physical being of the individual. Thus, if we have faith, we tend not to ‘worry’ about specific actions we can or should take. It is a type of fatalism that says that the Grace is watching over me, so whatever happens is for the best and I need not take steps to support or develop it. At the same time, the mind’s natural approach is to fragment, to divide, to question, to doubt and to hold conflicting ideas at one time or another.ARTArticleFear: Its Effect on the Vital Sheath and As a Cause of IllnessSeveral years ago there was a world-wide pandemic that affected many tens of millions of people, which was called the covid-19 pandemic. It provided us a clear opportunity to see the impact of fear on the reactions of people. Panic ensued. Stores closed, public access was shut down in many places, people tried to avoid the pandemic by staying at home and minimizing their interaction with other people, keeping their distance, using face masks, protective gear such as plastic shields and using a lot of hand sanitizer products.ARTArticleFocusing the Will on the Physical Body and its DevelopmentThe mind has a tremendous power to influence the physical body, for good or ill. In some cases, mental ideas can lead to extraordinary imbalances in the body, which can lead to weakness, illness and even the death of the body. Many times we will push the body beyond its limits without conce
for the effect this will have, or even, how we go about doing this. We also can put the body into extremely precarious situations with extremes of environment that can tax the body’s resources.ARTArticleForces at Work In Human Affairs Behind the Exte
al CausesThe study of human history is one of exte
alities generally. We memorize dates of important events and try to lay the responsibility for certain subsequent actions at the door of those events. To hear historians tell it, the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand was the trigger that set off World War I. Sometimes historians will naturally capture and try to explain further causes to cataclysmic events having to do with geopolitical power plays or economic imbalances.ARTArticleFree Will, Determinism and Random Chance as Factors in Life OutcomesThere is a third factor that intervenes in the debate about free will and determinism and that is ‘random chance’. In that concept, there is basically no plan, no framework and no way to manage or control events, which thus can occur through random occurrences with no predetermined end. Both the notion of free will and determinism are overtu
ed according to this conception. One can exercise free will, but it comes to naught as chance intervenes and defeats one’s will. One can believe in determinism, but chance again breaks down any predetermined patterns.ARTArticleFreeing the Mind from Subjection to the Life-Force and the BodyThe development of the vital, life-force integrated with the physical domain led to changes in the physical in order to accommodate the action of this new energy. At the same time, the life-force had to itself make adjustments in order to operate in the material world as opposed to in its own domain independent of Matter. These adjustments limited the power and scope of the vital, while expanding the capabilities of expression in the material world.ARTArticleGnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental ConsciousnessWe face, in every sphere of human endeavor, a conflict of competing ideas or directions. If we look closely we can see an element of truth in each side, but can also recognise that as long as we are bound by the mind’s limitations and its desire to reduce everything to “either-or”, we cannot harmonise these oppositions.ARTArticleGnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental ConsciousnessWe face, in every sphere of human endeavor, a conflict of competing ideas or directions. If we look closely we can see an element of truth in each side, but can also recognise that as long as we are bound by the mind’s limitations and its desire to reduce everything to “either-or”, we cannot harmonise these oppositions.ARTArticleGnostic Consciousness Transcends Rigid Mental Rules for LivingAs long as we remain fixed in the mental framework, we tend to create judgments and rules for everything we do that are founded on the limited and fragmented understanding that the mental power possesses. The advent of a new wider, more expansive, more unifying and comprehensive consciousness obviously will overtu
or at least dramatically alter these rules in virtually every sphere of living.ARTArticleGrowing Spiritually Beyond the Forms of ReligionWe see a growing movement around the world of people leaving the religion into which they were born, and starting down a spiritual path of inner growth. A driving factor behind this change is the perception among these people that the religion has either lost any life-force that it may have had in the past, or else, it has become so rigid that it acts as a means of control rather than as a means of liberation. What has happened to religion? If we examine the roots of religion we find that it is founded, first and foremost, as a response to a lived experience.ARTArticleHabitual Responses and the Process of Auto-Suggestion Arising from the Action of the Subconscious LevelThere is a complex interaction between the exte
al mind-life-body complex and the subconscious level of our existence. As we experience various things in our lives, including illness, accidents or various circumstances, our mind tries to build a pattern of recognition and develops a memory. These things then fall into the subconscious level where they remain until a similar situation, circumstance, time-frame, cycle occurs to trigger that memory and that recognised pattern.ARTArticleHarnessing the Body’s Innate Powers for the Transformation of ConsciousnessWe tend to overlook or disregard the capacity of the body and its ‘body consciousness’ to aid in the spiritual quest. Each element of the being, the mind, the vital nature, and the body, has its own consciousness and capacity for response. Each element also can either be an aid or an obstacle to the development of the spiritual nature, depending on how we treat it and interact with it.ARTArticleHealing Modalities, Faith and Our Societal BiasesThe prevailing wisdom in today’s world holds that science has understood enough about the etiology of disease to be able to intervene and take steps to mitigate or cure disease using drugs or even, at the cutting edge, various forms of genetic intervention. The practitioners of that science envision a day when they will be able to change the genetic makeup of an individual to eliminate certain diseases, or even use this science to alter the mechanism of disease.ARTArticleHealing Sickness With Spiritual ForceAn individual reported an experience which, at the time, was unique to him. He was suddenly attacked by a virulent disease and collapsed on the floor. He was carried off to another room in the facility where various individuals tried to figure out what happened to him and what to do about it. After he revived, he reported that he had been outside his body, up at ceiling level, looking down on it lying on the floor with the individuals around him trying to revive him.ARTArticleHealing the Body Through Spiritual Force or Through FaithHealing the Body Through Spiritual Force or Through Faithr
Posted on October 19, 2024rARTArticleHigher Powers of Consciousness Can Aid and Support the Evolution of Consciousness in the Human BeingThere are forces in the universal creation that can obstruct, delay or harm the development of consciousness. They try to maintain a form of status quo, or they try to protect a vested interest or desire that they maintain. These forces, sometimes called ‘hostile forces’ are a frequent topic of conce
as most people undertaking any type of spiritual discipline eventually experience their effects.ARTArticleHow Do We Know that a Spiritual Force Is Working in Our Lives?How can we know that the spiritual force is actually working in us? An actual experience of a force or what is called a ‘spiritual experience’ is a specific, generally short-lived ‘event’ that enormous numbers of people have had. Yet, the experience recedes and the daily life goes on, seemingly in its old habitual patterns with little noticeable change, and with the old routines seemingly firmly entrenched.ARTArticleHow Does Experience in One Lifetime Become Useful in Future Lifetimes?We grow and develop our physical body and its capabilities. We may undertake various training regimens and refine the body’s ability to perceive, and to respond. Yet the body dies and that training is left behind with the dissolution of the body. We can see an effect within the larger framework of society as others notice and implement similar actions, so there is clearly a species-level benefit, but for the individual, the development of the body ends with its deterioration and death.ARTArticleHow Many People Have Psychic Powers Misdiagnosed as Psychotic Disorders?In the movie Sixth Sense, a psychiatrist meets up with a young boy who claims to see dead people and interact with them. The psychiatrist spends the better part of the film trying to understand the boy and bring him out of his delusion. In the end, it turns out that the psychiatrist gains the realization that he was shot by one of his earlier patients, and he is himself a dead person! The child’s experience was true, the perception of it from the side of psychiatry was mis-diagnosed.ARTArticleHow to Acquire Knowledge of the Action of Vital and Mental Beings and Forces Upon our LivesSince we cannot easily observe vital beings or mental beings operating on their respective planes to influence actions in our existence, and since we maintain a skeptical attitude about things which cannot be observed or measured, we find it difficult to accept the existence of conscious vital or mental beings, or entities, who either work to aid or oppose our existence, growth and development.