There’s daily down to Earth happening things contributing to our experience . . .
But we are also abstracted beings . . . there’s themes, understandings, evolving directions, etc.
And we are “networked” . . . together and within even greater realities . . . many sources entering the picture.
Moving from the concrete levels into the multifaceted.
That “Special World,” interconnected, one with the Universe . . . not just with Earth down here with Heaven above. We could move from the Freudian, Christian dualities, into something Joseph Campbell would speak about . . . the Hero’s journey!
The Life World within the Greater World.
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“In the terminology of certain Eastern teachings the first body is the ‘carriage’ (body), the second body is the ‘horse’ (feelings, desires), the third the ‘driver’ (mind), and the fourth the ‘master’ (I, consciousness, will). “Such comparisons and parallels may be found in most systems and teachings which recognize something more in man than the physical body. But almost all these teachings, while repeating in a more or less familiar form the definitions and divisions of the ancient teaching, have forgotten or omitted its most important feature, which is: that man is not born with the finer bodies, and that they can only be artificially cultivated in him provided favorable conditions both internal and external are present.”
Ouspensky, P. D.. In Search of the Miraculous: Complete with Diagrams . Toward Publishing. Kindle Edition.
When we become socialized, learn from those who know, developmental?
Ouspensky, P. D.. In Search of the Miraculous: Complete with Diagrams . Toward Publishing. Kindle Edition.
And the esoteric, not Sunday school . . .
“The first is the physical body, in Christian terminology the ‘carnal’ body; the second, in Christian terminology, is the ‘natural’ body; the third is the ‘spiritual’ body; and the fourth, in the terminology of esoteric Christianity, is the ‘divine’ body.”
Ouspensky, P. D.. In Search of the Miraculous: Complete with Diagrams . Toward Publishing. Kindle Edition.
“In the second case, that is, in relation to the functions of the four bodies, the automatism of the physical body depends upon the influences of the other bodies. Instead of the discordant and often contradictory activity of different desires, there is one single I, whole, indivisible, and permanent; there is individuality, dominating the physical body and its desires and able to overcome both its reluctance and its resistance. Instead of the mechanical process of thinking there is consciousness. And there is will, that is, a power, not merely composed of various often contradictory desires belonging to different “I’s”, but issuing from consciousness and governed by individuality or a single and permanent I. Only such a will can be called “free”, for it is independent of accident and cannot be altered or directed from without.”
Ouspensky, P. D.. In Search of the Miraculous: Complete with Diagrams . Toward Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Ahh, I was moving along here: I was speaking of externalization, and those more enhanced intrinsic moves. Smarter, lol. Intelligence . . . meaning? Now that’s science, theory and observation.
That fourth body, with I, consciousness, Will, is like my intent and figure/ground. G’s talks with Ouspensky are proving quite helpful, since it fits into my current stage, providing insights into the further ways and relationships here, moving it further along.
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The dream body . . .
The hand . . . it was like I was following my outstretched hand, like it was adding direction, and energy, into another room. Something like Tai Chi, or something Lee would do.
There was an episode in which there was a blossoming giant dark hand emerging, that was holding between its thumb and finger, something that looked like one of those Tic Tak vehicles.
Sleeping on my side, with the weight off my innards . . . began dreaming of moving in such a way, with my extended arms leading the way, with a pleasant feeling . . . must need that Tai Chi.
In a related type of vision, I saw this reddish octopus, with many suckered arms, being out in the open, agitated. I entered the scene, offering help, by moving it into a light blue translucent oblong covering, with some speckled lights in a row, which it could float around in. “Here let me help you, do you like this?”
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And identity . . .
Doing what some women think is up, or what I could do (or why there was a past change) . . . but I came back examining within an even larger perspective, even watching one of them strong good ones doing work. This larger identity . . . I gave it the nomenclature . . .”The Mysterion,” for it was beyond all that, mysterious, and able to take it all in!
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