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The Eclectic Metaphysicist |
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What are Little
Spirits Made of? |
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by Jim Hansen |
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When we look inward to explore our spiritual essence, we discover that we are composed of two basic metaphysical principles, those of love and strength. Together with an internal energy form called resistance, self awareness is manifest and with that, spiritual growth becomes a possibility.
If a tree in the forest falls, and no ears are present to hear it, does it make a sound? So goes the familiar Zen question. Perhaps the best answer would be in the form of another question: If you didn't hear it fall, how do you know the tree was there?
Thus we establish that in order to sense an event we must have an awareness of it as it happens. This immediately leads us to understand that if we are to experience the sound of a falling tree, our awareness must be in the reality of the falling tree.
If we continue to be inquisitive, we soon discover another question: what is it about us that experiences reality? Approaching a deep philosophical and metaphysical question, the following is not for the light of heart, for the understanding of self requires an unattached objectiveness, one that understands that we have no language, written or spoken, that can directly describe or relate such loft principles.
And so our limited rational thinking must be bypassed as we resort to the only language tools available for this exploration, the metaphor, allegory, and parable. Those firmly bound by their rationality cannot understand the meanings hidden in such language, and so either bravely ignore topics encoded in them or defensively ridicule those who are versed in them. The metaphysic is not spoken in such linguistic riddles as a means of concealment, rather, it is the only means available to pass on esoteric knowledge, that is the innate knowledge of the heart.
Consciousness as we will consider it here, is based on the principle of Unity. As such it is a state of self contained being. This Unity is comprised, at the human level of rational understanding, of two principles, those are of love and strength. At this point we must digress to question why we can sense only these two constituent principles.
The reality in which we live is bounded by our thought modality, which for those of us living the earth experience today happens to be rational thought. This label in itself is not a true presentation of the meaning we are looking for, because it isn't actually thought that establishes our view of reality, rather, it is our awareness. In our case it is human awareness that controls what our reality actually is.
And so it becomes that reality is really a matter of perception at a particular awareness level rather than the limited concept of "that what is." Removing all bounds of human awareness, in the final analysis true reality is everything.
Our human understanding is limited to a specific range of experiences through the metaphor of physical life as interpreted by rational logic. And so it comes that physical life, as we are aware of it, is bounded by the five senses, five senses that severely limit our view of the universe around us through a peculiar and self-limiting form of awareness. While tempting to further explore the implications of what our awareness reveals of the reality around us, we must in the space available, return to our original topic, that describing what we are as spirit.
In all of creation (not just our own universe) our rationality finds two constituent principles, those of love and strength. Until more or less recently in earth time, certainly within the last 100 years or so, the nonphysical was dominated by the love principle, with little or no acknowledgment that strength had a role to play. The subject was of no small concern until the it came to what we might call a "head" in the mid-1970s.
Those very few psychics who were either aware of the issue or played a role in the exchange all describe it as a "battle" of epic proportions. The question, as best we can describe it, was one of free will, and those on the side of free will apparently won the day. And so it was that the spiritual law came to enforce: No spirit has the right to interfere with the free will of another. I will discuss the meaning and implications of this primal principle another day for it has implications beyond what is immediately evident.
With this minimal background, we can now turn to what constitutes our spiritual makeup.
Although love is frequently associated with healing, love is a metaphysical principle of control. Energetic in nature, love is one of the two constituent parts of consciousness, a part of our spiritual essence.
Love in this sense is a complex issue, but it is not simply a benign form of adoration, for along with that adoration comes a compulsive need to control, manipulate, and to maintain the status quo so that adoration can continue unabated forever. And so love is our innate tendency toward stasis and avoidance of change and through seductive offering of safety.
Thus it is that love, rather than encouraging spiritual growth actually opposes it through control of those loved.
The antithesis of love is strength, the other side of our spiritual heritage. Equally complex as love, strength defines the principles of freedom, independence, self determination, self discovery and self exploration, whose guiding principle is risk rather than safety.
As spirits, then, we are composed of two conflicting principles, those of love, a compulsion for peace coupled with timeless, changeless tranquillity, and strength which drives a constant and restless search for the self and growth at whatever the cost.
Like consciousness itself, neither love nor strength can be defined by rational thought or words. Bound by human awareness as we are, love and strength satisfies our binary rational logic requiring opposites for every concept. Once outside the bounds of human awareness, we may find the spirit comprised of many additional principles or aspects. But for now, this is as far as human comprehension can take us.
It should be noted that love does not necessarily manifest itself as a part of the incarnated spirit to the same degree that it is a part of our total spiritual essence, nor do we, while in the physical, have a way to rationally understand the true nature of love and strength. These are esoteric concepts, ones that can be realized only through an innate understanding. That certain, although limited, aspects of these principles can be radiated and expressed to others is obvious.
While incarnate it is of a particular and very special privilege to possess a loving nature, yet be strong enough to freely release and encourage those loved to pursue their own dreams, for this alone gives humanity a glimpse - just a tiny glimpse - of the future nature of the creation of which we are all a part.
The experiences gained by such enlightened spirits will eventually be shared with all of creation and will have an important influence in nonphysical life as it evolves from this point of existence onward.
In the global metaphysical context, the true nature of consciousness can only exist as a condition of self awareness. The exploration of awareness, and thus consciousness, can only take place as a matter of separation of the poles of self, that is, when our strength and love are separated from the Unity of self. It is this separation, rendered by the energy of resistance, that is the root cause of illness. Healing, then, only comes about when our strength and love, combined with new insight, are drawn together to form a new and greater Unity. This is the principle of spiritual growth.
And such healing is the function that we living the earth experience are here to perform.
Excerpted from the forthcoming book Advanced Energy Healing Theory and Techniques for Reiki and Empathic Healers Jim Hansen. |
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Jim Hansen
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Bachelor of General Studies Summa Cum Laude
Healer, Author, and Reiki Master
Jim is a retired embedded systems electronics engineer and Reiki Master with extensive metaphysical interests and background in energy healing, remote viewing, and channeling. Born with latent psychic abilities, his metaphysical interests started before high school with experiments in hypnosis, astral travel, palmistry, meditation and eventually yoga that he started practicing while tracking satellites for nearly two years just 600 miles from the north pole.
His engineering background and technical training give him a strong analytical foundation for his metaphysical exploration and adventures. Always the practical engineer, his interests are in application of metaphysical principles for the betterment of those living in the physical. He has a unique way of equating the metaphysic with present day science and its ever-expanding discoveries.
This column explores a wide range of topics related to healing, but fundamentally, it is devoted to answering the toughest metaphysical question of all: How can I use what I've discovered in the metaphysic to better my present day life experience? Jim maintains that the purpose of living in the physical is NOT to become non-physical. That, he says, will come soon enough for all of us. But given that parts of the metaphysical are open to exploration, then, he says, it is entirely valid for us to use whatever we find there as a tool for living our lives to the fullest.
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