The vast majority of individuals live in the Physical Realm. A few live in the Metaphysical Realm, while almost none at all lives in the Spiritual Realm. Yet, these three realms are critical to humanity and its evolution. Indeed, the three realms are an integrated system to evolve all aspects of the Universe. Therefore, it is important to know about each and the relationship between the three of them.
The Relationship of the Three Realms
Ensconced as we are here in the Physical Realm, it is not immediately apparent there are two other realms. Yet, they exist. The diagram below shows the relationship between the three of them.
The Direction of Action
The most critical element to understand about this diagram is the direction of action. The content of an action is information embedded in an energy matrix. The energy is the driving force that enables the information to do work.
The action flows from the Spiritual Realm, to the Metaphysical Realm, and, finally, to the Physical Realm. This means that we, humanity, are not in control. The action starts in the Spiritual Realm far removed from our day-to-day concerns. Humanity is not above and separate from it all, always in control, as we want to believe.
In fact, we are far from in control, as we will see when we discuss the three realms and then the attributes of each realm. Our true relationship with the three realms, particularly the Spiritual Realm, will be a hard won understanding. We will have to abandon the illusion of control and accept our true place in the life of the Earth and Universe. This understanding will be one of the results of the transition humanity is now undergoing from history’s now dead civilization that was characterized by separation, adversarial competition, and hierarchical control to a cooperative, Earth-based society.
Spiritual Realm
The Spiritual Realm is furthest back and the least available to us. We may experience this realm in moments of receptivity, sensing reverence, awe, and possibility power. Then, the feeling fades.
Why is the Spiritual Realm so hard to sense, so hard to contact? It is separate from us in a very fundamental way; it is not here at all. It is totally beyond both space and time; it is totally separate from each of them.
It is truly far from our normal reality and everything that is here. Although so far away, it is the realm of Consciousness that forms the foundation for the entire Universe. It holds all possibilities, all the ideas and plans to implement them that ever were or will ever be in the future. At the very core of the Spiritual Realm is the Core of Consciousness, the organizing principle of the Universe and its driving force. It is responsible for all these ideas and plans and decides when to implement them. (Note: Until very recently, humanity’s awareness of the Core of Consciousness was blocked. In the next two posts in this series, The Design of the Spiritual Realm and Producing the Universe, the Core of Consciousness and its importance will be discussed in more detail.)
Plans in this context can range from the plan for the evolution of the entire Universe to how individuals will fulfill the life purpose given to them. Although we like to think otherwise, we are not the source of ideas and the indispensable plans to achieve them. We are implementers of ideas and plans. Ideas and their implementation plans provided to us at the correct time and place to evolve us individually as well as humanity as a whole.
Metaphysical Realm
All of us, at one time or another, have experienced the Metaphysical Realm. It sneaks in when least expected. It arrives as that unannounced “aha,” an intuition that resolves an issue that has long concerned us, or offers much needed insight into a difficult situation we are currently experiencing. One of the most famous examples of an intuitive input is the daydream of a snake eating its own tail that lead August Kekulé to the discovery of the benzene ring structure.
Intuitions from the Metaphysical Realm show us how to accomplish something in the Physical Realm. They are like blueprints. They are the templates behind everything actualized in the Physical Realm.
Why is the Metaphysical Realm with its templates required if the underlying ideas and the plans to manifest them are in the Spiritual Realm? The Spiritual Realm is simply too far away and, more importantly, it is not here at all. An intermediate step is required to bring these ideas and their plans here so they can be accessed. The Metaphysical Realm with its templates provides this step.
How do the templates for these ideas and their plans get into the Metaphysical Realm? The Core of Consciousness of the Spiritual Realm injects a particular template into the Metaphysical Realm when it is needed to evolve a specific aspect of the Universe. A look at history shows this process for all to see. Rome rises and falls with the Core of Consciousness replacing it with feudal society in Europe. When feudal society had run its course, the Core of Consciousness injected the template for the Enlightenment into the Metaphysical Realm. John Locke, Isaac Newton, and many others felt the tug of this template, bringing it into the Physical Realm through their works.
One may argue that the Lockes of the world were just creative. Yes, they were – creative in a very special way. Their life purpose was to access the ideas embedded in the Enlightenment template of the Metaphysical Realm and make them a reality here in our physical world.
Another more current example is an interview of physicist Steven Weinberg I heard on the radio (do not remember the station but believe it was the local NPR station) on the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s famous outpouring of scientific papers in 1905. Weinberg made the point the ideas were ripe for the taking and Einstein took them. If Einstein had not, Weinberg said somebody else would have. In one sense, Weinberg was right. Yes, the ideas where “in the air.” However, he was profoundly wrong in another sense. It was Einstein’s job to write those papers in 1905. Only if he had not done his job would the responsibility have been given to someone else. This is how the Core of Consciousness works. If the desired plan does not work for whatever reason, illness, lack of resolve, fear, etc., the Core of Consciousness rectifies the situation to ensure the plan gets back on track. It simply gives the job to someone else.
Physical Realm
We are finally here in the world we all know, the world of bodies and matter. This is the realm in which the templates waiting in the Metaphysical Realm for actualization see the light of day. The 2 million year history of hominid evolution on the Earth is a testament to the success of the basic ideas and plans of the Spiritual Realm and the resulting templates in the Metaphysical Realm.
The Architect Metaphor: Tying the Three Realms Together
Let’s pretend you are an architect. You wake up one morning with a really fantastic idea for a house. You can’t get the idea out of your head. It keeps swirling around up there and you start to create a mental plan for this dream house. It will have three uniquely configured bedrooms, a most unusual Prairie design (you are channeling Wright?), a very specific interior design, and more. Idea and plan have come together.
You can’t wait to get into the office to prepare the architectural drawings. Once in the office, you work straight through, finishing the drawings in record time. The template is ready to go. With the ink hardly dry on the drawings (yours is an old fashioned architectural firm), you call your favorite contractor and tell her all about the house. Your contractor friend is equally excited and can’t wait to actualize the design. Construction will start in a week. Six months later the house is a physical reality.
Distinctive Attributes of Each Realm
Now that an overview of the three realms is complete, let’s look in more detail at the major attributes of each realm. This discussion of attributes will make the realms more real, particularly the Metaphysical and Spiritual Realms. The diagram below summarizes these attributes following by a discussion of each attribute in turn.
Hereness
The Spiritual Realm is profoundly “not here.” It is outside of, and beyond, space and time. It is not part of the Universe at all, yet it is the origin of everything in the Universe; it contains all possibilities, everything that has ever manifested in the past and all that will manifest in the future. It creates the Universe. So, if the Spiritual Realm is outside the Universe, where is the Universe? The Universe is everything that can be labeled as “here.” Let’s look at “here” and what it means.
“Here” has two aspects. There is the “inner here” of the Metaphysical Realm and the “outer here” of the Physical Realm. All of us, or almost all of us, have an understanding of what the “outer here” means. For most of us, this is the only “here.” It is the world of people and buildings, stars and planets.
Yet, critical to the creation of our “outer here” is the “inner here” of the Metaphysical Realm. It contains all the templates that make our “outer here” possible. These templates cannot be touched, only felt or sensed, but the Metaphysical Realm is just as much “here” as the “outer here” of the Physical Realm, although for most of us, tightly locked into physical reality, the “inner here” has little meaning. However, we do access this “inner here” more often than we think. It is the home for all those great ideas that pop into our collective heads, the driver of those often unique, and even bizarre, dreams at night, and the occasional intuition that might warn us of danger or provide the right answer to a critical life issue.
Property
Void, time, and space comprise the attribute called property. Void is the property of the Spiritual Realm, while time is the property of the Metaphysical Realm. In turn, space is the property of the Physical Realm.
Of the three properties, Void is unique. It has two aspects, while design and form have only a single aspect. One aspect of the Void is the Full Void, the container for all possibilities that have ever manifested or will ever manifest in the future. It is the container for everything. It is totally full. This makes practical sense for there has to be an origin for all possibilities. Otherwise, there could be no Universe, no human existence, nor a world where we might live.
The other aspect of the Void is the Empty Void. If the Full Void is profoundly full, the Empty Void is profoundly empty. Why is there an Empty Void in the “not here” of the Spiritual Realm? Its emptiness is there to create the empty containers that form the Metaphysical and Physical Realms of “here.” There would be no Metaphysical Realm or Physical Realm without these empty containers created out of the Empty Void by the Core of Consciousness; there would be no Universe.
The empty container that is the Physical Realm is empty space. We are all familiar with the concept of empty space, particularly after humanity ventured into space. It is the container for all physical objects. If the empty container of the Physical Realm is empty space, what constitutes the empty container of the Metaphysical Realm?
As the Metaphysical Realm is not physically here, its emptiness cannot be empty space. The templates stored there do not have a physical existence either. They are not physical objects at all, but, most importantly, their implementations play out over time. The template driving civilization had a time specific trajectory. Things had to be experienced and accomplished in a specific time sequence to ensure civilization would evolve properly. Modernity of necessity came after the Middle Ages. Returning to the architectural analogy discussed above, the architectural drawings specify the time sequence in which the house should be built. If the contractor properly follows this time sequence, the house will stand and function correctly. Time, then, is the key property of the Metaphysical Realm.
So, if the emptiness of the Physical Realm is empty space, the emptiness of the Metaphysical Realm is empty time. The concept of empty time is counter to the normal way we humans look at things. However, if you think about the intuitions you have received, they just are, arriving when they arrive without any sense of space about them. (There will be a further discussion of the empty time concept in The Boolean Conjecture that follows in the next section of this post).
Without empty containers forming the Metaphysical and Physical Realms, there could be no creation and no Universe. Where would the Core of Consciousness put the possibilities it wants to manifest if there were no containers to hold them? More importantly, one cannot exist without the other. Together, the empty time container of the Metaphysical Realm and the empty space container of the Physical Realm are required to create the “here” of the Universe in its totality.
If the Empty Void is so critical to the creation of the empty containers that form the Metaphysical and Physical Realms, what is the origin of the Empty Void and how does it create these two containers? First, the Full Void contains everything so it also contains the Empty Void as well. Second, the Core of Consciousness separates out the Empty Void from the Full Void. Finally, the Core of Consciousness uses the emptiness of the Empty Void to create the empty time container that is the Metaphysical Realm and the empty space container that is the Physical Realm. Now creation is ready to start its evolutionary journey.
A rough analogy is to see the Full Void as a library that contains all knowledge. You want to use a portion of that knowledge to create something. You need a place to implement this knowledge. We call this place the Universe. However, you just have knowledge at this point. You convert this knowledge into a blueprint for action, a template, and place it on a readily accessible shelf in the Metaphysical Realm. As you do the implementation, you periodically refer to the blueprint on the shelf to confirm the implementation is proceeding correctly here in the Physical Realm.
In summary, the Full Void property of the Spiritual Realm is totally full; it is the origin of all possibilities, both those already manifested and those yet to be manifested. Conversely, the Empty Void property of the Spiritual Realm is totally empty but critical to the formation of the Universe; its emptiness creates the containers that are the Metaphysical and Physical Realms. The property of the Metaphysical Realm is time for templates play out over time, while the property of the Physical Realm is space. The Physical Realm provides the space necessary to express all that is in the templates of the Metaphysical Realm. Together, time of the Metaphysical Realm and space of the Physical Realm form the Universe, all that is “here.”
A Boolean Conjecture
The Boolean Conjecture is a short detour to another way of looking at the three realms using a Boolean table. If you have been wondering, this is the reason I added the Boolean notation to the Void (1,1 & 0,0), Time (0,1), and Space (1,0) in the Distinctive Attributes diagram above. A Boolean view of the three realms brings to the fore features of the three realms not easily understood otherwise. This Boolean description goes back some 30 years, and I have found it of use ever since. Among others, information physicists may find it of use as well.
In this table, space is either present (1) or absent (0) and similarly for time where (1) means time is present and (0) means an absence of time. Using this notation, the Empty Void (0,0) is without space or time. Conversely, the Full Void (1,1) is both space and time. Therefore, and conveniently, the Full Void contains everything necessary first to create and then populate the Metaphysical Realm of time and the Physical Realm of space.
Things get more interesting in the Physical and Metaphysical Realms. The property of the Physical Realm is space and in Boolean notation (1,0). There is no time. Looking at life in this way, we live from one present moment of right now to another and then another. One can say the progression of our life through time is an illusion. You cannot see time; all you see are a succession of present moments like ticks on a clock. It is a sequence of present moments very much like the sequence of still photos that makes the illusion of time when shown as a film in a movie projector. Another way of looking at this is to say space has a discrete character.
Turning to the Metaphysical Ream of time, the Boolean notation is (0,1). The Metaphysical Realm is a storehouse. It is a storehouse for actions that will play out over time in the Physical Realm. The Core of Consciousness injects these actions into the Metaphysical Realm when it decides it is appropriate to do so.
These actions are stored as templates in the Metaphysical Realm. For each action, there is a specific time for it to occur in the Physical Realm. The template encodes these specific times as timestamps. Therefore, a template includes both actions and the timestamps for when they will occur.
Timestamps associated with templates are the Metaphysical Realm’s counterpoint to the present moment of the Physical Realm. Another way of looking at time is to say time is continuous in nature. More directly, one can say space is an illusion in the Metaphysical Realm created by a sea of timestamps associated with templates.
Some templates have only a single action to insert into the Physical Realm and, hence, only one timestamp. Other templates may contain multiple actions with a timestamp for each action. For example, time for the Universe’s template extends for an inordinate amount of time containing untold actions and their associated timestamps. The arc of human civilization is an example of a template containing multiple actions measured out over a timeframe of some 5,500 years. Conversely, the template defining the actions in the life of individual is rather short indeed.
One might ask whether a template lasts forever. No, normally a template exists only until all the time-based actions stored in the template have been completed. Then, the template dissolves. However, if the Core of Consciousness decides a particular template is no longer applicable, it simply destroys the template.
What happens if an action should be taken but is not taken, is only partially taken, is wrongly taken because of misinterpretation, or is totally wrong and counter to the desired action? These erroneous outcomes are a particularly acute issue for sentient beings. This is especially true for human beings given our lack of inner integration as discussed in the Being section of this post. To correct these faulty outcomes, the Core of Consciousness injects a new template into the Metaphysical Realm to rectify the situation. (We will see in a future post in this series that the Core of Consciousness created the Source to manage sentient being evolution so for sentient beings the Source injects the rectification template).
So, when people take an action in the Physical Realm that does not meet the requirements of a template, this erroneous action must be rectified. This adds truth to the saying “you can never outlive your actions.” Until rectified, they remain either to come back to haunt you if not particularly positive or as fond memories if more positive. John Bennett, the British philosopher, made the comment the only way to eradicate these memories is to change fundamentally who you are (the quotation is well remembered but I have forgotten in which of his books I read it). If you are interesting in learning more about Bennett and his writings, please go to Bennett Books.
Bennett’s comment is profound. Yes, you can transcend the results of a past action gone awry. However, to rectify an erroneous action, you have to pay a price commensurate with the erroneous action. A classical example of paying for past erroneous actions is that of the Tibetan Yogi Milarepa. He killed some 35 people in his youth through devious means. To rectify this action, his teacher, Marpa Lotsawa, demanded that Milarepa build multiple houses by hand. The minute he finished a house, Marpa demanded that Milarepa tear it down. This process continued through many houses until Marpa was satisfied Milarepa had paid his debt. During the entire time Milarepa was building and destroying the houses, Marpa was spiritually working on Milarepa; the house projects were the outer vehicles used by Marpa to force the inner changes in Milarepa required to transcend the debt.
Whether a template runs its normal course and dissolves, the Core or Consciousness destroys the template, or an erroneous action must be rectified, humanity does not control the process. Humanity is at the behest of the process. Here is another example where humanity’s hubris in thinking we are in control is sadly mistaken.
Characteristic
Consciousness, design, and form are the characteristics of the Spiritual, Metaphysical, and Physical Realms respectively. As might be expected, each is as different as the realms to which they belong. Of the three characteristics, consciousness is the most removed from our everyday existence but embedded in all that we do and are.
Consciousness is the defining characteristic of the Spiritual Realm. It forms the foundation for the entire Universe, permeating all its aspects. At the very base of the Spiritual Realm is the Core of Consciousness, the organizing principle of the Universe and its driving force. (More will be said about the Core of Consciousness in the next post in this series entitled: The Design of the Spiritual Realm.) Consciousness is “not here” so don’t expect to find it waiting outside when you walk out the door in the morning. Yet, everything you see when you walk out that door is the result of Consciousness.
Turning to the design characteristic of the Metaphysical Realm, this characteristic is behind everything that exists in the Physical Realm. To create anything, you must have a design behind it first – be it a building, book on philosophy, musical score, a governmental system, or the Earth itself just to name a few examples. In a broad sense, the design characteristic applies to any concept, creative idea, ecological truism, scientific principle, value, belief, or myth, cultural or otherwise. In short, there is a design behind anything and everything that we experience here physically. Yet, none has a physical reality. They all reside in the “inner here” of the Metaphysical Realm.
The design characteristic can be looked at in another way. You do not see concepts, creative ideas, values, beliefs, or our cultural stories walking down the street. Instead, all are representative aspects of the design characteristic. Each is very near yet cannot be touched for they do not reside here in the Physical Realm; never the less, their impact is felt with great force here.
In a very practical way, the design characteristic is behind all that we see here in the world of physical things. It provided the minimalist concept behind Apple’s products so popular today. It is the origin of all architectural styles such as Gothic or modernism. It is the reservoir fueling the advance of science.
Turning to the form characteristic of the Physical Realm, form makes sense as the Physical Realm characteristic. We see forms all around us. There are different shapes and sizes streaming out in all directions. A form is different from the design characteristic of the Metaphysical Realm. A design does not actually exist physically. It is a concept, an idea. Out of the design comes the actual form in the Physical Realm. This distinction becomes apparent by going back to the Architect Metaphor discussed earlier. The architectural drawings embody the design and what will eventually be built, the form.
Purpose
Idea, plan, template, and actualization are the purposes of the three realms. Idea and plan are associated with the Spiritual Realm. The Full Void holds all ideas, all the possibilities, as well as all the plans necessary to implement these ideas. Ideas come before plans for without an idea it is impossible to create a plan.
When the Core of Consciousness decides to manifest a particular idea and its associated plan, it injects the idea and its plan into the Metaphysical Realm. This process takes something that is “not here,” the idea and its plan, and brings it into “here,” the “inner here” of the Metaphysical Realm. Once in the Metaphysical Realm, idea and plan become a template for action in the Physical Realm.
The template holds all the information and the driving force, or forces, required to make the plan a reality in the physical world. This template apportions out the plan elements stored in the template in just the right time sequence to make the plan a physical reality. Returning to the architect metaphor, the architect created architectural drawings that contained all the information necessary to build the house. Hopefully, no contractor will ignore the drawings and attempt to erect the framing before the foundation is firmly in place although this does not always seem to be the case (See the rather famous Shanghai apartment collapse photo below).
Actualizations are templates made real here in the Physical Realm of forms. Once a template is actualized, the resulting form is here for all to see. This is why Steven Weinberg, referred to earlier, was right that if Einstein had not written his five landmark papers in 1905 someone else would have done so. The templates for each of the five papers were just waiting in the Metaphysical Realm for someone to actualize them. Einstein was the person selected to do so.
Action
Without taking actions, nothing happens. This is true for all three of the realms. Interestingly, the actions become more “mellow” moving from the Spiritual Realm, through the Metaphysical Realm, to the Physical Realm. The actions are: inject, insert, and implement for these three realms respectively.
The Core of Consciousness, the defining characteristic of the Spiritual Realm, is quite determined and forceful in its actions. When it decides to do something, it will happen. Make no mistake about it. Therefore, it injects the plan it has decided upon forcibly into the Metaphysical Realm to create an implementable template of that plan. There is nothing really equivalent to the intensity of this in our normal human experience. The nearest human equivalent is the force a spiritual teacher uses to inject an action into a student, confirming the well understand axiom that it is unwise to trifle with a spiritual teacher.
When in the Metaphysical Realm, the actions are milder than those of the Spiritual Realm. The actions contained in the template are inserted into the Physical Realm to be implemented, not injected as in the case of the Spiritual Realm. The action might be to insert a new idea at the right time to change the course of history. Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of 1517 that ushered in the Protestant Reformation come to mind. They were quite a set of ideas that changed the world.
What if Martin Luther had only thought about the Ninety-Five Theses instead of writing them down? If Martin Luther had stopped at thought, nothing would have happened. They had been inserted, and Martin Luther heard them, yet he did nothing. Luckily for Protestants, Martin Luther not only heard the Ninety-Five Theses, but he wrote them down. By taking the action to write them out, Martin Luther implemented them. How many times have you received an idea and did nothing, looking back ruing the day you sat unmoving? Thought without action is next to nothing.
Being
Now we turn to a strictly anthropomorphic look at the three realms. There is a different being in each of the three realms. As one might expect, there is a spiritual being in the Spiritual Realm. Although generally not recognized, the human being is in the Metaphysical Realm instead of the Physical Realm, while a physical being resides in the Physical Realm.
Of the three beings, the spiritual being of the Spiritual Realm is very far removed from the experience of most people. Rarely does an individual come in contact with a spiritual being unless this individual enters one of the spiritual paths and studies under a spiritual teacher who has attained his or her spiritual being. Historically, an individual who has attained this level of being is said to be “self-realized.” Swami Muktananda, in his autobiography, Play of Consciousness, describes the process he went through to become self-realized.
There are two ways for an individual to attain the spiritual being. The first, and historical way, is for the spiritual being to merge into a specially prepared human being. Essentially, the spiritual being brings the Spiritual Realm into the human being in the Metaphysical Realm. This special preparation calls for the completion of everything the human being had to do as well as the resolution of all outstanding issues. The result is a human being that is an empty vessel. Once empty, the spiritual being can enter the human being. If the human being were not empty, there would be a conflict between the “here” desires of the human being and the “not here” mission of the spiritual being.
The second way to attain the spiritual being goes in the opposite direction. Again, the human being is totally cleaned out. Now, with everything done and over, the human being leaves. What is left is an “I” and selected remnants of the individual’s past useful to the mission of the spiritual being. These enter the Spiritual Realm and merge into the spiritual being there. This way of attaining the spiritual being has only become available in the last few years.
Turning to the human being, it is the Metaphysical Realm entity that truly makes each of us human. It is the template for how each of us fulfills our life in a physical body in the Physical Realm. Every one of us has a human being consisting of a core and an operational arm. The core contains the life purpose of the human being and the driving force to implement it, while the operational arm contains the information necessary to implement the life purpose.
The important thing to recognize in this discussion of the human being is that who we truly are is not here in the Physical Realm. It is in the Metaphysical Realm. This is counter to what most people think. We experience only the result of its interface with the physical body. For those technically inclined, there are nine centers that effect this interface – three mental centers, three emotional centers, and three physical centers.
The diagram below is a graphical depiction of the Dissociated Human Being of Stage 1, the first stage in the five stages of human evolution. (The evolutionary progress of the human being organization will be discussed in a future post.) The nine dots in the green circle represent the nine centers with the arrows pointing in opposite directions to illustrate the lack of integration of this human being; the Stage 1 human being name, the Dissociated Human Being, is symbolic of this lack of integration.
If you wonder whether you have experienced this human being in your dealings with others, it is the human being organization of your friends and neighbors with whom you are so thoroughly acquainted as well as almost everyone else on the planet. Given the lack of integration of this human being, is it any wonder people have so many difficulties within themselves as well as with others. (To learn more about the Schematic Diagram for the Dissociated Human Being shown in the figure and its use in understanding personality types please see Don Riso’s books such as Personality Types and Understanding the Enneagram.)
The physical being story is a more complex story than that for either the spiritual being or human being. The physical being is not just the physical body. Instead, it has three components: 1) the physical body with the individual’s specific DNA, 2) the human being that interfaces with this physical body, and 3) the personality shell resulting from early childhood conditioning.
The first component of the physical being, our physical body and its DNA underpinning, provides us with certain capabilities as well as certain limitations. A young male five feet, six inches tall and weighing all of 160 pounds is not a professional football prospect no matter how much he feels otherwise. Similarly, a very tall young lady may want to be a professional ballet dancer but this is unlikely unless she is a Judith Jamison. At a more fundamental level, the DNA of our physical body defines each of us as a member of the human family instead of some other family of animals. Most importantly, the human body we inhabit is not who we are. It is our vehicle to operate here in the physical world.
As mentioned earlier, who we are, is in the Metaphysical Realm. However, it is not left there beyond the reach of each of us living in a physical body. The nine centers discussed above provide the interface between the human being of the Metaphysical Realm and the physical body. The Schematic Diagram of the Stage 1 Dissociated Human Being illustrated above specifies these nine centers. The three centers at the top are the physical/acting centers interfacing in the gut; the three centers on the right are the emotional/feeling centers interfacing at the heart level; and the three centers on the left are the mental/thinking centers interfacing at the brain level. The green circle shows these nine centers in a vertical format that more clearly shows how they interface with the physical body.
More important than most realize is the overwhelming impact on individuals of early childhood conditioning during the first five years of life. For most people, this conditioning controls their life, generally without them even realizing it. This early childhood conditioning includes the family of origin with its strengths and weaknesses; ethnic and racial background; cultural stories and myths; community, regional and national origin; early educational experiences; and religion indoctrination.
Depending on the characteristics of your human being and physical body, you reacted to this early childhood conditioning in different ways, some positive and some not so positive. One of the most poignant examples of the power of upbringing was the suicide of Neil Perry in the movie Dead Poets Society. Neil chose suicide rather than submitting to the demands of his father. Look at your own life. Are there aspects of your life that seem to run on autopilot? Could it be that early childhood conditioning might be the cause?
This brings us to the end of a rather long sojourn in the three realms. This is the first in a series of posts for Part III, The Three Realms: Foundation of the Universe of The Future of Humanity book. The next post in this series will discuss the Spiritual Realm in more detail followed by a post describing how the Core of Consciousness produces the Universe.
Copyright © 2011 by John A. Wolaver
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