The Temple of Our Five Selves
The Multidimensional Manifestation of the Body
Know Thyself! These Great words speak to our multidimensional Self. Let’s journey through the manifestation of our many selves on the physical plane of existence.
What makes a human being is much more than we “think.”
In exploring the evidence of our multidimensional Self, we discover we are physically, energetically, and vibrationally connected to everything, including the Godhead. So why do we fear death? Let’s explore!
There is an explosion of spirituality on the internet now. With many self-professed teachers, knowing who presents honest, truthful, and practical instructions is challenging. Many create content gambling on the platforms with messages aimed to catch the eye for clicks, designed to supplement or make an income, not to bring proper tested knowledge for spiritual development.
My writing draws on my understanding and knowledge gained from training with a prominent occultist and then only years later, following a series of profound initiations after years of practice. I want to bring my knowledge to this medium because many people are awakening and seeking a path to the Eternal. I must do what I can, even while I am still on the path to liberation, to assist those I can.
You can read more about my first initiation here:
I was Awakened by an Occultist: A Secret Initiation Upended My World.
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Beyond the Physical
Two of our five selves or dimensions are apparent to everyone. They are intimately familiar: the body, which we sense through our five senses, made from what we call “matter,” and all agree is collectively “real,” and then the “mind,” Not entirely understood by Science, found in the brain yes, but precisely where is the seat and matrix of awareness, Science is still investigating.
The mind is self-aware energetically within the brain, but is it only physical? The mind has an infinite capacity to dream, imagine, create, analyze, and decide. From the new field of quantum physics, emerging scientists have presented numerous theories in the last few years that the quantum realm and the energetic field of the mind interact, allowing the infinite and the finite to mingle. Yes, hinting that we are far more complex than we imagined, even just a few years ago.
Pranic or Energy Body
The second body or dimension is less obvious: This is called either the energetic or pranic body by Yogis and mystics. We experience this body when our energies change, such as when we drink too much coffee and have a buzz of energy that keeps us going. Conversely, you will need to rest or sleep when you experience building fatigue or exhaustion after a long day. These are the most familiar sensations from this dimension.
Mystically, this is also the plane of the mysterious Kundalini energy and a masculine and feminine pranic flow related directly to and from the breath, which can be sensed and trained by an advanced practitioner.
Mental Body
The mind is energized by the sun and the cosmos energetically and physically via nutrition from what we eat. The mental plane sits atop (vibrationally) the Energetic body. The mental plane is not on the physical plane; although the brain is, the mind is not. For this reason, our minds are infinite in creativity, thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving.
What is critical here to understand about this incredibly subtle and infinite body is that it is infinitely mutable. Everything can be imagined, thought, or dreamed of in the mind. No thought, idea, belief, emotion, or feeling is fixed.
Every form and effect experienced through the senses in the physical also exists as a thought form in the mind realm. The trap or illusion often occurs here since there is no “fixed” thought, the opposite of physical reality; thoughts are mutable, energic, temporary manifestations. An abstraction, a mirror. Thus, it’s only a personal model of the world, not the world.
Causal Self — Higher Self
The fourth body is aligned with our true Self, called the causal (not casual) or formative body, and a more accurate name would be the “heart-self.” With its vibration in unification with the universal fount of life, it is the energy behind the personal will, the I AM, the driver within all life. Our intuition and the urge to seek spirituality are rooted in this dimension.
Being so tuned to our intellect, we often take up spiritual investigation with our intellects. In this, there are challenges: since the mind’s imagination is infinite and the intellect can only divide what it investigates, our mental operation has difficulty doing the opposite, putting ideas into wholes and rising above its own dimension.
This is why mystics and sages of the ages describe the mind as a trap, illusional, not to be trusted, even going as far as saying the mind works against you; this is only the case when you don’t understand its limits or more correctly as it is the limitless, and infinitely capable tool to weave everything imaginary: Personal illusions, delusions, everything in mind-form.
For this reason, information can only hint at a direction. At some point, the intellect must step aside for the higher facilities and capabilities of the human being to shine forth and lift awareness up and out of the mind. This operation is often also described as leaving the body.
Bliss
The fifth body is the bliss self, not divisible from but within the eternal and infinite energy of the Universe; all life shares this indivisible Self, yet there is a unique and individual quality that manifests in each being, all living things, which extends much further than cellular-based beings.
In a cascade of dimensions, one folding upon the other infinitely in the present moment is how the Universe is manifested; each fold into time and space has an echo of effect that forms the next moment.
When an adept rests their awareness in this highest dimension, they can perceive just ahead of the manifestation of the next moment; this appears to anyone at the level of mind looks as though they can predict the future, and to those capable of awareness on this plane do shape the future directly.
The Physical Dimension (Self)
Let’s explore the physical plane in a little more detail
Theoretical Associations
Energy center- The base of the Spine is the symbolic connection with Earth and the gateway to the energy body and life’s energies, including the Kundalini energy.
Color — Red, black, multicolored.
Stones — Obsiden, and all dark crystals and minerals are earthly.
In Action — This is our raw survival instinct, fight or flight. The mind and intellect. The body energizes our ability to think and the quality of thought. While the mind impacts the body through the quality of thought, an impactful feedback loop is ever in effect, either building or depleting.
Survival
Continuous stress in working for survival to keep a roof over your head and food on the table will exhaust your energies, so it is crucial to expand survival towards thriving by fully recharging the physical body. When the body has its needs met, the energy for thriving begins to increase, and almost like magic, your environment will modify to move the Self into the next state, thriving.
Needs
Sunshine: everyone needs to get outside in the sun for at least twenty minutes daily. This is essential for the immune system to sustain and build health. Cloudy days work, too; just a little longer is needed.
Green leafy plants and vegetables, rich and fresh with the sun’s energy, are the best nutrients for building healthy cells, thus creating a healthy body system.
Fresh local fruits are the best source of energetic sugars that fuel the brain and energy to power through your day.
Nuts, Legumes, oils, or meats: Healthy muscle cells need fats and proteins to build, which are also crucial for optimal brain function. If meats, eggs, or dairy are not on your menu, consume enough nuts, seeds, and legumes to provide sufficient protein. Skin, hair, or nail problems come with insufficient protein in the diet.
Exercise is the only way to continue to have a robust and supportive skeleton, fit muscles, and a healthy heart and respiratory system. Thirty minutes daily is the minimum; anything more builds strength and resilience.
Sleep: It’s not about how much; it is about how little; if you are feeling tired during the day and need to use stimulants to get through your then you must cut nighttime activities being in front of any screen, even a small one, artificial light prevents you from feeling sleepy when you actually are. Going to bed earlier is the best way to catch up on sleep.
Composition of the Physical
All five dimensions of the Self manifest into the physical present moment and have a presence within the body energetically from dense vibration, referred to as “matter,” and as pure energy in chemical and electrical forms.
Behind all three physical energy states are finer dimensions that are formative in the flow of manifestation.
Ever renewing your body’s structure is wholly refreshed every few years. Only our brain and nervous system do not regenerate; this is by design, as your brain and nervous system must keep all the connections made through perception without modification, as these form the connective reservoir of all our memories and the operation of our intellectual selves.
Mentality
Perception within our mind exists just after the present moment, as observation and processing of the world via the senses takes a quarter of a second to appear before our consciousness.
Some reactions of the body arrive faster in consciousness, but awareness of the world from the senses is less timely than some of our other bodily sensations.
Thus, the operation of our mind, the screen upon which life is projected, immersing our Eternal Nature in a glorious sensory experience of being human, is, to a great degree, an illusion that appears to be a finite appearance of the infinite.
The Voice of the Eternal: The Corporal
Your physical Self is the summation of a localized and unique manifestation of the eternal presence of the absolute.
Cosmic intelligence combines with the life-giving light of the sun and the magnetism of the moon’s push and pull within you.
Upward flowing within from your gut up is a current of pranic life energy transmuted from the sun’s light and heat. From this, the sustenance of nature’s living kingdoms, transmuted in the minuscule corners of every cell, is your living fuel.
You are built cell by cell by all the billions of inhabitants directed by your individual intertwined physical blueprint, reproduced perfectly from thousands of millennia of life and forms, alongside myriads of independent guests who give and draw benefit to your bodily community.
Within this physical temple, life’s divine intelligence inflates an awareness called the Self, the crowning miracle, and proclaims, “I AM.”
You are the apex of the currents of life, the yin and yang and ebb and flow of the tide, and the climax of an unending chain of being that physically links you to the most ancient of ancients, the initial spark of life, the seed from the stars that took root in the mother, and over eon’s of time now at this moment, is you.
So, do not be deluded that you are not one with all and all one with you. You are the star child, the seed and the tree, the minuscule and the mighty.
You are complete; there is no part in lack, only delusion and illusion create the idea of an-other, a seeking to be whole; this is but the dream of the un-self, a temporary observer, dweller afloat upon the sea of life, and but a temporary whisper.
Know this: I AM within you. The one within the many, the one that creates and sustains this eternal dream in which you, my child, are but a dreamer.
Everything is in place; the ebb and flow, the duality and duplicity, is but a mirror in which I reflect unto myself all that is manifest, be it a dream within a dream of the sleeper or the transparent witnessing of Life’s Eternal Grace in the Awakened! No-One is without me.
Be not deluded when the feeling of want or hunger is upon you; this is the hollow one, the dreamer, the Self dividing itself from completion to find itself in the seeking. In truth, I have already accomplished all.
In this truth, you can rest and know you were not born to the temporal but begotten in a voyage of eternity, connected by the unending chain of life, intelligence, and spirit.
Join the journey of returning; come full around and into the womb of the infinite, the life eternal of the Awakened.
Reflect & BECOME a simple practice.
Reflect upon the perfection of the physical Self, the rise and ebb of life’s design in the balanced matrix of your manifestation. Be in and allow the presence of life to fill your awareness, connecting the chain of sleeves in return to the divinity of being, free of thought, feeling, and emotions; bring your awareness onto your pure physical manifestation.