In our examination of the concepts surrounding the subject of mediation, we have discussed the importance of concentration as the start of the meditative procedure. The next step in the process was contemplation, where the aspirant seeks to absorb themselves into the object they are concentrating on. To achieve these two states, the meditator comes to realise that they are not their thoughts and the concept of the Self is born. In this manner, it becomes possible for our guardian angels to filter causal ideas into our mental envelopes, for us to concretise.
We also looked at the role the unconscious mind plays in determining what we think is our personal thought life. Thoughts may bubble up from our subconscious world that may not be our own thoughts in the first place, or they could come from complexes formed in previous incarnations. The important thing we noted was that by paying attention to these thoughts and feelings, we were strengthening them. Even in the process of deciding what to ignore, we were strengthening the very things we were trying to rid ourselves of. The conclusion we came up with was that we can not get rid of our past, we can just replace it with a better present.
Today, we will look at where else mental and emotional impulses can come from. The first thing to realise is that the material world around us is not the only environment we live in. We all have five envelopes of incarnation, the physical organism itself, the etheric envelope that animates it, our emotional envelope, then our mental envelope and finally our lower causal envelope. This last envelope is often referred to as the persona. Each one of these envelopes either lives on its own plane or world, with its attendant subplanes, or in the case of the physical and mental planes, there is a recognisable division between a higher and lower aspect of that world. Whatever happens to be the case, these five envelopes operate in a larger environment.
In the last presentation, we talked about impulses pushing up from our subconscious. Where exactly is this subconscious located? It is located within the confines of the envelope, be it emotional or mental. The etheric and physical envelopes are transmitters, not originators of feelings and ideas. We now need to examine where else impulses may originate from. The short answer is from our local environment, be it our emotional or mental envelope. The long answer is from somewhere else. The emotional and mental worlds may be full of elementals, however, these elementals did not construct themselves. They are assembled by quaternary monads that are able to focus their attention on a subject. This creates them. Remember, secondary matter is only passively conscious. It can respond to consciousness inputs but it can not initiate them. Depending on the willpower that went into creating the elemental structure, will determine its size, strength, longevity, reach and impact. Some elementals are continually being reinforced by inputs of more thoughts and emotions. We now have an almost semi-autonomous structure known as an egregore. These structures accept impulses from monads and then feed the same impulses back to those monads, who think those impulses are their own. Now you may say they were, were they not? In some cases, yes, but in other cases, the effect an egregore may have may be linked to the receptivity of the emotional or mental envelope of the monad. If you have molecules resonating in your envelope that match those of the egregore, then you have created a landing zone for those molecules to enter your envelopes and affect you.
The transference does not necessarily have to be from a large egregore. It may just be the thoughts and feelings of someone residing in our close vicinity. What we are dealing with here is telepathy. To be aware of this thought or feeling, it has to transfer from our mental and emotional envelopes, through our etheric envelope, then pass through our solar plexus/navel chakra, into our pancreas. This triggers a whole host of chemical signals that we can resonate with, through our five senses. On rare occasions, we may receive impulses from our superconscious. The take-home from what is being said is that we all live in the collective consciousness of Humanity. This consciousness field is found on the planes of matter we inhabit. For us, the ones that originate a telepathic message are found in the emotional, mental and causal worlds. For the majority of humanity incarnate today, these impulses are mainly focused in their lower emotional bodies, 48:4 to 48:7. This implies that our emotional and mental envelopes lead their own lives, almost independent of our conscious input. This to a certain extent is true. This is why, in the last presentation, the imagery of a boiling caldron was used. Due to the influences of telepathy, our envelopes then engage in the group consciousness activity of that plane. In the case of most people, in the Mental World, this does not extend beyond subplanes 47:6 and 47:7.
So, we have this vibrant communal existence in the Emotional and Mental worlds, but as has already been alluded to, these elementals did not spontaneously materialise. They were formed within our own envelopes and then thrown out into the caldron to boil away. They then float around in this collective environment, until they may be absorbed by someone else’s envelope. The net result of this is that there is a constant exchange of emotional and mental molecules between our envelopes and those of other people. This should tell us something very important. Humanity can be considered as a single organism. We share a common material unit. Remember, this material exists on all the planes we inhabit, not just the one you are aware of currently.
It is reassuring to know that we just do not absorb any thought or feeling that happens to be passing by. For such molecules to enter your envelopes, they must first have a strong affinity to the molecules that already populate your envelopes. When you are in a crowd, your aura, for this read emotional and mental envelopes, interpenetrate with those of the people around you. This facilitates the easy transfer of molecules. This makes the whole experience even more unpleasant when you think you are not only smelling other people’s body odour but potentially picking up the ‘odours’ from their emotional and mental envelopes as well. All is not lost if you are vibrating at a higher frequency than those around you. Then you just get to smell them and no more. If you are a high-frequency emitter and your thoughts and feelings are backed up by sustained focus and willpower, then you are able to influence others anywhere on the globe that have their antenna tuned to your frequency of thoughts. For antenna, think chakras.
From a negative perspective, mass psychoses also depend on the telepathic phenomena. These are particularly active in the Emotional World; that boiling cauldron again. The saving grace of such impulses is that the people emitting them have little focus and willpower. Their vibrations seldom reach beyond their immediate surroundings.
So, what can we conclude from this presentation? The first thing is that we contain emotional and mental envelopes that seem to lead lives, almost of their own. If we feel or think, which involves us directing our attention towards one or both of these envelopes, we are unwittingly affected by the contents of these envelopes. Why should that be a problem, after all these are our envelopes? They may be, but as much as 90 per cent of their contents are telepathically ingested by us. This means we are living by the thoughts and emotional outputs of others. The only way we can counteract this is if we produce impulses that are stronger than those that already inhabit our envelopes. We have to realise that we are responsible for what we feel or think. We are also responsible for the vibrations we throw out into these worlds, which can then telepathically affect others. People, themselves, do not know where these thoughts and feelings come from but regardless of that, they end up owning them. So the cauldron continues to boil.
Enough groundwork has been laid to get down to finally answer the question, what is meditation? See you next time.