by Maurie D. Pressman, M.D

There was something beyond what I had been taught in psychoanalysis. There was another way to listen and perceive.

Last month I spoke of the Super-Realm, what it is like up there and how to get there. I would like to enlarge our adventure by adding some more insights, beginning with my own training in psychoanalysis and adding insights from the great minds of Rudolf Steiner and David Bohm.

It was training in psychoanalysis that well prepared me for this adventure into the Super-Realm. While psychoanalysis doesn't talk the way I do, it does teach how to get inside, to listen to a person's free associations and to abstract from them what is going on deeper in the mind . . . unknown to the one in psychoanalysis, yet recognizable by them once offered as an interpretation. One is looking into the invisible, which is visible somewhere deeper and can be the brought up and brought out. It is like a supersaturated salt solution that you might make. You look at the solution, and it looks just like water. But you know, because you have created it, that it is supersaturated. As you look into that solution, you know what it contains . . . not because you see it with your eyes but because you see it with your mind and knowledge. You know, for instance, that it is overloaded and that when you drop in one more salt crystal, the solution is going to crystallize out an abundance of crystals.

I was fortunate for having trained for so long in psychoanalysis. Having suffered through many hours of restraint and silence, I have been made able to receive impressions from the deep mind. Thus I was ready to receive a new concept when I read about it in Steiner, and the Mahatma Masters and in Theosophy. The concept, new to me at that time, was "intuition." I was never taught intuition, yet I began to notice that I had it, and as I practiced, began to get more and more re-enforced in the use of it. I was at first ashamed of it, for I had been taught that it was unscientific--even in psychoanalysis. Then I read about it in the Eastern literature and in Steiner, and said, "It is not so bad. This might be a precious thing that we have." In using it more, I began to have a perception that there was something beyond what I had been taught in psychoanalysis. There was another way to listen and to perceive. There was this intuitive something.

With this awareness, you begin to develop a way of looking into the subtle realms, seeing what is there. But you see it with your intuitive apparatus--perhaps right in the chest. Seeing it there, feeling it there, it translates into a kind of a vision. By seeing it there over and over again, there begins to develop what is called a new perceptive organ, a new kind of subtle-realm eye. That's the way it works. That's the reason we meditate. That's the reason we don't just listen to those who disparage intuitive and subjective feelings. That's the reason we let ourselves become intuitive. That's the reason we let ourselves have our feelings . . . not to be washed away by them, but to know them and measure them and use them.

For instance, when I am with a patient and begin to feel angry, I know (if I haven't had a bad day otherwise) that that patient is feeling angry with me, and I am picking it up. What I did was to use the observer self to see these things. Using the observer, however, goes hand in hand with having developed psychological muscle with which to have the feelings . . . to not let them wash you away, but to let them be expressed when conditions are right.

This is development on a higher and higher level, so that finally you sit atop all of this with what is called the higher self, the higher ego. You look and observe and control. Then, when it is proper, you dyscontrol and let go. In a love experience, you can then love in a genuine way because you let go when you should. You love in a genuine way because it is your need and expression, and it is appropriate . . . and you embrace, because that is what is genuinely welling up within you. All of that is part of operating in the Super-realm, the High realm, the place we will occupy as we evolve into higher beings. The higher realm mind, the intuitive mind, is very, very bright. Very creative. And why is it bright and creative? Because it is open to godly knowledge, godly intelligence--truly godly--the godliness around us and the godliness within us.

The Higher Realm and the Implicate and Explicate Orders

David Bohm was a protégé of Albert Einstein. He developed the idea of the implicate and explicate orders. He got this idea by watching an experiment on British television of a cylinder within a cylinder, the two being separated by the inner being suspended in oil. When a drop of black ink fell into the oil and then the inner cylinder was rotated, the ink spread. When the inner cylinder was counter-rotated, the ink would gather again, and then disappear. "Where did it go?" he wondered. Then when the cylinder was again rotated in the opposite direction, the ink reappeared. Bohm conjectured that the drop went into a state of latency. He called that state of latency the implicate order, and the state of manifestation the explicate order. This example corresponds beautifully to the operation of the higher, subtle realms.

In the higher realms, the higher we go there is more power per cubic millimeter, faster vibrations and more creative potential. Just as in the supersaturated solution, there is a power ready to precipitate, ready to manifest. The implicate order is the latent power, and the explicate order is the state of manifestation. As you get into the higher states of mind you get closer, more and more, into the implicate order. This is the area of creativity. It is there you can in fact change things, including when one heals through meditation and visualization.

In line with this, I have been working with Olympic athletes for twenty-five years. I have them go into a state of hypnosis and then visualize a perfect performance. The result is remarkable; the performance rapidly improves. And it not only works on the minds, but on the muscles as well. This becomes all the more powerful when the athlete repeatedly practices visualization in the hypnotic state. He/she enters the implicate order and changes mind and body through visualizing a perfect performance. Further evidence is found in the miracle feats of human strength achieved in hypnosis.

Now, one sees how things gather together. As we peer into these Super-realms, we not only see the arch-forms of configuration, but get a glimpse of the implicate order. It is all invisible to our physical eyes, but it's very visible to our abstract mind-eyes. Consider: Even as you read these words you are seeing the implicate order. I am seeing it as I gather it together in order to write it and convey it. So now, we have a new perceptive organ inside the mind, able to see things from behind the retina. And to see how it all gathers together, the implicate order with the arch-form . . . and the arch-form expresses itself everywhere. Everything follows its own arch-form. There is a cosmic archform and an earth archform and a human archform and an atom archform. Every atom follows the same configuration as every other.

We begin to see things with this new organ. Is there any more exciting adventure anywhere? Is it not a kind of bliss to learn and to see this way?

It is like the enjoyment of sex, but in a higher and more aesthetic way: body and mind are one. The body and the mind are very much joined; the body and the higher mind are always joined. These vibrations flow through us. They don't separate themselves from us.

The physical body, and even every mineral and salt, radiate energy and create fields. These energies are always intermeshing and interweaving. We experience the fun and the thrill of enlightenment when we are able to see it. The fun of enlightenment is the bliss of the higher fields, the Super-realm fields.

Maurie D. Pressman, M.D. is the author of Enter the Supermind and co-author (with Patricia Joudry) of Twin Souls: A Guide to Finding Your True Spiritual Partner.

Dr. Pressman is Emeritus Chairman of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University Health Sciences Center. He is Medical Director at the Center for Psychiatric Wellness, clinics that operate in Philadelphia and Haddonfield, N.J. These clinics bridge traditional and spiritual psychotherapy. Dr. Pressman can be reached at 200 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106; telephone 215-922-0204; fax 215-922-3008.