Bridging Personality and Spirit - by Maurie D. Pressman

Consciousness Precedes Form, Consciousness Makes Form

The definition of life energy, elsewhere called chi, prana, ka, is reaffirmed.

I found this concept in the works of Sri Aurobindo. It makes all kinds of sense to me.

Nothing lower can create something higher. Nothing material, such as the body, the physical brain, can create a higher and higher consciousness. On the contrary, what has been there as a higher consciousness, can be released from its imprisonment in form. That is the entire theory and belief of the Eastern philosophies and is being "proven" by modern physics.

So, "In the beginning was (is) consciousness -- love-light -- the All-God." In descending forms there was not only a lowering of the high energy vibrations, but an increasing enfoldment (involution) of the high consciousness into denser and denser forms until materiality appeared upon the scene ... materiality, including the physical form of Man. The soul is the delegate of the high Spirit. As such, it creates the body from incarnation to incarnation. It is said that the body is the tenderest part of the soul. It is also the densest part of the soul. The tenderest because it is the most fragile and susceptible to dysfunction. The densest because it is the ultimate in enfoldment.

Then there is the release of higher and higher consciousness. Like the seed unfolding to release the plant, there is the emergence from imprisonment in the denser form, and thus the rise in consciousness, and the aspiration to return to God and Higher Consciousness.

This whole thing reminded me of the story of how life emerged. Myron Sharaf beautifully portrayed it in a little known book, A Fury on Earth. Here, the story is told of how Wilhelm Reich, an early disciple of Freud, pioneered studies of the emotions in the body. He discovered what he called "character armor," where muscular spasms hold in emotions. His students created the field of bioenergetics, in which working on the body would release crystallized emotion. Reich was relentless in his pursuit of the "life force." Herein lies the story.

He thought he would do well to study life in its more primitive form and therefore that he should study the amoeba. He asked a farmer where he could buy some amoebae. The farmer laughed, and said, "You don¹t have to buy them, just get some hay and let it rot." Reich did that. But instead of just letting it happen, he observed the hay under the microscope as it decomposed. He found, as it rotted, that little vesicles, blisters, formed around the edges. He continued to observe and then noticed that these vesicles gathered together in a clump. He continued to observe and found that they were then surrounded by a skin -- and swam away as amoebae! Thus Reich had observed the cycle of death becomes life, and life becomes death.

He continued. He called these life-giving blisters, "bions," and found that they were omnipresent in the atmosphere. Though he was persecuted and prosecuted by the Federal government for his discovery of the "Orgone Box" it has shown itself to be a worthy instrument. Reich observed that he could gather this bionic energy in a box, and manufactured the box large enough for a patient to sit in. The patient with advanced cancer was healed by this infusion of life energy -- bion energy. The decay of the body as it occurred in cancer could be reversed by the supply of this new source of life.

Reich¹s discovery of orgone energy was and is the discovery of the life energy called chi, prana, ka elsewhere. It is the universal energy, the life source. It is the energy that can be enfolded into the body to heal. It is the energy that can be released from the body to emanate as higher consciousness, and higher forces of healing.

Reiki, a technique for supplying healing energy through the hands, but hands separated from the recipient¹s body, is now becoming popular, and accepted as a form of treatment in some major hospitals. It is a technique that also requires the focus of healing intention Consciousness again, being projected as it is released, to heal and thus create form in the tenderest part of the soul of the patient, in the disordered body. Consciousness -- becomes form.