Spirituality: Understanding It and Pursuing It

Spirituality: Understanding It and Pursuing It

Part One: Understanding Spirituality

The Creator

There are many ways to approach an understanding of Spirituality, but here, we are going to start at the beginning. Of course, from the big picture perspective, there was no beginning, but from the perspective of human beings, things did have a beginning and this is where we will start.

To understand our beginning, it is important to understand the difference between cognitive knowledge and experiential knowledge. To illustrate, if you were a non–swimmer and wanted to learn to swim, you could read some books on the subject, you could speak with experienced swimmers and you could watch people swimming. All of this would give you some cognitive knowledge of the subject but your understanding would still be incomplete until you jumped into the water and felt the water’s buoyancy, pressure, temperature and practiced Newton’s third law of physics: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. With this experience of being in the water, your understanding of swimming would become much richer and much more complete.

The Creator (sometimes called God, Source, All That Is, etc.), who had created everything, had a cognitive understanding about all of creation. It did not, however, have the experience of everything, and it realized that, without experiential knowledge, its understanding was not as rich as it could be.

The Creator, then, set out to acquire experiential knowledge of all of creation so that it would have a richer knowledge of everything and so that it would have new things and experiences to create. That’s the idea behind how our reality began.

That idea gave birth to The Creator dividing itself, and in a sense, going off in all directions to create experiences for itself. It divided, sub–divided and fragmented to cover all of the dimensions, realities, universes – everything, everyone, everywhere and everywhen. Interestingly, each of these Creator fragments was holographic, meaning each piece had all of the power and information of the whole.

Where we fit in

Now, to understand our role in all of this, imagine a few of these all–powerful, holographic Creator fragments floating around in some unimaginable place and debating what they should do to create a new experience for their enrichment. I’m sure they didn’t float around in some place or actually debate, but in my limited imagination, I can see that they might have somehow hit upon the idea: “Hey, how about we experience something totally different from what we are? OK, what?”

Well, we are unified (all is one, one is all) so let’s experience disunity or separation. Also, we are unlimited, so let’s experience what it’s like to be limited. Two ideas, totally opposite to what The Creator really is: unified and unlimited.

So, hitting upon that idea, these all–powerful aspects of The Creator set out to create a universe that would provide and support the experience of separation and limitation. They then created time, space, duality and matter, and all of the stuff of what we refer to as our universe.

Next, they had to put themselves into this universe so they could have this experience. They subdivided further down to the level that we call soul. That’s where humans come in and it’s where we begin to see exactly what we are and what our purpose is.

Specifically, we are those holographic aspects of the Creator. We built this universe so we could have this human experience of separation and limitation. We are The Creator.

As we began our task of creating this universe, we realized that we would have to, in some way, become material or physical. In our natural state, we are not physical; we are made up of the same stuff and have the same power as The Creator because we are The Creator.

The stuff or essence of The Creator is light energy. Our scientists, today, are telling us that everything is composed of energy and so are we. When you are composed entirely of light energy and you want to become physical, you have to dial down the intensity of the energy so that it can support physicality, and this is what we did.

Souls and Oversouls

To go from our natural level of energy and corresponding level of consciousness (more about this later), The Creator fragmented some unknown number of times until we got down to the level that we call the soul. At the soul level of energy, we were able to animate and sustain a physical body. In effect, we are light energy beings (souls) in a physical body, having a human experience.

The soul actually joins a fetus in the womb to become a human being, and while in the womb is busy wiring the mind of the soul with the brain of the fetus. Michael Newton elaborates on this in his books: Journey of Souls, Destiny of Souls and Life Between Lives.

Souls are often referred to as our “Inner–Self”. In Metaphysical terms, the Inner–Self is connected to the much more powerful energy known as the Higher–Self or Oversoul. The Oversoul is in charge of many souls and manages all of their human lives, past, present, future and parallel.

Inner–Selves (souls) and Higher–Selves (Oversouls) are pure energy and are not at all physical. Their nature is spiritual. The difference between physicality and Spirituality lies in an understanding of energy.

Energy and Vibration

As I said earlier, everything is made up of energy. This isn’t apparent to the naked eye but our Particle Physicists tell us that the spaces between the tiniest of sub–atomic particles are vast and are filled with a vibrating energy. These scientists are discovering things that are blowing Newtonian Physics out of the water. For example, the particles they are observing will behave according to the expectations of the observer, something akin to thought moving matter. This study is called Quantum Physics or Quantum Mechanics. The word Quantum is used because the Scientists aren’t sure whether they are dealing with a particle or a wave – it varies depending on the observer’s expectations.

A feature of this universal vibrating energy is that everything has its own unique rate of vibration or frequency. This applies to humans as well, and this is what is referred to when someone speaks about a person’s vibration. This is a common new age term, although, I doubt many people realize that it is something that can be measured by scientific instrumentation. For specific organs, most hospitals are equipped with instruments that can measure the vibration of an organ, such as a heart or brain. For the whole body, it’s considerably more complex, it requires complicated engineering and only a small number of such instruments exist. Other ways of getting a handle on human vibration are through applied kinesiology and the use of a pendulum (to be explained later).

Earlier, I said that the energy of a spirit is more intense than the energy of a human. Another way of saying this is that the energy vibration of a spirit is faster or has a higher rate (as measured in hertz) than the vibration of a human.

The Densification of Energy

What I haven’t said, so far, is that this vibrating energy can give us the illusion of solidity or physicality.

Just to confuse things further, I also haven’t said that vibration correlates with both consciousness (the ability to be aware of oneself and one’s surroundings) and density or solidity.

Here’s what I mean: A slow vibration gives us the illusion of solidness or more density. For example, a rock has a slow vibration, it appears solid and dense, and it has very limited consciousness – so limited that science can’t measure it and doesn’t acknowledge its existence, at least to date.

A plant has a higher vibration, less density and a greater amount of consciousness. It can sense where the sun is and lean in that direction, it can sense the location of water and send its roots towards it. An animal has a higher vibration than a plant. It has some non–physical aspects such as emotion, fear, etc. It can also sense danger, care for its young and hunt in packs.

A human has a higher vibration yet. There are mental and emotional facets, which are non–physical, and its consciousness allows it to solve mathematical problems, entertain abstract thoughts and put a man on the moon.

The Seven Densities

If you look at vibrations that are high enough, they no longer give the illusion of solidity or sustain physicality; they exist only in the spirit realm. Some Metaphysicians and New Agers have categorized levels of vibration and refer to them as ranges or categories of density. These densities are also referred to as ranges or dimensions of consciousness.

To illustrate, the common classifications are:

First Density:

• Consciousness is one–dimensional.
• The densest of all physical levels.
• Minerals, elements and compounds exist here.

Second Density:

• Consciousness is two dimensional.
• Carries the frequency of plants and animals.

Third Density:

• Consciousness is three–dimensional and includes the ability to lament the past, worry about the future be aware of the present.
• Humans, dolphins, whales and some primates exist here.
• The Ego is developed here.
• The illusion of separation is strongest here.

Fourth Density:

• This is the last Density for human bodies.
• Individuals here are said to be enlightened.
• Consciousness takes on group identity without any loss of individual identity.
• Time is more malleable, and past, present and future...