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Considerations 138 …
The Aura …
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I’ve touched on this one lightly elsewhere … but understanding and awareness of this facet of every living thing can help explain many of the questions and much of the confusion on the board.
One way that “man is made in the image of God” is that they both exude an aura. The “aura” of the Core Creator God is … and would be … Divine Spirit … which is the life essence of the Core Creator God IT-self … the life force … generic … applicable to all … emanating out into Existence giving this life force to all … even if it is initially unspecified … or generic.
Each human individual … no matter the state of consciousness … also issues forth an aura … an essence of Self … barely extending beyond Self or extending for a few feet or more beyond the individual according to that individual state of consciousness. This “aura” is magnetic … for lack of a better word … but it does indeed repel … or attract. This aura is built from your own perspective of Life and carries words, thoughts, emotions, beliefs, attitudes, past life implications, etc. This aura obviously belongs to the “unseen worlds” … that which the physical eye cannot see … and therefore is easily disputed by those who wish to do so.
Not only does the physical body emanate an aura … but so do the other inner bodies … the astral and the various levels of the mental body … including memory. All these bodies are not where the facet of emotion or mental activity ( etc ) is actually stored … or kept … that takes place in the respective actual inner body. The essence of these … the summary … the life force that weaves through your understanding of life around you … this is what your aura is.
People can deny this … as they can deny reincarnation or any other basic tenant of life. Each has the freedom to believe or deny … anything. It all depends on personal experience … the determination to learn … and individual development or unfolding. It is more a matter of getting out of our own way rather than incorporating the new.
It is this aura that attracts or repels many facets of what comes into our lives. There is much more to the “unseen” world around us than what we can view via the physical sensations. We are constantly blasted with an unending array of thoughts, imagery, feelings, symbols of all kinds. The air around us is filled with this. We may wish to consider outer space as empty … but it is far from vacant. Thought, feelings, symbols constantly swirl … let alone radio and television waves … flooding everyone everywhere.
The aura clearly attracts like unto like. It can also be protective and repel … according to ability and belief. The thought streams of the traditional teachings … along with most everything else … have been around poetically forever. These streams are so immense … so intricate … it is easy to have thought that are “not our own” … but our interest in similar topics and phrases would bring us into that overall stream where we would pick up such thoughts. Stopping this onslaught is impossible … they willpower in anyway. The way to slow and stop it is a matter of focusing your attention away from receiving them … or interpreting them … for the moment. Perhaps just letting them go through you is a better way to put it. You don’t stop to look at them … you just let them glide by. It takes practice … but certainly can be learned. This does *not* put you anywhere else other than where you already are … it is just shifting the focus away from paying enough attention to them to acknowledge what they are.
One of minds major lines of defense is simple denial. When it cannot understand something … it will label it as illusion or dream-like or unreal or untruth or whatever word the individual wishes to use to sidestep deeper understanding. This is incredibly common. It is better to acknowledge that most all of this do this all the time … some live by it. This is just another phase of learning.
How mental perceptions and understanding end in the entire desire to “stop the mind” and just … float. Mindlessly just sit and stare … admittedly … glorifying in the ability to gain some mental quietude for the moment. We can call this “presence” or “unity” or “pure” or anything we wish. The mind loves to change the definition of a concept or principle so it can somehow belong within its current stance or magnify the importance of a stance in order to belie they are “farther along” than they are. Make no mistake however … taking charge of ones own mind … is a lofty goal. It is a necessary step and each will “get there” … eventually.
This is a long-sought battle to win … and it can be won. After experiencing lifetime after lifetime of doing this … attaining this level time and again for a successive number of lifetimes do we finally realize that there must be more to it than this quietude … since I have returned to learn more … whatever that is. We then move into another level of Self.
But it is the aura that draws or repels … SO much in our lives. To be mystified over … “Hey - * I * didn’t think that thought … “ is akin to standing in the stream from a water hose and wondering why I’m getting wet. If it bothers you … get busy on putting your attention elsewhere and keeping it there long enough to draw other subject material to you or withdraw your attention to slow and dismiss the stream altogether … for as long as it fulfills you. This endeavor is where each individual will uncover just how much our mental thoughts and their respective emotions prevail in our lives … and wish to remain so. Mind almost becomes an opponent to battle due to its preference for habit … but this just makes it worse. Fighting against something is the same as fighting for it … and fighting *against* something can oft times be worse … because the emotions used to feed that which we wish to fight against are more volatile … thus often giving them a bit more power … so to speak. A gentle focusing elsewhere will win the game … eventually … and then on to stopping the mind altogether. It is a necessary tool in the tool belt.
More next Monday.
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