Physical - Mental - Vital
The physical is external reality. The mental is our thought process - an intermediate reality. And the vital is the reality behind both.
We have created a world of thought between the nothing and the something. That’s the intermediate world. And more and more we are spending our time there rather than the physical world. It is taking us over. We are losing what is real, to have what is unreal.
If you go around thinking, working things out intellectually, you’re in the intermediate world. It’s a never-ending world. There’s no end to its seduction. And, of course, the mental world generates emotions and blockages because as soon as we think of our ex-lover, or the job we got sacked from, it stirs a psychic prisoner in us - a resentment against someone or something. The mental will always stir a blockage in us if it can.
The mental, intermediate world doesn’t achieve anything except to entertain us. We’re so compulsively habituated to the love of being entertained that we go for the closest bit of entertainment there is in what appears to be a very dull, physical world. That entertainment, in the first instance, is our imagination.
We invented our mentality, like we invented the internet, which is the result of all our thought-processes, in a sort of halo around the earth - a band of information surrounding the world that all our computers tap into. This vast network of information in the intermediate world is useless entertainment – information presented as worthwhile and having some meaning. We are all compelled, through our business or busy-ness, to go into it. And now we are stuck with it.
But the wonderful thing is that in the vital, which I am, I am free. I am beyond all thought. I am beyond the intermediate. I am beyond the death of this physical body. I am deeper than that. The vital is my reality.
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