Harvey Green's Research of
Edgar Cayce on Spirit Realms
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The first spirit region |
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In
the First Region of the Spirit Land we are surrounded
by archetypes of material things. From this
realm matter is transformed from the mental
to the material. There is life and activity
everywhere in this, the lowest region of the
Spirit Land. Here in the First Region all activity
is heard as music and all of the music blends
together in magnificent harmonies. The physical
forms created here appear more as a presence
than as fixed. Gradually the presence is seen
as a distortion and finally as dark outlines
against the colors which emanate from the harmonies.
Steiner
commented that what is considered to be just
thoughts in lower realms become reality in this
First Region. Here we move among the thoughts
and we experience their essence. The thoughts
have form, and as we pass through them we experience
the full potential of each one. We now have
the opportunity to see how reality arises in
the Earth and how our thoughts work upon the
fabric of reality. Although we live in community,
we no longer have a sense of personality. We
have a much greater sense of membership than
we do of self. We feel a growing unity with
our community, our society, and the entire region.
We feel an inseparable union with the archetypes,
all that they transform into reality, and one
with the primordial spirit.
Those
in the Earth who eventually feel one with nature
and one with the material region draw this awareness
from the First Region of the Spirit Land. It
is in this First Region we have the opportunity
to see and experience our thoughts as ultimate
reality.
In the
Earth we experience thought on a continuum of
time and space. This means that our experience
takes place gradually and in measured amounts.
In this First Region of the Spirit Land we experience
primal creative thought in its fullest sense
from origin through manifestation.
In the
Earth what sets clairvoyants apart from others
is the ability to perceive and understand potentials
which arise from thought. From this First Region
and onward we experience and are fully aware
of just such potential.
As in
the regions of the Soul Land, there are those
in the Spirit Land who are permanent residents
in each realm we pass through. As we work in
each region we are as unaware of their presence
as they are of ours. Those souls that we commune
with in each region are part of our eternal
family with whom we have always been connected.
Many souls that we encounter are those we have
lived with in most of our earthly incarnations,
while others have moved with us through successive
realms, and many are members of our soul family
with whom we have never lost touch throughout
creation.
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2. The second
spirit region |
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In
the Second Region of the Spirit Land we find
the archetypes of life. Steiner noted that these
archetypes transform thought matter into living
things in the Earth. Here in this region we
see the relationship of life in the human family
and all other living creatures. We develop an
appreciation and respect for the oneness of
all life and how any one life affects all other
life. Unity takes on a whole new meaning for
us in the Second Region where we experience
not only the commonness of all life but the
interdependence of all forms of it. We mix with
the life forms as they flow, and we gain our
understanding in part from personal experience.
Our communities are now becoming wider, and
we are more likely to live with members of our
larger soul family than only those with whom
we shared earthly experiences. The capacity
to know ourselves as one with all living things
arises from this Second Region.
It should
be born in mind that as we move from region
to region we do not go anywhere in a time and
space sense of the words. All of life interpenetrates,
as all realms do. Our movement takes place in
consciousness rather than in a time and space
perspective.
We have
noted that as we grow in awareness we embody
more and more of a single region and eventually
all of the region. This does not crowd out anyone
or anything else and ultimately all of creation
occupies the same space but not the same consciousness
of proximity. If this is difficult to understand
let us look at two individuals in the same automobile.
One is driving and the other is not. The longer
one drives the car, the more opportunity one
has to use all of one's driving skills, the
more familiar one becomes with how the automobile
reacts to one's skills, the more intimate a
part of the machine one will feel. Likewise,
the longer one remains a passenger in the automobile,
the more comfortable one gets, the more one
enjoys the experience, the more a part of the
purpose of the auto one feels he or she has
become. Further, each occupant is approximately
in the same area but because of the focus each
views differently all that is within and all
that each passes through. By virtue of each
individual focus each rider of the automobile
can be said to occupy the same point but differ
in proximity to the reality of the journey.
In reality our awareness can occupy the same
time and space as some one else but each individual
awareness would exist in its unfettered purity.
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3. The third
spirit region |
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As we
enter the Third Region we experience the archetypes
who are transforming mental substance into soul
qualities as used in the Earth. Passions, instincts,
desires, wishes, sensations, and feelings within
the incarnate soul all arise in the Third Region
of the Spirit Land. These soul qualities not
only arise from this region but their expression
in the Earth can be seen here in their true
essence. One may be startled by light storms
here which give off discordant sounds and disrupt
the harmony of the archetype's creation. This
is the counterpart of sorrow, vengeance, and
jealousy, when soul qualities are lifted up
in the expressions to the Third Region.
Here
in the Third Region we learn how to use the
pulls on our souls. We learn to direct our instincts
and desires of every kind in a totally unselfish
manner. Those who have used their aspirations
as benefactors in the Earth have drawn this
knowledge from the Third Region of the Spirit
Land. Ultimately anything of a selfish nature
will be lost in the Third Region, transformed
by the archetypes and sent into the Earth to
be used for good.
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4. The fourth
spirit region |
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When
we leave the Third Region and have rid ourselves
of our last traces of any self-centeredness,
we are now prepared for what Steiner described
as the Fourth Region of the Spirit Land. Here
we no longer participate directly in the affairs
of materiality but in the care and maintenance
of the archetypes in other realms. At the same
time spirit from higher realms is drawn into
the Fourth Region and transformed into usable
substance for archetypes to work on in other
lower regions. In the transformed spirit sent
from the Fourth Region the very creative forces
of the archetypes may be found, and even within
those forces exists the pattern for creativity.
In the
material world each creation is imbued with
the pattern for its perfect manifestation. The
pattern may be found as a fiber in the life
which emanates from higher realms. It is not
fed once into each living thing or even renewed
periodically.
As spirit,
life is permanently flowing new into all living
things; so too is the pattern for its perfect
manifestation. As creatures in the Earth we
draw upon this spirit and use it to meet the
daily challenges of material manifestation,
as well as to build creatively in the many realms
intimately connected with materiality. It must
be borne in mind here that the Earth is not
an inferior realm. It is in fact where all realms
representatively come together. There is nothing
in any of the realms we experience that cannot
be compared to its representation in materiality,
and that includes life in the Fourth Region
of the Spirit Land and beyond.
Here
in the Fourth Region we find an opportunity,
previously unequaled, to selflessly devote our
lives to the care and maintenance of all living
things that do not owe their existence to us.
Those gifts for genius in arts, science, and
government are drawn from the Fourth Region;
one who manifests any of these talents well
in the Earth has previously worked in this region.
If we did not pass through the Fourth Region
between incarnations, we would have no interest
in things common to all of humanity.
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5. The fifth
spirit region |
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The Fifth Region of the
Spirit Land is bound up mostly in intentions
and purposes. Having discarded all earthly imperfections,
we exercise judgment differently than we formerly
had imagined possible. Now we truly fill the
spirit region with our lives, loves, and hopes.
In the Fifth Region prophecy is an integral,
inseparable part of life; we are free to view
as many of our future incarnations as we wish.
If one does not experience this region between
material incarnations, the person will be found
to be lacking direction in the next Earth life.
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6. The sixth
and seventh spirit regions |
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The Sixth and Seventh
Regions of the Spirit Land are also intimately
involved in creation by drawing spirit from
higher realms and transforming it so it can
be used by the archetypes for an infinite variety
of manifestations in the lower realms. In the
Seventh Region of the Spirit Land we reach the
very center of the three realities of Spirit
Land, Soul Land, and Materiality. Here we live
in the presence of the seeds of life which Steiner
and Swedenborg called "life kernels" (or "soul-seeds").
We now recognize ourselves as our own life kernel.
From the Seventh Region we have a complete view
of life unfolding in each successive realm;
the Spirit Land, Soul Land, and Materiality.
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7. Returning
to materiality |
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As
we discussed, there is a certain order in which
we move through realms and that order is dictated
by sympathetic resonance as well as proximity.
Sympathetic resonance is the overriding factor
in our journey through reality, and proximity
is the shading influence. The timing for our
return is first and foremost a personal choice,
while the influence which makes this a longer
or shorter, a more difficult or easier journey
is proximity. All throughout our spiritual journey
between earthly incarnations we live and grow
in communities with those we consider to be
our soul family, with whom we have shared experiences.
There is no level of reality where we do not
have members of this soul family of ours, and
we commune with them wherever in creation we
go. We even plan together for our next incarnation
and this, of course, greatly influences our
return. We do not plan our return with certain
members of our soul family simply because we
like them or they like us. Such plans are conceived
because of karmic considerations and because
such a relationship is vital to what we hope
will be accomplished in our next earthly life.
We do
not sit down at a certain point in creation,
take a view of what is in Earth, assisted or
otherwise, with the options, and make an instant
decision regarding our next incarnation. We
do not make informed decisions in the Earth
that way nor do we do so outside of the Earth.
We take into consideration relationships with
those who have preceded us into materiality
as well as those who will follow us. It would
be foolish to think that decisions of such magnitude
for each of us would be so poorly planned. Such
a choice is made little by little as one grows
in reality, and the final step is a small one
indeed. Gradual planning to be part of a family
unit, a community, and a nation takes place
over what we would conceive of as time from
an earthly perspective. The Edgar Cayce discourses
make a very strong case by insisting that we
choose our families, our parents, and even make
agreements, where possible, to choose our spouses
and children. This is not to infer that changes
in plans will not occur, but we should be aware
of the vast amount of planning that is done
before our earthly incarnation.
When
we are making most of our plans and agreements
for our next incarnation, we do not have physical
details before us. Instead we have before us
relationships to others, to situations, and
to those forces which have prepared us.
In our
decision-making process about our next material
incarnation we deal largely with two factors.
First we work with motivation, then with potential,
and all the rest is the great adventure we call
life. Let us not think that we incarnate for
the adventure alone. For life and its living
can be just as exciting for all who incarnate,
whatever their goals may be. For life to be
truly constructive we must deal with the motivation
and potentials which are best for us at the
time; thus we not only experience the adventure
our God has prepared for us, but we do so for
our greatest good. As we move through the realms
around the Earth, motivation is laid bare before
us. Soon it is the most obvious condition and
the framer of all experience. We learn to identify
motivation very easily and accept it as the
creative essence of the soul. Respect for this
primal motivational cause becomes inescapable
early on in our journey between Earth lives,
and we learn that motivation is the first condition
in reality. In the realm ruled by cause and
effect, motivation is the fulcrum through whose
action all things come into being.
So here
we have it; we made plans bit by bit, as we
traveled through reality, regarding our next
material incarnation, and we were drawn to the
proper timing just as we were drawn by correspondence
to the realms in which we resonate. When the
proximity is correct, when conditions are best,
we then make a final decision and in so doing
we gain immeasurably. Half the gain in life
is "showing up"; consequently, according to
Edgar Cayce, half the gain in an earthly incarnation
is in deciding to do it. Throughout the whole
of the experience the angels of grace are there
to give us all that we have need for at any
time. They are likewise ever present to help
us in our decisions regarding our next material
incarnation.
There
are those of us who have so squandered our opportunities
that we do not have the fullness of freedom
as do others. In such situations our route through
spiritual realms is not full enough for us to
enjoy the lessons which would be learned by
a slower, more wholesome period of recovery.
As a result, some of us cannot clearly see motivation
and potential while others may not even care.
There are those of the angelic ministry who
guide such myopic souls toward their next incarnation,
but it is always the decision of the individual
to incarnate or not.
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Relevant
Cayce Books
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Channeling Your Higher Self: Edgar
Cayce's Concept of the Superconscious
Mind
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by Henry Reed
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Channeling is a fascinating mystery.
In this extraordinary work, the
author draws on Cayce's inspiring
words and principles to show how
we can reach our higher selves,
understand the nature of our super
and subconscious minds, and heal
ourselves by using our soul as a
conduit. The author reveals how
the great, untapped power of our
spirit can transform our lives in
very meaningful ways.
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Edgar Cayce on Mastering Your Spiritual
Growth
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by Kevin J. Todeschi
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What if God were completely loving,
the universe completely orderly,
and everything that transpired in
life a purposeful experience chosen
at some level by the soul for spiritual
growth and soul development? Such
is the premise of this book. Drawing
upon contemporary examples as well
as historical case studies of individuals
who received psychic guidance from
Cayce, this insightful volume examines
the activities of soul growth and
the process of personal transformation
that will ultimately enable all
individuals to transform themselves
as well as society and the world
at large. Also available in
KINDLE EBOOK Edition.
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Edgar Cayce on the Spiritual Forces
Within You
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by John Van Auken
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The author helps us reach our spiritual
life force that is intimately and
ultimately connected to all of life,
all of time, and all of space a
part of ourselves that is our true
self and is naturally in touch with
the infinite and the eternal. What
power over our lives can we wield
when in touch with the infinite?
A broader awareness, a healthier
vitality, a purpose, and a meaningfulness.
The life force is within us, within
our spirit and mind. This book gives
us the tools to fully awaken and
activate it.
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Edgar Cayce's Twelve Lessons in
Personal Spirituality
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by Kevin J. Todeschi
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For years Edgar Cayce provided a
small group of individuals with
lessons in soul growth and personal
transformation. The author presents
a new look at those major principles.
From the first lesson on cooperation
through others on ideals, patience,
oneness and love, this book provides
specific tools for personal and
spiritual development. Also available
in
KINDLE EBOOK Edition.
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Edgar Cayce on Vibrations: Spirit
in Motion
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by Kevin J. Todeschi, Edgar Cayce
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In spite of how the physical world
may appear to the naked eye, science
has proved that all of materiality
consisting of atoms and therefore
protons, neutrons, and electrons
is in motion. Everything is a vibration.
Even the body's five senses operate
through the use of vibrations. However,
vibrations encompass much, much
more. This work explores how everything
from consciousness to the material
world is connected to vibration.
It examines how we continue to create
and shape those vibrations and how
vibrations impact the world around
us. Ultimately, it examines how
all vibrations are essentially the
one spirit in motion. Also available
in
KINDLE EBOOK Edition.
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Edgar Cayce on Religion, Spirituality,
and Psychic Experience
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by Harmon Bro
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From an actual witness to some of
Cayce's readings comes this thoughtful
book about the aspects of religion,
spirituality, and psychic experience
that came through this remarkable
man. Dr. Harmon Bro neatly dissects
and presents us with subject matter
from the Cayce readings on healing,
communication with the dead, psychic
experiences, auras, out-of-body
experiences, and more. Dr. Bro's
prose is highlighted with actual
recollections and encounters with
the great psychic himself. For the
novice student of psychic phenomena
or the Cayce enthusiast, this book
offers a very personal introduction
to the man and his psychic readings.
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