The Soul
Buddhism, and specifically
Tantric Buddhism believes that, at all moments, we exist in all states of consciousness, and simply don't realize it. Like leaves to a tree, we do not realize that by being a leaf, we are being the tree too. I believe, and this is the synthesis of many studies and experiences in various areas, that
the Universe we live in is layered as follows : matching each chakra is a level of consciousness, corresponding to a world.
A Seven Layers Model
- At the "Crown" is God and Buddah consciousness, pure awareness of the whole creation.
- At the "Third Eye" is Heaven, a city of light where our higher selves coordinate everything about our lives, from first to last incarnation. Multiple parallel incarnations of one higher self are possible. This is what is called "Christ consciousness", awareness, at this level of existence (from an individual perspective), of the whole of creation.
- At the "Throat" are the halls of Heaven, where newcomers to the higher realms find the higher individuality, and the truth of their souls.
- At the "Heart" are the akashic records : through the infinite branchings of a structure called "the Tree of Life", which reaches into each spark of consciousness, and recovers it's content back up to the heart, this world of timeless, individuality less consciousness is pure Love and the soul and memory of the whole universe. Everything that has been observed, and thus become physical.
- At the "Plexus" is the mental, or concrete intellect world, the rainbow world, where subconscious impulses take form. This is where the illusion of fear is created, and this is where all subconscious thoughts start forming.
- Next comes the "Sacral", the astral world, or concrete spirit, the world of dreams governed by spirit, but receiving new forms from the lower world.
- The physical "Root" of the universe.
Consciousness is always sent from the top, crown source, down to us in form of Life energy (of which Kundalini Fire is a booster), which we use to materialize our reality, and observe it, returning the result of our observation through the akashic system and Tree of Life. The mind creates illusions, that further diversify the structure of the universe, "Unique in diversity", and result in all that we live and we are, however, these illusions are a problem to our higher selves, whose action is thus limited.
Buddhism, as I said, believes that we all exist on all these levels at once, so when the mind is shut, empty... Consciousness freely flows and we can be all that we are. The higher self is no longer limited by the mind, and can communicate with us clearly. And thus, the leaf now remembering it also is the tree, can tap into other people's perceptions, and perceive remotely, see, hear, feel, smell... over distance and time. This is one of the keys to spiritual ascent : lining up one's realities by emptying the mind, and letting the soul speak.
