Depending on the different cultures, religions or currents of thought, there are many definitions for the same word. None is more just than the others. However, I think it is important to clarify what I mean by some key terms.
The Source (God Father / Mother)
It is pure consciousness at the origin of all things, the primordial consciousness preceding all forms or identities and from which we are all born. At this level there is no separation, everything is One.
The Pure Spirit
This is what some call our higher self, it is a fragment of the Source, the essence of what we are in matter. It is this part of us that is outside the illusion of time, separation and duality. It is this pure witness of what we are beyond the veil and by which we are permanently connected to the Source.
The soul
It is the vehicle of the pure spirit. It is through this that he will experience himself as an individualized entity, through the many dimensions and space-time of his creation. This vehicle harvests, from life to life, the vibratory information resulting from the different experiences and identities that it has passed through. The soul is therefore the bearer of a number of gifts or talents developed in other lives or dimensions, but also of memorial impressions resulting from unresolved painful experiences.
The Essence
It is the creative vital force that animates everything. Through it the Source has manifested life in the universe. It animates our bodies and gives us life, as well as the power to create and manifest in the world. It lives in each being and its power is coiled in our sacrum (kundalini), irradiates in our pelvis and then, as we awaken, it rises progressively along our centers (chakras) until its ascent Final where it comes to lodge at the top of the head to unite with the energy of our pur spirit.
The personality
Deeply related to the body (the physical vehicle of the soul), personality is its psychic vehicle. It is composed of different elements dissociated from each other and sometimes even contradictory. It consists essentially of family, clan, social, cultural conditioning, as well as our body of suffering.
The body of suffering
Our body of suffering consists of our past traumas. These experiences leave memorial impressions in us. Anchored in the physical body, it affects the emotional and mental bodies via thought-forms which, at the slightest alert, activate and influence our unconscious reactions.
Thought-forms
Thought forms are crystallizations of emotional and mental energies that inhabit our different bodies.
Sometimes these thoughts have been handed down to us by our parents, but quite often they were created by ourselves at a certain time in our lives (often during childhood or in a past life) as a result of Traumatic experiences. We then subconsciously gave them life to protect us from similar suffering, in some cases to get the love and attention we needed or to adapt to the outside world.
They influence us and push us out of our natural radiance to adopt unconscious subterfuges of protection or manipulation. They act as whisperers who encourage us to react in a certain way in a given situation (often in an unbalanced way). Like magnets, they attract external energies of the same nature both in our energetic field and in our activating experience in people carrying similar thought forms and corresponding emotional reactions.
Small Glossary of Spirit
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