Theos-Talk Archives (March 1995 Message tl00402)

Alan: < I think I would be inclined to delete "telepathically"
from the above, and just say that we are all connected - maybe
whether we like it or not.  The general theosophical concept of
Karma would require this, don't you think?>

I agree. Yes.

Alan: <Interesting that you seem to see this as a physical or
semi-physical process. >

Actually, I see the aura as nonphysical.  I don't especially
agree with the theosophical idea that astral matter is simply
less dense physical matter, and so on.  The difference is more
than just density (maybe vibrations?).  The occult aura or Body
of Light is essentially identical to Jung's psyche with its
highest reaches merging into Mystery. According to Jung, the
psyche functions in a "psychic space-time continuum" which is
different from our physical spacetime continuum (for one thing,
it is acausal and reaches all the way to timelessness and
spacelessness).

Alan: < What, in the above scenario, is the selecting or
filter-operating mechanism?  I suspect that we receive the lot,
and that the only filtering may be within ourselves [wherever
that is] in order to be able to handle it.  Must be a mighty
powerful filter, though.>

G de Purucker says, "Thoughts are energies, imbodied energies,
elemental energies.  They do not originate in a man's mind.
These elemental entities pass through the sensitive
transmitting-apparatus which our mind is, and each one if us
colors the thoughts as they pass through our minds, thus giving
a new direction, a new karmic impulse to them.  No thought was
ever created in a human brain.  The inspirations of genius, the
loftiest productions of the human spirit, simply come to us
through lofty and great minds, capacious channels which could
transmit so sublime a flow."  (The Esoteric Tradition p 653).

He then goes on to say "On the cosmic-scale, the mystical
picture-gallery of eternity is the Astral Light; and there is a
part of our constitution - in fact ninety-nine percent of the
totality of our constitution - which in modern Esoteric
Theosophy is called the Auric Egg - an esoteric term which
cannot be further elaborated - which like every other portion
of the human constitution is a perfect picture-gallery, and of
an amazing kind." (same page)

This view of an inner picture-gallery is very close to Jung's
collective unconscious which contains the archetypes.  The
archetypes communicate with us via pictures (what Jung calls
images which are then interpreted as symbols).  This is where
dreams come from.

Your question is, essentially, what is "the sensitive
transmitting-apparatus" in our auric egg?  Dora Kuntz suggests
that it is somehow connected with resonance (see The Personal
Aura, p 29-30).  It would seem that although our aura is
bombarded by continuous thoughts, we automatically will focus
in on only those that we naturally resonate with.  This is
doubtless one reason for ethics and morals - in order to be
able to resonate with (i.e., channel in) higher thoughts.

Kuntz says that "just as we have a physical immune system which
helps the body resist invasion, so we have a rejection
mechanism at the emotional level which throws off undesirable
or negative feelings.  This rejection mechanism is a feature
common to all of us, and therefore it can be thought of as an
organic part of the aura's anatomy." (p 43).  She sees this
mechanism in terms of "valves" along the surface of the aura
that serve as conduits with the environment (it was this
feature that especially intrigued me with her book, because it
very clearly suggests that the aura is an open system, which I
have long believed).

What Kuntz "sees" in the aura for filtering emotions. I believe
has its counterpart for thoughts.

        Jerry S.