This article  was supposed to be about healing our body through  healing our soul. The article was  also to include  how the body can help us in our journey to enlightenment,  if we learn to understand how it is always trying to communicate with us.   Then I realized I should really tell you why I believe so completely that the body can be healed through healing our soul. 

So, here it is . . .   I’ll post the “other” article on the body and its’ wisdom  in a day or two.   

Some years ago I was in constant physical discomfort and pain.  Now I’m not.  It’s been a miracle; I now have a new life.

To  be truthful, I didn’t emerge from a pain-filled life by listening to my doctors.  While they were sympathetic and supportive, their attitude towards my condition ( I had a spine operation from which I never fully recovered and later developed osteo-arthritis and a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis) was one of resignation. The problem was,  I just couldn’t see myself as some kind of disabled person, and I wanted to live a full and enjoyable life. I knew I  had to do something.

By this time,  I had  been on the spiritual path for many,  many years,   and quite frankly, I was dismayed and irritated that I seemed to be getting less mobile and less healthy as time went on,  especially since my main choice of  spiritual study is “A Course in Miracles”  and has been for twenty years!

Philosophically, I accept the view that all form is frozen thought, frozen energy, and that our body is our soul, frozen and unconscious. I also believe we  can do much to heal our body by doing  soul-work.  In other words, if we concentrate on healing our soul wounds and dis-ease,  we will heal our body. (Incidentally, I also believe that we can heal our soul through the body,  ie. by taking a body-centered approach to well-being, health, and personal and spiritual growth; but I’ll be writing about this in my next article. )  

 Anyway, let me explain how I knew that  it was possible to heal my body,  even though my own doctors believed my health would just continue to degenerate.  

Years ago, my kundalini  energy  began  spontaneously to rise up my spine. I wasn’t doing anything to make it happen,  not consciously, at least. In fact, at the time, I found the experience unnerving and wished desperately that it would stop.  Eventually, after a few months, I reached the state of enlightenment in which the Unus Mundi, or One World, is experienced.

This  state of being is actually the goal of Individuation,  which Carl G. Jung and his followers  have written about. * To experience the Unus Mundi, or One World, is to experience yourself as being united, or at-one,  with all of Creation. Everyone is clearly recognised as another self,  even though these other selves appear as if they are seperate from you because they are inhabiting a different body.  Confusing, I know!

Also, being in this enlightened state, means that the world becomes a manifestation or expression of your thoughts and desires.  Simply put, you have a thought or a desire, and this is expressed, produced -  or provided,  if you like - a little later, usually quite quickly. It sounds like Heaven, doesn’t it? Actually, it is. It also sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Actually, it was a lot better than I can write it. 

More pertinent to today’s topic, however, is that when in this state of being,  my body felt  absolutely wonderful. In truth, words fail to express how comfortable I felt in my own skin. I was ”whole” and complete in every sense of the word.   Re-translate bodily comfort to include the sensation of  “heavenly comfort”  and you are approaching the truth of it. The point I want to make,  however,  is that at that stage in my life,  I was not fully fit and well.

I had barely recovered from a spine operation and I was very susceptible and vulnerable to slipped discs.  Yet once the kundalini reached  my face area, the third eye,  I started to taste “nectar, ” smell an incredible sweetness in the air ( the aroma of the Holy Spirit, according to ancient alchemical texts) and experience my physical state as being one of  ”absolute heavenly comfort, lightness and well-being.”  The title from the film, “The Unbearable Lightness of  Being,” with Daniel Day Lewis,  comes to mind when I think of that episode in my life.

Being so completely filled with spirit eradicated all aches and pains. I still had the condition or illness, I suppose, but I didn’t have any of the symptoms. Unfortunately, this state of being “whole” and complete, only lasted about three weeks. The kundalini suddenly and abruptly fell and I  returned to earth with a bump.

One of the things I learned from that experience,  was that, as far as the body was concerned, flesh, blood and bones, were no match for the higher spiritual forces and energies, however you want to name them, be it the Holy Spirit, God, or All That Is. 

From then onwards, I  resolved to find a way to get back to Heaven. It’s a journey, I have discovered, which must include the body. 

I’ll be posting my article on the body, in a  day or two. Bye for now.

*   You can learn more about the Unus Mundi  by “googling”  the phrase Unus  Mundi, although I would recommend Anne Baring’s website on the soul,   and Marie-Louise Von Franz` writings on the Unus Mundi which you can also find on the web.  I confess I find some of the other stuff written on this  topic practically incomprehensible - and I have a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in English Studies and  Modern Literary Studies,  and spent a number of years being a university lecturer! ( I could,  of course,  still be incredibly stupid, you understand, which would account for it.)

Let me also take the opportunity to tell you  that I intend to include in my blog more articles describing my own personal spiritual experiences and adventures while  on this amazing journey to awakening and enlightenment.  I think you might find these interesting,  and hopefully, inspiring. I mean, if someone like me can have fabulous spiritual experiences that prove to me beyond doubt that we are much more than we think, it means we are all redeemable. Every one of us.