Diseases of the subtle bodies

Parasites of the subtle bodies

The cleaner the body, the fewer parasites it contains (which not only live off its energy but also poison the body with the waste products of their vital activity), the easier a person lives and the better the organism as a whole functions. However, the efforts spent on fighting them must not weaken any of the bodies to such an extent that even worse parasites infest them.

Atmanic Worm

To better understand the situation, let's imagine the fate of a person with a large parasite in their atmanic bodyAtmanic body: The body of mission, highest purpose, divine meaning of life. It is our deep connection to the Source, defining our path and highest ideals.. For example, an atheistic worm that prevents a person from feeling their Divine origin and life mission throughout their life.

It is clear that the machinations of this worm will not be limited to ideals alone. Its emanations will descend to the buddhic bodyBuddhic body: The body of values, principles, moral guidelines. It forms our beliefs about good and evil, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly., where they will take the form of buddhic worm-parasites, eroding values. Furthermore, they will reach the causal bodyCausal body: The body of cause-and-effect relationships, karma, events, and the will to act. It governs our actions, decisions, and life scenarios., manifesting as small worms undermining resolve in specific choices and actions, even those in whose correctness a person seemingly has no doubt.

The fight against these parasites on a horizontal level, that is, in each body separately, can initially be quite successful. But then a person will feel that a saturation phase has set in, meaning an increase in direct efforts leads to no further success. Then, trying to reach the original causes, they will successively ascend from the causal body to the buddhic, and from there to the atmanic, and suddenly see their main parasite — the atheistic worm. Of course, not directly (that would be too strong an experience), but through a system of light filters.

What can be done in this situation? The difficulty lies in the fact that large atmanic structures determine aspects of the main content of human life. Consequently, one such – lifelong – aspect will be the war with the worm, which will finally die only with the person, and with poor karmic processing, it will reincarnate with them next time.

However, it cannot be fought directly, as any atmanic quantum directed immediately at it will be instantly devoured by the worm, licked, and with a sour expression, adding: "Unconvincing," it will open its maw awaiting new food. In reality, such a fate can be considered sacrificial: the person literally "plugs a hole" into the hellish spaces of the atmanic body. But this does not mean that it will be tragic.

Ways to fight: By fighting their worm with indirect methods – gradually learning its habits and tricks, deceiving it here and there, and sometimes even falling into its trap – a person can gradually change their atmanic body as a whole in such a way that it becomes an unsuitable environment for the worm to inhabit. Without disappearing entirely, it will still significantly decrease in size and harmfulness. In doing so, the person comes to know themselves, that is, the specific structure and features of their organism, and learns to master them. Moreover, using their worm as material (or rather, through it as a conduit into lower atmanic spaces), they illuminate the atmanic plane as a whole.

What not to do: However, if a person engages in open combat with the worm, they will at best succeed in cultivating a similar parasite, which will enthusiastically fight the inherent worm, doing it no real harm whatsoever, but raising entire black storms in the atmanic body that ultimately poison and weaken the entire human organism. An example of this is artificially cultivated religious fanaticism as an antidote to complete disbelief. The fate of such a person is one of the heaviest forms of karma.

Buddhic and causal parasites

A completely analogous situation arises in other bodies as well: buddhic and causal parasites also cannot be fought directly, for example, by "sprinkling them with pesticides". As a result, the body's poisoning only increases.

Ways to fight: One must either seek an additional channel into the higher body, from which a new kind of protection and cleansing energy unbearable for parasites will flow, or by other equally indirect methods change the quality of the body as an environment, making it less suitable for their habitation.

This means:

• For buddhic parasites: deep work on one's values, their reevaluation, searching for relevant literature, meditations on higher principles.
• For causal parasites: development of will, self-discipline, conscious choice of actions without haste, taking responsibility for one's actions, working on karmic lessons, correcting mistakes.

Diseases of the causal body

Although inconveniences and obstacles occur to all people without exception, sometimes their number begins to exceed a certain limit. And then one can speak of a distinct disease of the causal body.

Examples of manifestations:

• Chronic lateness: People organically incapable of not being late.
• Forgetfulness and irresponsibility: Those who forget everything in the world, although their irresponsibility primarily harms themselves.
• Constant troubles: Falling into such intricate event tangles from which they barely escape, and for some reason end up being blamed for everything, although they meant no harm.
• Inability to make a decision: Unable to decide on anything, being torn by deep doubts until the very last moment.
• Unnecessary help: Instantly rush to help at the first call, but as a result turn out to be useless or even harmful.
• Chronic dissatisfaction: Always extremely dissatisfied with their affairs and actions and, expecting trouble every second, for some reason do not rejoice at all when their predictions do not come true (position: "If the trouble doesn't happen this morning, then it's certainly unavoidable by evening").
• Preparation without action: Spend all their causal forces preparing for an action they never perform... (this list can undoubtedly be continued)

Causal scratch

A causal scratch is an incorrect or careless action that contradicts buddhic ethics. As a result, the causal body in some place extends beyond the buddhic (tearing the latter) and is soon injured. The person experiences a sharply unpleasant sensation: they feel a pang of conscience or acute shame (distress).

They are forced to expend part of their mental strength (buddhic energy) to regulate first the mental and then the event-related aspect of what happened (to atone for guilt through sincere repentance and some action). If everything is done correctly, only a purely mental memory of the event remains. That is, the corresponding memory is not accompanied by a drop in the level of causal energy – the scratch has healed.

The difficulty lies in the fact that when a body extends beyond a subtler, higher one, the latter tears and suffers, while the former is damaged, losing its protection not immediately. The torn subtle body strives to stretch and encompass the underlying one again, and in doing so often tears in another place. Thus, a mother of a dysfunctional family is "torn" in the causal flow between the kitchen, children, and husband, unable to do anything. She constantly shifts the emphasis of importance from one problem to another at a rhythm unbearable for her buddhic body.

Causal fever

This reveals the development of causal fever, where a person rushes from side to side, undertakes all tasks at once and immediately abandons them, establishes and immediately spoils relationships with people, and puts their long-term plans at risk of failure or frankly sabotages them, effectively nullifying their existing system of values.

Causal ulcer

A causal ulcer arises when a certain area of the causal body constantly extends beyond the buddhic. Then, poorly healing scratches regularly form on it, as the normal healing process requires an increased influx of buddhic energy and the creation of a kind of subtle "coat" from it, within which healing occurs, but in this case, it either doesn't happen or happens poorly. Through the unhealed causal wound, energy seeps into the surrounding world, attracting shameless parasites. The person perfectly feels the pathology of what is happening to them, but usually tries to treat the ulcer like a scratch and fails.

A characteristic sign of an ulcer and chronic leakage of causal energy is a feeling of irritation rising from somewhere within, depriving a person of strength and the will to live. The specific causes or, more precisely, pretexts for this irritation can be very different, but its true cause most often lies in the person's unwillingness to change their system of life values so that the buddhic body completely covers the causal.

The situation depicted in the last image is far more threatening – here, the person is, as they say, "going off the rails." And if the atmanic body is not very strong, this can lead to death, even before the person's mission is completed.

Mental parasite

The test for the absence of a mental parasite in the mental bodyMental body: The body of thought, logic, beliefs, symbolic systems. It is responsible for our thoughts, ideas, analysis, and the ability to learn. is very simple. Free up one day and spend it alone in nature.

• If you fail to do so, it means you have not only a large mental but also a large causal parasite.
 
• If by evening you desperately lack information of any kind: from the stock market rate to the health of a beloved relative, or, conversely, you urgently need to express your overwhelming thoughts to someone, then there is a mental parasite in your body.

The fight against mental parasites is not easy, even when a person recognizes its necessity. Most often, however, it does not even occur to them that numerous troubles at work, in the family, and low vitality may be related to incorrect thinking habits, which is by no means synonymous with "stupidity" or narrow-mindedness. The negative effect of a mental parasite manifests, of course, in the part of the mental body where it is located. There, a person's criticality is lowered, and the causal and astral bodies usually suffer, but this is sometimes not the main thing. The main point is that the parasite sharply lowers the overall energy level of the body, as a result of which its balance with others and the equilibrium of the organism as a whole are distorted. For example, a person begins to move worse, their ethics are disturbed, and their mood constantly deteriorates for unexplained reasons. For thinking is by no means limited to the process we recognize as such, and serves such needs of the entire organism about which modern science has no idea.

How to fight mental parasites? It is best not to let them appear in the first place. To do this, it is necessary to regularly cleanse the mental body, resolve contradictions, and expand symbolic systems when they become too narrow and primitive for solving current problems. The causal flow always contains hints as to which qualitatively new symbol should be included in the mental scheme, and which scheme is hopelessly outdated and should be discarded entirely.

However, if a mental parasite, say, a very stable and clearly unsustainable thinking habit, already exists, then the best way to start fighting it is by carefully tracking it, that is, outlining for oneself the range of situations in which it activates. If it turns out that a causal parasite generating it is located precisely above the mental parasite, then the fight should be waged against the latter or against both simultaneously, otherwise it is hopeless.