Diseases of the Subtle Bodies

Mental Parasite

Let's take the example of a person whose rhythm of life is such that they are constantly late everywhere, can't get anything done, break their promises, and can't stop. Here, a causal parasite is evident. Such a person develops a complex of guilt towards the world in general and obsessive thoughts that they owe everyone everything. As a mental compensation mechanism, a continuous stream of mental self-justification appears — deceitful and therefore never-ending. This causal parasite generates a mental one, which is why fighting the latter on its own is hopeless. First, it's necessary to reallocate Buddhic values. After that, it will become possible to weaken the rhythm of events. The person will be able to fulfill all their promises on time and pay their bills. Then the urgent need for constant helpless external and internal self-justifications will disappear.

However, there are many reasons why a person hesitates to expand their thinking (to break the vicious circle, to abolish the self-imposed rigid limitations, and to introduce qualitatively new concepts into their symbolic system). Among them:

• fear of going against the prohibitions of public consciousness and subconsciousness;
• elementary laziness;
• unwillingness to violate established thought patterns and the structure of the mental body.

In the absence of due attention to any area of one's life events, the mental bodyMental body: The body of thought, logic, beliefs, and symbolic systems. It is responsible for our thoughts, ideas, analysis, and the ability to learn. tears in the corresponding place, and the astral body begins to act in its role. This situation is well-known in family life, when the lack of reasonable arguments is compensated by the fervor of emotions.

Besides inadequate perception and processing of information coming from 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., the reasons for the contamination of the mental body and the emergence of mental parasites can be the following:

• The habit of "calculating" others, reducing them to a particular case of a primitive mental scheme. This also includes planning the future based on one's mental ideas of how it "should" and "reasonably" be.
• A too primitive thinking system that a person habitually uses, not noticing its obvious inadequacy. As a result, the same circle of observations and reasoning repeats again and again, failing to satisfy the person, and sometimes driving them directly to mental despair.
• Bad thinking habits involving extraneous topics and uncreative, stereotypical meditations, which open a direct path to the lower layers of the mental plane and lead to a strong energetic imbalance in the mental body.

Holes in the Astral Body

Violence against thought has become the norm of modern civilization. People are told to think in certain ways, using specific concepts, and they unquestioningly submit to the global, unyielding mentality of the era. As for the astral bodyAstral body: The body of emotions, desires, and feelings. It is responsible for our experiences, passions, moods, and the capacity for empathy., the situation here is much more difficult. Civilization teaches it to suppress, but not to purify, change, or transform in accordance with the best examples. The necessary work with the astral body is carried out by imposing rigid restrictions, presented from purely mental positions. For example: "You must love your mother, father, brothers, sisters, and homeland, desire your wife (husband) and not dare to desire any children or other people's wives (husbands), and then live as you please." However, the mental-astral body is a very weak surrogate of the astral. Moreover, it influences it only indirectly, since a direct prohibition does not lead to the eradication of an emotion, but to its repression into the subconscious.

A permanent hole in the astral bodyAstral body: The body of emotions, desires, and feelings. It is responsible for our experiences, passions, moods, and the capacity for empathy. is accompanied by an outflow of energy through it and a feeling of acute lack, for example: "I catastrophically lack love (female, male, child, state)." However, in those rare cases when the designated love appears, the person is usually not satisfied with it for one reason or another, even if they received it by the gallons. Sometimes the whole appearance of a person speaks more eloquently than any words: "I am so unhappy! Comfort me!" But they fiercely resist any attempts to find out what is wrong and how to help them. "It's nothing! They're just upset, that's all." And they don't need mental inquiries or clarifications, nor causal support. What is required of you is the emotional energy of illogical comfort, warmth, affection, similar to what a one-year-old child receives.

One should distinguish between uncultured and diseased astral bodies. Primitiveness, inflexibility, straightforwardness, and coarseness of emotional reactions do not yet mean disease of the astral body. Although, of course, such a body suffers more from minor injuries: a person is easily offended, and they will have to expend a lot of effort to restore their emotional balance.

In areas of the astral body extending beyond the mental, chaotic and uncontrollable emotions arise, causing feelings of disgust in others and a desire to somehow calm and "comb" the person. They become extremely vulnerable, easily wounded, and attract astral parasites, which feed on other people's emotional energy and strive to penetrate directly into the astral body. However, these parasites are partly controllable by the person and can be directed by them towards others, but such manipulations bring far less joy to the person themselves than might appear from the outside.

However, it is quite difficult for a person to understand that the cause of their troubles is their own astral carelessness. After all, the mental body is torn here, and therefore it is very difficult to comprehend the cause of one's own unpleasant feelings: thoughts get confused, the head refuses to work or produces obviously meaningless messages. It is said that when God wants to punish a person, He deprives them of their reason. And here precisely such a case arises. For with a torn mental body, a person is also unable to comprehend the events leading to emotional frustration.

The disease of the astral body can have a variety of causes, but most often they are related to the violation of the rules of its interaction with the mental: going beyond its boundaries and reacting poorly to its transmissions.

A large, developed, energetic astral body with a small and weak mental one – what is called the emotional type – is a characteristic "female" feature of the organism. Such a person lives predominantly by feelings, caring little about their own and others' thoughts and considerations of any kind. They feel themselves when they feel, and comprehension and reflection are boring and essentially ephemeral for them, like air for a fish. However, despite this ephemerality, the mental body supplies the astral with the germs of future feelings and ways of developing emotional meditations, which our hero may not suspect. As a result of such an attitude towards the mental bodyMental body: The body of thought, logic, beliefs, and symbolic systems. It is responsible for our thoughts, ideas, analysis, and the ability to learn., a person ceases to feel where it covers the astral and one can "experience" in relative safety, and where it does not, and it would be better to reduce one's feelings and try to comprehend the changed situation.

Etheric Parasites

The most malignant obesity occurs when parasites infest the etheric bodyEtheric body: The body of life force, energy, and sensations. It is the energetic double of the physical body, responsible for its tonus, health, and basic physiological processes.. For effective combat, their origin and nature, which can vary greatly, must be understood.

One of the reasons for the appearance of etheric parasites is the habit of gluttony, when a person eats not out of the natural needs of the etheric body, experienced as hunger (appetite is merely a sign of etheric arousal, but by no means a sufficient reason for food intake), but, as they say, "for pleasure."

Another, perhaps one of the most common and difficult to diagnose causes of etheric parasites is the systematic poisoning of the etheric body with the residues of aborted emotional meditations. Fear of one's own experiences, unwillingness, and inability to organize and bring one's feelings to a definite conclusion leads to the unresolved emotional conflict descending onto the etheric body, bringing it into a very severe state. Unable to bear the load, it begins to thrash: the person's tonus decreases, and etheric parasites appear.

The feeling of hunger means a direct demand from the etheric body to the physical: "Give energy," or simply "I want to eat." In this situation, the subtlety of choice diminishes; the person is no longer picky. If a person fasts for several days, the feeling of hunger often weakens or even disappears completely. At the same time, the etheric body partially reconfigures to feed on the energy of decaying fats in the physical body, and moreover, establishes a much more intense exchange with the environment and the astral body.

The mood deteriorates, as the astral bodyAstral body: The body of emotions, desires, and feelings. It is responsible for our experiences, passions, moods, and the capacity for empathy. begins to starve. Then thoughts slow down and events stall, meaning the energy of the mental and then the causal bodies decreases. Life positions based on concrete life experience are weakened and questioned – this is the weakening of causal support for the Buddhic body. And faith in ideals, nurtured by life attitudes and values, wavers – the nourishment of the Atmanic body by the Buddhic decreases.

Only the descending energy flow remains and sharply intensifies, flowing from the egregore to the 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., from it to the Buddhic bodyBuddhic body: The body of values, principles, and moral guidelines. It forms our beliefs about good and evil, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly. and so on to the physical, which, in this way, after several days of fasting, is nourished almost exclusively by the "holy spirit." At the same time, all bodies switch to a subtle mode of nourishment (i.e., by the energies of the higher bodies), but the intensified descending energy flow thoroughly cleanses them and expands the corresponding communication channels so that the person can perceive and feel them, which will be very useful after breaking the fast. And during the cessation of the ascending energy flow, they are given the opportunity to understand:

• what their faith in ideals is in its pure form, that is, how they come directly from the egregore;
• what their life positions are in the light of their ideals;
• how their actions look from the perspective of their attitudes;
• how well their mental picture of the world corresponds to the events happening to and around them;
• how their feelings control their thoughts;
• how vital tone depends on the emotional background;
• and finally, how the physical body depends on its own energetic potential.

It should be noted that every high egregore occasionally disconnects from a person, arranging something like a fasting on the Atmanic body. Then the person either connects to another, or endures the absence of the descending energy flow and has the opportunity to assess how each body fares when the nourishment from the preceding subtle body weakens, and this is no longer fasting, but a catastrophe:

• Weakness of the etheric bodyEtheric body: The body of life force, energy, and sensations. It is the energetic double of the physical body, responsible for its tonus, health, and basic physiological processes. causes, for example, uncontrolled growth of physical cells (cancerous tumors).
• Weakness of the flow from the astral bodyAstral body: The body of emotions, desires, and feelings. It is responsible for our experiences, passions, moods, and the capacity for empathy. into the etheric body causes severe energetic depressions (the person is literally unable to move a hand or a foot).
• Poor nourishment of the astral body by the mental bodyMental body: The body of thought, logic, beliefs, and symbolic systems. It is responsible for our thoughts, ideas, analysis, and the ability to learn. causes emotional frustrations of the meaninglessness of existence.
• A blocked channel from 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. to the mental body causes a feeling of terrible boredom and dullness of life.
• Insufficient flow from the Buddhic bodyBuddhic body: The body of values, principles, and moral guidelines. It forms our beliefs about good and evil, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly. into the causal body leads to a life without interesting events (the nightmare of modern civilization).
• Insufficient involtation of the Buddhic body by the Atmanic makes a person lose their footing (their life positions and attitudes waver, becoming flimsy and unconvincing to themselves).
• And finally, the loss of connection of the 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. with a high egregore is the loss of the meaning of life, its quintessence and deepest fulfillment, i.e., the mission assigned to the person, and only to them.