Chapter 7: The Living Flesh
Personal Reality, Session 630
Often individuals
go overboard, forgetting that ideas have their own vitality. Such people make divisions where basically
there are none. They consider ideas as
completely mental properties, separate from their concept of the body. They think ideas reside in their heads. Who, for example, imagines that an idea is
alive in his elbow, or knee, or toe?
Generally, people
believe that ideas have little to do with the living flesh. The flesh seems physical and ideas do
not. Those given to love of the
intellect often make an unnecessary separation between the world of concepts
and that of the flesh.
While it is true
that the body is the living materialization of idea, it is also true that these
ideas form an active, responsive alive body.
The body is not just a tool to be used. It is not just a vehicle for the spirit. It is the spirit in flesh. You impose your ideas upon it and largely
affect its health and well-being through your conscious beliefs. But the body is composed of living, responding
atoms and molecules. These have their
own consciousness alive in matter, their drive to exist and be within the
framework of their own nature. They
compose the cells, and these combine to form the organs. The organs possess the combined
consciousnesses of each of the cells within them, and in their way the organs sense
their own identity.
They have a
purpose – that function they provide within the organism as a whole. The cooperation of consciousness continues so
that you have a body consciousness that is vital, that strives to maintain its
own equilibrium and health.
The stuff of the
body should not be considered as some metaphysical result, then, but as
a living gestalt of responsive flesh. Your
body is composed of other living entities, in other words. Though you organize this living material it
has its own right to fulfillment and existence.
You are not a soul encased in inert clay.
The “house of
clay” does not immediately deteriorate when you leave it. It disintegrates at its own rate. It is no longer organized by your own domain. The life of its atoms and molecules and cells
is translated into other living forms.
Your perception is merely that which you are aware of. Even the atoms and molecules have their own
fine vision and appreciate their environment in their own way. The same power that moves your mind forms
your body.
There is no
difference between the energy that shapes your ideas and the energy that grows
a flower, or that heals your finger if you burn it. The soul does not exist apart from
nature. It is not thrust into
nature. Nature is the soul in flesh, in
whatever its materializations. The flesh
is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh. In your terms the body is the living
soul. Now the soul can live, and does,
in many forms – some physical and some not, but while you are material, the
body is the living soul. The body
constantly heals itself, which means that the soul in the flesh heals
itself. The body is often closer
to the soul than the mind is because it automatically grows as a flower does,
trusting its nature.
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