The Psychosomatic Relationship of Man with the Universe (The Microcosm and the Macrocosm)
experience in multiplicity and outward expenditure of energy. Mind is the negative pole of the soul, its source. All things are suspended from a universal Source or Center, and travel in that orbit, like the planets around our sun, the electrons around the neutron, etc. It is one grand story, in endless variety.
The unit has a relationship of energies within itself, like the mind and the senses. If the outgoing current of mind energy is frustrated too often in one of its senses, it wishes to shut off that hurt or leak and seeks subterfuge or other devious ways to satisfy that craving or desire. In psychology, this is well recognized as an escape mechanism and wishful thinking, not based on facts or direct experiences with matter. A clear understanding of these processes of the mind usually unties the self-imposed lock of mental energies that cause the perversion. Again, this is why it is so important to really understand the WHOLE PATH OF THE SOUL, its involution and its evolution out of the bonds of matter and suffering.
Our energies are constantly going outward, seeking in things the thrills and satisfaction which are not there. It is but a mirage. Only the very highest Universal Source really has what we seek and crave. So, after maturity of years, after aeons of wanderings and sufferings, the soul finally is convinced of this fact and, like the 'Prodigal Son', remembers his Father's house and all its abundance. He then rises up within himself, turns his energy and longings of the soul inwards and comes back Home to his Universal Source, his Father.[1] The 'house' referred to is that particular universal plane for each soul. "In my Father's house are many mansions", said Jesus.[2]
Most of our psychology and psychiatry is derived from the Greeks, who understood the travel of the soul and mind, the various patterns and fields of expressions and perversions of searching externally in order to find satisfactions. The story of Psyche and her Pandora Box[3][4]; the many myths and stories of the gods, as internal powers of energies and their universal supply and reactions; the story of Narcissus, self-seeking; the Oedipus complex, and many others which explain the cross currents of energies in the mind and its external travel of experiences.
Our modern psychiatrists are using all these stories for want of better ones; for nowhere have we a complete picture of the travel of the soul. We know the path of the planets outside much better than we know the orbit of our own soul, mind, or senses in their functions. That is too close to home, so we go on seeking and suffering in strange lands and fields of energy, ever outward, expending our precious heritage, as all prodigals do.
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1 Luke 15:11-32
2 John 14:2
3 According to the Roman legend, Psyche was ordered by Venus (Aphrodite) to go to the Underworld and ask for a box of beauty from Proserpina (Persephone). However, Psyche decided to open the box and take some of the beauty for herself. Instead of beauty, a deep sleep rose from the box and she succumbed. Cupid (Eros) later freed her from the curse.
4 Pandora is a Greek legend about the first woman, Pandora, being sent to man with a jar (commonly mistranslated as "box"). When she opened the jar, plagues and illnesses were released on the world. Only Hope remained to comfort the human race.
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