Chart No. 1: The Vital Creative Flame

is the physical heart center of life in the body with which we, as doctors, are concerned for the health and physical well-being of patients. The Saints say that the Spiritual Heart Center is in the forehead, and that is where we concentrate our attention with love and devotion for the attainment of God-Realization, under the guidance of a Spiritual Teacher.

Every cell of the body must be supplied with the life blood from the central pump in order to live and breathe in rhythm with the whole unit, through the balance of vitality. Distribution of this life breath energy depends on a continuous circuit of flow or a constant supply of vitality to the tissues. This is called HEALTH, VITALITY BALANCE or WELL-BEING.

The down-going energy of the flame is the consciousness, reaching into matter through expression. The upward flame denotes its return circuit of sensory experience and consciousness. The mind is the agent of the soul, as stepped-down energy, to operate in matter (as well as up to the lower regions of the Spiritual Realm which is its Source) and deal with opposites and variety through resistance. This is recorded as pleasure and pain in the consciousness of that being.

Mind is the energy current, emanating from the Causal or Pattern World of designs, patterns and blueprints of geometric proportions of things. Experience is gained through contacts with the actual forms of matter in all its variety. Conscious mind energy pervades the entire being to express the life of the soul, outwardly, through impulses called thoughts and ideas. Conscious mind is the positive pole of this energy which is situated in the center between the two eyes.

The negative pole of the mind is the field of emotions and unconscious impulses, which perform the unconscious functions of the body and repair the cell structure at night, during sleep, the neutral field of rest. The unconscious mind is located in the four oval fields below the eyes. Through the center of each flows one river of Energy, called a 'chakra' or whirling disk of vitality.

This unconscious mind substance contains all the memories of previous actions and experiences, even in other forms of life. This does not make it divine nor eternal, any more than our earth is. Memories form the basis for all subconscious impulses and fears as well as all psychic and psychological experiences and limitations. The subconscious mind is the storehouse and tape recording, so to speak, of all previous thoughts, words and deeds together with their subsequent actions and reactions. The impressions have their effect on the positive pole and its thinking