Franco Santoro's Blog: Astroshamanism, page 18

The 5 Bodies

If you want to find balance and wholeness in life you need to be aware of the multidimensionality of your being.

In particular you need to acknowledge your five bodies. These are the bodies you regularly employ, either consciously or unconsciously, which you need to heal, develop and integrate at their best.

The traditional bodies are actually four:

1) spiritual body
2) mental body
3) emotional body
4) physical body

To these bodies it is now necessary to add the

5) cybernetic body

What is the cybernetic body?

That’s exactly what you’re using right now.

Have a nice day!

True Self

Sometimes the most frustrated people are those in search of their “True Self”. This is because in order to find it they have to go deep. Then once they find after a while they realize this is not actually the “True Self” and that you have to go much deeper. Then the years go by and as they keep going deep they end up with nothing. The last option is that the “True Self” may be Nothingness, but even that does not seem to work.

The point is that from a multidimensional perspective, there are no false or true selves, there are simply multiple selves. Each of them is a part of us, whether we like it or not. So it is not a question of reaching a state where the True Self remains, while all the others are tossed away because they are fake. Multidimensionality means being all possible selves without identifying oneself with any of them, allowing each of them to co-exist. In this way we learn to see every aspect of existence as part of the whole … maybe.


 

 

Inclusive Love

There are no limits to the people you can love. Your heart has no limits.
From a multidimensional perspective you are simultaneously in love with so many people!
Of course, you can have moral and spiritual values ​​about your intimate relationships, and being loyal to one person at a physical level can be a powerful expression of love.
On the physical level, do what you feel is appropriate, respecting your values ​​and those of the people you relate with, but do not allow your heart to close at other levels.
Our separate identity thrives on the conflicts created in your heart. It is based on love scarcity and competition. If somebody loves more than one person, then there is a problem, there is not enough love available. Hence the top achievement in this delusional world is to have exclusive love. The point is that true love is inclusive, unlimited, unconditional.
Whether you are monogamous, polygamous, single or in a state of chastity, what matters is that you keep your heart open.
Never allow the love you have for someone to sacrifice the love you feel for others. There may be good reasons to be faithful to one person in the intimacy of physical love. But if you impose yourself, or are forced, to give up the emotional, mental and spiritual love you feel for others, this is the most cruel thing you can do to yourself and others, including to your exclusive partner.
You are here to open your heart, to expand, to learn to love more and more people, to understand that everything around you is part of you. Ultimately the more you love others, the more you love yourself, including your exclusive partner, if you have one.

Ignorance

Have you ever noticed it?

You receive a vision or have a most revealing experience and all of a sudden everything is clear, every doubt and problem disappears from your life. Hence the world of fear and misery you were before no longer exists, or rather, it still exists, yet you are unaffected, it is no longer the only possible world.
Then, after a while, everything returns as before, and you find yourself trapped again in a separate reality.
Why does it happen?
Simply because this is a reality based on deception, illusion and denial of other realities. In this world ignorance about our multidimensional nature is accepted as normality, so we do not see others and ourselves for what we really are. We identify with separate physical bodies, incessantly worried about their own survival, in struggle with others or in search of temporary alliances with others so as to compete with others.
Those who are totally immersed in this separate reality live in ignorance and illusion, do not know who they really are, nor have any interest in finding it out. Moreover, they oppose anyone who does not behave as they do.
And what about you?
If you have had at least one revealing experience about your authentic nature and who you really are, then this is a great gift. Yet it is not enough, you need to nurture and expand it, allowing yourself and others to have other similar experiences.
Here you also need to accept that this separate reality will do everything to keep you in illusion and ignorance. And in this regard, above all, it is necessary that you learn one thing.
You are not here to change this reality! You are here to wake up from the illusion that this is the only reality, you are here to recover the freedom to be able to be wherever you want and at any time.
If this is a reality founded on separation and ignorance, persisting in wanting to bring unity and wisdom at all costs in this reality, will only support further separation and ignorance.
Let this reality be what it is. Let those who have chosen to live in ignorance continue to do so. Don’t struggle with them. Instead, look for kindred spirits, those like you who are waking up, looking for places and experiences which can support your awakening.

Risk of being naked

If you show yourself as you are, if you are transparent and naked, if you cease to hide behind roles and false appearances, you run a great risk: many important people in your lifew could reject and leave you.

However, if you do not show yourself as you are, if you are not transparent and naked, if you keep pretending to be someone else, so as to please those who don’t like you as you are, there is an even greater risk: those who would accept and love you as you are,  transparent and naked, could never meet you.

Ask and it will be given to you

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you…” (Luke 11:9)

though, it may not necessarily be given by the one you have asked, or found where you have sought, and the door that will open may not be the one you have knocked.

Laetus in praesens

“Laetus in praesens” (joy in the present)

Stop for a few minutes and open to the joy of doing something pleasant, or if this is not possible simply imagine something that gives you joy, regardless of what happens outside in your world.

Stop for a moment from your incessant activities, obligations, duties, ambitions.

Acknowledge something you like, without thinking about what will happen in the future, but simply enjoying the pleasure of its presence in the here and now.

Joy in the present is a portal that allows you to know who you are and who we are, rather than what you try to become or achieve so as to enjoy it in the future.

“Laetus in praesens” (joy in the present)

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), an Italian scholar, tutor of Lorenzo de’ Medici, used this motto in his correspondence. He insisted on the vital necessity of the soul to regularly stop from being absorbed into the activities and concerns of the world in order to to dwell in the calm and healing power of the present moment.

Joy in the present includes both the pleasure derived from yoiur happy circumstances of life as well as the pleasure received from your imagination, your memories of past pleasures, even when the present circumstances are unpleasant.

Joy in the present is therefore an act of power in which what matters most is your ability to acknowledge and value the source of pleasure and make it available in any moment.

You can satisfy all your desires

With humility, although what follows may seem a contradiction, I can guarantee that I can provide the key for satisfying all your desires.
On one condition however: that you are willing to satisfy these desires, to dedicate some time to them.
I guarantee you that, given this condition, you will satisfy your every desire, not because I have special powers, but because I am aware that if you have a desire, and accept it fully, this desire is real somewhere.
I assure you that you are already having total satisfaction of that desire in a forgotten place of your existence.
A part of you, which is perhaps the very opposite of the part you think you are, can make anything you want happen.
I am sure that what you want to happen in your life is much more real than what seems to be happening in your life.
What you want to happen in your life is already taking place in a world that will continue to exist when the world you believe to be real will be gone or forgotten forever.
Don’t get me wrong now, I’m not making a mystical statement. My point is definitely pragmatic.
When you recognize that world in which what you desire already happens, the satisfaction you feel pours into the ordinary world and makes wonderful things happen there, including many of your desires and often all of them.
The benefit is mutual. But first of all you have to find that world where your desires are already satisfied. That world is the most important of all possible worlds. Finding it is very simple, it takes only a few minutes of your attention, then it comes to frequenting it regularly and even this doesn’t take you so long.
With humility, although the above may seem a contradiction, I guarantee you that I can give you the key to satisfy all your desires.
On one condition however: that you are willing to satisfy these desires, to devote some time, to do enough.
After all, the verb “satisfy” means “doing enough” (from the Latin satisfacĕre, comp. of satis “enough” and facĕre “to do”)

Inevitable soul loss

When we have a traumatic experience from a shamanic perspective parts of our soul separate in order to survive and escape from the painful consequences of what has occurred. The point is that traumatic experiences are not exceptional events. They are the norm and take place right from the start of our human journey. Birth itself is a most traumatic experience and so are all the various stages of childhood and adolescence, as well as further common critical events in life.

As a matter of fact physical life per se is soul loss. We identify ourselves with separate physical bodies, bound to get ill and die, losing contact with our true self, unified and whole. Our soul is exiled, frozen, lost, no matter whether we have ouvert traumatic experiences or not. Soul loss in this world may be inevitable. This may appear rather depressing. Yet at the same time physical life can become a most adventurous and luminous experience of retrieval, the gestation process and final delivery of our most blissful and authentic self.

Love & Hate

Perhaps there is nothing more horrible than loving someone and then hating them. If you feel love for someone and then you end up hating them, what sort of infamous love is that? What assurances are there about the love you now feel towards someone with whom all is well at the moment? The same person you now love will most likely become the person you hate in the future.

Stop being resentlful towards people you loved, stop accusing them of this and that. By continuing to do so you will only show that your love has been false and that it cannot help but continue to be so in the future.

Yet even more horrible is to pretend to love someone that you hate, just to make a good impression, and show that you are evolved. In this case it is much more honourable to hate.