CHAPTER 1

The Spiritual Man

That man has a body is never in question; our five physical senses give us constanttestimony concerning the bodies of those around us as well as our own. We usually dealwith other people in our daily lives as though we were dealing with their clothed bodies.We make an assessment of new acquaintances, customers, clients, and strangers basedupon the way we view a body with our senses; the manner in which we perceive how theydress and care for their bodies is the basis for our "first impression."

The non-corporal part of man, that which is of man, but is not the body of man, is what isalways in question. It is in dealing with this part of the species that religions are founded,spiritual practices engaged in, and scientific doubt expressed. The reason is simple: thesame physical senses which give continuous testimony to the physical part of the humanbeing give no evidence whatsoever of the non-physical part of the human being. Science,being based on the measurable, that is to say those things which are sensed by thephysical senses, must deny the existence of that which cannot be measured if it is tomaintain its integrity.

For our purposes we can divide the incarnate human being into these two parts, thesensory proved physical part, and the non-sensory provable spiritual part. The physicalpart is the province of the physical practitioner, the physician, surgeon, biologist, and soforth. His scientific training has qualified him to deal with those parts of the human beingwhich can be measured and classified using the realm of the senses. The spiritual part isthe province of the spiritual practitioner, the priest, witch, shaman, and so forth. His nonscientifictraining has qualified him to deal with those parts of the human being which canbe explored through a measurement and classification system using the non-sensuousrealms of being.

The two realms of being only come together when the practitioner of one admitspuzzlement over something which seems to go out of his area of competence into theother. Yet in every human being these two realms are blended together in such a way thatthey work hand in hand to enable individuals to go through life in the way they do. Peopleuse both parts of their nature (physical and spiritual) in harmony in every action on thisearth!

It may be said that every living thing on the earth has its own quality. This quality is the"feeling" which is often referred to as a "vibration," or an emanation, by those who aresensitive to the qualities of different things and people. The "vibration" or quality is not aphysical thing, in that it cannot be measured with the human physical senses nor throughthe extensions of the human physical senses that are the instruments of scientificmethodology. Yet the sensitive human being who has been trained to do so can usedeveloped "spiritual senses" to identify the quality or "vibrations" of different people, placesor things.

It has often been said that everything on this earth is surrounded by a spiritual energyfield, but this is not to be confused with the field of magnetic flux which surrounds amagnet. The spiritual energy field, like the quality or vibration of people, places and things,is not detectable through the physical senses. Once we can make a distinction betweenthe physical and the spiritual parts of the human constitution, it becomes easy tounderstand just how spiritual cleansing works.

If we can agree that every living thing carries within it its own vibration, and that thevibration results from the field of invisible energy which surrounds it, we can understandhow we can use the energy of one part of the created universe to work with the humanenergy field and remove unwanted detritus from it. In a way, it is just like using acombination of fat and lye (that we call soap) to scrub the human physical body to removedirt. In both cases one part of the created universe is used to remove unwanted materialfrom the body, physical or spiritual, of an incarnate human being.

Every inanimate object—every home, building, piece of furniture, and article of clothing—carriestraces of the "energy" of the animate beings to which it has been exposed. The"energies" of those who made the object, who sold it, and those who previously owned itare impregnated into the spiritual fabric (spiritual body) of everything that exists. Thespiritual body of the incarnate human being interacts with the spiritual energy field of itssurroundings, both in terms of people and places. A physical analogy takes place inhypnosis, for an individual can recall subtle points of his surroundings in great detailalthough he may not be consciously aware that he even saw the details. Our eyes interactwith the physical environment in such a way that we are actually able to remember thedetails of the wallpaper pattern in the waiting room at the doctor's office we visited at agethree. We could also recall the smells and textures of that office while hypnotized, but it ismore difficult to communicate these observations to others because we lack a commonstandard of comparison.

No matter how much time we spend in any given physical location, our spiritual natures,as discreet observers, will recall the entire surroundings in detail. By the same token, wecan look at the area and determine just what "spiritual vibrations" or traces of spiritualenergy are present. We interact with our surroundings in this way, both on a physical andon a non-physical level.

Obviously, if we are to spend too much time around someone (or something) that has astrong negative vibration, we may accept it into ourselves and be affected by it. Once thisoccurs, our own spiritual vibration may suffer. Spiritual cleansing will remove this negativevibration and restore our own, just as washing our hands removes the dirt acquired fromnecessary household chores.

Years ago, this kind of information was common knowledge. It passed from one family toanother, one generation to another. Today we regard some of this information as "oldwives' tales" or "superstition." But it isn't. Our world has changed a great deal in the lasthundred years, and even more rapidly in the last fifty. While we have gained from thescientific material progress we have made, these gains came to us at a price—the loss ofsome of the knowledge of our spiritual natures. We have lost a part of our "oldknowledge."

We can fly from New York to Los Angeles in a matter of hours, but we also mingle ourenergy fields with hundreds or even thousands of people who are strangers to us. Ourphysical senses report the airplane flight to us in...