Re: Elemental Correspondance

["peter_reist" <peter_reist@...>]

Dear Rawn,

Six months ago I would have given the exact same elemental 
correspondences to the senses, and those associations would have been 
purely logical. Now, however, while I maintain the same 
correspondences, my reasoning for using such correspondences has 
strayed quite a far ways from pure, rational logic and has entered 
into the realm of intution and personal experience.

When working with the solitary mental body, which consists of only 
the fire and air regions of the mental body, generally speaking, the 
only perceptions that are encountered are optical, auditory, or 
dependent upon the direct perception of essential meaning.

When working with the astra-mental body, which consists of the fire, 
air and water regions of the mental body, the perception of feeling 
is encountered. In fact, it is that sense of tactile realism that is 
generally considered to be the defining point that differentiates 
between mental and astra-mental projection. Moreover, it is this 
amount of the water element that seems to solidify the mental body 
down into an astral density as an expression of the water elements 
magnetic nature.

With regards to the guided visualization of the 8T, I personally feel 
that it is the inclusion of the two torches in the tunnel that 
solidifies the visualization as one sees the flames, hears the 
crackle of the embers, feels the heat, and smells the combustion of 
the carbon. Without something to this effect, the visualization is 
just up in the air as it where, not having the same sort of life to 
it.

Also, a lovely method for producing a clear mind is to focus upon the 
imput that each of the five senses are receiving in turn in a 
specific order: sight, hearing, feeling, smell and taste. In essence, 
working through the natural order via which things manifest 
themselves; fire, air, water, and finally earth. Which is, of course, 
the same order that Bardon posits for the sequence of sensory 
concentration exercies.

On the other hand of things, the elemental correspondences that you 
posit do make some sense. Allbeit primarily upon an intellectual 
level and not really upon an intuitive level. The sequence of sensory 
concentration exercises would follow the Kabbalahistic sequence of 
creation: fire, water, air and then earth.

Love and Live well,
Peter Reist