Dear emc, Thank you for your clarifying explanation. beginner --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "emcshadow" <emcshadow@x> wrote: > > > In addition to the excellent suggestions so far, this may help. > > It may be useful to think of thought-forms, in this case your > 'ideations', as energetic constructs rather than intellectual ones. > > It is difficult for the modern mind to conceptually bridge the > descartian divide and push an intellectual construct into some > material mass no? Part of this exercise is retraining this erroneous > conditioning and realizing the rich energetic connections that abound > in a superficially material world. You may have experienced this > linkage when you think of a friend the same time the phone rings with > their call. Or felt someone looking at you from across the room. Your > thought-forms are energetically interacting with your reality both > within and without constantly. Usually without awareness or intent. > > And in addition to this shift of perception of internal thought- forms > as energetic constructs, also break down the eucharist into an > energetic matrix. Trace the food, for example, back to the plant forms > and elemental energies, the sun, water, air and earth that are part of > the timestream of its existence and consider the alchemical processes > at work absorbing this into your body and the way the energy is being > processed, transfered and transmuted during this interaction. Then the > coupling may feel more natural, as indeed it is. When you start > feeling this connection as a fabric rather than an artificial > dichotomy between subject and object, you've started to reprogram your > reality in some very interesting and useful ways. > > -emc