The Spiritual Realm
The truth of spirit is very different from ordinary
ions in literature and religion or general imagination. The of spirits is a fact of nature. It does not belong to he imaginary realm at all.
The between spirits and ghosts is an important The two great spheres in the subtle realm are the divi- sions of yin and yang. Spirits belong to the yang category. They are natural beings who are invisible, inaudible and angible to ordinary people. To a spiritually developed human
however, spirits are visible, audible and touchable, and a way are just another kind of living entity.
Spirits are essential beings of the universe before they form. Ghosts, on the other hand, belong to the yin cate- gory of the subtle realm and are of a much heavier energy hat comes from the recent life experience which they have
ust left.
People like to imagine spirits as being like themselves, but some respects this is very inaccurate. For example, spirits. high spirits, can transform themselves into any size. During the day, and in crowded places, spirits can dis- play a much larger size.
Since they depend on the absorption of natural energy. are very much affected by the energy cycle.
spirits are active at the hour right after midnight
when they are invigorated the returning life energy. hey) disappear at 3:00 a.m. ) or at 5:00 a.m. (Mao ) or whenever they have invigorated themselves with dawn energy.
The capability of spirits to transform themselves is
To adapt to the earthly environment, they may become flies, mosquitoes, bugs or ants. When a spirit is in a star, he can be so enormous that he can “break your gall” and terrify you tremendously.
Spirits may simply appear one’s room, at one’s desk. or anywhere one imagines oneself free from intruders. As hu- man beings we think of privacy as a sacred right. To spiritual beings, however, this notion is a great human hallucination.
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Wherever one is, there are spirits. An ancient Chinese proverb says: ‘You think your mind is as quiet and deep as a bottomless abyss, but your thoughts are as loud as thunder.” Nothing can be hidden from spirits.
One may wonder why they do not transform themselves into more attractive shapes, such as beautiful girls or hand- some boys. Good spirits do not want to confuse you. They know the appropriate occasion and form in which to appear. Most people would not be annoyed by spirits that transform as sweet hummingbirds. An important truth of the spiritual world is that spirits to ride on birds. However, spiritual birds, like spiritual people, are not easily distinguished by undeveloped eyes.
If they wish, spirits will let you touch them. Their bodies are as ethereal as a piece of untouched silk or the web of a spider in a bamboo grove on an autumn morning. They are soft but not fragile. One may actually feel a spirit’s touch on one’s skin. On some occasions high spirits come to humans wispy strands of clouds. A spirit’s appearance may be white or dark, and it may fly gently in front of people who are of high spiritual development. All of these forms serve as a means of communication. The human concept of form, how- ever, is invalid in the spiritual realm.
With distinct communication, one can verify that such an occurrence is not a hallucination. If to see means to know the truth, then this approach may excite spiritual students to attain these opportunities.
Spirits can also make sounds by borrowing something material. Sometimes these sounds resemble noises that human beings make, like walking on a floor, for example. Spirits can also make noises in the air by themselves. Some of these noises are signals or warnings and others are quite pleasant, but most have a meaning or message.
The speech of spirits is at too high a frequency for the human ear to distinguish. They have a complete language, like human language, but it is spoken on the level of subtle energy waves, which a well-developed receiver may be able to understand after some training.
Since spirit language is a touch of energy waves, any place on the human body can be a receiving station. Nor- mally, high spirits communicate with one’s head, middle level
spirits with one’s trunk, and general spirits with one’s feet. Spirits can communicate any time of day or night. For exam- ple, if a writer makes a mistake while working in his office. a
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who is in another room can make a noise to let the know of his error. The function is limited by the
ability to catch the mistake in what he worked on. In spirits can know people’s thoughts at astronomical Spirits offer their services by staying with their spiritually developed human friends. They can also disclose the person- ality of a new acquaintance and warn habitually kind and tolerant people of impending danger. Spirits can also read documents in any language and tell if signing such a docu- ment is safe. They can foresee visitors and telephone calls, and they can foretell mental. physical and financial problems that people will have. can locate physical problems, diagnose illnesses and prescribe herbal medicine as well as a trained doctor. They also whether food is edible or not. Actually, spirits respond quickly to any new situation and can thus easily solutions.
What a very sagacious person can do, spirits can also do. They do not, however, have the physical strength to do hard work, and they also lack the psychological persistence to endure certain trivial tasks. A gathering of numerous spirits. though, can accomplish what human beings never could. They can stop an electric current for as long as they wish, be mischievous with a mechanical system, or control certain points of the human nervous system and cause paralysis for protective reasons or other intentions.
Generally, spirits are very, very small. They can enter your body as easily as you would enter a house without walls.
One might assume that since a spirit is so small it can easily be controlled, but this is not completely true. A spirit is the essence of a being. It does not have eyes, ears, nostrils, entrails, hands, feet or wings, yet its functions are complete. Spirits may do as they wish.
One may ask there is a “police force” among spirits, and the answer is yes, but spirits are numerous and unaccount- able and cannot be completely controlled. Good spirits stay with good people and bad spirits are the tenants of bad people. Since they know what is fatal to the human body, they can easily make people ill. Cancer and other incurable diseases can be actions of revenge from spirits.
The significant difference between spirits and ghosts is that spirits are essential, light and pure whereas ghosts are the opposite. Spirits come from the formation of nature; they are pure and mild. Ghosts are souls that have recently
of Spiritual Realm 137 parted from human life and are still contaminated with their life experience. A spirit is much lighter than a ghost. Ghosts usually sink into the ground.
It takes a new ghost seven days to completely withdraw its energy from its deceased body. The situation is different, however, in the case of accident or war. When a trauma is too sudden for a ghost to withdraw its complete soul energy, various parts of the ghost’s ethereal body may be lacking in energy. Since these people did not their allotted natural years, they may come back to the human world sooner than others, often with parts of their new shape weakened, depending on the trauma they Since ghosts have “heavy” energy, they sometimes appear in human form at night and attack people. Actually. this seldom happens.
The sudden interference of an ill-intentioned ghost can cause vehicles or machines to completely stop and thus create land or air accidents. Such a ghost can also attack women and impregnate them with a ghostly” embryo or dis- ease of the womb. Many diseases, both in men and women, are caused by ghosts, with or without reason. Many of the troubles of the human world exist with or without true reason and are the work of “Satan.” This is real whether or not it is in accord with your knowledge. The ghosts in an inferior negative sphere are more apparent and can easily reach a person’s level of emotion, such as fear, or of feeling, such as becoming chilly. It is to be immune from the influence or encroachment of the spiritual world on all levels.
When one person persecutes another, he or she can sel- dom escape the revenge of a future ghost, but should fear of such revenge prevent one from disciplining people? No. Righteousness is protection for one’s When truly evil people are restrained or punished, they cannot take revenge against you in the spiritual realm. Your own good spiritual elements are your positive, protective power. Good spirits connect with Heaven, and with Heaven behind you, why should you fear Hell?
If a human being follows the right path and maintains the right process of he can return to be a spirit. The highest level of ghosts can also cultivate themselves. With concentration they can shrink to the size of a gentle peck of a mystical bird and communicate with their spiritual friends on the soles of their feet. They are smart and can express their opinions very well Such ghosts are highly developed
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ectuals with good moral standards. They are called which means spiritualized ghost. This is close to what
beings can achieve when they are pure yang energy. levels of ghosts are far behind them in spiritual rank. A pure spirit is a natural spirit and is thus related to
truth. It has no connection with vulgar religions associate the spiritual world with death. This is a
mistake. Spirits are part of nature even though they not have physical bodies like human beings.
Around the Big Dipper are two subtle spots which
the seven stars of the Dipper itself. This is where the natural deities reside. Next to these are the natural
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the twenty-eight constellations. Correct can evoke their response. These prayers, however, arerevealed to those with a wise and blessed nature, for from the treasures of nature can be taught to a shallow. worldly mind.
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Because spirits have no form, one’s mind can imagine whatever form it wishes for them. The forms of spirits depend on what they wish to communicate to a person and also on one’s own subjective emotional reaction. A person with a beautiful heart always meets beautiful spiritual beings. Someone who is always sees ghosts, mon- sters, goblins and demons. Actually, the image is created by one’s own feelings. This is similar to the spoken language of a spirit in that it is real, but the way it is received and interpreted depends on the clarity or unclarity of the person. Do spirits actually have a form of their own? Yes. They are subtle beings with flexible forms of subtle energy.
It is really marvelous that spirits and ghosts are not substance. yet their capabilities are so human-like. This is why spiritually developed people cannot help but accept them as important living entities.
You may be interested to know what spirits generally like, dislike and fear, even though they do not have sensory or- gans. They respect high deities and high spirits. At some levels they dislike strong sunshine. They fear thunder, although in some cases they create thunder. They dislike airplanes, especially jets. They dislike bad odors. They like the beauty and sweet fragrance of flowers. They appreciate beauty, truthfulness and goodness of any kind. They like music played with natural instruments. They like opera and other delicate, graceful music. especially dramatized historical tales of ancient people and the exaltation of virtue in the true av. One kind of refined Chinese opera called Kun Chui is hard to understand, even by highly educated people, but-high spirits understand and enjoy these operas greatly. All high spirits love the pure, ancient cultures. This is something which I can verily.
Music is heavenly language. Some of the most elegant human minds have been truly inspired by heavenly beings to create beautiful music. The highest level of music is that of nature, such a breeze whistling through the bamboo, or a murmuring stream, or birds chirping in a weeping willow. All spirits enjoy the beauty of such subtlety. Higher even than this, however, is the voiceless, wordless and soundless heavenly melody that is enjoyed by spirits and by highly developed spiritual human beings as well.
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Spirits do not like to touch blood or anything that is They like things that are alive and natural such as piece of stone. Generally, spirits are not afraid of fire or or poison or anything else, but they are subject to
spirits.
Do spirits eat food? Yes. High spirits who have achieved adependence do not need ordinary food, but sometimes they ride on their human friends and go to restaurants just fun. General spirits obtain food energy through a human One may wonder if this is safe. In the right situation is, because human beings often waste their energy anyway.
energy offerings can be a practice of real piety and to the spirits. On the other hand, young men nd women who sleep in the nude often create opportunities ghosts to attack them. Many nightmares are actually hosts pressing the body and sucking energy.
“Demon” is a human name given to evil spirits. If the is really evil, then it deserves this name. but in many ases the so-called demon is just a natural spirit without any
of human life. Such a spirit is “wild” until it familiar with the human mind. Then it is no longer “demon.
Generally, all natural spirits are pure spirits, but when are encountered at the human level, conceptual
rations of good or bad develop. Through thousands of years f cultural and religious life, human beings have put lore and more conditions on life. Although life was once a ratter of natural harmony. there is now much discrimination
what is “good” or “bad,” based on new habits and lodes of acceptance.
In the same way that human knowledge of the natural world is not fully developed, “wild” spirits’ knowledge f the human world is not fully developed either. What
people perceive as good or bad may not necessarily be the ray the natural spirits perceive it. Because these spirits are till “wild” and ‘uncivilized” before contacting the human
they sometimes create havoc for human beings. In the ancient tradition. the most valuable and useful
for subduing such spirits was virtue. Stable, behavior and good naturedness can earn the hip of the spiritual world. Exorcism only does a small job.
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revenge from the “demons” he exorcises can be dangerous. Some religious leaders of past epochs were victims of when they displayed hostility toward “wild” spirits by treating them as “demons.”
Even though the preceding is correct, one need not wonder whether truly evil spirits exist. Evil spirits and ghosts actually do and many people suffer harm, illness and disharmony because of them. When people devi- ate from their natural way of honesty, opportunities develop for demons to come to live with them and generate negativity.
Spirits and ghosts, especially real demons, can incite riots through morally undeveloped people who come together as a mob and who are often used without even knowing it. These people carry out the evil wishes of such spirits in order to persecute one who is righteous and has his moral duty and actually protected people from the harm of these demons and evil spirits. In most cases, demons and evil spirits cannot carry out these actions themselves. They must be enacted through morally undeveloped people whose inner darkness is reflected in their ignorance and vicious behavior. The practice of virtue protects one from this level of evil influence or interference. One should neither please offend evil spirits. According to the teaching of Lao Tzu. ‘When one follows the way of natural morality, all gods and follow the same natural way and become powerless to people. Thus one integrates the potency of beings in great harmony, in absolute oneness.” Another effective for evil consists of prayers to powerful, natural Four possible reasons why general spiritual problems
to people involved with real spirits are:
Troublesome spirits haunt troublesome people. The kind of energy a person has will attract a of like energy. Thorough spiritual purification can have a good effect on these problems.
If a real spiritual problem occurs, improper handling of the problem will make it worse. This is due to a lack of spiritual experience and/or correct spiritual education. Spiritual naivete and curiosity can invite spiritual problems. One may open the prohibited “magic box”
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prematurely. This is like mistakenly touching electricity.
Sometimes people who wish to strengthen their power and augment their spiritual protection an incorrect spiritual path and make a bad connection
an improper spiritual source. These people bring trouble on themselves through their own ambition. Although problems occasionally occur, spirits are part of he natural world and interacting with them is no different
with other beings in the physical realm. Just as follows the law of familiarity, people with a kind of energy attract spirits of a similar energy. A
and kind individual should not have any trouble with If you wish to attract a high spirit as your own beloved me, then you must purify and cultivate yourself. Such takes generations to accomplish. A virtuous amily conceives good seeds. On the other hand, a baby be payment for a debt from a previous life, but this is
known one breathes his last breath. A newly mother’s dreams can tell her what kind of spirit she attracted. These dreams are messages from her own
and are the body language of her inner
Do not mistreat your father or mother when you are a or forget to discipline your own children when you are a