This article is about how the Human Energy System works and how we learn to understand the language it speaks. It is about learning how to use symbolic sight, which is the capacity to go beyond ordinary human sight and see things from the big, Divine picture, in order to understand ourselves, other people, events and challenges in our lives. When we see with symbolic sight we understand what creates our pain and illness, and we understand it in terms of universal archetypal patterns and lessons. It allows us to decipher what is actually happening on an energetic level in our bodies and in our lives to see what is creating them as they are.

Understanding life in this way will also bring you pleasure and peace along the way, and lead to emotional and physical healing. By gaining a fluent knowledge of energy anatomy, you will become aware of your body as the manifestation of your own spirit. You will be able to read your own body like a scripture. Understanding the language of energy allows you see your own spirit in your body and to understand what generates it and makes you strong. You will learn what weakens your spirit and personal power so that you can stop further loss of energy.

We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss, and betrayal. Anger is as toxic to a Jewish body as it is to a Christian or Moslem or Hindu. And we are all drawn to love. When it comes to the health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no differences. Emotional and spiritual stresses or dis-ease are the root causes of all physical illnesses. Moreover, certain emotional and spiritual crises correspond quite specifically to problems in certain parts of the body. For example:

• Heart disease - problems with blocking out intimacy or love in our lives
• Low back pain - persistent financial worries
• Cancer - unresolved connections from the past, unfinished business and emotional issues/ betrayal
• Blood disorders - deep seated family conflicts

Healing involves releasing long held fears and negative thoughts toward oneself and others.

So, first let’s get acquainted with how our bodies as an energy system work: Everything pulsates with energy, and all of this energy contains information. Your physical body is surrounded by an energy field that extends out as far as your outstretched arms and the full length of your body. It is both an information center and a highly sensitive perceptual system. It surrounds you and contains the emotional energy created by your internal and external experiences - both positive and negative. Experiences that carry emotional energy in your energy system include:

1. Past and present relationships - personal and professional.
2. Profound or traumatic experiences or memories.
3. Belief patterns and attitudes, including spiritual and superstitious

The emotions from these experiences become encoded in our biological system and contribute to the formation of our cell tissue - if there is an emotional charge on it. This generates a quality of energy in the energy field that is a reflection of these emotions.

We are constantly in communication with everything around us through this system, which is a kind of conscious electricity that transmits and receives messages to and from other people’s bodies. When you can see energy around a person’s body, you can see that it is filled with information about that person’s history. Our spirit is very much a part of our daily lives and participates in every second of it. It embodies our thoughts and emotions and records every one of them, from the most mundane to the visionary. Everything with which we fill up our seconds is recorded - every judgment we make is noted. Every attitude we hold is a source of positive or negative power for which we are accountable. Every second of life is lovingly held to be of great value.

Power is at the root of the human experience. If you are alive, you have a power issue of some sort. Energy is power, and our bodies require energy, therefore, our bodies require power. The Hindu chakras, the 10 Sefirot from the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and the Holy Christian Sacraments all speak of interacting with power and of taking control of our power in gradually more intense processes. At the first level, we learn to handle having a group identity and the power that comes within the family or tribe. At later levels we individualize and manage power as responsible, wise, and mature adults.

In the Hindu mystical tradition, there are 7 chakras, or stages to Higher spiritual consciousness. In the Christian tradition, there are 7 Holy Sacraments, and the Mystical tradition of the Kabbalah has 7 corresponding teachings. 7 is the mystical number of relationship, and this number of teachings in the various mystical traditions speaks of the importance of right relationship to ourselves, to others, to life, basically - our need to live in right relationship to the Divine design, or spiritual laws. These 3 mystical teachings carry the same spiritual messages; how we incorporate and use the power of these 7 truths determines our state of health and spiritual evolution.

These systems of 7 primary energies present truths which we are meant to explore and develop through the experience called life. Each of the 7 levels of power contains a single sacred truth, or universal life lesson. The energy of this truth, or this quality of God, accordingly, pulsates within us at a certain frequency in our biological system directing us to align ourselves to the right use of its power. There are many ways to do this.

Let’s try one now: sit up very straight. we’ll do a before and after spiritual makeover here on a very small level. Feel how you are feeling right now. Feel any aches or pains, tension, both physical, mental, or emotional. Just get an overall sense of your being’s condition. Now, imagine that there is a huge magnet at the top of your head glowing with white light and energy. You realize that you are magnetic in nature as well, that there are magnetic energy within you that begins to respond and vibrate to this larger magnet, to awaken, if you will. This larger, powerful, beautiful magnet pulls your magnetic energy up, beginning at the base of the spine. You feel yourself gently pulled up the center of your spine until you reach the glowing white magnet at the top of your head. Stay there for a moment. Notice what is happening in your body. How is it different from how you felt a moment ago? How does that feel?

This is what we must do with each life lesson, each level of power on the road to enlightenment - become aligned to it so that it functions at its full essential nature and purity. These 7 sacred truths are inherently woven into our energy system. We are born knowing them. We are essentially a “biological edition” of them. We are later taught variations of these 7 truths as children through our tribe’s religious practices, and even if we are not taught these truths, they awaken in us automatically, in our guts, in our minds, in our sense of the natural order of life.

We are the energy of spiritual truth made manifest, embodying the Divine that pours into us through our 7 power centers. As energy duplicates of Divine Power , we are “made in the image of God” We become biologically Divine as we accomplish mastering the 7 sacred stages of transformation.

We all know, and most religions teach, that somehow we are made in the image of God, and this can be seen as a thread common also to all spiritual myths: that human beings are compelled to merge our bodies with the essence of God, that we want to have the Divine in our bones, our blood and in our mental and emotional make-up. Jesus being the biological son of God is symbolic of this need to merge with the Divine - other cultures have similar myths of a God mating with a woman to produce the Divine child. You are that Divine child. But we forget this. “You too will be as Gods. All this and more you shall do,” said Jesus. Our task is to remember it consciously on the physical level.

There is the biblical story theologian Harvey Cox tells in his workshops about how Jesus was summoned to come heal a little girl who was dying. On the way he meets with various people and their needs, the blind man, the beggar woman, etc. The little girl died just before he got there, and the parents are bereft and furious. After Mr. Cox tells the story, he asks the audience with whom did they identify - the dead girl, the woman who touched Christ’s robe to get a healing on his way to visit the dying girl, the blind man, the angry, bereaved and then joyful parents - most people said they identified with one of these characters. But no one identified with Jesus. “Why don’t you identify with the character of Christ who performs miracles and is the child of God?” asked Harvey. Why don’t we identify with being the divine child, the miracle maker? Even though Jesus told us we were indeed that and also said all this you will do and more? That You too are gods?

A Course in Miracles says: “Miracles are natural. Something is wrong when they don’t happen.” Our job is to remember this and to awaken. There is a story of the Buddha that speaks of this: Some men are walking down the road and come upon the Buddha who is radiating light and illumination. Who are you?" they ask. "Are you a God?" "No", says the Buddha. "Are you an angel?" they ask. "No," says the Buddha. "Are you a man? They ask. "No" says the Buddha. "Well, what are you then?" they ask. "I am awake," he answers. We are simultaneously matter and spirit.

In order to understand ourselves and be healthy in both body and spirit, we have to understand what draws the spirit or life force out of our bodies, and how we can retrieve our spirits from the false gods of fear, anger, attachments to the past, and to inappropriate power sources. Let’s take a moment and see what draws the life force out of your body the most. What you put your power into. There is usually an external concept or symbolic concept of power - a relationship such as husband or wife, money as power, position, title, etc. See which one you invest your power in most of the time. What do you define power as?

If I had power, I would have (or be) ...............................
My symbol of power is ......................
I get power from having or being seen as.............................

What do you send your energy into thinking it’s a source of power? What happens if it fails you or you don’t get it? To be healthy, we must keep our energy circuits circulating within our own system, and not give it away to external symbolic, but illusory sources of power. And we must be in the present moment. Like gas or oil in the car, if there is a leak and the energy drains out, the system breaks down. For us to be healthy and whole human beings running competently, we must have an internal concept of power - an ability to generate internal energy and emotional resources.

A Healing Exercise to do: Imagine a fountain of energy with strands of glowing light and power coming off the top of your head and surging around your body and recycling back into your body. Now think of something that worries you or that you are attached to, that you feed your power into, and see what happens to that fountain of energy. Every attachment that we hold onto out of fear commands a circuit of or spirit of leave our energy field and to use a biblical phrase - “breathe life onto earth - that costs us health. What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. The power that fuels our bodies, our minds, and our hearts does not originate in our DNA. It has its roots in Divinity itself.

As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our weaknesses, strengths, hopes, and fears. Every thought you have had traveled through your biological system and activated a physiological response. Neuropeptides, are the chemicals triggered by emotions, and they are actually thoughts converted into matter. Some thoughts are like depth charges, causing a reaction throughout the body. A fear, for instance, activates every system of your body: your stomach tightens, your heart rate increases, and you may break into a sweat. Your nervous systems feels shot. A loving thought can relax your entire body. Some thoughts are more subtle, Many are meaningless and pass through the body like wind through a screen, and their influence upon our health is minimal. Yet, each conscious thought, and many unconscious ones, do generate a physiological response. All our thoughts, regardless of their content, first enter our system as energy that is then stored in our cellular memory. Gradually, this becomes our body. It has been shown that anger stays in the body for at least 5 hours after initially feeling it, continuing to beat up on and damage the cells of your body for that length of time.

How we choose to relate to life/ how we choose to perceive life, and the emotions that come from that - all of this becomes encoded in our biological system and contribute to the formation of our cell tissue. What you think is what you chemically become. In this way your biography, what you experience, how you choose to experience life, becomes your biology, your physical body. Therefore, if we live according to the sacred truths, our bodies will be composed of healthy tissues, and our cells will be well nurtured by life giving energy. Our energy field will be clear, allowing us to continue to create our lives in a harmonious and positive way.

As we mature, we come to understand the content of these 7 truths with ever more clarity and depth and see their archetypal messages. As we become more conscious and recognize the impact of our thoughts and attitudes upon our physical bodies and external life - we become spiritual adults and accept responsibility for co-creating our lives and our health. Life is the exercise of choice. Managing our power of choice is the Divine challenge, the sacred contract that we are here to fulfill. We are given free will - becoming conscious of the responsibility inherent in the power of choice represents the core of this journey. It begins with choosing what our thoughts and attitudes will be.

Because Divine energy is inherent in our biological system, we now see that every thought that crosses our mind, every belief we nurture, every memory to which we cling translates into a positive or negative command to our bodies and spirits. It is magnificent to see ourselves through this lens, but it is also intimidating, because no part of our lives or thoughts is powerless or even private. Nelson Mandala was right when he said that it is not our weaknesses we are afraid of, but our power. We have a great set of instructions to follow if we are willing to use it in the map given to us by the 7 sacred truths. And depending on what we choose, that is how we will create our bodies.

Because all human stress corresponds to a spiritual crisis, it is an opportunity for spiritual learning. Seeing a problem within a spiritual framework, with symbolic or intuitive sight, within these 7 guidelines, or uses of power, accelerates the healing process because you gain insight into the use, misuse, or misdirection of your spirit, your personal power in any situation. Then you can choose to take a different direction. Our attitudes and beliefs, whether positive or negative, are all extensions of how we define, use, or do not use, power. Abusing or violating this power depletes or spirit and siphons the life force out of our physical bodies.

For instance, our immune system breaks down and attacks itself when we dishonor our family. Our ethics and honor in relationships or lack of it has to do with our sexual potency. Fear and intimidation show up as ulcers, lack of personal honor shows up as hepatitus, and so on. Every choice we make, motivated by either faith or fear, weaves into our energy field and directs our spirit to translate it into our biological make up. If a person’s spirit is impelled by fear, then fear returns to her energy field and to her body. If she directs her spirit in faith, however, then grace or prana, pure spiritual energy, returns to her energy field, and her biological system thrives.

All 3 of these mystical traditions hold that releasing one’s spirit into the physical world through fear or negativity is an act of choosing personal will or using ego over the will of the Divine. In Eastern spiritual terms, every action creates karma. Acts of awareness create good karma; acts of fear or negativity create bad karma. Then you have to retrieve your spirit from that negative place where you sent it. In the Christian tradition, the sacrament of confession is the act of retrieving one’s spirit from negative places in order to enter heaven “complete”. In the language of Judaism, a fear that holds such power over a human being is a “false god”.

3 truths are common to these mystical traditions:

1. Misdirecting the power of one’s spirit will cause and generate consequences to one’s body and life.
2. Every human being will encounter a series of challenges that tests his allegence to heaven. These tests will come in the form of the disintegration of one’s physical power base: the inevitable loss of wealth, family, health, or worldly power. The loss will activate a crisis of faith, forcing one to ask: “What is it, or who is it, that I have faith in?” Or - “Into whose hands have I commended my spirit?”
3. To heal from the misdirection of one’s spirit, one has to be willing to act to release the past, cleanse one’s spirit, and return to the present moment. “Believe as if it were true now” is a spiritual command from the book of Daniel to visualize or pray in present time - or, as Yogananda said: “The quickest way to be somewhere is to be there already”.

To be fully healthy, we must be able to (1) see and admit the truth about ourselves, (2) see how we relate to life and to others, (3) realize that we alone are responsible for our own health

In all 3 spiritual traditions, the physical world serves as the learning place for our spirits and the tests we encounter there follow a well ordained pattern. In the chakra system, each energy center warehouses a particular power. These powers ascend from the densest physical power to the most etheric or spiritual power. Remarkably, the challenges we face in our lives tend to follow this alignment as well. Chakras 1, 2, and 3 are calibrated to the issues that engage us with physical or external power. Chakras 4, 5, 6 and 7 are calibrated to non-physical or internal power. When we align them with the Sefirot on the Jewish Tree of Life and the Christian Sacraments, we have a map for the development of our physical power, how to use that power appropriately, as well as a spiritual map for healing and a map of the inevitable challenges we will face on our life’s journey.

The word chakra means wheel, and it refers to the many vortices of energy that penetrate not only the aura but the physical body as well. The chakra system is an archetypal depiction of individual maturation through 7 distinct stages. The chakras are vertically aligned, running from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, suggesting that we ascend to the divine by gradually mastering the seductive pull of the physical world. As a person masters each chakra, he or she gains power and self knowledge that becomes integrated into his or her spirit, advancing him or her along the path to spiritual consciousness in the classic hero’s journey.

The chakras are depicted as lotuses. Lotuses rise from the mud (denser energies to more refined). When healthy, chakras spin in a clockwise direction drawing in energy from the universal energy field to continually revitalize our entire being. When unhealthy, they can spin counter clockwise, become brittle and distorted in shape. Since they spin at different speeds, they emit a different light frequency, which is seen as a different color. The spirals indicate the contrasting energies of the psyche and spirit, and the ever re-cycling energy of God - keeping your energy in present time, recycling within your own system.

The energy of the chakras flows in both directions. The root chakra takes in energy from the earth and also allows us to ground spiritual energy much as a lightning rod grounds electricity. It gives us stability. Meanwhile, the crown chakra brings in energy from above and forms our direct access point for absorbing higher spiritual energy (soft spot on a baby’s head). The channel for the flow of energy between the crown and the root is sometimes referred to as the vertical or central power current, or shushumna.

When we have mastered and can generate energy at the highest level, we awaken what is called the sleeping serpent or dragon, known as Kundalini energy, an energy which can rush from the root chakra to the crown in a huge surge of power, and we become enlightened beings. The intimate connection and interdependence of the chakras can be seen as one lesson weaves into the next, a lesson is first introduced on one level and refined and deepened in the next, and this means that it’s impossible to think of them in isolation when discussing their effect upon us as total human beings. They are interconnected and actually look like God’s spiritual DNA, I think - and maybe this is as close as we get to looking at the body of God.

Since all the chakras are intimately linked, a block at one will affect the functioning of the others, causing physical, emotional, mental, and or spiritual damage and distress. The chakras are so sensitive that they are affected by not only the energy of other people but also the energy that can hang around a place. Perfecting God’s energy is a very refined process - like going through the eye of a needle - or like silk thread ripping if it catches on the slightest snag - they are the strongest and yet most sensitive and refined energy there is. We all use various energetic tactics to protect ourselves from the energy we pick up around us, to manipulate others, and to hide our vulnerability, and when we do so, usually on an unconscious level, the chakra can become blocked, distorted or damaged.

If you look closely at people’s body language, or even listen to the tones of a person’s voice, you can see where they are protecting themselves and what chakra is probably involved. When a chakra is open (though they’re never completely closed) we can deal effectively with the energy and the associated psychological material that’s flowing through.

Although it’s true that the greater the energy, the greater the flow, the healthier we are, some of the energy and experiences we have to deal with can cause psychological and emotional pain. It’s for this reason that we shut down or “block” our chakras in the first place. These blocks are not there by accident. They’re designed by you and put in place as a strategy to protect you from what, at the time, you’re unable to process. However, most blocks become outdated, preventing further growth.

Types of Blocks:

1. The suppression of feelings - leads to depression and despair (usually heart chakra).
2. Compression and compaction of rage which is perceived as potentially destructive if it’s allowed to erupt (3rd chakra).
3. Freezing of feelings - results in a lot of tension and a need to defend against further attack (heart chakra).
4. Depletion of energy and abdication of power - renders the person apparently helpless and in need of much support from others, hence protecting them from having to accept personal accountability and responsibility (2nd or 3rd chakra).
5. Denial - a product of fear. Person behaves as if everything is fine while underneath there is chaos to such a degree that confronting it needs to be avoided at all costs to avoid a possible breakdown (any chakra)

As one studies the chakras, you begin to see that the issues involved in chakras 1, 2, and 3 are the ones where most people spend their energy. Not coincidentally, most illnesses result from a loss of energy from these 3 chakras. Even when an illness such as a heart condition develops in the upper regions of the body, its energy origin can usually be traced to stress patterns in issues in the lower 3 chakras, such as in marriage or partnership, family or occupation. Emotions such as rage and anger hit us below the belt, while an emotion such as unexpressed sadness is associated with disease above the belt.

On the positive side of the energy flow, as we consciously utilize the power of the chakras and the energy flows upward, each chakra lends its individual power to an experience, allowing that experience to go beyond what we would otherwise be able to have so that every bit if spiritual awareness ad healing can be extracted from it.

Let’s take having a sexual experience. The sexuality of each partner is grounded and held stable in the 1st chakra, allowing us to release to ecstasy and know that we can return safely when we are ready; it is awakened at the 2nd chakra; the power of the union is felt at the third; the heart chakra lends love; the throat offers communication; there is vision at the brow chakra, and as the energy reaches each partner’s crown, there is a flood of spiritual energy that produces a symphony of sensations. This gives an experience far beyond any previous understanding of sexual pleasure and beyond mere physical experience (kama sutra - chakra work). It raises the sexual act to the heights of spiritual experience and orgasm to a unique event. When we are concious of how a chakra operates and what the lesson involved is, and what the primary fears and strengths are in each chakra, we can keep our chakras and our energy functioning in a healthy way.

The early Christian church identified 7 sacraments, or offically recognized rituals, that were to be conducted by the ordained leaders of the church. These 7 sacraments were, and still are, sacred ceremonies that imprint or pour into the individual specific qualities of “grace”, or Divine energy, inviting the Divine directly into a person’s spirit. Each quality of grace is unique to the sacrament, and each sacrament also represents a stage of empowerment The word sacrament itself means a ritual invoking the power of the sacred into the soul of the individual. The sacraments provide symbolic tasks for growth into spiritual maturity and for healing. But they are also concrete in their depiction of what we must do at major stages in our lives to accept the personal responsibility that comes with spiritual maturity. They represent powers that we are meant to bestow on others as well as receive from others.

The 10 Sefirot (or Tree of Life of the Kabbalah) comprise a complex teaching that evolved over many centuries. Think of the 10 commandments - the 1st is: Honor thy father and thy mother. 1st chakra truth. When I was younger, I thought that this meant be a nice, polite girl. Now, in understanding what happens to my body when I verbally attack others, or think negative thoughts toward them, I understand it on a much deeper level. In the medieval Kabbalah, the 10 Sefirot describe the 10 qualities of the Divine Nature. Since 3 of the 10 qualities are partnered with another 3, the 10 qualities are actually grouped in 7 levels, often portrayed as a mythical tree of life with its roots in the heavens. The 10 Sefirot are considered the Divine blueprint of the teaching that “the human being is created in the image of God” (Genesis 1:27). The Divine shares these 10 qualities with human beings. They are spiritual powers that we are mandated to develop and refine in our life’s journey.

Although Judaism maintains the most abstract face of God, the 10 Sefirot come as close to describing the personality of Yahweh as is possible. The 10 Sefirot are the qualities of the Divine that also form the archetypal human being. These qualities are interpreted as both the essence of God and as paths by which we can return to God. Each quality represents a progression toward a more powerful revelation of the names, or faces, of God. Often the 10 qualities are described as the garments of the King, garments that allow us to look directly at the King, the source of Divine light, without being blinded.

The image of the upside down tree symbolizes that the roots of these 10 qualities rest deeply within a Divine nature that draws us back to the heavens through prayer, contemplation, and action. Our task is to ascend to our Divine source by evolving these 10 qualities within ourselves. Begins from the top down.

Each culture expressed its own view of the transformations and passages of the universal spiritual journey - in Western society, this is usually expressed in fairy tales and legends, and it is seen as the classic hero’s journey. So many stories in so many cultures speak of the hero’s journey. Jumping mouse story/ Arthur and the Holy Grail - getting to the sacred mountains - to the top of Mt. Olympus, the home of the Gods, to name a few. Once again, the hero’s journey is the story of how we discover our human Divinity.

In Western society, we try to avoid pain and seek comfort - but that is part of the hero’s journey. Take the image of the letter “u” - it is the image of the human body with arms upraised, reaching for the heavens. There is an area which descends between the arms - representative of the pits in between the high points which are necessary for self development. Depression is a dirty word in our society - we are all taught to value the norm and to conform to mass consciousness (1st chakra thinking) to avoid looking different. But the hero must break out of that mold and go beyond mass consciousness as he or she steps out into the unknown.

In the hero’s journey, the hero is born into his family or tribe (1st chakra) and begins life as an innocent - the Mythic hero starts out quite unheroic. Then comes the call to adventure - we have within us a relentless, congenital desire to explore our own creative ideas and to develop our individual power and authority. This desire is the impetus behind our striving to become conscious.

So, in the process of traveling down a road full of trials (the charkra, or kundalini trail, or climbing the Tree of Life) the chakra’s purification lessons - the hero meets with allies along the way - only after he is tested by them - the old beggar woman, dragons, thieves, etc., thus finding help and strength. The hero must identify and recognize the challenge. Then comes initiation - a period of really being tested. After the hero meets with allies, the hero has a breakthrough, and having to attain new heights of sensitivity, skill, or wisdom, the unaware hero becomes transformed, reaching new awareness and resolution. The hero merges with something or someone - he wins the hand of the princess or fair maiden, representing his marriage to himself after coming to a deeper understanding of himself and life - he attains the balance of the inner masculine and feminine within himself. He marries or gains a fortune or a kingdom. He gains his true power. Then there is the final celebration - returning home ends up in house or mansion on a hill, or humble cottage of origins ((house of the lord) - divine communion.( to spirit) and consciously aware.

The hero has to learn to activate hidden creative resources and and connect with transcendent sources of support (the chakra powers). Being heroic is being passionately committed to some course of action. Even being willing to take the first step is heroic - being born is heroic, taking that first heroic baby step, just being willing to walk forward is heroic, as each step is ever new and unknown, unformed - as the saying goes: we never step into the same river twice.

Goethe said: “Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elemental truth - the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.”

You are the hero of your own story.

Our journey is enlivened by the fact that the the quest is never over and consists of endless adventures that can enrich us personally and deepen our understanding of life and ourselves.

When we use symbolic insight and interpretation, we see that all of the traditions address the identical design of our spiritual natures. This unites us and brings us together. Within, we are all the same, and the spiritual challenges we face are all the same. Our external differences are illusory and temporary.

The 7 Sacred truths of the Kaballah, the Christian Sacraments, and the Hindu Chakras are a map that guide and support our gradual transformation into conscious spiritual adults. These literal and symbolic teachings re-define spiritual and biological health and help us understand what keeps us healthy, what makes us ill, and what helps us heal.

Again and again the sacred texts tell us that our life’s purpose is to understand and develop the power of our spirits, power that is vital to our physical and mental well being and that will lead us to spiritual enlightenment. Our spiritual task in this lifetime is to learn to balance the energies of body and soul, of thought and action, of physical and mental power. The universal human journey is one of becoming conscious of our power and learning how to use that power. The 7 sacred truths offer guidance on how to manage our spirits within the world. They are actually a roadmap, an instructor’s manual imprinted in our biological design, of how to use power correctly, the energy of the Divine.

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