Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

Being a True Friend
If we are to truly support each other in the journey of
spiritual evolution, I believe we have no choice but to
take the risk, draw a line in the sand with those we love
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and do our best to gently help move them beyond their
addiction to their wounds. Such action will lead us to
the achievement of our collective mission to transform
the victim archetype and to remember who we really
are.
13: Time, Medicine & Forgiveness
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piritual evolution brings with it a new apprecia-
tion for and knowledge of our physical bodies
and how to care for them. The medical para-
digm we have held for the last 300 years — ever since
the French philosopher, Rene Descartes defined the
body as a machine — is changing radically as it moves
towards a holistic, mind-body approach.
We used to think of health as the absence of disease.
Now, we think of health in terms of how well our 
life-
force
(prana, chi, etc), flows through our bodies. For
optimum health this life-force must be able to flow freely.
We cannot be healthy if our bodies are clogged with
the energy of resentment, anger, sadness, guilt, and
grief.
When we speak here of the body, we include not only
the physical body, which is also an 
energy body
, but
the subtle bodies which surround us as well. These we
refer to individually as the etheric body, the emotional
body, the mental body, and the causal body. They each
have a different frequency.
Whereas we used to define the physial body in terms
of chemicals and molecules, physicists have taught us
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to see all five bodies, including the physical body, as
dense condensations of interacting energy patterns.
The subtle fields envelop the physical body in layers
like vibrating sheaths of energy, each one an octave
higher than the other. However, they are not fixed bands
with clear boundaries as shown in the diagram above.
Rather, they are, to a large degree, diffused within the
same space as if they were all part of an ocean of en-
ergy surrounding our bodies. The subtle bodies are
not so much defined by their position in space as by
the different frequencies at which they vibrate.
Fig. 10:
The Subtle Energy Bodies
The subtle bodies resonate harmonically with the vi-
brating patterns of the physical body, enabling con-
sciousness (mind) to interact with the body. This is what
we mean when we speak of the 
body-mind continuum,
with mind existing both inside and outside the physical
body. (For more details on the qualities and purpose
Mental Body
(Insight, Ideas,
Beliefs)
Etheric Body
(The template)
Causal Body
(Soul, Higher Self,
Divine Connection)
Central Channel
(Chi, Prana, Christ Energy)
Emotional Body
(Registers the emotional
charge of thoughts)
Physical Body
(Always dying &
regenerating)
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ascribed to each of these subtle bodies, refer to Part
3, Chapter 15)