Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

The Causal Body or Intuitional Field
At the next octave up lies the body we might call our
soul, our Higher Self, or our connection to the World of
Divine Truth. Also called the causal body, this one pro-
vides our bridge to the spiritual realm. Whereas the
mental field deals with ideas and thought forms at the
concrete level, this field deals with them at the concep-
tual, abstract, iconic, and symbolic level. It deals with
essence, intuition and 
direct knowing
. The causal body
extends beyond the individual and penetrates the 
col-
lective mind
— or what Jung called the 
collective un-
conscious,
a single mind to which we all individually
connect and have access.
The idea of subtle bodies rising in harmonics is by no
means new; it has been included in many great spiri-
tual traditions throughout the whole world, especially
those of the East.
Assumption:
Universal energy as life force and
consciousness is brought into our body via the
chakra system. The first three chakras are aligned
with the World of Humanity while the fourth
through eighth align more closely with the World
of Divine Truth.
In addition to the ocean of energy containing our differ-
ently-vibrating subtle bodies, we human beings pos-
sess a system of energy centers that align vertically in
our bodies. These are known as chakras — 
wheels of
energy
in Sanskrit, because they are like vortices of
spinning energy.
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The chakras act like transformers. They take the en-
ergy or life force (prana, chi, Christ energy) that comes
to us from the universe and step it down to frequencies
that can be used by the bio-molecular and cellular pro-
cesses of the physical body. The chakras also repre-
sent the locations where each of the subtle bodies link to
the physical body, thus bringing different levels of con-
sciousness into our being. They process our daily ex-
periences, thoughts and feelings while also carrying
long-term data relating to personal and tribal history,
long-established thought patterns, and archetypes.