Spirit Complex
  • The spiritual complex…embodies the fields of force and consciousness which are the least distorted of your mind/body/spirit complex. The exploration and balancing of the spirit complex is indeed the longest and most subtle part of your learn/teaching. – 6.1
  • The physical complex alone is created of many, many energy, or electromagnetic, fields interacting due to intelligent energy. The mental configurations, or distortions, of each complex further adding fields of electromagnetic energy and distorting the physical complex patterns of energy. The spiritual aspect serving as a further complexity of fields which is of itself perfect, but which can be realized in many distorted and unintegrated ways by the mind and body complexes of energy fields. – 19.20
Tree of Mind Diagram
In attempting to gain a modicum of understanding of the function of the spirit complex and its relationship to mind and body, it is helpful to pair the following two sections with the “Tree of Mind” illustration in this book. Looking at that illustration you will see the structure of the mind (creatively envisioned using Ra’s description). The crown and trunk of the tree manifest above ground as the conscious mind. The roots of mind move through successively deeper strata below ground (behind the veil), moving downward from the individual unconscious mind, to the racial, the planetary, the archetypal, and then the largest container of mind: the cosmic mind. All of these roots of mind are hidden or obscured behind the veil, becoming what we would consider to be un-conscious.
As the illustration also roughly depicts, the spirit complex, as Ra described, is that which performs a funneling in two directions: it funnels the roots of mind into contact with intelligent infinity (the “upreaching”), and it funnels all the various energies pouring into the mind or consciousness from infinite intelligence (the “downpouring”).
  • Questioner: Would you define mind, body, and spirit separately?
Ra: I am Ra. These terms are all simplistic descriptive terms which equal a complex of energy focuses; the body, as you call it, being the material of the density which you experience at a given space/time or time/space; this complex of materials being available for distortions of what you would call physical manifestation.
The mind is a complex which reflects the inpourings of the spirit and the up-pourings of the body complex. It contains what you know as feelings, emotions, and intellectual thoughts in its more conscious complexities. Moving further down the tree of mind we see the intuition which is of the nature of the mind more in contact or in tune with the total beingness complex. Moving down to the roots of mind we find the progression of consciousness which gradually turns from the personal to the racial memory, to the cosmic influxes, and thus becomes a direct contactor of that shuttle which we call the spirit complex.
This spirit complex is the channel whereby the inpourings from all of the various universal, planetary, and personal inpourings may be funneled into the roots of consciousness, and whereby consciousness may be funneled to the gateway of intelligent infinity through the balanced intelligent energy of body and mind.
You will see by this series of definitive statements that mind, body, and spirit are inextricably intertwined and cannot continue, one without the other. Thus we refer to the mind/body/spirit complex rather than attempting to deal with them separately, for the work, shall we say, that you do during your experiences is done through the interaction of these three components, not through any one. – 30.2
  • Imagine, if you will, the function of the magnet. The magnet has two poles. One reaches up. The other goes down. The function of the spirit is to integrate the upreaching yearning of the mind/body energy with the downpouring and streaming of infinite intelligence.[143] – 4.18
Spirit as Shuttle, Channel, or Pathway
  • The adept is calling directly through the spirit to the universe for its power, for the spirit is a shuttle. – 80.14
Ra calls this funneling action, and the spirit complex itself, a shuttle, a channel, and a pathway. They emphasize that that this shuttle is successfully activated, integrated, and used only by a balanced mind/body complex.
  • We have considered the mind as a tree. The mind controls the body. With the mind single-pointed, balanced, and aware, the body comfortable in whatever biases and distortions make it appropriately balanced for that instrument, the instrument is then ready to proceed with the great work; that is the work of wind and fire. The spiritual body energy field is a pathway, or channel. When body and mind are receptive and open, then the spirit can become a functioning shuttle or communicator from the entity’s individual energy of will upwards, and from the streamings of the creative fire and wind downwards.[144] – 6.1
What does it mean that body and mind must be balanced? This is discussed throughout the material. It is articulated particularly clearly when discussing the work of spirit known as healing:
  • Firstly, the mind must be known to itself. This is perhaps the most demanding part of healing work. If the mind knows itself then the most important aspect of healing has occurred, for consciousness is the microcosm of the Law of One.
The second part has to do with the disciplines of the body complexes. […] These understandings and disciplines have to do with the balance between love and wisdom in the use of the body in its natural functions.
The third area is the spiritual, and in this area the first two disciplines are connected through the attainment of contact with intelligent infinity. – 4.17
The Work of Spirit
Spirit, like faith, is a dimension of the human experience that is mysterious, not mechanical, and not likely to be captured by words. We can, however, point to some of the ways in which the entity works in spirit in third density, healing being the one most discussed in the Ra Contact.
  • The healing ability, like all other, what this instrument would call, paranormal abilities, is effected by the opening of a pathway or shuttle into intelligent infinity. – 6.1
  • Know then, first, the mind and the body. Then as the spirit is integrated and synthesized, those are harmonized into a mind/body/spirit complex which can move among the dimensions and which can open the gateway to intelligent infinity, thus healing self by light and sharing that light with others. – 17.18
  • The healing [performed in the King’s Chamber], if it is to be effectuated, must be a funneling without significant distortion of the instreamings through the spiritual complex into the tree of mind. There are parts of this mind which block energies flowing to the body complex. In each case, in each entity, the blockage may well differ.
First, however, it is necessary to activate the sense of the spiritual channel or shuttle. Then whether the blockage is from spiritual to mental or from mental to physical, or whether it may simply be a random and purely physical trauma, healing may then be carried out.
– 23.7
Spiritual work begins in blue ray, but it is the adept’s work in faith to use spirit to bring intelligent energy through the gateway of the indigo ray.
  • When green ray has been activated we find the third primary ray [blue ray] being able to begin potentiation. This is the first true spiritual ray in that all transfers are of an integrated mind/body/spirit nature. The blue ray seats the learning/teachings of the spirit in each density within the mind/body complex, animating the whole, communicating to others this entirety of beingness.
The indigo ray, though precious, is that ray worked upon only by the adept, as you would call it. It is the gateway to intelligent infinity bringing intelligent energy through. This is the energy center worked upon in those teachings considered inner, hidden, and occult, for this ray is that which is infinite in its possibilities. As you are aware, those who heal, teach, and work for the Creator in any way which may be seen to be both radiant and balanced are those activities which are indigo ray. – 39.10 (See also 15.12.)
In the first quote below, Ra describes those things central to the work of spirit through the gateway. In the second quote, Ra articulates that which is the heart of the evolution of spirit.
  • The most normal [activation of energy centers] for the adept is the following: the indigo stimulation activating that great gateway into healing, magical work, prayerful attention, and the radiance of being; and the stimulation of the violet ray which is the spiritual giving and taking from and to Creator, from Creator to Creator. – 50.13
  • Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit. – 52.11
In 80.8 and 80.10, Ra likens the work of spirit to being in a moonlit environment while attempting to discern what is true: all is thrown into shadow from which truth or fantasy can be interpreted. The possibility exists to “grasp the light of the sun”, but this is achieved only by a few as the “majority of adepts remain groping in the moonlight.” As Ra says, the “missteps in the night are oh, so easy.” Yet, the possibility of illumination in spirit ever remains.
  • Even the most unhappy of experiences, shall we say, which seem to occur in the Catalyst of the adept, seen from the viewpoint of the spirit, may, with the discrimination possible in shadow, be worked with until light equaling the light of brightest noon descends upon the adept and positive or service-to-others illumination has occurred.[145]
    – 80.15 (See also: “Adept: Author’s Note: The Moonlight” in this guide.)
Transformation through Spirit
In spirit is also freedom or liberation from the illusory world of form and separation. This includes a process of dis-associating from others in a way which involves associating with the true heart of others, something Ra elsewhere calls “merging of self with other self and the Creator.”
  • [Disassociation] is likely to occur [in the path of the adept]. The apparent happening is disassociation whether the truth is service to self (and thus true disassociation from other-selves), or service to others (and thus true association with the heart of all other-selves, and disassociation only from the illusory husks which prevent the adept from correctly perceiving the self and other-self as one). – 80.11
  • Questioner: Then you say that this effect of disassociation on the service-to-others adept is a stumbling block or slowing process in reaching that goal which he aspires to? Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. This disassociation from the miasma of illusion and misrepresentation of each and every distortion is a quite necessary portion of an adept’s path. It may be seen by others to be unfortunate. – 80.12
This transformation—or transcending limitations, or realizing the self, or waking from the dream—involves a letting go or sacrificing of the attachments, identifications, and conceptualizations of the individual self.
  • [In the Transformation of Spirit] archetype, that which you call the Sarcophagus…may be seen to be the material world, if you will. This material world is transformed by the spirit into that which is infinite and eternal. The infinity of the spirit is an even greater realization than the infinity of consciousness, for consciousness which has been disciplined by will and faith is that consciousness which may contact intelligent infinity directly. There are many things which fall away in the many, many steps of adepthood. We, of Ra, still walk these steps and praise the One Infinite Creator at each transformation.– 80.20
  • The crux ansata is a part of the concept complexes of the archetypical mind, the circle indicating the magic of the spirit, the cross indicating that nature of manifestation which may only be valued by the losing. Thus the crux ansata is intended to be seen as an image of the eternal in and through manifestation and beyond manifestation through the sacrifice and transformation of that which is manifest. – 93.24 (See also: 92.30, 94.26.)
And as the adage goes, before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
  • The purpose of carefully and consciously opening this channel is to serve in a more dependable way, in a more commonplace or usual way, as seen by the distortion complex of the healer. To others there may appear to be miracles. To the one who has carefully opened the door to intelligent infinity this is ordinary; this is commonplace; this is as it should be. The life experience becomes somewhat transformed and the great work goes on. – 6.1
Ra: [The orgasmic frontal lobe experiences of Jim, the scribe] are the beginnings of that which, as the body, the mind, and the spirit become integrated at the gateway, or indigo, level, may then yield not only the experience of joy but the comprehension of intelligent infinity which accompanies it. Thus the body complex orgasm and mind complex orgasm becoming integrated may then set forth the proper gateway for the spiritual complex integration and its use as a shuttle for the sacrament of the fully experienced presence of the One Infinite Creator. – 49.2
Questioner: The wings of Card Five, I am guessing…are a symbol of protection. Is this in any way correct?
Ra: I am Ra. Let us say that you are not incorrect but rather less than correct. The Significator owns a covenant with the spirit which it shall in some cases manifest through the thought and action of the adept. If there is protection in a promise, then you have chosen the correct sound vibration, for the outstretched wings of spirit, high above manifestation, yet draw the caged mind onward. – 99.7
Author’s Note: Sushumna
In yogic texts, a “nadi” is a channel through which pranic energy flows. The central nadi is known as “sushumna.” Beginning at muladhara (red ray) and running a straight line to ajna (indigo ray), it is centered in the spine. The other two primary pranic pathways, ida and pingala, move outward from this central axis at each energy center before curving back in to crisscross at the next center, all three meeting their terminus in indigo ray. (Picture the Caduceus, a symbol now used to represent modern medicine, with a central staff and two crisscrossing serpents wrapping around it.) I have a very strong feeling that sushumna correlates with, or is, the pathway, shuttle, or channel of the spirit complex, and that ida and pingala represent the mind and the body. In fact:
  • Questioner: Why is the negative path so much more difficult a path to attain harvestability upon than the positive?
Ra: I am Ra. This is due to a distortion of the Law of One which indicates that the gateway to intelligent infinity be a gateway at the end of a straight and narrow path as you may call it. – 17.33
“Straight and narrow” can have many connotations—including being evocative of focus, consistency, and purity of intention—but I believe that it is also literally descriptive of sushumna, the straight and the narrow central pranic pipeline in the body that is activated, according to pranayamic understanding, only when ida and pingala are balanced, stable, and sufficiently cleared. At the end of sushumna exists the gateway.
Furthermore, sidebar: the negative path would have a more difficult time opening the gateway because the negative entity must open the gateway from a lower point on that strait and narrow channel: the yellow ray.
There are many more correlations to be explored between Ra’s metaphysics and yogic and pranayamic studies. Not all are a one-to-one correspondence, but sufficient to be illuminating.
Citations:
For further exploration, see also:
  • 3.15, 4.2, 4.20, 6.14, 10.8, 18.18–19, 22.2, 34.12, 45.11, 53.11, 62.14, 63.13, 72.10, 73.22, 78.5, 92.19, 95.7, 105.20
  • How second-density entities become enspirited, or become aware of/awakened to the already-existing spirit complex: 19.2–3, 30.5, 30.12–13. (Investment: 13.21, 14.1–2, 30.13, 77.24, 105.10.)
  • Spiritual mass and gravity: 27.6, 29.15–18, 29.20–22, 36.8, 37.6, 37.8, 39.4–5, 40.1–2, 52.12
  • Spiritual pain: 18.11, 34.6, 35.8, 43.9–10, 73.22. | This is a concept I resonate with. Though not defined in TRC, there is a single quote in the conscious channeling, the only one I could find, on this subject:
    Q: Could you define the difference between emotional and spiritual pain?
    A: We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my sister. […] Spiritual pain is that pain which is involved in the spiritual complex as it is activated by the individual. Often, a mental or an emotional pain will strike so deeply that it feels as though it is striking to the very soul and most of the suffering of humankind is of this mental/emotional nature. Purely spiritual pain is quite rare, and yet it does occur. There are those who ache for lack of connection to the essence of their spiritual selves. It is as though such an entity is attempting to make a connection and is unable to do so. However, the vast majority of entities’ suffering is experienced in the mind and emotions.
  • Catalyst not used by mind or spirit is given to the body: 61.7. For similar dynamic regarding planet Earth, see 63.31
  • Chemicals opening up the spirit complex: 6.1
  • Sexual fusion in spirit: 32.9–10
  • Meditation conducive to work in spirit: 10.14
  • Spiritual childhood: 20.24. Spiritual attention span: 42.12
  • Wanderers may have an “armor of light” in the spirit complex: 16.59
  • The body as instrument of manifestation for fruits of spirit: 81.14
  • Physical conditions connected to spiritual charge or meaning: 66.13
  • Effect of nuclear devices upon the spirit complex: 26.21–30
  • Spiritual blockage: 51.5, 66.9, among others
  • Sexual energy transfer: 26.38, 48.2, among others
  • Third spiral and the spirit: 66.22
  • In relationship to death: 30.4, 47.15
  • Spiritual entropy: 7.15, 36.15, 46.9, 87.14
  • Adept/Spirit cycle: 61.3
  • Spirit complex unevenly developed among entities: 92.18
  • Spirit not used as a shuttle between the roots and the trunk of mind: 67.28–30
  • Spirit becoming complex: 78.19, 83.19,
  • Spirit as its own domain: 92.19, 93.12
  • Working with the spirit through body discipline: 40.14, 41.21
  • Weariness of the spirit: 94.7
  • Spirit as related to orange- and yellow-ray bodies: 47.8
  • The seven archetypes of spirit.
  • In this guide: Mind Complex | Body Complex | Gateway.