Chapter Three
The Energy Body

Mind and Consciousness

Consciousness is, in truth, the consciousness of love, for love, and the distortions of love, are all that there is.

Each person has a native vibration that is completely congruent with the Logos that created and formed all the millions of infinite universes. And each, through the process of taking on an incarnation, has signed up for a difficult yet rewarding term of service.

That consciousness, then, that some have called Christ-consciousness or cosmic consciousness, dwells within that vessel of skin and bones, muscles and thoughts. Each rattles around in this somewhat alien configuration, a spirit trapped, or just visiting. Most entities spend some time feeling very trapped, and yet this is an opportunity for which you wished very much. This was a trip for which you planned, setting up for yourself relationships that would help to focus your own heart and mind upon those lessons of love you, yourself, deemed to be the most telling and critical for you at this point.

And so that basic vibration of each is Love Itself, distorted, contracted, controlled, shall we say, by the various ways in which, by free will, the entity has chosen to limit or shape consciousness.³⁷

You are a Player of the Game of Life, according to Confederation philosophy. These next few chapters are about how to play the Game well. They deal with how your mind, body and spirit work. Getting a grip on this material concerning the energy body will help you to be a spiritual athlete as you come to the Gameboard each day.

Successful play on the Gameboard goes not to the swift but to the right-hearted. The Player runs a race with himself each day, seeking like the medieval knight for the Grail or spirit of truth, beauty and love which tells a story of the world aright and teaches our hearts to be wise and true.

In this chapter we discuss the energy body in general. In the following chapters we will look at it in more detail, one chakra or energy center at a time.

Consciousness is the deepest part of all of our minds. And access to this common consciousness is necessary in order to play the Game of Life well. Without access to this infinite consciousness, we are coming to our Gameboard with faulty and incomplete information.

We, as people, with our surface personalities awake and in control, always limit, color or shape consciousness by those attitudes and thoughts which constitute our prejudices and biases. Those are our “distortions.” We unconsciously see the world through the lenses of our basic assumptions and overall points of view.

Getting bad information is the natural condition of anyone who is not working with an opened heart. Of course we as Players would prefer not to get bad information. We therefore wish to open our hearts and keep them open, so the consciousness which dwells therein can inform us and broaden our points of view.

As I discuss consciousness and mind, remember that the object in understanding this material is to learn how better to color, limit and shape our underlying biases and better inform our points of view. Dipping up into the ocean of consciousness for spiritual guidance or Creator-ness—however you like to think of this resource of the deepest mind—helps us to make more informed and skilful choices through the insight, clarity and simplicity that short swim provides.

The Confederation entities use the word, “distortion” a lot. Everything is a distortion of the Law of One to the Ra group. The Logos, light and all the created suns or sub-Logoi are already distortions of the infinite Oneness of the unmanifest Creator. Each of us is a further focus of the Logos, a sub-sub Logos by the Ra’s terminology, and correspondingly more biased or colored.

It is expected and applauded that we will distort the infinite Oneness. Indeed, we cannot do otherwise, as all manifested things are illusory and therefore a distortion of the infinite and invisible One.

We need to get a handle, therefore, on the dual nature of our apparently unified brain functions. We need to understand how to move between and “play” the two quite different functions of the mind so that they work together. Once we get the picture and start to see how to be a competent Player, the game gets better, since we can compete with ourselves each day for having the most excellent day at the Gameboard yet.

I have never found any system of psychology to be nearly as helpful to me as the Confederation material on the energy body, in terms of helping me to find peace within myself and a feeling of quiet confidence in play on the Gameboard. It may be because the Confederation entities include the sacred in their explanation of how we work.

I have never found any system of religion to be nearly as easily acquired by a person with a logical mind as the Confederation material. This could be because religion often does not deal with consciousness, as a thing in itself, but rather with personifications of the Godhead. The Confederation material, on the other hand, describes those energy expenditures that govern our daily experiences in an intellectually satisfying fashion.

A virtue of this material is that it is neutral in tone. It offers resources rather than dogma.

Earlier in this report, as we looked at the rules affecting play on the Gameboard, we found that the Game is about making ethical choices according to our chosen polarity. You and I have chosen to polarize in service to others. We both are working on polarizing towards making compassionate choices, offering loving words and creating thoughtful and generous ways of dealing with our world and the people we know.

Mind, Consciousness and Perception

“What affects the energy body most is the thoughts that one has. Therefore, if one is improving one’s diet, and is happy about it, the information of the improved diet moves into the chakra body as good news.

If, on the other hand, an entity is plodding through a dietary regimen that is prescribed for an illness, but that entity is unhappy and feels constricted by this regimen, then the information that is given to the chakra body will be quite different. It will seem like a negative thing to the chakra body, rather than a positive thing.

For the chakra body is not listening to the doctor; nor is it listening to ideas that contain the word “should.” It is only listening to the feelings and the thought forms involved in the translation of physical effects into the feelings and the sensations of the body. A happy heart is more helpful to the chakra system than a good diet. A peaceful mind is more helpful to the chakra system than exercise.” ³⁸

Making choices skillfully is not simply an intellectual matter, though I wish it were sometimes! Making good choices is often not simple at all. The facts of a situation are not the whole of the situation. Our biases and presuppositions color the way we see things. Our attitudes substantially and critically affect our perceptions. The Q’uo offers a good example in the q’uote above.

We generally swim in a sea of sensation, multi-tasking as we go. Moments of choice often take us by surprise. This is because we are generally only partly attending to the present moment. We seldom meet this present moment of “now” with our full and undivided attention.³⁹ Instead we are often thinking of what is next on our to-do list.

We spend time smiling at golden memories. And often we spend more time walking down the sadder bits of Memory Lane, wasting our energy on regrets and second thoughts which distract us from play on the Gameboard.

This chapter is about learning how our minds, bodies and spirits all work together. The model we are taught, in terms of how to think of ourselves, is basically as a body with a mind and something vaguely thought to be a soul.

Our culture and our teachers assume each of us has only one mind. We are taught that some people have big brains and some have smaller ones. We are taught that some people are artistic and therefore right-brained and others are logical and reasonable and therefore left-brained. There is no assumption that there is a faculty of mind beyond the feelings and perceptions that are generated by the brain.

For Players of the Game of Life, however, this assumption is faulty. To the Confederation, what we think of as our minds is only part of their definition of “mind.” In this report I have separated out the deepest portion of mind in their system for ease in talking about it and getting used to using it. The deepest portion of the mind in Confederation philosophy is consciousness.

Consciousness is the sea of Being which is of the one infinite Creator. It is made of unconditional love. In our normal state of mind, we may not have access to consciousness. Consciousness dwells within our mind in a non-local, non-physical locus intersecting our energy body in the heart chakra.

What is this energy body? The Confederation material suggests that the energy body is what connects our physical bodies to our eternal spirits or souls. This energy body interpenetrates our physical body and is inseparable from it during our lifetimes.

Visualize your body standing erect. See the vertebrae of your spine. Place over that connected series of bones another body: a kind of energy pipeline. That pipeline is the energy body. It consists, in the system offered by the Confederation, of seven connected chakras or energy centers. This slightly egg-shaped energy tube of chakras runs up the spine from its base to its tip.

The energy body holds the blueprint of our perfect body; our body at birth—the body that came into incarnation “from the factory” so to speak. It is the train on which we were riding when we arrived. And it is also the train we will ride when we depart. It is not physical as we understand physicality, but it is connected to our physical bodies. Fringe scientists from Russia to the United States have alleged—I will not say proved—that this energy body weighs about 20 grams or three-quarters of an ounce.

We do not have to worry about losing the connection between our physical bodies and our energy bodies. The two are firmly attached via a kind of umbilical cord which some have called the “silver cord.” This energy body has a profound effect upon our experience of life. And the reverse is also true. Our feelings and thoughts have a strong influence on our energy body. Therefore, we need to understand how the two bodies work together in order to offer to us the experience of living a lifetime on planet Earth.

Power to the People: Fuel for the Energy Body

Picture with us, if you will, the creature that you are. You receive this information along your spine, in the physical lines of a system of energy, reception and usage. It is fed infinitely, in an unending supply, by the love and the light of the one Creator.

That light is literally sent down into the heart of the Earth, your mother, who then pours it from the center of the Earth—or you might even say the womb of the Earth—up through the Earth into the soles of your feet, into your body system, so that it is constantly streaming into your energy system at the red-ray level and rising as it will up and out through the top of your head to the gateway to intelligent infinity.⁴⁰

When we think about how our bodies get the energy to live a life, we immediately think of food and drink. We assume that we need solid and liquid nutrients in order to be healthy. This assumption is correct, except in those very rare and perhaps mythical cases where a yogi claims literally to live on light. When we are unable to locate a source of water or other liquid, we will die within three weeks. If we cannot find food, we will die within three months.

Even if a person finds food enough to live, without certain substances the body suffers ill health. For instance, the bodies of those who are not able to include in their diet a minimal amount of protein from beans, dairy products and meats are unable to process food properly or to perform various cellular functions which are essential to life.

This is the kind of nutritional information we are taught from childhood. To this day I arrange the meals I serve by food groups: protein, leafy vegetables, fruit and carbohydrates top the list. As far as this kind of thinking goes, it is good. But it is limited to the concept of the body as something purely physical.

The Confederation sees the body in a more extended and detailed way. The Ra group calls a person a “mind/body/spirit complex.” Notice that in their phrase, the body is the second part of the complex to be listed, not the first. The first or dominant part of the complex is the mind.

The Confederation says that the body is the creature of the mind. What we feel physically is heavily influenced by our thoughts and emotions. Involved in the word, “mind,” are the emotions, feelings, intuitions, gut reactions and biases which inform our thoughts and delimit our ways of processing thought. If this extended mind, including our feelings and biases, is out of power, the physical body will not experience health, no matter how good the diet may be.

The food we eat does not send power to these mental parts of our mind/body/spirit complex. Our emotions, thoughts, intuitions and inspirations are fuelled by a more subtle kind of energy. When it comes to the deepest basis of health and well-being, these subtle energies are far more influential in creating wellness within us than food and drink.

What is this subtle energy and power source? We see evidence of that power every day when the sun shines in our part of the world. The Confederation describes the subtle energy as “the love and the light of the one infinite Creator.” The outward and visible symbol of the Creator’s love/light is the light of our Sun. This same love/light’s inward and invisible nature pours into our energy body in infinite supply.

Just as the Creator’s outward love/light, the sun, brings life to the plant world by offering it light for photosynthesis and the food its interactions with plants develops, the Creator’s inward love/light brings energy and vitality to our energy bodies.

The model offered by the Q’uo group in the above quote shows the love and light of the Creator stemming from the infinite mystery of the unmanifest Creator. This love/light forms the creation’s suns. Each sun then creates unique additional details to this love/light energy which make the energy well suited to the planets of that particular sun. That limitless love/light which is the inner nature of our sun’s outward sunlight pours from the sun into the body of its planets. It is collected into the hearts or central cores of the planets.

Each planet is an entity, says the Confederation. It is accurate to call our planet Mother Earth. She is alive and aware. She loves the points or focuses of consciousness which live upon her. We humans are some of those points of consciousness. Mother Earth loves us without reservation, the best of mothers, and she feeds us well. She radiates a never-ending supply of limitless love/light which feeds the energy bodies of each of her children.

While we are going about our daily lives, sleeping, eating, working and enjoying leisure hours, our energy bodies are constantly receiving a limitless source of vital energy. If there are no stoppages of the flow of that energy as it flows through our chakras or energy centers, we experience a feeling of well-being and a good, positive state of mind.

We all want to have that well-being and good state of mind. What many psychologists, as well as spiritually based sources like the Confederation, say is that we can effectively block our own sense of well-being. Indeed we can make ourselves miserable. And often we are not aware that it is our own attitudes and thoughts that are destroying our peace of mind and leaching away our vital energy.

This infinite love/light enters the physical body at the feet, as if flowing into the body from the Earth itself. It enters the energy body at the first chakra or energy center, the red-ray center, which is located at the base of the spine. It exits the body at the seventh chakra or energy center, the violet-ray center, which is located at the top of the head.

The chakra system can be seen as prismatic in nature, possessing the various colors within “white” light. As the love/light moves up the energy pipeline, each color is used by the ascending chakras. The order of coloration is just like the rainbow’s. Remember the acronym for the colors of the rainbow: “Roy G. Biv”? Mr. Biv helps us to remember the colors in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

These rainbow-hued energy centers march along the physical spine, a kind of companion energy “spine.” The red-ray chakra is found at the base of the spine, at the groin level. The orange-ray chakra is found at the level of the mid-abdomen. The yellow-ray chakra is located at the solar plexus level. The green-ray chakra is found at the level of the heart. The blue-ray chakra is located at the level of the throat. The indigo-ray chakra is found at the forehead level. And the violet-ray chakra is located at the top of the head. This is the basic coloration and structure of our energy bodies.

The red energy center is the first of the seven chakras or rays. It is the first center which receives the incoming supply of infinite love/light. When we are overly concerned about issues of survival and sexuality, we can block the incoming love/light at the red-ray energy center.

The next chakra is located at the level of the abdomen. It is the orange-ray energy center. When we are worried about our relationships, either our internal relationship with ourselves or our relationships with others in the outer world, we can block the energy there.

Rising up the energy body, the next chakra is the yellow-ray energy center, located at the solar plexus level between waist and chest. When we are having trouble with our marriages, our birth families, our work environments or other groups and legal entities, we can block the energy there.

When people are blocked in one, two or all three of these first basic centers, this means that love/light is not sufficiently supplied to the fourth and next chakra up the pipeline, which is the heart or green-ray energy center. Without a sufficient supply of energy into the heart chakra, the heart cannot get open or stay open. The clarity of mind which comes from having the heart center open cannot be found. Without that open heart’s clarity, it is very hard to make loving and compassionate choices in ethical situations.

So keeping these first three energy centers unblocked is essential for the Player of the Game of Life. Without food into the heart center, we are stuck with the senses and the intellects of our physical bodies, which are like those of a great ape. Our physical bodies are of the great ape family, as are our physical minds. The physical mind is a tool designed to make choices, and it is a good tool, but the parameters of intellectual choice tend to be limited to earthly, logical options. This works well for ethically neutral choices we make like which food to buy at a grocery or what room to tidy first on cleaning day. When the intellectual mind faces ethical choices, however, it tends to fail to be able fully to value the issue at hand.

The great ape has a distinctively social nature. Its values are those of the family and the clan. It will defend its territory to protect its clan. It will conserve resources to feed its clan and keep it warm in cold weather. It will create a hierarchical structure within its clan which honors those who are skilled in leadership, charismatic expression, crafts, fighting, wisdom or healing. It creates a pecking order where everyone knows his or her place. And it will shun or actively attack those who do not belong to that clan, who are unlike it in looks or who seem to constitute a danger to the clan.

These biases and attitudes are sufficient to power a player through life on the flat game board.

They are entirely insufficient to power a Player through life on the Gameboard.

To feed this consciousness that is the environment of your spirit or soul, which rests within the energy body and distinguishes it from the physicality of the purely animal world, you need the Creator’s love/light. And when you block that love/light, through your tension, worry and over-concern about the details of life, you are, as Lacy J. Dalton puts it, “standing knee-deep in the water and dying of thirst.” ⁴¹

Using Mind and Consciousness Together

From the point of view of the heart, the workings of the intellect seem young, untrained and immature. However, it is our feeling that it is helpful not to scorn the use of the intellect completely but to depend primarily upon the knowing aspect of the heart, and then move into the use of the intellect, directing the intellect rather than being directed by the intellect, in the perfectly just and reasonable attempt to look into what might be happening.⁴²

The infinite waters of consciousness are all about us all the time. Our intellectual minds are not aware of them nor are they disposed to seek them. Why not? Let us look at this issue of intellectual mind versus consciousness, using the analogy of how computers work.

The mind of the physical body is our intellect. I do not use the word, intelligence, as when we call someone intelligent we tend to imply that they are using some degree of consciousness as well as their intellect.

This intellect is our very own “bio-computer.” It may have many features in common with other people’s intellectual capacities but it remains unique to each of us. We work our brains by focusing our will and steadying our attention on our chosen subject. Someone whose intellect is high is said to possess a powerful mind. The intellect uses its power like a bulldozer to push the subject at hand into an organization which makes logical sense. Its favorite tools are words. It writes its programs using the language of words.

The mind of the energy body is consciousness. Consciousness can also be termed “the mind of the heart,” the “consciousness of spirit,” “cosmic awareness,” “Christ-consciousness” and “cosmic consciousness.” This consciousness is part of the unitary nature of the Gameboard. It writes its programs by concepts rather than by words.

Those who are relatively able to access consciousness within their daily lives are said to be inspired, blessed or gifted. It is as though the user of consciousness is touched by a more spacious point of view and given a higher degree of insight. This consciousness does not wield power in the same aggressive sense in which the intellectual mind wields power. Its inspirations come quietly into the asking heart.

Consciousness will not overwrite the programming of the intellectual mind unless asked to do so. This can occur in unusual circumstances which delete the normal intellectual functions and allow consciousness to be substituted as the default setting.

We all have access to this same consciousness, which is the vibration of unconditional love; the vibration of the Logos. It is the steady state of vibration for the entire creation. It is an ocean of creativity and insight into which we can enter when we have been able to balance and clear our lowest three energy centers.

We have a fair grasp of what our intellects can do. The intellect solves problems. It uses logic and expects to stick close to the facts of what the senses can ascertain and what the authorities, usually scientists, tell us is so. It is a good, competent tool as far as it goes. It is good to use the intellect when its powers of analysis and organization can help to solve a problem.

Consciousness is quite another kind of mind. Indeed, its basic nature is that of the soul or spirit within us. Insight, intuition, purified emotions, “knowing” or gnosis and inspiration are its hallmarks. Its power to inspire is limited only by our ability to take our intellects off-line and clear the way for access to this “mind of the heart” that we call consciousness is.

Our intellects will die when our bodies die. Our consciousness will not even break stride. And I say this having experienced physical death. At the age of 13, my kidneys went into renal failure. My heart stopped beating. I stopped breathing. I remained dead for about two minutes while doctors worked to start my heart again.

I experienced no loss of consciousness during this event. I did shift environments. I immediately found myself in another sort of body, seemingly identical to my physical body but a perfect version of it, unblemished, that factory-default body I spoke of earlier.

When I came back into my physical body and into this world again, opening my physical eyes and seeing the doctors and nurses standing over my hospital bed, I felt the impact of returning to my very pain-ridden physical body, but again, there was no change in my awareness. Consciousness abides. As points or focuses of consciousness, we are citizens of eternity.

In the physical world, we are used to proving things. The whole of plane geometry, for example, is one proof after another of the correctness of mathematical relationships or ratios. I remember the delight of getting my homework problems solved and putting at the bottom of my proof “QED,” the quaint Latin phrase still used by mathematicians: “Quod erat demonstrandum.” Its translation is “that which has been demonstrated.”

Scientific theories are tested in carefully devised studies to demonstrate or prove their accuracy. Our society is enamored of the scientific method. Scientific proof is delicious! It makes us feel powerful to have the world divided up into tidy facts.

The consciousness that is unconditional love does have demonstrable effects on physical objects, such as the crystalline nature of water changing when loving thoughts are directed towards it. Emoto’s photographs show that loving thoughts affect crystalline structures in water. However the connection is impossible to prove except by circumstantial evidence.

We will find no joy when we try to prove anything metaphysical, like the existence of love or consciousness. The faculty or type of mind that is consciousness does not yield to scientific proof. It is not logical. In the human sense, it is not reasonable. The faculty of true consciousness sleeps, like folklore’s Snow White, in our hearts until we awaken it with the kiss of our seeking to find it.

There are times when consciousness creeps up on us and grants us gifts we did not expect. When we see something very beautiful, like a sudden sighting of a bluebird or a glimpse of the sun cutting through an overcast in Sunday-school rays, we can feel our spirits lift in response.

When we hear the music we enjoy, our whole being responds to the rhythm of the song. Listening to music alters our brain chemistry as we respond to what we perceive as pleasant or unpleasant sounds. Music may not help us learn better, as some have claimed, but its impact on our mood and biochemistry is testable.⁴³ Unlike normal spoken words, the voice lifted in song and music in general carries a vibration which contains consciousness itself

When someone inspires us by the beauty of what they write or say, our hearts seem to open and be lifted up with our reaction. We can feel the effects of consciousness rising up into our everyday mentality. We cannot locate consciousness or prove that we have it. We can certainly feel the difference between the thoughts of the mind and the thoughts and feelings of the heart.

In discussing the energy body in the next chapter, we will look at the various chakras and how we can work with each of them to integrate our consciousness and our intellects better within our daily lives.

The intellect—the mind of the physical body—works well on the flat gameboard. It does not really know how to use consciousness. Consciousness—the mind of the heart and soul—works well on the Gameboard. Consciousness can use the intellect, and we need both faculties working together in order to be an effective Player. We live in both worlds simultaneously as we play the Game of Life. We need to be able to use both faculties and to integrate the two streams of information and thought as we go.

Play on the Gameboard starts on the gameboard of everyday, the commonplace events of our living being the incoming catalyst. We receive this catalyst with our intellect and also with the surface emotions which are part of the response system of our physical bodies. We examine the catalyst. Much catalyst is ethically neutral.

Some catalyst is charged with the potential for making an ethical choice. We as Players detect the incoming catalyst which involves an ethical decision. We toggle up to play on the Gameboard in our minds. We invite our consciousness to join our intellect in the consideration of this catalyst. We use all the faculties of consciousness such as guidance, insight and intuition to find our way to the most informed ethical decision. We set our intention to offer our highest and best response. In doing so, our work on the Gameboard is done. Then we mentally toggle back down to the flat gameboard, where we express and manifest our response in the context of our everyday lives.

Until we are able to keep our energy pipelines open into our hearts reliably, we will have trouble dealing well with ethical issues in life. Because without our heart centers being open, we cannot access the consciousness that is our higher or metaphysical mind.

Therefore, as we discuss the various energy centers and their issues, keep in mind that the goal, in dealing with each energy center and the issues with which it deals, is to bring each energy center into a sufficient state of balance so that our feelings are not caught up in a way that hinders the flow of vital energy through the energy center.

Think of the study of the energy centers as the equivalent of driving lessons. We are each in possession of a mind/body/spirit complex that is the physical vehicle in which we live our lives here on planet Earth. In order to pilot this mind/body/spirit vehicle, we need information. We need to know how our machine works. We need to know how to maintain it and care for it.

Only then can we be skilful Players, moving between the flat gameboard where we receive our catalyst and manifest our choices and the Gameboard where we choose how to respond to that incoming catalyst of happenstance and event, using our gifts of higher consciousness, the “mind of the heart.”

When we decide to become Players, we will find that our whole attitude towards catalyst changes. Winston Churchill said life was “one damn thing after another.” Before we become Players, this is the sum of our experience of incoming catalyst. It’s just one thing after another. After we have chosen to be a Player of the Game of Life, however, everything becomes potential material for polarizing. Instead of ducking ethical decisions, we relish the chance to play the Game.

Another facet of the Player’s experience is that he will discover that the Game of Life becomes progressively richer as the Play continues. As Players become more skilful, they discover that all catalyst, no matter how seemingly inconsequential, has the potential for ethical choice. Every bit of catalyst has the capacity to take on an aura of consciousness. Consciousness sees the Creator in every chore and duty. Every single thing we do can become sacred.