Deva by Jacquelyn E. Lane

Author:Jacquelyn E. Lane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality/Nature
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2020-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

Mental Plane Illusion and Pitfalls

Just as the astral plane has its illusions, so too does the mental plane. Of course, these illusions have a different quality. For instance, ideals, originally lofty, can quickly be distorted into an idealism that becomes narrow and blind to the bigger picture.

If we look at Fig 10 again, we can clearly see the distortion from the still-point to the outer extremes of the waveform as it makes its way into density. It’s the distortion at every level that creates the illusions at every level. You may find that the illusions of each plane are sometimes given different names: Maya for the physical plane, Glamour for the astral plane and Illusion for the mental plane. Whatever it’s level or label, the illusion is our inability to see the true quality of the substance of that plane. Again, we can see why spiritual teachings, especially those from the East, emphasize the importance of maintaining a still centre, walking the middle path, learning to align with our higher being, detached from the vast swings of emotion or thought forms which distort both our true nature and the true nature and source of the substance we are using.

We also need to remember that we don’t always develop evenly. So, someone who has a highly developed intellect may not have developed empathy to other people’s struggles and shortcomings, and their unbalanced achievements in the mental plane result in a sense of superiority over those who do not live their lives here. We may be faced with another lifetime that forces that missing learning upon us. While detachment is a necessary part of our upward spiritual journey, it is detachment from identification with the substance of each plane (physical, emotional or mental) not a disregard for the suffering of others.

How do we overcome mental plane illusions? The same way we got this far. We habitually raise our consciousness to a higher level until it actually rests there rather than just occasionally operates from there. Meantime, our physical, astral and mental elementals are the ladder we must use to make that climb, defeating our own Balrogs on the way.

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