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Metaphysical Molecules, Part I

The search for a path through life

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Lee van Laer
Jul 03, 2024
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What are molecules?

Over the years, many people have asked me what I mean when I say that one can sense one’s  molecules… do I mean this literally?

And if so, how can I come to that experience?

First of all, yes, I mean this literally, but you can’t sense your ”molecules” with the senses of your own body. Only the body of the soul, as it begins to form, can sense your molecules. Furthermore, I put the word "molecules" quotation marks because in order to understand what I’m saying about it, it’s important to understand the nature of molecules, and exactly what the word means in its various levels.

The word is a diminutive of Latin moles meaning “mass.” So when we speak of molecules, we don't just speak of a group of atoms bonded together, which is the conventional meaning of the word in modern chemistry. We also think of their mass, their weight – which is a measurable quantitative quality formed through their relationship. Mass, keep in mind, generates gravity no matter how tiny the amount is. It has a cumulative force. We’re more familiar with it when it comes to planets and solar systems and so on, but even molecules have a gravity of their own formed by their mass. So when we speak of sensing our molecules, even in the most conventional sense, we speak of sensing their gravity.

In this way, perhaps you can immediately come to understand that sensing your molecules involves, at its root, sensing the gravity of what draws your being together into substance.

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