The Alignment of Spiritual Molecules, Part I

The search for a path through life

In the midst of these discussions about the Spiritual Periodic Table, a few comments on alignment seem appropriate.

I've noticed that many people don't seem to have much of an education in biology. It’s a curiosity, of no more than passing interest in the midst of the intensity of demands to get food, sex, money, and so on. No one needs it to get on in life, so to speak, unless one plans to enter a profession such as agriculture or medicine, where it’s important.

Yet a great deal of the meaning that can be extracted from life is enhanced and imparted by understanding the nature of the biological world, which has many lessons to teach us about our spiritual nature – if we pay attention to it.

This is because the biological world is a reflection of the spiritual world: not the place in which the spirit arises, and the place which it inhabits. Not the locus of its activities, even; the spiritual world is a different world that we have very little sense of most of the time, because we’re so deeply inserted into this relatively much denser world of matter, which we naïvely believe in as what is ultimately real. We don't sense that the world of matter is what is proximally real, which is very different: that which is immediately real within the current surroundings and context. What is proximally real is mutabily real and dependent on objects, events, circumstances, and conditions which constantly change.

The absolutely real is of a quite different material.