The Alignment of Spiritual Molecules, part III

The search for a path through life

Because of chirality and the reflective nature of being, every molecule in our natural body has a peculiar and undocumented relationship to a like molecule which is reflected in our spiritual Being-body. In this sense, we’re exploring piece of territory that needs to be savored and pondered from within a place where thinking has a different kind of flexibility and intelligence than ordinary associations.

Here, the reflected and that which it reflects are related to one another, and can influence one another in an ongoing dialog between the spiritual and natural worlds.

This, of course, is illustrated by the fact that natural molecules that come into contact influence one another. As they come into contact with our inner spiritual level, they’re also influenced by spiritual molecules; and the spiritual molecules are reciprocally affected by natural ones. (This is one of the almost completely unknown & entirely esoteric meanings of Gurdjieff’s law of reciprocal feeding.)

There is, in other words, an exchange of substances on an invisible level between the spiritual and natural world that science doesn’t recognize and that we rarely, if ever, sense; and yet the action of our soul in our Being—the nature of our existence, our Self— on this planet is perpetually influenced by that. It would not be going too far to say that the life of our soul depends on it. Just as Gurdjieff says that the soul is something we do not have by default, but must grow, one can also see that the growing soul may become malnourished, or even starved to death without the right kind of attention.