Essays

Spiritual Emanations
By Tom Butler

Now that the holidays have passed and we are looking forward to the new year with renewed intention and expectation for ourselves, I thought it might be appropriate to talk about the part we play in the unfoldment of creation. How is it that we can be co-creators with God?

I will begin by saying that in my worldview, we enter into the Human condition to experience the physical reality, and through that experience, to gain spiritual maturity and a sense of Self as an individual. Life is an experience in itself. We learn from living, and as we gain in spiritual maturity, we learn to do more than simply live. We actively seek out experiences so that we may learn still more. As we grow, we will come to see benefit for ourselves in even the most uncomfortable situations.

After a time, we become aware of Natural Law and learn to recognize the many ways it applies to our behavior. This understanding then, becomes part of our worldview and is what we carry with us back to the higher planes.

One might get the impression that Physical Reality has been created solely for our education. Actually, it may have been, but not without a hitch. I would like to bring to you the thought that we may have a responsibility to give something back to God's created reality, even as we learn the spiritual lessons.

I will begin to explain what I mean with Gaia. Back in 1970, James Lovelock brought us the Gaia Hypothesis¹, which proposes that the planet and all of its component parts behaves "as if" it were a living organism. In this hypothesis, each part interacts with other parts in a symbiotic relationship that is both interdependent and mutually complementary. In other words, as we benefit from the world we live in, we also do things to benefit the world in ways to further enhance our survivability.

Sometimes you have to look pretty close to see it, but in my experience, the Gaia Hypothesis works quite well. The most evident examples are in how living organisms modify their environment to enhance their survivability. For example, how leaves composting at the base of a tree increases the humidity of the tree's root zone so that nitrogen fixing organisms will grow there, thus supplying nitrogen to feed the tree. You could call this a lucky coincidence . . . or Gaia at work.

Many people think of Humankind as the nervous system for Gaia. As such, it is believed Humankind has the responsibility to be shepherds to the other components of the Gaia organism. If taken as a group, I believe you will see how Natural Law may support this perspective as well.

Now, if you team the Gaia Hypothesis with the Natural Law of Continuum, which states, "As above, so below," then you can begin to see how all of God's created reality might behave as if it were a living organism. Just as we do here in the physical world, we would have a part to play as an aspect of the universal organism. That part is what I wish to talk to you about today.

Last June, I awoke from a dream still hearing a person tell me that, "In the mature years a person begins to produce a valuable energy or spiritual substance through their work." The voice went on to say that this energy is referred to as GaDee. And here, I must admit that the term "GaDee" is what remained of my memory of the dream after I had found paper and a pen. The actual word may be somewhat different.

Another way of describing this GaDee my be with what we mean by "the fabric of God." For instance, people who take particular care to perform even the simplest tasks to the best of their ability, are said to be of the Fabric of God. Their approach to life, their world view if you will, exemplifies what we believe to be the nature of God.

So you can see, as I was given in the dream, under certain circumstances we produce or emanate a valuable form of spiritual energy. The sense I have of GaDee is that it is an emanation of the same order as the Loosh referred to by Rober Monroe in his book, Far Journeys.² As some of you may know, Robert Monroe spent much of his later years traveling out of his body. As an engineer, his world view permitted him to experience and report on reality more or less unfettered by cultural expectations. In Far Journeys, Mister Monroe describes receiving a Rote from one of his teachers while he was projecting out of his physical body. As he defines it, a rote is a packet of spiritual energy which contain everything you would ever want to know about a particular subject.

Loosh is a specialized form of spiritual energy emanated as a strong outpouring of emotion. Mister Monroe had difficulty finding words to describe the kind of emotion shown to him by Spirit. However, from his description, I interpret Loosh to be the strongly felt love and the deep feelings we associate with an especially meaningful religious experience or with a great passion for life. The Loosh Rote describes entities from a finer level of reality cultivating crops of living creatures in an effort to acquire Loosh. In the rote, each successive generation of the crop produced a finer quality of Loosh, the objective being to develop a source for high quality Loosh plentiful enough to be distributed throughout reality.

This makes a lot of sense. In principle, the spiritual energy we receive from God is undifferentiated energy, much as white light is undifferentiated visible energy. We receive this raw spiritual energy into our Self and then emanate it into our environment as differentiated energy according to our world view. It is this emanated energy that we and other entities use to create reality, local and universal. What we are being told with the Loosh Rote and through my dream, is that under certain conditions, the energy we emanate is of a particularly high quality. As we gain in spiritual maturity, our emanations become stronger and more pure in nature. In this way, we influence the universal organism, just as suggested in the Gaia Hypothesis and the Law of Continuum.

As I attempt to describe examples of the many types of emanations we produce, you will notice that I struggle to find different ways of saying essentially the same thing, even though the nature of the emanation is clearly different. We always emanate spiritual energy. What I am attempting to describe here, is the product of peak performance on our part during which time, we produces particularly strong emanations. Naturally, there are different flavors or colors to our emanations but they can all be described in terms of a strong outpouring of intention, be it resulting from emotion or from focused activity. Most of all, they result from heart-felt, unselfish thoughts that are in accordance with Natural Law.

I offer you the following seven categories to illustrate the concept. Of course, there may be other names for these, such as Loosh and GaDee, but let me speak of them in their more earthly terms.

• First and foremost, there is Love. Not just any kind of love, although all true love will include some quality energy. You may remember moments in your experience during which you ached with the sense of love for a friend or a relative, your family or even your nation. Think of the quality of your emanations when you are provoked to urgent action in defense of someone else. Can you remember the power of your intention?

• Work well done. When you are performing any activity with attention to detail and the heart-felt desire to do a good job, you can be sure that you are actively emanating quality energy.

• Healing yourself or others. I believe we begin emanating quality energy from the moment we are possessed with the desire to heal someone. This emanation seems to peak while we experience the feeling of certainty that healing is being accomplished.

• During the process of creation. Peak emanation is occurring during the moment of creation in art or other creative endeavors. You may recognize times when you are in deep concentration and focused on the creative process.

• Yearning for what might have been or might be. The "gee, what if" feeling we sometimes have. I recognize this as the feeling of desire to do, be or know something beyond what is possible for me at the moment. Homesickness was like this for me when I was in the service.

• The sense of certainty. The moment of realization or understanding. Gestalt of knowing.

• Finally, there is one emanation that you will find most helpful in your personal growth. To paraphrase Paul Twitchell who was the founder of Eckankar, "I found that when I adopted an attitude of childlike wonder and gratitude, and if I maintained that attitude for a period of time, great things would come to me." I believe childlike wonder and gratitude for what Spirit has and will bring to you, is the most beneficial way you can approach your meditation. The emanation of gratitude, is especially powerful.

Other emotions, such as hate and lust are not on this list, or what I sometimes refer to as God's rainbow. The colors of this rainbow represent peak output of spiritual energy. Emotions such as hate, may be the absence of these higher emanations, just as darkness is the absence of light.

In summery. Just as we are aspects of a higher organism here on the Physical Plan so are we aspects of the universal organism, with the attendant benefits and responsibilities. Through our emanation of quality spiritual energy, we are fulfilling our roll as citizens of God's created reality.

I will finish by pointing out that these emanations appear to attract Spirit to us. In this way, I believe it is true to say that the more quality Spirit you emanate, the more Spirit will come to you. Also, as you are emanating strong spiritual energy of a healing nature, for instance, you may be attracting entities of a similar bent to come to you and further enhance your emanations. So it is the nature of the universal organism to promote beneficial behavior in all of its aspects.

[1]    James Lovelock, The Age of Gaia, The Commonwealth Fund Book Program, W. W. Norton and Company, 1988.

[2]    Robert Monroe, Journeys out of Body, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1971.

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