The Three Matrix Cards

[Foha]

I am interested in how mind, body, spirit relate.  I like how you wrote that you think the body might be depending more directly from spirit than mind.  I have had this thought as well.  I see the body as more pure, like spirit.  Whereas I see the mind more corrupt.  However the mind is somehow at the forefront of our evolution and will power, which also seems essential to spirit.  So not sure exactly what spirit is, but I do know I do not put the mind in higher regard over body, as a lot of people/ great thinkers do.  I think it is through the purity/experience of the body that we access the idea of god's will.  But it's the mind where free will is harnessed but then ultimately like sublimated?? Not sure.or let me try this another way.  The mind gives us access to the choice and the experience of the body's lead of helping find that choice???  I don't know!! Any thoughts???

In my opinion, spirit and body are essentially opposites. The nature of spirit is to unify, just as the nature of the body is to segregate. The mind is the mediator between those two. The spirit sees all as one, and the body sees all as separate. All three are forms of consciousness. The mind reflects the in pourings of spirit and the up pourings from the body complex. Just a like a mirror inverts the image being reflected upon it, so does the mirror of the mind invert the image of spirit into it's perfect opposite (the physical world reflects the spiritual world in opposite). So the physical world acts as a way for us to see what still needs to be balanced in our spirit complex. The mind isn't just a mirror, it is a mirror than can bend and distort as well. It can turn into a sort of "fun-house" mirror if it becomes extremely distorted, resulting in a correspondingly distorted physical world manifestation (because spirit cannot reflect properly). This is the case for most humans. This is why the mind must be initiated first, so the body can be a true reflection of the spirit, and then with both body and mind balanced, the spirit can be gradually worked upon (or rather, fully manifested) until a perfect reflection is obtained that is undistorted. This is when one sees the great way of the spirit, with all elements working in harmony. You might call that a vision of god, so to speak. Contact with intelligent infinity.

Wow, thank you anagogy!

This really helped me on a fundamental level. I can't thank everyone in this thread enough.
I really am glad I found the Ra Material as well as this forum. I am blessed to be able to listen to some of what is talked about here.