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Transpersonal Activity versus Mediumship - 2
While the materialistic reductionist cannot see farther than his senses and analytical
intellectual processes allow, the Spiritualist has not yet left the stage of subservience to
forces belonging to the level of collective psychism and emotional mass-vibrations —
collective hopes, fears, or expectations, which take control of the all-too-open "medium." In
the past these forces may have been associated with the thought-forms, psychological
tensions, or emotions of a once living, now deceased personality; but they also may be
direct or inverted projections of inner confusion and longing with which the passive,
undeveloped mind is unable to deal frontally and to integrate within an individualized
structure of selfhood. Once the process of individualization is definitely under way, the
vertical interaction of ascending and descending movements should be discernible in any
situation which can be called ever so slightly creative, transformative, or revelatory. The
two levels may not be ready for full interpenetration yet, but one should speak of
interaction rather than action and reaction; for evolution is essentially a two-way process.
Several levels of activity can be distinguished in a present-day, developed human
being; and all interact in various ways according to the particular person's stage of
development. The two extreme levels may be succinctly called "spirit" and "matter," but
the whole situation involves a definite spiritual Quality seeking precise and concrete
actualization in a differentiated form (a person) of the material substance of our planet,
according to a fundamental archetypal structure. To human beings with limited senses,
the earthly substance is "physical"; but senses capable of responding to more subtle and
differentiated vibrations would perceive finer substances, material formations, and
vibratory energies. Theoretically, these exist in everyone already but are mostly latent;
eventually the entire planet may experience a transmutation resulting in their concrete
actualization. Thus the matter referred to instatements about the concluding omega stage
of a great planetary cycle, when spirit and matter are to be integrated in a perfect form of
being, is not the kind of substance that can be perceived or touched by today's gross senses
or coarse hands. It will have to be a materiality so sensitive and attuned to the vibrations
of spiritual Qualities that a process of total harmonization and interpenetration can be
consummated at least partially.
This consummation can occur only within and through an adequate form or structure;
otherwise, however valuable the results may be, one can speak only of mediumship. Thus
a process of form-building is required. It is a process that unfolds in two phases: first, in
terms of collective structuring (a culture and systems of social organization), then in terms
of the individualization of persons from the collective cultural matrices. The building of
the form (or alchemical vessel) required for the harmonization and interpenetration of a
spiritual Quality and a particular type of earth-materials is the work of mind. The human
mind operates at two levels: the level of archetypes (formulas of organization, which are
not concrete entities until human beings imagine them that way), and the level of
collective cultural and personal (or egocentric) structuring.
Initially, personhood is merely a particularization of a culture-whole's collective
structures (symbols, myths, traditional beliefs, modes of thinking, feeling, behaving, and
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