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Transpersonal Activity versus Mediumship - 4
A definite contact between Pleroma beings and creative or transformative persons or
groups is a vertical relationship, but so is the relationship between the spiritual trinity
within the total field of selfhood and the physical brain, nerves, and muscles of a
particular individual. The latter is the case, however, only if (a very important "if"!) the
person's higher mind is adequately formed. Only then can it act as an instrumentality for
transmission — as a symbolic lens condensing and transmitting the intentional activity of
the spiritual constituents of the total human being.
Such a total human being, however, is not merely a "person." Personhood is only one
aspect of total selfhood. So is the sexual polarity of the body. Personhood refers to culture,
gender to biological sexual differentiation. Therefore, a creative human being should be
called neither "he" nor "she," neither English nor Russian. Yet the current of creative,
transformative, or healing activity emanating from the spiritual trinity has to flow "down,"
as it were, through the culture-conditioned mind and the sexually differentiated physical
body. During the passage, the creative current acquires secondary characteristics. In many
instances, these conflict with, deviate, or impair the integrity of the archetypal purpose
giving form to whatever the creative-transformative current was to convey, exteriorize,
and express.
When this happens — and it presumably always happens to some degree — selfexpression
is ambiguous or ambivalent. Indeed the prefix self may refer only to the level
of personhood, to the culturally determined contents of the person's feelings and mind. In
this case the character of creativity is only personal, and even healing (though perhaps
called "spiritual") may only release some of the healer's own vitality. Then the relationship
between the healer, creative artist, or performer and the people he or she affects is
horizontal. It is a cultural exchange, occurring only at the cultural level — the exchange of
a product and perhaps money.
Indeed, today most works of art, music, and literature are cultural products, not true
creations. When many people seek "creative self-expression," they do so to compensate for
their unsatisfying, disharmonic, nonfunctional and embittering social, business and
cultural lives; so also in many instances are their biological-sexual experiences
traumatized by unnatural family relationships and waves of fashion. This, however,
always occurs during the period of a culture's disintegration. It is particularly disturbing
and dysfunctional today because the panhuman evolutionary drive demands a
transference of biological energies to the personal level — or at least gives biological
(especially sexual) impulses an ambiguous character which is both "personal" and
determined by collective fashions.
For an activity to be transpersonal in any meaningful sense, its source must be beyond
the level of personhood. The creative current is transpersonal, because it flows through the
person, using the materials made available by the culture. A spiritual power acts as carrier
of an archetypal idea seeking adequate form through the mental processes of a creative,
individualized person, whose physical body can accurately, effectively, and convincingly
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