In today's blogpost we will use the human digestive system as an example of how everything is metaphor--how everything we encounter as humans has layer upon layer of meaning and significance to our growth and Self-awareness--especially if we are aware of and attuned to the potentiality of these layers.
The digestive system is where the human body encounters and processes food and drink. Most biological organisms on planet Earth find food and drink necessary for growth, energy, healing and maintenance, as well as satisfaction, joy, community and security. For the rest of this post I would like you to try to think of the words "food" and "drink" and "substance" as interchangeable with the word "information" for both food and drink are physicalized metaphors for information.
When we encounter a substance (or any information) have to decide whether or not to try to ingest it--whether or not it might have value as nourishment for our growth and well-being or whether to reject it for its distasteful, "poisonous," or deleterious effect on our being, on our beliefs, morals, values and self-concept. We have to "chew it up" in order to "swallow" it in order to deliver it to our deeper faculties of digestion. There it will be filtered and broken down into smaller usable nutrients--and it will be determined if the items of information are usable for immediate energy or for the support of other systems, or whether it should be stored for later use and processing, or whether it is to be deemed toxic or unusable--wherein it will be eliminated. The process is long and drawn out, with multiple stages wherein a series of independent "organs" interact with the "food" in order to give their assessment and input as well as to take away their own perspective and useful "nutrients." What we can't or don't want (or don't know how) to use gets eliminated as waste. What gets used gets assimilated and accommodated--it becomes part of us, helps re-fuel and re-define our selves--helps us to continue moving forward.
Digestive disorders can be indicative of information that is irritating or improperly digested, or too quickly processed, or not given their proper amount of attention and resources, or the ingestion of information that is not truly useful or beneficial for you and your growth and health maintenance. For example, constipation can be indicative of hanging on to information for too long, of not giving the information the attention it needs for proper processing and integration, of having over-taxed or irritated the digestive system or of ingesting material that you're faculties are not presently equipped to digest thoroughly or properly. Stomach aches and stomach ulcers can be indicative of the (repeated) introduction of harmful information or of trying to take information in while the whole being is not quite prepared or not able to give the proper and full attention to it. Again, more severe and chronic digestive issues can be indicative of the being's inability (or unwillingness) to be fully prepared and fully attentive to the information s/he chooses to ingest--or of not being fully attentive to the kind of information s/he is introducing to the conscious mind and inadvertently (and repeatedly) or ignorantly ingesting information that the being is unable to handle properly. Also, diseases and disorders of the digestive system can be indicative of information that has been repeatedly introduced yet been repeatedly ignored or repeatedly under-attended and have thus set up patterns of confusion, overload, irritability or disharmony.
In terms of our human bioenergy field, the digestive system is fed, fueled, and organized by the Solar Plexus chakra and which is in turn empowered by the Cosmic Ray of Devotion and Idealism, Ray 6, which is a derivative of and subordinate to Ray 2, the Ray of Love and Wisdom. If a human is actively pursuing his or her Soul Plan, the energy of Ray 6 is actively powering the digestive system, the individual's sense of self-esteem, its self-definition, as well as its identity as an individual.
Issues of the Solar Plexus center and the physical system that it empowers, the digestive system, are often indicative of esteem issues. Esteem is, after all, what one thinks of oneself and his or her place in the world--how one is seeing, claiming, probing, and understanding one's place in the "world" in which one finds oneself living and occupying space. Spiritually, mentally and emotionally the issues of the solar plexus would reflect one's confidence and resolve in participating in the "world" and "body" in which one finds oneself--in remembering and adjusting the roles that one planned for this human incarnation and adapting and adjusting to the constant flow of information flowing in, around, through the conscious mind via the senses and filtered through the human psyche, i.e. one's current state of mind and level emotional charge maturity.
So, let's go back to the human body in order to discuss how the role and experiences gathered through the digestive system are reflected metaphorically to give meaning to spiritual growth. We eat and drink in order to sustain, to maintain, to provide energy for our human vehicle. Like many biological life forms on Earth, the human bodymind is built around the alimentary canal, the gut, the digestive tract. Every other system in the body is dependent on the workings and inputs of the digestive tract. The mind seeks out food and ambient temperatures in order to preserve and sustain this life-serving vehicle. The emotional self is much more stable and composed when the vehicle is nourished. The health of every cell, of every organelle, of every molecule in the body is dependent on the nourishment delivered from the digestive tract by way of the circulatory system just as the "health" of every moment of human existence is dependent on the digestion and delivery of information to the Conscious Mind. The filters of awareness and openness deliver the food of information to the Conscious Observer where current levels of comprehension and interpretation extract significance and meaning from that which It determines is comprehensible and appropriate and then allows the rest to flow through and be eliminated.
Remember: All dis-ease is the result of inhibited Soul Life. Ailments or "dis-ease" in the digestive system are indicative of "inhibitions" in the natural, wide-open access and use of spiritual information, The Universal Life Force, chi, ki, prana, Ray 6 & 2, etc. Digestive ailments should be looked at as constriction or congestion in the open flow of spiritual information with regards to Who You Really Are. Remember: when a disease becomes manifest on a physical level that is the Soul's way of serving notice that there is an important issue or pattern that you have not been addressing appropriately--that you have gotten stuck or negligent of an issue that would be important (imperative) for the continued growth and expansion of your spiritual Self-awareness. In the Solar Plexus Center--and in the digestive system that it oversees and feeds--this means that it is usually an issue of identity and self-definition. Perhaps you are stuck living according to an old and now-out-dated concept of your self. You have resisted many messages on the mental and emotional level that it's time to grow, time to move on, time to shed the old version of you and move into a bigger, expanded version. You are not letting things flow, not extracting all of the nutrients available to you in your "food." Or you may not be choosing to ingest the things that are "best" or most appropriate for your health and well-being.
These type of scenarios are fairly common to humans. We get comfortable with the way things are, with the patterns that have become familiar to us. We learn to get used to and accept these patterns as "good" or "comfortable" and then we expend a lot of energy trying to maintain and perpetuate them. But, as you know, Change is the constant; growth is the reason you make these forays into illusory worlds like the Earth School. To fight against the prescribed and (on a spiritual level) desired changes and progress we have set forth for ourselves is constipating. Likewise, ignoring the obvious information that could lead to Self-awareness and Self-realization, can be just as upsetting to the Soul Plan--manifesting itself in such physical dis-ease as diarrhea and other wasting diseases. When we have created certain patterns of self-definition and self-identification that are not in line with the growth goals of our Soul Plan, we may develop allergies and intolerances to the repeated ingestion of those "substances" pieces of information--which could manifest on the physical level as food intolerances.
Conditions or malformations that we are born with or that we manifest early on in our human lives are probably indicative of prescribed obstacles or conditions of "disadvantage," "disability" and/or "abnormality" that we asked for as a means to drawing attention to and finding strength in our will power, our creativity and our individuality eccentricity. Turned in another direction we might find ourselves getting stuck in perspectives of anger, frustration, isolation, fear, self-pity and victimhood--which are also wonderful tools for learning and growth, just more painful and more attractive to further tools of ignorance and suffering. Remember: The truth is that we are not these bodies, we are just using these bodies for adventure, experience, and information gathering. The adventures and information can, of course, all be gathered and experienced through pain and suffering--that is our choice. But we are equally free to change our patterns of choice to instead choose to learn through Joy and Celebration.
The Monad, with the help of Its team of Soul Family members, Soul Council members, Spirit Guides and teachers, as well as a community of fellow Earth School participants, creates a plan which always usually has the goal of Self-awareness, Self-realization, and Self-improvement infused within it. Some Monads choose to create Soul Plans which course their way through events and information of great drama and great adversity, while others choose to plot out plans in which the obstacles are meted out more smoothly, more gently. There is no right or wrong. And, yes, our course is subject to the effects of the will of the Ego/Personality that we develop while on Earth. The choices that the Ego-Personality make are not always within the framework of the Soul Plan. But, ultimately, we will always find ourselves on the same Path: the path toward awareness and realization of our True Self, our True Source in Divine Oneness. Were we to always be open, receptive and instantaneously adaptable to information telling us so--information that is either gradually, incrementally, or suddenly and dramatically informing us of our True Nature, of our Divinely Sourced "bigness"--we would probably never experience digestive disorders or identity crises. We would be constantly changing--which might drive our friends and loved ones a little crazy--but we would be being true to the expansion that comes with clear, open flow of Rays 6 and 2, the Rays of Devotion and Idealism and Love and Wisdom, respectively. A truly open, "master" of Devotion, Idealism, Love and Wisdom would probably evolve beyond any perceptual "need" for food or information, would, instead, be a source or "beacon" of "food" and information for other spiritual beings who have chosen to participate in the game of Cosmic Duality with its veils and tools of the Grand Illusions of four-dimensional emotion-based human experience.
So, eat well! Eat and drink with intention and awareness! Be adventurous but try to learn from your bodymind's reactions to the substances--and information--that you choose to ingest! That is what the metaphor is for: for learning!
