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What is Light Body, How Does it Develop, and What Can I do to Develop Mine?
What is the Light Body
Light Body Teachings, Activations, Empowerment, and Initiations are offered everywhere in the Spiritual Market today! What is behind this popular and powerful concept? As a Spiritual Teacher I am frequently asked questions about the Light Body.
“Light body” is a term we use to describe the spiritual, non-physical body associated with enlightenment. In the various legends about the Body of Light, it is written that Light Body bestows unlimited Spiritual Power, it gives the abilities of the legendary Avatars, will allow one to teleport, bi-locate, manifest instantly, maintain total psychic awareness, communicate telepathically, to heal oneself and others, and defy the laws of physics!
The Light Body is defined as a structured but vibrant energy field inside and around your physical body. The Light Body normally develops as you evolve spiritually. It manifests as your Higher Self or “Divine Self” overshadows and transforms your personality and ego into a creative, divine form of consciousness. In this process, the physical body is transmuted into an immortal body. In the legends of Light Body, this body is perfect in its beauty, is capable of superhuman abilities, and possesses Universal Intelligence. This is possible because as Spiritual evolution progresses, you naturally align and eventually merge with your Divine Self. As a result of this alignment, four energetic stages occur: The mental layer of the aura transforms resulting in “Wisdom”. The emotional layer of the aura transforms resulting in the experience of “Unconditional Love”. The divisions that mark the layers of the aura (energy field) dissolve, and a “Unified Aura” manifests, from this a new Chakra System develops. The physical body transforms resulting in the “Immortal Body of Light” or Light Body.
In Buddhist and Christian religious teachings, those who have come close to manifesting the Light Body are called “Saints.”
History of knowledge of the Light Body
Many think of the term “Light Body” as a “New Age Phenomena,” however Spiritual Teachings about the Body of Light are ancient and Universal! It is a foundational teaching from many Metaphysical traditions and world religions. Each Spiritual tradition and culture has their own name for Light Body; each tradition have their own methods to activate and develop it.
The term “Light Body” or “Rainbow Body” is originally found in ancient Tibetan Buddhist teachings. In the Tibetan language it is called Jalü or Jalus (Wylie 'ja' lus) and is defined as a body not made of flesh, but consists of pure light. The Rainbow Body is also mentioned in some Mahayana Sutras, for example, Mahayana Secret Sublime Sutra (大乘密嚴經, Taisho Tripitaka 0681, 0682) says: “They had therefore achieved the Wisdom Concentration, and acquired Mind-Created Bodies, which are adorned with mighty supernatural powers. Such bodies are free of any interspaces, bones, or substances; they are like the sun and the moon, like rainbows, electricity, finest gold, luminous pearls, Sphatikas, Pravadas, Hridaras, Campakas, Pavonine Flowers and Moons, and the images from mirrors.”
According to Wikipedia, here are a few of the different names Light Body is known by in the various spiritual traditions. “In Sufism and Vajrayana it is called “Wujud Al-Aqdas” (the Most Sacred Body) and “Jism Asli Haqiqi” (Supra-Celestial Body). In Taoism, the Light Body is called the “Diamond Body” and those who have attained it are called the “Immortals” or the “Cloud Walkers”. In Christianity it is called the “Resurrection Body” and the “Glorified Body,” and in Hermeticism it is called the “Immortal Body.” Kriya Yoga refers to it as the “The Body of Bliss.” Generically it is called the Spiritual Body.”
“In Tantrism and yoga teachings, it is called "the Vajra Body," "the Adamantine Body," and "the Divine Body". In Vedanta writings it is called "the Super-Conductive Body." In Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism, it is called "the Radiant Body." In the alchemical tradition, the Emerald Tablet calls it "the Glory of the Whole Universe" and "the Golden Body." The alchemist Paracelsus called it "the Astral Body." In the Hermetica, it is called “Soma Athanaton” which means the Immortal Body. In some mystery schools, it is called "the Solar Body." In Rosicrucianism, it is called "the Diamond Body of the Temple of God.". In ancient Egypt it was called "Akh” which means the luminous body or being. In Old Persia it was called Fravashi or Fravarti which translates as "the Indwelling Divine Potential". In the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, it is called "the Divine Body," composed of Supra-Mental Substance.”
In Jewish Religious teachings as well as the Qabalah or Western Mystery Tradition, the Light Body is called Adam Kadmon, which means the Divine God Human. In this philosophy, Adam Kadmon represents "seven creational stages through which the Adam Kadmon Light Body or prototype brought energy down into the physical world and created the Adamic Race (Human beings). Retracing these seven steps, which is called ascension, will return the Adamic Race to Adam Kadmon, not as a prototype, but as a manifested reality." These ancient teachings state that Adam Kadmon was a two-fold manifestation: “1) A divine pattern which is a ‘Light Body' 2) A formulation of that sacred patterning into a being that was physical, but also beyond physical,” (the aura energy field).
In magical traditions, the Light Body is called the Subtle Body, and it is part of the energy systems. The various magical traditions teach a path of discipline to activate and free the Subtle Body, to carry one’s conscious and senses into the other worlds during Astral Travels.
The teachings of Alchemy call the Light Body “Alchemical Gold” or “Antimony,” and the entire process of alchemy has manifestation of the Light Body as its only objective! Alchemy has nothing to do with chemistry, but is the process of transformation and transmutation that results in an evolved being and the Body of Light!
I’m sure there are many more names for Light Body than I have listed here! Whatever we call it, Light Body describes the same thing, an ULTIMATE stage in human evolution!
Activation Methods to Evolve Your Light Body
The traditions speak of the process of developing Light Body in different ways. Is the Immortal Body created or released, attained or manifested? Is it present within the individual from birth, and the gross matter of the body simply "burned" away as more light enters? Or is the gross matter of the body altered through a process not yet recognized by physical science, which changes the flesh into something different? Is there more than one route to achieve this final, perfected form of the Adam Kadmon? Is it necessary to actually die biologically, or is there an alternate path to the Light Body that bypasses physical death?
Exercise: Let’s meditate on our Light Bodies
Imagine yourself as a being made of living light. For just a moment, close your eyes and focus on an inner vision of yourself as pure, radiant light. Imagine that version of yourself that is pure light has all the spiritual abilities present, perfect health, tremendous creativity, great intellect, and divine beauty. It is also a perfected replica of your body. It looks like you, sounds like you, feels like you do; this body even smells like you, however it is somehow a higher aspect of your presence. Take a moment and work to create this inner vision using your five senses. Use your hearing, seeing or imagining, feeling, smelling, and sense of taste to make your vision of yourself as a being of light as real as possible.
Now, with your inner vision, change your physical body to a shining Body of Light. Make your physical being transform into the Light Body. You might want to imagine pulling the Radiant Light Being down into the middle of your body. Then imagine matching your physical fingers to light fingers, toes to toes, and so on. Once the two are merged, your Light Body will stretch and grow beyond your physical structures, reaching into the energy field around you.
The light is soft and radiant. Your Light Body may seem to be the same as your physical body, but finer, more fluid, and full of radiating light. The light from your body moves out into the world changing everything it touches. Expand your Light Body to reach everyone you love, all the places that are part of your everyday life, and finally all the world.
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Light Body Activations generally are infusions of light, which then activate certain cells in our body, as well as activate our higher consciousness, causing the resultant changes. Initiations are infusions of light, of higher and higher frequencies, giving greater capacities. Most methods of Light Body Activation offered at this time contain elements of Initiation and fulfill the requirement of infusions of light.
My research strongly suggests the key to Light Body Development IS Spiritual development, and that broad term means many things. Many teachers and metaphysical teaching organizations offer tremendous Light Body training and activation services. Some offer geometric activations, others offer sound activations. Some specialize in the “inner work” of consciousness, and merging your consciousness with the Higher Self in meditation. Most Mystery Schools and Ancient traditions teach that the Light Body evolves through Initiations. Some schools offer physical activations of the etheric or energy body to achieve Activation of the potential that is present in the Soul. Some traditions seek to evolve the individual through discipline and a life of service.
Some Light Body traditions teach that we must develop the Light Body, and demand the seeker live a specialized way of life to achieve Spiritual evolution which is synonymous with Light Body. Others teach that the Light Body is present from birth as a part of the Soul; however we must activate it and learn to use it. I believe we must develop as well as activate the Light Body. Any Light Body method that fits into either category is valid! Understanding the Body of Light, using it, and evolving yourself through these steps are a natural process as we develop spiritually.
Use your sense of what is the most important step for you at this stage in your evolution, and you will be guided perfectly as you work with your Light Body evolution! Each one of these services, initiations, or activations is a remarkable step forward in evolution, and a valid piece in the puzzle of how to create and activate the Light Body.
Closing and Summary
However Light Body is achieved, the perfected individual is capable of operating within the ordinary world through that altered vehicle of consciousness which is beyond normal human capacity. For an individual, this is the most exalted stage of higher human development. There is one school of thought that believes as more and more of humankind intentionally achieves Light Body development and activation, humanity in general will also achieve activation. For humankind, this is thought to be the final stage of evolution.
The essential gift we receive as a result of developing the Light Body is to create the union between the higher consciousness and the physical consciousness, allowing one to live as an evolved being of higher awareness. Many consider this a worthy goal for all Spiritual Seekers to achieve!
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