There are seven basic vibratory rates (bodies) which we use to progress from very basic energies to the very highly developed superhuman levels. These bodies interpenetrate one another, the higher bodies extending further out. There are levels beyond the seven, but we will not work with them in this book because they are useable only by the very advanced.
The densest of these bodies, and the only one readily seen, is the physical. The other bodies, vibrating at correspondingly higher rates, are the emotional, mental, intuitional, atmic (atma means great self), monadic (monad is a unit), and divine. A man or woman, however, is not these seven bodies; each is rather a pure consciousness which can reside in any one or a combination of bodies. There are very few people in this particular age whose consciousness is so developed, their bodies so vivified and attuned, that they function in all bodies at once; but this is nonetheless the ultimate goal of earthly development. A person functioning in all bodies at oncethat is, all bodies in harmony with his or her consciousness-lives as perfect a life as is possible on this earth.
Most people interact with others and the world only through a few of their bodies. A person may be primarily physical/ emotional or physical/mental or perhaps mental/ spiritual. Aquarian Age energies push for balance and synthesis of all bodies; no matter whether or not you are interested in Kundalini, you have to work with your different bodies or levels of consciousness.

The physical body is a living machine through which our higher bodies express themselves. In blocking off your physical body, so do you block the expressions of your higher self. You can feel or think a good deal, but if you deny physical expression or action you become frustrated and subject to further problems. Problems which manifest in the physical body as aches, pains, or illness are simply the result of blocks preventing the expression of higher bodies.
The physical body is composed of cells marked by their own individuality. We should not keep these cells under a conscious control or dominating control, but a loving one. If one considers the physical body as a universe unto itself, each of us is "god" of our own universe. The physical body has two parts, the dense and the etheric; the etheric is very closely connected with our nervous system.

Cleansing the Physical
One can use Kundalini on the physical level to achieve a healthier body. The technique of directing Kundalini having been learned, energy may be sent to different areas of the body for rejuvenation, healing and strengthening. Working with it, one develops a sense of how much to send to each area and how it works best. The exercise for Kundalini Movement and Chakra Cleansing on page 55 is excellent for understanding how to guide the energy.
Letting the Kundalini flow gently into the area needing healing-changing it to the quality of liquid silk-is very soothing; the frequency of the energy changes to one more conducive to general healing. Bathe a particular area in this energy. Next, diffuse the energy throughout the entire body. Several sessions a week will increase circulation, help release blocks and generally aid in maintaining a youthful body.
Faced with a need for greater than normal physical exertion, fill your body with the power of Kundalini; breathe it throughout the entire body, let it flow through and then do the task. Practice with it to see how to handle and use it.
When physically affected by the various aches and pains stemming from raised Kundalini effect, promote release with deep, peaceful breathing followed by massage in the affected area; allow thoughts and feelings to come to your consciousness. Such an open meditation can be most helpful. If you cannot, for some reason, massage the hurt area (perhaps it is too painful), focus your attention on that area instead; concentrate your energy there and go into the discomfort. Often the aches and pains will leave in a short while and you will develop a memory or awareness of what has occurred.

The Ultimate
The physical body, cleansed and refined by the Kundalini, will appear youthful and be very energetic. It will seldom be ill (or illness will be short), have great power, and be capable of paranormal feats.

The Emotional Body

Our feelings emanate from the emotional body. We feel anger there, frustration when our needs are not met. From the emotional body we learn to give and express love and caring, thus fulfilling our needs to be in relationships. The emotional body is very demanding; seeking fulfillment, if not directly, through various hidden ways. Feeling depleted or unable to express, it may seek gratification and balance in smoking, eating certain foods, irrational behavior or any number of other ways. When we keep direct contact with our emotions we can deal with these in better ways.

Cleansing the Emotional
As the Kundalini cleanses the emotional area, one may find that emotions are out of proportion to a given situation. There may be crying spells or other emotional states without apparent reason; the Kundalini is simply hitting a block full-force. One's usual reaction is to block again; it is much better to enter an open meditation, allowing thoughts and feelings to surface, thus letting the block release. The block may be related to the feeling level either of a past life or an earlier experience from this life. It may also represent a present problem. Sometimes it even relates to things which have not yet happened but have only begun to manifest through the system.

Emotional Control
Emotions and feelings are just vibratory rates; changing the rates, we can change our emotions and feelings. As an exercise, feel your sadness as deeply as possible. Now turn the sadness to joy and try to notice a change of vibrational quality. Do the same with fear, turning it into faith and courage. Feel jealousy; turn that into understanding your own needs. Turn pride into thankfulness. Take any emotional quality that is difficult for you, think of its opposite, and work with it in this manner.
Learn to feel without getting caught in it. Keep a perspective on the situation by equalizing energies in the body. Feel energy in the back as well as the front; energy that remains primarily in the belly area creates a tendency in us to give far more attention to the feelings than they deserve. Massage the belly area and ask what is there that needs to be recognized; then move the energy into the entire body, to assimilate or eliminate it.

The Ultimate
After cleansing and refining, it is possible to have feelings without getting caught in them, to experience life without causing more karma and blocks, and to love without attachment. The emotional body will then give richness and depth to whatever you do.

The Mental Body

The mental body contains matter which can vibrate at a rate similar to that of the creative force in our cosmos. It is where we begin to think, to reason, to know, to create. Through the mental body we gather knowledge; through reason and logic, we apply that knowledge. It is also through this body that we set up rigid attitudes or structures in our system. Here prejudices are formed. The more rigid the matter in our mental body becomes, the more difficult it is to flow with life, to learn new ways of living and to acquire new ideas.

Cleansing the Mental
While the Kundalini cleanses the mental body, a person may find strong, previously unknown prejudices or become aware of life-governing attitudes which have long determined actions and reactions.

Clearing the Brain
Concentrate on breathing through your nose, up into your head. Look into your head as you would look up into the heavens and observe the stars in the sky. What colors, what energy patterns can you observe?

Truth
Do the Deep, Peaceful Breathing, concentrating on the center of your forehead; visualize the word "truth" in that area. Breathe in and feel truth enter your entire system, flooding each cell. Try to hold this in the system, while doing the Deep, Peaceful Breathing, for at least two minutes.
During Kundalini cleansing it is especially easy for untruths and misconceptions (which block growth) to enter your thoughts. If you have mental work to do but your energy will not flow, try dancing. Dancing is excellent for releasing Kundalini flow and win aid in the thinking and intuitive processes. Since mental work is often done in a way that is not conducive to good Kundalini flow-at a desk or a table, curved over your work, shoulders rounded and hunched, head lowered-try to improve your posture and take breaks in which you walk, dance or exercise.
Kundalini flow to the brain is slowed when you are caught in emotional situations and relationship problems (common, in this age). Having faith that "this too shall pass," and gaining perspective on the situation, helps keep energy flow open to the brain.

The Ultimate
You will think and create in new ways and work with higher dimensions. Manifestation and other mental powers will be considered normal.

The Intuitional/Compassionate Body

This is the first of the four bodies of our spiritual self. It serves as a balance between the personality and other spiritual bodies. It is also a vehicle for contact with the universal mind that brings insights and understandings to our human level. It is the source of ideas resulting from abstract thinking or awaring (as opposed to the concrete logical thinking of the mental body). The intuitional /compassionate body also relates to understanding (really only another word for compassion). It is sometimes called the Buddhic body, after the compassionate Buddha.
During development of this body, intuition may wax and wane. It is difficult at times to determine the accuracy of received information, but holding the energy of the intuition in the body can help you decide. When it resonates deep inside the self, it is usually right. Be patient as you learn how to use it.

Cleansing the Intuitional/Compassionate
Kundalini flowing through this body may result in an overabundance of compassion. A person may be overcome with love for others and for the world. Negative energy may take the form of self pity. In any event, these feelings are usually out of proportion. To relieve the excess energy, allow your system to feel light and floating. Lie down; fill yourself with a light blue color and maintain a feeling of floating for approximately thirty minutes. This will help balance the energies.

This Too Shall Pass
Understand that what is happening is temporary and that there is a purpose to being cleansed and refined. Be aware of your depths of despair, disillusionment, depression, or whatever your experience is, and breathe into it. Next go into it deeply until you come to the "silver lining," or break through to peace and joy.

Suffering is the Other Side of joy

Suffering stretches us, allowing new understanding to come through and new energy to flow in. Fill your body with a taffy color. Courageously and faithfully, let your feelings of suffering be stretched and opened until joy and peace flow in.

Spiritual Breathing
Breathe into the top part of your lungs; feel expansion. Be uplifted by this beautiful energy. This helps activate spiritual centers, reducing excess energy in the emotional and mental areas and helping clear and cleanse.

The Ultimate
We will live by intuition, awareness, and insight. We will love and feel compassion without getting caught in other people's " stuff." There will be a beautiful balance between the human and spiritual aspects of life. There will be a new understanding of God and the universe.

The Atmic Body (or Will/Spirit)

Kundalini is very at home in the will/spirit body. By its very nature, Kundalini needs to flow, and this body is one of flowing, moving, and acting. It is extremely easy to get carried away with this flow. More karma is created through the incorrect use or non-use of the will/spirit than through the other bodies; this energy has a much stronger quality and needs plenty of direction. On the positive side, a person can have great charisma and feel bliss or rapture states.

Cleansing the Will/Spirit
As cleansing progresses to the will/ spirit level, you may get involved in power trips, common among which are thinking you have the answers to every problem and thinking that personal power is unlimited, whether political or financial, charm, handsomeness or beauty. In general, such a power trip indicates excessive ego and an excessive use of will.

Personality Changes
Keeping an even flow of energy on the atmic level is extremely difficult. People who have had rather weak or quiet personalities may find themselves totally changed through the Kundalini cleansing, even to the point of going through Jekyll/Hyde transitions, very charming sometimes and almost demonic at others.

Attachments
Everything is accelerated through Kundalini. Do not get too caught up in what is happening. Attachments to actions, ideas, thoughts, guilt, pride, and feelings may cause blocks and a good deal of wasted energy. Let loose of your shoulders and hips and relax your body. Are you using your will/spirit well, or are there other choices?

Not My Will, but Thine
Think of how often in the past few days you have used your will to get things done. Have the uses been wise? Be in prayer. Ask to know God's will for yourself. Do not fight God's will but Join your personal will with it.

The Ultimate
The will/spirit body is the home of sex and is where our male and female (positive and negative) polarities are separated. (They are joined in the soul level body.) In the ultimate energy, these polarities are balanced and very useable. Balance will align us with evolution and divine will. Great powers, joy, and bliss will be natural parts of our being.

The Monadic Body (or Soul Level)

Monad is Greek for "unit." The monadic body expresses the unity of the polarities and allows the soul to express itself in the physical body.

Cleansing the Monadic
At times, through the action of Kundalini, one has contact with the soul and feels pure and holy. At other times one has no concept of any soul. Feelings alternate between one-with-all and complete isolation. The monadic is one of the most difficult areas to clean because it touches our essence, our whole way of being.
With poor energy flow at the monadic or soul level, you may feel you have no right to exist; this in turn may lead to feeling apologetic for everything that happens to others, as if somehow you are the cause of others' problems. The monadic is also the level of true career and services, where much of the purpose of life is determined (after taking into account the karmic forces active on all levels). It is the synthesizer of the karmic energy from past lives.

Universal Exercise
Enter a meditative state and feel your soul-self as a cell in the body of God. Continue the meditation for five to ten minutes, in tune to any messages you might receive.

This Moment of Eternity
Enter a meditative state, aware of your soul in this moment of eternity. Hold that concept and feeling for at least five minutes; it can bring a great sense of peace, connectedness, and universality.

The Ultimate
When the monadic body is developed, your sense of I AMness or soul awareness is so strong that the "I" can merge with the divine, be one with all and experience both states (the I and the Thou). You radiate inner peace and understand your purpose and existence. The essence of the soul shines through your eyes.

The Divine Body

Kundalini in the divine body enables a person to feel oneness with God and the cosmos, to be in touch with his or her own spark of God consciousness, to feel divine energy and love in life. As the monadic synthesizes our individual karmic energy, so the divine level synthesizes our individual karmic energy with the karmic energy pervading everything, whether from families, friends, communities, nations, ideas, social pressures, the forces from the geographical areas in. which the individual lives, forces from planets, starsany other force. We are all very much affected by these other forces, whether we realize it or not.

Cleansing the Divine
At the divine level a person's concept of God and the universe changes more radically that at other levels. Many go through the "dark night of the soul," doubting God, existence, purpose or anything else in life. The divine body receives both the most traumatic and most rewarding cleansing and refinement. Those with strong faith in a Divine Being have an easier time on this level; even during times of disbelief, they have some faith to sustain them.

Facing Demons
Facing demons is necessary. At times you may be totally against the spiritual side of life, whether on account of feeling separate from God or actually experiencing the demons which need to be transformed. A person in the midst of cleansing is very aware of this demonic side, which may involve deep feelings of bitter hatred, sexual perversion, sadism, or other unacceptable tendencies. Pray for strength and guidance as you confront your demons. Fill yourself with a light lavender; breathe deeply and peacefully. Let your cells be cleansed, transformed, and filled with spiritual energy. By doing so you will redeem the negative forces within, "save" yourself from the negative. It is only by facing the demons and transmuting their energy that we eradicate them; some people prefer professional counseling when dealing with this aspect of life.

Voids
Focus and meditate on any area of your body. Imagine that the area is a void, empty of all but spiritual energy; then imagine your entire system is a void, open to being filled with spiritual energies. Many people are so afraid of emptiness that they fill it with anything, thus complicating life.
Presence of God. Feel the presence of God all around. Know that God is within and without at all times. just being aware of the Presence allows it to enter.

The Ultimate
Developing the divine body enables you to know God's win for you and be open to cosmic or Christ consciousness. We can use this cosmic energy in our everyday lives. It opens us to living in constant oneness with God.

 Synthesizing the Bodies

Each body has its own function and sense of importance. Each needs to be able to operate singly or with others, with guidance from the divine level. Kundalini flows more easily and is better assimilated when there is harmony among the bodies.

Control Exercise
Beginning with the physical body, ask to be in touch with each body in turn. Ask each body its opinion on which bodies may have too much control or input and which don't have enough. Ask each body how it feels about its role in the seven bodies. Write down any changes you feel would be appropriate to make.
Lie down, bring about a feeling that you are floating. Be aware of your divine level body. Ask it to be filled with God's Presence. Let the energy come into the soul level body and proceed down to each of the bodies, ending with the physical. Be in reflection for a few minutes.
The information given here on the seven bodies is brief, but it gives you enough to begin. For more information, refer to the The Seven Bodies of Man in the Evolution of Consciousness, and The Seven Eyes of Man in the Evolution of Consciousness.'