The Death Urge
by Young Leonard
The death urge is a psychic entity that usually overcomes the rational
mind and splits the body off from the Eternal spirit and destroys it.
The physical body without the eternal aliveness of Life Itself becomes
stiffer - more solid - until the Spirit drops it to become dust.
The Bible calls the rational mind the great adulterer which seduces us
away from the Spirit which is ultimate reality beyond the mind and the
Source of the mind.
The mind can go 100 miles per hour, but the body can not until it
becomes a light body. The subtle currents of physical death urge elude
the mind in its pursuit of worldly success or divine service (which is
just another form of worldly success) until it is too late to change
the habits we are in bondage to.
The basic habits that kill most people are too obvious to mention:
food, money, sleep, family, home, business, car, etc. Most people, of
course, choose physical death as a result of popular religious
conditioning. Popular, orthodox religion is the institutionalized
adulterer. By definition, organized religion can never embody the
Eternal Life of the Eternal Spirit, even though it outlives the
individual. To make religion orthodox is to kill it. People who trust
organization more than their own Eternal Spirit are doomed to be on the
birth-death cycle until they learn to live in the reality above the
mind.
The unconscious death urge is caused by two basic sources. One is the
belief system that death is inevitable and beyond our control. This
belief is taught by parents to children generation after generation
along with numerous corollaries of self sabotaging thoughts that
sabotage our natural divinity. The other is what I call emotional
energy pollution. Excess mind energy is always spinning in our aura and
the auras of every other person. When we are in the presence of another
person we collect some of this mind stuff like psychic dirt. If we
don't get rid of it by bathing twice per day and other spiritual
purification practices, we become miserable and feel like dying after a
while.
We collect emotional energy in our guts - the solar plexus first which
is the social chakra, then it spreads throughout our whole energy body
and makes us feel heavy. It produces the
guru belly phenomena and other physical problems. Immersing our solar
plexus in water - soaking in the bath or even showers - and sitting
with an open fire cleans our aura.
Fire literally burns away the death urge we collect from other people.
Emotional energy contains information that can give us diseases and
make us feel like dying.
The pure presence of one person can also heal another.
The only way you can conquer the death urge is to outlive it. We can
only outlive it by developing the habits of aliveness: mantra yoga,
earth, air, water, fire purification and spiritual community. Earth is
fasting and exercise; air is breathing energy as well as air; water is
bathing; fire is learning to live with an open flame; and spiritual
community means to have a guru - spiritual teacher - or at least a
friend on the path to enlightenment.
A body in motion tends to stay in motion until acted upon by an outside
force. We are the victims of our habits. Other people are the outside
force. We can look for the guru in every other person and thing, but
there is no substitute for an enlightened friend who can accelerate our
transformation from mortal to immortal consciousness that includes our
physical body.
Babaji - the Eternal Father in human form, the Angel of the Lord in the
Bible, or Shiva Yogi - the Eternal Youth, perfected my knowledge of
eternal life in 1980 when he finished editing my Physical Immortality
book. Since then, He has expanded my understanding and mastery of the
principles on a daily basis, which I am glad to share with people who
are interested.
Obviously, suicide and homicide is another manifestation of the death
urge. Auto accidents are a disguised form of suicide and homicide.
Physical immortality philosophy provides a context and support to
unravel the death urge. The death urge contains the ugliest of human
emotions. It is a psychic entity we are better off without. As long as
we are mind and the Eternal Spirit, we will always have the power to
leave or to destroy the body, or to transfigure and ascend with our
physical body.
Who needs an unconscious death urge anyway? Spiritual purification
exercises are the fast and easy way to total victory.
Babaji says,
The wise do spiritual practices.
Recommended titles by Leonard Orr on this subject:
- Healing the Death Urge
- Breaking the Death Habit
- Physical Immortality
- The Common Sense of Physical Immortality
- The Science of Personal Aliveness (tape)
- Physical Immortality Today (tape)
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