Smelling: The Key to Enlightenment

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Smelling: The Key to Enlightenment

by Clayten Tylor

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Spirituality

Keywords: Self Improvement, Spiritual Development, Personal Growth, Happiness.

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Description:

The sense of smell has both an outer natural-sense, and an inner spiritual sense. The inner sense corresponds to the faculty of discrimination. It is developed through the practice of smelling while nose-breathing. This is different from mouth breathing, because the interiors of the nostrils also correspond to the angelic or celestial sphere of Universal Love.

The celestial sphere is the affection of good. It is all feeling. Smelling while breathing quiets the mind-chatter and lifts the consciousness to the rational or spiritual mind. In that silence the affection of good shines through the physical body and expands out into the spiritual body. We interpret it as the feeling of knowing, but it is the birth of faith. Not blind faith, because each knowing momentfills our consciousness with more light from faith.

Through the affections of love radiating outwards as faith, aligns us to the spiritual affections of good and truth. They are charity for all, and faith in humanity. This is the affection of the Brotherhood of Mankind. It is the feeling of mutual-love manifesting now during this Age of Aquarius. Each of us can do our part by bringing the energies into balance through meditation and by smelling while breathing.

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Clayten is a retired Certified Esoteric Astrologer, Numerologist and Mystic. He holds an honorary Masters of Sacred Science and a Doctor of Divinity degree, with extended studies in Spiritual Healing, Occult Psychology, Metaphysics, Mystical Qabalah, Contemporary Spirituality, and Trans-personal Religious Experiences.

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Acknowledgment

I acknowledge the trans-formative power of smelling while breathing.

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Dedication

I dedicate this book to all who practice well-wishing to others.

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Preface

All of my books are a rambling analysis taking into consideration what is happening in my outer-life, in correspondence to my inner-life. This means that our mind-chatter and what we think and say about ourselves and others, is reflected by the circumstances in our outer life.

In my inner world, I feel I am being pulled toward a spiritual sensation of oneness. To avoid falling off that spiritual path, I am faced with dealing with my problems differently than others.

It is not by coincidence that the outside events in each of our lives, corresponds to our own mind-chatter. Those outside events reflect our hopes and fears that we have for ourselves and our future. By spiritual correspondence those outside events are an exact mirror, of what is going on both consciously and unconsciously. Worry too much, and your skin itches. Bad-mouth a neighbor, and your teeth ache. It is all connected.

Spiritual regeneration takes place first through our thoughts by transforming the scientific or natural-mind by lifting it to the rational towards wholeness, and then into the intuitive higher-rational mind, the celestial infinite sphere of eternity.

These are concepts that must come through the natural mind. The energy does not move by itself, we must want wholeness to propel it. If we do not see the connection between the inner spiritual-mind, to the outer natural-mind with the events, then the body tends to false assumptions that lead to early disease and death.

Although these aspects appear to conflict, essentially, the one drives the other. Conflicts produce an actual real spiritual power created in response. That power is the principle of sensation that grows our perception of the spiritual body.

The sensual principle is the spirit ruled by both good and evil. By using spiritual correspondences to examine the conflicts in our outer life we also find the solution to dealing with our inner response. As an example, my problem is the crows squawking because my neighbor is teasing them. Since, crows correspond to mind-chatter, I have found a way to reduce my own mind-chatter, while not becoming hateful toward my neighbor.

My particular problem, is further aggravated by the fact I am a writer, and need quiet. What makes me different from my other neighbors, is that they think the noise is normal. I remember living here, when it was quiet. Ten years ago I never heard a crow or seagull for three or four days.

The temptations that result from conflicts are anger, hatred, and jealousy. These are sensations mixed with falsity. They are not true, because we made them up. We create scenarios around anger, as evil sensations of repugnance. That affection, then attracts someone to come into our life to block our spiritual development.

We must hate something, to get angry. To become hateful and jealous we need to be dishonest with ourselves. When anger gets couched in self-pity, it is then expressed as insecurity and revenge. They all have a smell, just like fear.

We need to learn to recognize the smell of our own possessiveness, or need to dominate. Otherwise, we have to develop a way to by-pass our mind-chatter, to reach a solution found intuitively, only in a silent mind. I hope the solutions I found, by smelling while breathing, will help you quiet your mind and resolve the spiritual cause of your own problem. Try smelling, while you read this book.

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Introduction

A silent mind solves all our problems. When the mind is quiet, it receives solutions intuitively. Spiritual development results from a response to conflicts, because our problems push us to find solutions.

Conflicts cause anger that creates a sensation as a response. Yet, the actual spiritual sensation is what makes us angry. We are calling-in sensations by an attunement to anger. The sensual principle distorted, then produces a response to anger reflected in our outer environment as combats. These are lustful temptations that hound us to respond negatively to others.

Through a silent mind that same sensation of anger can become love, and solve all our problems. Silently, the sensual principle transforms every sensation into an affection, that then becomes conscious on a higher level of perception. Sensation, becomes emotion, affection, and then perception. We are uniting our sensual affections into a spiritual perception by using the feeling of Oneness, as a goal.

We all have our own problems, but this book is about the solutions I found while dealing with mine. Those solutions are the result of examining the five physical senses by their spiritual correspondence. Each physical sense has a spiritual counterpart, and its correspondence is also a sensation that can be applied to resolve any problem. Here is an overview of my problem, so you can compare it to your own. It is important to understand how simply a spiritual temptation can affect us.

This book came about as a result of not reporting my neighbor when I first discovered he was a Peeping Tom. Intuitively, I suddenly awoke before sunrise, checked outside for the weather, and saw him in the garden across the street. When he saw me, he started throwing bird food, so, I did not think much of it. However, the next day I went across the street, stood in the same spot, and I could see right into his neighbors bedroom. I should mention he previously told me that he had watched those same neighbors having sex several times. When he first told me, I thought he saw them by accident, but now, I knew differently.

I am using him as an example, because it is important to understand our predatory nature. It is the sensation of a collective lustful feeling. Our predatory nature is in our lusty need for shopping, eating, working, and dating. The sensation causes ill health, as our will-power contracting upon itself creates stress. It is our ego’s false sensation of will-power as lust.

The will-power is the affection of love. The mind makes the will-power move the body. Our will power also follows the movement of the body, such as on a swing, or even flying. Yet, the will power can also move without the body. It can be trained to move in and out of the body to affect others when we love them. It enables us to go to our lover as a feeling in the middle of the night. The feeling of the will, can be made to go wherever our love does. Yet, the One Will that we are discussing is self-less as the affection of Universal Love, whereas the personal will is the selfish love of the ego, our predatory sense of self.

In Numerology, the word predator 3 4 7, is the same vibration as, temptation 3 4 7, and affection 3 4 7. So, you can understand how these sensations rule over us as sensual vibrations, in everything we do.

Let’s examine those sensations when mixed-together, to see how they might express themselves in my neighbor. The real problem with him began when he first moved in. He had a house-warming party for about six people, but no one showed-up, so he threw the six bowls of pasta out on his patio for the wildlife. We had seagull and crows screaming for four days, dive-bombing between the two buildings. Welcome to the neighborhood! In three weeks he had mice all over his patio.

Years later, because I had also seen my neighbor peeping, the problem became too convoluted to be resolved in any simple way. He began to harass me by training the crows to squawk by teasing them. He no longer needed to throw food out his windows, as he had been doing for years, now, he just had to open them to make the crows squawk. Even in the dark I could hear him talk teasing them.

I had to change many things in my life to deal with the bird noise and harassment. I have slept with earplugs for four years, and even changed my sleeping times to find quiet periods to write. My life was fine, and I was healthy, yet, this one issue with my neighbor was nerve-wracking. It was the only area in my life that I was unable to change, either by diplomacy, threats of legal action, or exposing him as a predator.

I concentrated on taming my own response, especially to being woken up by the bird noise before sunrise. I was unable to meditate or have a nap during the day, and my life got confusing as a result.

Let me give you an overview of my personal life to explain why it got more confusing: First, I am seventy-four, but at forty, I took an eight-year course through The International College of Esoteric Studies, for an honorary masters of sacred science, and a doctorate of divinity degrees. The monographs were obscure, but it helped me understand them from a spiritual perspective. However, by taking my vows when I did, also put me in conflict of interest with everything I was doing.

To know the truth of how to live, but not have the discernment to follow it, is a devastating introduction to conscience. My mid-life at forty was certainly a crisis of conscience. It was the most devastating time in my life. It was the birth of my conscience. Few people ever develop a conscience. For a male, it seems silly, because everyone thinks you are not trying to help yourself. For women, it must be beyond comprehension. My conscience developed after taking my vows, when I was unable to find work, or change conditions, and felt utterly helpless.

I had already started to take a course on the Qabalah, but now it began to focus on positive affirmations, and I realized just how depressed I was. Believe me, male mid-life crisis can cause severe depression. Yet, because of my studies I treated my depression as spiritual temptations, looking to my thoughts and response as the source of the battle. I was led by my conscience, teaching myself not to respond with evil.

During the ten years after taking my vows I felt anguish when I spoke, and worse if I didn’t. Sex was a no no, as the guilt and remorse afterwards made it not worth the effort. Despite what they say about a reduced sexual desire at mid-life, mine only increased. Yet, because I was older now, and had a full sex life, I began to try to practice celibacy, but just to see how long I could go without. The concentration needed to desexualize others, and our own sensual response, is a grueling exercise in self-restraint to reprogram the lusty sensation, not only from our body, but from our mind. If past sexual thoughts and feelings of lust enter our dreams, it is proof that the sensation has become unconscious and more work needs to be done. The more we redirect our thoughts away from lust, not by suppression, but by love, we begin to feel younger.

Learning to be lovable without attachment, and to appreciate beauty without it making you feel inferior or unloved, leads to an increase in vital energy. To see beauty without it feeding our sensation of lust causes our will power to strengthen as we begin to feel loved. Concentration increases when one turns away from the thoughts of sex. A study should be done having teens practice abstinence for forty-two days before exams. The result from practicing abstinence increased my concentration. It helped me perceive the inner sensation of things. I would not trade those periods of peace for anything.

As my concentration grew, I started using my mind more intuitively by doing business and personal development consulting through astrology. It allowed me to continue with my studies of the Qabalah for the next twenty years. When I retired from consulting, I started writing books and self-publishing. I think it was because of my vows that I had the energy, concentration and motivation for writing books on spirituality.

Since my motivation for writing was not for money, I felt I could be brutally honest, and say what I wanted without someone restricting me. If my motive for writing had been for money, I would have felt to be in conflict of interest with my vows. Still, I had caged myself in, because there is no money in writing, and the high cost of housing is the reason I have not been able to move. I might need to break my vows to survive.

My first book was a seaweed diet that could help end world hunger. It came about by trying to reduce my expenses by finding an inexpensive food to eat. My second book was also about seaweed, but using it for beauty-products. It came about by reading the patent documents for seaweed extracts. I intuitively saw exactly how they were being made. So, in that book I revealed those discoveries to the world. The last ten books were all about spirituality, but contain much religiosity. They were written for the priesthood in the hope of changing the intention of the church, and their understanding of goodness. The hope was that the church begins to take on their responsibility of caring for the poor and the homeless. Otherwise, it is the end of the usefulness of religion, and the churches will be converted to house the poor anyway.

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Chapter 1: Animal/Human

All of my previous ten books on spirituality, somewhat came about by having to deal with the non-stop squawking noise from the surge of wildlife feeding by people in my neighborhood. I have included these stories to better help understand human-nature. Our problems represent the resistance that wells up from our own subconscious mind to block our spiritual development.

The topic of this book is the principle of sensation. It begins as a physical sensation and evolves into a spiritual perception. As a spiritual perception, it is also a sensation not understood by the logical mind, because it is an affection. Therefore, I have included pictures of trees, flowers, and gardens, because they represent the sensual principle as nature’s spiritual essence as an affection.

The spiritual essence, can be extracted from nature, by the admiration of its beauty. Our affection causes a sensation that results from that essence and grows into the perception of our spiritual body. Our spiritual essence extracted from nature, is the divine feminine as a feeling of goodness. We must be in the sensation of goodness to develop it enough to perceive it as a spiritual experience.

These books on spirituality are the result of searching deep within myself to find a better way to deal with my anger as a response to the people feeding the wildlife. I jokingly call them the “crow-people,” and I estimate about thirty percent of the population started feeding the wildlife during the pandemic. I needed a wire brush to scrape the bird-crap off my runners every day. Fifteen people in the three buildings next to me were throwing handfuls of peanuts out their high-rise windows all day for three months. The squirrels were everywhere, skunks and raccoons were having seven babies at a time. The crows were making nests in the trees of every building. As a result, we have a new species of "beggar" birds in every city all over the world.

Our previous building manager thought for years the tenants from the high-rise next to us were throwing food from the roof. She would find loaves of sliced bread, sausages, and pizzas thrown all over our front lawn. The crows and Seagulls were constantly screaming for years.

Eventually we discovered it was my actual neighbor below-me. He was throwing food out his windows, using the bird noise to harass people. He threw large sausages too big for birds to lift, so they had to fight each other to get it. Once, he attracted the birds for three days to keep someone awake until they were moaning in their sleep, to have them evicted.

Even Canada Post, and Fed-Ex drivers were now feeding the crows. I was surrounded by birds all around our neighborhood. Yet, it meant that someone had to go and get the birds, because crows and Seagulls are not in residential areas unless someone brings them here. Then one day, I saw my neighbor coming home riding a bike up the street with ten seagulls flying high behind him. They landed on the high-rise roof next door screaming, until he covered a bucket on his balcony, and they flew away.

Let us examine this scenario from a spiritual perspective. The birds flying-high above, must give him a lofty perception like the feeling of a spiritual ritual. Yet, the sound of them screaming, must incite the feeling of revenge, because he is falsifying the truth: harassing, without anyone knowing it. It must be a thrilling feeling!

Soon, the seagulls and pigeons were everywhere, the buildings and cars covered in bird-crap. The people were slamming doors, turning up their music, and as a result, I began writing letters to have the wildlife by-laws changed. The process of letter-writing enabled me to transform my anger into zeal. Now, the new by-law officers have to babysit my neighbor.

I will admit littering and feeding the wild-life, is not a serious problem. It is not like bombs dropping in war. Yet, when we can feel the hatred behind the noise, the effect is just as harmful as war. We are beginning to see how harassment and bullying are effective weapons of war. Our task is to not feel harassed in response, but to develop courage and tolerance to overcome our anger.

As a response to the new no-wildlife-feeding by-laws, not being able to throw food out his window, my neighbor started attracting the birds by the smell. He would have three-hour sausage-cooking marathons, open his windows, burn the garlic, and soon, twenty seagulls would be circling over our building screaming. The birds soon recognized the smell, and he then had the entire city by the balls.

So, it went on for a few more years until I noticed the birds vanished, while cleaning my kitchen with ammonia. Now, I could prove it, by turning the fan-on for a moment, and use the smell to repel them. My neighbor then tried to accuse me of smoking in my apartment. He does not quit. He would make a good politician.

Books take a long time to write. Yet, so do these kinds of temptations take even a longer time to work themselves out. My irritation helped me to write nine books over ten years. Even natural-temptations, such as mine, are mere irritations that do not end easily. My neighbor soon changed his tactics again, but this time he started to flatter me, saying I had the perfect body. He said it three times over the last four years, and each time, I just ignored him, but now this jealousy, is likely why the problem worsened. Imagine what women must go through?

Over the years, my neighbor would try to tell me stories about people he saw having sex, but I would change the conversation, and say, I did not want to hear it. I should have known something was amiss. Seeing him throw food-scraps by a neighbor’s window, had me bewildered. My guess is that if he is caught on someone's’ property, he is only feeding the birds. Yet, if a couple wakes up at sunrise, they probably have sex, and he is there to watch them.

My neighbor is not an unusual individual, in that, we all have someone like him in our lives. Look for yours. Try to smell them out. It is no more serious than catching a partner being unfaithful. The sensation of falsity will end all relationships unless the person is honest. Dishonesty is falsity. The sensation of falsity separates us from others. However, let’s take a deeper look into my neighbor to examine his intention, by analyzing his first name using Numerology to understand what we are dealing with.

In numerology, his first-name adds-up to a 6 8 5, the same as the word Crow 6 8 5. He changed the spelling of his first-name, to a 6 6 3, the same as the words Fear 6 6 3, Idiot 6 6 3, and Deviant 6 6 3. Curiously, the only other word with the same vibration is Angel 6 6 3.

The fact, that the sensation of fear, or being a deviant, can also make someone feel like an angel is peculiar. It means that we can be together with just the angel’s sensation of goodness, while not agreeing with their thought, such as by being angry, causing our temptation combats. Evil gets its pleasure too. This says my neighbor is not necessarily angry, but it also means that he has not got a conscience, a result of a spiritual influx. Those without a conscience are somewhat immune to spiritual guidance, but must be restrained by external forces, such as the law, or even Karma.

Let us look deeper into my neighbor’s mind-chatter, because it represents the battle going on in both his mind and ours, between our inner “crow-self” and our angelic-self. The fact he changed his name from 6 8 5 to 6 6 3, is coincidentally signified by the recent court-case between Johnny 6 8 5 Depp, and Amber 6 6 3 Heard. We all have this same inner conflict.

Anyway, I ended my last book, The Divine Human, with the concept that during the Age of Aquarius, everyone, both good and evil will be enlightened. I guess it will include my neighbor, because it will happen to everyone while they sleep. Everyone will be enlightened by an influx of goodness, and perceived as the sensation of Universal Love.

To be ‘touched’ by the goodness of Universal love, leaves its presence as an afterglow. Glowing after love, is the result of astral light filling our body with the feeling of spiritual goodness. It is felt as balance, but it is the affection of the One Will taking-over the sensation of the lower will.

The glowing light of faith, from the touch of love acts as a suggestion that gives the courage to use the law to bring order. The suggestion works both inside and out; on the inner cellular structure to cause healing, and in the outer environment to restore order. Courage mixed with the sensation of effort intended toward divine order, restores our belief in natural laws, and smelling while breathing produces the glowing light of faith.

The archetypal concept of heavenly light imbuing everything with divine order offers up the gift of courage. Therefore, by writing my own advice, it gave me the confidence to stand up to my neighbor. I asked the community police for advice, and someone came and talked to him. It is finally somewhat quieter as I write this book. Yet, I did have to stand-up to him. We are all tested to protect goodness, even at my age.

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Chapter 2: Spiritual Endeavor

It has been a year since the no-wildlife-feeding by-laws were implemented. The difference is unbelievable. It is actually incredible. Most of the crows and seagulls have gone from the residential areas.

Even the parks are quieter and the eagles have returned, because there are fewer crows to chase them away. I have never seen a more beneficial change take pace to a city’s noise-level, and all because the no-wildlife-feeding by-law was implemented.

When the crows beg, someone responds. Yet, now with no squawking, I can already imagine how all my neighbors will start to have less mind-chatter. These outside noises are how we heal humanity. Noise represents the thunderous roar of greed.

This whole scenario with the wildlife is proof that being ahead of your time and trying to push through a by-law, is not worth the hassle. No one in my neighborhood actually knew why I was putting flags up on my balcony, or cameras in my windows for eight years. I know they thought the crows squawking all day was normal. Now, everyone gets to enjoy the quiet, without knowing how it happened. The most troubling thing about this experience is seeing the same people feeding the birds seven years ago, are still doing it now. It is disheartening to see how challenging it is for some people to change and conform to a new by-law.

When the no-smoking by-law was implemented, just a couple of people at the beach got fined, and the word spread fast. Yet, the crow feeders have been a much more difficult group to re-educate. It might be difficult to ever get these people to change. I think the penalty needs to be several amounts, from five dollars to ten thousand. That way we can deter those who cannot afford it, and the ones who would not stop except by a huge fine. Examine your problem, to see what by-law you need to implement.

However, back to the Aquarian Age and its enlightenment, signified by the Brotherhood of Mankind. All of humanity will be enlightened by the affection of faith. It is the light that comes through the Divine feminine or subconscious aspect of the mind while we sleep and dream. We are momentarily lifted out of our selfish, sense of separateness into the Universal feeling of Oneness.

The “Brotherhood” signifies the masculine or projecting aspect of the sensation of love. It is represented by the group-spirit of spiritual or mutual-love. It is love moving as the endeavor of Divine Will. By the act of willing mutual-love to others using the projecting principle, the love-sensation rises to become the perception of universal love for both the sender and receiver.

Love is a powerful sensation when we use our will-power by projecting it as a spiritual feeling or endeavor. Its affection as mutual-love lingers as an afterglow as a spiritual endeavor. The sensation from the movement of mutual love, corresponds to the “savior” symbolism, represented by the Brotherhood of Mankind. Truly, brotherly-love is sorely needed on earth right now.

Individually, the same concentrated effort created from willing mutual-love to a friend or family, results in a spiritual endeavor, or sensation that becomes a likeness of love in our own body. The emoting sensation starts as the awareness of a feeling that becomes a sense of attention. To be spiritual is to perceive the essence in all things. Keep in mind that this sense of attention is still only sensual truth, not spiritual understanding.

When the feeling of attention gets fully developed, smelling while breathing stops all mind-chatter permanently. In that stillness, a sensual endeavor as the feeling of warmth begins to emote from our body. When we reverberate it out as a spiritual essence of love, it aligns the alchemical “iron” in our blood stream with its universal group-spirit of sensual truth.

The emoting sensation of spiritual knowing, when formed by an act of concentration from willing mutual love, results in its opposite or feminine energy — the soul’s response as a Feeling. We could say that it is the “Sisterhood,” as the receptive aspect of the sensation of love.

Each of us must become familiar with these sensations, because if the spiritual sense-of-self as a knowing leads the soul as a feeling, it is prone to falsity, jealousy and hatred. Yet, when the feeling of the soul leads the knowing of the spiritual self, it results in good-use.

The spiritual self is a covering that cannot protect us from anything. It is dominated by the world of spiritual-selves, where both good and bad sensations exists. Not unless the affection of the soul, comes though to the outer spiritual self as love, does it reveal the protector, the light of faith. Then love occupies the silent mind as the angelic self.

By willing, the affection of mutual-love as a spiritual effort, whether we are male or female, stirs the active and passive reciprocal response from the Universe. That reciprocal response is an affection that when received fully, clears us of our selfish perspective to bring healing and wholeness.

As the effort of our endeavor strengthens and appears to be everywhere as a feeling, the false habits of mind-chatter end. Thought, replaced by the emoting sensation of attention gives everything of itself. The mind fully attentive becomes holy. It emotes the sensation of giving of itself in an act of spiritual attention, by becoming one with all.

Spiritual attention is different from the distraction we encounter on social media. Distraction is time related, whereas attention is feeling-related. If you could disable the time and date on your child’s smart-phone, including all the time-stamps of the videos and comments, you would soon end their addiction to social media. In distractions, we get lost in the appearance of things, and this is why we are bored in mother-nature.

When we concentrate our attention, we are compressing our thoughts into its center, making it glow. Then when we let go of that compressed thought formation it becomes a feeling that expands as light, multiplying and vibrating in every cell. This is how we are self-enlightened.

The expanding sensation of thought powered by the heat of love comes to a fruition phase, its holy state. This is represented by the seed, containing both the masculine and feminine principles uniting to protect the one. The feeling of holiness is the spiritual light grounded by the affection of universal love producing a sensation like celestial charity.

By smelling while we breathe, our faith becomes the light as an expanding affection of love. It is the spiritual faculty of understanding truth by the cognition of goodness. Truth then follows goodness as the faith from our love. Smelling while breathing will achieve this, if you can remember to do it. Smell the banana before you put it in your smoothie, or the milk; but not just to tell if its sour, but to enjoy its goodness. Smell the goodness in life, daily. Make smelling while you breathe, a meditative ritual while you prepare your dinner tonight.

When love gets compressed as represented by a seed, the concentration of the will-power produces creativity. Creative-love is a mutual benefit, because it gets warmed by our effort of the will, by turning creativity into the feeling of awareness.

Perception is the result of sensation. Creative-awareness is the light warmed by our love. It results from the effort of the will, as it becomes a radiant protector.

When we use our will-power as the feeling of mutual-love, by well-wishing in sync with smelling while breathing, the creative awareness develops a spiritual rhythm. It is as pleasurable as an orgasm. The frequency that gets awakened by smelling develops into a deep rhythmic spiritual breathing.

By smelling while deep breathing, we feel the rhythm of the planets in the vital organs of our body begin to dance and harmonize with the celestial spheres. The affection of the soul and spirit interacting, creates the feeling of the dance of life. It is the first awareness of a spiritual life. Yet, for right now, we are concentrating on smelling, not dancing.

After publishing my last book, I went several months fully believing that I would never write another word. The neighborhood had become more noisy from the crows. We discovered it was my neighbor attracting the birds by the smell, and reported him. Suddenly it went quiet for a couple of weeks. I actually started to write again, and I realized I just needed quiet to be creative. Perhaps everyone does too?

Noise pollution is the correspondence to both mind-chatter and crows. Crows represent the most selfish phase of humankind’s evolution. The first thing to measure the quality of life, should be how quiet your neighborhood is. Even the homeless need quiet to sleep. Start with quiet, and see if your community heals. We need outer quiet to concentrate inwardly.

Although our ears listen to outside noises, the spiritual sense of hearing corresponds to the esoteric feeling of union. It takes place through intuition by the inner-hearing function. Hearing takes a sound vibration turning it into a desire and then knowledge, as it ascends into the realm of interior-hearing as a feeling of knowing. I call it a knowing. Not scientific knowledge from memory, but from the experience as cognition. It is a spiritual knowing communicated from within by the sense of touch.

Swedenborg said that all sounds take one of two paths, either the understanding, or the will. The sounds of speech take the route to the understanding, while those that cause an affection, the path to the will.

The act of smelling while breathing unites the sensation of the will, with the understanding. It is the sensation of a knowing, by a spiritual rhythm. We are enlightened by the feeling of knowing when it aligns with the esoteric rhythm, the quiet stillness of spiritual breathing.

Humankind is dual in its nature, both an inner and an outer self. The inner self is the soul represented by the breath. We cannot ever be the breath. It is the goodness as the feeling of the will rising into the rational mind by love. The soul is always good, but the spirit is not as trustworthy. Yet, by smelling while breathing, lifts the spirit, the soul’s outer covering, and the human-aspect in us stops its warfare against its own flesh, so we can become spiritual.

The outer covering of the soul is the spirit, represented by the breathing function. The spirit is truth as the feeling of understanding. Our perception is the result of the scientific or sensual-mind rising through the rational-mind to wisdom by the smelling function. The spirit can be both true or false, and thereby can change good into evil. In this way, the goodness of the soul would be profaned by the falsity of the spirit.

Therefore, we want to perceive the breath and breathing as the states of good and truth as sensations in their heavenly spheres; the soul and spirit in their correspondence to the spiritual affections of warmth and light that interact and unite the two to reveal the inner self.

A spiritual sensation is the warm affection of love from the soul as a sense of knowing. Our proof is that it feels to radiate out as the light of faith. It is the extension of truth, as the spiritual affection from good. The affection of love in the will is the perception from good. The affection of understanding from knowing is the perception for truth.

Good and truth can be both good or bad, and true or false. We must be purified of our sense-of-separateness to perceive the spiritual difference. We are examining the sensations of the soul and spirit as they relate to our physical senses.

To hear, signifies perception. Yet, spiritual perception is the result of connecting the external-self with the internal-self. Our perception is the result of sounds we hear, both from outside, and as self-talk.

We perceive much more information from hearing sounds than just noise. I can tell if a crow is just squawking, or begging for some food. So, recently when the crows started squawking again, I looked at my neighbor’s balcony and realized he was now apartment composting, leaving the lid off for the smell to attract the birds.

I discovered it because, hearing develops our spiritual perception if when we examine an outer sound we also perceive its inner message. As our outer hearing gets developed, we can also perceive the spiritual affection of a sound sensation. Similarly, with Divine Truth when we read it we perceive an interior impression. Spiritual perception is a silent shiver like a “voice.” This endeavor of goodness from the soul as a voice, radiates through the spirit as the light of faith. It communicates a message by a heavenly sensation.

As an example, we perceive faith because we can feel it. To you, faith might feel different from light. Yet, because it is an affection, as its highest vibration it is also an esoteric sensation called divine truth. When we align with it even momentarily as a feeling, we have the affection for truth. It is the love of knowing what is good, by a spiritual perception.

Hunches and instincts are psychic messages from the astral plane, the world of spirits, and are generally selfish, prone to falsity and misinformation. Spiritual perception by smelling while breathing is what we hear as intuition. It is the flow of the spiritual will-to-good. It is a celestial state of selflessness. The sensation is in everything. It is without a separate sense-of-self, and from within, we perceive the celestial affection of goodness. The experience develops in time, as the affection for love.

To receive Divine Truth as intuition is only if we can perceive what is spiritually good. We must be in the flow of love to stop mind-chatter long enough so that the sensual things of the will-to-bad, falsified by the ego, cannot rise into the rational level as an angry affection for hate.

For us to perceive spiritual truth we must hear it, and obey. This is something the ego cannot do, unless it loves what it perceives. Truth and the ego are at odds toward good, one is giving, the other getting. Yet, the ego must be the one to join them together, and we must feel it is our own effort. The ego must then get out of the way to let the sensation of spiritual truth, lead us intuitively into silence. This is to obey.

In addition, the goodness is already in us as a memory, or from our study and training. Swedenborg says goodness, represented by the female, is called our “remains.” It is the memory of Conjugial Love, the highest frequency of love, implanted into women only, and from them it is passed to men, signified by truth. This is to receive goodness.

The esoteric sensation of universal love, is a self-less affection as a frequency moving toward what we admire. Selfless admiration is the feeling of the will-power moving as an endeavor toward good. It has been implanted in us all, through our mother’s natural affinity to this frequency joined to her will-power. It connects us by the sense of smell.

When I turned forty, my mother died, but because I felt so bad, I thought I had lost her love. Yet, ten years later when I found the same frequency of love again, I realized it was from the memory of her, by her smell. My mother was affectionate, but a woman does not need to be lovable to transfer conjugial love to her offspring. It is her natural gift.

One aspect of Universal love is mutual-love. The other aspect is conjugial love. It corresponds to the umbilical cord that connects us all back through our mother to the formless and invisible One Mother of all humanity. This is our path of return.

The masculine principle brings us into this reality, but the feminine connects us back home to the source. Meditate on the spiritual symbolism of the umbilical cord, because it leads back to the female angels, the permanent feeling of security radiating from Conjugial Love.

Swedenborg says the female angels correspond to the sense of smell, in the interiors of the nostrils. Those angels accessed by smelling are closer to the affection of conjugial love, a quiet state of mind, tasked with caring for the children. We are the children of conjugial love.

The act of smelling while breathing connects us with those female angels. They represent the spiritual truth that quiets the internal sensuous spirits of the mind and leads to wisdom. Only from within the sphere of wisdom, by smelling while breathing, can we then suggest to our subconsciousness that the sensation from the vital-soul of our body gets raised into our consciousness as the frequency of love for others. This is the gift from the divine feminine.

We need the increased vitality created by the heart to transform the life-force as spiritual light as it passes through the lungs to become an affection that lifts our mind to Cosmic Consciousness. The feeling of lust gets purified of its selfishness by smelling while breathing, because it combines the affection of the heart with the perception of the lungs.

This is a simple explanation of an abstract concept of how the body can act like an alchemical “furnace” to bring self-enlightenment. It is the work of a higher power moving through us. Distancing ourselves from it this way, causes the affection of love to make us feel beloved.

Universal love is an effortless rhythm that we can all feel. At first, we feel it only when we are quiet. It is created naturally while we breathe in and out. The act of conscious smelling while breathing develops the five physical senses into their internal spiritual counterparts. The outer action of breathing attunes us to the inner rhythm of the spiritual breath, and by the additional act of smelling, it unites them, one with the other.

Smelling reveals a spiritual endeavor of the will moving as an enlightened feeling hidden in every breath. As our breathing aligns with the higher affections of Universal Love by smelling, it builds a rhythmic bridge to the sanctuary of Cosmic Consciousness within, as if by a fragrance. The rhythmic bridge to Cosmic Consciousness gets built by smelling, because it causes an esoteric experience that leaves behind an afterglow.

We are learning the subtle differences between physical, spiritual, and celestial sensations by developing our sense of discernment. The afterglow of the spiritual experience gets felt as a result of the discerning sense of the celestial touch. Smelling is like hearing to the inner angels that correspond to the nostrils. With hearing, we can always write it down, but with smelling, certain odors cannot be described. Fragrance must be experienced, just like music. The afterglow is its gift.

Smelling puts us on our spiritual Path of Return, the afterglow that leads to Cosmic Consciousness. Each knowing moment accumulates to build the sensation of our spiritual body. Our sense-of-knowing gets transformed into an expanding affection of love that produces a largess 6 3 9, endeavor, as the truthful 6 3 9 feeling of the spiritual body. It acts as a celestial magnet for the sensation of the Universal Soul to inhabit.

Once we experience the spiritual truth in those flashing knowing-moments, each “endeavor” gets transformed into an affection that brings greater happiness. At first, our heightened perception of happiness does not show as outward things. Yet, as we practice smelling while breathing, an uplifting knowing feeling develops that everything will work out well.

At this point, in humankind’s evolution the soul is emerging as the driving force in everything we seek. The soul represents the horn of plenty, the nutritious basket of food signifying everything good.

The “plenty” is the satisfaction and happiness from the affections of good and truth as Universal Love, represented by the esoteric feeling of love in everyone. Once we realize it, the Universe becomes the source of all of our plenty.

Humanity needs to recognize this available spiritual power within and learn to distinguish it from other lesser sensations. This is not psychic-energy that can drain a person of their spiritual-energy, it is the largess feeling of Universal Love. It vivifies the body, and lifts the ego to spiritual life. You actually feel spiritual.

In this available spiritual power are additional properties of the soul that get harvested from raising the consciousness by using the discriminating faculty of smelling. It represents the “sword” as the keen perception that separates, and sees the distinctions between natural and spiritual things.

Yet, because the “plenty” is also a feeling, it’s affection stirs the subconsciousness into creative activity. Because this “plenty-feeling” corresponds to the basket of food, it is also represented by everything fat. It is the divine, largess feeling of “Fatness” emoting from our body that now becomes our source of delight. Take your pleasure in it.

The power of delight can be used to change anything into good, even our own negative “sour grapes” attitude. When the creative feeling of good combines with the self-conscious power through truth it disposes a vice for a virtue. It unites the light with the radiant energies that subdues the subconscious inner reaction to past temptations. We are freeing ourselves from the lustful feeling still attached to our past.

Every act of temptation, every willful response, gets filed in our mind as a lustful memory that distracts us from spiritual development. Just recalling something can stir anger or hatred. We are not erasing our memories, only the negative afterglow of lust associated with certain ones, until we reach the center of the goodness of love.

We are calming the falsity of lust that can make us feel bad, even when nothing is wrong. Love does not make us feel bad, only the memories of lust can. Those bad memories are from our ego. The ego must let go of its identification with those bad memories, for us to perceive the affection of universal love. The ego’s identification with those memories have become attached by the sensation of lust. Lust is a feeling, combined to a judgment.

As an example: My neighbor should be using online pornography to satisfy his lust, instead stalks the neighborhood to find his victims. He uses the guise of feeding the birds to hide his predatory nature from others. Yet, his lustful sensation created as a result veils the truth even from himself. We all have this hereditary nature. It is “the ambition of Adam” as our lust.

As another example, imagine being in love, with someone who is not interested in you. You would feel unloved. To you, love would feel like lust, because it would never be satiated. The more you dwelt on rejection, it would make you do things like tease the crows. As a result, the feeling of lust would become hidden from yourself. Eventually, we would even deny the predatory nature in our own character. This is how the feeling of lust creates falsity, and then we no longer see the truth.

Lust drives us on by our affection for things, and they are both interwoven into one temptation. Whether it is sex, overeating or overspending, our combat with our personal temptation is what leads us to a spiritual life.

In love, there is no sense of time. The saying, ‘time flies when you are having fun’ works reverse when caught in temptations. Lust creates the feeling of time, just like pain makes it drag on. When our desire for a long life gets soured by boredom, alcohol, or loss, it extends into many hateful moments that create patterns that hold us to the past.

It is our predatory nature operating through the affection for the things we love that cause our temptation combats and give us the time to make us into better humans. We need to examine the things that tempt us, to understand why we do not yet feel loved. Smelling will achieve this.

Temptations cause the affection of being unloved, despite having everything. To feel loved, is not a sensation that can be gotten from owning physical things. Although it is a sensation that can be gotten, without owning anything. Everyone is equal when it comes to getting near the spiritual feeling that results in the sensation of usefulness and the affection of being loved.

Our temptations are our personal journey, because we suffer through them, until we have dominion over them. Yet, it does not matter how we succeed. If we are overweight, it does not matter if we take medication to lose that weight. The important thing is that we come to feel ourselves as having the perfect body despite how it looks. This is to love ourselves.

We become more concerned with building a spiritual body once we can feel that perfection in our physical-body. Yet, to feel our spiritual body, we must be able to imagine it perfect too. Perfection is an affection in our physical body. “Temptation” is the lust that distracts us to look elsewhere for that perfection, and we end up seeking it in things, food and sex.

Seeking outwardly for happiness is the unhappy state of our ego. It does not know that it can have both the heightened inner pleasure, and an outer good life. Our unhappiness is the only thing that blocks our perception of the perfect spiritual body. In that affection of the perfect body is the happiness and joy of Universal Love. We just have to make our ego understand, through its education of love.

The feeling of perfection interacts with the affection of happiness to create the third state of equilibrium. It is the balance point within that leads to the affection of the spiritual body, the feeling of being loved. This balance point within is more exempt from harm. It is our goal now.

This balance point within, is reflected in the outer world by the latest craze of the Calisthenics one-arm hand-stand exercises. With all that blood in the brain perhaps it will be a new way to develop the glands of spiritual perception.

From a state of equilibrium, we are in balance and act from good. This is the perfection from the soul-level of love. Yet, we are not yet perfect. The more we can distance ourselves from thinking such nonsense, the perfection flows though us, and we feel better about ourselves.

This perception is freedom from the selfish sensation of lust. Yet, it is freedom from our own false ego, prone to pride, and especially if we were to identify with the sensation of perfection as ourselves.

At this point in our spiritual regeneration journey we are tested to let the influx of good flow through us as it increases in pleasure, but not allow the ego to identify with it as our own. Otherwise, the ego further falsifies the truth, because temptations result from the selfish and lusty sensation to become one, with whatever it loves.

In Numerology, the word sensation is 3 5 8. It is the same vibration as the words temptations 3 5 8, regenerate 3 5 8, and unity 3 5 8.

Think of all sensations as starting from the lowest vibration of lust, and through the sense of touch it causes our temptation combats that temper us to respond with goodness. As the vibration of lust gets frustrated by delay it causes the ego through temptations to become regenerate, free from our selfish response. Lust, is only held at-bay by the promise of love to come. From there, we are on our way to the feeling of unity, the sensation of Universal Love.

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About: Clayten Tylor

Clayten is now a writer, but a retired Certified Esoteric Astrologer, Numerologist, and Mystic. His other interest includes subjects such as Spiritual Healing, Occult Psychology, Metaphysics, Sacred Science, Mystical Qabalah, Color Therapy, Contemporary Spirituality, Trans-personal Religious experiences; and is an avid Swedenborg enthusiast.

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