The Light of the Body

34 Pages·2013·0.55 MB·English

by  Carol Ritberger

The Light of the Body Online Course

Part One

The Dynamics of the Light Body

“The aura is the expression of the real man . . . It is the sum total of his
forces and emotions—physical, etheric, astral, mental and spiritual.
Concisely speaking, it is the subtle super-physical emanation surrounding
a person in the form of a luminous mist or cloud. The aura emanation
is the essence of a man’s life—it reveals his character, emotional nature,
mental caliber, state of health and spiritual development."

S. G. J. Ouseley

By

Carol Ritberger PhD, Medical Intuitive

© 2013 Carol Ritberger, PhD
All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or
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THE LIGHT OF THE BODY

This course explores your spiritual nature and the highly developed communication network
between the soul, the chakras, the mind, and the physical body. This network, energetic in nature,
makes it possible for your soul to reveal its intentions through the vibrational frequencies found
throughout your 7 chakras, through the quality of your thoughts, and through the functioning of
your physical body. When all of these aspects of self are in alignment with the intentions of your
soul, you’ll find yourself feeling self-confident, creating empowering thoughts, and experiencing
good health and an overall sense of well-being. Conversely, if any one of these aspects of self
isn’t in alignment with the intentions of your soul, the result is the creation of limiting thoughts,
self-sabotaging behavior, feelings of emotional compromise, and the presence of illness due to a
malfunctioning in the organs, glands, and major systems of the physical body.

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ENTIRE COURSE

The objectives of this course are to:

 Increase your awareness of the part of yourself that represents who you are in your
purest form—the light body.

 Offer insight into the complexities and relationship between the chakras and your
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

 Reveal the significant role your light body plays in providing the guidance and
direction needed to accomplish your divine work and to live the quality of life you
desire.

 Identify your personality color and the mental preferences associated with how you
gather information and make decisions—the neurological traits behind your
personality color.

 Learn Personality Body Mapping™

 Learn Chakra Mapping™

 Explore the profound impact the light body has on the creation or deterioration of
health.

HOW TO USE THE WORKBOOK

This workbook is intended to serve as reference material for future inquiries you may have
regarding the light body, your personality color, the chakras, and the role they all play in the
health and well-being of the physical body. Its contents are directed to those who desire to self-

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heal and to those who are involved in a healing profession, whether the profession is conventional
(allopathic) or holistic in nature.

In addition, you’ll find the workbook contains exercises you can practice alone, or with a friend,
or as part of a study group. Sprinkled throughout the workbook, you’ll also find excerpts from
books authored by Carol Ritberger, PhD, as well as from workbooks she has authored and uses in
different classes and programs offered through The Ritberger Institute for Esoteric Studies. The
sources of the excerpts, as well as other information, are conveniently listed in the "References"
section at the back of the workbook. For more information on Carol's programs, visit
www.ritberger.com

I hope you find the information presented in this workbook of value and that what you learn will
help you better understand your non-visible spiritual nature, because it's this aspect of your being
that connects you with the Divine Source, the Universe, and all that exists. As one whose
"Mastery Of,"2 (sacred agreement with other people) is to help them remember their energetic
nature and to show them how to lift the veil of forgetfulness, I leave you with this closing
thought:

You exist on two dimensions—the dimension of matter (the physical self) and the
dimension of energy (the spiritual self).

The dimension of matter, by its nature, is structured and enmeshed with limitations and
boundaries created by the mind and conditioned by other people’s thoughts and
perceptions. As a result, this mind of matter seeks to find its answers externally rather
than internally, thus perpetuating perceptions that are familiar and safe—perceptions
responsible for the creation of self-doubt, fear, comfort zones, and beliefs around lack
and scarcity. Those perceptions encourage one to remain engaged in group
consciousness, which sees itself as separate from others, from nature, and from the
Universe. Those perceptions also significantly contribute to the formation of illness and
disease.

The dimension of energy, on the other hand, exists in balance with nature and all that
exists. It's without limitations and boundaries, and rather than relying on guidance and
direction externally, it seeks to find its direction and guidance internally—in the
wisdom and intelligence found in the essence of the soul and in the universal mind. As
a result, the mind of matter is liberated from the constraints of its conditioning and
creates thought-forms in alignment with universal consciousness. This is the
consciousness where all exists in a symbiotic, unified field of enlightenment, where all
are one and the same, and where one remembers that the healing they desire is found
within their own spiritual nature.

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How will you know when you have shifted your perception of self from matter to
energy?

 You'll no longer see yourself as either/or, but will, instead, see yourself as
whole.

 You'll experience, without effort, self-acceptance, self-love, and a sense of
worthiness; and abundance will abound.

 Your awareness of your thoughts will increase, so you'll more quickly
differentiate thoughts that empower from those that are disempowering.

 You'll find yourself no longer doing things or making decisions for other
people’s reasons. Instead, you'll do things because they feel right and
because you want to. In other words, you'll do things for your reasons.

 You'll have an inner knowing that you've transformed and transmuted the
split between the two selves, thus experiencing a state of enlightenment and
an enlightened life.

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PART 1: THE DYNAMICS OF THE LIGHT BODY

CONTENTS
A Timeless Approach to Healing
Curing Versus Healing
What Is the Light Body?
A Carrier of Energetic Information
The Components of the Light Body
Exercises

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A TIMELESS APPROACH TO HEALING

By integrating the best of the ancient arts of healing with the latest discoveries in science and
medical technology, an exciting opportunity is presenting itself that can change how we view
illness. The opportunity is to create a new model of healing—a model that will not only change
how illness is diagnosed but also how illness is treated. Yet, if we were to look back in history,
we'd find that this new healing model isn’t really new at all, but, instead, is timeless in the sense
that it begins the healing process where it should begin—with the healing of the soul. And, rather
than seeking to relieve the physical body of its symptoms, discomforts, distresses, and aches and
pains, this model of healing seeks to heal the underlying root causes responsible for the presence
of illness in the first place. The prime objective of this healing model is to restore balance
between the soul, the mind, and the spirit, not just to cure the ailments of the physical body.

Throughout every civilization, there are writings describing how the metaphysicians, the
alchemists, the hermetists, the shamans, and even the great physicians of Greece approached
healing from a psychospiritual perspective, meaning they began at the soul level and worked from
the inside out—out to the ailments and malfunctioning of the physical body. Hermes, Paracelsus,
and even Hippocrates, who is often referred to as the Father of Western Medicine, wrote of how
the healing of the body must begin by eliminating the obstacles preventing the soul from doing its
divine work. All saw these obstacles as being unhealthy thoughts, destructive emotions, self-
sabotaging beliefs, and unnatural behavior. And, all agreed that when these obstacles were
eliminated, the physical body would return to its natural state of balance, and the individual
would experience good health.

Through their individual approaches to healing, they collectively showed that if true healing is to
occur, then the soul, the mind, and the body must work in a cooperative, unified manner; and the
soul must be free to express its intentions. Their work showed, indeed, that illness begins in the
spiritual nature of a person, meaning it begins as pre-illness in the subtle, non-visible part of us
that surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body—the part known as the light body. Their
approach to healing revealed that the light body and the physical body are, without a doubt,
holograms of each other, so what affects one affects the other and vice versa. Their work also
questioned the difference between curing and healing and revealed they’re not the same, either in
their approach or in their results.

CURING VERSUS HEALING

Curing and healing are different in the sense that curing focuses on the malfunctions of specific
parts of the body and seeks to lessen and eliminate symptoms, discomfort, distress, and the effects

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of illness. This approach to healing doesn’t go any deeper than the effects on the physical body,
and its prime directive is to restore the physical body back to where it was before it became ill.

Curing supports taking a passive role in the healing process and encourages delegating the
process to someone else. It sees the body and the mind as being separate and tends to not take into
consideration that what happens in the body begins in the mind. This approach to healing doesn’t
see the soul as part of the healing equation.

Healing, on the other hand, begins with the soul and seeks to identify, transform, and eliminate
the obstacles preventing the soul from finding its physical expression. The objective of healing is
to treat all aspects of who we are, and to make us better than we were before. It focuses on
reestablishing a sense of balance between the soul, the mind, and the body and seeks to improve
the quality of our lives. It requires participation in the process, the willingness to do whatever is
needed in order to heal, and the courage to let go of what’s preventing the soul from doing its
divine work. Healing necessitates learning to manage our thoughts and taking responsibility for
our words and actions. It begins with self-evaluation and ends with the creation of a different
perception of who we are.

THE CONCEPTS OF SOUL AND SPIRIT1

The concepts of soul and spirit are difficult to understand, and even more difficult to differentiate,
especially if they’re approached from the Western perspective of health and healing. The reason
for this is because their definitions will vary from person to person, and from religious teachings
to spiritual teachings, which, in effect, view them as one and the same. However, if we were to
look at both from the perspective of the teachings of Esoteric Philosophy and Hermetic Science,
we'd begin to understand their differences.

The Soul

The soul is the core essence of our being. It lives in the vibrational frequencies found in the
esoteric body of the auric field, in the memories held within our DNA, and in the nucleus of the
trillions of individual cells contained in our physical body. In effect, it exists both inside and
outside of the structure of the physical body. The soul represents who we are in non-physical
form and serves as the source of our creation. Its intentions direct our earthly activities and,
utilizing the Law of Magnetic Attraction, draw to us the experiences necessary for us to learn, to
grow, to change, to evolve, and to move forward toward spiritual enlightenment. Its essence

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livens the physical body and initiates the movement of cells. It holds within its essence our sacred
agreements, meaning the agreements we have with ourselves, with other people, and with the
Divine Source.

The essence of the soul records the experiences between birth and death and contains an energetic
archival history of all thoughts, emotions, events, and memories we've experienced on the
physical earth plane, both in our current lifetime and in past lifetimes. It uses the physical body as
the human expression of its intentions and as the vehicle for evolution. Its intentions are neither
literal nor analytical, but rather metaphoric and symbolic. The soul is interested in the quality of
our thoughts, the emotions we feel, the experiences we attract, and the relationships we develop,
because these are the elements of life that are of the greatest value in determining the quality of
our lives. They’re what serve as the inspiration and encouragement that will help us move
forward in the evolutionary process.

Discomfort, tension, stress, distress, aches and pains, illness, and disease are the soul’s way of
alerting us that something we're thinking, saying, or doing is contradictory to its intentions, and
these contradictions are causing a disconnection to occur between the mind, the body, and the
soul. Each of these physical expressions represents a degree of resistance, reluctance, or
unwillingness to make the choices or the changes needed to move us forward in our quest for
self-understanding and spiritual development. However, it’s important to understand that it's
never the intention of the soul to cause bodily harm when trying to alert us because that wouldn’t
serve it well, as it relies on the physical body as its vehicle of expression. It’s merely trying to
bring attention to the fact that something is causing us to feel compromised.

The soul knows that in our humanness, we’re susceptible to creating thought patterns, which form
beliefs, habits, and mental limitations that inhibit personal growth, prevent the expansion of
consciousness, and keep us stuck in self-sabotaging behavior. It understands we’re prone to
burying our emotional hurts for the sake of not wanting to create conflict, and for not sharing how
we feel because we’re afraid that we won’t be accepted, liked, or loved. It understands that the
root of our insecurities and fears lies in our relationships with others. The soul knows that
sometimes it takes more than a gentle nudge, or an intuitive flash of insight, to get our attention.
Sometimes we have to experience something more physical such as illness, so we can understand
the impact our thoughts and emotional reactions are having on us, and so we can recognize just
how much we've invested spiritually, mentally, and emotionally in what isn’t serving the soul or
the physical body well.

When the vitality of the soul separates from the physical body in the death process, all we’re left
with is a physical shell that begins to deteriorate and decompose immediately. Three days prior to
death, the soul begins the process of returning to its non-physical form by purging itself of
unnecessary information. It then remains a vibrational essence and waits for its next physical
incarnation.

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The Spirit – The Light Body

The spirit represents our psychospiritual nature and it energetically occupies the same space as
the physical body, while also extending beyond it. Its presence creates the electromagnetic
framework of the light body. The spirit represents who we are in our purest form and is a
composite of our totality, meaning our soul, our higher self, the chakras, the mind, and all of
the organs, glands, and major systems of the physical body. It forms our energetic communication
network, thus making it possible for the soul and the body to dialogue with each other.

Using the vibrational frequencies of the 7 chakras to reveal its presence and to serve as the
communication liaison between the soul and the physical body, the human energy system via the
light body is the energetic facilitator of the soul’s intentions. Its job is to act as a transmitter and
receiver of energy-carrying information both internally and externally. It vibrationally decodes
the information in a way that allows the soul, the mind, and the body to utilize it. Once the
information is received and vibrationally decoded, the spirit distributes it to the brain for
processing, and to the chakras for distribution to the cells throughout the physical body. The
energy of the spirit is more intimately connected to the language of the right hemisphere of the
brain, because its energetic messages are more metaphoric and symbolic in nature, which is how
the soul chooses to express itself. The information provided through the spirit is biological and
biographical, and represents the genetic heredity of the family of origin, as well as repetitive
patterns of thinking and behavior that may or may not be consistent with the soul’s intentions.

When the soul is ready to leave the physical body upon death, it’s the spirit that provides the
energetic vehicle for the soul to transition from the lower vibrational frequencies associated with
the physical body to the higher vibrational frequencies associated with the Divine Source and the
Universe. Once the transition to higher frequencies has been completed, and upon our last breath
back into light, the spirit leaves the physical body.

 The soul is the initiator of all experiences, and it's through experiences that it makes
its intentions known.
 The light body is the interface between the mind and the body.
 The cells are the keepers of the soul’s intentions.
 The human energy system is the energetic facilitator of the soul’s intentions.
 The mind is the interpreter of the soul’s intentions.
 The physical body is the expression of the soul’s intentions.

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WHAT IS THE LIGHT BODY?

The light body has for centuries been described as an energetic duplicate of the physical body. It's
said to provide a comprehensive holographic image of who we are in our totality of humanness—
soul, spirit, mind, and body. The light body is described as a luminous vapor of mist or cloud,
made up of waves of light, and rich with color. This field of light and color is comprised of
electromagnetic frequencies that surround and interpenetrate the physical body. The ancient
Sanskrit writings tell us that it’s impossible to separate the two as they’re truly a reflection of
each other, and are one and the same.

Edgar Cayce said, “The aura (light body) is the weathervane of the soul. It shows which way the
winds of destiny are blowing.”

The light body in its entirety is a dynamic composition of the soul, the spirit, the mind, and the
body. It represents who we are in our purest form and acts as an energetic medium where all of
these elements can emerge, interact, and unite to become one. Each aspect of who we are is able
to find expression through the vibrational frequencies of the light body, and creates a symphony
of movement.

The Symphony of Movement

Everything in life vibrates and is in some state of constant movement. The light body is no
different. If you could physically see it, you'd find that it pulsates and has its own natural
rhythmic patterns, which are similar to those of your heartbeat or the involuntary breathing
patterns of your physical body. You'd see that it's made up of many different elements. You might
even compare its activities to those of a concert orchestra playing a complicated piece of music,
knowing very well that timing is everything, and understanding that cooperation among the
musicians is imperative if the piece is to be delivered successfully. You'd observe that every
vibrational frequency, like every musician, knows they must wait their turn until they’re
instructed to participate, and all understand that when they complement each other and don’t try
to overpower the others, the exquisiteness of the music can be enjoyed.

A visual portrayal of what the light body looks like would be similar to seeing the heat waves
coming off the desert floor or off the asphalt of a hot street. Yet, instead of these waves being
transparent, they would look like the morning mist rising off a mountain lake or the cloud-like
vapors rising off a warm street following a rain shower.

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