Source of Emotions
I was asked for my views on the source of emotion.
Djwhal Khul [DK] has given the best seed thought on this. He states that the astral (emotional world) is created by the mental, that in ancient days the emotional world did not even exist. It wasn’t until humanity’s mental ability developed that desire as we know it was even possible. The lower emotions are therefore created on an illusionary principle and the astral world of lower emotions will one day pass away.
And what creates our values? A mental assessment of what is meaningful to us.
Now mind alone will not create all the emotions as we know it but the fullness of these emotions is caused through the interplay of mental energy with etheric energy and prana. Etheric energy creates the impulses to the life sustaining desire in animals, but when this is analyzed and amplified by the mind, we have produced the spectrum of human emotions not available to lower life forms.
On the other hand, the Masters learn to then place the human emotions in their proper place through the power of higher mind and negate their negative influence. They have learned to see where the illusion is.
Then we have higher emotions on the plane of the Buddha that are created from the Mind of God itself. Paul [the Apostle] in speaking of one of these, spiritual love, said it endures forever. It indeed at least endures for the life of the universe and then is reborn with each new creation.
Question: If mind is necessary to create emotion, then what about animals? It seems that they have feelings.
Human emotion is an effect created by the mind. The root emotion that sets man apart from the animals is desire. This is particularly evident in our sexual natures. It is true that animals are attracted to each other but mainly through instinct during the mating season. With humans the attraction is during all times because of the mental construct of what is and is not desirable and attractive.
Except in rare cases where the animal is very advanced the feelings an animal experiences is produced by its instincts, learned and natural and it has no power to intelligently direct them.
Because a human has power to program and deprogram himself he has power to manufacture his emotional world or to deconstruct it.
Comment: I don’t see how ‘lower emotions are … created on an illusionary principle.
JJ: If the emotions are “always an effect produced by the mind” as you say, then as soon as the mind changes the programming the emotion is no more. Because the emotion can pass away and be as if it had never been then it is created by an illusionary principle.
On the other hand, the higher mind is capable of seeing truth and principles which is eternal so it exists upon a non-illusionary principle.
The higher emotions are those that do not pass away such as spiritual love, spiritual joy, spiritual desire for eternal progression and creation in line with the dominating good and others.
Jealousy, anger, hatred, possessive love, and other lower emotions are created by the meaning we assign to situations and will pass when the situation or the mental construct changes.
As far as there being an astral or emotional world, there is no way to prove this exists. I personally can feel my emotional body and have seen the vivid colors given off by it many times. It is different than the etheric. Anyone can see the aura if they want to practice at it long enough.
As far as what the emotions are or where they come from — that could be a treatise in itself. All creation springs from positive and/or negative or male and female energy. Thought comes from the male side and emotion of feeling, the female.
Basically, we all know what emotion is because we all have felt it. If one had never felt anger then he wouldn’t know what it is even if someone explained it to him. Similarly, a person must taste an orange to know the taste. It cannot be explained in full.
All life is immersed in thought and feeling which originates from the heart and mind of God. To understand thought and feeling in fullness one must understand God. We start by understanding ourselves.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri-Frederic Amiel
June 22, 2009
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