The Sacred and Alive Aspect of the Elements

Imagine a being from another dimension encountering us and seeing only flesh. Imagine this being not realizing that we are alive, that we have intelligence and imagination, that our lives are the insubstantial aspect and the flesh is the substantial aspect. And instead seeing only flesh, only meat. That’s what it’s like when we look at the elements and see only dead physical processes; we miss the sacred and alive aspect of the elements, the spirits that live in them and are of them.

When our bodies get sick, we suffer in our insubstantial mind, not just in our flesh. In the same way, the raw elements are important for the beings who abide in them. For them, the destruction or degradation of the natural environment is like an illness in the body and they suffer on insubstantial levels, just as we do.

It’s easy to discount invisible spirits, but doing so is damaging. When we ignore these beings, there are negative provocations from the spirit side.

Diseases arise that, we believe, come from disturbed spirits. We call these diseases “time diseases.”

In the West the same diseases may be thought of as the results of negative environmental factors—pollution and chemicals and so on. Some non-physical beings are aware of us, many are not. Some are harmful to us, some are beneficial. They can be our allies or our enemies depending on what kind of relationship we build with them.