22 names for the inner child, child within

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Nov 2013

If you have heard the terms, "inner child" and "etheric body," have you noticedthe indefinite-amorphous-mutable quality connoted?

his seemin!ly technical point is orth discussin! because "our immune system"

is another ith deliberately similarly indefinite connotation# If connectin! andcommunicatin! ith your immune system interests you, read on#

his article attempts to rectify some tan!led terminolo!y and reveals $%&indefinite-amorphous-mutable connotations are in fact arranted for the sub'ect#

(ecause of the several levels of tan!le, it ill be easiest to start at the conclusion)and then, sho hy this appears inevitable#

he conclusion is* our inner child is primarily an etheric bein!#

$hat does this mean?

+rior to the mid-100s it as probably not possible for humanind to co!ni.e ouron etheric body# /nly after 10, after muscle testin! conver!ed ith N+,

primarily in the or of (ertrand (abinet (abinetics#com did methods to test,

perceive, trac, and or ith invisible ener!ies, includin! our on etheric bodybecome possible# ouch for %ealth, heta %ealin!, (odyal, 4motion 5ode and

especially +eace theolo!ical 6eminary 7asters 8 9octorate pro!rams articulated


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methods, techniques and lan!ua!e to !rasp the reality and activity of invisiblehuman ener!ies#

In 1887 the MichelsonMorley experiment closed the door on discussing thereality of ether, in any form, in the minds of materialistic Cartesian scientists.Rudolf Steiner stood irtually alone in championing the reality of !etheric

formatie forces! "ased on his direct clairoyant o"serations and his articulating#oethe$s Science into more clear language% experiments performed as in part, aehicle for the personal&spiritual deelopment of the experimenter 'his (as the"eginning of the end for the dualism of Cartesian Science, a story still in its earlychapters.

he heavy liftin! 6teiner did on :oethe;s scattered science ideas as repeated by

6teiner;s secretary, :unther $achsmuth and a fe more even obscure fi!ures inthe 130s-1


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In this ay, our etheric body supports the immortal-eternal soul, !ivin! it anener!etic envelope or container in hich the "I" can co!ni.e itself in the human

eperience#

/ur etheric body is the mother-body, encompassin! all our other sub-bodies,

visible and invisible#

/ur etheric body is the lar!est of our invisible bodies# It needs to be as the

"envelope" for all sub-bodies and sub-systems required to function in the 4artheperience# he continuum of frequencies in our etheric body, hi!h to lo and

bac up a!ain, is several octaves ider than our mental or emotional bodies,hich are contained-maintained ithin it#

hese sub-systems include our memoryChabit body, mental body, emotional body,ima!inal body, body of acupuncture meridians and stran!e flos and physical

body#

he etheric bodies of men and omen differ si!nificantly and another article in

preparation addresses this#

D* $hich physical part of the human bein! is our etheric body most analo!ous

to?

=* /ur etheric body is most analo!ous to our lymphatic system# /ur lymph

system drains and clears unanted material too bi! for our hite cells to handle#/ur etheric body does this for ener!etic quantities and qualities# &ou can thin of

it performin! this function for astral astes, emotional astes, mental, astesand so on# = tip of the hat to 6ally =nne /stler, 7edical Intuitive ho contributed

to this insi!ht#

$ithout a eb and ithout a eaver, ithout common communication beteen

all our bodies and sub-systems, ithout communication beteen them and ourimmortal-eternal soul--each of us ould be even more disor!ani.ed than e are

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For the purpose of learnin!, the enormity of our etheric body can be simplified

into a hi!h frequency re!ion and a lo frequency re!ion#

$ithin the loer frequencies of our etheric body are all the acupuncture points

and meridians# 6teiner;s phrase "etheric formative forces" and the phrase "pre-physical body" both point to the loer frequency activity and behavior of our

etheric body#

he 12 or!an meridians primarily reside in our sub-conscious, in theta

frequencies# he 5onception Gessel, :overnin! Gessel and the rest of the


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"stran!e flos" are deeper and loer in frequency, in our unconscious# hat;shy e can feel some chan!es and activity in the or!an meridians but rarely if

ever in the 5onception 8 :overnin! Gessels#

he hi!her frequency ran!e of our etheric body is the home of*

- archetypal ideals,- role models,

- Fairy tales and Scripts People Live

- 7ytholo!y and superheros,

- archetypal polarities of 9ivine Feminine and 9ivine 7asculine,- our habits of connectin! ith our on 9ivinity, hoever conceived#

he mystical %orn of +lenty is in the upper etheric of each person# %o easily orho challen!in! it is for you to connect ith Infinite 6upply, thru your on

a!ency, su!!ests hether you lied-en'oyed the booCmovie, he 6ecret) or, ifyou are part of the frustrated baclash a!ainst he 6ecret#

$hat Hun! ished to !rasp in some aspects of the collective unconscious in hisor, Man and His Symbolsis also in this upper frequency levels of the etheric

body#

he middle ran!e of our etheric body, here most of our thinin! and feelin!occur, can be conceived of as a habit body or habit holo!ram# In it are stored all

the habits--functional and dysfunctional--on each level of our psyche, physical,

ima!inal, emotional, mental and unconscious you can :oo!le "+=574" for moreon this scheme#

7ore poetically, our etheric body is "the eb that has no eaver#" his phrase is

the title of a famous 5hinese 7edicine boo# he author may indeed have coined

the phrase# %is phrase points to the function and character of the etheric bodyitself) and I suppose, to the interrelated netor of topics in 5hinese medicine#

In common 'ar!on, our etheric body eaves to!ether all parts of our psyche, into

a person, ho can both al and che !um at the same time, both al the do!

and tal on a cell phone simultaneously#

Indeed, the capacity to embrace, coordinate and mae sense of unrelated butconti!uous or!ans, functions and activity I6 the nature of the etheric body#

=lert readers ill !rasp ho this connects the etheric body ith the characteristicconcerns of motherin!, to the 9ivine 7other, and to the $omb of 5reation#

20 names for the inner child

(ecause our etheric body is the primary inte!ratin! function of the human


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eperience) and, because it is invisible, it has been AdiscoveredB over and overa!ain, !iven many names by many "blindmen#"

he historical namin! of the etheric body is eactly analo!ous to the poem, "he(lind 7en and the 4lephant#" 6ee full poem and its ori!ins here*

http*CC#noo!enesis#comCpineappleCblindmenelephant#html

(riefly, each blind man, feelin! only the one part of the elephant, beteen his

to hands, over-!enerali.es his understandin! of one small part of the elephant,the le!, the tail, the trun, to be the true character of the entire elephant#

he si!hted person looin! more "spherically" at a healthy elephant perceives

multiple functions and aspects#

%ence* 20 names for the inner child#

6ee if you can add any terms to this list*

- pre-physical body

- vitality, prana, chi

- habit body, habit holo!ram

- memory body, habit body, habit holo!ram

- inner child as reactive emotional self

- ounded inner child of the past

- immune system of the body

- animal self, animal nature

- the body electric, life force

- the Afloatin! brain"

- neural default mode

- Afeelin!s and needsB in the NG5 sense

- the ;ittle =rtist; of The Artists Way

- innate isdom of the sum of your cells

- morpho!enetic fields 6teiner thru +oppelbaum


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- subconscious, unconscious

- !ateeeper of the etheric centers

- >udolf 6teiner;s Aetheric formative forcesB

- etheric body, etheric double

- :roth body

%ave I left out anythin!? If you thin of another, I;d en'oy hearin! it#

Q: How intelligent is my etheric body?

=* If our immune system is intelli!ent enuf to eep our food di!estin!, refleesalin!, mouth talin! and brain thinin!--all at once--it must have some de!ree

of intelli!ence# his cannot all be chemistry, cannot be even all neuro-chemistry)it cannot be all !enes# "Intelli!ence" is the only reasonable eplanation# 7ulti-

tasin! is one characteristic capacity of our etheric body#

&ou may be surprised to learn our loer helper self, our immune system can

accomplish all its tass ith the intelli!ence of a three year old#

D* &ou mean I;m not the only intelli!ence inside my on body?

=* 5orrect# he ori!inal +lan of the =n!els appears to be for the ain!conscious self to be in the middle, beteen, sandiched beteen, an upperhelper self and a loer helper self#

D* $hat use to me is the intelli!ence of a three year old?

=* =s any healthy three year old, our child ithin can respond to direct questionsand respond if hat is offered is A>J4 for me no beneficial)" or, AN/ >J4

for me no neutral to detrimental#"

Neither plants nor animals have this level of discretion-preference-intelli!ence#/ur etheric body, immune system, does and it operates 2KC@) most si!nificantly,in our small intestine choosin! hich nutrients to assimilate into our blood stream

and hich to let !o by as not useful#

If it did N/ have this level of intelli!ence in our small intestine, e ould tae inhatever as in our :#I# ract indiscriminately, lie a plant# Find full discussion of

this in other articles at %ealin!oolbo#or!#


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Our etheric body is our connection to the cosmos

/ur etheric body lives in ener!y, virtually all of it invisible to our ain!-thinin!self#

his is ho and hy our etheric nature as left out of 5artesian 6cience#

/ur etheric body three year old does not live in cloc-time but in fairy tale time#It also eperiences itself as connected to, as an instance, a subset, and at effect

from, the lar!er etheric bodies of family, culture, nationhood, planet 4arth, solar

system and so on) hence, the small but measurable relevance of moon phases onhuman behavior#

D* $hat;s the easiest ay to connect and communicate ith my etheric body?

=* =rm-len!th-testin! = !ood video is here http*CCinnerise#comCenCvideosCall-videosC113-innerise-the-arm-len!ht-test?cate!oryidLJ4 for me no" and AN/ >J4

for me no" as these are much closer to hat our inner three year old is doin!and "thinin!#"

Why so mysterious?

he upper etheric realm from hich our etheric body is born from is some ay, isthe realm of "mystery" itself, the "neither this nor that" first pointed out by the

Men (uddhists) and e can add, the mutability of omen, the pleasure omentae in acquirin! ne loos and eperimentin! ith novel presentations of

themself#

/ur etheric body is desi!ned to remain in the bac!round and tae a bac seat to

our conscious ain! self, after a!e seven, for the remainder of our days on4arth#

The rise and fall of "inner child"

he term "inner child," had purchase in humanistic psycholo!y circles and

literature beteen 1K and 1


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he shallo penetration of "inner child" into ider culture is unfortunate because

acnoled!in! our loer helper self, connectin! ith and communicatin! ith it,

is one of the bi!!est brid!es into self-aareness and self-healin!#

4cerpted and revised from &ou %ave hree 6elves, Golume 1, available at=ma.on in paper and e(oo form#

7ore articles lie this at %ealin!oolbo#or!

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