It has occurred to me that using fem com (feminine communication; sharing feelings, needs, permissives and problems vulnerably) allows for the other person to reflect in a way that does not require them to be identified with an Egregore. Fem com itself requires that the one communicating in this way refrains from identifying with an Egregore herself (usually) or himself. Because this style of communication forbids laying blame, judgements, demands, or directives, it naturally yields a neutral space between 2 people. The communicator gets to express in a way that allows her to be seen. To be accepted. To simply be witnessed. It is non-triggering, non-aggressive, and without any blame at all. At least when done correctly, that is.
This natural shift from the more masculine discipline of using the mind to examine, judge, conclude, and then act in an assertive manner based on observations of one’s own experiences, into the feminine of feeling through any experience in flow, acceptance, openness, and then share is one that naturally leaves the Egregore out of the picture altogether. An Egregore is a thoughtform, or non-physical entity. The Toltecs would use the term “Inorganic Being”. Rudolph Steiner and Anthroposophists would classify them as lower Astral beings. Dr Samuel Sagan of the Clairvision school calls them merely samskara entities. Whatever we call them- for now, I call them Egregores, they live within our own Astral bodies and interact with us on that level. They cannot be detected physically whatsoever. They live in our minds. The mind is the organ of perception that perceives the Astral body.
When Rudolph Steiner speaks of purifying the Astral body, I believe that this is what he is speaking of. The transformed Astral body begins with one which is a chaotic mob of all kinds of different astral fragments. Fragments are picked up from our birth environment, our parents, traumatic events in our lives, and a few other ways, but almost always unconsciously. Each piece, stuck together only by the organizing human principle of the ego ‘I’, all conglomerate in a more or less haphazard and unkept way around and within the aura. These astral fragments are indeed, what make the human aura! To purify the aura, we each need to develop the will to become conscious of our own aura in order to manage, accept, purify, and organize it to higher and higher levels of integrity. We perceive our aura as our inner world. We feel and think internally as aura fragments become resonant with our ego ‘I” attention. Psychics may develop the ability to see other people’s auras, and in turn perceive their thoughts and feelings. Many of us do it unconsciously-wondering how we think or feel the exact same thing at the exact same time!
When we perceive thoughts and feelings, it might be a mistake to assume that they are ours- that they mean something about us or must make us a certain way. Certainly, identifying with every thought and feeling that we perceive is a colossal mistake, and a way for the world to take advantage of our energy. Imagine that every time someone asked you for help, you felt shame and identified it as your shame. Now imagine what that identity might mean about you as a person; that you are a bad person. Every time another asks for help, you feel shame, and it is your shame, you are a bad person! You will be continually prompted to give help to anyone who asks, in order to avoid facing the “fact” that you’re a “bad person”. You help whether they deserve it, or not.
Let us consider another aspect of the egregore; when they are fed, they grow stronger, more influential, and hungrier. They are like parasites that with every bite of food, grow bigger and need a larger meal next time, and gain just a little more steering power. We might start to observe that pattern within ourselves; that whenever we ‘give in’ to a certain habit or pattern of interacting with the world, it becomes all the more prevalent and difficult to resist. That is not because of a failure on our parts. It is simply the egregore doing what an egregore does. Resistance does nothing to deter an egregore. If we fight against the feeling of shame; try to deny it, or avoid the trigger, blame people as “freeloaders” or “lazy” instead of acknowledging and feeling that shame-it drives the egregore to deeper unconscious levels of entrenchment and hands over even more influence to direct you to these exact situations that feed it.
Now imagine that for every single conceivable interaction with the world and yourself, there is an egregore-or many egregores. All of them with their peculiar and particular feelings, wants, needs, desires, and voracious appetites. Just waiting for the right opportunity for their ‘host’ to run into the experience which triggers their resonance. Life becomes extremely reactive, complicated, messy, confusing, and desperate. The passengers are piloting the plane.
There isn’t any ‘cure’ for an egregore. They are not an illness. They are just fragments-neither good nor bad-which for one reason or another hitched onto our aura at some point. Some earlier than others, but none with any degree of belonging over another. Their value and purpose is limited to what we, as human beings, ascribe to them. They are here for us. It is actually our job to take care of them. Like little babies, they have needs and wants. But also like babies, they should not be in control.
Why is this essay called egregores and forgiveness? As it turns out, the simple practice of feeling our feelings, and becoming aware of the stories or narratives surrounding those feelings, brings that egregore into conscious awareness. In conscious awareness, there is no influence. The whole power of the egregore is in it’s unconscious entrenchment. Once it is brought into the awareness of the conscious observer, it has no more power or influence.
This is not to say that the feelings or thoughts will go way- it only means that when this practice is in place, they will not have the power of influence. Life becomes a little more free. Restriction around what feelings ‘mean something’ and what feelings ‘make us do’ are let down. They simply become feelings that can be felt. And as we feel them, we heal them! No longer chaotic, individual beings with hard defined edges, our feelings flow through us as the aura homogenizes. From distinct fragments of blobs massed together to a beautiful flow if different colors all polarized around the human being.
As we each purify our own Astral body, we perceive in others who may have behaved badly toward us historically in a new light. Forgiveness comes naturally when we perceive that we also have behaved badly based on wrong beliefs.
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