Leaps of Consciousness

Stand in a room and raise one arm horizontally out to your side.

Hold it there for 3-4 seconds and lower it again.

Now, stand against a wall or doorway and try to lift the arm again, with your outside and back of the hand against the obstacle. It is not possible because of the obstruction. Use all your strength for about 30 seconds, then step away back into the middle of the room, and let your arm hang down relaxedly.

Surprisingly, the arm will rise up and perhaps and beyond the horizontal level all by itself, with no effort or will. It is as though the arm is weightless, or being sucked upwards.

What’s happening here?

This can be explained by spiritual science.

The will to lift the arm is an impulse of the soul, and it affects the arm so that it grasps the etheric body, giving the impulse to move, which is followed by movement.

When trying to lift the arm against the obstacle, the intense will separates the etheric arm from the physical arm and lifts it for a moment by itself. When the will subsides and there’s no longer an obstacle, the etheric arm ‘sucks’ the arm towards itself in a lightening way. This is the etheric Levity force in action.

Spiritual science shows that as long as a being is alive, it is permeated by a lightening force which permeates all liquids.

Rudolf Steiner lists four ethers - life, light, sound, and heat - which act through the four elements - fire, air, water and earth - to create all matter. This hierarchy of the visible world, and is one that mainstream science, with its limited materialist view, does not comprehend. This explains why mainstream science is so destructive, whereas nature is creative.