The Four Lower Centers; The Instinctive Center

The Four Lower Centers; The Instinctive Center

Presence is not a sensation. Neither for that matter, is presence a thought, movement or emotion. To be clear, for the individual in whom higher centers have crystallized, there is nothing in the four lower centers that prevents the generation of consciousness. Yet, without knowledge of the machine, that is, the vessel in which higher centers resides for their earthly term, mistaking instinctive sensations for higher states of consciousness happens more frequently than not. It then behooves us to know not only our higher Self, but also the unconscious lower self. For this there is a system that has been perfected by previous esoteric schools and is now available in the modern era.

Each center has three major divisions; a mechanical part, an emotional part and an intellectual part. Using the common deck of cards to reference these divisions, the jacks represent the moving part of the center, the queens the emotional part of a center, and the king the intellectual part of a center. Our experiences are heavily influenced by one of these divisions depending on our center of gravity, that is, the part of the machine where our most mechanical habits and tendencies originate from.

From the growing of cells, hair, finger and toe nails to advanced medical practices, these are all the realm of the instinctive center. On the scale of an individual, all instinctive manifestations are inherent in the machine at birth. We don’t learn how to breath, blink, grow hair or finger nails, push blood through veins, digest food, and so on. These are instinctive processes that occur without any consciousness whatsoever and have no need for awareness.

Instinctive likes and dislikes also require no consciousness. Instinctive preferences at their most basic are sensations, pleasant and unpleasant. The instinctive center is also responsible for finding and gathering the necessary resources to sustain it’s life. Shelter, food, money, sex, physical comfort, prestige are among instinctive pursuits. Chefs, doctors, lawyers, nurses, butchers, farmers, are are some of the professions that people centered in the instinctive center might pursue.

Satan sees you from where you do not see him. ~ Koran

Previous schools have intimated that the instinctive center is rooted in the stomach and gut, one of the physically lowest and least seen part of the organism. The message from the pre-Christian Mesopotamian school shows clearly the intestinal nature of the instinctive center portrayed by the mask of Humbaba. Schools have focused on this part of the machine because this part of the lower self is actively opposed to conscious evolution and is cunningly adept at hiding or concealing this.

There’s the constant choice between the lower self and self-remembering, between self-pity and self-remembering, between self-will and self-remembering, between self-deprecation and self-remembering. As we gain experience observing the instinctive center so do our justifications for not engaging presence diminish and conscious life becomes a more profound experience.

Question:

Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,

Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)

Of the empty and useless years, with the rest of me intertwined,

The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer:

That you are here—that conscious life and identity exists!

~ Walt Whitman

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The Humbaba mask, Mesopotamia 1800-1600 BC

British Museum