The Hidden Side of Things
About This Book
The Hidden Side of Things is C.W. Leadbeater's most wide-ranging exploration of the unseen energetic dimensions of ordinary life — an account, based on his claimed clairvoyant observations, of the subtle forces set in motion by the full range of human activities from the most mundane to the most sacred. The book examines eating, sleeping, bathing, attending church, listening to music, participating in civic ceremonies, living in particular places, and many other ordinary activities, revealing in each case the complex energetic transactions that are occurring at levels imperceptible to ordinary senses but that significantly affect the quality of human experience and development.
Leadbeater's consistent finding — that every activity produces specific energetic consequences that are as real and as law-governed as the physical consequences, and that ignorance of these consequences does not protect one from them — carries important practical implications. The person who understands the hidden side of eating will make different choices about what they eat and how they eat it; the person who understands the hidden side of the places they inhabit will take their residential environment more seriously; the person who understands the hidden side of ritual and ceremony will engage with them more consciously and derive correspondingly greater benefit.
What You'll Learn
• Understand the hidden side of diet: what Leadbeater describes as occurring in the subtle bodies during eating — how the quality and origin of food (vegetarian versus animal, lovingly prepared versus factory-produced) affects the subtle bodies, and why the Theosophical tradition's consistent emphasis on vegetarian diet is grounded in observations about these subtle effects rather than merely in ethical concerns about animal welfare
• Grasp the hidden side of environment: how the energetic history of places — the thoughts, emotions, and events that have occurred there — leaves residues that affect the consciousness and wellbeing of those who inhabit them, and what the practical implications are for choosing where to live, work, and spend significant time
• Recognise the hidden side of ritual and ceremony: Leadbeater's clairvoyant account of what actually happens during well-performed religious ritual — the angelic workings, the energetic forms that are created, and the effects on the consciousness of participants — making the case that genuine ritual produces real effects that are entirely invisible to those who have not developed clairvoyant perception
• Learn the hidden side of relationships: how the thoughts and emotions directed toward others leave energetic marks and create ongoing connections — and how these invisible relational energies affect the parties involved in ways that are entirely independent of their physical interactions
• Appreciate the book as a consciousness-raising document: how The Hidden Side of Things, regardless of whether one accepts Leadbeater's specific clairvoyant claims, serves to make the reader more attentive to the full dimensionality of experience — more aware of the subtle factors that affect consciousness and wellbeing that ordinary materialist attention systematically overlooks
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