From Robert J. Gilbert Ph.D.

In recent weeks, I have noticed a major spiritual challenge has emerged, which is affecting many of us at a deep level.   Mental and emotional pressures have intensified, creating chaos in people’s lives.

People are finding themselves easily triggered into strong emotional reactions, being hyper-sensitive, being prone to angry disputes with others which could be avoided but instead spiral destructively out of control.  I have heard from countless people recently with the same story, and have found the same thing within myself at times.  I too have made mistakes recently with people, usually out of reacting to a situation or statement with anger or stress.

There is definitely something metaphysical affecting many people right now, and mostly not in a beneficial way.  In Spiritual Science these forces are understood to be Astral (mental and emotional) impulses coming from multiple sources which can combine together powerfully, affecting us beneath the level of our conscious awareness.

from Rudolf Steiner

We think of a plant, how it has its roots in the soil, how it sends out leaves one after another, and blossoms at length into flower. Now we imagine a man standing beside the plant. The thought lights up in our mind that the man has characteristics and capabilities which can truthfully be called more perfect than are those of the plant. He can move about at will, he can go this way or that way as he feels inclined; whereas the pant is rooted to the spot where it is growing. We may however, then go on to think to ourselves: Yes, that is so, the human being is more perfect that the plant; but I also find qualities in him, the absence of which in the plant makes it appear to me more perfect in other respects than the human being. For his is filled with desires and passions, and these he sometimes follows in his behavior, with the result that he goes astray, falls into error. When I look at the plant, I see how it follows the pure laws of growth from leaf to leaf, how it opens its blossom, calmly and tranquilly, to the chaste rays of the sun. I perceive therefore that whilst man is in one respects more perfect that the plant, he buys this comparative perfection at the price of letting impulses and desires and passions have their seat within him, instead of what appear to be the pure forces at work in the plant. Then we can go on to picture to ourselves how the green sap flows right through the plant, and how this green sap is the expression of the pure, unimpassioned laws of growth. And if we then think of the red blood as it flows through the veins and arteries of man, we find in this red blood the expression of impulses and desires and passions.

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