Terms for this Realm in Western theology include the "Incorruptible realm," the residence of "souls of the holy persons" and Eden. Even science identifies this pivotal place within our subjective universe. David Bohm concluded that meaning is a pivotal place within his holomovement and implicate orders. Meaning is carried inward and outward between levels of the subtle and manifest, between aspects he terms "soma and significance."

I originally labeled this Realm the Realm of Archetypes. But when I identified the processes of this Realm as Meaning, I determined meaning is a better label. Webster's equates meaning with "that which indicates significance." C.G. Jung defines meaning as a psychic process and describes synchronicity (in objectivity) as an ordered arrangement of events based on meaning. Synchronous events become the objective expression of subjective meaning. Metaphysically, Alice Bailey describes a World of Meaning and identifies it as the "anti-chamber for the ‘Circle of Liberation’; it is the first lesson in the Unity of the One Life."
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Spirit/Matter Universe

Realm of Souls

by Jef Bartow

In our last article, we were able to identify and locate the reality of our interlude between lives. As discussed, many individuals consciously visit this heaven in near-death experiences, out of body experiences and through lucid dreaming. Fantastically, there is a stage in lucid dreaming in which we can venture beyond the Heaven Realm and into the spiritual Realms of Subjectivity.

As Robert Waggoner explains it, Stage V lucid dreaming is about "experiencing awareness." "At this stage, the lucid dreamer realizes a deep connection with all awareness and a connection to a broader whole. He or she may wake from sleep with a recollection of a self-less experience of awareness characterized by light." In this stage, "we reach for something unknown and fundamentally inexplicable."

Through a reversal, we objectively transition from the Mental Plane of the personality into the spiritual Intuitional Plane of our developing spiritual Self. Correspondingly, we subjectively transition from the periodic expression of our soul in the Heaven Realm into the spiritual Realm of Meaning where self-conscious Souls, our human group soul and all the Archetypes reside. 

In Eastern mysticism, the Realm of Meaning equates to the Bardo of dharmata, or intrinsic radiance. Without form this "primordial purity" is a "spontaneous presence" of sound, light and color. Experience in this Bardo also includes "luminosity dissolving into union." This luminosity manifests in the form of Buddhas and deities which emanate a blinding, dazzling and brilliant light.


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Meaning is the Process which gives significance to all forms and organisms of material existence. It is also the Process that translates the one Infinity into infinite variation from one point. Without the space here to describe mathematical fractals, Meaning is also what conveys the self-same properties from Spirit into Matter. It is by which the highly complex and chaotic shapes, forms and systems within Matter are generated from a simple limit through a repeated iteration at smaller and smaller scales. These italicized phrases are the keys to understanding fractals and integral calculus.

From the Processes of Meaning come the Systems of Archetypes, which channel and unfold meaning into Matter. An archetype is "the original pattern or model for which all of the things of the same kind are made; prototype; perfect example or type or group." Within psychology, archetype has taken on a specific meaning. Archetypes are "forces and tendencies" which lead to a repetition of similar experiences in forms. They are the "nuclei or nexus points of a multidimensional network or field" which connect meanings. Stanislaw Grof describes experiences of archetypes as "light, ecstatic, reborn and pulsating with exuberant life energy."

To the godfather of archetypes, C.G. Jung, the term archetype comes from Philo Judaeus’s "Imago Dei" or God-image in man. They are "transubjective autonomous psychic systems" and become autonomous entities of psychic force. Something consistent with all archetypes is "manifold meaning, their almost limitless wealth of reference." Within our physical body, each of our various systems, organs and structure are archetypes. Each is distinct, consisting of similar substance for providing a specific purpose and function for us living on the physical Plane.

I define Archetypes as multidimensional autonomous life systems, charged with meaning, that provide patterns or models that lead to a repetition of experiences in Matter. They act as mediators between Spirit and Matter in our continuum of Spirit/Matter. They are a priori determinants of all material processes and provide a coherent meaning to the myriad ideas, images and forms they organize. In their nature as spirit, they provide a limitless wealth of reference in understanding through experience.

As Systems, they organize the diversity of Spirit into channels by which Spirit can mold and creatively evolve Matter. Some key examples of Archetypes include the "wise old man" (i.e. God the father), the nurturing Mother and the Christ or divine child. "Another well-known expression of the archetypes is myth and fairytale." Many of the mythical gods and goddesses, as archetypes, are personifications of spiritual and psychological parts of ourselves. Not only do we have archetypes of the family, each race and creed, what it means to be a master, guru or teacher and corresponding disciple, chela or student involve evolving archetypes.

The resulting consciousness or Existence that forms in the Realm of Meaning has been identified as group souls, or simply group awareness. From a spiritual view, the higher unified Being consciousness (to be described later) unfolds into aligned and meaningful group consciousness. Early on this includes the human group soul, animal group soul, vegetable group soul, etc. As humans become self-conscious and begin developing an objective spiritual Self, an individual Soul subjectively is individuated from the human group soul. Upon aligning to its spiritual plan, these individualized self-conscious Souls work within Soul Groups (i.e. Retreats or Rays) from the Realm of Meaning.