Spiritual Head and Body: A Guide to Achieving Spiritual Perception
To attain spiritual perception, one must undergo a profound transformation by acquiring a “spiritual head” that observes and assesses reality from the Creator’s perspective, guided by His intention and approach to life — pure, totally selfless, and unconditional love and bestowal. This requires completely abandoning the “material head” that governs our ordinary material existence, which is rooted in inherently selfish, egoistic, individualistic, and exploitative desires for personal gain. The following steps outline the process of developing a spiritual head and body to align with the Creator’s godly qualities.
Understanding the Material Head
In our material life, the mind and intellect serve as secondary tools that cater to our inherent matter — the insatiable personal desire for existence and ever-increasing fulfillment. These desires operate with self-serving, self-justifying, and individualistic intentions, forming the “material head.” This head perceives reality through the lens of personal benefit, assessing every situation based on how it can enhance or fulfill the self. To achieve spiritual perception, this material head must be entirely surrendered, as it is fundamentally incompatible with the Creator’s selfless and loving viewpoint.
Step 1: Restricting Egoistic Desires
The first step toward acquiring a spiritual head is to restrict and suppress the personal desires that operate with selfish and egoistic intentions. These desires, which drive our material existence, must be consciously set aside to clear the mind and prepare it for a radically different perspective. By detaching from the original “operating software” that prioritizes self-interest in all actions, the individual creates a neutral space, free from the distortions of egoism. Only through this restriction can the mind become open to adopting the Creator’s intention of pure love and bestowal.
Step 2: Adopting the Spiritual Head
Once the egoistic desires are restricted, the individual can request and borrow a new mind and viewpoint from the Creator. This “spiritual head” operates with the Creator’s godly intention, perceiving and assessing reality exclusively through selfless, unconditional love and bestowal. By embracing this head, the individual begins to view the world as the Creator does, prioritizing the well-being and fulfillment of others over personal gain. At this stage, the spiritual head is established, but it lacks a corresponding body to serve and enact its purpose.
Step 3: Building the Spiritual Body
The spiritual head, aligned with the Creator’s intentions, cannot function fully without a “spiritual body” to express its purpose. To prevent the original egoistic desires from interfering with this new spiritual perception, the individual must borrow desires from others, just as they borrowed the spiritual head from the Creator. These external desires — those of others seeking spiritual existence and fulfillment — form the “body” that the spiritual head serves.
The individual attaches these external desires to their spiritual head, accepting them as their own and working to facilitate their fulfillment. This is done in partnership with the Creator, as the individual requests the Creator to fulfill this spiritual body, which is comprised of the desires of others. Throughout this process, the individual keeps their own original desires restricted and empty, ensuring that their actions remain free from egoistic motives.
Step 4: Becoming a Transparent Connector
Achieving equivalence with the Creator in the “spiritual head” requires rising above and remaining independent of one’s original desires for personal existence and fulfillment. By restricting, nullifying, and forsaking all egoistic desires, the individual connects purely to the Creator, becoming a selfless and transparent facilitator between the source of life and fulfillment and the desires of others. This role involves connecting all available external desires — those outside the individual’s original selfish, egoistic, and individualistic sphere — to the single creating and governing force in reality, using the spiritual head borrowed from the Creator.
Step 5: Reviving Original Desires with Godly Intentions
Only after successfully connecting the desires of others to the Creator through the spiritual head can the individual request the Creator to revive their own deepest and coarsest desires for existence and fulfillment. These desires, which were previously restricted, can now be reintroduced in a transformed manner, functioning with the Creator’s godly intentions of pure love and bestowal. By aligning even their most fundamental desires with the Creator’s approach, the individual ensures that every aspect of their being serves the purpose of selfless giving, fully embodying spiritual perception.
Conclusion
The process of acquiring a spiritual head and body is a methodical transformation that enables an individual to perceive reality from the Creator’s perspective and act in alignment with His qualities of selfless love and bestowal. By restricting egoistic desires, adopting the Creator’s viewpoint, facilitating the desires of others, and ultimately transforming their own desires to serve godly intentions, the individual becomes a pure connector between the Creator and the rest of reality. This alignment fulfills the purpose of spiritual perception: to exist in harmony with the Creator, serving as a vessel for His life-giving force to flow through to others.