Let’s look at the 7 tissues and their by-products, ama and ojas.
When we eat, one of the things we create is a substance known as ama – incompletely digested material of any kind. I.e. it has not been fully used and assimilated.
Eating includes what we ingest from food, drinks, drugs, chemicals, medications, what we inhale from smoking, passive smoke, what we absorb through our skin, what we ingest from our environment, the air we breathe, pollutants, our thoughts, beliefs, our identity, our emotions, social media, books, movies, music, art, family beliefs, religious beliefs and dogma, societal beliefs and dogma, political beliefs, cultural beliefs and dogma etc.
If what comes to us does not get fully digested then we’ll create ama – it’s a thick sticky substance that builds up and at its extreme can become toxic. It can occur anywhere in the body, arterial plaque that gets laid down in our cardio vascular system – it can lead to occlusions (blockages) heart attacks and stroke, we can find build up in our kidneys, liver, our brain leading to dementia, our digestive tract – poor digestion and diverticulitis. Excess fat tissue, adipose tissue etc.
Ama is inevitable and our system does what it can to repair, restore and rejuvenate itself to reduce and regulate this so that it doesn’t become toxic or an issue for us. And we can also choose to be aware of what it is we are ingesting and use our will to ingest what is highest and best for us so that we support our health and wellbeing.
Even though we create ama, our body has remarkable ways of maintaining our overall health, the homeostasis and balance of our body. Additionally, we have our awareness, our intuition and our will (taking action and following through on the outcomes we want) to keep ourselves healthy and fit for our entire lifespan.
Our body can use ama as a fuel.
E.g. Glycogen is a stored form of glucose in our body. It gets stored in the liver and muscle tissue and is our body’s main source of energy. It comes from carbohydrates in certain foods and fluids that we consume. When we exercise, or are doing physical work, go hiking, do a long distance activity or a large burst of energy activity we use this glycogen as fuel. Fat can also be used as fuel for the body when we have run out of glycogen.
Both glycogen and fat become the fuel for creating the activities we are doing.
Does that sound familiar? In Alchemy, Negredo is the fuel for creating. Here ama is a form of Negredo and can be the fuel for creating.
The other substance that we create through eating and ingesting is known as Ojas. Ojas is the finest neurophysiological component of the human body and is akin to Pure Consciousness.
There are 7 tissues that come from what we eat.
- Plasma or chyle
- Red blood cells, blood
- Muscle tissue,
- Fat tissue
- Bone tissue
- Substances inside of bone, i.e. nervous tissue, cerebro-spinal fluid, bone marrow and the brain
- Reproductive tissue
We are constantly transforming our tissue and at each point of transformation we are creating consciousness. As one tissue is transformed into another, we create consciousness.(E.g. blood is transformed into muscle tissue or as muscle tissue is transformed into fat tissue, we are creating consciousness at each transformation point.)
At the end of the transformation of the entire 7 tissues we also create consciousness. Ojas is our Albedo, the wisdom, the genius, the light, the insight that comes to us. We physically manufacture this refined aspect of us.
As our inner Self becomes more and more awake, a result from this is that more Ojas is spontaneously produced.
The more ojas that is produced, the more we grow in our enlightenment. The more we awaken to our creativity. Our spiritual light grows. It sheds light upon the truth. We have a revelation about what is truth and what is our true nature and purpose. It frees us from ignorance so we can recognize when we are in our Egoic nature and step out of it.
When we grow in enlightenment, we have more light and we grow in inner happiness.
Happiness is the most effective means of producing Ojas.
How do we achieve happiness? We give ourselves our heart.
Positivity in feelings, speech and behavior (what you think, say and do), love, joy and appreciation produces more ojas and therefore better overall health, wellbeing and immunity.
As a result of just being you, being who you are… you are constantly growing, transforming, elevating, expanding and evolving who you are. It’s inevitable.
Being aware of this will hopefully excite you. You are evolving, how cool is that! The innate genius within you is constantly and perpetually upgrading you. And you don’t ever have to think about it. It’s happening naturally on your behalf. It’s effortless.
The creative intelligence within you, that is you is automatically taking care of it. It’s conspiring on your behalf to create what it is that you love….
To be a human being and have a Divine experience. Be the divine that you are and have the experience of being human.
Here’s the kicker – you don’t need to strive to be the best, capable, worthy, powerful, good enough, perfect, in control, safe…. You already are.
You already are… in this moment you are, the highest and best, you ARE it! You are at your pinnacle. Regardless of how you think and feel right now you are at your peak. In this moment now, in every present moment, you are already here….. You are Divine, invincible, infinitely powerful, all seeing, all knowing.
You just haven’t fully woken up to it yet.
You are connected to everything through all time and space. You are the Universe. You are the infinite ocean of Pure Consciousness but you still believe you are merely a drop.
Wake up! You are a walking Universe.
Infinitely powerful, infinitely capable infinitely creative.
You’re just pretending that you are small. Like when you were a little kid, you “make believe” You make believe that you are small and powerless. That you are incapable, insignificant. that you’re not worthy or unlovable. It’s a game you played and you’ve forgotten who you truly are. You’ve forgotten how powerful you are.
Isn’t it time to wake up and acknowledge and own your Divinity instead?
As a human being you are not either or. You are not human or Divine. You are both.
And it is time to embrace your Divinity and be that aspect of who you are as well. To revel in it, enjoy it, play in it.
You can be, do and have whatever you want. You can be both aspects. Live both aspects.
All you need to do is check in and ask, What would I love to create today, now in this moment?”
Go into innocence, observe what’s obvious from your intuition and then act on that. Take action. That’s the Rubedo component. Follow through and take action.
Before you know it you will have created your heart. Manifested your heart.
It’s time to think in terms of possibility… what will you create when you live as your heart?
What’s that like?
You are GOD, an expression of the Divine. What are you waiting for? An invitation?
Act like it!
