Speaking of purification, we may ask ourselves
why is this so important a topic?

Anybody who seeks to rise spiritually and to connect with higher dimensions of consciousness will understand the importance of being energetically prepared to interact with these levels. If we want to come into resonance with finer energies, we will have to create harmony in ourselves, and to emerge from condensation of the material plane.

This work must be done at all levels: below, inside and above. While physical purification is important for us to stand in favourable energy surroundings, we must also consider other aspects of human nature

To begin with, we should consider dealing with the bases underlying the physical body. As a plant that is fed by its roots in the soil, we human beings draw our strength from the lower planes, which we need to control in order to avoid being invaded by too explosive energies. Indeed, it is often a lack of control over our basal power that drives us to behave in violent, angry or too expansive ways which will prevent us from fully resonating with higher planes.

Through continuous work upon ourselves, we can get to better understand how these raw energies work, to learn how to transform them and to eliminate attitudes that are inappropriate for spiritual work. In doing so, we gradually channel our mastered vital energies rising from lower planes, to fuel the upper levels of ourselves.

Physical purification then becomes obvious for those wishing to rise. One of the prerequisites is to adopt a lifestyle that relieves and cleans the physical body, which becomes more likely to resonate with subtler levels.

However, ingestion of harmful substances such as tobacco, alcohol or drugs makes our body heavier, and darkens our consciousness. On the other hand, a vegetarian diet is easier to digest and produces fewer toxins in the body. There are many arguments in favour of a diet without meat.
Moreover, from an energy point of view, when choosing a healthier life we can also extricate ourselves from very low economic and human systems to incorporate more luminous energy likely to feed our soul and our consciousness. We must consider, for example, that meat consumers are responsible for the conditions in which animals are bred and slaughtered because they support that market, whereas very few of them would be able to kill the animals they eat. Karmically, this is extra weight that human beings add to themselves by deciding to stop the evolution of these animals. Insofar as we can go without meat for a living, it is wiser for us to avoid burdening our conscience with those energy overloads, and to only consume what we can get by ourselves.
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Then, if we consider the level of the psyche, we find that purification is also meaningful. Our psyche is the result of all of the influences to which we have been subjected since childhood, and of everything we have absorbed through education, the media, books and relationships with the people we choose to accompany. It is interesting to take stock of what we consider to be favourable and useful to our evolution from all this recorded information. Certain concepts are conditionings that limit our perception abilities, and we may feel the need to discard them: they can be found in spiritual, religious, political, social, scientific or cultural domains. When choosing the means to learn more, we can gradually rid ourselves of those restrictions that imprison us in an incomplete character. Our thoughts are often influenced by emotional or impulsive reactions that arise when faced with the violence of certain movies or news reports. It is therefore important to avoid consistently feeding on this type of energy, to take the time to sort out and select what we absorb in that way, and to pay more attention to inspiration sources that uplift our soul. In doing so, we generate more positive thoughts to feed the upper levels of our personality.

Finally, when we have been thoroughly working on the cleaning and purification of ourselves at those levels, we emanate a certain vibratory quality likely to attract people and energies of the same quality. We come into subtle contact with more evolved levels of consciousness that make us stronger in the elevation process we have chosen. This effort of mastery and purification then becomes a way of life, the benefits of which can be reaped on a daily basis.