Womb as Paradise Lost

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Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 1 – Philosophical Introduction
3.9.2 Second concept: influences by anticipation and retrocipation
The layered body of Goswami
The layered five bodies of Goswami must remain a factual unity unless the
effectiveness of the apparently independent functioning bodies. The concepts
of anticipation and retrocipation show us the upwards and downwards
influx on each bodily field. In the vision of Goswami, the bliss is the effect
of consciousness. This consciousness will influence the lower supramental
body, and the supramental body affects the lower mental body. In such
way, the mental body will effect the vital body and at last the vital body
gives the “blue print energy” creating and effectuating the physical body.
Here we see the downward causation applied on the image of man. This influence
is the explanation of the retrocipation-concept. But it isn’t finished.
The downward movement creates a new way in the opposite direction: upward
movement. The physical body affects the vital body etc. This is the
anticipation-concept. After the image of man has been created in a downward
causation, the physical body gives energetic and sometimes pathological
effects on the vital body. So we conclude: all different bodies influence
each other systematically, even our open consciousness. By these two concepts,
we have described the ultimate unity of the image of man in his phenomenological
and functional dimensions or fields.
In the philosophy of the East, we can compare this system of anticipation
and retrocipation with the energetic chakra-system. Just as the crown chakra
must remain open, because of the connection with the environment (universe),
the image of man in the vision of Goswami ought to remain open to
the universal consciousness.