Introduction : An overview of the Rainbow Bridge Techniques

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The Rainbow Bridge Techniques

An Introduction to Soul Union, Purification & the Antahkarana

Figure 3 — from Rainbow Bridge II © 1981 by Two Disciples. Shows the greatly expanded causal field of a student who has completed the Phase 2 clearing work.

Figure 3 is an expanded version of Figure 2 and shows the very large causal field of a person who has finished the Phase 2 clearing work. The causal field is very large and is filled with energies that have accumulated during the clearing process as a reservoir of power.

This figure is based on the clairvoyant observations of the Two Disciples — Josephine and Norman Stevens — who originated the Rainbow Bridge Techniques and published their findings in two books: Rainbow Bridge I: The Link With the Soul and Rainbow Bridge II: Link with the Soul.

Rick Prater, a member of the original Rainbow Bridge prototype group, also published an accessible book with step-by-step instructions and diagrams covering both Phase 1 and Phase 2 techniques, titled Bridge to Superconsciousness. A free PDF extract is available at the source site. The book is out of print but used copies can be found on Amazon.

Introduction to the Soul Star and Rainbow Bridge Techniques

Before union with the Soul can be achieved, the lower self — or personality — must be purified and the obstacles to union removed. The Rainbow Bridge techniques are offered to aid the student in purification of the personality vehicles: the etheric/vital body, the emotional body, and the lower mental body or conscious self.

These impurities and low-grade thought forms appear to extended perception as surrounding dark clouds and forms of low-grade energies — some shifting and churning, some partially fixed and condensed, some loosely connected forming a cage-like grid that imprisons its owner, and some dense and attached to the body, affecting the organs and their functions. They exist in everyone, without exception, and are the results of many lifetimes of instinctual or physical evolution, of excessive emotional development (mostly uncontrolled desire), and of incomplete mental growth (mostly imperfect thinking or thought-form building). The Two Disciples state that they have observed these impurities in every spiritual teacher and yogi they have met.

"Much of the ineffectiveness of people is due to the fact that their interests are not centralized but very diffuse, and no one thing engrosses their attention. They scatter their energy and are attempting to satisfy every wandering desire, and to dabble in everything which comes their way. Therefore, no thought they think ever assumes proper form, or is ever duly energized. They are consequently surrounded by a dense cloud of half-formed disintegrating thought forms and clouds of partially energized matter in process of dissolution. This produces occultly a condition similar to the decay of a physical form, and is equally unpleasant and unwholesome. It accounts for much of the diseased condition of the human family at this time."

— Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul, Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p.975

What Disintegrating Thought Forms Do to You

Carrying this mass of disintegrating thought forms in your aura sets you up for a number of concrete problems across all dimensions of life:

1. Interference with perception and communication — These thought forms stand between you and your external world, distorting what you perceive and how you are received by others.

2. Vulnerability (receiving side) — They make you susceptible to mob influence or mass consciousness, to suggestion and control by others (including thoughts of racial or ethnic inferiority/superiority), and to infection and disease.

3. Dysfunctional output (transmitting side) — They cause low self-esteem, excessive emotional reactions, misinterpretation of social codes and customs, undesirable behavior, and imperfect responses to the environment.

4. Blocked Soul connection — Ancient thought forms carried over from life to life block and distort communication between the personality and the Higher Self. This self-made barrier causes you to hold to outworn ideals, be deceived as to sources of aspiration, accept false teachings as true, render most yoga and magic unsuccessful or dangerous, and deflect downpours of energy from the Soul.

So long as any of the coarser kinds of matter connected with evil and selfish thoughts remain in a person's body, he is open to attack from those who wish him evil. But, when he has perfectly eliminated these by self-purification, his haters cannot injure him. He goes on calmly and peacefully amid all the darts of their malice and their evil thoughts are deflected from his aura and return to the sender.

— Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater, Thought Forms, p.30

It is not only possible to purify the vehicles — it is absolutely necessary before the real techniques of spiritual enlightenment or self-realization can be successfully undertaken. The Rainbow Bridge techniques offer a "do-it-yourself" program for removing impurities that would ordinarily have to be lived out the hard way — through suffering and illness over several lifetimes.

Overview of Phase I and Phase II

Phase 1 Building the Link to the Soul

The student learns the Soul Invocation to align with and invoke the cooperation of the Soul before any spiritual practice. This is key — the Soul does the work; the personality merely cooperates. Once aligned, the Soul Star is activated and used to build the Central Channel (the Antahkarana), preparing the body to receive greater spiritual energy. The channel is then systematically widened, and the Spiritual Whirlwind (Etheric Vortex) is used to sweep aura debris created by the Soul Star's passage through the body.

Phase 2 Purification and Karma Clearing

Once the Central Channel has been widened to approximately 1 inch in diameter — usually 6 to 8 weeks — Phase 2 begins. This phase uses a series of 36 verbs placed in structured sentences, repeated for several minutes, to actively clear external patterns (low-grade thought forms in the surrounding aura). Using these methods, external patterns can be cleared in 2 to 5 years. With continued practice, internal patterns also begin to clear.

The Soul Star is located approximately six inches above the head and is the instrument the Soul uses to transform and purify the matter of the three lower vehicles. It is a ball of solar fire — when moved through the body it literally burns through debris clogging the Central Channel. This debris must always be swept clear afterward using the Spiritual Whirlwind.

Permanent Benefits of the Purification Work

You no longer carry a permanent barrier around you that modifies all communication to and from you.

Low-vibration energies that act as channels for infection are removed from the aura.

Suggestions of low self-esteem and failure are no longer stimulated by old thought-form residue.

Your body ages more slowly and health improves as the flow of prana through the body is no longer obstructed.

The main channel for uncontrolled emotional response is removed — as is quick reactivity to emotionalism from others.

The heavy karmic influence of ancient thought forms and past mistakes is eliminated.

Increased capacity to invoke and retain the light of the Soul.

Easier recognition of your companions on the Path — those you are destined to work with.

Rapid movement into awareness of Soul consciousness — what is called Christ Consciousness in the West, Atma/Buddha Mind in the East.

You become an anchor point for vital energies that purify the planet and accelerate the externalization of the Hierarchy.

Telepathy and the higher psychic powers of the Initiate begin to develop through changes in the etheric vehicle.

About the Developers of the Rainbow Bridge Techniques

Josephine and Norman Stevens were the developers of the Rainbow Bridge Techniques and authors of the Rainbow Bridge books. They were conscious working disciples in the Externalizing Ashram of the Master Djwhal Khul, whose principal function is to begin the externalization process of the next kingdom in nature — the Kingdom of Heaven — and to prepare the way for the reappearance of the World Teacher, the Christ.

In their own words:

We, the "Two Disciples" who wrote the Rainbow Bridge series, have had lifetimes of experience with the teachings of the Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul, who dictated many books on occult philosophy to Alice A. Bailey from 1919 to 1949. We had intimate association with Alice and Foster Bailey and their work as they implemented the teachings of the Master Djwhal Khul by the printing and distribution of His many books, countless pamphlets and the invaluable work of the Arcane School. Our association with the Baileys covered all phases from the early days of the Arcane School until a few years after the death of Alice A. Bailey. Djwhal Khul's efforts were to present the Ancient Wisdom, the Mystery Teachings, to the disciple-student in a suitable form adapted to modern mental development.

We belong to the New Group of World Servers, along with an increasing number of incarnating egos who are coming in to serve in the dawning New Age. We are Telepathic Communicators, as described by Djwhal Khul on page 606 of A Treatise on White Magic, who prefer to work behind the scenes and acknowledge our position only when it serves the purposes of the Planetary Hierarchy during this time of transition. We both have extended perceptions of differing types and degrees and are a working team.

Our approach is based on a modern adaptation of Djwhal Khul's teachings, as given through His amanuensis, Alice A. Bailey. These books have been and are our textbooks. Our work is intended to be practical above all else. It is our intention to present the results of a lifetime of study and experiments to accomplish certain needed changes in the vehicles of the aspirant-disciple, which are required before the disciple can transmit or ground the energies of Externalization which are preliminary to the Return of the Christ.

— From Rainbow Bridge II, p.xiii-xiv

Norman Stevens served as a director of the Lucis Trust for 7 years. Josephine, in addition to helping Alice A. Bailey with the Arcane School, also worked as Bailey's personal secretary. Josephine Stevens possessed remarkable clairvoyant and telepathic abilities — she was able to see changes in the aura and inner vehicles on a daily basis across many sublevels, from the etheric to the Monadic. This ability enabled Josephine and Norman to empirically verify the effects of the Rainbow Bridge techniques by observing and recording the changes made in the energy fields of their students for more than ten years.

One of the Brothers of the Hierarchy told Josephine that, at that time, there were only 25 people on the planet with her level of vision. This context gives some insight into the quality and depth of knowledge these two Disciples brought to their work.

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