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Levels of Consciousness are not linear or hierarchical but rather intersecting, permeating, and affecting all aspects of our being. In the Constellation Approach there is a progression through these four Levels of Consciousness: Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual. Each of us inhabits these Levels of Consciousness like layers of clothing, one on top of the other. The outermost layer is the Physical. It primarily comprises the senses—sight, hearing, taste, and touch. The Mental Level of Consciousness houses our thoughts, ideas, and beliefs of the situations and people in our life. Beneath the Mental resides the Emotional Level of Consciousness—where we experience feelings in reaction to what occurs externally in our environment. At the deepest internal level is our Spiritual Consciousness. This is the level where Soul Consciousness resides. It allows the expansive ability to comprehend the complexities of life. Imagine a pyramid with the base as the Spiritual Level of Consciousness. From this broad base of consciousness each level is added to create our individual pyramidal self.

Life is experienced through our emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations. These three layers inform and supply us with useful information but not the complete picture. In order to have the broadest perspective on any given situation or relationship with another human being, we need to engage the Spiritual Level of our consciousness.

In a Constellation, you experience the Levels of Consciousness as the following:

1.Mental—The interview process, the starting place of a Constellation. The Client presents facts and their conscious understanding of an issue.

2.Physical—Naming and placing Representatives (participants who stand in to represent family members) within the Constellation. Seeing, hearing, noticing bodily responses to the Family Energy Field begins here.

3.Emotional—Feelings arise in relation to the Representatives in the Constellation. Deeper emotional reactions happen when Representatives come into closer proximity to each other within the Family Energy Field.

4.Spiritual—The Veil of Forgetting momentarily lifts, allowing Soul recognition to happen as knowing and remembering. The essence of the Soul’s experience and understanding of this lifetime is illuminated.

A Constellation begins with the facts and story as it is understood at the Mental Level of Consciousness. As we move towards Soul Consciousness, the process progresses from verbal and engaged to more stillness. In Emotional and Spiritual Consciousness, most information is transmitted between the Client and the Representatives in quiet. When we reach the Spirit level, the Soul peers out from a deeply conscious internal space within our being. Since thoughts and feelings blur over time, the Constellation Approach helps us to clear and align the Levels of Consciousness. Like overlapping lenses, if one is out of true focus, we can’t see clearly into the next level.

Often, our tears are the glass cleaner. They act to wipe away the smudge of hurt we still hold in our Emotional Consciousness. By clearing and wiping away our old—and sometimes ancient—feelings, we are able to reach the higher emotional states of appreciation, love, and devotion that exist in the depths of our Soul. As the lenses clear, we can perceive our Soul nature. From this Level of Consciousness, we can view the other(s) without the distortions of judgment or emotional pain. During a Constellation, a completely different view and perception of our life situations and relationships becomes possible. We simply travel into the depths of our consciousness to reach the Soul. Change and healing can then begin at the level of personal consciousness, ripple into family consciousness, and eventually affect the collective consciousness of humanity.

The Four Levels of Consciousness

This diagram shows the transition from the Physical to the Spiritual Level of Consciousness.

Human Nature—Soul Nature

This diagram shows the shift from Human Nature to Soul Nature through the Levels of Consciousness and the Vesica Pisces.

A Constellation Journeyer

Peter — An Unexpected Awareness

In my Family Lineage, one Universal Theme was my father’s “handicap.” That was the language of the time, his time, and my time growing up as his son. My father contracted polio when he was six months old. The shadow of his physical limitations hung over all aspects of our family life like an ever-present companion in our household. As a boy I felt the loss of not having a father who could throw a ball or teach me how to ride a bicycle. In a Constellation, following the strand of physical disease, I was able to unravel and reach into the deeper levels of the Threads of Consciousness that come from having Edward Henry Faust as my father.

In my Constellation, standing across from Representatives for my father and for the “handicap” of polio, I instantly became aware of the judgments I held for my father. Acknowledging that I had seen him as somehow less than a father brought waves of shame that dropped me to my knees. I saw before me the two-halved man: One side under-developed, skin loose, small muscles, bones visible, the effects of a body ravaged by polio; the other side a normal, strong man’s body. Half was not good enough to get a good-paying job in those days, or to throw a ball with his son. I had judged my father the way the world saw him, as less-than, not good enough, as not man enough.

The memories, images, and feelings that moved though the levels of my awareness eventually brought me into a space where I could see beyond his physical body. The process of acknowledging my father, for who he was, not the way I wished he had been, led me into the realm of acceptance. This process of accepting my father helped me to release the judgments and shame, and allow me to finally see him for the teachings he had given me through his handicap.

I remembered his extreme patience and his methodical way of explaining and teaching me things that he could not physically do himself. I remembered how together we could accomplish what he couldn’t do alone. I saw how he passed on to me his love of reading, writing, and learning. Most of all, I received fully in that brief moment what he had taught me about dignity.

Present before me was no longer the handicapped father I had as a child. Here stood a Soul that chose to learn difficult lessons through his body. I instantly understood, by being in silence and looking deeply into the eyes of the Representative for my father’s Spirit, that he chose to experience shame and transform it into dignity. My father had lived every day of his life since infancy with his handicap. Out of that life he had developed a type of pride and dignity that can only be learned through an aversion. In that moment the internal image I held of my father was completely transformed. I no longer pitied or felt sorry for him. Instead, I felt the most amazing feelings of pride and gratitude towards Edward Henry Faust for being my father. I wept with appreciation for him. I knew deep in my Soul that I had agreed to be his son and he to be my father in this lifetime.

6Peter C, Rogers, Ultimate Truth, Book 1 (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2009), 38