The Psychic Buffer Zone

Consciousness is a continuum.

A pitfall of expanding consciousness is the direct link to another Mind that can occur.

Most mature people have developed a buffer zone to deal with others, such as strangers, friends, even family.   We've learned to control our reactions, to a great degree, by keeping other people's emotional outbursts in perspective or at arms length. Very rarely do they manage to push our buttons and actually upset us. This is how we keep our emotional equilibrium.

To the novice, learning to connect with another mind on a very intimate level, there is no arm's length.  There is no emotional distance, and no ability to put another's emotional state into rational perspective.

In this state, the lovers quarrel for instance can completely destroy the psyche.

For this reason, the novice must learn to detach. The novice or adept must be able to separate consciousness from the others.  So much effort has been put forth into learning to connect, that the novice is completely unprepared to detach when an unstable or risky emotional situation presents itself.

All relationships have a buffer zone, where we allow one another a certain amount of space to act out, we give each other time to cool down, and then we engage. If we do not learn to do this on the higher plane, once we have become a player or engaged consciousness there, we are at risk of great psychological harm.

On the higher plane, angry thoughts become weapons.  It's like being in a dreamworld thinking you are being carved up, or thrown off a cliff, for example.   Because you are in a higher state of consciousness, you can see the angry thoughts, and your inclination is to comfort. You do not take cover; you do not retreat, and you do not detach. In the normal world, you might think twice about engaging with an extremely angry person. You might realize it's best to back off until they cool down.

One of the first lessons a spiritual novice needs to learn is that the spiritual world is a heightened experience of the physical world.  The lessons we learn here are mirrored there and even more critical.

Maintaining a psychic buffer zone, one that you can control at will, is essential before embarking on a new journey in the realms of heightened consciousness.   In the dream world, when things get too scary, you often wake up. You need to have safety valves and escape mechanisms in place when you advance to higher levels of consciousness. Thought there is extremely powerful, equivalent to action on that plane.  You have to remember where you are, and have a buffer zone and an exit strategy in place.