Spirituality is a meaningless term by which I believe we refer to a perception of “connectedness” with what feels like the absolutes of our existence. We sense a relationship which continuously exceeds the trap of object relations, the love and hate of the captive and captor, the separation and merging of the Stockholm syndrome. To say that the concept of “spirituality” has no inherent meaning does not imply that it is unreal, but of what does it consist?

When people feel that they are in contact with the Divine, they perceive a consistency of being, the time frame of which is forever. The spatial coordinates for a human being so engaged is that of the universe itself. We intuit, through the felt sense of our own energy, the resolution of matter by the conduction of its light through space. What couldn’t be resolved, given “world enough or time!”

The spiritual dimension is an alternative organization of the body to the psychological, not an alternative to embodiment itself, as it has sometimes been presumed. Accessing the spiritual is a constellation of motor activities made possible by a shift in identity from image to being, from form to space. These motor activities make the body mind more uniformly fluid, more stable, more grounded. These motor acts are reciprocal with identification; performed, they induce the shift. For this shift to endure, the motor acts must be structurally integrated.

Many activities foster spiritual awareness or the consciousness of the interconnectedness of space through form: dancing, repeated rhythmic movements, rocking, stomping, chanting, singing, whirling. Many of these actions open the breath and pump the heart, mimicking high sympathetic nervous system arousal in an atmosphere of peace. This paradoxical behavior strips excitement of traumatic associations, making it available for alternative assimilations, even if temporarily.

Gross motor movements are not essential, however. Getting a sense of the spiritual is a matter of shifting frequencies, of getting “Jesus on the main line,” of tuning into what Reshad Feild call the matrix or “that from which we are becoming.” We have to set our crystalline nature to receive this station and we do so by making our electrical conduction more coherent.

The more orderly our physical structure and its equivalent electrical conduction, the more the electrical activity is synchronized by the pressure wave the earth makes by its displacement in space. As this wave conducts itself through the body in the form of a soliton, it acts as a pump which rises through the body, using the body’s organized crystalline arrays and improving their organization into a higher aggregate or solid state frequency.

Structural integration as the goal of Rolfing® equates to the attainment of the aggregate frequency necessary to vibrate the protoplasmic jelly such that it can perceive itself as on-going. What the living jelly senses is its own space, which it perceives is continuous with all space. Until integration has been established, the motor acts of the anatomical/psychological organization will act as a barrier to this sensation because they generate electrical patterns throughout the body which inhibit or prevent the soliton pump from forming. After integration has been established, the excitement of emotion can be distinguished from the very real joy of what I will call here “unconditional realness” – the replacement of “I think, therefore I am” with a simple, resonant “am.”

This is what I think is meant by “spirituality.” It is the yearning for the physical connectedness of coherent frequency. We yearn for this with all our hearts, which is only right, because of the strong and materially supportive electrical currents they generate. Strong enough to stand us up, strong enough to get the juice flowing.