Chapter 24: The Upper Emotional Plane – Realm of Joy and Vitality

Have you ever felt a burst of pure joy, like discovering a hidden path in a forest that opens to breathtaking views, filling you with excitement and love for life? That’s upper emotional energy at play—the vibrant force making existence worth savoring. In your essay “Upper Emotional Energy,” you celebrate happy emotions like joy, love, and thrill as life’s essence, developed through risk and success. This chapter explores the Upper Emotional Plane as the expansive heart of emotions, rooted in your OAK Matrix and chaos theory. Like an oak’s branches swaying freely in the wind, radiating vitality without the weight of roots, this plane fosters bliss and pride, embracing duality as the loving interplay of adventure and fulfillment.

We’ll trace its structure, its duality of expansion and harmony, and how developing it rekindles the “inner child” through discovery. The oak, its canopy alive with light and breeze, symbolizes this: upper emotions as the joyful reach toward beauty and connection.

The Upper Emotional Ring: Eighteen Bits of Blissful Awareness

Your essay frames upper emotional energy as the astral body of positive feelings—joy, love, excitement—tied to the fourth electron ring (18 bits) in the atom metaphor. Accessed via the Heart Chakra, it’s the domain of emotional richness without lower turmoil. We feel alive here, savoring fine arts, music, nature’s beauty, and profound bliss.

We develop this through risks: trying new things, succeeding, expanding our world. Joy of winning, pride in fairness, honor—all build it, like chaos theory’s leaps: novelty stresses complacency, birthing vitality. At first, we forget this as adults, losing childlike wonder; reclaim it by pursuing passions—adventures, pleasures, thrills.

The astral body here is vibrant, expansive, emotion-pure yet higher than mental detachment—radiating satisfaction. In magick, it’s the heart’s will, manifesting harmony. Like an oak’s branches absorbing sunlight to energize the tree, upper emotions fuel life’s beauty.

Duality in the Upper Emotional Plane: Adventure and Harmony

This plane embodies duality: expansive adventure (male, thrill-seeking) vs. containing harmony (female, blissful fulfillment). Curiosity drives outward, discovering joys; satisfaction contains them in pride and love, resolving risks into growth. Your essay notes its magnetic charm: radiant vitality attracts, making one the “life of the party”—humorous, popular, fun. But overdevelopment risks recklessness; balance with lower emotions grounds it.

In chaos, duality embraces lovingly: new experiences build chaotically, leaping to stability through success—reawakening the “inner child.” Integration with concrete mental (sensory grounding) prevents isolation, turning bliss into shared magick. The Heart Chakra channels it, expanding emotional awareness outward, but without lower integration, it’s fleeting ecstasy.

Like an oak’s branches balancing wild sway (adventure) and leaf harmony (fulfillment), this plane mediates mental reason and lower passion, fostering emotional mastery.

Integration: Rediscovering Joy Through Risk

Integrating upper emotional fragments develops a radiant astral body—joyous, loving, vital—for navigating lower planes with positive insight, gaining harmonious balance. Your essay emphasizes development: pursue passions, embrace discovery—risks expand, successes integrate. The ego strengthens, becoming honorable and fair, learning life’s beauty through arts and nature.

In magick, this is heart-centered intent—unswayed by fear, manifesting fulfillment. Duality resolves: embrace chaos of novelty lovingly, leaping to blissful power. The oak’s canopy, integrating wind’s thrill to nourish leaves, exemplifies this: upper emotions as life’s exuberant core.

Practical Applications: Igniting Your Inner Child

To engage the Upper Emotional Plane:

• Joy Journal: Reflect on a thrilling discovery or loving moment. Journal its vitality. Meditate under an oak, visualizing canopy as radiant bliss.
• Partner Adventure: Share a joyful risk with a partner. Men: Expansive thrill; women: Containing harmony. Hold hands, breathe, feeling merge. If alone, balance both within.
• Oak Joy Ritual: Touch an oak’s leaves, ask: “What joy awakens me?” Visualize energy as canopy’s sway, echoing Golden Dawn’s heart harmony.

These tools rekindle upper emotions.

Conclusion: Emotions as Life’s Spark

The Upper Emotional Plane radiates joy and vitality, like an oak’s canopy in sunlight. In The OAK Magus, it’s duality’s expansive embrace. This empowers emotional heights; next, lower emotional energy grounds it in depth.