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Thought Control

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Thought Control''' is a [[Connection Technique]] that involves learning to manage and control one's thoughts and ideas so they do not "take control" or run amok during [[Connection Practice]]</blockquote>

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[[Connection]] increases the flow of [[Consciousness]] into the [[Physical Unit]]. This increase enhances the perceived "reality" of ideas that may be contained in mind. Because of the [[Indoctrination]] associated with [[Toxic Socialization]], some of these ideas may undermine the [[Bodily Ego]] and cause anxiety, fear, hatred, paranoia, [[Disconnection]], and (when coupled with a damaged [[Bodily Ego]]) [[Connection Pathology]].

Ideas that undermine the [[Bodily Ego]] and cause [[Disconnection]] are referred to as [[Wrong Thought]]. In order to maintain a healthy [[Bodily Ego]], and in order to achieve [[Connection]], one must establish [[Right Thought]].

Part of the process of establishing right thought involves controlling and rejecting [[Wrong Thought]]. When one has an idea that one knows is wrong, one pushes the idea out of awareness and resolves to never thing about it again.

Note that mindfulness is a component of thought control. In order to control your thoughts, you must be aware of the thoughts you are having.

Self-esteem is also a component of thought control. One must feel capable and worthy of judging and replacing one's ideas in order to actually judge and replace one's ideas.

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Boundary Visualization

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A '''Boundary Visualization''' is a visualization that helps protect you from other by creating energetic boundaries around you.These boundaries can help keep toxic energies and toxic people away from you, while allowing more positive influences to enter your spaces.
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Boundaries may be visualized with any material (e.g. bricks) or energy (e.g. white light). To build a boundary, visualize an energy wall, a stone wall, or some other sort of fortification around your body, your house, and all those people and things that you wish to help protect. The boundary visualization is most effective when performed in the morning when you wake up, in the evening before you go to bed, and repeated multiple times throughout your day.

When visualizing a boundary, do not make it impenetrable to all things. Visualize light energy bolts penetrating and entering, but see slings, arrows, and the dark and icky bolts of the old energy world bouncing off and easily repelled. Visualize many times a day, when you wake and before you go to sleep. The world remains a toxic place. Never forget to protect yourself. Always build and reinforce the boundary.

Be aware that the use of boundary visualizations will, at present time, likely reduce your social experience as all those influences that are any kind of a threat are subtly removed from your personal reality. This is a good thing since it removes negativity, violence, and other albatrosses of spiritual awakening and empowerment.

Finally, although you may be tempted, try not to mourn the loss of darkness, negativity, and violence from your personal sphere, or the realities of this planet. Mourning the loss may create energetic space for the re-entry of these energies and influences, and this is something that you wish to avoid.

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Disjuncture

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Disjuncture''' is a state of disconnection, disunion, and separation between the [[Spiritual Ego]]and the [[Bodily Ego]]. Disjuncture is caused by when an individual engages in [[Wrong Thought]] and [[Wrong Action]], or that lives within/creates [[Wrong Environment]]s that are not in [[Alignment]] with [[Highest Self]]. Disjuncture leads to painful [[Disjunctive Emotions]], like unease, disquiet, discomfort, guilt, and shame. </blockquote>

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==Notes==

===Healing Disjuncture===

To heal disjuncture, re-establish alignment between the [[Spiritual Ego]] and [[Bodily Ego]] by establishing [[Right Though]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]

Disjuncture is a Lightning Path concept that refers to the disconnect between your [[Spiritual Ego]] and your [[Bodily Ego]]. If you think of your spiritual ego as a bright, eternal light, and your bodily ego as the ego of your physical body, disjuncture occurs when the two are “out of [[alignment]]” and, as a consequence, [[Disconnected]]. When your spiritual ego and bodily ego are out of alignment, communication and energy flow between your spiritual ego and bodily ego are interrupted.

Disjuncture arises when there is a disconnect between what [[Spiritual ego]] wants its [[Physical Unit]] to think/do, and what the [[Physical Unit]] is actually thinking and doing.

Disjuncture and the disconnection which results can be quite painful. Guilt, shame, hopelessness, and despair may build up in a physical unit experiencing even minor disjuncture. The only way to end disjuncture is to pursue perfect alignment between the spiritual ego and bodily ego.

'''There is evidence''' that humans experience disjuncture when engaged in wrong action, for example, eating meat.<ref>Shaw, Julia. “What the ‘meat Paradox’ Reveals about Moral Decision Making.” BBC Future, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190206-what-the-meat-paradox-reveals-about-moral-decision-making.</ref>

'''You find the concept of disjuncture in the world's literature.'''

Tolstoy discusses disjuncture as a "contradiction between our life and our christian conscience." His Chapter V provides an extended discussion of the painful disjuncture as caused by lack of [[Alignment]].<Ref>Tolstoy, Leo. The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Classics To Go) EBook: Leo Tolstoy: Amazon.ca: Gateway. Translated by Constance Garnett. CreateSpace, 2016. https://amzn.to/2Dg2jtj</ref>. See the [https://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Talk:Disjuncture Discussion page] for more. "Our whole life is in flat contradiction with all we know, and with all we regard as necessary and right. This contradiction runs through everything, in economic life, in political life, and in international life.<Ref>Tolstoy, Leo. The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Classics To Go) EBook: Leo Tolstoy: Amazon.ca: Gateway. Translated by Constance Garnett. CreateSpace, 2016. https://amzn.to/2Dg2jtj</ref>

One can be disconnected but not in a state of disjuncture. An individual can follow an [[Alignment Rule Set]] to maintain a semblance of [[Alignment]].

A root, disjuncture is caused by [[Wrong Throught]] seeded by the [[Ideological Deceptions]] which are a part of the [[Toxic Socialization]] required for [[System Maintainence]].

Many forms of disjuncture may impact the physical unit. There may be '''behavioral disjuncture''' (i.e. a disjuncture between how Consciousness ''wants'' the body to behave, and how the body actually behaves), '''cognitive disjuncture''' (i.e. a disjuncture between how Consciousness want the body to think and how the body actually things), and even '''emotional disjuncture'''. There more disjuncture there is the more likely a [[Dark Night]] becomes.

Disjuncture causes the [[Highest Self]] to use [[Steering Emotions]] (like guilt and shame) and other forms of communication in an attempt to steer the [[Physical Unit]] in a more aligned direction.
In severe cases of disjuncture, guilt, shame, and anxiety may give way to anguish even mental and emotional collapse (i.e. a so-called [[Dark Night of the Soul]], and even suicide. When an individual is in the depth of disjuncture, suicide prevention hinges on head on acceptance of the disjuncture, non-judgmental support of awareness, and expert guidance designed to reduce disjuncture and encourage [[alignment]].

The correct healing response to disjuncture is always to improve [[Alignment]] and work towards strong [[Connection]]. See the LP [[Alignment Rule Set]] for initial guidance.

Chronic disjuncture and repression lead to [[Pathology]]. Chronic disjuncture leads to stunted physical, psychological, and emotional development (since energy otherwise necessary for development and health is turned towards activating and maintaining repression and other [[Defense Mechanisms]]) and, in serious long-term cases, neurosis, psychosis, disease, and even death. It is thus in the best interests of the physical unit to identify disjuncture and deal with it directly itself into alignment with its own [[Highest Self]].

Maslow felt there were psychological costs to [[disjuncture]]: "But there is also another element in conscience, or, if you like, another kind of conscience, which we all have either weakly or strongly. And this is the “intrinsic conscience.” This is based upon the un conscious and preconscious perception of our own nature, of our own destiny, or our own capacities, of our own “call” in life. It insists that we be true to our inner nature and that we do not deny it out of weakness or for advantage or for any other reason. He who belies his talent, the born painter who sells stockings instead, the intelligent man who lives a stupid life, the man who sees the truth and keeps his mouth shut, the coward who gives up his manliness, all these people perceive in a deep way that they have done wrong to themselves and despise themselves for it. Out of this self-punishment may come only neurosis, but there may equally well come renewed cour age, righteous indignation, increased self-respect, because of thereafter doing the right thing; in a word, growth and im improvement can come through pain and conflict." <ref>Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 7. </ref>

Maslow: "It seems quite clear that personality problems may sometimes be loud protests against the crushing of one’s psychological bones, of one’s true inner nature. What is sick then is not to protest while this crime is being committed." <ref>Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 8.</ref>

'''Maslow has some comments on the psychological utility of shame:''' What healthy people do feel guilty about (or ashamed, anxious, sad, or regretful) are (I) improvable shortcomings, e.g., laziness, thoughtlessness, loss of temper, hurting others; (2) stubborn remnants of psychological ill health, e.g., prejudice, jealousy, envy; (3) habits, which, though relatively independent of character structure, may yet be very strong, or (4) shortcomings of the species or of the culture or of the group with which they have identified. The general formula seems to be that healthy people will feel bad about discrepancies between what is and what might very well be or ought to be...."<ref>Maslow, A.H. Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper & Row, 1954. https://amzn.to/2OSRmlX. p. 157.</ref>

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DMT

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Sutta

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<blockquote class="definition">A ''Sutta'' (Pali, Sanskrit sutra), are recorded dialogues of the Buddha designed to convey the teaching of the Buddha. </blockquote>

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See discussion for an overview of core Pitaka.

Not really dialogues, as Wallis points out, more vehicles for preservation of the Buddha's words.

The core suttas collected into a pitaka or basket.

"The themes covered in the ''Suttapiaka'' constitute the core concerns of the Buddha. These themes include those that preoccupy our modern disciplines of psychology (for example, the nature of mind, the processes of perception), religion (the question of supernatural agency, the practice of meditation), ethics (the necessity and means of self-restraint and moderation), and philosophy (the nature of reality, the modes of knowledge). But despite this variety, in the end, the Buddha says, his teachings are like the salty ocean. As vast and various as they are, the teachings contain but a single taste: that of ''awakening.'' They teach slumbering, deluded, dissatisfied people the means to transform themselves into ones who are bright, clear, and wide awake."<ref>Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha.'' New York: The Modern Library, 2007.</ref>

"As we saw earlier, the discussions that the Buddha had with others were first recorded and organized mnemonically and eventually written down on birch bark and literally sewn together as a book. While the woven book (sutta, “text”) ensures a certain degree of material preservation of the teachings, it does not ensure their vitality. For this to occur, the teachings must be further woven into the hearer-reader’s attitude toward living. This rich and complex interweaving of dialogue between the Buddha and a seeker, the physical embodiment of this as a text, and the application of this in the life of the reader constitute the real sutta."<ref>Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha.'' New York: The Modern Library, 2007.</ref>

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The Hard Path

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Hard Path''' is a metaphorical representation to the path of struggle, strife, pain, anguish, anger, hatred, and despair travelled by those who are [[Misaligned]] and [[Disconnected]].
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