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Awareness Redirection Mechanisms

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<blockquote "definition">'''Awareness Reduction Mechanisms''' are strategies that [[Bodily Ego]] can use to reduce awareness of itself, its physical and mental condition, the "room" that it's in, and the condition of its life. ARMS are typically deployed in order to reduce pain, suffering, guilt, shame, and the disjuncture that arises from internal misalignment or external violence and abuse.</blockquote>

==Related LP Terms==

[[Defence Mechanisms]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Defence Mechanisms]]}}

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[[Defence Mechanisms]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Defence Mechanisms]]}}

==Notes==

There are three basic "modes of operation" (RRIP)

: Awareness Reduction Mechanisms - reduce awareness to avoid perceiving disjunctive realities, or feeling disjunctive emotions.
: Awareness Redirection Mechanisms - redirect awareness to avoid perceiving disjunctive realities, or feeling disjunctive emotions
: Informational Positioning - repositioning reality. For example, converting the feelings to anger and resentment, and then blaming the victim. "Sure I beat you as a child, but so what. You're just too weak to handle it."

==Anecdotes==

Reddit post - [https://www.reddit.com/r/awakened/comments/rbvdw3/anyone_ever_find_themselves_tryna_go_back_to_sleep/ Anyone trying to go back to sleep]

The acronym could be, very appropriately, RRIP. Reduction, Redirection, Informational Positioning

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Spheres of Alignment

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Spheres of Alignment''' are personal and collective life spaces within which an individual interested in [[Connection]] must work to achieve [[alignment]].<ref>Sosteric, Mike & Ratkovic, Gina. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-three-connection/.</ref>
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==Related Terms==

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==Notes==

The general therapeutic/spiritual advice is to start at the personal sphere, with one's own self, and move into the family, social, work, community, work, and global spheres as healing occurs, confidence grows, and more people become available to connect with.

[[File:spheresoflignment.gif|center|Spheres of Alignment]]

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Right Environment

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Right Environment''' is an environment that supports [[Healing]] and [[Connection]]. Right environments provide for the satisfaction of the [[Seven Essential Needs]]. Right environments are calm, safe places where you find love, truth, understanding, and which encourage [[Alignment]] and [[Connection]]<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/.</ref> <ref>Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-three-connection/.</ref>
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==The Three Rs of Alignment==

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==Related Terms==

[[Right Environment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Right Environment]]}}

==Notes==

Right Environment is one of the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], (the others being [[Right Thought]] and [[Right Action]]) that, when taken together, provide the foundations of [[Healing]] and [[Connection]]. Taken together, right thought, action, and environment constitute the LPs [[Alignment Rule Set]]
Taken together, [[Right Environment]], [[Right Thought]], and [[Right Action]] constitute the LPs [[Alignment Rule set]]

Right environments are important for both [[Healing]] and [[Connection]]. One can neither heal nor connect when coping with a toxic environment.

A right environment is an environment where all [[Seven Essential Needs]] are met. Notably, right environments are environments that are loving, nurturing, and free of violence, stress, and emotional/psychological pain.

Spiritual teachers [often] comment on the nature and establishment of right environment.

From the Christian Bible, Mathew 5: 21-22.

“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder,[a] and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister[b][c] will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Note that ''Raca'' is an Aramaic term for contempt.

So, why would Jesus admonish his followers against anger and name-calling? Because such behaviours are out of [[Alignment]] and lead to the hellish experience of [[Disconnection]]. Right environment is an environment free of all forms of violence, including verbal violence. Even the negative energy of the angry voice is condemened by Jesus Christ.

Because most environments are toxic, right environment often requires the establishment of a [[Cocooning| cocoon]], where we keep toxicity away.

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Bodily Ego

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The '''Bodily Ego''' is your body's [[ego]]. It is the part of you that is tied to your physical body. Neurologically, the bodily ego is the [[Default Mode Network]] in your brain.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Ratkovic, Gina. Lightning Path Workbook One: Basic Concepts. Vol. 1. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2016. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-one-authentic-spirituality/. You can read the chapter where the concept is introduced online [https://www.lightningpath.org/workbook-one/connection-the-physical-unit-the-spiritual-ego-the-bodily-ego/ here]</ref> <ref>For the neurology behind this, see Sosteric. The Science of Ascension: A Neurologically Grounded Theory of Mystical/Spiritual Experience. [https://www.academia.edu/28919294/The_Science_of_Ascension_A_Neurologically_Grounded_Theory_of_Mystical_Spiritual_Experience]</ref>.
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==Syncretic Terms==

[[Bodily Ego]] > {{#ask: [[Is a syncretic term::Bodily Ego]]}}

==Propositions==

The bodily ego is temporal.

The bodily ego is dependent for existence on the hardware provided by physical creation.

The bodily ego is an “artificial intelligence,” designed into the physical unit in order to help it survive, thrive, and evolve towards greater [[Perfection]] of [[Connection]].

The bodily ego is programmed and, it should be noted, damaged by its experiences in the world.

A damaged bodily ego will, for various reasons (e.g., low self-esteem, confused archetypes, fears, anger, adaptive responses that prevent disconnection by causing mis[[Alignment]] and [[Disjuncture]]), be unable to connect properly to [[Spiritual Ego]].

==Notes==

The bodily ego is like the artificial intelligence (AI) that drives an autonomous vehicle. It is programmed by the environment and by developers, and it has a certain autonomy, but it is never as real as the driver, i.e. [[Spiritual Ego]]

The bodily ego has two levels, a conscious level of thoughts and actions (the mind/ego),<ref>In the [[Crest-Jewel of Wisdom]], the [[Knowledge Sheath]]</ref> and an unconscious level of instincts and reactions<ref>In Freudian terms, the [[Id]]</ref>.

The Bodily Ego emerges as a consequence of the interaction between [[Consciousness]] and the sophisticated neuronal operations of the [[Default Mode Network]] of the physical brain.

The Bodily Ego is a key psychic structure of the [[Physical Unit]]. It emerges as a consequence of the interaction between...

* [[Consciousness]]
* The [[Environment]]
* The [[Physical Unit]].

As [[Ego]], the Bodily Ego consists of the four psychic elements:

* [[Self Consciousness]],
* Perspective
* Will
* Imagination

The bodily ego is the "navigational computer" of the physical unit. It is responsible for (Sosteric, SA1)

* ensuring the survival of the physical unit (i.e. preventing accidents, defending against assault)
* fulfilling the [[Needs]] of the physical unit (food, shelter, healthy body, healthy mind)
* [[Connection|reconnecting]] with [[Consciousness]] (i.e. raising the [[Consciousness Quotient]] of the [[Physical Unit]]
* fully expressing the intent and will of the Resident Monadic Consciousness which inhabits the body

The bodily ego is often taken, especially by [[materialists]], to be the locus of an individual's identity and the ultimate ontological source of being. "I think therefore I am," says Descartes. It is understandable how this conclusion may be drawn, especially by someone whose only experience is of [[Normal Consciousness]], but it is erroneous. The little "i" of the bodily ego is a mere refraction of the big "I" (Spiritual Ego) that animates the physical unit.

The bodily ego has no independent existence. Without the animating embrace of [[Spirit]], the brain may show basic autonomic functions and random cerebral activity, but there is no presence. Without the embrace of Spirit, there is no "I," and no "me." However, when Spirit [[The Embrace|embrace]]s a living body, eyes open, identity is refracted, and [[Consciousness]] slowly emerges into the world that surrounds.

The bodily ego, which is rooted in the programmable structures and energy flows of the physical unit, automatically shapes itself in efforts to ensure survival, meet [[needs]], and (if survival and needs are met) full reconnection. Therefore, the root of adolescent and adult pathology may often be found in the twisted shape the bodily ego takes when dealing with [[Toxic Socialization]] and toxic environments.

Pleasure is a general, but by no means exclusive, indicator of survival and needs satisfaction.

Substances which are medium or long-term destructive to the bodily ego/physical unit (for example Heroin/shopping/distance running) that provide pleasure (serotonin release) may become neurologically and psychologically confused with pleasures (eating healthy, exercising).

===Healthy Ego===

A healthy [[Physical Unit]] contains a healthy bodily ego. A healthy bodily ego consists of an ego with a strong sense of self, high self-esteem, realistic self-efficacy, and strong ground with reality (proper perspective), and healthy imagination. A healthy bodily ego is achieved when children are raised in a healthy, safe, loving, and supportive environments (a.k.a. [[Right Environment]] that meets all [[Seven Essential Needs]].

A healthy bodily ego is an ego that is [[Alignment|aligned]] with the [[Spiritual Ego]] thereby allowing the [[Physical Unit|physical unit]] to contain a full measure of the animating [[Monad]]. A healthy ego allows full [[presence]] of [[Consciousness]].

'''Supportive environments''' are those that support the realization of the full psychological, emotional, spiritual, and physical potential of the physical unit as container/vehicle of [[Consciousness]]. Unsupportive (toxic) environments are environments that undermine full potential.

A healthy society that offers a [[Healthy Socialization]] process will ensure that all children are raised in healthy, safe, and loving environments. However, under current psychological and sociological conditions we endure a [[Toxic Socialization]] process. This toxic socialization process does do not support healthy ego development.

[[Capitalism]], because it depends on [[Disconnection|disconnected]] / [[Alienation|alienated]] workers for exploitation, provides unsupportive, unhealthy, unsafe, and unloving environments. Capitalism is a toxic system that damages the physical unit, undermines full potential, and distorts the bodily ego in the interest of private profit and accumulation (RSGME).

The "normal" experience of a bodily ego damaged by toxic socializaton consists of low-grade neurosis accompanied by rigid belief systems, uncritical compliance with establishment norms and values, and lack of empathic Connection to Self (which includes family, community, Gaia, etc). Under those conditions where the [[Physical Unit]] is subject to continuous abuse, and/or where the physical unit experiences premature crown chakra openings, low-grade neurosis may expand into full-blown psychotic dysfunction.

==Dysfunction and Pathology==

The bodily ego is a sensitive manifestation of cellular consciousness and, when improperly nurtured or actively [[assault|assaulted]], is subject to easy damage. Damage may range from the easy to treat outcome of mild physical abuse to the severe, intractable, and sometimes fatal ego destruction that occurs when children experience chronic neglect and assault. Damage may fall into several categories. Arranged in ascending order of damage and dysfunction, these categories are:

* Mild Ego Damage
* [[Ego Pathology]] [[Ego Dysfunction]] |
* Neurosis
* Psychosis
* Schizophrenia

==LP Courses that Discuss the Bodily Ego==

* [https://www.lightningpath.org/curriculum/foundations/key-concepts/?parent=23266#anchor LP 100 Key Concepts]

==Further Reading==

# [https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-one-authentic-spirituality/ Connection, the Physical Unit, the Spiritual Ego, the Bodily Ego]

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Connection Duration

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Connection Duration''' is the temporal duration of a [[Connection Event]]. Duration may range from a second or two, to several hours</blockquote>

==Connection Axis==

[[Connection Axes]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Connection Axis]]}}

==Notes==

"The adjective "mystical" is technically applied, most often. to states that are of brief duration."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 66). Kindle Edition.</ref> James, however, relates experiences of "rapture" that go on for hours.

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Emotional Satisfaction

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<blockquote class="quotation">The third property of water is that it satisfies and quenches thirst. Thirst, I think, means the desire for something which is very necessary for us— so necessary that if we have none of it we shall die.<ref> St. Teresa of Avila. The Way of Perfection (Dover Thrift Editions) (p. 67). Dover Publications. Kindle Edition. </ref>
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