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Creation

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Creation''' refers to physical creation, everything that exists within the [[Space-Time Tube]]. That is, all that exists after [[Consciousness]] enters into [[Consciousness]].
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==Notes==

As noted in the Book of Light, '''Creation''' is a dream of energy in the mind of [[I]]. That is, creation is everything that exists within the [[Mind of God]].

'''Physical Creation''' is everything that exists within the [[Space-Time Tube]] which itself also exists within the [[Mind of God]].

Creation is both a physical process and a spiritual process (BOLIFE). The [[Physical Process of Creation]] is the process of using hands to create the world. For example, a carpenter using his hands to create a house is engaged in a process of physical creation. The [[Spiritual Process of Creation]] is the process of using [[will]] (desire + intent) to exert a non-physical influence on reality. The well-documented [[Placebo Effect]] is an example of a spiritual process of creation.

"According to the Sânkhya philosophy, nature is composed of three forces called, in Sanskrit, Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. These as manifested in the physical world are what we may call equilibrium, activity, and inertness. Tamas is typified as darkness or inactivity; Rajas is activity, expressed as attraction or repulsion; and Sattva is the equilibrium of the two."

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Sin

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A '''sin''' is any [[Disjunctive Action]], unaligned with [[Highest Self]], that causes harm to one's own [[Physical Unit]], or another living being.
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==Notes==

Sin generates disjunctive emotions of guilt and shame which further contribute to [[Disconnection]]. The [[guilt]] and [[shame]] of disjuncture are painful and an organism will do anything necessary to alleviate that pain. This may include employing [[Defense Mechanims]] to repress Self ([[Self Suppression]]) and engaging in [[Self Stupification]] by using substances like Heroin, Cocaine, or alcohol which dull awareness. Note, [[Self Suppression]] may contribute to the development of [[depression]], [[neurosis]], [[psychosis]], and even physical disease.

Sin is a loaded term, but it’s also a common term, and a useful term if you understand a) that sin is a disjunctive act that harms another being and b) that the “sin” isn’t against God, it is against your own Highest Self. When you sin, you are engaged in an act that is so repulsive and disjunctive to your Highest Self, and consequently so disconnecting, that it deserves its own special word.

You can harm another living being and still not be in sin. For example, it is not a sin to defend yourself or your family or feed your spouse and your kids. Neither it is a sin to eat meat when vegetarianism/veganism is not a viable option.

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Addiction Analysis

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<blockquote class="definition">An '''Addiction Analysis''' is a component of the [[LP HEALING Framework]]. To conduct an AA we 1) identify the substance or behaviour that the individual is addicted to, 2) trace the addiction to environmental toxicities which it provides relief/escape from, 3) identify the needs that the addiction may be attempting to meet. </blockquote>

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==Notes==

The [[Lightning Path]] offers a [[HEALING Framework]] for understanding the core issues that need to be addressed.



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Wrong Action

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'''Wrong Action''' is any action that subverts and prevents [[connection]]. Wrong action is any action that is not fully aligned with [[Highest Self]].
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==The Three Ws of Misalignment==

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==Notes==

Wrong action causes [[Disjuncture]]. Engaged in chronically, [[Disjunctive Feelings]] grow more intense. Sooner than you might think, self-medication becomes required.

[[Sin]] is wrong action that causes harm to another living being.

"Deadly sins" are highly disjunctive actions that lower [[CQ]]/increase disconnection.

* '''Stinginess''' <ref>"Now as he watched and believed, he saw a large woman sitting there. Now the woman was grasping frantically at all things within her reach, and it seemed that she could not stand because of her great size..."Then the messengers answered, 'It is true. That which you saw was the evil of stinginess. She can not stand and thus she will remain forever. Thus it will be with those who forsake religious teachings and think more of the things of earth than of the new world above. (Having glutted themselves with the things of earth they are unable to stand upon the heaven road. From [[The Great Message]] in Parker, Arthur C. [https://amzn.to/2H4fr8a The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet.] New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913.</ref>

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Emotional Suppression Mechanisms

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<blockquote "definition">'''Emotional Suppression Mechanisms''' are strategies the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to suppress painful, unbecoming, or out of hand emotional responses. </blockquote>

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"...it is our very nature to repress disagreeable or unbecoming emotions or urges; and if we observe that our feelings are getting out of hand, we try to repress them. These repressions may be of voluntary or involuntary types."<ref>Akhilananda, Swami. Hindu Psychology: Its Meaning in the West. Routledge, 1948 p. 48.</ref>

Emotional suppression, while functional in the short term, is debilitating when chronically activated. Repression of emotions, strong emotions, anxieties, depression, etc. undermines the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health of the body.

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Emotional Suppression Mechanisms

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<blockquote "definition">'''Emotional Suppression Mechanisms''' are strategies the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to suppress painful, unbecoming, or out of hand emotional responses. </blockquote>

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==Notes==

"...it is our very nature to repress disagreeable or unbecoming emotions or urges; and if we observe that our feelings are getting out of hand, we try to repress them. These repressions may be of voluntary or involuntary types."<ref>Akhilananda, Swami. Hindu Psychology: Its Meaning in the West. Routledge, 1948 p. 48.</ref>

Emotional suppression, while functional in the short term, is debilitating when chronically activated. Repression of emotions, strong emotions, anxieties, depression, etc. undermines the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health of the body.

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Connection Technique

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A '''Connection Technique''' is any single technique, such as meditation, writing, etc., that helps one strengthen and purify [[Connection]].<ref>———. 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> The term may also refer to any structured, daily, connection practice.
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==List of Connection Techniques==

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A [[Connection Practice]] is a formal method of connection that may use one or more [[Connection Techniques]] in order to facilitate and support connection.

Grof speaks of various "mind-altering techniques," like breathing, drumming, dancing, fasting, social and sensory isolation..." that can induce connection (or [[Holotropic States]], as he says).<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 5.</ref> He also speaks of "systematic spiritual practice" like meditation, concentration, breathing, and movement exercises,'<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 5.</ref> but separates these from "mind-altering techniques' which are presumably not systematic and not spiritual?? Perhaps this is Grof attempting to assert a Eurocentric boundary. See "The Sociology of Religion: A Decolonizing Approach" for more on this [[Boundary Problem]].<ref>Sosteric, Mike. The Sociology of Religion - A Decolonizing Approach,” n.d. https://www.academia.edu/80934448/</ref>

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Colonization

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'''Colonization''' is a process whereby [[The System]] is forcibly imposed on a population. Because most people do not wish to be enslaved into systems of productive relations that extract and centralize their energy, colonization is typically initiated with the use of force and violence. When violence has softened a population to a certain point, the process can be completed by implementing psychological archetypes that justify and legitimate new productive relations, and that also erase awareness of The System from the consciousness of those who are enslaved.
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===Colonization and Spirituality===

Colonization has "widely disrupted (and sometimes completely eradicated)" indigenous healing and spiritual traditions.<ref>Gone, Joseph P. “Decolonization as Methodological Innovation in Counseling Psychology: Method, Power, and Process in Reclaiming American Indian Therapeutic Traditions.” Journal of Counseling Psychology 68, no. 3 (2021): 259–70.</ref>

Colonization has subjugated a "realm of health experience in which people's well-being depends on persistent relationships to particular landscape over time. Of special relevance to decolonization, such traditions frequently assume that much of the 'natural' world is animate and sentient, and that much of the power for maintaining human well-being depends on relationship with beings that inhabit specific places in the world." <ref>Gone, Joseph P. “Decolonization as Methodological Innovation in Counseling Psychology: Method, Power, and Process in Reclaiming American Indian Therapeutic Traditions.” Journal of Counseling Psychology 68, no. 3 (2021): 259–70. p. 261.</ref>

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Violence

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<blockquote class=definition>'''Violence''' is any physical, psychological, emotional, institutional, or spiritual act that leads to the psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual damage/diminishment of the subject.<Ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91.</ref> Violence may be negative or positive. [[Negative Violence]] is violence that diminishes as a consequence of pain and suffering. [[Positive Violence]] is violence that diminishes as a consequence of pleasure and reward.<Ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91.</ref> </blockquote>

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==Notes==

'''Emotional Violence''' - > Anything (bullying, shaming, isolation, degradation, lying, gaslighting, criticizing, invalidating,etc.) that hurts somebody's feelings, their sense of self, their self-esteem

'''Psychological Violence''' -> Anything (bullying, shaming, isolation, degradation, lying, gaslighting, criticizing, invalidating,etc.) that undermines somebody's cognitive capacity to think and reason.

'''Spiritual Violence''' -> Hurting somebody's ability to properly understand human spirituality,by confusing them,scarring them, manipulating their beliefs,etc.

'''Physical Violence''' -> Hurting somebody physically (hitting,biting, pushing, spanking,shooting, etc.)

Note,these divisions are in a sense arbitrary since there is overlap in consequences. Spanking can cause emotional, psychological and spiritual damage and diminishment.

Galtung defines violence as the "''cause of the difference between the potential and the actual, between what could have been and what is''."<ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91. p.168.</ref> This statement refers to the fact that violence undermines and prevents the realization of one's full potential.<ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91. p.168.</ref> Violence "decreases mental potentialities.<ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91. p.169.</ref>

Galtung suggests that violence is characterized by avoidable damage. Someone dying of tuberculosis in the 18th century did not die violently, but an individual that does today does, since the death is avoidable and caused by the withdrawal resources that would otherwise have prevented that death. <ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91.</ref>

Galtung suggests a distinction between ''negative'' and ''positive'' violence, both of which may undermine potential and diminish the subject. Negative violence cause (emotional, psychological, spiritual, physical) pain while positive violence causes pleasure. The diminishing and damaging impact of negative violence are obvious.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “Toxic Socialization,” 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.</ref> The diminishment associated with positive violence is less obvious, but there nonetheless. A husband that rewards his wife with presents and attention every time she dresses up and looks pretty is influencing her behaviour in the direction of gender conformity.

Galtung distinguishes between personal violence and [[Structural Violence]]<ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91.</ref>. Structural violence is violence where the violent actor has disappeared to be replaced by an institutional fabric that obscures violent human acts. A human resources department that sanctions an employee is engaged in a violent act supportive of specific human interests (owners, shareholders), but the act is enabled by rules and norms and the agent whom the violence benefit have disappeared from clear view.

<blockquote>The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.<ref>Arendt, Hanna. On Violence. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969. p. 80.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>No one engaged in thought about history and politics can remain unaware of the enormous role violence has always played in human affairs, and it is at first glance rather surprising that violence has been singled out so seldom for special consideration.<ref>Arendt, Hanna. On Violence. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969. p. 8.</ref></blockquote>

Arendt argues violence is distinguished from power, force, authority by its instrumental character. She sees violence and war-making as the "principal structuring force in society," and that it plays a key role in maintaining [[The System]]. <ref>Arendt, Hanna. On Violence. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969. p. 9.</ref> She also analyzes the violence in the service of revolution, or in the interests of more narrow groups interests.

Violence is a component of [[Toxic Socialization]]. Violence can be used to force compliance and also to achieve political goals. See for example the work of Hanna Arendt <ref>Arendt, Hanna. On Violence. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969.</ref><ref>Arendt, Hanna. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.</ref>

Violence may diminish the the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual life of the individual.

* '''physical diminishment:''' Physical violence that damages and diminishes the physical body and mind. Includes hitting, biting, corporal punishment, prenatal exposure to drugs. denial of food/water. poisoning. sexual abuse: sexual contact or non-contact, sexual interference (Behl, Conyngham, & May, 2003). Confinement and restriction of mobility.<ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91. p.158.</ref>
* '''psychological diminishment:'''Psychological violence abuse that damages and diminishes the physical body and mind, including impairment of intelligence, memory, perception, attention, imagination, and moral development (O'Hagan, 1995). Examples: Brainwashing/indoctrination <ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91. p.158.</ref>
* '''emotional diminishment:''' abuse that impairs/damages the emotional life of the individual, including their ability to properly regulate emotions, and to take responsibility, be confident, be open to others when appropriate, maintain appropriate boundaries, and trust. Emotional abuse includes verbal abuse, excessive demands, excessively harsh judgments, and other abuse patterns that impact the child’s ability to feel happy and healthy in their own skin (O'Hagan, 1995).Examples: Brainwashing/indoctrination <ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91. p.158.</ref>
* '''spiritual diminishment:'''

Full human development, [[Healing]] and [[Connection]], requires the cessation of all forms of violence and the re-establishment of healthy, respectful, and nurturing spaces.

==Resources==

[https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bullied/ Bullied] - Trailer for a film on the consequences of the bullying pandemic

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The Correction

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Isaac Luria... Zimzum (constriction), Shevirah ("breaking of the Vessels"), Shevirah, an ongoing failure to realize Tikkun (the mending of the broken vessels).
<ref>Dan, Joseph. Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. </ref>

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Paramatman

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Paramatma''' is a [[Sanatana Dharma]] term syncretic with [[Brahman]] and the LP term [[god with a little "g"]].
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"The Divine of the Sanatana Dharma is a Universal Being or Paramatma, who transcends all boundaries of time, space, and causation. This Being is not bound to just the Hindus or even human beings but is available to the whole of creation. It has existed always and will continue to exist even if no one believes in It. It is the ultimate truth of everything and everyone. That being its foundation, Hinduism is the most tolerant religion in the world. As a goal-oriented religion, it offers us many paths of approach to God, which cater to different types of personalities. It does not insist that there is only one path and one way to approach the Paramatma or the Supreme. There are many paths and many ways." <ref>Vanamali, The Science of the Rishis: The Spiritual and Material Discoveries of the Ancient Sages of India (Toronto: Inner Traditions, 2015).</ref>

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