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Archetypal Wrong Thought

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Distortion

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'''Distortion''' is an [[Awareness Reduction Mechanisms]]] that the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to avoid uncomfortable confrontation with reality...
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==Other Awareness Reduction Mechanisms==

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Distortion is the first tertiary ARM we will look at. Distortion involves the deceptive reshaping of reality. When we distort things, we make them appear like something they are not. Distortion is an extension of denial and rationalization, often with a dose of intellectualization thrown in for good measure. When we deny the truth, rationalize, and make excuses, we are attempting to distort our perception of reality.

A good example of intellectual distortion is the common cultural trope “What does not kill you makes you stronger.” This trope basically sends the message that abuse and trauma are good for you because they build strength and character, and make you a better person. People invoke this trope every time their attention is drawn to the abuse and trauma they endured, or that they inflicted upon others. How many people do you know tell you that the abuse they experienced at home “builds character” or made them who they are? How many parents have you heard say that assaulting (i.e. spanking, disciplining, etc.) their children strengthens them and prepares them for life in the real world?

When individuals invoke this trope, they are trying to distort reality, because the trope is simply not true. There is lots of evidence to indicate even minor psychological trauma can cause serious, lasting damage. Major events like sexual assault do horrific damage. But, if you believe the cultural trope “what does not kill you makes you stronger,” you can distort your perception of reality and repress your burgeoning awareness of trauma and disjuncture by pretending that the damage you see, or that you cause, builds character and strength. Distortion helps you “not worry about it” so you can go have a happy drink with your boys or a yummy glass of wine with the girls. It is easier to forget and pretend if you can convince yourself that what happened to you, or what you did to others, isn’t that bad after all.

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Stage Seven

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'''Stage Seven''' (a.k.a. [[Graduation]])) is the final stage of [[Evolution]]. In Stage Seven, a [[Pinnacle Species]] that has successfully completed [[Stage Six|Stage Six Reconnection]] is introduced to interplanetary existence.
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'''Graduation''' is a [[New Energy]] [[Archetype]] in the [[Triumph of Spirit Archetype System]]. The [[Graduation Archetype]] represents culmination of [[The Great Work]], which is the spiritual/evolutionary development of a planet.

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Clearing Experience

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A '''Clearing Experience''' is a special type of [[Connection Experience]] that leads to an abrupt and dramatic "clearing" of an emotional, intellectual, psychological, or spiritual blockage(s).<ref>Sosteric, Mike & Ratkovic,l 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> A clearing experience typically results immediately in improved insight, understanding, health, well-being, and [[connection]]. </blockquote>

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Like the [[Connection Experience]] of which they are a subset, clearing experiences may be positive (a beautiful [[Zenith Experience]]) or negative ([[Nadir Experience]]).

Martin Bidney <ref>Bidney, Martin. “Epiphany in Autobiography: The Quantum Changes of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 60, no. 5 (May 2004): 471–80.</ref> recounts the [[Clearning Experience]] of Dostoevsky whereby he was released of all hatred and anger.

William White recounts the clearing experience of Mary Mann, the "first women to recover successfully within Alcoholics Anonymous..."

<blockquote class="quotations">Marty Mann (1904–1980) was undergoing treatment for alcoholism when an incident occurred that enraged her. While in this state, her eyes fell upon an opened prepublication copy of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, where she saw the words “We cannot live with anger.” The next thing Mann recalls is being on her knees crying and praying. She arose knowing she was a different person, that she was “totally and completely free.” She became the first women to recover successfully within Alcoholics Anonymous, and, in 1944, founded the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism. Mann became a central figure in the modern alcoholism movement and one of
America’s most successful public-health reformers. <ref>White, William L. “Transformational Change: A Historical Review.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 60, no. 5 (May 2004): 463.</ref></blockquote>

White uses the term [[Breakthrough Experience]] in the context of his discussion of [[Transformational Change]] to describe the clearing experience. "There is a perception of truth, a reconciliation of conflicting ideas and emotions, and a new sense of order and beauty so complete as to form a passage from one identity to another." <ref>White, William L. “Transformational Change: A Historical Review.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 60, no. 5 (May 2004): 463.</ref>

Indigenous shamans often tell of facing animals and monsters trying to attack them in their visionary experiences.<ref>Harner, Michael. Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2013.</ref> Similarily, John Rave's, founder of the Winnebego [[Peyote Cult]], first experience was one of being pursued by "horrible creatures...springing from all directions."<ref>Radin, Paul. “A Sketch of the Peyote Cult of the Winnebago: A Study of Borrowing.” Edited by G. Stanley Hall. Journal of Religious Experience 7, no. 1 (1914): 1–22. p. 8</ref> He cleared these fears and moved onto healing and connection when he came to see himself as connected to his grandfather, and that his grandfather was there to help. <ref>Radin, Paul. “A Sketch of the Peyote Cult of the Winnebago: A Study of Borrowing.” Edited by G. Stanley Hall. Journal of Religious Experience 7, no. 1 (1914): 1–22. <p>Note, if you look up this quote, notices how Radin inserts his own interpretation (i.e. "the medicine") into the direct quote, thus subtly changing the meaning of the words provided by Rave. Instead of a channel/connection to a [[Spirit Guide]], as indicated by Rave, Radin reduces the effect to a biochemical process. https://archive.org/details/journalofreligio07worcuoft/page/8/mode/2up</ref>

Clearing is accomplished when the individual makes a decision to trust that the visionary process will not harm them.

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Emanation

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The '''Emanation of Creation''' (or just '''Emanation''' for short) is the Judaic term for the [[The Unfolding]] of [[Physical Creation]] from source [[Consciousness]] through to the physical world. In Judaism, the emanation of physical creation runs from [[Kether]] to [[Malkuth]].
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[[image:treeoflife.png|thumb|right|The Tree of Life]]There is a visual representation of this multilevel process of emanation in the Jewish Cabbala known as the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is an ancient representation of how creation emanates from the mind of God (BOLIFE).

In the Cabballa, creation is represented as a staged emanation process. In this staged process of creation, intent passes through four “levels” on its way to the manifestation of the life-filled universe you see around you now. In Jewish Cabbala, the stages are named Kether (pure Consciousness) Tiphareth, Yesod, and finally Malkuth (physical universe).

स्वयम्भू (svayambhU) means self-existing or self-created. A self-created emanation of

ब्रह्माण्ड:अंशुपातन स्वयम्भू अस्ति भ्रमस्य

bhramana aMzupAtana svayambhU asti

The cosmos is an emanating self-creation of Bhrama
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Compare with saMskRti (संसृति) which emphasizes the passage through several states of existence/the course of mundane existence.

"The theory of Emanation supposes the Universe to descend in successive, widening circles of being from the supreme."<ref>Ali Shah Ikbal, Islamic Sufism (Tractus Books, 2000). p. 127.</ref>

"Whatever has come out of the recesses of nothingness Consider the first row as the row of angels." <ref>Mulla Jami quote in Ali Shah Ikbal, Islamic Sufism (Tractus Books, 2000. p. 128</ref>

"The theory of Emanation is compared to a pyramid which extends from a point on the top downwards to the base in expanding gradiations. The symbol of Immanence is a point in the center, which expands all round towards the sphere." <ref>Mulla Jami quote in Ali Shah Ikbal, Islamic Sufism (Tractus Books, 2000. p. 128</ref>

[[Zoroaster]] suggested that creation occurred as a consequence of thought. "You, 0 Mazda, created for us in the beginning by your thought material objects and consciences ... " ( Y. 3I.II)."

'''Islam''': The '''purpose''' of emanation/creation i so that God may manifest. <blockquote>God says, "I was a Hidden Treasure, so I wanted to be known." In other words, "I created the whole of the universe, and the goal in all of it is to make Myself manifest, sometimes through Gentleness and sometimes through Severity." God is not the kind of king for whom a single herald would be sufficient. If all the atoms of the universe were His heralds, they would be incapable of making Him known adequately.<ref>Chittick, William C., and Rumi. ''The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi''. Rumi SUNY Series in Islam. New York: SUNY Press, 1983. (F 176-177/184-185)</ref></blockquote>

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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>

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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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Lateral ideology

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'''Lateral Ideology''' is indirect ideology. [[Indoctrination]] via lateral ideology occurs surreptitiously via sophisticated intellectual and emotional associations.

You can best understand lateral ideology by thinking of Christmas. Christmas indoctrinates and creates consumers by associating a yearly consumer frenzy with allusions of family happiness and function, high levels of tryptophan (from the millions of turkeys slaughtered each year, alcohol, and pure emotional fantasy. Warm fuzzy feelings and a hopeful fantasy become linked with product purchase. Consequently, feelings of well being, feelings of family satisfaction, feelings of personal connection all become supported and expressed via product purhase.

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Lateral ideology is an extremely effective method for controlling because individuals being indoctrinated are not aware.

Lateral ideology is extremely resilient.

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