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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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[[The Path]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::The Path]]}}

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Toxic Attachment

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<blockquote class="definition">A ''Toxic Attachment''' (a.k.a. an '''addiction''') is a substance, behavioural, or relationshp dependency caused by the confluence of [[Toxic Socialization]] and [[Dopamine Attachment]] (Ratkovic & Sosteric, 2019). Under conditions of [[Chronic Toxicity]], toxic [[Substance Attachments]] (a.k.a. substance addictions), [[Behavioural Attachments]] (a.k.a. behavioural addictions), and [[Relationship Attachments]] (i.e. co-dependency) can develop. Any substance, activity, or technology that can trigger a "dopamine hit" can cause a toxic attachment. </blockquote>

==Syncretic Terms==

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==Related Terms==

[[Healing]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Healing]]}}

==Notes==

Toxic attachments may be active, inactive, or broken. An '''active attachment''' is an attachment which the individual currently attempts to service. An '''inactive attachment''' is an attachment that is controlled, but for which neurological vestiges remain. That is, individuals may "crave" especially during times of discomfort and distress. A '''broken attachment''' is an attachment that is unlearned and for which no neurological vestiges remain.

Toxic attachment is often identified in the spiritual literature as an obstacle to Connection. It is identified as "passion for transient objects"<ref>Attar, Fardid Ud-Din. [[The Conference of the Birds]], 2018. https://amzn.to/2JZWq5X.</ref>attachment to

Potentially "addictive" substances/activities -> Heroine, cocaine, running, shopping, Facebook/social media use, masturbation, sex, etc.

Chronic emotional and psychological anguish can make you susceptible to addiction. This is because addictive substances give your brain much needed "pleasure" fixes. When you lack the hugs, kisses, and positive nurturing support all humans desperately need, you find substances that can give you the "hits" your [[Physical Unit]] desperately needs.

Toxic attachment, (whether it is to alcohol, shopping, money, etc.) can control your thoughts and govern your daily actions. Addiction causes you, among other things, to waste psychological and emotional energy on [[Addiction Defenses]].

We lose valuable time defending our addiction, that could be used for healing and connection and instead waste in on our addictive behaviors. We defend our addictions by covering it up, by spending valuable time “servicing” the addiction, etc. Addictions can also directly undermine your body’s ability to connect. You can’t be properly connected while stupefying yourself with alcohol.

==Further Reading==

Ley, David J. "No, Dopamine Is Not Addictive". 2017. Psychology Today. January 6 2017. <https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive>.

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Old World

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The '''Old World''' is the social, political, economic and psychological world of slavery, duality, war, profit, oppression, illusion, delusion and pathology that has been the reality of this world for many thousands of years. See also [[The System]] and [[Regime of Accumulation]]
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==Syncretic Terms==

[[Regime of Accumulation]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Regime of Accumulation]]}}

==Related LP Terms==

[[Regime of Accumulation]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Regime of Accumulation]]}}

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[[Regime of Accumulation]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Regime of Accumulation]]}}

==Notes==

It is important to note that the old world is not a "natural" world in the sense that it is outcome of natural selection or cosmic prerogative. Rather, the old world (like all worlds) is a designed world. It is the result of a conscious application of creative principles and techniques developed, arrayed, and aligned for specific purposes. In the case of the Old World, that purpose is aggrandizement of a few, and global enslavement for the rest.

The following videos provide an explanation of the Old World/System/Regime of Accumulation,

<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVzVuwOQTNM&list=PLsPYCkCxjrQ05G1DhscDM0HRUM35r4HtI</youtube>

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The Changing Light of Sandover

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The Knower

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'''The Knower''' (sanskrit ??) is a term syncretic with the [[LP]] term [[Spiritual Ego]].
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==Syncretic Terms==

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

==Notes==

The term is used in Sankaracharya's ''Crest-Jewel of Wisdom,'' Richards translation<ref>Sankaracharya, Adi. The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom. Translated by John Richards. 1998, 1946. https://datadump.lightningpath.org/readings/crest-jewel-richards.pdf</ref>

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Sun (archetype)

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<blockquote class="definition">'''The Sun''' is an [[Old Energy Archetype]] from the [[Masonic Tarot Deck]]. In the [[Book of Slavery]] and [[Book of Power]], the archetype is used to reinforce the idea that there should be a "balance" between "positive and negative." (see [[Good versus Evil]])) </blockquote>

[[File:sun.jpg|250px|center|Sun Tarot Card Freemason's Deck]]

==List of Old Energy Archetypes from the [[Masonic Tarot]]==

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===[[Book of Power]]===

Not sure about this: "(The Sun; the conquest of initiating light.) When light dawns in the spirit Hiram is found again, deep in a sleep from which the Masters must wake him. They assemble for this purpose in order to pool their intelligence and affection. Hiram is revived because his thought finds a new expression (his lost power of speech returned to him) and because his constructive aspirations animate all hearts."<Ref>Wirth, Oswald. Tarot of the Magicians: The Occult Symbols of the Major Arcana That Inspired Modern Tarot. San Francisco. CA: Weiser Books, 1990. p. 172.</ref>

===[[Book of Slavery]]===

Fool in School: A.E. Waite perhaps says it best. Through alchemical grinding and experiential titration we mature, grow, and evolve until one day, the “self-knowing spirit [dawns] in the consciousness above the natural mind.” On that day, the “ mind...leads forth the animal nature in a state of perfect conformity”.<ref>Waite, Arthur Edward. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination. London: Rider, 1911.</ref> On that day, the pail, blond, blue chosen are born.

"The two children symbolize the two creative fluids, positive and negative, of the new creature."<ref>Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm. p. 148.</ref>

"If you are going through a difficult time, the Sun brings you the message you have been waiting for: that things will get better, a lot better! ''Through the challenges along your path,'' you discovered who you are and why you’re here."<ref>———. “Judgement Tarot Card Meanings.” Biddy Tarot (blog), 2020. https://www.biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/major-arcana/judgement/.</ref>

"The hero has successfully withstood the allure of the lunar night and has won through to the sunlit garden beyond. " Fool in School: <ref> Douglas, Alfred. The Tarot: The Origins, Meaning, and Uses of the Cards. Canada: Penguin Books, 1991. p. 109.</ref>

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The Pyramid

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<blockquote class="definition">'''The Pyramid''' is a basic symbol used by the ruling class and its peons to refer to a hierarchy of wealth and privilege. Lower levels on the pyramid represent lower social/economic classes. </blockquote>

==Related Terms==

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==Notes==

The pyramid is sometimes represented with an eye at the top. The eye symbolizes the notion that it is only the social class at the very top which that the complete truth about the world, which his that that we are all enslaved by a specific [[Regime of Accumulation]].

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Parenthetically, "Novus Ordo Seclorum" means new order of the ages. This refers to the fact that the [[Regime of Accumulation]] implemented in the United States would be different than the Feudal/European version, thus representing a "new world order" or new ROA. Despite being "new," however, the U.S. system is still a very effective [[ROA]].

In the graphic below, the pyramid is represented in a critical way, showing how the various social classes benefit from, are complicit in, and work to reproduce, The System.

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Angel

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<blockquote class="definition">The term '''Angel''' may be used to refer to the [[Spiritual Ego]].</blockquote>

==Syncretic Terms==

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

==Notes==

Pollack refers to an angel as the "eternal part of the self, beyond the ego." "<ref>Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 80.</ref>

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The Flow

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<blockquote class="definition">'''The Flow''' (a.k.a. '''The Flow of Consciousness''', the '''Stream of Consciousness''') refers to the flow of ideas and images constantly streaming through the mind of the [[Physical Unit]].<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> Flow is enhanced, sometimes dramatically, during [[Connection Experience]]s </blockquote>

==Syncretic Terms==

[[The Flow]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::The Flow]]}}

==Related Terms==

[[The Flow]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::The Flow]]}}

==Notes==

The Flow emerges from three sources, the [[Bodily Ego]], the [[Spiritual Ego]], or some other location within [[The Fabric of Consciousness]].<ref>See Sosteric, Mike. “Mysticism, Consciousness, Death.” Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research 7, no. 11 (2016): 1099–1118. for some thoughts on how to "address" other locations in The Fabric. https://www.academia.edu/30527026/</ref>

A goal of healthy human development is to ensure the Bodily Ego is healthy and strong enough so that it can connect with, vet, and integrate the Flow that emerges from sources outside the Bodily Ego.

[[Old Energy Archetypes]] corrupt and diminish The Flow, while [[New Energy Archetypes]] purify and enhance.

The Flow is enhanced during [[Connection Experience]]s when [[The Pipe]] is wide open and the [[Bodily Ego]] is more fully connected to the [[Spiritual Ego]].

The diminishing and destructive effect of old energy archetypes are enhanced during connection.

The enhanced flow that occurs during connection, plus the presence of old energy archetypes, plus a damaged psyche and diminished self-esteem, can lead to [[Connection Pathology]]. It is important therefore that when one practices connection, one also works to heal the psyche and remove old energy archetypes. Failure to do so may lead to spiritual trauma, connection pathology, and (in rare cases) permanent psychological damage.

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Transcendental Self

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Transcendental Self'''<ref>Shear, Jonathan. “Mysticism and Scientific Naturalism.” Sophia 43, no. 1 (May 2004): 83–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782439.</ref> is a syncretic for [[Spiritual Ego]]. </blockquote>

==Syncretic Terms==

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

==Notes==

Used in the [[Perennial Philosophy]]<ref>Shear, Jonathan. “Mysticism and Scientific Naturalism.” Sophia 43, no. 1 (May 2004): 83–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782439.</ref>

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Transpersonal Psychology

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Transpersonal psychology''' is both a [[Healing Framework]] and a [[Connection Framework]]. It is a school of psychology that studies the transpersonal, transcendent, or spiritual aspects of the human experience. Transpersonal psychology was first announced and defined with the publication of The [https://www.atpweb.org/journal.aspx Journal of Transpersonal Psychology], in 1969. </blockquote>

==Related LP Terms==

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==Notes==

Guided by the work of psychologists like Abraham Maslow, S. Groff, Anthony Sutich and others, this perspective was, according to the [http://www.atpweb.org/journal.asp Journal of Transpersonal Psychology website], "founded on a commitment to open-ended inquiry, experiential and empirical validation, and a values-oriented approach to human experience." Lajore and Shapiro (1992: 91) describe transpersonal psychology as "the study of humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of unitive, spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness" (Lajore and Shapiro, 1992:91). Transpersonal psychologists are interested in “spiritual experiences, mystical states of consciousness, mindfulness and meditative practices, shamanic states, ritual, the overlap of spiritual experiences with disturbed states such as psychosis and depression… the transpersonal dimensions of interpersonal relationships” (David, 2000), spiritual self-development, [[Peak Experiences]] (Maslow, 1971), [[Entheogens|entheogen]] usage (Grof, 1973), and mystical experiences of living.

Perhaps more than any other area of psychology, Transpersonal psychology is culturally and theoretically diverse. Practitioners (David, 2000) cite influences ranging from western and eastern mystical systems, to shamanic systems and practice to the use of [[Entheogens]] as a significant precursor and aid to the development of their insight and practice.

==Transpersonal Psychology and Entheogens==

In 1973 Stanislav Grof (1973) cited the therapeutic application of [[Entheogens|entheogens]] as a theoretical and experimental precursor to Transpersonal psychology. His entire paper, entitled ''Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Observations from LSD Research'' used his extensive clinical and therapeutic research with entheogens to provide theoretical and empirical support for transpersonal psychology. As Grof himself notes, such luminaries as Abraham Maslow, Anthony Sutich, Jim Fadiman, and Victor Frankl “all agreed that observations related to the use of psychedelic substances in psychotheraphy (and to a certain degree those related to their abuse by the general population) are of utmost relevance for personality theory and clearly demonstrate the need for a new discipline.” (Groft, 1973: 16).

==Spiritual Emergence==

The term [[Spiritual Emergence]] was coined by Stanislav and Christina Grof (1989) in order to describe a gradual unfoldment of spirituality in a person's life. In cases where this spiritual unfoldment is intensified, uncontrolled, rapid, and unguided emergence may lead to a state of [[Spiritual Emergency|emergency]]. Spiritual emergencies, which are caused by spontaneous [[Crown Activation]], and which can be elicited using various [[Crown Activators|technologies of activation]], will occur with increasing frequency in the decades ahead. Spiritual emergencies can cause significant disruptions in psychological, social and occupational functioning.
Current psychological approaches are ill-equipped to understand and handle these emergencies. Spiritual emergencies are often misdiagnosed as neurotic or psychotic episodes, and [[Crown Stupification]] is often the only way traditional psychology, psychiatry, and medicine can control and treat the problem.

==External Links==

[http://www.itp.edu/ Institute for Transpersonal Psychology]

[http://www.spiritualschool.org/default.asp?Page=School SOPHIA. Journal of the School of Spiritual Psychology]

[http://www.atpweb.org/journal.asp Journal of Transpersonal Psychology]

[http://www.atpweb.org/ The Association of Transpersonal Psychology]

==References==

David, John ( (2000, Spring). We Keep Asking Ourselves, What is Transpersonal Psychology. ''Guidance and Counselling. '' 5 (3), 3-8.

Grof, Stanislav & Grof, Christina (eds) (1989). ''Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (New Consciousness Reader) .'' Los Angeles: J.P Tarcher

Lajore, D. H. & Shapiro, S. I. (1992). Definitions of transpersonal psychology: The first twenty-three years. ''Journal of Transpersonal Psychology''. 24(1); 79-98.

Lukoff, David, Lu, Francis G. & Turner, Robert P. (1998) From Spiritual Emergency to Spiritual Problem - The Transpersonal Roots of the New DSM-IV Category. ''Journal of Humanistic Psychology''. 38(2), pp. 21-50

Scotton, Bruce W, Chinen, Allan B. and John R. Battista, Eds. (1996) ''Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology.'' New York: Basic Books

Whitney, Edward (1998) Personal Accounts: Mania as Spiritual Emergency. ''Psychiatric Services''. 49:1547-1548, December. American Psychiatric Association

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Second Order Translation

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A '''Second Order Translation''' is a translation derived not from a direct translation of a source language, but a translation derived from an already established translation. A second order translation is an attempt to increase the legibility of a sacred text by updating concepts and grammar to modern standards. </blockquote>

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Not sure if the SOT is a thing that already exists.

A SOT is useful when a first-order translation does not translate grammar, as is the case with many translations from Sanskrit texts into English. The SOT brings additional clarity to an original text.

Doing a SOT introduces a possible source of error and bias. However, by clarifying the text is may also help remove much understanding and also facilitate dialogue.

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Cognitive Wall

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A '''Cognitive Wall''' is an intellectual wall between you and an idea that prevents you from connecting with/understanding the idea.
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==Notes==

We implement a cognitive wall for emotional reasons, like low self-esteem (we erect the wall because we are afraid that if we try to understand, we won't), avoidance of painful awareness (we don't want to read a book on pedophiles because we are one, or we know one), because we reject something outright (atheists have a cognitive wall when it comes to discussions of God), or because we are indoctrinated to reject (Christians are indoctrinated to reject the tarot), etc.

You will know you have a cognitive wall if you pick up a normal book and simply cannot access the meaning of the words on the page. You will see the words, you will read them, but you will not be able to understand them, even when they are simple and straightforward. Cognitively, you will withdraw to another space. As you drift away, the words will lose all meaning.

==See Also==

[[Awareness Reduction Mechanisms]]

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Chakra Alignment

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Chakra Alignment''' refers to a process of aligning your chakras with the will and intent of your own [[Spiritual Ego]]. Since your spiritual ego is a being of love, compassion, intelligence, wisdom, awareness, and power, aligned chakras are chakras are chakra energies used to create a bodily self and a world of love, compassion, intelligence, wisdom, awareness,and power. </blockquote>

==Related LP Terms==

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==Notes==

When your [[Mind of God Chakra]] (a.k.a., your Crown Chakra) is aligned, you use your intelligence not to exploit or harm others but to uplift and empower.

When your [[Voice of God]] (a.k.a.throat chakra) is aligned, you use your expressive capabilities to uplift and empower and not to suppress,silence, or make others feel bad (by for example calling them names).

==Additional Reading==

* Leadbeater, C. W. The Chakras. ''Theosophical Pub. House,'' 1994. [https://archive.org/details/chakras00lead http://archive.org/details/chakras00lead].
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Recollection

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==List of Connection Outcomes==

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==Notes==

St. Teresa of Avila has some basic comments on reflection. <ref>St. Teresa of Avila. The Way of Perfection. New York: Dover Publications, 2012. https://amzn.to/2Id75es.</ref>

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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==

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==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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Psychic Assault

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Rai

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Rai''' is Australian Aboriginal term for members of your [[Guide Network]]. "<ref>Dow, James. The Shaman’s Touch. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1986. p. 25.</ref> The ''Rai'' gives the [[Karadji]] special powers to see, to heal, to teleport, etc.</blockquote>

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Intuitive Glimmering

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An '''Intuitive Glimmering''' is a type of [[Connection Experience]] characterized by extremely low intensity, short duration, and the transfer of "tidbits" of information and knowledge.
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==Notes==

Gandhi was practiced an adept at listing to his "inner voice." As he says, "as I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.<ref>Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. Gandhi: An Autobiography. Translated by Mahadev Desai. Green Reader Publications, n.d. https://amzn.to/2WnIbjB.</ref>

Edward Carpenter notes that "to almost all mankind flashes (or ''glimmers'') of the same thing come in those moments of exaltation or intuition which form the basis of religion, art, literature, and much even of practical life.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition. Emphasis added.</ref>

Intuitive glimmerings often lead to great connection experiences, and thus perhaps may be considered [[Push Experiences]]. [[St. Teresa of Avila]] notes that sometimes, God (read Consciousness) gives "consolations, favours and emotions13 which begin to move their desires, and occasionally even brings them to a state of contemplation..." <Ref>St. Teresa of Avila. The Way of Perfection. New York: Dover Publications, 2012. https://amzn.to/2Id75es.</ref>

Thomas Merton's conversion to Catholicism game after an intuitive glimmering

"All of a sudden something began to stir within me, something began to push me, to prompt me. It was a movement that spoke like a voice. ‘What are you waiting for?’ it said. ‘Why are you sitting here? Why do you still hesitate? You know what you ought to do? Why don’t you do it?’I stirred in my chair. I lit a cigarette, looked out the window at the rain, tried to shut the voice up. ‘Don’t act on your impulses,’ I thought. ‘This is crazy. This is not rational. Read your book.’ [the inner voice only renewed its appeal:] ‘It’s useless to hesitate any longer. Why don’t you get up and go?’...I could bear it no longer. I put down the book, and got into my raincoat, and started down the stairs. I went out into the street. I crossed over, and walked along by the grey wooden fence, towards Broadway, in the light rain. And then everything inside me began to sing."<ref>Seven Story Mountain<r/ref>

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Taittiriya Upanishad

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==Upanishads==

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==Primary (मुख्य) Upanishads==

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https://realization.org/p/namedoc/upanishads/taittiriya/mahadeva/ams.1.html

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Varieties of Religious Experience

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===Lecure I Religion and Neurology ===

Two types of religious folk: Those who follow blindly, and those whose attachment is based on "spiritual inwardness" [[Connection Experience]]

<blockquote class="quotation">His religion has been made for him by others, communicated to him by tradition, determined to fixed forms by imitation, and retained by habit. It would profit us little to study this second-hand religious life. We must make search rather for the original experiences which were the pattern-setters to all this mass of suggested feeling and imitated conduct. These experiences we can only find in individuals for whom religion exists not as a dull habit, but as an acute fever rather.<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (pp. 15-16). Kindle Edition.</ref> </blockquote>

Going to be examining mystical experience.

Notes that "discordant inner life," "melancholy," "exalted emotional sensibility," even mental pathology as precedents of [[Connection Experience]]. Uses the example of [[George Fox]] and says he was a "psychopath or detraque of the deepest dye." <ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 16). Kindle Edition. </ref> Spends some time arguing that, despite what some might think, these are "realities" that must be accepted, but that this shouldn't lead us to totally dismiss religion or religious experience as so much mental pathology, stupidity, or sexual/instinctual immaturity. Suggests we should move beyond the "simpleminded system" of though he calls [[Medical Materialism]] and focus not so much on the "origins of mystical experience" but on the outcomes of mystical experience.

Points out that just because there's an organic cause for a "religious state of mind" doesn't mean it doesn't have religious significance. Points out that just because sometimes there is madness, doesn't mean we should completely dismiss, because clearly it is more than just that.

<blockquote class="quotation">The plain truth is that to interpret religion one must in the end look at the immediate content of the religious consciousness. The moment one does this, one sees how wholly disconnected it is in the main from the content of the sexual consciousness. <ref>James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1982.</ref>
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If we are going to examine religious/spiritual things, we should also have criteria beyond personal bias and insensitivity. He suggests "Immediate luminousness, in short, philosophical reasonableness, and "moral helpfulness" as "the only available criteria.:

Judge "religious life by its results exclusively" and not by the "bugaboo of morbid origin."

End by suggesting that we should still focus on pathology, if relevant because of a) curiosity and b) the expanded understanding examinatino of "insane conditions" would provide.

"If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity. And having said thus much, I think that I may let the matter of religion and neuroticism drop."

===Lecture II Circumscription of the Topic ===

The problem of defining what religion is. Its complex, hard to pin down, "the very fact that they are so many and so different from one another is enough to prove that the word “religion” cannot stand for any single principle or essence, but is rather a collective name." There is no "essence" but multiple characteristics

Divides religion into an [[Institutional Religion]] and a [[Personal Religion]]. James will focus on [[Personal Religion]].

Notes that some people might believe personal religion to be inferior to Institutional Religion, but suggests the opposite is in fact the case

<blockquote class="quotation"> Churches, when once established, live at second-hand upon tradition; but the FOUNDERS of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case;—so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete. </blockquote>

Defines religion as "THE FEELINGS, ACTS, AND EXPERIENCES OF INDIVIDUAL MEN IN THEIR SOLITUDE, SO FAR AS THEY APPREHEND THEMSELVES TO STAND IN RELATION TO WHATEVER THEY MAY CONSIDER THE DIVINE." Goes on to twiddle with the definition and understanding, the end result of which doesn't really contribute to our understanding of religion, but in fact, considerably muddies the waters.

===Lecture III The Reality of the Unseen ===

An attempt to understand mystical experience, not to dismiss but to simply note these things exist and are a natural feature of the human body and human experience.

"This absolute determinability of our mind by abstractions is one of the cardinal facts in our human constitution."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 56). Kindle Edition. </ref>

James recounts dozens of [[Connection Experiencess]] ranging from [[Intuitive Glimmerings]] to [[Illuminations]] through active [[Intramonadic Communication]]

===Lecture IV and V The Religion of Healthy Mindedness===

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Tolerance

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Parish notes that using a personal sacred text to facilitate connection can lead to greater acceptance and tolerance of other faiths, etc."<ref>Parish, Bobbi. Create Your Personal Sacred Text: Develop and Celebrate Your Spiritual Life. Harmony, 1999. p. 24 https://amzn.to/2I4zRi7.</ref>.

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The Lovers

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<blockquote class="definition">'''The Lovers''' is an [[Old Energy Archetype]] from the [[Masonic Tarot Deck]]. In the [[Book of Slavery]], the archetype is typically used to enforce gender stereotypes. In the [[Book of Power]], it is used to instruct on the power [[Formation]], archetypes, and ideas.</blockquote>

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==List of Old Energy Archetypes from the [[Masonic Tarot]]==

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==List of Old Energy Archetypal Constellations==

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Very confused trump card.

Paul Foster Case uses the symbolism to describe a basic Freudian psychological dynamic, with intimations of connection to the "sun" of one's higher self.<ref>Paul Foster Case. Learning Tarot Essentials: Tarot Cards for Beginners. Vancouver: Ishtar Publishing, 1932.</ref> In the processes he manages to perpetuate basic gender stereotypes (i.e. men rational, women unconscious irrational))

===[[Book of Power]]===

Initiation, choice, loyalty, testing: "The Lover, or the Initiate of the first degree undergoing the trial on which his increase in salary depends.) The learned man does what he wants, he chooses the direction which it suits him to follow. If in the full knowledge of the facts, he decides to dedicate himself to the Work of the Constructors, he will not be able to go back on his undertaking. The oath which he pronounces determines his future. Final commitment."<ref>Oswald Wirth, Tarot of the Magicians: The Occult Symbols of the Major Arcana That Inspired Modern Tarot (San Francisco. CA: Weiser Books, 1990).p. 170.</ref>

"Proof of Trial." <ref>Mathers, S. L. MacGregor. The Tarot: Its Occult Significance, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc. Kindle Edition, 1888.</ref>

BOP: Elitism. "The future of the young man depends upon the road which he chooses, whether he becomes one of the Initiates, the Mage of the 1st arcanum (the spiritual ו), or the rash thunder-stricken personage of the 16th arcanum (the ע)."<ref>Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.</ref>

Zoroastrian binary: ". The Lovers in the card represent a marriage of opposite forces, positive and negative, higher and lower" <ref>Zalewski, Patrick, and Christine Zalewski. The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn. Aeon Books, 2008. p. 102.</ref>

IN addition to efforts to make this card about relationships between a man and a women (binary gender), this also perpetuates Zoroastrian thinking. "Finally, the Lovers card encourages you to unify dual forces. You can bring together two parts that are seemingly in opposition to one another and create something that is ‘whole’, unified and harmonious. In every choice, there is an equal amount of advantage and disadvantage, opportunity and challenge, positive and negative. When you accept these dualities, you build the unity from which love flows." <ref>Biddy, Briget. “Lovers Tarot Card Meanings.” Biddy Tarot (blog). Accessed November 12, 2020. https://www.biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/major-arcana/lovers/.</ref>

===[[Book of Slavery]]===

'''Sexist stereotypes:''' "The male figure in the card is the mind and rationality. The female figure is the heart and emotion."<ref>Wen, Benebell. Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2015.</ref>

'''Sexist stereotypes:''' "It has been said of her that she is "the great feminine force controlling the very source of fife, gathering into herself all the energising forces and holding them in solution until the time of release."2 Therefore she is depicted sitting between the twin pillars of positive and negative power upon which the universe is founded, absorbing and unifying the opposing energies. She is the passive link between the physical and spiritual planes; through her, it is said, God can be realised in the heart of man, hence her title "The Indwelling Glory"." <ref> Douglas, Alfred. The Tarot: The Origins, Meaning, and Uses of the Cards. Canada: Penguin Books, 1991. p. 54.</ref>

'''Fool in school''': "The Lovers card may also be understood alongside key ideas from the philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard: we face an existential choice between two life paths, either one willfully hedonistic or one grounded in our sense of ethical duty."<ref>Wen, Benebell. Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2015.</ref>

'''Christian morality:''' "The philosophical component of the card centers around choice: there is duality or a decision to be made, and it is a choice between vice and virtue, an ethical quandary. The burning tree behind the man, with twelve glowing flames, is considered to be the Tree of Life, while the fruit-bearing tree behind the female is the Tree of Knowledge.30 Its fruits represent sexuality— fornication, desire, and temptation of the physical senses, which lead to human suffering.31 The Tree of Knowledge symbolizes the desire for sensation. Thus, the Tree of Knowledge represents the primordial choice: to eat of the fruit and know sexuality, thus knowing suffering, or to ascend up the Tree of Life toward God." <ref>Wen, Benebell. Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2015.</ref>

'''Creation of INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL''' disconnected from family. "The Lovers symbolises the first decision which must be made unaided by the traveller on his journey through life. The youth is caught in the dilemma of having to choose between loyalty to his mother and desire for his beloved, between traditional authority and independent action. This is an important stage in the development of individuality; the stage at which the personality becomes an entity separate and apart from its origins." <ref> Douglas, Alfred. The Tarot: The Origins, Meaning, and Uses of the Cards. Canada: Penguin Books, 1991. p. 67.</ref>

===Recovery===

Pollack makes this about adolescent sexual drive and instincts, and also reproduces the classic binary gender schema, making it "progressive" by saying we all have elements of both genders within. <ref>Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 60.</ref>

Pollack suggests the card is about a choice between light and dark, variously defined as the choice between giving in to "dark" urges, and leading a more proper life, a choice between an "outer path" (exoteric) and inner path of the occultist. A choice between developmental stagnation and independent development. Pollack also points to individuation.

"Therefore, the traditional version of trump 6 represents adolescence. Not only does sexuality emerge at this time but also intellectual and moral independence. Cards 3, 4 and 5 represented us as shaped by the great forces of nature, society, and parents. In card 6 the individual emerges, a true personality with its own ideas and purposes, able to make important choices based, not on parental orders, but on its own assessment of desires and responsibilities." <ref>Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 60.</ref>

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Vajra Breath

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Vajra Breath''' is a [[Connection Technique]] specifically designed to awaken kundalini energies. To practice, inhale a deep breath and visualize white lightning coming into you with that breath. Hold the breath and the bright white light in your mind for a few moments. Finally, exhale and visualize a bright red light glowing and growing and expanding out from your body.<ref>Visualization provided by Tsultrim Allione in Jamal, Michele. Shape Shifter: Shaman Women in Contemporary Society. New York: Arkana, 1987.</ref> For best effect, do this visualization repeatedly throughout your day, when sitting, at a traffic light, while walking, etc.
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==List of Connection Techniques==

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The word Sanskrit word 'vajra'(वज्र) means thunderbolt (i.e., lightning)

You can do this visualization when you walk, or sit.

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The Mother

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<blockquote class="definition">'''The Mother''' is a term used in the Integral Yoga of [[Sri Aurobindo]]. It simultaneously refers both to the [[formation|formative]] aspect of [[Divine Consciousness]] (i.e. shakti/शक्ति) and Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), an individual who functioned as an Earthly channel/expression of the supreme formative (mahashzakti/महाशक्ति) aspect of [[Consciousness]].
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Sri Aurobindo characterizes mahashakti/महाशक्ति as the Divine Mother. In the New Age movement महाशक्ति is depersonalized to be the sacred feminine. In Chinese philosophy mahashakti is yin. On the Lightning Path, mahashakti is characterized as the [[formation|formative]] principle of [[Consciousness]] (BOLIFE).

Sri Aurobindo notes that the goal of spiritual is to fully express mahashakti. "The last stage of this perfection will come when you are completely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and seperate being...but truly a child and eternal portin of her consciousness and force." (Aurobindo, 2013: 25).

==Further Reading==

Mirra Alfassa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirra_Alfassa

Aurobindo, Sri (2013). ''The Mother'' Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Trust

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Steering Emotion

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'''Steering Emotions''' are emotions that are triggered either by the brain of the [[Physical Unit]], or by the [[Resident Monadic Consciousness]] in order to guide the [[Physical Unit]] towards [[Alignment]].
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==List of Steering Emotions==

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Joy, happiness, rapture, satisfaction <ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>

==Notes==

Steering emotions can be positive or negative. Positive steering emotions are emotions like satisfaction, happiness, joy, rapture, and bliss. Negative steering emotions are emotions like guilt, shame, and regret.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017</ref>
Negative steering emotions help identify problem spots and can also help guide the individual towards [[Alignment]], health, and stronger [[Connection]].

Positive steering emotions help identify areas of strengths, things that you should be doing and that represent authentic moves towards [[Alignment]] and [[Connection]]

Steering emotions are primarily useful while the individual remains disconnected from [[Consciousness]]. When an individual is fully (or even partially connected), alignment is determined [[noesis|noetically]], i.e. by a strong internal knowing.

Steering emotions work by encouraging and/or discouraging a physical unit from certain actions and behaviors. An individual who feels happiness when working a specific job, engaging a specific task, or existing in a certain way can feel confident their actions are aligned. An individual feeling guilt and shame may feel confident that they are doing or thinking something that is out of alignment with higher [[Monadic Consciousness]].

Steering emotions only work if an individual physical unit is "listening" to their body's emotions. If an individual has been trained not to listen (for example by a toxic gender socialization process that discourages boys from having authentic emotions), or if they have been trained to misinterpret said emotions (perhaps because of Hollywood style manipulation and redefinition of emotions), steering does not work.

An 18th century Christian mystic and scientist by the name of Emanuel Swedenborg noted the reality and significance of these “emotive communications.” He called them “signs” and said that he felt “assured his thoughts were on the right track when he experienced what he called “a sign’:’…a certain cheering light and joyful flash…that darts through some sacred temple of the brain” George F. Dole and Robert H. Kirven, A Scientist Explores Spirit: A Biography of Emanuel Swedenborg (Pennsylvania: Chrysalis books, 1997) p. 34.

Einstein has a dim awareness of steering emotions when he says "One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don't mean emotions, I mean feeling, for feeling and intuition are one." (Hermanns, 1983: np)

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'''Projection''' is a psychological mechanism that the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to avoid uncomfortable confrontation with one's own guilt and shame, anger and resentment. When we project, we project our own [[Sin]]s onto others.</blockquote>

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Projection also involves a redirection and distortion of reality and self, a redirection of emotions, thoughts, and actions, but in this case, we project our trauma and disjuncture onto others. Projection is an ARM whereby we reduce awareness of things we find unacceptable in ourselves by focusing our attention on these characteristics in others. For example, an individual angry over sexual assault, but unable to properly express and feeling guilty about feeling angry may project that anger onto others, seeing others as angry and hateful, rather than owning their own emotions.
Or, an abusive spouse may, when confronted with that abuse, project onto the other person. If my partner comes up to me and says that my actions are abusive, I may project onto her and say, “Ya, but you’re abusive as well.” I may rationalize and divert attention from my own abusive behaviours by “digging up” things she has done in the past. Digging up things she did to me in the past allows me to rationalize and deny my current behaviour, and divert attention to hers. When I do this, it is because I am feeling shameful and guilty over my actions, and I do not want to admit it to myself, or her. Of course, if I do this, I am not dealing with my own disjunctive actions. If I am not dealing with my disjunctive actions, my guilt and shame will just grow deep inside me.
Projection is a common tactic used in arguments with intimate partners and other family members. When families are trying to discuss issues, projections often end up flying back and forth like arrows in an epic battle. It is not hard to understand why projection is such a common ARM in families. Parents, and later their adolescent and adult children, use copious quantities of guilt and shame to control behaviour. Children and adolescents who are subjected to this learn to deny, distort, react, sublimate, and project just so they do not have to deal with guilt and shame. For example, my mother used guilt and shame all the time, whenever I did something she thought was wrong. My mother used to make my brother and I stand in a corner for long periods, just to make sure.
This behaviour of projection happens in the social world. You can be a free thinker as long as you do not challenge the status quo. If you do challenge, those in positions of authority will undermine you, exclude you, publicly ridicule and shame you, or worse, vilify you.

Understand, guilt and shame are painful, and for a child, especially so. As a child, being shamed did not teach me to never make mistakes. Humans are always making mistakes so eliminating mistakes is impossible. Instead, being shamed as a child taught me never admit my mistakes. Nobody wants to feel guilt and shame and so we deny, distort, react, sublimate, and project so we do not have to. The use of all ARMs is particularly prominent in families, even those you might consider “healthy,” because within families is where guilt and shame are deployed the most freely. When you think about it, it is your parents, and later your siblings, that treat you the worst. Many parents still hit their kids and few think twice about screaming and invoking shame. When we punished for making mistakes, we learn never to admit them.
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The '''Structure of Consciousness''' is the interrelation of egoic elements that make up the complex entity that is [[Consciousness]].</blockquote>

==Notes==

The LP conceives of the Structure of Consciousness as a [[Tree of Consciousness]]. Other conceptions (to be added) are possible.

"Bön shamans, like the pau themselves, speak of two souls or soul parts, the la and the saug or tshé.12 As the full name of the “soul calling” ritual indicates, la kuk tshé kuk, the two souls are interrelated and figure in the healing. Saug means life and is also the “breath soul.” It is inseparable from the body. It flows in the breath, has its seat in the heart, but penetrates throughout the body. It is the life-force spirit within us that opposes death and, after death, seeks rebirth. When it is weakened, our resistance to death is weakened, and consequently, our life is shortened (Nebesky-Wojkowitz 1993, 493; Baumer 2002, 49–50; Stein 1972, 232; Tucci 1988, 192–193). Here too the weakness of the soul is the result of a loss of nu shug, which supplies vital energy to the saug."<ref>Peters, Larry. Tibetan Shamanism: Ecstasy and Healing. California: North Atlantic Books, 2016.</ref>

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Control Clause

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<blockquote class="definition">A '''Control Clause''' is an [[Archetype]] or idea designed to corrupt energetic flow from the body's main chakras. Control clauses shape our consciousness thereby shaping the energies that flow from our system.
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Control clauses are like sentences (clauses) that shape your intent and thereby determine (control) how the energy that manifests from your chakras goes into creating the world. The sentence “we live in a world of good and evil” is one such control clause that helps us manifest the world of duality but there are others specifically designed to support [[The System]] we all find ourselves in. Some of these control clauses are general clauses and govern how the energies from your entire system manifest and others are specific clauses that work on a single chakra.

Another example, the root chakra ground Consciousness and is implicated in manifestation of [[Divine Will]]. The manifestation of Divine Will can be corrupted by ideas that pain life as a violent struggle and competition where the goal is to "win" (i.e. dominate others). When control clauses that paint life as a violent struggle and competition are installed, our energies go towards creating such a world, whether we like it or want it or not. It is therefore important to examine all the control clauses.

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Unmanifest

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==Syncretic Terms==

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==Notes==

"The so called Unmanifest (abyabha), the Lords power, is Maya, the ultimate, beginning-less ignorance, made up of the three qualities, knowable only through its effects, and out of which this whole world is produced 108" <ref>Sankaracharya, Adi. The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom. Translated by John Richards. 1998, 1946. http://datadump.lightningpath.org/readings/viveka-sanskrit.pdf.</ref>

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The Ladder of Divine Ascent

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God Self

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'''God Self''' is a term used in the Faery tradition of Witchcraft to refer to the [[Spiritual Ego]].
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==Syncretic Terms==

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==Notes==

<blockquote class="quotation">In the Faery tradition, a third “self” is recognized: the Deep Self or God Self, which does not easily correspond to any psychological concept. The Deep Self is the Divine within, the ultimate and original essence, the spirit that exists beyond time, space, and matter.<ref>Starhawk. Spiral Dance, The - 20th Anniversary: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 20th Anniversary Edition: Starhawk: 9780676974676: Gateway - Amazon.Ca. New York: Harper One, 2011.</ref></blockquote>

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Tawajjuh

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Tawajjuh''' is an Islamic term that means concentration, attentiveness or “to turn the face towards something.”
Tawajjuh can refer to spiritual concentration and focus, especially when one has achieved a state of [[Connection]]. On a higher level of meaning it is Allah/God/Brahman's attention towards something, which brings that thing into existence.<ref>Mihcioglu, Abdurrahaman. “A Short Glossary of Sufi Terms,” ND.</ref> </blockquote>

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Universal Self

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Ka''' is the ancient Egyptian word for [[Spiritual Ego]].
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Renunciation

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'''Renunciation''' is a Christian term syncretic with [[Alignment]]. It refers to the decision to move away from [[Disjuncture]] and towards reintegration and "union" with God.<ref>Lossky, Vladimir. The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church. New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002.</ref>
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"Renunciation of the world is thus a re-entering of the soul into itself, a concentration, a reintegration of the spiritual being it its return to communion with God."
<ref>Lossky, Vladimir. The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church. New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002. p. 200</ref>

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Intramonadic Communication

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'''Intramonadic Communication''' is a [[Connection Outcome]]. Intramonadic communication is communication between the [[Bodily Ego]] and some monadic location with [[The Fabric of Consciousness]]. Intramonadic communication can occur during a [[Connection Experience]], when the [[Bodily Ego]] makes a [[Connection]] with a [[Spiritual Ego]] (i.e. [[Monad]]), and it can occur outsid of a [[Connection Experience]], as when physical reality is manipulated in order to convey a spiritual message (e.g., [[Synchronicity]], [[Automatic Writings]], [[Trance Channeling]], etc.)
one's own or someone else's, and then receives information from that monad.
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==See Also==

[[Connection]] | [[Connection Outcomes]]

==Notes==

Immanuel Kant discusses the possibility of IMC in the context of [[Indirect Mystical Experience]]. "According to Kant, influxes from the spirit-world can cause “analogous” sensible images or representations to arise in the mind of certain imaginatively sensitive people. Such people, like Swedenborg, would be able to decipher these symbolic images and thereby become indirectly aware of the spiritual realities at their basis."<ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “Kant on the Epistemology of Indirect Mystical Experience.” Sophia 56, no. 2 (June 2017): 317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-016-0528-y.</ref> Kant, however, notes that there is an epistemological challenge in sorting out real "spirit sensations" from those "mixed up with various figments of the imagination....The mystic perceives a chaotic jumble of equally vivid sensible images and is unable to determine which, if any, of these images has a veridical spirit-influx at its basis."<ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “Kant on the Epistemology of Indirect Mystical Experience.” Sophia 56, no. 2 (June 2017): 318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-016-0528-y.</ref>

Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, recounts an afternoon spent communicating with the disincarnate spirits of Nantucket.<ref>Alcoholics Anonymous. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C91R4WY/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01C91R4WY&linkCode=as2&tag=lightningpa02-20&linkId=eaa510d412d8411ff848b005dd7845f5 'PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World.] Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984.</ref>

Karl Hanes reports a case study of an individual who had an "encounter with other beings or forms of energy..."<ref>Hanes, Karl. “Unusual Phenomena Associated With a Transcendent Human Experience: A Case Study.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 44, no. 1 (2012): 36</ref>
"I could feel a connection to these energy forms and even felt I could communicate with them...I felt as though wherever I thought of I could be there if I wanted to, or whoever I thought of I could know things about them, such as their thoughts and feelings."<ref>Hanes, Karl. “Unusual Phenomena Associated With a Transcendent Human Experience: A Case Study.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 44, no. 1 (2012): 31</ref>

[[William James]] relates the experience of a forty-nine year old engaged in intramonadic communication with God. "God is more real to me than any thought or thing or person. I feel his presence positively, and the more as I live in closer harmony with his laws as written in my body and mind.<ref>Note the unmarked reference to [[Alignment]] here</ref> I feel him in the sunshine or rain; and awe mingled with a delicious restfulness most nearly describes my feelings. I talk to him as to a companion in prayer and praise, and our communion is delightful. He answers me again and again, often in words so clearly spoken that it seems my outer ear must have carried"<ref>James, William. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1537673165/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1537673165&linkCode=as2&tag=lightningpa02-20&linkId=f08e7ca79e3bea329179778605fcbf81 Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature] (p. 68). Kindle Edition. </ref>

James notes another "God is quite real to me. I talk to him and often get answers. Thoughts sudden and distinct from any I have been entertaining come to my mind after asking God for his direction.<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 68). Kindle Edition. </ref>

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Connection Account

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==Researching Connection==

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==Notes==

Connection accounts are peppered throughout the spiritual literature of this planet. They are often taken as signs of spiritual legitimacy and spiritual wisdom by naive individuals.

Connection accounts provide one avenue researchers can use to investigate [[Connection]] and [[Connection Experience]].

Caution must be exercised when considering an individual's connection account, and the claims they make, especially when mental illness is involved. Connection experiences are common and easy to induce,<Ref>Sosteric. Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Authentic Spirituality. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/rocket-scientists-guide-authentic-spirituality/.</ref><ref>Sosteric. “Everybody Has a Connection Experience: Prevalence, Confusions, Interference, and Redefinition.” Spirituality Studies 4, no. 2 (2018). https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume4-issue2-fall2018/files/assets/common/downloads/files/4-2-sosteric.pdf.</ref> and even people with mental illness can experience significant experiences, and even relatively permanent connection.<ref>"Memoirs of my Nervous Illness" is the account of a paranoid schizophrenic struggling with connection. See Schreber, Daniel Paul. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. New York: NYRB Classics, 2000. https://amzn.to/2U8Se6Q.</ref> Assuming an individual is being honest and is not engaged in a fanciful construction, a connection experience (or two, or three, etc.) indicates only that a connection experience has occurred. It cannot be used to verify the emotional or mental health of an individual, nor can it be used as an indication that an individual is spiritually knowledgeable or wise.

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Undisciplined Mind

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==List of Connection Obstacles==

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==Notes==

[[St. Teresa of Avila]] provides guidance, in Chapter 19 of [[The Way of Perfection]] on the importance, and achievement of, [[Mental Discipline]] during prayer and meditation.

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Physical Defence Mechanisms

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Reincarnation

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Reincarnation''' is the process of rebirth whereby an individual [[Spiritual Ego]] takes up a presence in a newly created [[Physical Unit]]. </blockquote>

==Notes==

Belief in reincarnation is common throughout the world. As Irwin points out "The pervasiveness of rebirth accounts collectively challenges the minority views of materialist ideologues when brought into alignment with all the various strands of evidence that contribute to a transphysical model of human survival. While no one source may provide a convincing argument in favor of post-mortem life and rebirth, together all sources provide a strong collective body of evidence supporting the plausibility of survival as a valid theory, currently held by a majority of human beings" <ref>Irwin, Lee. “Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview.” ''Religions'' 8, no. 222 (2017): p. 21.</ref>

A convincing review of Irwin's research is provided by Tucker<ref>Tucker, Jim B. “Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives: Past, Present, and Future ~esearc.” Journal of Scientific Exploration 21, no. 3 (2007): 543–52.</ref>

Plato has a theory of rebirth <ref>Johnston, Charles. ''The Memory of Past Births''. New York: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1899.</ref>

Belief in reincarnation is common in various American religious traditions <ref>Irwin, Lee. “Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview.” ''Religions'' 8, no. 222 (2017): 1–2</ref>

"We do believe in life after death. The many deities and spirits come from that belief. We return in the form of animals, trees, birds, spirits and other forms. We are part of the whole. We are the whole. We are a part of the spirit world now. We will be a part of it in the future. We have always been a part of it ... all things are one, and all life is one in one circle of time. Paiute Medicine Man (Toombs 1991)"<ref>Toombs quoted in Mills, Antonia, and Richard Slobodin. Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1994. p. .3 </ref>

"For the ancestors, who are returning to the visible world for the first, second, or third time, birth is a transitional stage that connotes one’s reemergence into the visible reality from the invisible. It is simply a stage in the ongoing cycle of life. The ancestors, however, are actually said to be reincarnated in the form of newborn babies. Therefore, they require the birthing process as a means through which their immortality is sustained and continued. Birthing is one of the vehicles through which the ancestors forever maintain a link to the visible world and become visible again themselves."<ref>Clark, Jawanza Eric. Indigenous Black Theology: Towards an African-Centered Theology of the African-American Religious Experience. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. p. 85.</ref>

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The Matrix

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The Ability of Curse and Favour

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<blockquote class="definition">'''The ability of curse and favour,''' the ability to help or harm another simply via intent, is noted as a [[Connection Outcome]] in the Yoga Sastra of Hemacandra<ref>Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth-Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. p. 9</ref>
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"The fortune of the blossoming flowers of the [fabulous] wishing tree of yoga consists of [supernatural attainments (labdhi), such as] walking in the air (caarana), the ability of curse and favour (asivisa), extra-ordinary perception (avadhi), and mind-reading (manahparyaya)."<ref>Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. p. 21.</ref>

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Healing Manual

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Supreme Self

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Supreme Self'''<ref>Sankaracharya. The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom. Translated by John Richards. 1998, 1946. http://datadump.lightningpath.org/readings/viveka-sanskrit.pdf.</ref> is a syncretic for [[Spiritual Ego]] used by John Richards in his translation of [[The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom]]. </blockquote>

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Primal Self''' is a term used [[Edward Carpenter]] and others to refer the [[Fabric of Consciousnss]]</blockquote>

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<blockquote class="quotation">Here, in the contemplation of this universal Being, this primal Self of all, we are at the source of Creation.<ref>
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Rationalization

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'''Rationalization''' is an [[Awareness Reduction Mechanisms]] that the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to avoid the guilt and shame that comes from engaging in unaligned and disjunctive behaviours. Rationalization involves the deployment of justification to excuse uncomfortable ideas, actions, or realities.</blockquote>

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An individual will rationalize their exploitation of child labour, for example, by saying things like "It helps their economy or their family," effectively suppressing the reality of their exploitation by covering it over with a rationalized veneer.

Rationalization occurs when we justify and make excuses for things we have done, or things we have experienced. Rationalization is a common defence response when people are being asked to remember and acknowledge their behaviour. It happens in domestic life and in the corporate world. In addition to denying, Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, made excuses for his company’s tax avoidance. He rationalized his companies practices, saying things like “we pay all the taxes we owe” and that they have always done it that way. Similarly, parents who abuse their children and who find, as the children grow up, simple denial ineffective will make excuses and come up with rationalizations. They will say, “I did the best I could” or you were a “difficult” child or whatever. The excuses that people come up with are legion.

A parent rationalizes chronic emotional, psychological, or physical assault of their own children by saying "It builds character," or "Spare the rod and spoil the child."

ARMs are invoked to handle the pain and anguish of disjuncture and trauma. You can rationalize your own trauma to yourself. When you do that, it helps you put the memories back on the shelf. Rather than remember and process the full painful trauma of an abusive childhood, for example, adults will tell themselves things like their toxic experiences made them stronger, or built up their character, or made them what they are today. When we rationalize our own trauma, we give ourselves the power to press the memories back down so we do not have to experience and deal with the pain. Of course, doing that does not solve any of your issues. If you want to properly process and heal, you have to remember and process the trauma. There is no other way.

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Rationalizations often cover up fear, anxiety, guilt, and shame. Discover the client's reasons for rationalization. Are they afraid of reprisal? Are the actions out of alignment? Does honest treatment bring guilt and shame? Help them process their emotions, forgive their past actions, and change their behaviour in a way that doesn't require them to rationalize.

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Universal Being

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Universal Being''' is a term used [[Edward Carpenter]] and others to refer the [[Fabric of Consciousnss]]</blockquote>

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<blockquote class="quotation">Here, in the contemplation of this universal Being, this primal Self of all, we are at the source of Creation.<ref>
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The One

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In ancient Greek philosophy, the "One" (Greek: To Hen) is the ineffable God who creates the physical universe through emanation. Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus refer to the One.
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The Body

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<blockquote class="definition">'''The Body''' (a.k.a. the Body of Consciousness) refers to the [[Physical Universe]] as a container for [[Consciousness]]. The phrase may refer to the entire physical universe as a container for Consciousness, an individual [[Physical Unit]] as a container for [[Monadic Consciousness]], and all stops in between.</blockquote>

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==Notes==

The Body is the lowest (in terms of vibratory frequencies) "level" of Creation. The Body is what you see when you open your eyes in a [[Physical Unit]].

It is important to understand that [[Consciousness]] embraces and enters into The Body at all levels of aggregation, although the most varied, interesting, [[self]] aware, and useful expressions of consciousness occur within those aspects of The Body that are able to support full expression of Consciousness, i.e. bodies which can support life.

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