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Defence Mechanisms

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'''Defence Mechanisms''' are cognitive and behavioural operations of the [[Physical Unit]] that are selected and reinforced by evolutionary processes because of their direct or indirect contribution to the defence and survival of the [[Physical Unit]]. Defence mechanisms are designed to help the physical unit avoid and alleviate pain, either through direct behavioural action or through subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) cognitive and emotional operations.
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==Notes==

Defence mechanisms are generally functional in the short term since they up and direct psychic energy towards defense, however when chronically activated they become highly toxic and can lead to various emotional, psychological, spiritual, and even physical pathologies.

Defence mechanisms are observable.

Defence Mechanisms may be broken down into two general categories, [[Physical Defence Mechanisms]] and [[Psychological Defence Mechanisms]]

DMs may be internally directed or externally directed.

Defence mechanisms may be best understood by considering them like software programs coded into the genetic substrate of the Physical Unit. The programs are coded as a result of experience and accessed via associative pathways.

Genetic software generally consists of two elements, 1) eliciting conditions and 2) "winning" responses. Eliciting conditions are any conditions or experiences that the brain of the physical unit perceives of as salient, and which consequently elicit the mechanism, and winning responses are those responses that have lead, in the past, to both short-term and long-term survivability. The "winning" response is the response that allows the transmission of genetic materials to the next generations.

Defence mechanisms are supported by, among other things, the endocrine systems of the body. Activation of survival programming often involves releases of specific chemicals (adrenaline, testosterone, etc.) designed to both prepare for, and encourage, a certain Survival Response (e.g., fight, flight, or submission).

Survival mechanisms are supported by, among other things, the endocrine systems of the body. Activation of survival programming often involves releases of specific chemicals (adrenaline, testosterone, etc.) designed to both prepare for, and encourage, a certain Survival Response (e.g., fight, flight, or submission).

Stress and anxiety are toxic and long-term exposure weakens the physical unit. Defence mechanisms work to ensure survival directly, but also to lower stress and anxiety.

It should be noted that since the evolution of the physical unit proceeds slowly (i.e. over millennial and not centuries or decades), current defence mechanisms originate in the hunting and gathering past of this planet. Some defence mechanisms may be rooted in an ancient environment and may no longer be appropriate (or necessary) for modern conditions.

Defence mechanisms are exploited by [[System Agents]] in the construction and reinforcement of The System. The survival mechanism of repression is exploited, for example, in order to subvert awareness of the bitter realities of this world. Similarly, Action or Avoidance mechanisms are exploited in order to control behaviour.

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Book of Slavery

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Book of Slavery''' is the collection of [[archetypes]] in this planet's [[Old Energy Creation Template]] used to justify and create the working/slave castes of the planet. It is a collection of archetypes used to justify power, hierarchy, inequality, the application of force, judgment, and exclusion.<ref>{{archetypesandcreationtemplates}}</ref> </blockquote>

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==Notes==

The Book of Slavery, is part of the [[Old Energy Creation Template]]. It contains archetypes used to convince individuals that hard work, long hours, and a life time of toil are essential moral and/or spiritual prerequisites for "salvation," redemption, or entry into the inner circles.

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Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn'' response is a physiological [[Defence Mechanisms]] autonomically deployed by the [[Physical Unit]] when it perceives a harmful event, attack, or threat to its survival. When the [[Bodily Ego]] perceives a threat, when it experiences fear, it may fight to put the threat down, flee from the threat, freeze (become silent, try to slip into the background to avoid detection), or fawn (try to please whoever is triggering the response)<ref>Marschall, Amy. “The Four Fear Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn.” Verywell Mind, 2021. https://www.verywellmind.com/the-four-fear-responses-fight-flight-freeze-and-fawn-5205083.</ref>
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==Additional Reading==

For an excellent overview,read [Marschall, Amy. “The Four Fear Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn.” Verywell Mind, 2021. https://www.verywellmind.com/the-four-fear-responses-fight-flight-freeze-and-fawn-5205083. "The Four Fear Responses."]

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Elite Spirituality

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Elite spirituality''' is spirituality created, or more often co-opted, by a high-level member of the accumulating class. Catholicism, which was created when Roman Emperor Constantine "converted" to Christianity, is an iconic example.<ref>Sosteric, Mike. “Rethinking the Origins and Purpose of Religion: Jesus, Constantine, and the Containment of Global Revolution.” Athens Journal of Social Sciences 9, no. 1 (2020): 69–88. https://www.academia.edu/34970150/Rethinking_the_Origins_and_Purpose_of_Religion_Jesus_Constantine_and_the_Containment_of_Global_Revolution></ref>.

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==Notes==

Elite spirituality may be easily identified by its advocacy of violence (let's go kill some evil people), exclusion (only the "chosen" get in), and patriarchy (women are stripped of power and dignity).

More specifically, elite spirituality may be recognized by the presence of an [[Old Energy Creation Template]].

Consider Persian Autocrat Aradashir took control of Zoroastrianism to further his imperial agenda.<ref>Sosteric, Mike.“From Zoroaster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Art, Science, and Technology of Mass Human Manipulation,” Under Review. https://www.academia.edu/34504691</ref>

Elite spirituality is enacted by [[System Agents]] for the purpose of [[System Maintanence]]

===List of Elites===

Marsilio Ficini (1433-1499) the "virtual founder of the Renaissance ''[[Prisca Theologia]]'' narrative. <ref>Haneegraff, Wouter J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. p. 8.</ref>

Agostino Steuco (1496-1549).

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Diversion

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'''Diversion''' is an [[Awareness Reduction Mechanisms]]] that the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to avoid uncomfortable confrontations with reality. Diversion involves diverting and distracting awareness by drawing thought away from painful aspects of reality.

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A pedophile diverts the attention of a victim with candy.

When we divert and distract, we point attention away from the things we do not want to remember, and towards something entirely different. For example, kids or other adults may be talking about child abuse, but a guilty parent or childcare worker, in order to head off a conversation that might eventually lead to a discussion of their abusive practices, might distract with ice cream and cookies. Or, a father who sexually abuses his children might use distraction (i.e., a trip to Disney World) to shift attention from the behaviour, encourage his children to forget, and repress his awareness of the act. Similarly, a politician that points at the evil “over there” may be distracting from the evil that they do every day. Distraction is quite common, of course, and we are exposed to it every day.

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Pastoral Comfort

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Pastoral Comfort''' is an evolutionary challenge that occurs at the end of [[Stage Four: Emergence]]. At the end of Stage One, a species has reached a stage of technological expertise that (hunting, husbandry, agriculture) that allows them to live comfortable and content on the land.
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The achievement of pastoral comfort reduces the motivation of a species to develop since life is good, long, and fun. To avoid [[Stagnation]] and enter into [[Stage Five: Expansion]], a species must overcome the challenge of pastoral comfort.

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Awakening Affirmation

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An '''Awakening Affirmation''' is a verbal or visual intent statement that signals your desire and will to awaken. <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>
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==List of Affirmations==

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Verbal affirmtions/mantras include statements such as:

* I wish to return home
* I wish to wake up
* I wish to awaken, activate, and ascend.
* I wish access to only that information that is for the highest good of all living beings.
* I wish to heal. I wish to awaken. I wish to connect

Note that some intent should always be given so that one accesses only information that is for the highest good of all living beings. There's still a lot of crapola out there.

Visual awakening mantras include chakra visualizations like [[The Great Invocation]] and awakening visualizations like the animation associated with the [[Water Glass Metaphor]].

Note, forward movement on an authentic path of awakening does not occur without a formal signal of intent. Therefore an awakening affirmation should be considered a necessary and important part of your daily spiritual routine.

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Primary Elaboration

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<blockquote class="definition">A '''Primary Elaboration''' is the elaboration and commentary on an [[Archetype]] or vision provided by the individual who experienced the archetype or vision.<ref>Sosteric, Mike. “A Short Sociology of Archetypes,” Unpublished. https://www.academia.edu/44254363/.</ref>
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When people experience visions, when they experience archetypes, they talk about them and comment on them. When the individual that provides the commentary is the individual that had the experience, we call this Primary Elaboration. Compare this with [[Secondary Elaboration]] which is when a third party who did not have the experience choose to interpret, comment, and prognosticate on the archetype. <ref>Sosteric, Mike. “A Short Sociology of Archetypes,” Unpublished. https://www.academia.edu/44254363/.</ref>

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Good versus Evil

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Good versus Evil''' is an [[Archetype Constellation]] in the [[Old Energy Creation Template]]. It answers the [[Big Question]], "Why do bad things happen in the world?" The answer it provides is, "bad things happen because of evil," or bad things happen because people make a wrong choice between "light" and "dark." The Good versus Evil constellation is implemented in the [[Masonic Tarot]].</blockquote>

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==List of Old Energy [[Archetype Constellations]]==

The [[Old Energy Creation Template]] consists of the following [[Old Energy Archetype Constellation]]s

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==Notes==

The notion of cosmic good and cosmic evil fighting it out in battle can be traced to the Persian Mystic Zoroaster, who operated circa 1,000 B.C.E. He taught that the forces of Good, headed by the great God Ahura Mazda, fought against the forces of evil, headed by Angra Mainyu. The fight was part of cosmic process of "mixture" that led to "plurality and diversity" of creation. <ref>Boyce, Mary. A History of Zoroastrianism: Volume One The Early Period. New York: E. J. Brill, 1996.
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In Western exoteric teachings, good and evil are personified as cosmic forces battling it out in a cosmic war. In Western esoteric teachings, initiates are taught that there should be a balance or equilibrium between Good and Evil, see [[Justice]], [[The Wheel of Fortune]].<ref>Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.</ref> Why? Because this allows them to manipulate and confuse the masses.<ref>Mike Sosteric, “Star Wars Is a Religion That Primes Us for War and Violence,” The Conversation, 2018, https://theconversation.com/star-wars-is-a-religion-that-primes-us-for-war-and-violence-89443.</ref> <ref>Mike Sosteric, “A Short Sociology of Archetypes,” Unpublished, https://www.academia.edu/43008763/A_Short_Sociology_of_Archetypes.</ref>

Western '''Gnostic''', which is pervasive throughout the Orthodox and alternative Christian Corpus, teaches this world as created by an evil deity as a prison for the soul. "By attaining gnōsis (knowledge) of their divine origin, gnostics were set on their way to escape from the world of the demiurge and his demonic helpers, the archons, who would try to prevent them from rising up through the heavenly spheres after death and finding their way back to their divine home of Light."<ref>Hanegraaff, Wouter J. ''Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed''. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. p. 20.</ref> Note in this tail elements that fit both the [[Fool in School|Fool in Schoo]] and Good versus Evil archetypes.

In Western esoteric teachings, the battle is sometimes conceived as between warring aspects of the psyche. The ultimate goal is acceptance and integration of the "dark side" of our psychic selves, hatred, fear, loathing, etc.

<blockquote>Half-way between the east and west, and north and south, in a properly instituted temple are placed two upright pillars.6 One of these is colored white, the other black. These pieces of lodge furniture are emblematical of the two opposites functioning in the diverse operations of nature. Just as the temple represents in miniature the whole of life by which we may ever be confronted, or, rather, the manifold parts of our own inner nature, so these two pillars symbolize some aspect of these phenomena. They represent light and darkness, heat and cold. In man, they stand for love and hate, joy and pain, mind and emotion, life and death, sleeping and waking. Every pair of opposites conceivable to the human mind find their representation in the implication of these two pillars....The technique under consideration consists primarily in the conscious reconciliation of opposing forces. It is this which
has been called the development of the Golden Flower.<ref>Regardie, Israel. The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic. St Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn, 2004. p. 8-9</ref></blockquote>

While explaining the meaning of the tarot archetype [[Justice]], Papus says "Here we find the continuation of the symbolism of the 2nd and 5th arcana. The Seated woman occupies the Centre between the columns, the first idea of the equilibrium between Good and Evil."<ref>Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.</ref>

A Reddit meme demonstrates the prevalence of the good versus evil meme in Hollywood. Here, good is played by a white male who eventually destroys evil, personified as some vile and powerful character. This meme also highlights [[Judge and Punish/Reward]], and [[Salvation]].

[[File:good-evil-meme.jpg|center|Good Versus Evil in Hollywood]]

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Poisonous Pedagogy

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'''Poisonous Pedagogy''' is a term introduced by Katharina Ritschky in her 1977 book ''Schwarze Pädagogik. Quellen zur Naturgeschichte der bürgerlichen Erziehung.'' The term is sycretic with the [LP]] term, [[Toxic Socialization]].
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==Notes==

Treatments in English of this concept are available from Alice Miller<ref>Miller, Alice. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. https://amzn.to/2VnJOy4. Also Miller, Alice. The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting. Translated by Andrew Jenkins. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. https://amzn.to/2ZYF1lv.</ref>

For the LP treatment, see [[Toxic Socialization]]

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Self-Determination

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'''Self-Determination Theory''' is an approach to human motivation and personality that highlights the importance of an individuals "inner resources" for personality development
and behavioural self-regulation. The theory recognizes three needs, the need for competence, the need for relatedness, and the need for autonomy, as essential for the emergence of self-determination.<ref>Ryan, R. M., and E. L. Deci. “Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being.” American Psychologist, 2000.</ref>

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==Notes==

The goal of SDT is to facilitate internal motivation, as opposed to external coercion. "Comparisons between people whose motivation is authentic (literally, self-authored or endorsed) and those who are merely externally controlled for an action typically reveal that the former, relative to the latter, have more interest, excitement, and confidence, which in turn is manifest both as enhanced performance, persistence, and creativity." .<ref>Ryan, R. M., and E. L. Deci. “Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being.” American Psychologist, 2000. p. 69. </ref>

"Also, research revealed that not only tangible rewards but also threats, deadlines, directives, pressured evaluations, and imposed goals diminish intrinsic motivation because, like tangible rewards, they conduce toward an external perceived locus of causality. In contrast, choice, acknowledgment of feelings, and opportunities for self direction were found to enhance intrinsic motivation because they allow people a greater feeling of autonomy"<ref>Ryan, R. M., and E. L. Deci. “Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being.” American Psychologist, 2000. p. 70. </ref>

Self-determination theory seems to be motivated by human resource concerns, specifically the need to encourage the internalization of external regulations and behavioural requirements.

SDT ignores many of the [[Seven Essential Needs]], focussing instead on a narrow band of "three psychological needs," the need for relatedness (need for love/inclusion), competence, and autonomy (need for power/self-esteem), as precursors to the emergence of intrinsic motivation and self-determination. It does not include an analysis of safety, satisfaction of physical needs, alignment, or connection as relevant or important, presumably because only a limited authenticity is required in work organization.

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Fabric of Consciousness

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The term '''Fabric of Consciousness''' is a term coined in 2003 in The Book of Light.<ref>{{template:bolightVI}}</ref> The term is a non-denominational representation of the sum total of [[Consciousness]] as it exists as [[Undifferentiated Consciousnesss]] before [[The Unfolding]], and as [[Differentiated Consciousness]] after [[The Unfolding]].
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The [[Tree of Lights]] that appears on the cover of The Book of Light is a visual representation of the Fabric of Consciousness and the trillions of instantiated [[Monads]] that make it up.

The Fabric of Consciousness represents the sum total of all instantiated [[Monads]] that exist as "points of [[Light]]" within the unfolding [[Fabric of Consciousness]].

The Fabric of Consciousness represents the manifest universe as an [[unfolding]] of Consciousness.

The Cabbalistic [[Tree of Life]] is an attempt to visually represent the [[Unfolding of Consciousness/Unfolding/Emanation of Consciousness]]

The Cabbalah presents consciousness in three states, [[Ain]], [[Ain Soph]], and [[Ain Soph Aur]]

The concept provides for a non-hierarchical and authority free conceptualization of Spirit. The tree like structure and the expansion of monads towards the bottom represents the expansion of number as The Fabric unfolds from Source, and nothing more. Unlike [[Old Energy]] spiritualities which posit some kind of "executive force," The Fabric of Consciousness provides for an egalitarian representation of the creative forces of this universe. It is not simply that we are all equal in the eyes of God, it is that we are all the [[Eyes of God]]. We are all intensification of God [[Light]] within the cosmic tapestry/[[Fabric of Consciousness]].

Experience of The Fabric can sometimes occur during powerful [[Connection Experiences]]. "Subjects speak of participating in and merging with pure (i.e., content-free) energy, white light; of witnessing the breakdown of macroscopic objects into vibratory patterns, visual nets, the collapse of external structure into wave. patterns, the awareness that everything is a dance of particles, sensing the smallness and fragility of our system, visions of the void, of world-ending explosions, of the cyclical nature of. creation and dissolution, etc."<Ref>Leary, T. “The Religious Experience: Its Production and Interpretation.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 3, no. 1 (1970): 76–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1970.10471364. p. 333.</ref>. Also,
"I was entering into another dimension of existence. 'I' was not. Everything was totally dissolved into a flow of matter continuously moving. No time, no space. A feeling of color, but indescribable. Feeling of movement mainly. Awareness that I, the others, are only collections of clusters of molecules, which are all part of the same stream." <Ref>Leary, T. “The Religious Experience: Its Production and Interpretation.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 3, no. 1 (1970): 76–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1970.10471364.</ref>

pradhAna (प्रधान) primary or unevolved matter.

prakRti (प्रकृति ) original or primary substance / 8 primary essences which evolve the whole visible world

kRti (कृति) creation

"...the root of all nature, objective and subjective, and everything else in the universe, visible and invisible, is, was, and ever will be one absolute essence, from which all starts, and into which everything returns. "<ref>Blavatsky, H. P. The Key to Theosophy: A Clear Exposition Based on the Wisdom Religion of All Ages. Theosophical University Press, 1889.</ref>

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Heaven of Reality

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'''Heaven of Reality''' is the phrase [[Evelyn Underhill]] uses<ref>Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. New York: Dover Publications, 2002. https://amzn.to/2C91xNY.</ref> to describe a state of permanent, or relatively permanent, [[Connection]].
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Hill's discussion of this in "Chapter II: The World of Reality" crosses between intimations of union, eulogy of expanded awareness, and hymn to unmediated (by ideas and archetypes) perception.

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Realization of Immortality

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'''Realization of Immortality''' is a [[Connection Outcome]] that occurs as a consequence of a powerful [[Connection Event]], typically of a [[Zenith Experience|zenith]] quality.
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[[R.M. Bucke]]: "With these come, what may be called, a sense of immortality, a consciousness of eternal life, not a conviction that he shall have this, but the consciousness that he has it already."<Ref>Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness. Book Tree. Kindle Edition.</ref>

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Conversion Experience

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A '''Conversation Experience''' (a.k.a. Religious Conversion, Spiritual Conversion, or simply conversion) is a sudden, powerful, but usually brief expansion of [[Consciousness]] into the [[Physical Unit]], a [[Connection Experience]] in [[LP]] words. It is a term commonly used by Western Christians to describe a sudden "turning away" from a "prideful self" and the turning towards, and even union with, a powerful, perceived presence,<ref>Mahoney, Annette, and Kenneth I. Pargament. “Sacred Changes: Spiritual Conversion and Transformation.” Journal of Clinical Psychology, no. 5 (2004): 481-2.</ref> understood by the Christian as God, often in spite of previous, intractable and even hostile resistance to the idea.
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==Syncretic Terms for Connection Experience==

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==See Also==

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The original meaning of "conversion" revolved around the root''convertere'', which means "to turn around." "The spatial image is one of revolving, reversing, or changing direction, though from the beginning the word was used in a religious sense."<ref>Hewitt, Glenn A. Regeneration and Morality: A Study of Charles Finney, Charles Hodge, John W. Nevin, and Horace Bushnell. New York: Carlson Publishing, 1991. p. 4.</ref> In this sense, the term "conversion" is a syncretic term for [[Is a syncretic term::Alignment]]

Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, despite being an avowed atheist, had a powerful Conversion Experience which instantly cured him of an alcohol addiction so bad that his doctor was predicting permanent brain damage and death if he did not achieve total abstention.<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> His connection experience activated him and led him to co-create Alcoholics Anonymous.

R. M. Offord provides several examples of alcoholics who had conversion experiences.<ref>Offord, R.M. Jerry McAuley: An Apostle to the Lost. New York: Forgotten Books, 2012.</ref>

Early iterations of AA seem to have focussed quite explicitly on the elicitation of conversion experience as a powerful cure for the alcoholic's addiction, though later this was largely pushed aside.<Ref>Dick, B. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005V1M358/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=lightningpa02-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B005V1M358&linkId=05c6c7ee5d359f90b92bd00a966f9bc6 The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous.] Kihei, Maui: Paradise Research Publications, 2011.</ref>

The ''Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous'' acknowledges the significance and importance of "Spiritual Experience," but notes that powerful conversion experiences are not necessary for cure, and that transformations may be gradual and occur over time<ref>Wilson, Bill, and Bob Smith. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005E1JQ5K/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B005E1JQ5K&linkCode=as2&tag=lightningpa02-20&linkId=778f40fccaba593abea82997a15e5d09 The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.] Kindle. New York: Renegade Press, ND.</ref> in spiritual experiences that psychologist William James calls the "educational variety," but that on the [[LP]] we would call a [[Glimpse]] or [[Intuitive Glimmering]].

A conversion experience may also include elements of [[Awakening]] ([[Awakening Experience]]), [[Activation]] ([[Activation Experience]]), and [[Ascension]] ([[Unity Experience]]).

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Mind at Large

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'''Mind at Large''' is Aldous Huxley's term for [[The Fabric of Consciousness]]<ref>Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Granada Publishing: London, 1984. https://amzn.to/2tXEQYI.</ref>
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Truth Entitlement

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<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/.</ref>

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Connection Obstacle

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==Notes==

Obstacles to connection include<ref>. “(Mystical/Transcendent/Peak) Connection Experience.” ''Spiritual Basics'' (blog), 2021. <nowiki>https://michael.lightningpath.org/lightning-rod/mystical-transcendent-peak-connection-experience/</nowiki>. Paragraph 11.</ref>

# Unsafe/Unsuitable Environments
#The presence of toxic "vibrations"
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# A mind filled with [[Ideology]] and [[Old Energy Archetypes]] (a.k.a. [[Wrong Thought]])

Connection obstacles contribute to [[Connection Pathology]].

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Disconnection

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'''Disconnection''' refers to a disconnection of [[Bodily Ego]] from [[Spiritual Ego]] (or more generally, a disconnection of the brain from the [[Fabric of Consciousness]].<ref>{{LPBOOK3}}</ref> Disconnection occurs when the Bodily Ego of the Physical Unit becomes separated from its own [[Highest Self]]/[[Resident Monadic Consciousness]], and from higher [[Levels of Consciousness]]. Disconnection occurs as a consequence of [[Toxic Socialization]].
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Underhill uses the term [[Practical Man]] to refer to a disconnected individual, in particular, a [[Naive Materialist]] who cannot see beyond .<ref>Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. New York: Dover Publications, 2002. https://amzn.to/2C91xNY.</ref>

Disconnection results in the lowering of the [[Consciousness Quotient]] of the [[Physical Unit]], attenuation of higher [[Brain Functions|brain function]], and a consequent reduction in moral capacity, intelligence, compassion, empathy, intuition, creativity, independence, and identity.

Disconnection is caused by:

* [[The System]] and [[Indoctrination]] into the [[Ideology of Limitation]]
* [[Toxic Socialization]]
* Lack of Preparation
* [[Wrong Thought]], [[Wrong Action]], and [[Wrong Environment]] caused by [[Indoctrination]]
* Hurt, pain, chronic stress, and suffering of all types.

Disconnection leads to [[Disjuncture]] and [[Disconnection Pathology]]

[[Hell]] is the loneliness, isolation, anguish, pain, and despair that is often the result of disconnection

Petey Stevens was aware that unmet needs "close" or "shut down" and individual. "If a baby's caretakers are not available to the baby because of death or another absence such as work, are not supportive, or are abusive because of emotional immaturity or immorality, the baby grows up with negative 'charge' and self-destructive beliefs attached to his or her communications. The ... person is "shut down" or closed" to his or her soul's feelings or truth."<ref>Stevens, Petey. Opening up to Your Psychic Self. Nevertheless Press, 1983. p. ii</ref>

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Explains disconnection/heedlessness as necessary to the maintenance of the world. If it wasn't for disconnection, humans would not go about the tasks necessary to express the attributes of God. <blockquote>God created the universe to make the Hidden Treasure manifest. Hence He wants the world to exist in order for it to display the unlimited creative potentialities of His Attributes. But for the world to remain in existence, true knowledge of things as they are must be kept from most of its inhabitants. Otherwise they would cease to occupy themselves with activities necessary for the display of the full range of His Attributes. So God desires the existence of certain things which one might not expect; but of course not in themselves, but rather as the concomitants of His ultimate goal in creating the world. For example, God desires that heedlessness and forgetfulness of Him should exist in the world.<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. p. 58.</ref>

The world is kept standing through heedlessness. If there were no heedlessness, this world would not remain. Yearning for God, recollection of the next world, spiritual intoxication, and ecstacy are the architects of that world. If all these displayed themselves, every one of us would go to that world and not remain here. But God wants us here so that the two worlds may exist. So He has appointed two magistrates, heedlessness and heedfulness, so that both houses may flourish. (F 109/120)

The pillar of this world, oh beloved, is heedlessness: Wakefulness is this world's bane.

Wakefulness comes from that world; when it prevails, this world is laid fiat.

Wakefulness is the sun and cupidity the ice, wakefulness water and this world dirt.

A few drops trickle down from that world so that cupidity and envy may not roar too loudly in this world.

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Duty

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Duty is an important aspect of [[Karma Yoga]].<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. “Karma Yoga.” Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 1. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf</ref>

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Automobile Metaphor

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The '''Automobile Metaphor''' is a metaphor used to illustrate the relationship between [[Spiritual Ego]] as driver, and [[Physical Unit]] as vehicle.<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> Using this metaphor, the automobile is your body and the driver of the car is your [[Spiritual Ego]].
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The automobile metaphor emphasizes the fact that the vehicle belongs to [[Self]]. In order to be considered a fully functioning vessel, the physical unit must be responsive to and [[Alignment|aligned]] with the nature and intent of the higher Self.

The metaphor works best when using a modern self-driving vehicle with artificial intelligence. In this case, the AI represents the [[Bodily Ego]], the car represents the [[Physical Unit]], and the driver represents the [[Spiritual Ego]].

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Activation

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'''Activation''' is an [[Connection Outcome|outcome of connection]]. Activation is the fifth focus point in the [[Lightning Path]] [[Connection Framework]]. Activation occurs when an individual, or a collective, embraces creative power, reactivates their body's chakra energy systems, and becomes active, empowered and creative change agents in the world.
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Activation, as in an individual's emergence as an active change agent, is often noted and commented on by individuals who research connection and authentic spirituality, or who experience authentic connection events.

Julian Price notes that the spiritual rituals of the Sioux nation are not aimed at the invocation of faith alone, but generally invoke action as well.<ref>Rice, Julian. Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality. University of New Mexico, 1998. https://amzn.to/2C9fM5E.</ref> "Traditions surrounding the Thunder Spirits express a desire for dynamic action...and generally dispense with hierarchy of any kind.<ref>Rice, Julian. Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality. University of New Mexico, 1998. p. 12 https://amzn.to/2C9fM5E.</ref>

William White points to the biographies of individuals like [[Handsome Lake]], [[Bill Wilson]], and [[Malcolm X]], all of whom had powerful connection experiences, and all of whom became active change agents after their experience, trying to motivate, heal, and transform others<ref>White, William L. “Transformational Change: A Historical Review.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 60, no. 5 (May 2004): 461–70.</ref>

Within Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/organisations/muslim-brotherhood.html</ref> inspired [[Sahwa]] movement.<ref>Ibrahim, Arwa. “What Is Sahwa, the Awakening Movement under Pressure in Saudi?,” 2019. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/sahwa-awakening-movement-pressure-saudi-190603100555782.html.</ref>

One of the key components of the Alcoholics Anonymous framework for cure and recovery is "vigorous action", activation and empowerment, both in "strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us...." and also action to help others achieve insight and cure. <ref>Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5.</ref>

''Under healthy global and social conditions'' (i.e. conditions filled with love, support, prosperity, grace, and guidance), activation occurs as a normal and safe part of the human development process.

Activation also refers to [[Chakra Activation|Chakra]] and [[Kundalini Activation]]. An individual who has chakras and kundalini activated is an activated and empowered creative force.

Activation occurs first at the [[Individual Activation|individual]] level, then at the [[Collective Activation|collective]] level, and finally at the [[Global Activation|planetary]] level. The global activation process is visually illustrated in the [[Great Invocation]] meditation/visualization.

Current planetary conditions are not healthy. Currently, we live with a [[Toxic Socialization]] process designed to prevent activation and prop up a destructive and venal [[The System|System]]. The toxic socialization process is designed to suppress [[Consciousness]] (i.e. lower [[Consciousness Quotient]]) and distort and destroy the energy systems of the body in order to prevent activation.
Therefore under current conditions activation often requires conscious, and possibly therapeutic, intervention.

Wiccan pathbreaker Starhawk emphasizes the progressive, political, active aspects of Wicca, leading her to nonviolent direct actions to protest nuclear power, nuclear weapons, imperialism, and patriarchy. <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>

Pally <ref>Pally, Marcia. The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2011.</ref> notes, of American New Evangelicals, that there is a component of active, get out there and change things, in their spirituality because they recognize that "Jesus was...a new society builder....Immanent as well as transcendent, he had this-worldly intent to model a new way of living in the polis. In this, he was political...."

"We cannot lightly pass over the spiritual service of mystics. Far from being the unpractical, dreamy persons they are too often conceived to have been, they have weathered storms, endured conflicts, and lived through water-spouts which would have overwhelmed souls whose anchor did not reach beyond the veil. They have discovered an inner refuge, where they enjoy the truce of God, even amid the din of the world's warfare. They have led great reforms, championed movements of great moment to humanity, and they have saved Christianity - from being submerged under scholastic formalism and ecclesiastical systems, which were alien to man's essential nature and need. They have been spiritual leaders, they are the persons who shifted the levels of life for the race. 1 They have been able to render these services because they felt themselves allied inwardly with a larger personal Power than themselves, and they have been aware that they were in immediate correspondence with Some One—a Holy Spirit, a Great Companion—who was working with them and through them. This furtherance of life by incoming energy, the heightening of power by correspondence with what seems to be God, is, however, by no means confined to a few chosen spirits and rare geniuses; it is a wide spread fact to be reckoned with everywhere. There are multitudes of men and women in out-of-the-way places, in backwoods towns, and on uneventful farms, who are the salt of the earth and the light of the world in their communities, because they have had experiences which revealed to them Realities which their neighbours missed, and powers to live by which the mere " church-goers " failed to find."<ref>Jones, Rufus. Studied in Mystical Religion. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1909.</ref>

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External Resistance

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'''External Resistance'' is resistance you experience from friends, families, and others who resist being challenged and who resist new ideas.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/.</ref>
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"For example, if you grew up in Catholic home and you start to challenge the idea that hitting your children is a good thing, you may get strong resistance and push back. Maybe you will be shamed and ridiculed. Maybe you will be told to go read the bible. In some cases, in families where interpersonal violence is the norm, you might even be physically harmed. If that happens, if, when you question or challenge an idea you are met with forms of resistance and push back, that is a good indication that your dealing with some sort of ideology."<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/.</ref>

One of the goals of healthy human [[Development]] is [[awakening]] and [[activation]] of the [[Physical Unit]]. However, because individuals gain personal, political, and economic benefit from the exploitation of deactivated and disempowered [[Physical Unit|physical units]], conscious and unconscious effort is applied to preventing individuals from awakening and activating. '''External Resistance''' is resistance directed at you from external sources like families, friends, coworkers, and even the media and Hollywood.

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Force Archetype

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Physical Unit

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The physical unit consists of the body. The body includes the brain and CNS since the brain and CND provide the biological/neurological foundations for "mind" and [[Bodily Ego]], when we say the physical unit we mean the body and the mind which emerges from the neurological activities of the body.

The physical body consists of hardware and software. The hardware of the physical unit consists of the bones, muscles, blood vessels, and cells of the body. The software consists of a) the "autonomous" algorithmic programs (e.g., instincts) that keep the body operating, and provide instinctual guidance and defence and b) the [[Bodily Ego]], which can be likened to the body's Artificial Intelligence.

The phrase '''Physical Unit''' (PU) refers to the physical body, specifically as it functions as a container for [[Monadic Consciousness]]. The physical unit consists of the physical body itself ''and'' the mind that emerges as a consequence of the neurological and quantum operations that occur inside the nervous system of the physical unit.

The Physical Unit is a vessel designed specifically to allow [[Consciousness] ([[Spiritual Ego]])) to survive, thrive, experience, and create <u>within</u> physical creation.

The Physical Unit has a “dual consciousness” consisting of a [[Bodily Ego]] and a [[Spiritual Ego]].

The physical unit is a container for Consciousness. "The belief, the knowledge, and even the experience that our physical world of the senses is a mere illusion, a world of shadows, and that the three-dimensional tool we call our body serves only as a container or dwelling place for Something infinitely greater and more comprehensive than the body and which constitutes the matrix of the real life--this surely is the most powerful idea man [sic] has ever concieved.<ref>Kalweit, Holger. Dreamtime and Inner Space: The World of the Shaman. Boston: Shambhala, 1988. p. 9</ref>

The physical unit's prime directives are to survive and thrive, both of which require the [[Seven Essential Needs]] be met.

The '''Physical Unit''' refers to your physical body and all its various

: '''structures''' (e.g. brain, hippocampus, heart, skin, neurons, etc.),
: '''functions''' (e.g. [[Survival]], [[Connection]], and [[Expression|Expression]]) and
: '''energy flows'''

that create a living vehicle capable of containing [[Consciousness]].

The physical unit contains a [[Bodily Ego|Bodily Ego]] that properly nurtured, healthy, and supportive, is, a reflection of [[Spiritual Ego|Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self|Highest Self]].

The PU may be conceptualized as a ''manifestation device,'' or a device designed to allow [[Consciousness|Consciousness]] to express within and manipulate the physical universe. As such, the physical unit was [[Intelligent Design|designed]] as a vehicle capable of expressing all [[Facets of Consciousness|Facets of Consciousness]] within the confines of the [[Physical Universe|Physical Universe]].

[[Development|Development]] is the process of protecting, nurturing, and supporting the physical unit so it can contain high levels of Monadic Consciousness. Proper development requires satisfaction of the [[Seven Essential Needs]]

Using archetypes provided by the [[TOSAS|TOSAS]], we may say that the goal of [[Development|human development]] is a [[Strength Archetype|strong]], [[Power Archetype|powerful]], fully [[Emancipation Archetype|emancipated]], fully [[Connection Archetype|connected]], [[Star Archetype|fully functioning]] physical unit.

Ideally one wishes to manifest inside a fully developed, healthy, and fully functioning physical unit. [[Toxic Socialization|Toxic Socialization]] and a violent and abusive [[The System|system]] prevent proper development, [[Disconnect|disconnect]], and damage the physical unit. Damage occurs to the PU through accidental or deliberate trauma, abuse, and neglect. Damage causes disconnection and lowers the [[CQ]] of the physical unit and leads [[Pathology|Pathology]] from which the individual must heal.

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Defence Mechanisms

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'''Defence Mechanisms''' are cognitive and behavioural operations of the [[Physical Unit]] that are selected and reinforced by evolutionary processes because of their direct or indirect contribution to the defence and survival of the [[Physical Unit]]. Defence mechanisms are designed to help the physical unit avoid and alleviate pain, either through direct behavioural action or through subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) cognitive and emotional operations.
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Defence mechanisms are generally functional in the short term since they up and direct psychic energy towards defense, however when chronically activated they become highly toxic and can lead to various emotional, psychological, spiritual, and even physical pathologies.

Defence mechanisms are observable.

Defence Mechanisms may be broken down into two general categories, [[Physical Defence Mechanisms]] and [[Psychological Defence Mechanisms]]

DMs may be internally directed or externally directed.

Defence mechanisms may be best understood by considering them like software programs coded into the genetic substrate of the Physical Unit. The programs are coded as a result of experience and accessed via associative pathways.

Genetic software generally consists of two elements, 1) eliciting conditions and 2) "winning" responses. Eliciting conditions are any conditions or experiences that the brain of the physical unit perceives of as salient, and which consequently elicit the mechanism, and winning responses are those responses that have lead, in the past, to both short-term and long-term survivability. The "winning" response is the response that allows the transmission of genetic materials to the next generations.

Defence mechanisms are supported by, among other things, the endocrine systems of the body. Activation of survival programming often involves releases of specific chemicals (adrenaline, testosterone, etc.) designed to both prepare for, and encourage, a certain Survival Response (e.g., fight, flight, or submission).

Survival mechanisms are supported by, among other things, the endocrine systems of the body. Activation of survival programming often involves releases of specific chemicals (adrenaline, testosterone, etc.) designed to both prepare for, and encourage, a certain Survival Response (e.g., fight, flight, or submission).

Stress and anxiety are toxic and long-term exposure weakens the physical unit. Defence mechanisms work to ensure survival directly, but also to lower stress and anxiety.

It should be noted that since the evolution of the physical unit proceeds slowly (i.e. over millennial and not centuries or decades), current defence mechanisms originate in the hunting and gathering past of this planet. Some defence mechanisms may be rooted in an ancient environment and may no longer be appropriate (or necessary) for modern conditions.

Defence mechanisms are exploited by [[System Agents]] in the construction and reinforcement of The System. The survival mechanism of repression is exploited, for example, in order to subvert awareness of the bitter realities of this world. Similarly, Action or Avoidance mechanisms are exploited in order to control behaviour.

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Chakra Health

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Chakra Health''' refers to the energetic health of your body's chakra system. Chakra health is determine by a combination of energetic flow through each individual chakra, and that chakra' [[Alignment]] with the [[Spiritual Ego]]. Healthy chakras are chakras that are aligned fully open to energetic flow. </blockquote>

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==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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Henry Steel Olcott

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Henry Steel Olcott''' (1832-1907) was an American occultist born to Presbyterian parents in Orange New Jersey. Olcott was a primary mover in the American [[Spiritualism|Spiritualist]] tradition where he attempt to impose elite frameworks and elite values on what was otherwise a popular, democratic, and grass-roots spiritual movement.

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"Between 1853 and 1856, he authored, under the pseudonym of "Amherst," at least a dozen articles in the New York-based Spiritual Telegraph. In "The Spiritualist's Faith," his most systematic piece, Olcott presented a grand historical and moral apologia for the movement. He began by postulating an evolutionary cosmos in which all things progress "from lowest to highest, from bad to good, from small to great... upward, onward, to something more perfect, more Divine!" He then arranged all religious traditions in accordance with this evolutionary and hierarchical imperative. His Heilsgeschichte began with fetishism ("steeped in barbarism, low and degraded in the scale of human being"), moved on to Islam (preferable to fetishism but based nonetheless on "gratification of lust" and "thirst for dominion"), and culminated with spiritualism (rooted in "reasoning, hopefulness, mirth,benevolence, spirituality, reverence and universal tolerance."<ref>Prothero, Stephen. “From Spiritualism to Theosophy: ‘Uplifting’ a Democratic Tradition.” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 3, no. 2 (July 1, 1993): 197–216. https://doi.org/10.2307/1123988. p. 200.</ref>

He was a reformer that attempted to impose elite and sexist values on the popular and democratic [[Spiritualism]] of the time. This he eventually accomplished with [[Madam Blavatsky]] and [[Theosophy]].

The theorizing of Blavatsky and Olcott amounted to nothing less than an attempt to effect a paradigm shift from spiritualism to what would be called theosophy-from a tradition of mediums (predominantly female) who passively channeled spirits of the dead in the darkness to a tradition of adepts (predominantly male or, in Blavatsky's case, ostensibly androgynous) who worked in full light, cajoling "elementary spirits" and actively manipulating occult forces in accordance with occult laws. While Blavatsky stressed the philosophical benefits of this shift, Olcott underscored its moral virtues. His argument incorporated broader cultural assumptions regarding the dangerous passivity of women and the willful activity of men. Since mediums worked in the dark and had to be passive in order to be successful, Olcott reasoned, they were "feeble to resist [the] evil" that inevitably lurked in the night. Adepts, on the other hand, were occupationally active and worked without cabinets and in full light. More adroit than mediums at evading "the imps of darkness," they tended, like modern-day boy scouts, to be "chaste, temperate, conscientious and brave."<ref>Prothero, Stephen. “From Spiritualism to Theosophy: ‘Uplifting’ a Democratic Tradition.” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 3, no. 2 (July 1, 1993): 197–216. https://doi.org/10.2307/1123988. p. 204-205</ref>

On the evening of September 7, 1875, at a gathering of spiritualists convened in Blavatsky's Manhattan apartment, Olcott rose to propose the formation of a new organization devoted not to the comparative study of Asian religious traditions but to the scientific investigation of spiritual phenomena. The proposal met with unanimous assent and the next evening the association was duly organized with all the pomp and circumstance Victorian fastidiousness required. Almost all of the sixteen founding members-Blavatsky was the notable exception--came from the metropolitan gentry. Lawyers, doctors, and journalists were all represented in the society's ranks. Soon, these reformers had settled on a name (the "Theosophical Society"), a president (Olcott), and a corresponding secretary (Blavatsky). <ref>Prothero, Stephen. “From Spiritualism to Theosophy: ‘Uplifting’ a Democratic Tradition.” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 3, no. 2 (July 1, 1993): 197–216. https://doi.org/10.2307/1123988. p. 205</ref>

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Emancipation Archetype

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Emancipation''' is a [[New Energy]] [[Archetype]] in the [[Triumph of Spirit Archetype System]] (TOSAS). Emancipation represents the process of, and final emancipation, from [[The Sytstem]]</blockquote>

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Formation

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Formation''' (a.k.a. yin) is the cradling, cuddling, enveloping, encircling enfolding, ordering, and guiding [[Aspect of Consciousness]]. Formation, what physicists might call inertia, is the primary shaper of physical creation. Formation is what modifies, shapes, and controls force so that force can actually get things done without blowing up and otherwise destroying creation. </blockquote>

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==Notes==

Formation may be contrasted with [[Force]].

Formation is applied to Creation through the application of [[Will]]/[[Intent]] and [[Expectation]].

Force + Formation = Creation

The concept of force in creation is ancient. Notably, the Egyptian God Ptah, patron god of stonemasons(!), is the anthropomorphization of the process if "in-form" ation. "The production of a building or statue involves a process of 'in-formation,' in which a concept originally present only in the artisan's mind in-forms--is imprinted in--raw material through his actions. A block of stone that has been cared into a statue...is materially the same after the process...yet is had also transcended its original raw state: it is now something that it was not before, the representation (tjt 'image') of another reality. What has made the difference between the original and the final state is the action that has in-formed it with the sculptor's concept." (Allen, 1988: 46).

[[Edward Carpenter]] seems vaguely aware of the force+formation=creation equation.Speaking of the idea of Justice, "though it may be but a sentiment at first and on its inner side, yet quickly on its outer side it gives itself structure, and regulates the conflicting desires and emotions and needs of the people; and these emotions and desires so regulated from above do each of them in their turn generate and regulate groups of habits and customs; and these again each in their turn innumerable individual acts. And so the idea of Justice becomes creative and alive throughout the whole State.<ref>
Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote>

At one point, Carpenter even refers to the "formative forces...which manifest themselves in the race life."<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition. </ref>

Oswald Wirth associated the Masonic Empress card with form, ideas, and archetypes, i.e. "...ideal forms or pure ideas according to which everything is created." As he notes, "This sovereign, dazzling with light represents 'Creative INtelligence', the mother of form, pictures, and ideas." <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. 71-2</ref>. Note the inappropriate and sexist association of form/formation with the female gender.

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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>

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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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Esotericism

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Esotericism''' derives from the Greek term eiso and éso which mean "inside" or "within." Traditionally, "it has been used for the insights given by teachers to elitist 'inner circles' through oral transmission." <ref>Baier, Karl. “Esotericism.” In Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, edited by Robert A Segal and Nickolas P. Roubekas. Blackwell, 2021. p. 229</ref>
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"These original meanings are reflected in several European languages in which derivations of esoterikós are used for everything that is known by only a small group of insiders with purportedly superior knowledge (see Hanegraaff 2006, 336)."<ref>Baier, Karl. “Esotericism.” In Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, edited by Robert A Segal and Nickolas P. Roubekas. Blackwell, 2021. p. 229</ref>

The term is related to the term ''occultisme''' which "was first used in 1842 in a French dictionary entry to denote the dubious hidden agendas of priests and aristocrats."<ref>Baier, Karl. “Esotericism.” In Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, edited by Robert A Segal and Nickolas P. Roubekas. Blackwell, 2021. p. 330</ref>

The term was later co-opted by "Alphonse‐Louis Constant, a.k.a. Eliphas Lévi, whose writings are seminal for modern magic and occultism, adopted the term from Ragon and popularized it. Occultism became synonymous with ancient wisdom about the mysteries of nature – with magic, alchemy, Kabbalah, and astrology as major occult disciplines..." Ironicially, Lévi and other occultists were involved in creating secret systems of knowledge intended for elite audiences and designed for social control, as the example of the [[Freemasons Tarot]] demonstrates.<ref>Sosteric, Mike. “A Sociology of Tarot.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 39, no. 3 (2014). https://www.academia.edu/25055505/.</ref> Their "revision" of the term was likly an intentional effort to downplay and obscure the elitist nature of esotericism by providing a diversionary gloss over the term.

"Scholars of religion often use esotericism to categorize activities based on the practice “of reserving certain kinds of salvific knowledge for a selected elite of initiated disciples” (Hanegraaff 2006, 337). Secrecy as social and religious capital (see also von Stuckrad 2010, 54–59) involves concealed membership, secret doctrines and rituals, secret signs and codes, vows of silence, hidden meeting places, probation and preparatory periods, followed by initiations through skilled teachers or priests. Insofar as esoteric forms of group building intend to survive for more than one generation, their secret cannot be kept totally hidden within the core group. An often complex intertwining of conceal- ment and disclosure takes place."<ref>Baier, Karl. “Esotericism.” In Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, edited by Robert A Segal and Nickolas P. Roubekas. Blackwell, 2021. p. 232</ref>

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[[Mahayana Buddhism]], " the Bauls of Bengal and of certain schools of Hindu tantra can also be categorized as “esoteric” in this sense, as can European initiatory societies like the Masonic lodges, the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross, the Illuminati, the Theosophical Society, and the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn with its different offshoots."<ref>Baier, Karl. “Esotericism.” In Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, edited by Robert A Segal and Nickolas P. Roubekas. Blackwell, 2021. p. 232</ref>

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First Birth

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<blockquote class="definition">'''First Birth''' is the birth that occurs when a monad is [[Instantiation|instantiated]] from an [[Intensification of Consciousness|intensification]] in the [[Fabric of Consciousness]]. When an intensification of consciousness emerges, a new [[I]]--a new [[ego]]--is formed. </blockquote>

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An instantiated monad is born with a basic [[Ego]]. However, subsequent choices leading to individualized experience. Individualized experience leads, over the course of eons, to the establishment of [[Identity]].

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