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Old Energy Archetype

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An '''Old Energy Archetype''' is an [[Archetype]] created by [[Agents of Consciousness]] in [[Symbol Factory]], distributed by [[Ideoloogical Institution]]s and designed specifically to undermine healing and connection and create a subservient and easy to manipulate population. Old energy archetypes are archetypes designed to create a world of privilege for the few, and [[Disconnection]] and servitude for the masses.</blockquote>

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

As you learn about in the article ''A Sociolgy of Tarot,''<ref>"A Sociology of Tarot." Canadian Journal of Sociology 39 3 (2014). https://www.academia.edu/25055505</ref> the [[Masonic Tarot]] implements twenty-two old energy archetypes in the twenty-two trump or major arcana cards. The Masonic archetype cards are used for research and comparison purposes.

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==Notes==

Old energy archetypes facilitate [[Disconnection]] via the imposition of [[Wrong Thought]].

OEAs include the [[Fool in School]] archetype, the [[Judge and Punish]] archetype, the [[Only the Chosen Ones]] archetype, all ideas that support hierarchy and privilege.

Old energy archetypes are archetypes designed to disconnect the [[Bodily Ego]] from [[Consciousness]] (a.k.a. [[The Fabric]]) and deactivate/damage the [[Physical Unit]] in order to make it docile and compliant.

Old energy archetypes work by normalizing and encouraging [[Wrong Thought]], [[Wrong Action]], and [[Wrong Environment]].

Old Energy archetypes encourage [[Disjuncture]], thereby suppressing [[Consciousness]] and preventing it from descending into the [[Physical Unit]]. Old energy archetypes may be contrasted with [[New Energy Archetypes]].

Old energy archetypes emphasize force, violence, hierarchy, exclusion, judgment, elitism and diminishment (e.g., you are a [[Fool in School]]).

Old energy archetypes, specifically those that revolve around a patriarchal and violent God, support imperialist doctrine and imperialist societies. Mary Daly, for example, points out how a patriarchal God is used was used to justify and deify Richard Nixon and American Imperialist. "...God is an American and Nixon is "his" annointed one..." <ref>Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1973. p. 16. </ref>

As noted in the article ''From Zoroaster to Stars"<ref>Mike Sosteric. "From Zoroaster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Science and Technology of Mass Human Behaviour". 2018. <https://www.academia.edu/34504691>.</ref>, old energy archetypes were developed by ancient elites. Old energy archetypes are thus ancient elite spiritual propaganda.

As noted in the article "Mike Sosteric. The Sociology of Tarot,<ref>"A Sociology of Tarot." Canadian Journal of Sociology 39 3 (2014). https://www.academia.edu/25055505</ref> old energy archetypes find expression in the [[Masonic Tarot]].

Spiritually speaking, in addition to disconnection, old energy archetypes also contribute to the enhancement of [[Force]] (i.e. [[Yang]]) and suppression of [[Yin]] (BOLIFE)

Old energy archetypes are at the root of the unfolding planetary crises.

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Emotional Semaphore

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'''Emotional Semaphore''' refers to the guidance your [[Highest Self]] provides through the emotional mechanisms of the [[Physical Unit]]. Negative [[Steering Emotions]] like guilt and shame indicate misalignment. Positive steering emotions like pride, joy, bliss, indicate aligned actions, thoughts, and environment
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Denial

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'''Denial''' is an [[Awareness Reduction Mechanisms]] that the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to avoid uncomfortable confrontation with ideas, feelings, or realities. Denial is the unconscious or conscious refusal to be aware of some thought, idea, action, or event.
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==Other Awareness Reduction Mechanisms==

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==Notes==

Denial, not a river in Egypt, is the simple verbal refusal to accept reality as it is. Denial is often invoked when there is an external challenge to remember otherwise repressed or suppressed materials. When somebody comes up to you and says, “Hey, do you remember being a bully in school,” your defensive response might be to deny so you do not have to admit and recall. For example, my mom beat me with a wooden spoon and leather belts when I was a child, but when I recalled these events and challenged her as an adult, she denied she ever did it, presumably to prevent feeling bad about some of her actions. Similarly, if you challenge a CEO for cheating in order to not pay taxes, that CEO may deny that they are doing that at all, as Tim Cook did when the U.S. Senate questioned him on his company’s use of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions in taxes.<ref>Brendan Sasso, “Apple CEO Denies Using Tax ‘Gimmicks,’” Text, TheHill, May 21, 2013, https://thehill.com/policy/technology/301043-sen-levin-upbraids-apple-ceo-tim-cook-over-tax-practices.</ref>

==Treatment==

Denial is rooted in fear, anxiety, and pain. One denies one's actions when one is afraid of what others might do should they learn the truth (Tim Cook might go to jail for tax evasion) or when the awareness brings anxiety or emotional pain (my mother denied her abuse to avoid feeling guilt and shame). To treat, address the underlying fear, anger, guilt, or shame.

Guilt and shame may be resolved by teaching the client to change their behaviours, atone for past negative actions, and teaching them to forgive themselves in order to release guilt and shame. Note, releasing guilt and shame requires concrete behavioural changes and sincere action to atone.

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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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==Notes==

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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State of Consciousness

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<blockquote class="definition">[[Consciousness]] simultaneously exists in several states. These states are characterized by the presence or absence of instantiated monads, and the particular stage of emanation (Arba/Sosteric). </blockquote>

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Creative Epoch

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A '''Creative Epoch''' is a unique configuration of [[Force]], [[Formation]], and other key [[Creation Variables]]. Creative Epochs are named for the general quality of creative conditions, and the general purpose to which the epoch is intended.
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On Earth we've had the [[Lemurian Epoch]], [[Atlantean Epoch]], and [[Terran Epoch]]. We are currently in the process of transiting to a fourth a final epoch, yet to be named.

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Triumph of Spirit Archetype System

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Triumph of Spirit Archetype System''' is set of [[New Energy]] [[Archetype Cards]] designed to help individuals explore and disseminate [[New Energy Archetypes]]. The archetype system is implemented in visual form via the [[Triumph of Spirit Archetype Deck]].
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==TOSAS Archetypes==

You can browse the various TOSAS archetypes below.

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==Notes==

The TOSAS is a [[Connection Appliance]] and [[Healing Appliance]].

TOSAS provides a clear and complete break with the [[Masonic Tarot]]. This is not the first attempt to create such a break, though it is the politically sophisticated attempt. The Tarot for the Aquarian Age from 1962 was one such attempt. "This Tarot was obtained, according to the authors, from an unnamed source referred to only as “One,” through the Ouija board, in a series of sessions involving a group of four persons and lasting several months in 1962.... In the Aquarian Tarot each of the twenty-two cards, with a new image and new name, is regarded as a progression from a corresponding card of the old deck. The reason for the progression is said to be first, to rescue the Tarot symbols from their degenerate use as fortune-telling cards, and secondly, because we are entering a new phase, the Aquarian phase, of the cycle of human evolution-in-consciousness and new symbols are called for." "<ref>Metzner, Ralph. Maps of Consciousness: I Ching, Tantra, Tarot, Alchemy, Astrology, Actualism. New York: Collier Books, 1971.</ref>

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Connection Obstacle

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<blockquote class="definition">A '''Connection Obstacle''' is anything that interfers with, corrupts, and diminishes [[The Flow]] that occurs during connection.
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==List of Connection Obstacles==

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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"
#Improper preparation
# A damaged [[Bodily Ego]]
# A mind filled with [[Ideology]] and [[Old Energy Archetypes]] (a.k.a. [[Wrong Thought]])

Connection obstacles contribute to [[Connection Pathology]].

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Stages of Attainment

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Stages of Attainment''' are the stages of psychological, emotional, and spiritual growth achieved while walking an [[Authentic Spirituality|authentic spiritual path]].
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==Notes==

Complicated and esoteric systems of awakening/attainment are not required. A simple five-level representation is suitable. Each level or stage thus represents the "condition" of the physical unit at the time of evaluation. The condition of the PU may be represented by the [[Consciousness Quotient|CQ]] (a dynamic, '''qualitative''' measure intended to give a rough indication of the "level" of consciousness in the body at a particular moment), and an empirically displayed level of mastery over reality. Attainment of each stage points the individual towards an increasingly complete and powerful [[Awakening and Activation]] of the [[Physical Unit]]. The stages of attainment can be summarized as follows:

*[[Novice]] - One who has begun to question.
*[[Initiate]] - One who has begun to practice.
*[[Adept]] - One who has begun to understand.
*[[Master]] or Magi - One who has begun to know, particularly through direct and pure [[Connection Experience]].
*[[Avatar]] - One who has begun to teach.

It should be clearly understood that these stages do not refer to the condition or quality of the [[Resident Monadic Consciousness]] (a mistake often encouraged by those who would keep power for themselves), but to the extent to which the physical, neurological, and conceptual apparatus of the [[Physical Unit]] has matured enough to allow significant inflows of [[Consciousness]]. Thus these are a measure of the extent to which [[The Vessel]] has been prepared and higher consciousness has settled into the [[Physical Unit]].

It should be noted that the mere influx of consciousness is insufficient to assess one's "level." High levels of [[Awakening]] can be associated with confusion, disorientation, and even madness, especially when [[Awakening]] occurs without [[Lightning Path|proper guidance]].

It should be noted that proper maturation of the [[Physical Unit]] depends not only on the individual's own efforts, but the efforts of those around him, from parents, through schools, media, government, to society. Proper nutrition, a loving, nurturing, and stimulating environment, are pre-requisites that not only enable healthy and strong maturation of the [[Physical Unit]] but also its full [[Awakening]], [[Activation]], and [[Ascension]].

There are two basic categorizations of attainment in Buddhism "...the ordinary person, called “the uninstructed worldling” (assutavā puthujjana), and the wise follower of the Buddha, called the “instructed noble disciple” (sutavā ariyasāvaka).<ref>Bodhi, Bhikkhu, ed. In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon. Wisdom Publications, 2005. p. 19</ref> According to Budda, these two classes of people react differently to the things of the world.

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Resident Monadic Consciousness

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The term '''Resident Monadic Consciousness''' is an LP term syncretic with [[Spiritual Ego]]
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RMC is an LP term used to refer to the principal [[monad|monadic]] occupant of the [[Physical Unit]]. The RMC is the monadic "owner" of the Physical Unit and as such is what animates the Physical Unit.

Use the term Resident Monadic Consciousness when you wish to emphasize the distinction between the individual monad and the [[Fabric of Consciousness]] within which it is embedded. Use the term Resident Monadic Self to emphasize the [[ego|individual/egoic]] nature of the incarnated monad.

Ownership of the physical unit is usually undertaken at conception; however, exchanges (though extremely rare) can occur. Exchanges can be permanent, as is the case when the original owner is replaced (always with the consent of the original owner!) with a new owner, or temporary as is the case of [[Trance Channeling|trance channels]].

Note, the "higher I" of the physical unit is pure and unadulterated [[Consciousness]]; it is not permanently or significantly affected by the "[[darkness]]" of existence on this Earth. The RMC does, however, require a healthy and whole physical unit in order to properly express in body. Any sort of mental, emotional, or physical damage to the physical unit attenuates and corrupts the expression of consciousness through the body.

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Learned Helplessness

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Learned Helplessness''' is a psychological/emotional state that develops when an individual is subjected to repeated aversive stimuli (abuse, neglect, etc.) over which it has no control over. When an individual is subjected to repeated aversive stimuli that it cannot control or escape, it comes to believe and behave as if it is powerless to do anything about it.<ref>Verywell Mind. “What Causes Learned Helplessness?” Accessed January 31, 2020. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-learned-helplessness-2795326.</ref> When an individual or animal learns that it has no power over the world, it learns that it is helpless. <Ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/.</ref><Ref>Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/.</ref>
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==Notes==

Parental abuse, that is, assaults on defenceless children, can contribute to the development of learned helplessness in children. Children are powerless to prevent and escape. This impacts their relationship with authority (makes them more compliant over time).

==Further Reading==

Verywell Mind. “What Causes Learned Helplessness?” Accessed January 31, 2020. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-learned-helplessness-2795326.

YouTube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Vuqvp2V7w What is Learned Helplessness]

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Mystical Experience

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A '''Mystical Experience''' is a general syncretic term used by scientists and others to refer to what the [[LP]] refers to as [[Connection Experience]]. The term is generally used to refer to a powerful connection experience with significant cosmological contebnt.
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==Syncretic Terms for Connection Experience==

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==See Also==

[[Connection]], [[Connection Experience]], [[Connection Axes]]

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Immanuel Kant distinguishes between Direct Mystical Experience (DME) and Indirect Mystical Experience (IME). DME is "direct experience of supersensible entities through a special faculty of non-sensible intuition." IME is "(IME) The indirect experience of a supersensible entity through the perception of something sensible—such as an image or a feeling—that is caused by that supersensible entity." DMEs may be distinguished between DME<sub>ns</sub> and DME<sub>s</sub>. DME Non Sensible is "The direct experience of a supersensible entity by means of nonsensible
intuition" while DME Sensible is "The direct sensible experience of a supersensible entity that has assumed
a physical form."<ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “Kant on the Epistemology of Indirect Mystical Experience.” Sophia 56, no. 2 (June 2017): 313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-016-0528-y.</ref>

William James notes that a mystical experience is any experience that includes the following four characteristics: [[Ineffability]], [[Noetic Quality]], [[Transiency]], and [[Passivity]]<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 330-331). Kindle Edition. </ref>

Pahnke <ref>Pahnke, Walter N. “Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1969, 149–62.</ref> says mystical experience has nine dimensions which are/may be present during a mystical experience. These are [[unity]], [[transcendence]] of time and space, positive mood, sense of sacredness, noetic quality (i.e. [[Noesis]], paradoxicality, alleged ineffability, transiency, and persisting positive changes. Pahnke provides the [[Pahnke Mystical Experience Questionnaire]] to identify/measure mystical experience.<ref>Pahnke, Walter N. “Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1969, 149–62.</ref>

Happold<ref>Happold, F. C. Mysticism: A Study and Anthology. New York: Penguin Books, 1963. https://amzn.to/2XVKnvX.</ref>: Ineffability, Noetic Quality, Transiency, Passivity, Unity, Timelessness, No Self (unity with True Self).

Perenialists are theorists, mystics, scholars who view all mystical experiences are largely identical in content. Include Huxley,<ref>Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Granada Publishing: London, 1984. https://amzn.to/2tXEQYI.
———. The Perennial Philosophy. Canada: Random House Canada, 2014. https://amzn.to/2XGmQyM.</ref>, ...

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Saint

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<blockquote class="definition">A '''Saint''' is an individual who is able to exist in a moderate to high state of connection.</blockquote>

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The Shift

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<blockquote class="definition">'''A Shift''' is an instantaneous increase in an individual's average [[Consciousness Quotient]] such that it leads to a quantitatively different shift in one's phenomenological experience and understanding of life. "The Shift" is a point in the collective evolution of a planet when a sufficient number of individual's have achieved a sufficiently high [[CQ]] as to support a significant qualitative and quantitative shift in the economic, political, social, and religious institutions of society.
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'''The Shift''' is an instantaneous, collective global expansion of awareness and understanding that leads to a significant, positive, and permanent progressive shift in the political, economic, and collective realities of a fully globalized planet.

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Realistic Empowerment

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'''Realistic Empowerment''' is a psychological state/orientation whereby the individual feels capable of change (empowered) and where they adopt a realistic attitude on how that change needs to occur.
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==Notes==

The concept introduced in LPWBKII in the context of meeting the [[Seven Essential Needs]]. In order to be successful at making changes in one's life, one must be realistic about what needs to be done and how to do it.

Realistic means taking into account domestic, social, environmental, political, and economic limitations.

A goal of therapy is the establishment of a state of realistic empowerment in the client.

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Spiritualism

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== Notes ==
Spiritualism was a popular grass-roots thing. "...spiritualism was a popular rather than an elite phenome- non, spread more effectively by P. T. Barnum, who took the Fox sisters on tour, than by New York literati. Although historian Jon Butler has attempted to restrict spiritualism's clientele to "white, mostly Anglo- Saxon, middle- and upper-middle class former Protestants," scholars more widely read in the movement have concluded that spiritualists were a rather diverse lot.7 Ann Braude has uncovered significant support for spiritualism among women, blacks, urban and rural laborers, southerners, and Catholics. Lewis O. Saum has found that letters of ordinary Americans in the period immediately before the Civil War evinced "a large fascination" with mediums and their messages. Finally, R. Laurence Moore has concluded that spiritualism was "a truly popular movement in nineteenth-century America"<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. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/1123988</nowiki>. p. 199.</ref>

"What commended spiritualism to everyday folks was its democratic bent. "Spiritualism is democratic," a mid-century adherent affirmed. "It is addressed to the common people, and we are all common people."' Along with better-known religious populists such as Methodists and Baptists, spiritualists criticized the privileged knowledge of learned clergy and appealed to the natural wisdom of unlettered folk. They posited no external authorities that mediated between themselves and God or Truth. Each individual, whether clerical or lay, male or female, was free to follow her or his conscience wherever it led. More often than not, conscience led individual spiritualists to notions of liberty, equality, and democracy. Thus, spiritualism took its place alongside contemporaneous forms of populist religion that were eagerly democratizing the religious landscape in mid-nineteenth century America".<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. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/1123988</nowiki>. p. 199</ref>

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Boundary Violation

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<blockquote class="definition">A '''Boundary Violation''' occurs when an individual violates an individual's psychological, emotional, or spiritual boundaries in an aggressive, assaultive, manipulative, selfish, or otherwise unwelcome fashion.</blockquote>

==Notes==

Stepping into your personal space, hitting, yelling, shaming, calling names, manipulation, and indeed any kind of psychological, emotional, physical, or spiritual assault is a boundary violation.

Engaging in sex or having relationships with subordinates, patients, or other individuals where you exploit others to satisfy your own needs is a boundary violation.

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Samyaksambuddha

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In [[Mayayana Buddhism]], one who is fully perfected, perfectly cnnected, and available to teach the world.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhahood</ref> A perfected, connected, [[Avatar]].
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Brahmic Splendor

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==Notes==

Bahrami Splendor is what a naive individual says upon first positive connection with, and complete apprehension of, the powerful, glorious, and bright [[Fabric of Consciousness]]. One connects with [[The Fabric]], one is overwhelmed by [[The Power and the Glory]] (Christian terms), or Brahmic Splendor, or in [[LP]] terms, the fantabulistic and supecalifragic funtastic [[Fabric of Consciousness]].

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Huichol

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==Notes==
The following is excerpted from "Huichol People: An Ancient Unbroken Lineage of Healers."<blockquote>The Huichol People are rare when it comes to North American shamanic traditions. Unlike most indigenous populations of this region, which have undergone some degree of death, transformation or fragmentation post-Columbus, the Huichol maintain an unbroken lineage which extends back to the earliest roots of their tribal heritage.

The Huichol People refer to themselves as the Virarica, which roughly translates as “the healing people.” They are a small tribe of approximately 35,000 who live in central western Mexico in the Sierra Madre mountains. They are said to be the last remaining tribe in North America to have maintained their indigenous practices, though today they face numerous threats to their culture. Until recently, their choice to live in seclusion in a remote and rugged location, as well as their commitment to a nature-based lifestyle have kept them protected from outside cultural influences. Today they face struggle with the Mexican government and land possession, pressures to switch from corn farming to tobacco farming, and the incessant influence of missionaries attempting to convert them. Still, thousands of Huichol remain in their birth place, living and practicing in the ways of their ancestors, fighting to keep the flame of their lineage alive. Amazingly, the Huichol have no history of war. They are a peaceful people who have sustained themselves for generations in harmony with themselves and the land.

The wisdom teachings of the Huichol boils down to a simple yet deep reverence for nature and a ceremonial way of life that connects them to the spirit world. The purity and wisdom of the Huichol have made their influence on many Westerners seeking deeper healing and meaning in their lives. Several books by Westerners have been written about their personal experiences and journeys with the Huichol, including Tom Pinkson’s book The Shamanic Wisdom of Huichol. In it he recounts his life-changing transformational time spent with the Huichol, learning from the sacred peyote plant and the wisdom imparted to him by the Huichol shamans.

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Peyote (''hikuri'' in Huichol) is the primary plant sacrament that Huichol use in their ceremonial prayer.

Peyote is a small cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, specifically mescaline, which in large quantities produce colorful and vivid hallucinogenic visions. For the Huichol, peyote plays a principle role in their cosmology, serving multiple functions within the tribe. Ceremonially, it acts as a gateway to the spirit realms, where they can commune with the gods. But peyote also has a long lineage of use as a traditional or “folklore” medicine and is commonly used by traditional people’s for things like influenza and diabetes. The Huichol are known to rub the juices of fresh peyote into wounds to prevent infection and to promote healing. Its profoundly alkalizing effect on the body makes it useful as an herbal application to help prevent and support the healing of various illness.

Once a year, the Huichol make a journey to Wirikuta where they go each year to collect peyote. Their pilgrimage takes place annually as a desire to return to the origins of life and seek healing and restoration. Upon arrival they begin their hunt, and when they find the first cactus it is shared by everyone in the tribe. They then harvest enough peyote for one year. This is the only trip they make for the whole year to supply their needs for peyote. They then ingest large amounts in ceremonial settings, where they can commune with ancestors spirits and deities, sing, heal, pray and weep. <ref>Sisoian, Junu. “Huichol People - An Ancient Unbroken Lineage of Healers.” ''EntheoNation'' (blog), January 28, 2017. <nowiki>https://entheonation.com/blog/huichol-people-ancient-unbroken-lineage-healers/</nowiki>.</ref></blockquote>

==Additional Reading==

* Huichol People – An Ancient Unbroken Lineage of Healers<ref>Sisoian, Junu. “Huichol People - An Ancient Unbroken Lineage of Healers.” EntheoNation (blog), January 28, 2017. https://entheonation.com/blog/huichol-people-ancient-unbroken-lineage-healers/.</ref>
* Peyote Hung: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians.<ref>Myerhoff, Barbara G. Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. London: Cornell University Press, 1974. https://archive.org/details/peyotehuntsacred0000myer/page/n5/mode/2up.</ref>

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Awakening

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'''Awakening''' (a.k.a. spiritual awakening) is the process of expanding awareness and understanding of the realities of ourselves and the world in which we live. The more an individual sees, realizes, and understands things, the more awake they are.<ref>Sosteric. Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Authentic Spirituality. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, Unpublished Draft. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/rocket-scientists-guide-authentic-spirituality/.</ref>
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[[Awakening]] is a process that occurs as the consequence of one or more discrete [[Connection Experience]]s.

Awakening is an [[Outcome Measure]] of [[Authentic Spirituality]] <Ref>Sosteric. Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Authentic Spirituality. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2018. https://amzn.to/2Vnr4L4.</ref>

Carl Jung is on record as recommending "Spiritual Awakening" as the only cure for the intransigent alcoholism of the morbidly addicted.<ref>AA World Services Inc. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C91R4WY/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=lightningpa02-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01C91R4WY&linkId=34f312f4722cf2b2cd1e952c2aea4fae Pass It On]. AA World Services Inc. Kindle Edition. </ref>

Awakening as a process may be distinguished from an [[Awakening Experience]], which is a discrete low power [[Connection Event]] that leads to enhanced understanding and insight.

Spiritual awakening (or just awakening for short) is typically a volunteer process. It is initiated by intent and (sometimes) facilitated/accelerated with [[Connection Supplements]], [[Connection Appliances]], and [[Connection Practice]]. In certain situations, [[Forced Awakening]] may occur.

Spiritual awakening a biological process that, under healthy conditions, occurs naturally, without intervention, as part of the maturation process of the [[Physical Unit]]. The natural process of spiritual awakening can be subverted by [[Toxic Socialization]] and associated practices. When the natural process of awakening has been subverted, remedial training and [[healing]] are typically required.

Spiritual awakening is a significant process that implicates all aspects of an individual's psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual life space.

Spiritual awakening may be initiated via a simple statement of Intent. The intent may be verbal, as in the case of [[Awakening Mantras|Awakening Mantras]], or it may be visual, as in the case of [[Awakening Visualizations]]. Connection Supplements may also be used to facilitate short-term (a few minutes to a few hours) Connection Experiences.

Awakening (i.e. drawing Consciousness into the vessel) is a complicated and, owing to failures in this planet's [[Toxic Socialization]] process, challenging process. In many cases, professional psychological, emotional, and sociological supports are required in order to fully awaken an individual.

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Cosmic Consciousness

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'''Cosmic Consciousness''' is the term used by [[R. M. Bucke]] and [[Edward Carpenter]] to describe the Consciousness attained during an intense [[Connection Event]] with positive and "cosmic" content (a.k.a. a [[Zenith Experience]])<ref>Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness. Book Tree. Kindle Edition. See [[Talk:Glimpse]] for an account of Bucke's [[Connection Event]]</ref> Some also use Cosmic Consciousness to refer to a state of [[Perfection]], [[Purity]], and [[Completion]] that allows for the established of strong, consistent [[Connection]].
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==Notes==

Bucke sees the attainment of [[Cosmic Consciousness]] as the last step forward in human evolution. From [[Simple Consciousness]] through [[Self Consciousness]] to [[Cosmic Consciousness]] does humanity finally come. Edward Carpenter picks up this thinking.

Edward Carpenter also sees Cosmic Consciousness as the third and final step in a long process of emergence, separation, and final "reconciliation" or "reintegration" when
object...is seen..to be one with the self. The knower, the knowledge, and the thing known are once more one“<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition. </ref>

Bucke sees Cosmic Consciousness as a "nascent...faculty" that appears first in an "exalted human personality....in some, probably in all, cases the person has an exceptional physique—exceptional beauty of build and carriage, exceptionally handsome features, exceptional health, exceptional sweetness of temper, exceptional magnetism.<ref>Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness (Kindle Location 1127). Book Tree. Kindle Edition.</ref>

Carpenter notes that "the great prophets and seers" who expounded their experiences of unity, knowledge, etc., prove the existence of "another stage of consciousness.

Contrast this with Maslow who see the ability to have [[Peak Experiencess]] as something everybody can do.

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Cosmic Consciousness is a third form which is as far above Self Consciousness as is that above Simple Consciousness....The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is...a ''consciousness of the cosmos'', that is, of the life and order of the universe....Along with the consciousness of the cosmos there occurs an ''intellectual enlightenment'' or ''illumination'' which alone would place the individual on a new plane of existence—would make him almost a member of a new species. To this is added a state of ''moral exaltation'', an indescribable ''feeling of elevation, elation and joyousness'', and a ''quickening of the moral sense'', which is fully as striking and more important both to the individual and to the race than is the ''enhanced intellectual power''. 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 (Kindle Locations 231-248). Book Tree. Kindle Edition. </ref>
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On the [[LP]] we would not see "[[Cosmic Consciousness]]" (more properly, [[Connection]]) as the outcome of an evolutionary process but as the natural outcome of a [[Healthy Development]] process free of the pathogenic and disconnecting [[Toxic Socialization]].

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Diminutive Experience

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A '''Diminutive Experience''' is a type of [[Connection Experience]] that occurs in natural environments, like forests.<ref>Williams, Kathryn, and David Harvey. “Transcendent Experience in Forest Environments.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 21, no. 3 (September 1, 2001): 249–60. https://doi.org/10.1006/jevp.2001.0204.</ref>
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==Notes==

"I went to see at first hand the big Sequoia trees, camping and sight seeing. The feeling was caused by the enormous size of the trees, the fact that they were so many hundreds of years old. How huge! I can hardly see the canopy! How could you take a photograph of the whole thing! I felt awe, humility, how great is God to make those trees."<ref>Williams, Kathryn, and David Harvey. “Transcendent Experience in Forest Environments.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 21, no. 3 (September 1, 2001): 249–60. https://doi.org/10.1006/jevp.2001.0204. p. 255. </ref>

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Dream Experience

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A '''Dream Experience''' is a type of [[Connection Experience]] that occurs in a dream while the [[Physical Unit]] is asleep. Dream events are marked by their "abnormal" character, and the transmission of useful insight, awareness, and information.
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Swami Akhilananda reports several dream events that contain

* prophetic content (predicting the onset of a disease, remote sensing a disaster),
* spiritual or practical guidance (religious instruction),
* Initiatory experiences
* visionary experiences of "spiritual joy and realization," and so on. <ref>Akhilananda, Swami. ''Hindu Psychology: Its Meaning in the West''. Routledge, 1948. p. 66-69.</ref>

and which can lead to permanent changes in life course, mental health, and so on.

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'''The Huron''' (originally Ouendat, in Oklahoma as the Wyandot) - a horticultural people.

Dreaming is a central feature of the "formation and dynamics of the Huron religious worldview..." <ref>Irwin, Lee. “The Huron-Jesuit Relations: Contesting Dreams, Confirming Worldviews.” Religion 22 (1992): 259–70. p. 260.</ref> Indeed, amongst the Huron, dreams are "regarded as a ''religious'' phenomenon." Dreams are an essential aspect of communiation with the spirit world (see [[Huron]] cosmology)

"Dreams provided one of the most fundamental means by which communication was maintained with the various sacred beings, either mythic or animal, that constituted the ultimate sources of spiritual empowerment in the Huron cosmology. Through dreams traditional values and teachings were validated and functioned to sanction the immediacy of a mythically defined cosmology. Dreams also3 provided a basis for ceremonial enactment and social interactions that reinforced the sacred character of the Huron world order."<ref>Irwin, Lee. “The Huron-Jesuit Relations: Contesting Dreams, Confirming Worldviews.” Religion 22 (1992): 259–70. p. 261.</ref>

'''C.G. Jung'''

Psychologist C.G. Jung gleaned many "radical insights"<ref>———. Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1989. p. 40.</ref> from his many dream experiences. "Day after day we live far beyond the bounds of our consciousness....Without our knowledge, the life of the unconscious is also going on within us ... communicating things to us ... synchronistic phenomenon, premonitions, and dreams. <ref>Carl Jung. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. New York: Vintage, 1968. p. 302</ref>

Harold Johson of the Woodlands Cree notes that the Cree had institutionalized the pursuit of dreams/vision as [[Connection Event]]s. "In our traditional society, each person is allowed to experience being a spirit in a physical body and to grow their own understanding of what that means. We don’t tell each other how to be. Everyone is free to go up on a high hill or some other isolated place to fast and pray and develop their understanding....the understanding that we receive is uniquely our own. The dreams and the visions we sometimes receive are given to us to help us along our path."<ref>Johnson, Harold R. Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours). U of R Press, 2016. https://amzn.to/2D142T4.</ref>

Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota have a special place for dreams/visions. "The word 'dream' is used to describe visions, but visions are more intensely real than ordinary dreams and can come to people when they are awake or asleep. Most male visions granted powers to heal and defend. Female visions enabled healing and skill in the arts."<ref>Rice, Julian. Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality. University of New Mexico, 1998. p. 6. https://amzn.to/2C9fM5E.</ref>

The Ojibwe have (had) institutionalized the connection dream experience in the selection of "Dreamers," or girls with a special ability to connect in dreams and draw insight. <ref>Ignatia Broker, Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative (Minnesota: Minnesota Historial Society Press, 1983)</ref>

<blockquote>One morning in the summer of Oona's seventh year there was a piece of charcoal by her morning meal. She knew the time had come when she must take serious thought of life. She must either pick up the charcoal and go into the forest to learn whether she had a special gift, or she could ignore the charcoal and eat her morning meal. This was the custom of the people, to learn which girls would be Dreamers or Medicine People."<ref>Ignatia Broker, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873511670/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0873511670&linkCode=as2&tag=lightningpa02-20&linkId=3e0c548e8c069ff4fd702aabae0f0214 Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative] (Minnesota: Minnesota Historial Society Press, 1983: p. 51)</ref></blockquote>

The Maori give space for spiritual communication in dreams. In dreams, they may receive warnings, visit dead relatives, identify and assess threats, and so on. <ref>Best, Elsdon. “Spiritual Concepts of the Maori: Part I.” Journal of the Polynesian Society 6, no. 1 (1900): 173–99.</ref>

The Maori's arrival in New Zealand is predicated on the dream of an Irakewa whose spirit (wairu) travelled to New Zealand during his sleep and returned with instructions on how to move from Tahiti to New Zealand.

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According to Maori tradition, one Irakewa was an influential man of the land known as Tawhiti, some 500 years ago, a land that lies far away towards the rising sun. And, as Irakewa slept, his wairua came from that far land and traversed the great seas to Aotea-roa (New Zealand), and then returned to Tawhiti. When Irakewa awoke, he said to his people:—“There is a land far away which is a good land for you to go to. There is a waterfall there, and a cave on the hill-side, and the rock standing in the river there is myself.” That rock was the kohiwitanga of Irakewa. Then the vessel Matātua came from that land and brought many people to Aotea-roa. And they found the waterfall, the cave, and the rock at Whakatane, in the Bay of Plenty, where they settled and where their descendants have since dwelt, even twenty generations of men.<ref>Best, Elsdon. “Spiritual Concepts of the Maori: Part I.” Journal of the Polynesian Society 6, no. 1 (1900): 180-1.</ref>
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Wiccan Starhawk provides several anecdotal accounts of significant and meaningful dream events, carrying personal messages.<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>

The Ojibway encouraging fasting as a way to induce a connection experience. When a young females begins to menstruate, they "...must go into the forest, build a ba-ca-ne-ge, a small lodge for herself, and fast. There she will stay for a period of ten days, or as long as she can. During this time she has no contact with anyone. She will neither leave the lodge for a long period of time nor go very far from it. The longer she fasts, the clearer will be her dreams of what she will do in life. If she is a Dreamer or a Medicine Person, her visions will confirm this."<ref>Ignatia Broker, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873511670/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0873511670&linkCode=as2&tag=lightningpa02-20&linkId=3e0c548e8c069ff4fd702aabae0f0214 Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative] (Minnesota: Minnesota Historial Society Press, 1983: 95).</ref>

"Among some Inuit of the Arctic, one way to have a successful quest for power was to spend four or five days in a special isolated igloo in the depths of winter without food or water. When the specified time elapsed, an elder, usually a shaman, opened the igloo and brought the person home. The igloo did not have even an oil lamp to heat it, so the suffering from extreme cold was combined with suffering from lack of water and food."<ref>Harner, Michael. Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2013.</ref>

Dreams, especially those with animal powers (i.e. jaguar) are often seen as indications that an individual has shamanic potential/power.<ref>Rogers, Spencer L. The Shaman: His Symbols and His Healing Power. Illinois: Charles Thomas Publishers, 1982.</ref>

Deloria provides extensive examples of dream events experienced by indigenous North Americans. He notes that "the ordinary person had as much opportunity to receive special messages as did the people who sought out the experience in visions."<ref>Deloria, Vine Jr. The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men. Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006. p. 1.</ref>

== Further Reading ==

Irwin, Lee. 1990a The Bridge of Dreams: Myth, Dreams and Visions in Native North America. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International.{{endstuff}}

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'''Financial Barriers''' to study are just that, financial. A [[Connection Framework]] that charges hundreds or thousands of dollars to access its materials a connection framework that has put up a financial barrier.

'''Emotional Barriers''' are barriers, like fear or anger, that make it difficult for a person to study certain materials. For example, a Catholic who fears "demons" may have a hard time studying information on channeling.

'''Cognitive barriers''' are barriers, like bias and misconception, that make it difficult for a person to study and understand certain materials. For example, a scientist who asserts [[Naive Materialism]] may have a hard time considering chakras or spiritual guides. A Catholic who believes that only the Bible contains truth will have a hard time considering other traditions and systems.

'''Spiritual Barriers''' are barriers, like damaged brain structures, serious mis[[Alignment]] and [[Disjuncture]], that make establishing [[Connection]] difficult or even dangerous. A person with a severely damaged [[Bodily Ego]], for example, or a person who is severely out of alignment may resist connection or, if connection is made, may struggle to handle it in a grounded and sophisticated manner.

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Instantiation of Self Awareness

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The point in [[The Unfolding]] where, as a consequence of the [[Intensification of Consciousness]], Self-awareness (i.e. [[Ego]]) emerges. Also, the point in the development of the [[Physical Unit]] where self-awareness emerges.</blockquote>

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Distraction

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'''Distraction''' is an [[Awareness Reduction Mechanisms]]] that the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to avoid uncomfortable confrontations with reality. Distraction involves distracting one's awareness by engaging in distracting activities.

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==Related LP Terms==

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'''Exogenous to the LP'''

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==Notes==

For example, getting into a running club and spending all your time away from family in order to avoid the divert and distract from the toxicities/issues at home.

Distraction is a form of Isolation or, as we say on the LP, Informational Positioning. Isolation or informational positioning is a cognitive process involving the creation of a gap between an unpleasant or threatening cognition or memory, and other thoughts, feelings, and anything that can trigger a memory. Isolation works with the associative pathways of memory. We remember “less often” by minimizing associative connections.

Isolation is in operation when a person who begins a train of thought suddenly switches gears because the thoughts are getting to “close” and potentially triggering memories of, for example, sexual assault. For example, an individual may start off thinking about a childhood trip, but suddenly change the subject when the recall of that trip gets too close to a painful memory. An individual may also avoid thinking about certain topics, and avoid certain situations or people in their life, as way to avoid associations that might trigger painful trauma or disjuncture.

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Active Need Fulfillment

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Active Need Fulfillment''' is an adult stage of human development. An individual engaged in active need fulfillment is fully aware of their [[Seven Essential Needs]] and actively, consciously, and willfully involved in creating life conditions that fully satisfy those needs.
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==Syncretic Terms==

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==Related LP Terms==

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'''Exogenous to the LP'''

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==Notes==

Active need fulfillment is syncretic with the Self-Determination, as understood in Self Determination Theory.<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. edsbl.</ref>.

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Lightning Path Attachment Analysis

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Lightning Path Attachment Analysis''' is a method for exploring and understanding our [[Toxic Attachment]]s. To conduct an LPAA we identify, clarify, and categorize our attachments.<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> </blockquote>

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'''Exogenous to the LP'''

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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>

==Related LP Terms==

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'''Exogenous to the LP'''

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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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Ego Inflation

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Ego Inflation''' is the over-inflation of the [[Bodily Ego]] that occurs when a damaged [[Bodily Ego]] with unmet love and self-esteem needs make a strong [[connection]]. An individual who experiences ego inflation comes to believe they are "special" or "chosen" in a way that elevates them to special status. Ego inflation is represented by unwarranted beliefs in one's intellectual, emotional, evolutionary, or spiritual superiority.
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'''Exogenous to the LP'''

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==Notes==

"The opening psychic often falls prey to ego when it is assumed that only he/she can 'see' or 'heal,'..."<ref>Stevens, Petey. Opening up to Your Psychic Self. Nevertheless Press, 1983. p. ix.</ref>

When speaking about the significance and reality of mental influence over a distance, one researcher, Jule Eisenbud, U.S. psychiatrist, noted that his success at the experiments has "triggered infantile desires for power, for omnipotence, for control over others..." <ref>Vasiliev, L.L. Experiments in Mental Suggestion. Vol. 22. Hampton Roads: Charlottesville, 1963. p. x.</ref>

Ego inflation contributes to and exacerbates already existing narcissism, sometimes to the point of psychosis.

Ego inflation exacerbates the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect Dunning-Kruger effect].

Aleister Crowley is a classic example of ego inflation, which moved him from reasonable interpretations of spirituality, connection, one's [[Highest Self]], and so on, to claims made later in life that was a new Messiah spreading a new religion in a new Aeon.<ref>For some discussion of this see Pasi, Marco. “Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley’s Views on Occult Practice.” In Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr, 53–88. Oxford University Press, 2012.</ref>

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