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World Systems

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'''World Systems''' are the globally scoped financial, productive, educational, and governance systems used to support and maintain advanced, sapient lifeforms.
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==Notes==

The evolution of World Systems is the [[Evolutionary Theory|evolutionary goal]] of [[Stage Five]]

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New Energy

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'''New Energy''' is a [[Lightning Path]] phrase used to describe energy that is properly balanced, with equal amounts [[yang]]/[[force]] and [[yin]]/[[formation]]. New energy creates a world of balance, harmony, unity, prosperity, and peace. New Energy is generated when Consciousness is filtered through [[New Energy Archetypes]] in the mind.
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==Notes==

New energy is dramatically different, and much more powerful, than [[Old Energy]]. Old Energy is imbalanced, violent, implosive, aggressive, depressing, destructive and explosive. New energy is balanced, gentle, expansive, uplifting, generative, inclusive, and (over the long term) indomitable.

New energy is generated by individuals working with [[New Energy Archetypes]] in a [[New Energy Creation Template]], like the [https://tosas.lightningpath.org/ Triumph of Spirit] [[New Energy Creation Template]].

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Connection Coach

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<blockquote class="definition">An LP '''Connection Coach''' (CC) is an individual who provides guidance, feedback, and assistance to individuals seeking to pursue a decolonized spirituality. CCs help clients initiate and increase the intensity and duration of [[Connection]]. Connection coaches use Lightning Path [[Lightning Rods]], [[Lightning Path Workbooks]], and other materials to facilitate healing, and connection.
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Monadic Consciousness

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'''Monadic Consciousness''' is the smallest unit of awareness that exists within the [[Fabric of Consciousness]]. It is the single point of [[egoic|egoic]] awareness that arises as the result of the [[Intensification of Consciousness|intensification]] in the [[Fabric of Consciousness|Fabric of Consciousness]]. Monadic consciousness is [[Egoic Consciousness|egoic]] in the sense that there is an independent perspective, identity, and will associated.
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==Notes==

Monadic Consciousness is the "lowest level" of [[True Consciousness]].

Like a leaf on a tree, monadic consciousness is connected to [[Soul Consciousness]] (twig) which in turn is connected to [[Angelic Consciousness|Angelic Consciousness]] (branch) and, finally, [[God Consciousness|God Consciousness]] (tree trunk).

The [[Structure of Consciousness]] is tree-like. See [[Tree of Consciousness]]

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When Monadic Consciousness is incarnated and expressed through a [[Physical Unit]] we may refer to it as the [[Resident Monadic Consciousness|Resident Monadic Consciousness]] because it is "resident" in, and owner of, the specific [[Physical Unit|Physical Unit]].

Monadic Consciousness, which is [True Conscousness]], may be distinguished from [[Bodily Consciousness|Bodily Consciousness]] (i.e. [[Bodily Ego|Bodily Ego]]) of the [[Physical Unit|Physical Unit]]), which is a neuro-physical epiphenomenon.

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You

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<blockquote class="definition">'''You''' with an uppercase "Y" refers to your [[Spiritual Ego]]. You with a lowercase "y" refers to your [[Bodily Ego]].</blockquote>

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The Call

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<blockquote class="definition">'''The Call''' is a metaphorical phrase used to refer to the internally or externally initiated call to [[Awaken]]. The Call is the call to remove [[The Blindfold]], shuck off the [[Darkness]], and return to full [[Connection]] and full [[Consciousness]].
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==Notes==

The call is visually represented in the [[TOSAS]] [[The Calling]]

The call may be initiated internally, by the [[Resident Monadic Consciousness]]. The call may also be given from an external source, as for example this SpiritWiki entry.

[[The Body]] (or more specifically [[The Physical Unit]] may, out of guilt, shame, fear, and confusion, resist The Call and prevent awakening. In order to eliminate psychological resistance to awakening we must help clear confusion, we must transmute fear by putting aside desires for [[Punitive Justice]], and we must forgive so that guilt and shame may be dispelled and [[Consciousness]] may flow into the body.

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Cognitive Wall

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

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

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

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The Work

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'''The Work''' is a shorthand phrase that refers to the essential work of [[Development]], [[Healing]] (when necessary), and [[Connection]] (really [[Reconnection]], these days) that is necessitated as a consequence of a [[Toxic Socialization]] process that damages the [[Physical Unit]] and disconnects us from [[Highest Self]].
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==Notes==

The Work is the psychological, intellectual, and emotional process of merging the [[Bodily Ego]] with the [[Spiritual Ego]].

The Work requires the sufficient satisfaction of the body's [[Seven Essential Needs]]..
Compare The Work to [[The Great Work]]. This is something noted by [[Swami Vivekananda]] in his book Karma Yoga where he says "Helping others physically, by removing their physical needs, is indeed great, but the help is great according as the need is greater and according as the help is far-reaching. If a man's wants can be removed for an hour, it is helping him indeed; if his wants can be removed for a year, it will be more help to him; but if his wants can be removed for ever, it is surely the greatest help that can be given him."<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. "The Secret of Work." Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 5. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf</ref> This includes the satisfaction of our needs for alignment and connection. As Vivekananda says "Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever; any other knowledge satisfies wants only for a time. It is only with the knowledge of the spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated forever; so helping man spiritually is the highest help that can be given to him."<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. "The Secret of Work." Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 5. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf</ref>

It is important to note that the Work is not an operation that we conduct on our souls. That is, the Work is not an alchemical work of soul purification. Your "soul," your Highest Self, is already perfect and requires no moral, evolutionary, or spiritual development whatsoever. It is your physical unit that is the problem. Thus, the Work is the work of healing the [[Physical Unit]] so it can re[[Connect]] to its own [[Highest Self]].

==Additional Reading and Viewing==

Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L59d9zru14s&feature=youtu.be What does it take to be healthy, happy, and whole]

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Path of Attainment

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<blockquote class="definition">The phrase '''The Path of Attainment''' is a phrase used by esotericists to refer to the "secret" training provided in private, elite-led, esoteric, organizations.<Ref>For example, Case, Paul Foster. An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot. New York: Kindle Edition, 1920. p. 41.</ref>
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The phrase emphasizes "attainment" or the personal struggle towards understanding and enlightenment. The phrase individualizes the problem of connection, diverts attention from the damaging effects of [[Toxic Socialization]] (and the [[healing]] required as a result, and reinforces the [[Fool in School]] narrative. Compare this with an alternative perspective which suggest that in order to enlighten and connect, we must ensure all [[Seven Essential Needs]] are met, and we must heal any damage to the [[Bodily Ego]] caused by [[Toxic Socialization]].

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Connection Content

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Connection Content''' refers to the conceptual, intellectual, and emotional ''content'' of a [[Connection Experience]]. Connection Content is one of five [[Connection Axes]] which can be used to examine [[Connection Experience]].</blockquote>

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==Notes==

Carl Keller<ref>Keller, Carl A. “Mystical Literature.” In Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, edited by Steven T. Katz, 75–100. London: Sheldon Press, 1978.</ref> notes in order to study mystical (read connection) experience (the content of mystical experience), one studies the language and writings. Keller identifies eight genres of writing where one can examine the content of mystical experience, including aphorisms, biographies, reports on visions, commentaries, dialogues, instructions, prayers, religious poetry, and fiction. Keller notes there is a problematic relationship between the actual experience and accounts of it. In particular, the experience is always mediated by the language and the "religious and intellectual tradition of the community within which he [sic] lives and works..." <ref>Keller, Carl A. “Mystical Literature.” In Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, edited by Steven T. Katz, 75–100. London: Sheldon Press, 1978. p. 84 </ref>

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"The content of mystical experiences can range from observing a birth to believing one has encountered alien creatures; and the intensity can range from a few moments of rapture to several hours of shattering psychological experience. <ref>Allman, Lorraine S., Olivia de la Rocha, David N. Elkins, and Robert S. Weathers. “Psychotherapists’ Attitudes toward Clients Reporting Mystical Experiences.” Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training 29, no. 4 (Win 1992): 565.</ref>

===Content is "big" and challenging and creative and expressive===

Bender recounts the mystical experience of Eric who connected with a "channeled entity" by the name of Lazaris. Eric points to increasing amounts of "energy" and coordinated "inspiration" that he had difficulty expressing: It "fizzled out. It just didn’t ground itself, I had quit my job and tried to write a book,[exploring] all this weird, prophetic, cosmic overview energy, but I couldn’t
express it so I went back to work."<ref>Bender, Courtney. The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.</ref>. Eric had another experience in 1997 characterized by an extended period of creativity, and efforts to express the information which he characterized as better grounded, but still abortive because he was missing something.

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Resident Monadic Self

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Disjuncture

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Disjuncture''' is a state of disconnection, disunion, and separation between the [[Spiritual Ego]]and the [[Bodily Ego]]. Disjuncture is caused by when an individual engages in [[Wrong Thought]] and [[Wrong Action]], or that lives within/creates [[Wrong Environment]]s that are not in [[Alignment]] with [[Highest Self]]. Disjuncture leads to painful [[Disjunctive Emotions]], like unease, disquiet, discomfort, guilt, and shame. </blockquote>

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===Healing Disjuncture===

To heal disjuncture, re-establish alignment between the [[Spiritual Ego]] and [[Bodily Ego]] by establishing [[Right Though]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]

Disjuncture is a Lightning Path concept that refers to the disconnect between your [[Spiritual Ego]] and your [[Bodily Ego]]. If you think of your spiritual ego as a bright, eternal light, and your bodily ego as the ego of your physical body, disjuncture occurs when the two are “out of [[alignment]]” and, as a consequence, [[Disconnected]]. When your spiritual ego and bodily ego are out of alignment, communication and energy flow between your spiritual ego and bodily ego are interrupted.

Disjuncture arises when there is a disconnect between what [[Spiritual ego]] wants its [[Physical Unit]] to think/do, and what the [[Physical Unit]] is actually thinking and doing.

Disjuncture and the disconnection which results can be quite painful. Guilt, shame, hopelessness, and despair may build up in a physical unit experiencing even minor disjuncture. The only way to end disjuncture is to pursue perfect alignment between the spiritual ego and bodily ego.

'''There is evidence''' that humans experience disjuncture when engaged in wrong action, for example, eating meat.<ref>Shaw, Julia. “What the ‘meat Paradox’ Reveals about Moral Decision Making.” BBC Future, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190206-what-the-meat-paradox-reveals-about-moral-decision-making.</ref>

'''You find the concept of disjuncture in the world's literature.'''

Tolstoy discusses disjuncture as a "contradiction between our life and our christian conscience." His Chapter V provides an extended discussion of the painful disjuncture as caused by lack of [[Alignment]].<Ref>Tolstoy, Leo. The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Classics To Go) EBook: Leo Tolstoy: Amazon.ca: Gateway. Translated by Constance Garnett. CreateSpace, 2016. https://amzn.to/2Dg2jtj</ref>. See the [https://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Talk:Disjuncture Discussion page] for more. "Our whole life is in flat contradiction with all we know, and with all we regard as necessary and right. This contradiction runs through everything, in economic life, in political life, and in international life.<Ref>Tolstoy, Leo. The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Classics To Go) EBook: Leo Tolstoy: Amazon.ca: Gateway. Translated by Constance Garnett. CreateSpace, 2016. https://amzn.to/2Dg2jtj</ref>

One can be disconnected but not in a state of disjuncture. An individual can follow an [[Alignment Rule Set]] to maintain a semblance of [[Alignment]].

A root, disjuncture is caused by [[Wrong Throught]] seeded by the [[Ideological Deceptions]] which are a part of the [[Toxic Socialization]] required for [[System Maintainence]].

Many forms of disjuncture may impact the physical unit. There may be '''behavioral disjuncture''' (i.e. a disjuncture between how Consciousness ''wants'' the body to behave, and how the body actually behaves), '''cognitive disjuncture''' (i.e. a disjuncture between how Consciousness want the body to think and how the body actually things), and even '''emotional disjuncture'''. There more disjuncture there is the more likely a [[Dark Night]] becomes.

Disjuncture causes the [[Highest Self]] to use [[Steering Emotions]] (like guilt and shame) and other forms of communication in an attempt to steer the [[Physical Unit]] in a more aligned direction.
In severe cases of disjuncture, guilt, shame, and anxiety may give way to anguish even mental and emotional collapse (i.e. a so-called [[Dark Night of the Soul]], and even suicide. When an individual is in the depth of disjuncture, suicide prevention hinges on head on acceptance of the disjuncture, non-judgmental support of awareness, and expert guidance designed to reduce disjuncture and encourage [[alignment]].

The correct healing response to disjuncture is always to improve [[Alignment]] and work towards strong [[Connection]]. See the LP [[Alignment Rule Set]] for initial guidance.

Chronic disjuncture and repression lead to [[Pathology]]. Chronic disjuncture leads to stunted physical, psychological, and emotional development (since energy otherwise necessary for development and health is turned towards activating and maintaining repression and other [[Defense Mechanisms]]) and, in serious long-term cases, neurosis, psychosis, disease, and even death. It is thus in the best interests of the physical unit to identify disjuncture and deal with it directly itself into alignment with its own [[Highest Self]].

Maslow felt there were psychological costs to [[disjuncture]]: "But there is also another element in conscience, or, if you like, another kind of conscience, which we all have either weakly or strongly. And this is the “intrinsic conscience.” This is based upon the un conscious and preconscious perception of our own nature, of our own destiny, or our own capacities, of our own “call” in life. It insists that we be true to our inner nature and that we do not deny it out of weakness or for advantage or for any other reason. He who belies his talent, the born painter who sells stockings instead, the intelligent man who lives a stupid life, the man who sees the truth and keeps his mouth shut, the coward who gives up his manliness, all these people perceive in a deep way that they have done wrong to themselves and despise themselves for it. Out of this self-punishment may come only neurosis, but there may equally well come renewed cour age, righteous indignation, increased self-respect, because of thereafter doing the right thing; in a word, growth and im improvement can come through pain and conflict." <ref>Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 7. </ref>

Maslow: "It seems quite clear that personality problems may sometimes be loud protests against the crushing of one’s psychological bones, of one’s true inner nature. What is sick then is not to protest while this crime is being committed." <ref>Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 8.</ref>

'''Maslow has some comments on the psychological utility of shame:''' What healthy people do feel guilty about (or ashamed, anxious, sad, or regretful) are (I) improvable shortcomings, e.g., laziness, thoughtlessness, loss of temper, hurting others; (2) stubborn remnants of psychological ill health, e.g., prejudice, jealousy, envy; (3) habits, which, though relatively independent of character structure, may yet be very strong, or (4) shortcomings of the species or of the culture or of the group with which they have identified. The general formula seems to be that healthy people will feel bad about discrepancies between what is and what might very well be or ought to be...."<ref>Maslow, A.H. Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper & Row, 1954. https://amzn.to/2OSRmlX. p. 157.</ref>

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Zion

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In [[Rastafari]], '''Zion''' is a place of unity, peace, and freedom. Unlike [[Babylon]] which is a place of deception and disconnection, Zion is a place of [[Connection]].
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Qutb

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Qutb, Qutub, Kutb, Kutub or Kotb (Arabic: قطب‎), means 'axis', 'pivot' or 'pole'<Ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb</ref> In Sufism, a Qutb is a perfected Prophet, a perfect manifestation of spirit, and the means by which "Divine revelation...is transmitted."<ref>Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 51.</ref>
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"There are five Qutbs per era and they are infallible and trusted spiritual leaders. They are only revealed to a select group of mystics because there is a "human need for direct knowledge of God." <Ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb</ref>

"The Qutb as a cosmic Principle is head of an invisible hierarchy of Prophets and Saints which extends from the Pole, the Spirit of Muhammadd, through the
manazil (mystic "stations") in such a way that it remains the One Principle, even as it manifests completely in the Perfect Man and in progressively less perfect manifestations as Spiritual Masters (Pirs), Sufis, and all rational beings.".<ref>Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 51.</ref>

"The one Rational Principle is manifested in such a perfect degree in certain men that they deserve to be called the "Vice-regent" of God (al-Khalifa), the "Image" of God (ai-Sura), and even God himself; "Only two beings rightly call themselves God: God Himself who calls Himself Allah in His Books, and the Perfect Man like Bayazld.'"<ref>Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 31.</ref>
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Verbal Psychotherapy

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Verbal Psychotherapy''' is a term used by [[Grof, Stanislav|Stanislav Grof]] to refer to all therapies that rely on discussions between a therapist and client. Grof considers verbal psychotherapy fundamentally ineffective at treating psychological and emotional trauma and recommends either [[Psychedelic Therapy]] or [[Psycholytic Therapy]] as the only viable alternatives.<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>
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Right Path

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Right Path''' is the Islamic term for an [[Authentic Spirituality|authentic spiritual tradition]] ([http://quran.com/2 [[Quran]]:2.18]). A "Right Path'' is a path that leads to re-[[Connection]] with the [[Fabric of Consciousness]] (i.e God/Allah).
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==Notes==

As is written in the [[Quran]], a Right Path is like lightning that "lights the way." [http://quran.com/2 Quran:2.20].

==See Also==

[[Authentic Spirituality]] | [[Lightning Path]]

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La

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<blockquote class="definition">'''La''' is a Buddhist concept syncretic with [[Spiritual Ego]] or [[Resident Monadic Consciousness]]</blockquote>

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"In describing their experiences, the pau sometimes miss the terminological precision of the rinpoché, because they have not had a Buddhist education nor are they literate. Their knowledge comes from tutelage, not from books. For example, they often use the terms la and nam shé interchangeably. In so doing, the pau convey the notion that the la, like the nam shé, is consciousness, which is similar to the belief of other Tibetan shamans. Based on his interviews in Tibet and with shamans in exile, Bellezza (2005, 7) writes that the shamans believe that their “consciousness principle” is the la. Pau Nyima says, “The la is the spirit inside the person” (Sifers 2005, 114). Therefore, the la has an ontology or beingness and is not merely the impersonal psychological function or principle of consciousness, but the spirit of consciousness. The la also has the attributes of sem [sems] (mind and thinking) and rig pa (reasoning and intelligence). The la soul, it seems, is that spirit that constitutes a person, a conscious thinking being.<ref>Peters, Larry. Tibetan Shamanism: Ecstasy and Healing. California: North Atlantic Books, 2016.</ref>

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Holy Spirit

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[[image:SharpDoveLogo.jpg|thumb|The "Dove Logo" represents the descent of the Holy Spirit (i.e. [[Consciousness]]) into [[The Physical Unit]])]].

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'''Holy Spirit''' is a Christian term syncretic with [[Spiritual Ego]].
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==Notes==

"Descent of the Holy Spirit" is the Christian conceptualization of [[Connection]]

The goal of [[Authentic Spirituality]] is [[Connection]] with [[Highest Self]], i.e., the "descent" of the Holy Spirit (i.e. your highest self) into the [[Physical Unit]]

Many passages in the bible refer to the descent of/connection with the holy spirit. e.g., [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+3%3A21-22&version=NIV Luke 3-21-22].

When you are connected, you are filled with the Holy Spirit, e.g., [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4:8&version=NIV Acts 4:8], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4:25&version=NIV Acts 4:25].

When you are full of the Holy Spirit, when you have a strong Connection, you experience [[Connection Events]], e.g., you see visions of glory, [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+7:55&version=NIV Acts 7:55]

The goal of the spiritual activist is to encourage/intend that everyone should "receive" the Holy Spirit [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+8%3A13-15&version=NIV Acts 8:14-15], i.e. become better connected.

Even something simple as being around somebody with a strong connection can facilitate individual and even mass connection "While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message "[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+10%3A44&version=NIV Acts 10:32-55].

As great as the "descent" of the Holy Spirit is, people can resist. “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!" [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+7%3A51&version=NIV Acts 7:51]

The [[Physical Unit]] is a container for the Holy Spirit/Consciousness [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A19&version=NIV Corinthians 6:19].

The "Kingdom of God" is not about materials things, not even about prosperity, it is about strong connection. "For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+14%3A17&version=NIV Romans 24:17]

Connection isn't something only for the "chosen people" ("circumsised believers", i.e. Jews), it is for everybody. "While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. For they heard them speaking in tongues[a] and praising God." [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+10%3A44-46&version=NIV Acts 10:44-46]

The Christian bible is a much more interesting read when you understand the descent of the Holy Spirit as symbolizing connection with [[Consciousness]

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Brahman

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Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) is a Hindu/Vedic term syncretic with the LP concept, [[god with a little "g"]] and with the wider [[Fabric of Consciousness]] in toto. As syncretic with god with a little "g", it refers to the original instantiated monad, the original spark of self-awareness which, because it was bored, unfolded/created all of physical creation. When referring to The Fabric, it refers to the Fabric in totality.
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==Notes==

"Verily, all this is Brahman."<ref>Brahmananda, Swami. ''Spiritual Teachings of Swami Brahmananda''. 2nd ed. Mylapor, Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1933. p. 5</ref>

"Brahman connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe. In major schools of Hindu philosophy, it is the material, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists. It is the pervasive, genderless, infinite, eternal truth and bliss which does not change, yet is the cause of all changes. Brahman as a metaphysical concept is the single binding unity behind diversity in all that exists in the universe. ..The Vedas conceptualize Brahman as the Cosmic Principle. In the Upanishads, it has been variously described as Sat-cit-ānanda (truth-consciousness-bliss) and as the unchanging, permanent, highest reality."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman May 26, 2019</ref>

"Brahma (ब्रह्म) (nominative singular), root bṛh-, means "to be or make firm, strong, solid, expand, promote."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman May 26, 2019</ref>

The term may also refer to someone who has knowledge/experience of Brahman (a brahmin priest ([[The Unfolding]] and its source.

Brahmana (ब्रह्मण): A brahman priest, one who has knowledge of Brahman, related or given by Brahman.

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Connection Intensity

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Connection Intensity''' refers to the level of intensity of a given [[Connection Event]]. The intensity of a connection event can range from mild to intense and even cosmic.
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==Related LP Terms==

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==Notes==

According to Lang and Thalbourne, "the intensity of mystical experiences forms a progression that starts with quite general experiences of happiness, followed by enlightenment by a higher power, and ultimately leading to union with the Absolute." <ref>Lange, Rense, and Michael A. Thalbourne. "The Rasch Scaling of Mystical Experiences: Construct Validity and Correlates of the Mystical Experience Scale (Mes)." The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 17 2 (2007): 130.</ref>

Ralph Waldo Emerson points to the varying intensity of connection experience. <blockquote>... The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration-which is its rarer appearance -to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms, like our household fires, all the families and associations of men, and makes society possible. <ref>Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Over-Soul.” In The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Modern Library, 1950. p. 269.</ref> </blockquote>

"...the intensity can range from a few moments of rapture to several hours of shattering psychological experience."<ref>Allman, Lorraine S., Olivia de la Rocha, David N. Elkins, and Robert S. Weathers. “Psychotherapists’ Attitudes toward Clients Reporting Mystical Experiences.” Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training 29, no. 4 (Win 1992): 565.</ref>

Powerful events are dangerous events: "...it expands you, and if your body is not really healthy it can just blow your circuits out over and over and over again."<Ref>Bender, Courtney. The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. p. 71.</ref> See also [[Flooding]].

Timothy Leary recounts a short duration, high-intensity connection experience induced by [[Dimethyltryptamine]]. "Last fall a minister and his wife, as part of a courageous and dedicated pursuit of illumination, took a psychedelic biochemical called dimethyltryptamine. This wondrous alkaloid (which closely approximates serotonin, the natural "lubricant" of our higher nervous system) produces the most intense psychedelic effect of any sacramental food or drug. In 25 minutes (about the duration of the average sermon), you are whirled through the energy dance, the cosmic process, at the highest psychedelic speed. The 25 minutes are sensed as lasting for a second and for a billion-year Kalpa. After the session, the minister complained that the experience, although shattering and revelatory, was disappointing because it was "content-free"-so physical, so unfamiliar, so scientific, like being beamed through microscopic panoramas, like being oscillated through cellular functions at radar acceleration."<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. 342</ref>

Taylor and Egeto-Szazbo suggest that [[Awakening Experiencess]] range in intensity from low intensity experiences through medium intensity experiences and high-intensity experiences. <ref>Taylor, Steve, and Krisztina Egeto-Szabo. “Exploring Awakening Experiences: A Study of Awakening Experience in Terms of Their Triggers, Characteristics, Duration and After Effects.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 49, no. 1 (January 2017): 45–65. p. 45.</ref>

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Types of experience, from least to most intensive, Insights/intuitive glimmers, Peak Experience, Mystical Glimpse, Mystical Visions, Revelations, transcendent experiences, permanent unions.

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Eudaimonia

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Eudaimonia''' (sometimes translated into "happiness" refers to Aristotle's assertion that the highest human good is the attainment of eudaimonia, or happiness. This is in turn defined as the ability to actualize and become a fully functioning person<ref>Ryan, Richard M., and Edward L. Deci. “The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept.” Psychological Inquiry 11, no. 4 (October 1, 2000): 319–38. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_03</ref>.
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==Syncretic Terms==

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

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Eudaimonia is syncretic with the LP concept of alignment, which sees the body as a vehicle for [[Spiritual Ego]] and sees the goal of life as the development of a fully functioning physical unit capable of providing proper expression of the spiritual ego. Once is happy when one is aligned with the spiritual ego, expressing, and creating in the world as it intends.

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Ansho no zen

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False zen. Zen that teaches untruth and does not help an individula achieve, purify, and strengthen [[Connection]].
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Default Mode Network

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The '''Default Mode Network''' is the neurological root of the [[Bodily Ego]]. The DMN consists of the forebrain, cortical regions, and inner thalamus and hypothalamus.<ref>Sosteric. “The Science of Ascension: A Neurologically Grounded Theory of Mystical/Spiritual Experience,” 2017. https://www.academia.edu/28919294.</ref>
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"The Default Mode Network is called “default” because it is the default activity mode of the brain. Brain structures associated with the DMN become active when you are absent of action, i.e. absent of goal-directed behaviour—when you are doing nothing, basically. When you are doing something like solving a math problem, driving a car, making breakfast, etc., the DMN is in a quiescent state. However, when your mental states are “undirected,” the DMN fires up. The DMN shows “persistent brain activity that is as vigorous as that when individuals solve externally administered math problems” <ref>———. “The Science of Ascension: A Neurologically Grounded Theory of Mystical/Spiritual Experience,” 2017. https://www.academia.edu/28919294.</ref>

"Recent research suggests that the DMN is that part of the brain associated with what Freud would have called your Ego and what I would call, for reasons that become clear in my paper [https://www.academia.edu/28919294/The_Science_of_Ascension_A_Neurologically_Grounded_Theory_of_Mystical_Spiritual_Experience The Science of Ascension], your [[Bodily Ego]]. The DMN includes the medial prefrontal regions (MPFC) which are associated with self-referential processing (i.e. thinking about yourself). The DMN shows activity when one takes a first-person centered perspective and when one is alert and self-aware. More generally, the DMN is a set of specific brain regions involved in “self-cognition”, idiographic memory, speculation about the future, explorative inner thought, and metacognitive activities such as self-reflection."<ref>Sosteric. “The Science of Ascension: A Neurologically Grounded Theory of Mystical/Spiritual Experience,” 2017. https://www.academia.edu/28919294.</ref>

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Enhanced Intellectual Function

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Enhanced Intellectual Function''' is an improvement in one's intellectual power brought about as a consequence of strong [[Connection Experience]], or a series of [[Connection Experiences]]</blockquote>

==Syncretic Terms==

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==List of Connection Outcomes==

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==Notes==

Karl Hanes provides a case report of an individual who, during a connection event of great intensity and long durection, experienced "enhancement of his cognitive abilities"<ref>Hanes, Karl. “Unusual Phenomena Associated With a Transcendent Human Experience: A Case Study.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 44, no. 1 (2012): 36.</ref>

Bucke says "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.<ref>Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness. Book Tree. Kindle Edition.</ref>

Bucke also says "The world peopled by men [sic] possessing cosmic consciousness will be as far removed from the world of today as this is from the world as it was before the advent of self-consciousness.<ref>Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness. Book Tree. Kindle Edition.</ref>

Ikbal Ali Shah<ref>Ikbal Ali Shah. Islamic Sufism. Tractus Books, 2000. p. 17</ref> claims that it has been known for generations that the mystical practices of Sufism induce greater intellectual power.

Aleister Crowley felt that powerful connection experiences (e.g., [[Samadhi]]) led to one's access to "genius" level intelligence. So much so that those who had them would be able to found new religions. <ref>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. p. 63.</ref>

[[William James]] points to some positive [http://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Connection%20Outcomes Connection Outcomes] (specifically [http://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Enhanced%20Intellectual%20Function Enhanced Intellectual Function]) that occurred as a consequence of his use of [[Nitrous Oxide]].<blockquote>Since the preceding article was written, some observations on the effects of nitrous-oxide-gas-intoxication which I was prompted to make by reading the pamphlet called The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy, by Benjamin Paul Blood, Amsterdam, N. Y., 1874, have made me understand better than ever before both the strength and the weakness of Hegel's philosophy. I strongly urge others to repeat the experiment, which with pure gas is short and harmless enough. The effects will of course vary with the individual. Just as they vary in the same individual from time to time; but it is probable that in the former case, as in the latter, a generic resemblance will obtain. With me, as with every other person of whom I have heard, the keynote of the experience is the tremendously exciting sense of an intense metaphysical illumination. Truth lies open to the view in depth beneath depth of almost blinding evidence. The mind sees all the logical relations of being with an apparent subtlety and instantaneity to which its normal consciousness offers no parallel; only as sobriety returns, the feeling of insight fades, and one is left staring vacantly at a few disjointed words and phrases, as one stares at a cadaverous-looking snow-peak from which the sunset glow has just fled, or at the black cinder left by an extinguished brand. <ref>James, William. ''The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy''. Project Gutenberg, 2009. <nowiki>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26659/26659-h/26659-h.htm</nowiki>.</ref></blockquote>

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Gonennoncwal

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<blockquote class="definition">For the [[Huron]], '''Gonennoncwal''' represents the attraction of a particular soul to crtain objects which embody a manifestation of its needs." <ref>Irwin, Lee. “The Huron-Jesuit Relations: Contesting Dreams, Confirming Worldviews.” ''Religion 22'' (1992): 259–70. </ref>
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Recognition of [[Khiondhecwi]] and Ondinoc led to " health and well-being but the inhibition of that need could lead to illness and possibly death." <ref>Irwin, Lee. “The Huron-Jesuit Relations: Contesting Dreams, Confirming Worldviews.” ''Religion 22'' (1992): 259–70. </ref>

Note, the community got together to help satisfy the individuals needs and desires. "In the broader context, the ondinoc of the individual would be announced to the entire village by a chief and all of its members would attempt, as soon as possible, to provide the necessary goods and actions that would lead to the dreamers satisfaction (JR 17:155; Sagard 1939:118). In this way, dreaming functioned dynamically as a religiously motivated basis for processes of social integration and interaction."<ref>Irwin, Lee. “The Huron-Jesuit Relations: Contesting Dreams, Confirming Worldviews.” ''Religion 22'' (1992): 259–70. </ref>

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Connection Cocoon

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<blockquote class="definition">A '''Connection Cocoon''' is a protective space you establish where you can relax, de-stress, meditate, and engage in [[Connection Practice]].</blockquote>

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<blockquote class=definition>The '''Destruction of Attachments''' is a component of a [[Toxic Socialization]] are emotional bonds that connect individuals to each other. Attachments may be categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary. '''Primary Attachments''' are attachments to parents and siblings. '''Secondary Attachments''' are attachments to friends. '''Tertiary Attachments''' are attachments to your job and the community at work. <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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==Elements of Toxic Socialization==

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==Notes==

The breaking of family attachments was a central "feature" of residential schools in Canada

<blockquote>The residential schools also broke family bonds. Daniel Nanooch remembers being separated from his siblings:

“So even though I was there with my sister and I only seen her about four times in that year and we’re in the same building in the same mission. They had a fence in the playground. Nobody was allowed near the fence. The boys played on this side, the girls played on the other side. Nobody was allowed to go to that fence there and talk to the girls through the fence or whatever, you can’t.”<ref>https://pressprogress.ca/14_first_hand_stories_underlining_how_residential_schools_tried_to_get_rid_of_indigenous_cultures/</ref>
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Attachments can be classified into [[Active Atachment]]s, [[Broken Attachment]]s, and [[Inactive Attachment]]s
Destruction of attachments is a component of [[Toxic Socialization]]

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Chakra Pathology

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<blockquote class"definition">'''Chakra Pathology''' is pathology that either [[Chakra Corruption|corrupts]] or [[Chakra Constriction]] energy flow through the body's various chakra points. Since chakra energies are critical for healthy functioning of the [[Physical Unit]], chakra pathology may lead to disability, degeneration, disease, and even death. </blockquote>

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==Notes==

Chakra pathology occurs in one of two forms, either as a [[Chakra Constriction|constriction]] or [[Chakra Corruption|corruption]] of energy flow.

Chakra pathology may lead, during [[Connection Experiences]], to [[Connection Pathology]], like [[Ego Inflation]]

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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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==Notes==

"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>

==Esoteric Schools==

[[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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Buddhism

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==Notes==

"... the basic teachings of the Buddha consist of his forty-five-year-long effort to clarify to others what he considered to be the essential knowledge (''buddhi'') for human well-being."<ref>Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha''. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.</ref>

Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha''. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.

Buddhism has been colonized. This occurred in Sri Lanka as western influences gradually penetrated and corrupted the ancient teachings.
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By the early nineteenth century, under British rule, Buddhism in Sri Lanka was, Bechert writes, “exhibiting serious signs of decay.”10 Significantly, at the same time “the influence of Christian schools and missionaries on the country’s educated classes was rapidly increasing.”11 By mid-century, members of this new Anglophile elite feared that Buddhism would disappear altogether from the island by the end of the century. Precisely the opposite occurred: Buddhism underwent radical reforms, eventually strengthening its standing on the island and beyond. From a traditionalist’s perspective, however, this preservation of Buddhism must have seemed a deal with the devil. The Westernized Sri Lankan leaders of this Buddhist “renewal,” writes Bechert,

<blockquote>used, for the most part and without being fully aware of the fact, methods and arguments copied from their opponents. It benefited these reformers, moreover, that, at that time, there were several highly educated Buddhist monks who possessed the ability to formulate the reformers’ concerns in modern terms, and to bring these concerns closer to their contemporaries whose ways of thinking had been strongly influenced by the European mindset. They recognized the necessity of compromising with modern civilization in order to secure the survival of the Buddhist tradition.12
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Following the designation for similar compromising tendencies unfolding within the Catholic Church at the same time, Bechert employed the term “Buddhist modernism” to capture the basic character of this emerging form of Buddhism.13 He adds that this modernizing tendency would “eventually gain a foothold in every Buddhist country,”14 from where, of course, it would eventually be exported to the West. Perhaps the most striking claim made by Bechert here is that the Westernized Sri Lankan instigators of the reform had so internalized their former opponents’ values that these values were introduced imperceptibly back into the reformed Buddhism as preeminently Buddhist.<ref>Wallis, Glenn. A Critique of Western Buddhism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018</ref></blockquote>'''Theravada Buddhism''', a conservative variety of Buddhism that became dominant in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos), linked to the "great Indian emperor Asoka (270-232 B.C.E), developed and solidified because of his patronage (elite roots of Theravada Buddhism). <ref>Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha''. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.</ref>

'''Mahayana Buddhism''', the "Great vehicle" as opposed to the pejoratively named "older sects" or Hinayana (small vehicle), emerged in the first millennium and spread to regions in northern INdia, Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.<ref>Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha''. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.</ref>

'''Vajrayana Buddhism''' (diamond vehicle)."The second great innovation flourished in India from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, after which Buddhism largely disappeared from the subcontinent. This revolutionary form of Buddhism is known as Vajrayna, “the diamond (''vajra'') vehicle (''yna''),” in reference to its claim to be in possession of practices that lead the practitioner to the indestructible (adamantine, or diamond-like) mind of a ''buddha.'' The popularity of the Vajrayna in India corresponds precisely to the period when Tibetans were scouring India in search of Buddhist teachings, texts, and teachers to bring back to Tibet. " <ref>Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha''. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.</ref>

"Both of these new forms of Buddhism were characterized by creative literary developments. In Mahyna ''stras'' and Vajrayna ''tantras,'' ingenious fashionings of ancient doctrines and practices were worked out and fresh, often startling, innovations developed. In contrast, the Theravda endeavored to preserve what it understood to be the ancient forms of the teachings as expressed in their most ancient formulation, namely, the ''suttas.'' So, the threefold grouping of Buddhism into Theravda, Mahyna, and Vajrayna as a means of arranging the many Buddhist sects and schools into basic family types can be used to organize the thousands of volumes that constitute Buddhist literature. Such a division is borne out in the three great collections of Buddhist literature, referred to by scholars as the Pli canon, the Chinese canon, and the Tibetan canon. (These collections are discussed further shortly.)"

'''The Buddha's Words?'''

"...we do not know what that wording was; in fact, we do not even know in which ''language'' the Buddha uttered those words. None of the versions of the teachings as we now have them is in a language that the Buddha would have spoken, and each reveals considerable editing over a considerable span of time. "<ref>Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha''. New York: The Modern Library, 2007</ref>

"all Buddhist literature, whatever its origins, is just that: literature. It is always words on the page, words in the ear. The terms used by the world’s religious traditions, such as “canon,” “scripture,” “sacred work,” “holy book,” “the revealed word,” are at heart just ways of dressing up crafted human compositions as pristinely “religious.” Whether Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, or Christian, such works are ''never''pristine: every page of every “sacred” work is smudged with the handprints of its creators through the ages. <ref>Wallis, Glenn. ''Basic Teachings of the Buddha''. New York: The Modern Library, 2007</ref>"

==Additional Reading==
Wallis, Glenn. Basic Teachings of the Buddha. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.

Wallis, Glenn. A Critique of Western Buddhism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

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Generic Apocalyptic Narrative

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Generic Apocalyptic Narrative'''' is an [[Eschatological Discourse]] "about the events that will lead up to the days."<ref>Kintz, Linda. Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America. London: Duke University Press, 1997. https://amzn.to/2o1eJQO</ref>. This narrative includes "a sense of history as a divinely predetermined totality, a sense of pessimism about the present and the conviction of imminent crisis, and a belief in the judgment of evil and the triumph of good."<ref>Kintz, Linda. Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America. London: Duke University Press, 1997. p. 8-89https://amzn.to/2o1eJQO</ref>
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Intellectualization

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'''Intellectualization''' is an [[Awareness Reduction Mechanisms]] that the [[Bodily Ego]] uses to avoid uncomfortable confrontation with reality. Intellectualization involves engrossing oneself in the cognitive/intellectuals aspects of a situation to the point where you completely disregard the uncomfortable emotional aspects that are involved. </blockquote>

==Other Awareness Reduction Mechanisms==

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==Notes==

Intellectualization is a form of informational positioning in which one concentrates on the intellectual components of a situation so as to distance oneself emotionally. For example, an individual who has experienced sexual assault seeks information on other cases and the psychology of rapists and victims. The individual takes self-defence classes in order to feel safer rather than directly addressing the psychological and emotional issues. Or, a pedophile having sex with 12-year-old intellectualizes by showing statistics that children legally marry adult men in some cultures.

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COEX Root

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''COEX Root''' is the root experience of a COEX system. The root of COEX system is formed when an emotionally significant event becomes imprinted in the memory structures of the [[Physical Unit]]. The event that established the COEX root may be positive or negative (though in our society, and with our current birth practices, most COEX Roots are negative). </blockquote>

==Related LP Terms==

[[COEX Systems]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::COEX Systems]]}}

'''Exogenous to the LP'''

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

==Notes==

Most, though not all, negative COEX roots are established in the perinatal period. Once established, the COEX Root becomes a magnetic attractor for similar experiences. Negative experiences that are similar in visual, metaphoric, or affective impact will be attracted to the COEX root and will reinforce the root. If reinforcement occurs over a long period of time, the [[COEX System]] that forms may become an active, powerful, and influential psychological structure within the mind of the physical unit. This is beneficial in the case of positive COEX Systems and should be encourages via the provision of proper economic and social supports. Negative COEX Systems which become strong and salient may lead to psychological and even physical dysfunction in the long term.

There can be no guidelines on the identification of COEX Systems or their roots beyond the statement that any significant emotional event may form the basis of a COEX Root. The difficulty in providing guidelines arises as a result of the nature of the COEX System. When a COEX Root is established in the gray matter of the physical unit, the COEX System exists as a barely defined, marginally significant psychological structure. However, subsequent experiences will help to ''define'' and strengthen the system. For example, chemical assaults during the perinatal phase may form a root experience associated with the violation of boundaries, unwilling impositions, or even physical distaste and distress of having powerful chemicals injected the sensitive apparatus of the physical unit. If no other similar assaults are forthcoming, the root may dissipate over time. However subsequent events can reinforce and define the original root. For example, birth into a fundamentalist religious family with a fire and brimstone approach to child rearing may provide fertile ground for reinforcing experiences. The child's exposure to violent punishment, for example, justified by references to hellfire and damnation, may provide additional experiences which, when attracted to the original root, provide psychological nuance to the COEX System. These strengthening and definitional experiences will grow over time and will depend entirely on the individual and idiographic details of the case. In other words, each case is entirely unique. The implications for therapy, and the amount of work involved when attempting to dissolve invoke a COEX Root and dissolve a COEX System, should be apparent.

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Default Mode Network

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The '''Default Mode Network''' is the neurological root of the [[Bodily Ego]]. The DMN consists of the forebrain, cortical regions, and inner thalamus and hypothalamus.<ref>Sosteric. “The Science of Ascension: A Neurologically Grounded Theory of Mystical/Spiritual Experience,” 2017. https://www.academia.edu/28919294.</ref>
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==Notes==

"The Default Mode Network is called “default” because it is the default activity mode of the brain. Brain structures associated with the DMN become active when you are absent of action, i.e. absent of goal-directed behaviour—when you are doing nothing, basically. When you are doing something like solving a math problem, driving a car, making breakfast, etc., the DMN is in a quiescent state. However, when your mental states are “undirected,” the DMN fires up. The DMN shows “persistent brain activity that is as vigorous as that when individuals solve externally administered math problems” <ref>———. “The Science of Ascension: A Neurologically Grounded Theory of Mystical/Spiritual Experience,” 2017. https://www.academia.edu/28919294.</ref>

"Recent research suggests that the DMN is that part of the brain associated with what Freud would have called your Ego and what I would call, for reasons that become clear in my paper [https://www.academia.edu/28919294/The_Science_of_Ascension_A_Neurologically_Grounded_Theory_of_Mystical_Spiritual_Experience The Science of Ascension], your [[Bodily Ego]]. The DMN includes the medial prefrontal regions (MPFC) which are associated with self-referential processing (i.e. thinking about yourself). The DMN shows activity when one takes a first-person centered perspective and when one is alert and self-aware. More generally, the DMN is a set of specific brain regions involved in “self-cognition”, idiographic memory, speculation about the future, explorative inner thought, and metacognitive activities such as self-reflection."<ref>Sosteric. “The Science of Ascension: A Neurologically Grounded Theory of Mystical/Spiritual Experience,” 2017. https://www.academia.edu/28919294.</ref>

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Connection Space

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<blockquote class="definition">A '''Connection Space''' is a space devoted to connection practice. It can be your bedroom, a special room in the house, a quiet and safe walking path, etc. Connection spaces are generally quiet, peaceful, well organized, and ''safe'', with established and consistent boundaries.<ref>Sosteric, Mike & Ratkovic, Gina. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-three-connection/.</ref></blockquote>

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Perinatal Realm

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According to Stanislav Grof, the '''Perinatal Realm''' (meaning near/around) is one of three [[Dimensions of the Psyche]] (a.k.a. Realms of the Psyche) within which is stored information and experiences and through which an individual must pass as they heal trauma,<ref>Grof, Stanislav. ''Realms of the Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research.'' New York: Viking Press, 1976.</ref> and reintegrate their [[Spiritual Ego]] and [[Bodily Ego]]. The perinatal realm "lies immediately beyond (or beneath) the [[Biographical Realm]]." In includes experiences a few days or weeks before and after birth. It "has close connections with the beginning of life and its end, with birth and death."<ref>“Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 14. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref> </blockquote>

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==Notes==

Grof notes that traditional psychiatry "denies the possibility of a psychotramatic impact of biological birth." He further notes this denial is astonishing given what we know about the brain and suggests that such " blatant logical contradiction appearing in rigorous scientific thinking is unbelievable and has to be the result of a profound emotional repression to which the memory of birth is subjected." <ref>“Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 14. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

An important core of perinatal experiences is the reliving of various aspects of the birth process. "It often involves photographic details and occurs even in people who have no intellectual knowledge about their birth. The replay of the original birth situation can be very convincing. We can, for example, discover through direct experience that we had a breech birth, that forceps were used during our delivery, or that we were born with the umbilical cord twisted around the neck. We can feel the anxiety, biological fury, physical pain, and suffocation associated with this terrifying event and even accurately recognize the type of anesthesia used when we were born."<ref>“Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 15. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

Reliving of birth experiences "is often accompanied by various physical manifestations that can be noticed by an external observer. The postures and movements of the body, arms, and legs, as well as the rotations, flections, and deflections of the head can accurately recreate the mechanics of a particular type of delivery, even in people without elementary obstetric knowledge. Bruises, swellings, and other vascular changes can unexpectedly appear on the skin in the places where the forceps was applied, the wall of the birth canal was pressing on the head, or where the umbilical cord was constricting the throat. The accuracy of ll [sic] these details can be confirmed if good birth records or reliable personal witnesses are available."<ref>“Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 15. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

Perinatal experiences also lead beyond the individual level and may facilitate connection with the archetypal or transpersonal realms. As Grof notes "The specific symbolism of these experiences comes from the Jungian collective unconscious, not from the individual memory banks. It can thus draw on any spiritual tradition of the world, quite independently from the subject’s cultural or religious background and intellectual knowledge."<ref>“Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 15. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

As Grof notes, "Perinatal phenomena occur in four distinct experiential patterns characterized by specific emotions, physical feelings, and symbolic images. Each of them is closely related to one of the four consecutive periods of biological delivery." <ref>“Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 15. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref> Grof speaks of these "four dynamic constellations of the deep unconscious that are associated with the trauma of birth as Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPMs)."<ref>“Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 16. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

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