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Michael at 13:39, 13 October 2026

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	===The Three Rs of Alignment~~<ref>For more on the Three Rs, see Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>~~===		===The Three Rs of Alignment===

	[[Three Rs of Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Three R of Alignment]]}}		[[Three Rs of Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Three R of Alignment]]\|format=ul}}

	===The Three Ws of Misalignment<ref>For more on the Three Ws, see Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>===

			===The Three Ws of Misalignment===
	[[Three Ws of Mislignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Three W of Misalignment]]}}		[[Three Ws of Mislignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Three W of Misalignment]]}}

Michael at 13:35, 3 September 2026

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	Yoga -> eight limbs of yoga (yoga sutra 1.12) includes "ethical discipline" and self-discipline as keys.		Yoga -> eight limbs of yoga (yoga sutra 1.12) includes "ethical discipline" and self-discipline as keys.
	<blockquote>There is nothing in the world easier than goodness and nothing more difficult than depravity. By ‘goodness’ is meant tranquility of mind, undisturbed by cupidity. By ‘depravity’ is meant a grasping spirit with many cravings. He who is satisfied with the simple needs of his nature, refusing the superflousdelights of the world, will not be tempted by any seductions. He who follows the law of his nature, will preserve his soul, without any inward conlicts. Hence the statement ‘It is easy to be good.’ Clambering up city walls, scaling dangerous heights, thieving the official keys, forging and stealing official money, rebelling and murdering, lying and bearing false witness, are acts contrary to human nature. Hence the saying, ‘It is diffcult to be bad.’ '''Huai Nan Tzû''' <ref>Perry, Whiteall N. ''A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom''. Lousville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2000.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>There is nothing in the world easier than goodness and nothing more difficult than depravity. By ‘goodness’ is meant tranquility of mind, undisturbed by cupidity. By ‘depravity’ is meant a grasping spirit with many cravings. He who is satisfied with the simple needs of his nature, refusing the superflousdelights of the world, will not be tempted by any seductions. He who follows the law of his nature, will preserve his soul, without any inward conlicts. Hence the statement ‘It is easy to be good.’ Clambering up city walls, scaling dangerous heights, thieving the official keys, forging and stealing official money, rebelling and murdering, lying and bearing false witness, are acts contrary to human nature. Hence the saying, ‘It is diffcult to be bad.’ '''Huai Nan Tzû''' <ref>Perry, Whiteall N. ''A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom''. Lousville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2000.</ref></blockquote>

			==== Oglala Sioux ====
			<blockquote>...with the Sioux, and with all traditional peoples in general, the “power” (really the sacredness) of a being or a thing is in proportion to its nearness to its prototype; or better, it is in proportion to the ability of the object or act to reflect most directly the principle or principles which are in Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit, who is One.<ref>Joseph Epes Brown, editor of Black Elk, ''The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953), 4.</ref></blockquote>

	==== The Huichol ====		==== The Huichol ====

Michael at 12:31, 3 September 2026

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	==Concept Map==		==Concept Map==

	===Key Terms===		===Key Terms ===


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	"Such people become far more self-sufficient and self-contained. The determinants which govern them are now primarily inner ones, rather than social or environmental. They are the laws of their own inner nature, their potentialities and capacities, their talents, their latent resources, their creative impulses, their needs to know themselves and to become more and more integrated and unified, more and more aware of what they really are, of what they really want, of what their call or vocation or fate is to be."<ref>Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 35.</ref>		"Such people become far more self-sufficient and self-contained. The determinants which govern them are now primarily inner ones, rather than social or environmental. They are the laws of their own inner nature, their potentialities and capacities, their talents, their latent resources, their creative impulses, their needs to know themselves and to become more and more integrated and unified, more and more aware of what they really are, of what they really want, of what their call or vocation or fate is to be."<ref>Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 35.</ref>

			"We should understand well that all things are the works of the Great Spirit. We should know that He is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and all the fourlegged animals, and the winged peoples; and even more important, we should understand that He is also above all these things and peoples. When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as He intends."<ref>Black Elk, ''The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953), xx.</ref>

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Michael at 15:33, 2 September 2026

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	[[Lightning Path ~~Human Development Framework~~]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key term::Lightning Path]]\|format=ul}}		[[Lightning Path]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key term::Lightning Path]]\|format=ul}}

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Michael at 15:33, 2 September 2026

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Michael at 15:17, 2 September 2026

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	'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]] ([[Inner Alignment]]), and also one's family, community, and society ([[Outer Alignment]]). When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we ''grow'' towards wholeness, integration, and the manifestation of our will and full potential. </blockquote>		'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]] ([[Inner Alignment]]), and also one's family, community, and society ([[Outer Alignment]]). When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we ''grow'' towards wholeness, integration, and the manifestation of our will and full potential. </blockquote>

	~~[[File:Seven Essential Needs.png\|alt=Mike Sosteric's Seven Essential Needs \|center\|thumb\|Seven Essential Needs]]~~

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Michael at 12:27, 1 September 2026

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	The concept behind alignment is not new, the LP simply names it clearly.		The concept behind alignment is not new, the LP simply names it clearly.

			Aristotle noted "...human good turns out to be activity of soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete." <ref>Nicomachean Ethics I.7 (1098a16–18).</ref> Aristotle further noted that alignment must be practiced over the course of a life-time and that aligned action produces [[Eudaimonia]].

	'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we thereby lose our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>		'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we thereby lose our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>

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	'''Erich Fromm''' indicated that " heteronomous interference with the child’s and the later person's growth process is the deepest root of mental pathology, especially of destructiveness."		'''Erich Fromm''' indicated that " heteronomous interference with the child’s and the later person's growth process is the deepest root of mental pathology, especially of destructiveness."

			'''Erich Fromm quotes Spinoza,''' notes that failure to align (to approach our inner nature) leads to '''sorrow and decay:''' "In order not to decay, we must strive to approach the “model of human nature,” that is, we must be optimally free, rational, active. We must become what we can be. This is to be understood as the good that is potentially inherent in our nature. Spinoza understands “good” as “everything which we are certain is a means by which we may approach nearer and nearer to the model of human nature we have set before us”; he under¬ stands “evil” as “on the contrary . . . everything which we are certain hinders us from reaching that model” (Ethics, 4, Pref¬ ace). Joy is good; sorrow (tristitia, better translated as “sadness,” “gloom”) is bad. Joy is virtue; sadness is sin." <ref>Erich Fromm, ''To Have or to Be?'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 119.

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	Alignment is one of six [[Connection Requirements]] listed in the LP [[Connection Framework]].<ref>Erich Fromm, ''To Have or to Be?'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 80.</ref>		Alignment is one of six [[Connection Requirements]] listed in the LP [[Connection Framework]].<ref>Erich Fromm, ''To Have or to Be?'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 80.</ref>

Michael at 14:19, 29 August 2026

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	'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]] ([[Inner Alignment]]), and also one's family, community, and society ([[Outer Alignment]]). When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we ~~are~~ grow towards wholeness, integration, and the manifestation of our will and full potential. On the [[LP]], alignment may be initiated and facilitated via efforts to establish the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], these being [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>		'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]] ([[Inner Alignment]]), and also one's family, community, and society ([[Outer Alignment]]). When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we ''grow'' towards wholeness, integration, and the manifestation of our will and full potential. </blockquote>

	[[File:Seven Essential Needs.png\|alt=Mike Sosteric's Seven Essential Needs \|center\|thumb\|Seven Essential Needs]]		[[File:Seven Essential Needs.png\|alt=Mike Sosteric's Seven Essential Needs \|center\|thumb\|Seven Essential Needs]]
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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	On the LP ~~we subsume~~ the ~~concept~~ of [[~~Self-Actualization~~]] ~~within the Needs Category of~~ [[~~Alignment~~]]~~. The drive to self-actualization becomes the drive for~~ [[~~Inner Alignment~~]] ~~to actualize one's inner potential, to act in accordance with the "grow in terms of their own nature~~."<ref>~~Erich Fromm, ''To Have or to Be?'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 78.~~</ref> ~~We also have a drive four [[Outer Alignment]]~~, ~~which is~~ the ~~drive to align with the familial, social, and societal~~.		On the [[LP]], alignment may be initiated and facilitated via efforts to establish the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], these being [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref>

			The concept behind alignment is not new, the LP simply names it clearly.

	'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we thereby lose our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>		'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we thereby lose our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>
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	Alignment may refer to individual alignment, as when, as individuals, we are in alignment with and tuned to our own [[Highest Self]]. Alignment may also refer to collective reality, as when our institutions, our planet, and even the entirety of creation is "in alignment" with Consciousness.		Alignment may refer to individual alignment, as when, as individuals, we are in alignment with and tuned to our own [[Highest Self]]. Alignment may also refer to collective reality, as when our institutions, our planet, and even the entirety of creation is "in alignment" with Consciousness.

	Alignment is also a practice, in as much as we must practice alignment in order to achieve and strengthen [[Connection]]. Alignment is achieved via the [[Three Rs of Alignment]] which are [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]].<ref> Sosteric, Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>

	[[Spontaneous Alignment]] is possible, particularly in cases of spontaneous or induced [[Connection]].		[[Spontaneous Alignment]] is possible, particularly in cases of spontaneous or induced [[Connection]].
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	'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we thereby lose our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>		'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we thereby lose our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>

			'''Spinoza''' "I say that we act when anything is done, either within us or without us, of which we are the adequate cause, that is to say, when from our nature anything follows, either within or without us, which by that nature alone can be clearly and distinctly understood. On the other hand I say that we suffer when anything is done within us, or when anything follows from our nature of which we are not the cause except partially” (Ethics, 3, def. 2).<ref>Quoted in Erich Fromm, ''To Have or to Be?'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 94.</ref>

	'''Erich Fromm''' indicated that " heteronomous interference with the child’s and the later person's growth process is the deepest root of mental pathology, especially of destructiveness."		'''Erich Fromm''' indicated that " heteronomous interference with the child’s and the later person's growth process is the deepest root of mental pathology, especially of destructiveness."