Enlightenment
Enlightenment is a sudden increase in awareness leading to a sudden realization or understanding during or following a Connection Experience. Enlightenment is a Connection Outcome. Enlightenment is an example of the Enhanced Intellectual Function that arises upon repeated Connection Experience
Syncretic Terms
List of Connection Outcomes
Connection Outcome > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Permanent Connection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union
Notes
The term enlightenment was popularized by "the German philologist and Orientalist Max Müller (1823–1900), who translated the Sanskrit bodhi as enlightenment."[1]
Note the Sanskrit term Bodhi has a wider meaning then just awakening but awakening, illuminated, enlightened, having attained perfect knowledge and truth, etc.
According to the LP, Enlightenment (more appropriately known as Awakening), is the process of filling "the cup" with Consciousness. It is the ongoing process whereby the monadic consciousness seats itself in the Physical Unit. Awakening is a physical process and depends largely proper Development of the physical unit. A physical unit that has been properly Developed will awaken (i.e. enlighten) as part of the natural maturation process.
According to R.M. Bucke, this "intellectual enlightenment or illumination" is so potent and powerful that it can "place the individual on a new plane of existence—would make him almost a member of a new species."[2]
There's a lot of confusion in the literature on what enlightenment means.
As used in the new age movement, it is an opaque[3] and easily confused concept.
Additional Reading
Jacobs, Bas J. H. “Getting off the Wheel: A Conceptual History of the New Age Concept of Enlightenment.” Numen 67 (2020): 373–401. Jacobs provides an interesting historical overview of the concepts of enlightenment, nirvana, and moksa as they enter the New Age movement.
Footnotes
- ↑ Jacobs, Bas J. H. “Getting off the Wheel: A Conceptual History of the New Age Concept of Enlightenment.” Numen 67 (2020): 373–401. p. 376.
- ↑ Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness. Book Tree. Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Jacobs, Bas J. H. “Getting off the Wheel: A Conceptual History of the New Age Concept of Enlightenment.” Numen 67 (2020): 373–401.
