<p>Question 3</p>
<p>In one of the online lectures, the teachers mentions that Self-observation is not void of analysis. How would that happen in practice? Would one see an event, look at the centers involved, and then reflect? Would one use the mind, of just keep the event in one's awareness (like in meditation)?</p>
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<p>In one of the online lectures, the teachers mentions that Self-observation is not void of analysis. How would that happen in practice? Would one see an event, look at the centers involved, and then reflect? Would one use the mind, of just keep the event in one's awareness (like in meditation)?</p>
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Accepted Answer
There are many levels of being. What we want to develop in our meditations and daily life is the quality of conscious analysis and discrimination of internal/external phenomena. This is not an intellectual process, and can only be discovered through patient work and consistent practice from moment to moment. Analysis is not the mentation of intellectual animals, but the comprehension of superior states of consciousness. Dianoia, the awakened consciousness, means, "revision of beliefs." This goes against our common, unconscious experience and dives into a new world of psychological impressions and phenomena. For that, we have to be patient, to learn how to analyze the ego without the common intellect, but to develop cognition of the Innermost within our interior.
Do not expect to learn this overnight. It comes from years of practice. But you can taste and experience these principles and get results within a short period of time, in accordance with the strength of your work. Do not rush to comprehend these things, but be patient with yourself as you learn new things about the nature of perception, consciousness and the interior worlds of others.
This involves the superior intellectual center, which receives concepts, ideas and mental forms that do not come from the ego, but from the Being. To recognize these impulses, we must have a receptive mind from moment to moment, to not identify with the splurge and torrent of divergent thought processes. Instead, superior concepts come from God and represent a convergent (unified) consciousness. Knowing the difference is a matter of daily work and practical experience.
It may happen in meditation or in a daily moment where you suddenly are struck by an idea that comes from nowhere. This lightning bolt of consciousness is the quality of superior thoughts. All of the world's great inventions come from this process, whereby capable persons, spiritual or not, were inoculated with superior ideas for the well being of humanity. This has been intentional on the part of the White Lodge, in accordance with Karma.
When you observe an ego, you should be able to comprehend where it comes from in your three brains, how it manifests, how it feeds, how and why it works, and what it wants, rather than our persons being victims of identification. Identification signifies the loss of our energy by expending it through egoic action. We must learn to separate from inferior states of being and to consciously question what arises within ourselves. This is not a morbid disassociation from life, as some belief, but an intensification of life, whereby we come to truly live the moment in its purity and flow. Analysis of the consciousness is like this. It is not rigid and fixed, but fluctuating, changing and dynamic. These are some of the psychological characteristics of the state of the new, which can only be understood by diving in its waters.
Do not expect to learn this overnight. It comes from years of practice. But you can taste and experience these principles and get results within a short period of time, in accordance with the strength of your work. Do not rush to comprehend these things, but be patient with yourself as you learn new things about the nature of perception, consciousness and the interior worlds of others.
This involves the superior intellectual center, which receives concepts, ideas and mental forms that do not come from the ego, but from the Being. To recognize these impulses, we must have a receptive mind from moment to moment, to not identify with the splurge and torrent of divergent thought processes. Instead, superior concepts come from God and represent a convergent (unified) consciousness. Knowing the difference is a matter of daily work and practical experience.
It may happen in meditation or in a daily moment where you suddenly are struck by an idea that comes from nowhere. This lightning bolt of consciousness is the quality of superior thoughts. All of the world's great inventions come from this process, whereby capable persons, spiritual or not, were inoculated with superior ideas for the well being of humanity. This has been intentional on the part of the White Lodge, in accordance with Karma.
When you observe an ego, you should be able to comprehend where it comes from in your three brains, how it manifests, how it feeds, how and why it works, and what it wants, rather than our persons being victims of identification. Identification signifies the loss of our energy by expending it through egoic action. We must learn to separate from inferior states of being and to consciously question what arises within ourselves. This is not a morbid disassociation from life, as some belief, but an intensification of life, whereby we come to truly live the moment in its purity and flow. Analysis of the consciousness is like this. It is not rigid and fixed, but fluctuating, changing and dynamic. These are some of the psychological characteristics of the state of the new, which can only be understood by diving in its waters.
Joyful in hope, suffering in tribulation, be thou constant in thy prayer.
Benedictis, qui venit in nomine Domini. Osanna in excelsis.
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!"
Accepted Answer
There are many levels of being. What we want to develop in our meditations and daily life is the quality of conscious analysis and discrimination of internal/external phenomena. This is not an intellectual process, and can only be discovered through patient work and consistent practice from moment to moment. Analysis is not the mentation of intellectual animals, but the comprehension of superior states of consciousness. Dianoia, the awakened consciousness, means, "revision of beliefs." This goes against our common, unconscious experience and dives into a new world of psychological impressions and phenomena. For that, we have to be patient, to learn how to analyze the ego without the common intellect, but to develop cognition of the Innermost within our interior.
Do not expect to learn this overnight. It comes from years of practice. But you can taste and experience these principles and get results within a short period of time, in accordance with the strength of your work. Do not rush to comprehend these things, but be patient with yourself as you learn new things about the nature of perception, consciousness and the interior worlds of others.
This involves the superior intellectual center, which receives concepts, ideas and mental forms that do not come from the ego, but from the Being. To recognize these impulses, we must have a receptive mind from moment to moment, to not identify with the splurge and torrent of divergent thought processes. Instead, superior concepts come from God and represent a convergent (unified) consciousness. Knowing the difference is a matter of daily work and practical experience.
It may happen in meditation or in a daily moment where you suddenly are struck by an idea that comes from nowhere. This lightning bolt of consciousness is the quality of superior thoughts. All of the world's great inventions come from this process, whereby capable persons, spiritual or not, were inoculated with superior ideas for the well being of humanity. This has been intentional on the part of the White Lodge, in accordance with Karma.
When you observe an ego, you should be able to comprehend where it comes from in your three brains, how it manifests, how it feeds, how and why it works, and what it wants, rather than our persons being victims of identification. Identification signifies the loss of our energy by expending it through egoic action. We must learn to separate from inferior states of being and to consciously question what arises within ourselves. This is not a morbid disassociation from life, as some belief, but an intensification of life, whereby we come to truly live the moment in its purity and flow. Analysis of the consciousness is like this. It is not rigid and fixed, but fluctuating, changing and dynamic. These are some of the psychological characteristics of the state of the new, which can only be understood by diving in its waters.
Do not expect to learn this overnight. It comes from years of practice. But you can taste and experience these principles and get results within a short period of time, in accordance with the strength of your work. Do not rush to comprehend these things, but be patient with yourself as you learn new things about the nature of perception, consciousness and the interior worlds of others.
This involves the superior intellectual center, which receives concepts, ideas and mental forms that do not come from the ego, but from the Being. To recognize these impulses, we must have a receptive mind from moment to moment, to not identify with the splurge and torrent of divergent thought processes. Instead, superior concepts come from God and represent a convergent (unified) consciousness. Knowing the difference is a matter of daily work and practical experience.
It may happen in meditation or in a daily moment where you suddenly are struck by an idea that comes from nowhere. This lightning bolt of consciousness is the quality of superior thoughts. All of the world's great inventions come from this process, whereby capable persons, spiritual or not, were inoculated with superior ideas for the well being of humanity. This has been intentional on the part of the White Lodge, in accordance with Karma.
When you observe an ego, you should be able to comprehend where it comes from in your three brains, how it manifests, how it feeds, how and why it works, and what it wants, rather than our persons being victims of identification. Identification signifies the loss of our energy by expending it through egoic action. We must learn to separate from inferior states of being and to consciously question what arises within ourselves. This is not a morbid disassociation from life, as some belief, but an intensification of life, whereby we come to truly live the moment in its purity and flow. Analysis of the consciousness is like this. It is not rigid and fixed, but fluctuating, changing and dynamic. These are some of the psychological characteristics of the state of the new, which can only be understood by diving in its waters.
Joyful in hope, suffering in tribulation, be thou constant in thy prayer.
Benedictis, qui venit in nomine Domini. Osanna in excelsis.
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!"
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