statement: reality is eternally beautiful
Calibrated alternately with lower-case "r" and upper-case "R."
Spirituality
The Diamond Approach
Priority request: Recommended by a friend. A spiritual practice centered on 'Diamond Inquiry', where individuals explore their inner experiences to uncover deeper truths and essential qualities like love, joy, and peace.
New Earth Relationships: A Guide For Couples In The 21st Century
"Inspires couples to awaken to their higher purpose: love relationships as a means to enlightenment" -- amazon.
Great White Brotherhood
Priority request: An order of people out there with some bold claims. They claim to be in service to God and humanity. One came to me in a time of great emotional strife, and I'm wondering if I'm being sent the assistance I've been praying for, or if I'm being preyed upon.
level: feelings / instincts are the source of life
Request: “But if my body tells me I’m hungry and I don’t eat I’ll die!”
no one's judging you but yourself
Despite the inner experience of feeling judged.
chaos vs. control (article)
The ego is an agent of chaos and the spiritualized ego is an agent of control. Yet they actually belong to the same attractor. Each is but one side of an identical, dualistic attractor field. Because they're the same field, the karma of control is chaos, and the karma of chaos is control.
statement: spiritual progress carries over to the next lifetime
Request: I suspect this to be true to some extent, but repeating this helps unload my expectations for my spiritual progress.
nothing is causing anything vs. everything is causing everything
The former is mentioned multiple times in I: Reality & Subjectivity. The latter was expressed in a lecture, as I recall, though perhaps not in those exact words.
"There are no negative feelings"
Priority request: one would have to first recognize them as illusion. Instead, this statement is more used like wishy washy, relativistic pop-psych advice that validates base level rage and grief (or any EC activity) and then permits them to run rampant in the psyche.
The Surrender Experiment, by Michael Singer
"Singer shares how this pivotal decision to embrace the flow of life led him to extraordinary success, sustained him through times of crisis, and allowed him to cultivate profound inner peace" -- amazon. Priority request.
foundational illusions, vol. 2 (9 calibrations)
More illusions confronted on the journey to enlightenment.
accommodating the spiritual ego of others
Letting them have the "win."
"don't spoil it with thinking"
As spiritual students, we know thinking is overrated, but how much so?
average level of consciousness at birth
For mankind. Plus average level of consciousness change in a lifetime.