delayed gratification
A person's ability to delay gratification relates to other similar skills such as patience, impulse control, self-control and willpower, all of which are involved in self-regulation -- wikipedia.
Spirituality
correlation between prayer and level of consciousness
Request: There seems to be a relationship between prayer and awareness. From a linear perspective, it feels like asking to hear for a specific thing makes you more likely to listen for it.
Percent of mankind per level of consciousness
Shiny, new chart and exposition.
level: it's shameful to be wrong
This positionality is a vulnerability to negative, extra consciousnesses and lower astral takeover. In truth, it's not shameful to be wrong. You'll survive it. In fact, one need not be phased by it at all.
joyful waitingness
Request: A state of calm curiosity and wonder at how things will resolve and come about. Reassurance that everything will be in order, just not yet knowing how.
parasite
Not necessarily reserved for insects. There are also spiritual parasites.
surrendering the desire for enlightenment
Request: Seeking enlightenment feels very stressful. Maybe giving up wanting it will facilitate realizing it?
wanting to meet the deceased in the afterlife
Request: Grief or integrity?
statement: Mind is communal
Request: The idea that we all partake in the same mind, just with different awarenesses of its nature and contents.
Matthieu Ricard
"the world's happiest man"... The accolade comes as he participated in a 12-year brain study on meditation and compassion led by a neuroscientist from the University of Wisconsin -- tbsnews.net.
statement: God is giving
Request: The fundamental nature of God seems to be permissive and wholly giving. Is this a principle quality of it?
the "me and God" relationship
Includes calibrations of this relationship as practiced in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism.
ego (concept)
Ego has a wide range of definitions, depending on context.
percentage of marriages in which the partners are at similar levels of consciousness
Similar vs. same. By request.
magnitude of Luciferic temptation
Request: this information would be useful in understanding the extent of temptation.