(01-04-2012, 12:28 PM)ShinAr Wrote: The 'default state' is the root which attaches, and is not severed as we build on our intellect until we begin to understand that everything that we have built upon is that root building block. Our entire identification of what we believe to be our self and ego is rooted in the early stages of that root becoming what we think we are.That's why Ra associated 'ego' (which merely means 'I') with the lower, yellow-ray center. And as polarity increases to the green center, we start to explore the transpersonal awareness and states, starting with the subjective awareness from the standpoint of the personal unconscious. That initial experience of green-ray is where inflation of relativism comes into play (and is the start of the so-called 'Initiation').
(01-04-2012, 12:28 PM)ShinAr Wrote: Transcending from that state of thinking with the flesh comes when we understand that we are more than the sum of that experience, and are capable of thinking via our consciousness, instead of our flesh/brain. In this means of experiencing reality our field is exaggerated and becomes the 'feeler' for our environment, instead of our physical senses as we have known this life prior. But this is all outside of the topic of this thread and so I will leave you with that thought in response to your remarks.It's really simpler than that. What you are calling 'understanding' or 'gnosis' is merely what I've been calling (and Ra refers to as) 'honesty' which comes a little further after some work in balancing of the green-ray center, where blue-ray center is activated and accessed. The adept can utilize that blue-ray center to 'see into' or 'speak to' or 'listen to' the heart of self, other-self or an object for example.
(01-04-2012, 06:19 PM)Namaste Wrote:It is an interesting approach and still largely relevant. Assagioli has been credited with defining the term "Higher Self" (which Ra uses as part of their vocabulary, and I'm sure a concept everyone is familiar with by now).(01-04-2012, 10:48 AM)zenmaster Wrote:(01-04-2012, 08:15 AM)Namaste Wrote: ZM, out of interest, have you studied psychology?Some informal reading in analytical, transpersonal and developmental areas, including Jung, Assagioli, Wilber, Piaget.
Thanks, I have not read Assagioli (yet!). Psychosynthesis looks interesting.