1.
Introduction: the dimensions of the Greater Reality
1.1. Summary of
Part 1: Beyond
Spiritual Correctness
1.2. Summary of
Part 2: Three Views of Reality
and Human Potential
1.3. The esoteric
view of God as accessible while alive via esoteric means
1.4. The fundamentally
Subjective nature of Reality
1.4.1. The experience
of unity
1.4.2. The Subjective
Substratum in which material reality arises
1.5. Human potential
and samadhi states
1.6. The multi-dimensional
Greater Reality
1.7. Esoteric
anatomy and the seven stages of life: An inherently comprehensive
framework
1.8. For most
effective growth, base all practice (in the earlier stages of life)
on the view and the Realization of the seventh stage of life
1.8.1. The Full
Awakening of the seventh-stage Realization
1.8.2. The lesser
stages as digressions from Fully Awakening
1.8.3. The process
of Fully Awakening to the seventh-stage Realization is supported
by the establishment of equilibrium in the lesser stages
2.
The animistic, etheric universe of the shamans
2.1. The etheric
(life-force) body
2.2. Animism
2.3. The cultivation
of spirit-helpers
2.4. The hierarchical
matrix of possibilities: working with “the pattern prior to the pattern
that seems”
2.5. Medicine
men and healing
2.6. The shaman
as ecstatic psychopomp: escorting the newly dead
3.
The psycho-physical universe of the lower astral
3.1. The lower
astral (mental-psychic) body
3.2. Objective
versus participatory knowledge
3.3. The world
is a psychic phenomenon
3.4. The world
of psychic phenomena
3.4.1. ESP:
extransensory perception
3.4.2. The empathic
connection: feeling at a distance
3.4.3. Psychokinesis:
mind over matter
3.4.4. Precognition:
information about the future
3.5. The Sacred
Earth
3.6. Varieties
of magical culture
3.6.1. Vitalistic
magical cultures
3.6.2. Spiritual
magical cultures
3.6.3. The anti-magical
culture of science and city
4.
The minimal-optimal realization of the etheric and lower astral dimensions
for the purpose of seventh-stage Awakening
4.1. The limitations
of the etheric and lower astral Realizations of the Greater Reality
4.1.1. The absence
of the Living God
4.1.2. Where
are Happiness and Love? The undeveloped heart
4.1.3. The pitfalls
of black magic and etheric or psychic self-fulfillment
4.1.4. Idiot
savants of the Greater Reality: over-development in one area, under-development
in others
4.1.5. Fixed
versus fluid reality: etheric and astral scientism vs. free fall
in God
4.1.6. Blaming
parents and spirits: the unconscious abdication of personal responsibility
while lying on the therapist’s or shaman’s “couch”
4.2. The seventh-stage
“fast track” (minimal-optimal) development of the etheric and lower
astral dimensions
4.2.1. The best
use of a human lifetime
4.2.2. The value
of whole-body equilibrium in freeing up energy and attention for
Awakening
4.3. Seventh-stage
wisdom on awakening and bringing balance to the etheric dimension
4.3.1. Developing
etheric sensitivity
4.3.2. Practices
for conducting life-energy
4.3.3. Developing
feeling, morality, and socialization based on etheric sensitivity
4.3.4. Emotional-sexual
maturity
Right practice
of sexuality
Transcendence
of reactive emotions
Transcendence
of oedipal patterning
Oedipal
patterning, karma, and the ability to function effectively
Transcendence
of the limitations of character type
4.4. Seventh-stage
wisdom on awakening and bringing balance to the lower astral (mental-psychic)
dimension
4.4.1. The mental-psychic
faculties of the lower astral body
4.4.2. Developing
the thinking mind and discriminative intelligence
4.4.3. Developing
sensitivity to the deeper psyche via meditation and dreams
4.4.4. Integration
of the manifest personality through developing the will
4.5. Developing
an awareness of the psycho-physical nature of Reality
4.5.1. True
surrender: developing a psychic openness without adding an “attitude”
4.5.2. “Wandering”
until Reality Reveals Itself
4.5.3. Developing
the awareness that everything that happens to us in every moment
is geared toward our Full Awakening
4.5.4. Synchronicity:
the psychic unity of “inside” and “outside”
4.5.5. Allowing
the magical universe and learning to read its signs
4.5.6. Allowing
everyone and everything to be a psychic “bridge to God”
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