Psychological Notes #2

"PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES"
Notes on the Fourth way

One's life consists of EVENTS AND STATES:

"STATES" are INNER MANIFESTATIONS
"EVENTS" are OUTER MANIFESTATIONS

This work begins with self-observation and noticing wrong STATES in oneself and working against them. Using this method, Inner Life has the possibility of becoming purified. By changing or altering our INNER States, we also alter not only the type of events, but even the NATURE of the events which happen to us.
To isolate oneself from collective events, it is necessary to change ATTITUDES in oneself. A practical way do this begins with SELF-OBSERVATION....which is means of self change. It might be wise to remember that everything we do affects us forever!

The practice of "SELF-OBSERVATION" or Inner Attention has as its purpose the idea of making us aware of where we are psychologically at any moment. If we observe a thing or how it affects us for a long length of time, there is a possibility of shifting our position or attitude, and forming a new "Center".
This involves attempting to know where we are inside (Our STATE) and what we are doing. (And where we are going.) To know and to Observe are not the same thing.

Self-Observation is Active: (Directed attention).
Knowing is Passive.

Without conflict or struggle, there can be no gain or change. To gain a Center or UNITY of being, it is valuable to divide oneself into "two". Man must divide himself into "IT" and observing "I". (What do "I" see "IT" doing?....why is "IT" so angry or upset?) When you observe ordinary things in a new way, you gain the possibility to change. This work forms in one a new apparatus for receiving impressions, both from within and without.
When we see clearly from our inner attention that SELF-JUSTIFYING (or the idea that we are always right!) keeps us in the place we are, and delays further change, growth, or "Evolution", then we will have a greater power to notice and perhaps stop it.
Self Knowledge will make you aware of your state of Being. Seeing the good of this makes it possible to make "Right Effort".
Self-Justification is a complicated and very interesting process of inner and outer LYING whereby we put ourselves in the right. It cannot work in the presence of acknowledged TRUTH! When we know a thing is true about ourselves, and acknowledge it internally, accusation can never make us indignant. It is this process of lying to ourselves the keeps the great central lie in us alive... That lie is FALSE PERSONALITY.

To be Conscious is to be internally aware of where we are at all times. Because no one has informed us of the fact that we are unconscious, that person we consider to be "Me" or "Myself" is what we think we really are. Unfortunately, the majority of mankind is only conscious when a "shock" or trauma befalls us. (Such as the loss of a loved one, or facing death.) At these moments, we suddenly remember ourselves, and our significance or importance in the overall scheme of things becomes quite clear. If a Man can understand this, and tries to remember himself in normal life, then all of his impressions will be doubled, or intensified. (During sexual intercourse, this happens frequently, although for the most part, it is still an unconscious effort.) The conscious effort of Remembering oneself is the first step in Transforming our impressions.

STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
DARKNESS: No Help possible: Man Asleep
1st State
Sleep with dreams; Body quiescent, man as passive machine;
2nd State
Waking State; Body active, Man as walking and talking machine;
Not Properly Conscious, Man as "Sleep Walker"; Man active
to his dreams. Automatic unconscious efforts, habits

LIGHT: Help Possible: Man Awake
3rd State
Self consciousness; Awareness of "I"; Self Remembering
4th State
Objective Consciousness; Where a Man can see things
as they really are!

There is no Mechanical Evolution except as the Planets, Suns, Galaxies, etc. evolve. There is however the possibility of Conscious Individual Evolution. Mankind in general is held back for planetary reasons; at the same time there is a way open for those who wish to awaken. All development and evolution of BEING lies in attaining UNION or Unity of Being, as opposed to Multiplicity of Being.

Everything this discipline says about work on oneself has as its' Supreme Aim to make man more Conscious-- To let LIGHT DAWN in him. Page 3

"There is a certain time for a thing to be done....If it is not done within this time, Earth may perish without having achieved what it could have".......G.

ENNEAGRAM

HOMEPAGE

PHILOSOPHY

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