Accelerated Thought
A process driven by essential desire whereby the infinite intelligence latent in man finds expression through the rapid revelation of natural and cosmic secrets.

Addiction
Acquired need that abuses essence by inducing satisfaction of desires violating the sequence demanded by cosmic design which calls for work to be done in proportion to energy drawn. In extreme forms depletes the system and mortgages the soul. The mechanism of egoism.

Aim (or Purpose)
The imagined or perceived path of one striving towards a desired result. The validity of the selected aim for a given person is measured by the degree of self-realization resulting from the attainment of the aim, the successful attainment of which depends most fundamentally upon the depth of contact a person establishes with the essence-desire which defines his individuality.

Appreciation
The process whereby one's emotional perspective is enlarged and accompanied by a feeling of enhanced harmony with one's surroundings.

Attention
Energy mobilized to form a receptacle (or vessel) for an act of perception.

Attachment
(or "Cleaving"). An act or state through which voluntarily or involuntarily, intentionally or unintentionally, the energy of attention flows towards or encompasses some phenomenon.

Attraction
The force of affinity realized when a receptacle, in the process of rectification, approaches a similarity of form with the light of reality it was meant to accommodate. Receptacles attract one another when they express affinities for similar realities. Opposites attract only through their similarities.

Awareness
An attitude that defines the disposition and quality of attention. Awareness can range from quasi-unconsciousness to total consciousness.

Body
A vessel (or receptacle) which, owing to the correspondence between its matter and form and, to the degree it gives expression to the "image of G-d," can accomodate energy and realize intelligence starting from the faintest glimmer of awareness up to the infinite light of total consciousness. "Body" is the essence of mind.

Being
The awareness of existence that includes self-awareness, the degree of which is determined, in any given layer of essence, by the accommodation of energy and, consequently, through the expression of the intelligence for which essence was created.

Breakthrough
Radical progress in understanding, leading to personal and material transformation.

Certainty
A particularly pure and complete state of Being in which one's faith in and love of life are experientally confirmed, temporarily expunging all doubt.

Channel
A pathway of energy linking levels of essence and mind.

Chaos
Temporary absence of structure inherent in the process of purification and self-effacement. A phase in the transition from one state to another.

Circuit
A pathway of energy executing or defining a thought, feeling, movement, perception, or experience.

Cleaving
See "attachment."

Commitment
Attachment to aims and principles which orient the modulation of one's energy.

Communion
A state of Being involving intimate attachment facilitated by similarity or compatibility of essences.

Comprehension
All connections possible concerning a percept or concept for a given level of Being, producing understanding.

Concentration
The effort to orient attention selectively so as to exclude all but certain phenomena.

Condition
Constraints in the inner or outer environment that impose limits on perception and manifestation.

Conditioning
Internalized constraints in perception and manifestation that become part of one's nature and exercise control as if imposed from without.

Confrontation
Intense meeting of conflicting inner and outer realities that demands resolution through inner or outer accommodation.

Conscience
The strongest, most intimate, most deeply hidden connection to life and truth. It derives from uniqueness of individuality and defines the specific reason for one's existence.

Consciousness
A state with many possible subjective and objective ramifications and permutations graded by the extent to which the potential of essence is expressed through Being.

Convention
Norms and prescriptions for perception, thought and behavior that make up human conditioning.

Core (of Essence)
One's innermost, most individuating part.

Cosmic Consciousness
Direct vision of the integrated wholeness of Creation.

Cosmology
Theory of the structure and function of cosmic reality including cosmic law.

Creativity
The divinely inspired process of participating actively and through one's essential individuality in the realization of the cosmic plan.

Death
Systemic cessation of energy circulation and subsequent dissolution of substance caused by the disruption of essential circuits that, on any given level, form the receptacle of life. Spiritual death comes with the incapacity to deploy attention so as to form a receptacle for spiritual energy.

Desire
The prime attribute of all created entities which, through lack and longing, reflects both separation from the source of all life and essential affinity with and attraction to that source, depending on how close the entity's origin is to that source. That which motivates everything.

Destiny
One's cosmic destination or assignation as defined by one's essence which, when fully expressed through Being, has filled its potential and attained its cosmic purpose.

Distraction
A state in which the energy of attention is attracted and engaged in diverse and conflicting directions according to the dictates of convention.

Divinity
The energy that animates individuality. Benevolence in all forms.

Effort
Voluntary movement of energy.

Ego
Identifying with an image of oneself as opposed to experiencing oneself through Being. Ego is increased by the identificatory pleasure of the enhancement of that image.

Egoism
The pursuit of pleasure.

Elation (Euphoria)
Massive, systemic infusion of energy, attended by a heightened and generalized sense of well-being or exaltation.

Emotion
A reaction that consists of an evaluation of one's circumstances.

Energy
A grade of materiality finer than one's level of Being which produces experience through its movement within Being. Energy, inherently formless and still, becomes "force" when it gains vectors channeled by desire or external conditions.

Essence
Seed, germ or nucleus of a human, animal, vegetable, or inanimate entity having highly integrated form and substance and bearing the unexpressed potential of that entity. A potential influence.

Essence-desire
Objective need or lack as motivating impulse inherent in essence.

Essence-friend
A person with whom one shares commonalities or perceived complementarities in the deeper, more individuating layers of essence.

Essence-struggle
The pursuit of real aim rooted in essence.

Essence-trait
A fundamental characteristic.

Euphoria
See "Elation."

Eureka
The experience of sudden revelation usually accompanied by elation.

Existence
The cosmos. That which is.

Experience
Actively or passively receiving energy. Imprints of past experiential events.

Experiment
The effort to deploy energy to form a vessel permitting new perceptions, experiences or outer results.

Faith
Confidence in the benevolence of existence, reinforced by moments of certainty, disposing one to undertake experiments.

False personality
An expression of selfhood grounded in emotion that is acquired through imitation and that does not derive from essence.

Family
Entities or beings sharing essence-traits.

Fate
What actually happens owing to chance as opposed to destiny.

Feeling
The center of gravity of one's Being at any given moment, connecting thought and action and providing an ongoing evaluation of one's situation.

Focus
The point of concentration of one's energy. The precise orientation of one's energy.

Form
That which enables matter to accomodate light. The intelligence imprinted upon any given matter defining its nature and potential. The second component of essence (matter being the first).

Force
Energy with a vector. Directed energy.

Genius
Precocious display of higher intelligence. The latent capacity of all human intelligence.

Giving
The act of emulating G-d.

G-d
The unknowable source of everything including endless infinity.

G-d manifest
All of Creation that is, in principle, knowable to man.

Greed
Acquired, non-essential desire characteristic of egoism and marked by excess.

Habit
Movement of energy through a well-established circuit or family of circuits.

Harmony
Coordinated functioning of one's various constituents in accordance with essence and cosmic flow.

Higher function
Incommensurately increased efficiency in modulating energy and processing reality, attributable to harmony and consistent with the evolving of a higher body.

Hope
Intuition that arouses a spark of faith as to the benevolence of existence.

Hypnosis
A trance based on suggestibility and submission.

Identification [objective]
Intentional attachment to a phenomenon connected with essence.

Identification [subjective]
Usually unconscious attachment to a phenomenon of thought, feeling or sensation such that one doesn't distinguish the phenomenon from one's sense of self.

Impartiality
An attribute of Being that permits one to see things substantially as they are.

Impression
Cosmic design or a fragment of cosmic design impressed upon essence, comprising a potential vessel (or receptacle) awakened and activated as Being in the process of realization. This term is often confused with sensory stimulus that awakens impressions.

Impulse
A surge of energy originating from inside, deriving from the establishment of connections in the unconscious. An impulse or urge, as a transitory event, is to be distinguished from desire which is more organic and pertains to essence.

Inclination
Bias or affinity determined by essence or convention.

Individuality
That which, rooted in the deeper layers of essence, makes one unique.

Intelligence
The prime attribute of mind signaling the degree to which one adapts to cosmic reality.

Intention
The disposition to act. Voluntary mobilization of energy to produce an inner or outer act.

Interest
The capture of attention through essential or artificial desire often deriving from, or producing, attachment and identification.

Intuition
A precocious channel of awareness of relatively deep layers of essence, revealing desires connected with individuality.

Layers [of essence]
Levels of potential Being which, according to the "onion" metaphor, increasingly express individuality as one approaches the center. The integral experience of any given layer from the periphery inwards provides the illusion of Being in the whole of oneself. Precocious contact with deeper layers accounts for giftedness, intuition, creativity, prophesy, "genius," and other psychic phenomena.

Level
A degree of potential or of realization.

Life
Intelligence tending to consciousness, including increasing degrees of autonomous action, adaptation and development, deriving from an almost perfect correspondence of form and matter.

Light
Energy; The energy of life. That aspect of reality a vessel (or receptacle) is meant to receive.

Love
Benevolence deriving from deep essential contact with life providing conviction concerning its supreme value.

Materiality
The measure of cosmic restriction.

Matter
The substrate of all things created. The first component of essence (form being the second). Physical matter is the ultimate crystallization and expression of cosmic restriction.

Meaning
The experience of intelligence forming as new connections lend coherence and richness to precepts and concepts.

Mechanicality (Mechanicity)
A mode of manifestation requiring minimum effort and which repeats experience.

Meditation
The act of saturating oneself with aspects of a percept or concept to enhance Being.

Mind
A living receptacle (or vessel) capable of containing, expressing and expanding intelligence.

Need
Imperative desire. Desire the fulfillment of which is determining for a given state of Being.

Non-essential
Pertaining to needs, desires and experiences that do not respect the sequence of energy flow of "receiving in order to give" demanded by cosmic law and inherent to essential form.

Objective consciousness
The highest function of mind; state of Being encompassing objective knowledge.

Objective knowledge
Full conscious grasp of cosmic phenomena.

Objectivity
Attitude or quality of Being that gives expression to truth.

Obscurity
Obfuscation of mind, difficulty of understanding or lack of consciousness stemming from the restricting aspect of the matter.

Onion
Metaphor for essence. See "layers."

Openness
Attitude permitting new inputs and perspectives, often deriving from self-purifying efforts of detachment and disidentification such as renouncement, self-effacement and submission, collectively known as "non doing."

Paradigm
Frame of reference. Matrix of meaning.

Peak experience
Elevation of spirit or state of inspiration deriving from an experience of cosmic harmony. (Term coined by Laslow)

Personality
A complex of traits characterizing an individual.

Pleasure
The experience of desire, need or lack being satisfied. A vessel (or receptacle) receiving the energy or "light" destined for it.

Potential
The degree of reality destined for a being or entity. The highest light or finest energy that can possibly be received. Maximum or highest utility for a tool or instrument.

Purification
The process of abandoning a closed, distracted state, thereby creating openness and a new state more closely conforming to Being, as demanded by essence. Often induced through ritual and other acts of renouncement, submission and self-effacement. Preparation for real doing - the extension of influence.

Purpose
See "Aim."

Question
Attitude or state of Being-insufficiency expressing awareness that all is not known.

Race
Those with shared traits stemming from moderately deep, individuating layers of essence.

Reality
Essence and that which complements and completes essence.

Realization
The rectified expression of essence or potential.

Receptacle (or Vessel)
An existing organ or the disposition of energy (e.g., the energy of attention) within a living entity to become organized in emulation of an organ, so as to be able to vibrate with and thus contain still finer energy.

Rectification
The process of becoming free of distraction; arriving at the expression of essence through Being. The aim of purification.

Reflection
Low-grade, preliminary effort of thought laboring under distraction.

Reflectivity
Quality of thought conditioned by distraction.

Resistance
The impedance of realization by restriction or distraction.

Restriction
The quality whereby all created materiality resists realization.

Science
Methodology for revealing knowledge.

Self
The center of gravity of one's being which gives the particular flavor of one's existence.

Self-effacement
The dissolution or suspension of one's sense of self, preferably in the form of openness or creative chaos.

Self-realization
The acquisition of a new degree of Being through purification or essence-struggle; the fulfillment of one's individual potential.

Self-reflection
A distraction-conditioned mode of thought that takes the self as an object rather than as process.

Shell
That aspect of self including personality and false personality crystallized under the influence of distraction that most resists the assimilation of reality. Crystallized restriction.

Shock
Sensory or conceptual input that awakens impressions connecting one to reality through Being, at least momentarily.

Short-circuit
Non-essential pathways of energy (discharges) constituting one's shell including such distraction-inspired phenomena as greed, negativity, passion, and identification.

Sleep
Lack of self-awareness.

Soul
Generic name for the innermost part. Technical name for the level of Being immediately above the spirit. Soul is the highest level of Being that does not include eternal life or the full realization of individuality.

Soulmate
A person of the opposite sex whose essence is closest and most complementary to one's own. (See essence-friend.)

Spirit
Generic name for the energy that animates the different levels of Being. Technical name for the level of Being immediately below the soul.

Spirituality
Philosophies and efforts aimed at generating Being. Term expressing the belief that existence includes more than just physical reality.

Struggle
See "Essence-struggle."

Subconscious
Unexpressed essence. That part of essence unexpressed through Being or personality.

Subjectivity
The bias given to anything, especially awareness, by the action of restriction upon one's essence or personality.

Submission
The relinquishing of one's willfulness.

Superficial
Pertaining to one's shell. Pertaining to the "higher" or "external" layers of intellect. Pertaining to the outer layers of essence. Unencompassing.

Talent
Exceptional motor, aesthetic, emotional, and/or intellectual abilities deriving from preferential contact (normally inherited) with aspects of essence. Prodigy and genius are limit cases.

Thought
The effort to assimilate reality on any level, but ususally restricted by distraction to the intellect.

Thought compression
A form of concentration whereby the field of effort is narrowed to and mantained upon the object or phenomenon of contemplation longer than distraction would normally allow or convention would demand. The result of confrontative reflection.

Trace
See "Impression."

Trance
A temporary, non-banal, quasi-stable disposition of attention accompanied by a marked change in the way one experiences oneself and one's surroundings, usually beyond the control or understanding of the person so affected. Self-absorption.

Transformation
A change of Being leaving one incommensurably different in the way one experiences and processes reality. A step in the evolution of intelligence.

Unconsciousness
Everything not integrated within or illuminated by the light of awareness, including one's repertoire of knowledge, feelings, skills, habits, etc., including the subconscious. Everything not included in awareness. Everything not included in Being.

Understanding
The energy of comprehension that maintains faith and animates the soul.

Utopia
Ideal conditions of existence favoring self-realization and the development of Being through the pursuit of essence-desire.

Vessel
See "Receptacle."

Vision
Higher Being-function using the energy of wisdom and allowing the direct acquisition of objective knowledge.

Will
The full, organic, conscious expression of a given level of essence-desire.

Willfulness
The tendency to accord to an impulse the status of will.

Wisdom
The energy of certainty and eternal life.