Category: Mind Development

What is referred to as an Initiate is someone in which their Higher Self has coalesced with the personality and incarnated within their body in a fully active and aware state. The Higher Self typically exists in a dormant state within the subconscious mind until it’s awakened and activated...

Very few things have a greater impact on our life and cause us to traverse the extremes of pain and joy more than emotions. Yet at the very same time, very few things are harder to truly manage and bring under the control of our will. This is because...

What has historically been called the ego may be more correctly referred to as the false ego, because the term ego is synonymous with identity and is used in many spiritual texts interchangeably as meaning the same thing. Our identity is formed by whatever we associate with, and how...

Freedom from Illusions, Transcendence, and the True Nature of Compassion The idea of what it means to detach from something can seem confusing because, like most ideas, it has both positive and negative connotations, based on how it’s being looked at, applied, or done, or how it comes about...

The idea of Divine Providence, like fate and destiny, indicates that there’s a grand plan laid out for our life and that a higher power acts to organize the events of our life and the order in which they unfold. It’s the idea that the general course of our...

 We often hear sayings about oneness and everything being one, living in unity with Nature and each other, and so on, yet this idea seems to contradict the nature of our actual experience as our perception of the outer world and others. One of the most prevalent principles that’s...

 The true meaning of what we call self-mastery is our ability to master our own nature and resume conscious control over our higher capacities for creating ourselves. The fact is we’re always in the process of creating ourselves in every moment based on what we enter into relationship with,...

We now know that the consciousness associated with the brain that serves to operate it isn’t produced by the physical organ itself, but the brain (all material bodies) merely act as a receiver and transducer for consciousness which exists in its potential form in the atmosphere around us, also...

The Secret to the Manifestation of Cosmic Will The aspect of the mind known as the subconscious mind is also what we can think of as our body consciousness and is symbolized in Esoteric Sciences by the Moon which acts as a “ship of the sky” that serves as...

The True Nature of Choice, Imagination, and Higher Will One of the problems we have in realizing the true nature of not only our mind and selves, but of reality in general, is that we have a hard time not thinking in separative, dualistic terms, while trying to comprehend...