Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

kom-

PIE base ‘beside, near, by, at, with’. Sometimes used as an intensifying prefix. See also ksun, sem, and kat.

Other derivatives include enough, handiwork, and country.

[Pokorny *kom, pp. 612–613.]

evolutionary convergence

While evolution has been primarily divergent during the past fourteen billion years—leading to the chaos the world is in today—during the past four hundred years, a sequence of cosmologies has emerged that has carried evolutionary convergence to its glorious culmination, at its Omega Point.

cultural conditioning

When we are babies and infants, we humans are totally dependent on our parents for nourishment and nurturing, in a process that the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits called enculturation in Man and his Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology in 1948.

spectrum of consciousness

When developing an evolutionary model of the psychodynamics of some eight billion humans, it is useful to distinguish the various stages of development that we go through, both as individuals and as a species, collectively influencing each other.

One such example is the ‘seven states of consciousness’, which Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who famously introduced Transcendental Meditation (TM) in the West, identified. This ranges from ‘Dreamless Sleep’, as a relative state, to ‘Unity’, where the ‘Absolute-relative paradox’ is resolved.

Ocean of Consciousness

Over the years, some humans have described their experiences of Consciousness with the metaphor of an all-embracing Ocean. One example was Romain Rolland, the 1915 Nobel laureate for literature, who was much inspired by his studies of the lives and works of Rāmakrishna and Vivekānanda. In a famous letter to Sigmund Freud in 1927, Rolland described his experience of Consciousness as an ‘oceanic feeling’, which he said he had never been without.

Light of Consciousness

Like some words in English, light has both an esoteric and exoteric meaning, distinguished by capitalizing the former in Panosophy. The Light within is a property of Consciousness, enabling Self-reflective Intelligence to see what is causing us humans to behave as we do.

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