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The Two Orders of Validation

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By George A. Boyd © 2020

Q: It seems both reason and intuition have the capacity to generate error. Can you shed some light on this?

A: Let us tease apart the verification processes of reason and intuition:

Reason arrives at tentative, consensual truth through a process of analysis and critique, and testing.

  • It starts with facts, data, or evidence.
  • It generates a hypothesis to explain the fact.
  • It tests the hypothesis to determine whether it is true or not.

It observes, measures, weighs, detects, tests, and sets criteria for the statistical probability that the hypothesis is likely true.

  • This estimate of the likelihood that something is true can range from five out of 100 in social science to one in 100 billion in physics.

Empirical verification is a step-by-step algorithmic process, which is subject to peer review, analysis, and critique.

Intuition reveals truths that dwell in the sphere of the Soul’s consciousness.

  • It uses the faculty of discernment (Vijnana) to locate the object in the inner mandala of the Soul’s consciousness and recognizes it and labels it.
  • It employs the faculty of contemplation (Dhyana) to gather information about the object of meditation through observation, reflection, comparison, and identifying analogies or correspondences.
  • It is founded upon the Soul’s consciousness, which is the anchor of spiritual law and the foundation of inner Truth (Dharma).

Finding the ground of intuitive truth enables you to identify the stable markers of Subplanes, Planes, and Divisions of the Continuum, and to locate your spiritual essence in inner space.

Intuitive discovery or revelation is a heuristic process, which explores meaning, realizes possibilities, makes associations with other ideas, finds correspondences, and examines the changes that transformation produces.

When this rational and intuitive process goes awry, it gives rise to two forms of distortion:

Conspiracy theories – In this distortion of your rational process, you make assertions without validated facts, you create a hypothesis to explain your assertion, and you believe this hypothesis is the truth without subjecting it to tests. This arises from a failure to conduct empirical verification.

Delusion – In this distortion of intuitive discovery, you assume something is true in error. You use discernment to incorrectly confirm your erroneous belief. You only admit information that supports your belief, and you deny, ignore, or attack information that is contrary to your belief.

Disciples need to correct both types of distortion, and identify what is true behind conspiracy theory and delusion.

You can ask questions like these to examine these patterns:

Is this an intuitive or empirical truth?

How do I know this is true? How can I verify this?

What are the consequences of holding this belief?

  • How does it affect my behavior?
  • How does it shape my emotional reactions and attitudes?
  • How does it color my perception and worldview?
  • How does it alter my beliefs?
  • How does it influence my values?
  • How does it sway my choices?

When I make these choices, how does it impact my life, my relationships, and my career?

The Gentle Art of Spin

Q: What is the process through which truth is perverted so it gives rise to conspiracy theories and delusion?

A: This is both an active process and a passive process:

In the active process, you choose to lie and deceive others. Criminals, con-men, and dictators utilize the active process to control others and make them do what they want.

In the passive process, you start with a logical error and then you begin to justify and defend it. The passive process is generated when you receive incorrect information and you believe it is true. This can result from exposure to those who are telling you lies and you believe them; it can also stem from having incomplete information and making faulty conclusions based on this limited data.

These active and passive “truth cycles” are described below:

The Active Process

In the active process, truth is progressively eclipsed. The dichotomy is between choosing to tell the whole truth as opposed to the choice to lie.

  • The downward cycle for the active process moves from omission to misstating the facts to active distortion to feeling initial anxiety and guilt to rationalization to outright denial.
  • The upward cycle for the active process moves from breaking denial, stopping rationalization, to finding the source of anxiety and guilt to correcting distortion to stating the correct facts to revealing what was omitted.

The Passive Process

In the passive process, rationality is perverted into delusion through warping of information.

  • The downward cycle for the passive process moves from making a logical error to covering up this error to accepting false information to making judgments based on this false information to precipitating a change in mindset to a descent into paranoid thinking.
  • The upward “recovery” cycle for the passive process includes taking responsibility for what you can control to examining your mindsets and rejecting erroneous beliefs and perceptions to rejecting incorrect judgments and founding subsequent judgments on correct information to identifying and rejecting false information and finding correct information to admitting your errors to identifying the source of logical error and correcting it.

To deconstruct a rational or empirical belief, reflect upon:

  • What is the evidence for this contention?
  • What is your belief about the evidence (hypothesis)?
  • How do you prove this is true?

If there is no evidence, it does not exist in the physical universe.

To deconstruct an intuitive belief, reflect on:

  • In what nodal point is this truth anchored?
  • What is your criterion for assuming this is true? [Is this a mathematical proof? Is this a sensory proof? Is this an emotional or experiential proof based on faith or conviction? Is this a proof based on authority or scripture? Is this a revealed (revelatory) truth? Is this a proof based on analogy or correspondence like Gematria, numerology, astrology, or tarot? Is this a proof based on symbolic or linguistic analysis?]
  • How can you verify that truth is reliable?

Truth has many facets. What is true depends upon the means through which you derive it or arrive at it.

Notice how this process of spin can move both ways: you can descend into error; you can correct yourself. You may wish to apply this process of truth recovery to deconstruct your false beliefs.

Spiritual Principles of the Current World Teacher

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By George A. Boyd © 2020

Q: In the former Dispensation of the World Teacher, Jesus taught as his highest spiritual principle, the Law of Love. Given that each World Teacher builds on the foundation of his or her predecessor, what are the principles that the current World Teacher, Maitreya, brings to the world under his Aegis?

A: As you correctly observe, the foundation of Maitreya’s principles is the Law of Love. To this platform he inherited from Jesus, he adds the following additional principles:

  1. Common Purpose – when humanity—all the nations of the Earth—can unite towards a unified purpose that affects the welfare of all, we can build the bridges of cooperation and establish a foundation of peaceful relations.
  2. Sharing Resources – when those who are wealthy can share their wealth and resources, it can uplift those who are impoverished and maximize the human potentials of humanity and bring about greater equality
  3. Ecological Stewardship – to preserve the diversity of life and optimal living conditions for all of the Kingdoms of Nature, humanity must find ways of providing for its energy, food, and water requirements in a way that does not harm the ecosphere and the environment. Humanity’s challenge is to discover and implement non-polluting methods to farm and feed a growing population, and to generate energy without harming the earth and the atmosphere.
  4. Illumination and compassion – Rather than look outside to scriptures and Gurus as their source of guidance, wisdom, and enlightenment, the chelas of the current Age will be empowered to discover their own illumination and bring out their spiritual gifts to share with others. Out of their compassion, they will share their gifts to uplift others.
  5. Recognition and expression of inner Divinity – As the new Dispensation emerges and becomes increasingly integrated into the collective consciousness of humanity, individuals will found their behavior less on the motivations of the ego and the life plans of the Self, and function more from the purposive and creative platform of the Soul.
  6. Synthesis – People will use synthesis to resolve the conflicts that divide humanity, and will usher humanity into an enlightened period of universal brotherhood and peace.

As you contemplate these principles as seed thoughts, you will connect yourself with the thought streams of the Hierarchy and the World Teacher, and feel them gently turning the great ship of humanity towards these new spiritual principles for our time.

Reflections on Realization

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By George A. Boyd © 2020

Q: What brings about Realization? How can I move beyond simply receiving information and truly grasping the essence of what I am taught?

A: We begin the process of Realization through inquiry, or questioning.

Questioning requests an answer from the ensouling entity, when you ask your ensouling entity; from the spiritual Master, when you query him or her; and God, when you invoke Divine guidance.

When you receive information, your first task is to understand it. This process of understanding engages your intellect and your Illumined Mind (Buddhi). As you study new information, you add to your conceptual map of your own nature and the Path ahead of you. You keep revising this map, as you gather more information and have more experiences.

Whereas information layers on the thread of insight and understanding, which we call the Antakarana, experience occurs when you contact one of the ideas referenced in the information you have learned. You do this through focusing your attention, your attentional principle, or your spirit upon this idea.

Examples of these “ideas” you can experience include:

  • The meaning of spiritual ideas or “seed thoughts”
  • The content of inner vehicles of consciousness
  • The inner centers of vehicles of consciousness, such as chakras
  • The seed atom of a vehicle of consciousness
  • The movement of energy in a vehicle of consciousness, such as Prana or Kundalini
  • The array of vehicles of consciousness that your ensouling entity animates
  • Your attentional principle
  • Your spirit associated with your ensouling entity at the cutting edge of spirituality
  • Your spirit in other domains
  • Your ensouling entity at the cutting edge of spirituality
  • One of your ensouling entities at another Octave of Being
  • A personal integration center, such as the ego in the Conscious mind or the Self in the Metaconscious mind
  • A Superconscious integration center, which we call a nucleus of identity
  • A universal nexus of consciousness, such as the Holy Ghost at the entrance to the abode of the saints in the First Mesoteric Planetary Initiation, or the Supreme Light of Creation at the top of the Ideational Plane in the First Cosmic Initiation
  • A form of the Divine, such as the Father God in the First Mesoteric Planetary Initiation, or Brahman in the First Cosmic Initiation

When you experience something, you gain a new perspective on the object of meditation you focus upon:

  • You gain new information.
  • You make new connections and correlations.
  • You begin to fill in the missing pieces of the inner map of the Continuum you are building.

With each new experience, you gain insights, and begin to truly know the essence of the idea you have used to lead you to the object of meditation. So for example, you truly recognize what is your ego, what is the Self, or what is your attentional principle—you truly grasp the essence to which the idea or concept points you.

The next order of processing is Realization, or enlightenment. Realization means that you know something, because you are one with it:

  • You know your Soul directly, because you are the Soul.
  • You know your attentional principle directly, because you are the attentional principle.
  • You know your spirit directly, because you are your spirit.

Realization is not description [information] or attentional union [experience]; it is identity. You know the essence because you are one with it.

As you progress upon the Path, you come to know the nodal points, Subplane and Plane markers, and the forms of the Divine that operate on each level, as your cutting edge ensouling entity actually traverses this terrain—you know each aspect of the Path, because you have taken each step upon it.

Q: What allows you to know what your ensouling entity has realized?

A: The key that allows you to release the Soul’s knowledge, to open its Buddhic capsule, is Samadhi. When you turn the four outgoing streams back to their core, there is an inner explosion of Realization that takes place: this is the Illumination that takes place during Samadhi.

We teach you how to generate Samadhi at the level of the Soul and each higher Octave of Realization in the Samadhi Week Program. Those who complete the Mudrashram® Advanced Course in Meditation are eligible to take this class.

So when you can achieve Atma Samadhi at the level of the Soul, you can extend this to higher Octaves of Being. This opens the full spectrum of Realization, which includes your Monad, Astral Soul, Supracosmic Soul, the Soul of the Bridge Path, and each of the ensouling entities of Transcendental Paths one to seven.

Q: What if I have difficulty in experiencing Samadhi?

A: Like any skill, it takes time to master it. If it is important to you, you will devote the time to reach Samadhi.

It won’t come instantly, but in time, you will get it. This will allow you to truly know and realize what you’ve opened on the Path. It won’t be conjecture or speculation; you will genuinely know.

Q: What happens if the ensouling entity I’m meditating upon has been liberated?

A: You’ll know the Source from which this ensouling entity has emanated—and the complete Path of the ensouling entity, from beginning to end. In this vortex of Creation from which your ensouling entity has originated, you will also intuit the other ensouling entities that dwell at that level, and their distance from the Source.

If you’ll reflect upon these three levels—information, experience, and Realization—you’ll be able to differentiate them. With practice, you will begin to be able to shift between them at will, when it is appropriate to operate at that level.

Criteria for Assessing Spiritual Experiences

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By George A. Boyd © 2020

Q: How can I know my spiritual experiences are genuine, and not the product of my fertile imagination?

A: There are a number of criteria that you can use to assess spiritual experiences. These include:

  1. Ontological – Your ensouling entity becomes one with the nodal point at which a particular ability, intuitive wisdom, or virtue is anchored.
  2. Spiritual – Your spirit ascends to the Nadamic tone where a particular ability, intuitive wisdom, or virtue is anchored.
  3. Vehicular – A seed atom of one of your vehicles of consciousness or a nucleus of identity is tuned to a nodal point at which a particular ability, wisdom, or virtue is anchored.
  4. Ideational – As a result of you focusing your attention in your ensouling entity, spirit, vehicular seed atom, or nucleus of identity, you can perceive and describe the content of the nodal point where a particular ability, wisdom, or virtue is anchored. This enables you to teach others about this state of consciousness.
  5. Operational – As a result of reaching this station on the Path, you are able to use the octave of will at this level to express the particular ability, wisdom, or virtue that is anchored. You may express this directly from that higher octave of will; empower your attentional principle or spirit to utilize it; activate an inner center through which you can access this ability, wisdom, or virtue in an altered state of consciousness or channel it directly through the personality as a gift.
  6. Imaginal – You imagine what it would be like to have this ability, wisdom, or virtue. You may create myths or stories to reveal the content of this state to others. These mythic stories, when written down, may form the basis of scriptures. When they are transmitted as oral traditions, they can become embellished, exaggerated, or distorted. When these stories are translated from one language to another, there can be a loss of the original meaning.
  7. Conceptual – You study what others have written in books and scriptures, and communicated through other media, and you summarize what you have learned in a scholarly paper, journal article, or essay. You may communicate your findings in a seminar or lecture. This approach typifies the scientific and academic approach to uncovering the meaning of a scripture or book describing a particular spiritual experience.
  8. Mystic experiential – You place your attention on this state of consciousness in your Superconscious mind, and you attempt to gain insight into the ability, intuitional wisdom, or virtue that is anchored at this nodal point. Your ability to see and hear within and your ability to receive intuitive information circumscribe the information you acquire through this type of contemplation. In some cases you may gain clear information about this state; in other cases, you may not get any impressions at all.
  9. Doctrinal – In this scenario, you learn about the experience from clergy or “spiritual authorities,” who teach you about what scripture says, and ask you to believe what is said in those scriptures as Divine revelation. You are asked not to question the teachings you are given, and you are to accept the teachings as truth.
  10. Analytical – In this perspective, you take an empirical, skeptical, materialistic, and atheistic perspective, and attempt to explain away spiritual experiences as epiphenomena of the brain, as self-delusion, or mental pathology. Those who approach spiritual experiences from this standpoint maintain an active bias that does not allow them to believe in these states of consciousness as real and valid, but seek to debunk them and invalidate them.

Criteria one through five are the inner experiential core of this state of consciousness. Criteria six through eight represent attempts to penetrate these states from without. Criteria nine and ten are based on a cognitive mindset that does not permit actual appreciation and experience of this state where this particular ability, wisdom, or virtue is anchored.

Assuming these experiences are not illusory products of your imagination, you could inquire:

  1. Where do I have this experience on the Great Continuum of Consciousness? In which exact nodal point does it reside?
  2. On what Path, track or Ray do I have this particular experience? If this an experience that my attentional principle is having? My attention? My spirit? Is it the intuitive prehension of my Illumined Mind?
  3. How do these abilities, aspects of intuitive wisdom, or virtues express in me?
  4. What knowledge or perception is contained in this inner nexus? What does this state communicate or reveal to me when I dialog with it?
  5. Does the product of this state of consciousness affect my behavior, beliefs, or values? In what ways does it shape my character?
  6. If this state arises from karmic purification, from what layers of the mind has this karma been removed? What types of karma have been purified to allow my spiritual nature to enter this state of consciousness? What discrete sections of my karmic reservoir have been dissolved to enable me to enter into this state?
  7. If I have entered into this state through using a transformational method that dissolves karma, will anyone who uses a similar method and enters this same state of consciousness have a similar experience?
  8. How do I identify the exact location where this state of consciousness exists? Are there analogous experiences on other bands of the Continuum that might be conflated with this state? How do I ascertain I have located the genuine source of this experience?
  9. If I do not attempt to create or visualize this experience through exercising my imagination, how do I verify that I have genuinely contacted this state of consciousness, and I am experiencing it as it is?

Ultimately, you will need to verify for yourself that these states of consciousness exist independently from:

  • What you imagine about them
  • What you visualize they are like
  • What theories you use to explain them
  • What sensory impressions these states evoke in you
  • Any preconceived beliefs you may have that does not permit you to experience these states for yourself

After much meditation, you will tease out stable landmarks and identify these states of consciousness as they are. You will begin to contemplate them and know them—you will be able to express them and improve the quality of your life.

Those of you who wish to learn how to have spiritual experiences of types one through five will benefit from taking the in-person Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation and the by-mail and online Accelerated Meditation Program, where we teach you how to access these bands of the mind where you have direct experience of your spiritual essences.

Reflections on Levels of Thought

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By George A. Boyd © 2018

Q: There are certain coaches, eastern Gurus, and New Age teachers who state that there is no thinker, that thoughts “arise by themselves,” and that thoughts are a false story that veils the truth of our inner Divinity and perfection. Can you shed some light on this?

A: If you hold your attention in certain altered states of consciousness, this appears to be true. You have to keep your attention fixed in this altered state of consciousness, however, to maintain this perspective.

For this reason, these exponents of this view advocate that people do continual inquiries or process meditations, or keep their mind fixed or absorbed in this “enlightened” state. They may teach a number of techniques to keep you merged in this state, or they may have one key method to bring about this state of awareness.

If you simply notice the layers of thoughts you experience, you may discover that there are several different bands of thinking, some of which directly impact human life and others that transcend it and view it from a detached perspective. These 16 major platforms of thought are shown below.

Levels of Thought Directly Impacting Human Life

  1. Stimuli – These are thoughts that your contact with objects in the environment generates. They typically remind you of things you want or things you need to do.
  2. Reactions – These are emotionally laden thoughts that events or things people say trigger in you. These are your issues or “buttons” that express as upset, rage, sadness, or terror.
  3. Dreams or fantasies – This is where you imagine what you want to do, be, or have in your life.
  4. Logic – This is the activity of reason, which operates like a computer—making the calculations for your behavior, analyzing probable outcomes, and assessing the truth or falsity of statements. This aspect of your mind is responsible for reality testing.
  5. Schemas – These are associated thoughts that you organize into categories. These are integrated within the role identities of your ego. For example, if you are a bowler, you have all bowling-related thoughts compartmentalized within the capsule of your “I am a bowler” role.
  6. Task oriented thoughts – This is the activity of your concrete mind, which plans, schedules, identifies key points, and steps to completion of a project.
  7. Conceptual thought – These comprise the problem-solving and conceptual reflection functions of the intellect. You use these intellect’s cognitive strategies to learn, solve problems, and explore ideas.
  8. Emergent thought – These are mental impressions that arise within the present time, which come into conscious awareness—they seem to arise independently from the “thinker.” These enter the Conscious mind through the preconscious portal. They enter the Metaconscious mind in the state of being, where it seems that behavior and decisions happen spontaneously. They arise in the Superconscious mind in the wave of the present time on the Akashic Aether—the Soul’s thought and intention enters human life at this stage. Many process meditation groups, coaches, and metaphysical teachers consider union with the wave of the present time to be the state of enlightenment.

Levels of Thought that Do Not Directly Impact Human Life

  1. Psychic impressions – These images and ideas become impressed on conscious awareness. They arise from your vehicle of consciousness on the Psychic Plane, or they may be channeled from guides or spiritual beings from this Plenum. Typically, you need to enter into an altered state of consciousness—through hypnosis or meditation—to become aware of these thoughts
  2. Voice of wisdom – This marks the emergence of the teacher within, which gives you guidance for your life and answers your questions. This arises from your form on the Wisdom Plane. Your mind has to be silent and receptive to receive this thought stream.
  3. Inspired thoughts – These are revealed truths and insights that arise from your revelatory mind and from the Holy Spirit. You contact this level through contemplating the nucleus of identity of the First Planetary Initiation, the Moon Soul or Christ Child.
  4. Voice of the Mighty I AM Presence – These are decrees that you speak aloud or you hear as “power thoughts” that arise from the Mighty I AM Presence in your form on the Second Planetary Initiation. You must raise your attention to this level to be aware of this thought stream.
  5. Thought ministry – These are the higher mental activities that operate in your Manasic Vortex in the Third Planetary Initiation. These activities include contemplation of seed thoughts, visualizing blueprints for projects and organizations, creating mental synthesis and synergistic cooperation between people, actualizing the gifts of the Soul, enacting Soul Purpose, receiving intuitive guidance from the Masters of the Planetary Hierarchy, and participating in thought ministry through reception and transmission.
  6. Illumined mind – This downpour of intuitive knowledge arises from the Illumined Mind or Buddhi from your vehicle of consciousness in the Fourth Planetary Initiation. It purifies your attitude, reveals truths, uproots ignorance and superstition, shows the content of your vehicles of consciousness and the inner Planes, awakens the abilities of your forms in the Superconscious mind, guides your spirit and attentional principle on the inner Planes, and brings remembrance of your Soul’s essential nature.
  7. Attunement – This is the channeled Light from the Divine Spirit that purifies the inner vehicles of consciousness; promotes physical, etheric, and emotional healing; counsels and guides the attentional principle and spirit; awakens revelation and illumination; and bestows initiation to unfold the spiritual evolutionary potentials of the Soul.
  8. Samadhi – This is the direct, wordless experience of the Soul beyond thought. This confers Soul Realization and Gnosis.

Those that seek to put you into the state of enlightenment will typically ask you to attend to the upwelling of emergent thought in the wave of the present time (level 8). In this state of consciousness, it appears that thoughts arise without a self or a thinker—and that life is just unfolding on its own and the “mind” and its stories are just an overlay upon that perfect state of being.

We suggest it is important for you to become aware of each of the layers of thought and how they impact your life, or how they enable you to view your life from a detached, higher perspective. While it may be productive to do certain aspects of spiritual work from the wave of the present time on the Akashic Aether, we do not recommend that aspirants maintain that state of awareness beyond the time required to perform their process, inquiry, or contemplation; instead, they should ensure they return their attention to their fully grounded awareness again after their meditational inner work is completed.

Those of you who are interested in learning how to access these many layers of thought can acquire specific techniques that allow you to do so in our intermediate meditation programs: the in-person Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation and the by-mail and online Accelerated Meditation Program.