OVERVIEW
Broadly speaking, as individuals, we wish to attract that which we think is desirable and repel that which we think is undesirable. However, what we perceive to be desirable changes from minute to minute, day to day, year to year. It may vary according to our physical state, our state of mind or changing circumstances. This constant state of flux is therefore the cause of much of our apparent turmoil.
The key to our inner stability therefore, is by reference to the soul, which is unchanging and eternal. Consequently, the greater our connection to the soul, then the more outer experiences and endeavours become sensible, rational, and in perspective. Conversely the less we refer to the soul, the more overwhelming our lives become.
The entire cosmos is fastened together and connected by the unconditional love of the Creator. Our lives are a process of rising through a hierarchy of knowledge that never ends. We start from the material and physical and move on to the mental, to the realms of meaning, to the intellectual. Eventually we reach a point of subtlety that is more intuitive, and has greater inner meaning. The awareness of this higher self increases until such time that we are no longer only temporarily aware of it every now and then -- until eventually we enter into a zone of perpetual and spontaneous reference to the ultimate awareness in us -- this is called enlightenment.
Everybody is enlightened but is aware of it to a greater or lesser degree. It is a zone that is within us and it is up to us to tap into it. How? The answers lie in this course, but suffice to say that the keys to an enlightened state are worship, adoration and passion. We have the potential to live in perpetual bliss by simply being with our self - meaning with the higher self, because the lower self is destructive.
Therefore self-knowledge is the most vital map that any traveller in this world requires. The knowledge that there is only one truth, and that all paths lead to it by different means, has been shared to varying extents by enlightened people throughout history. In this course we bring together selections of the knowledge of ancient historical and more recent cultures; prophetic unveilings and teaching from the various monotheistic religions, the wisdom of the Far East, of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, combined with modern day psychology, physical and social sciences.
This course therefore is contextualised within the age we are living in, for anybody with a yearning for higher knowledge, based on eternal truth. It is a means towards the attainment of a level of inner stability in order to deal with and even enjoy the outer instability rather than be constantly resisting it. The course will take us a step at a time, towards the realization that we are not who we thought we were, not by denying our lower selves, but by prioritising what is higher and more lasting. Grooming the self is the nourishment that every serious traveller on this path will attain.
The Cosmology of the Self is explored here through time. This Course maps the evolution of the self from before birth through life, death and beyond. The lessons will specifically deal with the following matters.
LESSON SUMMARIES
Lesson One:
Dynamics of
Existence and the Nature
of Creation
This introduction to the course presents a context for The Cosmology of the Self and explores the relationship between timelessness and time describing basic principles of our experience of this realm.
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(2 min: 14 sec)
Lesson Two:
Inception and Creation
This lesson presents the inner and outer journey of embryonic development as the unborn child enters the conscious realm through pregnancy and birth, followed by childhood.
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(2 min: 04 sec)
Lesson Three:
The First
Steps
of our Journey, Early Childhood
This lesson explores the development of the self as a baby and the early impact of parenting on the growth of the child.
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(2 min: 07 sec)
Lesson Four:
Childhood and
the Map of the Self
This lesson presents the development of the child through the inner and outer senses to bring the child to an initial stage of consciousness and maturity.
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(1 min: 23 sec)
Lesson Five:
Virtues and
Vices
This lesson presents the way that the self develops through the combined effects of our intentions and actions.
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(1 min: 53 sec)
Lesson Six:
Patterns in
the Map
of Existence
This lesson describes some of the apparent paradoxes through which human transformation and evolution take place.
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Lesson Seven:
Evolving
Consciousness
This lesson maps the nature of human consciousness in terms of its levels and spheres.
Lesson Eight:
Soul
Dynamics
This lesson explores the dynamic tension between virtues and vices to the development of the self in relation to the Soul.
Lesson Nine:
Relationships
This lesson describes the inner meaning of interpersonal relationships and their connection to the evolution of the self.
Lesson Ten: Mind, Body and
Spirit
This lesson explores the interrelation of the realms of mind, body and spirit.
Lesson Eleven:
Decree and
Destiny
This lesson explores the association between perception and perfection and the process of the witnessing of perfection.
Lesson Twelve:
Ageing and Inner Sight
This lesson clarifies the inner meaning of the transition of to older age and the meaning of suffering. The lesson explores how, as our outer senses and faculties diminish, our insight, awareness and wisdom increase.
Lesson Thirteen:
Life, the
Grave and Beyond
This lesson explores the meaning of death and processes that unfold for the soul within the realm of relative non-time following death.
Lesson Fourteen:
Light
upon
Light or the Absence of Light
In this lesson the dynamics of the soul in its return to timelessness are explored.
[ Course Two ]
