This post continues the process of explaining what takes place during the First Initiation (enlightenment experience or expansion of consciousness) as described by Alice Bailey. Part Two talks about the basic symbolism that is connected with the First Initiation (looking at symbols from different religious traditions). Then it takes us through first of three stages connected to the First Initiation: the Preparation phase.
This post begins the process of explaining what takes place during the First Initiation (enlightenment experience or expansion of consciousness) as described by Alice Bailey. Part One talks about the three stages of Initiation: Preparation, Expansion, Assimilation and walks us through the Preparation phase.
Most people envision spiritual growth like a staircase or even a spiral. This post looks at another approach of how spiritual growth might really happen explaining why in spiritual development there may be so many gaps to fill.
Continue reading “CHAPTER TWELVE: Filling the Gaps in Spiritual Development”
This post takes a quick overview at what is really required to overcome spiritual bypass according to Alice Bailey’s model asking what it takes for abusive spiritual leaders to be accepted as a legitimate teachers again?
This post speaks about rules 10 -14 that the Bailey teachings imply are helpful for the Probationer Disciple (that includes the Chela in the Light) to follow prior to taking what Bailey calls the First Initiation (or major expansion of consciousness, or enlightenment experience).
Continue reading “CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Rules for Initiation 10 – 14”
This post relates Bailey’s Chela in the Light stage to the the Light phase of the Technique of Integration and the Love/Love petal of Bailey’s Egoic Lotus. Then the post delves into a comparison between the Chela in the Light phase of Alice Bailey and what traditional Theosophy has to say about the 5th subplane of the Mental Plane. Finally we go into a comparison between the Chela in the Light stage and Integral’s Teal, Turquoise, and Indigo.
Continue reading “CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Correlations to the Theosophical Model”
This post completes the discussion on the spiritual challenges those on the 5th subplane of the Mental Plane face. Here we see the Chela in the Light beginning the process of consciously cleaning up personal and group karma and at long last contacting the Soul as a fact. This Soul contact produces its own opportunities and difficulties, which are looked at briefly in this post and will be dealt with more extensively in another chapter.
This post continues looking at the spiritual challenges of those at the 5th subplane of the Mental Plane. This post discovers how the Chela in the Light discovers the “service group” that he or she is meant to be a part of, how group work at a soul level begins, how knowledge needs to change into wisdom, the importance of having something tangible to contribute to a group, and how hierarchy needs to looked at not as a way to dominate others, but as a way to become more inclusive.
Continue reading “CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Discovering Your Service Group”
This post is the next in a series taking a look at the spiritual challenges that those at the 5th subplane of the Mental Plane face. Here we discover the “problems of illumination” that take place when one enters into deeper types of meditation practice. Some of these problems include what happens when the Chela in the Light is intensifying the brain and mind with an increased measure of Soul light and how it can imbalance the life and inflate the mind causing one to life in a “thought bubble” or develop problems of mental pride.
Continue reading “CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Advanced Meditation Training”
Soul to Spirit: The New Spiritual Psychology 