This post speaks about the initial 6 rules of 14 that represent guidelines for the Probationer Disciple to follow prior to taking what Bailey calls the First Initiation (or major expansion of consciousness, or enlightenment experience).
Continue reading “CHAPTER SEVEN: Rules for Initiation 1 – 6”
This post connects the stage of Probationary Disciple as I believe it relates to the 7th subplane of the Mental Plane to and provides comparisons of this developmental level with what traditional Theosophy has to say.
Continue reading “CHAPTER SIX: Correlations to Theosophical Model”
This post continues continues to list some of the general characteristics associated with the Probationary Disciple focusing on the spiritual practices that are engaged in such as beginning meditation and mind training, breathing exercises, an understanding of the centers or chakras, character development, and growing insight into “gaps” in development.
This post continues to list some of the general characteristics associated with the Probationary Disciple as connected to the 7th Subplane of the Mental Plane focusing on how the pull between the spiritual and material worlds impacts them for better and worse.
Continue reading “CHAPTER THREE: Spiritual vs Material Worlds”
This chapter starts the process of explaining some of the spiritual tasks that are required of the Probationary Disciple including the promises and pitfalls as the person starts to inquire into the classic phrase “Who Am I?” and searches for their Soul or “Higher Self.”
This chapter summarizes various processes that need to be mastered as one moves up the Mental Plane in regards to the Alice Bailey model. Then it closes with brief comparisons to the more traditional Theosophical model as well as to the Integral model.
Continue reading “CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Mental Plane – How it Unfolds”
This chapter gives an overview of how Bailey views mental processes including three types of mind given for the Mental Plane (lower concrete mind, son of mind, abstract mind). It also shows how the terms concrete mind and abstract mind are not what most people think they are.
Continue reading “CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Mental Plane – Three Types of Mind”
After we Become Human it is time to shift our identify and become a Soul. This book reveals the process of giving birth to the factual realization of ourselves as the Soul and for a time will be free on this blog.
This post summarizes the most surprising discoveries that became apparent to me when compiling the material for Book One: Becoming Human.
Soul to Spirit: The New Spiritual Psychology 