This post gives a quick summary of Group 7. Few people on the planet are within this group, however it represents those that are on the spiritual path in a more serious way finally emerging. Continue reading “Quick Summary of Group 7”
This post gives a quick summary of Group 6 who represent those who are able to dominate others and fulfill their desires for better or worse. On the light side, they become humanitarians. On the dark side, they become sociopaths. However, whether working for the light or the dark they are still immersed in the world of the five senses, something that will only be overcome more in Groups 7 & 8. Continue reading “Quick Summary of Group 6”
This post gives a quick summary of Groups 4 – 5 representing the majority of human beings who are driven by desire, immersed in the world of the five senses, highly emotional, reactionary, conformists, and easily led by others.
This post gives a quick summary of Groups 1 – 3 who are not very prevalent on our planet today. All three groups find it difficult to survive and navigate the world around them, though Group 3 is learning to get what they want more by recklessness and force, since they lack the emotional control and intelligent activity to get their desires met in other ways.
This post concludes Chapter Ten by bringing correlations of Group Seven with the Crisis phase of the Technique of Integration, and how Group Seven and the ideas of Alice Bailey match up with the models of spiritual growth and evolution as put forward by both the Theosophical and Integral movements.
Continue reading “CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Correlations to Theosophical Model”
This post examines the struggle Probationer Disciples have with truly developing discernment in the mind. Often this comes about as a rebellion against the mind’s lower functions that they are beginning to see and evolve beyond. This can cause them to reject the mind and its uses altogether causing them to slip further into glamour making them seemingly regress, instead of progressing, on the spiritual path.
Continue reading “CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Intellectually Impatient”
An hour long video outlining the general evolution of the field of spiritual psychology, how we got to where we are and where we may be headed next.
This post continues looking at what Bailey calls the “Problems of Guidance” that especially Probationer Disciples struggle with. This second post looks at these problems as they are connected to being guided by people no longer alive through the technique of channeling. Then, the post introduces lower psychic powers as compared to higher psychic powers and how the Probationer Disciple who is attracted to these lower powers can get into difficulty.
Continue reading “CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Problems of Guidance – Channeling & Psychic Powers”