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The purpose of the Food For Thought is to give information on some of the metaphysical terms that are found from different historical eras, and different languages. Some sources of the words found here may come from Sanskrit, Tibetan, Greek, Latin, Kabalistic, Gnostic and Occult terms. I hope to be able to provide a concise description or at least show some cross-cultural associations.   


Food For Thought ~ December, 2008

Views – when looking at a landscape it is difficult to take in all the details at once. Our eyes can only focus on one point at a time so we look to the right, then to the left. We look near, then far. Similar to spirituality, it’s never whole but a composite of images formed in our mind. It changes, it flows but there’s no knowing it in a single view.

 For some, the composite view may come from training, research and self- cultivation. But even after years it is impossible to take in the totality. It requires an awakening of one’s spiritual force and when it happens it manifests as a brilliant light. The mind expands and becomes an illumination, and eye at the same time. What it shows, it also knows, but it is the light that sees.       

 

Food For Thought ~ November, 2008

Promises – Spiritual seekers wait for the fulfillment of what have been promised. But, visitations from gods have not come. Freedom from weariness hasn’t come. Great wealth hasn't come. Fame hasn’t come. Supernatural powers haven’t come.

 All sorts of things are promised yet when those things don’t come, do you give up your life or your spiritual path? Spirituality is not a transaction with the universe. It is an endeavor that we all take up because it is our ultimate mode of being.

 

Food For Thought ~ October, 2008

Charlatans – they come from many areas of our life, including our spiritual practice.

Many are self- proclaimed masters, or claim to be guided by the Most High Ascended Master or Spirit Guide. If they present themselves to you as being able to lead you on a path to instant enlightenment, and it seems too easy, it may be false. But, why should spirituality be any different than any other endeavors. Can one become a golf champion without practicing how to properly hold a golf club?  Can one become a good accountant without learning a basic bookkeeping first?

In spirituality, many of us fall victim to this process. Whatever they teach, the teachers cannot claim to give you enlightenment, only the individual can give it to herself/himself. 

Food For Thought ~ September, 2008

Intuition Comprehension without effort of reasoning.  

Animals live life simply. When they are tired, they sleep. When they are hungry, they eat. They don’t care about any theory or ethics. They respond to the cycles of the day according to their intuition. Their mating season corresponds to the proper season. They nurture their young and encourage them to be independent, leave home when it’s time, according to their understanding.

Human beings depart from the natural flow of the cycles and worry about ethical action. The extremes of behavior can drive one to become moralistic or sadistic. One must learn ethics thoroughly and must embody them so completely that they become fixed in our subconscious. Then there can be no more doubt about oneself as to how to react to a situation. It will be intuitively known.

Food For Thought ~ August, 2008

Prejudice – a familiar foe, and it comes in many forms: racism, chauvinism, and many other ‘isms’. It keeps us from knowing ourselves. But come to think of it, don’t we all favor ourselves the most?  Who feels the pain when we’re hurt? Or, who rejoices the most when we feel satisfied? As long as we are slaves to our intellectual ideas over experience, or value comfort over effort then we shall never realize oneness. 

A child shall always look beautiful to the child’s mother; the child is her creation. The same way, we are inevitably partial to ourselves. We create ourselves.

Food For Thought ~ July, 2008

Austerities – is a self-discipline that can potentially lead to a higher spiritual awareness. There are two kinds of disciplines: one with a purpose that ends to an accomplishment and the other is a blind discipline. Many spiritual people believe in self-flagellation, living in a cave, or fasting for a very long period of time. These practices can easily lose sight of our inner objective.

Austerity, is simply to understand clearly how and why do we do things we do, and does not require esoteric practices. It is just an extra effort to gain a better life. 

Food For Thought ~ June, 2008

Solstice it reminds us that all of life is cycles, all of life is balance. There is a left and a right, an upside and downside, a zenith and nadir.

 The summer solstice is the time of greatest light, a day of enormous power. The sun may appear to stand still during the great culmination of power and brilliance but it is not static. The next day, the sun will start a new phase, a new cycle.

 So, celebrate your high achievements but not be boastful. Likewise in misfortune, do not be sad. Those who understand the peak of any cycle and are the wisest of all. 

Food For Thought ~ May, 2008

Prowess:  a gift, a borrowed strength, it isn’t yours. If you have it, rejoice in it, but use it wisely and compassionately. Once it passes, victories will not be easy to come by. Those who fail to learn this lesson become bitter old people. They lose faith and become resentful of life. That is because they place their self-worth in their abilities and not in who they are.

Previous Food For Thought ~ Terminology

 Metaphysics:  defined as the branch of philosophy that examines the true nature of reality, whether visible or invisible. Metaphysics includes the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, and, fact and value. Basically, metaphysics is the philosophical study of being and knowing. It is very closely related to spirituality, but it is not a religion.

New Webster: n. philosophy in general; particularly the science of essential principles, or abstract principles

Catholic Encyclopedia: that portion of  philosophy which treats of the most general and fundamental principles underlying all reality and all knowledge. 

 

 Akashic Record:  referring to a universal filing system which records every occurring thought, word, and action. The records are impressed on a subtle substance called akasha (or soniferous ether) The Akashic Records are also called by different names such as: the Collective Consciousness, the Universal Mind, the Universal Space, or the Cosmic Mind.

 Theosophical Glossary: taken from the word “Akasa”. The subtle, supersensous spiritual essence which pervades all space; the primordial substance identified with Ether. But it is to Ether what Spirit is to Matter.

 Edgar Cayce: a well known Christian Psychic stated that the idea is comparable to the Biblical “Book of Life”, it is consulted to see whether or not the dead are admitted to heaven.

 

Bodhisattva:  Sanskrit; an enlightenment-being or Wisdom Being. One who is bound to achieve enlightenment.

Theosophical Glossary: “he whose essence (sattva) has become intelligence (bodhi)” ; those who need but one more incarnation to become perfect Buddhas. In metaphysical sense, Boddhisatva is a title given to to the five sons (five senses?) of the celestial Dhyani Buddhas, “ They, of the Merciful Heart

Newsfinder.org E-magazine: are not idols to whom we make our offerings and pay our respects. A true boddhisattva is to be found among us, for a true boddhisattva is someone who is rich in compassion and is earnest in delivering all sentient being within the six realms of existence.


Chela
: Sanskrit word for a follower of a learned master, or a spiritual teacher. The name of our first bookstore, The Chela Bookstore: Books and Gifts for the Mystical Mind

Theosophical Glossary: A disciple, the pupil of a Guru or Sage, the follower of some adept of a school of philosophy.

Summit Lighthouse Glossary:  (Hindi cela from Sanskrit ceta "slave" or "servant.") In India, a disciple of a religious teacher or guru. A term used generally to refer to a student of the ascended masters and their teachings.

 

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