Prelude in Allariz
Stone bridge at entrance to medieval town of Allariz
To introduce the new block in Course 2 Sophianic Cosmology, COSMIC PROJECTION, I am leading with a talk I recorded in Allariz, Galicia, Spain on May 26, 2022. This block will contain the units previously released in Dog Zen on cosmic projection, plus new content on the distinction of booth-side and theater-side, and the holographic analogue to the 36 Tattvas. The complete teaching on the Parinama released here in Course 2 belongs to the premium level of Gnostic intel on applied noetics. It is a gift of instruction that cannot be found anywhere else in any other spiritual or metaphysical system past or present.
36 Tattvas: complete schematic of the cosmic projector showing both booth-side and theater-side
Parinama: Sanskrit for the event of cosmic projection. Emergence, emanation.
Aham: I, or the focal “eye” of subjective awareness
Idam: that or this, the object of subjective first-person awareness; the world-event
Detail of the Parinama schematic showing the triple lens construction of Buddhi-Ahamkara-Manas
Ahamkara: the I-enhancement lens
Traditional intel from Vedantic sources:
Ahaṁkāra (Sanskrit: अहंकार), ‘I-making’, is a Sanskrit term in Saṃkhyā philosophy that refers to the identification of Self or Being with ‘nature’ or any impermanent ‘thing’. It is sometimes translated as “ego-sense.”
Ahaṁkāra is one of the four parts of the antahkarana (inner organ) described in Vedanta, while the other three parts are Buddhi, Citta and Manas. In the Uttara Mimamsa or Vedanta branch of Hindu philosophy, even though it is not discussed in great detail in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says to Arjuna that Ahaṁkāra must be removed – in other words, it should be subordinated to the Lord. The reason for this is that the Self is not (cannot be) perceived when one is in a state of Ahaṁkāra.
In Bhagavad Gita Krishna says “Air, water, earth, fire, sky, mind, intelligence and ahankaar (ego) together constitute the nature created by me.”
Woman in typical lotus pose with hand mudra and eyes closed.
This practice, adopted by countless millions of people in the West since the 1960s, follows the Vedic instruction that requires the removal of the subjective self to realize the Higher Self: because, “the Self cannot be perceived when one is in the state of Ahamkara.” To which I strongly protest.
In Planetary Tantra there is no Higher Self to be attained. As explained in Not in His Image, this practice entirely rejects the God-Self equation. The mystery to be explored goes to how you have any self in the first place, and the practice goes to using the instrument of self, which arises as a feature of cosmic projection through the lens of Ahamkara, to become autogenically interactive with the local divine source, the Aeonic Mother.
jll, 28 May 2022