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Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
I've adapted this method from the work of Dr. Kristin Neff, PhD (https://self-compassion.org)
There are seven steps:
1) Realize that you are "in shame."2) Name that you are in shame (say out loud your to yourself, “I feel shame.”) a) Stay in the present moment, in your body. b) stabilize your awareness strongly so that you don’t get dragged back into images of pain3) Fully accept that you feel shame. Be aware of bracing against versus embrace. Embrace your role as host that creates space for the energy of shame4) Speak to yourself the way you would with whom you have warm relationship a) validate and normalize your feelings b) demonstrate that you are in solidarity with yourself. Create a subject-to-subject dynamic inside yourself.5) Open your heart to the world and all of the people right now that are feeling shame or whatever that you feel. Be in solidarity with them. Tell them that you see them. You are in it with them; that you understand them.6) Breathe in and bless yourself. Breathe out and bless them. Repeat for as long as you want7) You are now diffused from the energetics of shame (or whatever else). Be aware that there will be temptations to start thinking about that “thing” that caused you to feel shame. You have learned that you have agency over the focus of your attention. With dignity and integrity, stabilize your focused awareness into the present moment, and dive into doing the next right thing that is life-giving for you and for others.
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
This description is a rough first pass at my attempt to conceptualize "Metanoism" with someone else. I spoke with my friend and colleague, Brandi Reinhardt, LPC.
Metanoism is a psychospiritual approach to being of service in the world for those who feel called to help lighten the planetary vibrations.
Metanoism is conceptual and practical. It is an embodied psychospirituality that is praxis oriented.
It's worldview is metamodern and integral.
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Metanoism: Entering in Solidarity, Cultivating Hope, and Surrendering to Process
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Praxis of Metanoism:
Enter into solidarity with others
Cultivate hope in their lives
Surrender into process
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Hermeneutic: refers to the bias or interpretive lens through which we engage something.
Metanoism's hermeneutic: Conspiracy of Wholeness
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Epistemology: How do we know what we know?
Epistemology of humility
Epistemology of plurality (multi-perspectival)
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Metanoia: “Be transformed by a renewal of your mind,” Paul says (Romans 12:2)
Cultivating a spirituality of process and growth towards greater union and unity
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Brandi Reinhardt: https://brandicreinhardt.com
Doug Scott's websites: www.dougscottcounseling.com and www.cosmicchrist.net
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
This 15-minute audio will help you deeply relax, connect with your body, and open your third-eye to create a powerful thoughtform of blue-ray energy.
Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
The following is taken from a presentation that I did about the Law of One metaphysics and Christianity, as I understand it.
Graphics can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2023/02/03/audio-the-jesus-christ-event-and-the-law-of-one/
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
I am Ra. [...] "The seeker which has purely chosen the service-to-others path shall certainly not have a variant apparent incarnational experience. There is no outward shelter in your illusion from the gusts, flurries, and blizzards of quick and cruel catalyst.However, to the pure, all that is encountered speaks of the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. The cruelest blow is seen with an ambiance of challenges offered and opportunities to come. Thusly, the great pitch of light is held high above such a one so that all interpretation may be seen to be protected by light." (Law of One, session 95.24)
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Article and images can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2021/12/12/love-is-the-great-protection-using-catalyst-to-create-inner-space-for-love-increases-our-understanding-of-the-creators-presence-in-the-immediacy-of-the-moment/
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
The Law of One is clear that the many people are here now to help midwife Earth's fourth density vibratory conditions. The presentation pulls together Ra's descriptions of the Earth's third density. Ra's balancing technique helps us learn how to become the Creator by balancing our inner lives as we become more aware of what arises given the catalysts of the day. Doug offers another type of technique that is based upon the Law of One and the techniques of self-compassion. He calls this the Sacrament of Solidarity. Participating in the Sacrament of Solidarity is a kind of tapping into Intelligent Infinity and the result can be an explosion of love, joy, perspective, and integrity. Inner balancing naturally ensues.
The images used in the presentation can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/30/third-density-and-the-sacrament-of-solidarity/
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Building 4th member, DeMarcus, gave a wonderful introduction to the Law of One's concept of densities. A community discussion follows.
Images used in the presentation can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/29/densities-metaphysics-characteristics/
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Doug presented on the Law of One material's concept of will and faith. Few themes are as important in the material as these.
The images can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/17/will-and-faith-the-reins-by-which-we-move/
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
This presentation takes place at the Retreat House Community Center in Richardson, Texas. Doug combines three teachings together to provide a deep, practical, and accessible synthesis of:
1) the archetypal wisdom of Jungian psychiatrist and spiritual director, Troy Caldwell, MD (retired),
2) the perennial wisdom of the Enneagram,
3) a modified version of Richard Rohr's teaching of the True Self/False Self, which Doug calls the Anchored Self/Floating Self
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The images used in this presentation can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2022/11/10/jungian-archetypes-and-the-enneagram-part-2/
References:
www.troycaldwell.com
www.cac.org
www.enneagraminstitute.com
Our Vision
Ra says, “The Original Desire is that all entities seek and become one” (20.27). The “oneing” arises across ever increasing complexity. Complexification is evolution, and evolution is gained “by the losing,” as Ra mentions in 93.24.
It is sometimes said that there are three boxes that lead to evolution: Order, Disorder, and Reorder. Individually and collectively, we have to a sense of ‘order’ so that we develop identity. Then, we have to go through ‘disorder’ so that the experience the expansion and transformation of our ‘order’ gave us. We arrive at ‘reorder,’ but not after considerable deconstruction. In a world whose sense-making worldviews and institutions are thoroughly in disorder, how can we hold the depth of meaning so that we live into new spaces of inner and collective freedom? Our podcast hopes to be a small voice in the desert (disorder) which attempts to integrate, not segregate; unite diversity, not demand uniformity; include the pieces of disorder so that we may transcend into reconstructing–reconciling–reordering–renewing–the ever ancient, and ever new.
Building 4th is the name of our small spiritual community that is centered around the cosmic law known as the Law of One.
What does “Building 4th” mean? [see below for further descriptions of each of these four points]
- Building the Fourth Density [1]
- Building the Fourth Energy Center [2]
- Building the Fourth Way [3]
- Building Forth On Our Spiritual Evolution [4]
Building 4th’s Fourth Way is to embrace an incarnational spirituality grounded in the immediacy of our life-situations.
- We seek to learn in order to serve: We affirm that whenever we study the Law of One or other spiritual material, whether on our own or as a group, this is for the purpose of crystallizing our spiritual principles and learning how to embody them.
- The mundane is sacred: We affirm that there is no separation between the ordinary world and divinity. For example, doing dishes is an act of the Creator knowing Itself and can be supremely sacred.
- Love is our metric: We affirm that any teaching or belief, whether conventional or esoteric, is valued by how well it helps us love and understand ourselves and others, including those others whom we perceive to be different or even antagonistic.
- The way down is the way up: We affirm that our ordinary lives are rich in opportunities to grow spiritually. We try to bring our full presence and open heart to each moment, even–and especially–the difficult ones. We are learning that there is no escaping the conditions that foster our personal growth and therefore our goal is to embrace each challenge wherever we discern that it is safe and appropriate to do so. And even in dangerous, unsafe situations, we want to hold the assurance that the creator’s love is with us and we are immortal spiritual beings. In short, the ascension process is not a journey up and out of this difficult third-density illusion, but rather a movement down and into it more.
- The importance of humility: Ra suggests that to become the creator, “[…]renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and able to know and accept others.” We trust that our understanding is ever evolving, thus we try to hold our own views and various identities with humility. We acknowledge that admitting we don’t know fully requires some level of vulnerability and this can be uncomfortable.
We are inspired by the perennial philosophy that undergirds most of the world’s major spiritual traditions. For us, one primary description of the perennial philosophy is the Law of One material.
We are also informed by the academic disciplines of psychology, sociology, and theology, as we endeavor to weave a healthy synthesis between the conventional and the cosmic, the exoteric and the esoteric, and micro and the macro [4].
We hope that you enter the adventure with us and that you’ll enjoy our podcast.