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The Psychology

“It is necessary to start to see oneself with the purpose of auto-knowing oneself, because really the rational humanoid does not know himself.”

The Great Rebellion, 1975 · read it in Self-Observation
A hooded traveller kneels at the edge of a still mountain lake at dawn, looking at a glowing reflection in the water
I

Know Thyself

Who am I, really?

Start here

The Essence

The spark of the Being inside us

Personality

What the personality is and how the ego works through it

The Mechanical Man

A machine, and not yet a man

The Centres of the Human Machine

The five inferior centres and the two superior centres

The Level of Being

The marvellous ladder, and how to climb it

Particular Characteristic Psychological Trait (PPP)

The one ego at the root of all others
A village street at dusk full of people walking with their eyes half closed; among them the hooded traveller holds a small glowing lantern
II

The Sleep of the Consciousness

Why do I keep falling asleep?

Identification

The door through which every ego enters

Fascination

Identification that becomes fascination, and fascination that becomes sleep

Sensations

What a sensation is, and how it differs from a feeling

The Three Traitors

Desire, the mind and ill will, who hand over the Christ within

The Secret Weapon of the Ego

When to resist, and when to comprehend
The hooded traveller sits calmly on a rock above a wide valley, storm clouds and rain on one side of the sky and warm light on the other
III

Inner States

Why do I feel like this?

Psychological States

Life is not its events but the states it meets them in

Negative Emotions

The moods that poison us and those around us

The Psychological Song

The inner song that we sing that keeps us from experiencing reality

Suffering

Why we suffer, and what pain awakens
The hooded traveller stands with open hands on a flowering hillside above a lake as the sun rises over three snowy mountains
IV

Awakening, Moment by Moment

How do I wake up?

Awakening

What the stopping of the machine is for

The Consciousness

What the consciousness is, its sleep and its waking

Self-Observation

An inner faculty that is the first step of transformation

The Remembrance of Oneself

Remembering God is inside you

Inner Self-Remembering from Moment to Moment

A bell through the day, to remember yourself

The Transformation of Impressions

What enters through the senses can feed the soul or the ego

The Retrospective Exercise

Reviewing the day to transform the ego to comprehension

Conscious Shocks

What carries the work past what the machine does by itself
Beside a still lake at dawn, a dark shadow figure crumbles away like falling leaves above the traveller, who lies bowed down on the shore, a red rose at the water’s edge
V

The Death of the I

Dying to the ego

Psychological Death

The death of the ego, from moment to moment

Conscious Works and Voluntary Sufferings

Super-efforts, the cosmic duty, and knowing how to suffer

Remorse and Repentance

How we truly transform ourselves and our lives

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Keep the teachings with you

Practise this

The teaching becomes real when it is lived.

Self-observationWatching what we say, feel and think, in the small details of the day.
Remembering oneselfNever forgetting our own Being, wherever we are.
Changing CentresUpset, or your head won’t stop? Let the tired part rest and put another part of you to work.

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