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A Language to Map Consciousnessby Samuel Sagan, M.D.Clairvision® Schoolwww.clairvision.org info@clairvision.org |
8th edition
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This version contains 435 entries and 57,700 words.
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Copyright © Samuel Sagan 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
In 1990, in the context of the courses conducted at the Clairvision School in Sydney, a group began a systematic exploration of states of consciousness. This involved weekly sessions as well as several full-time mapping and meditation intensives every year, each of them lasting between 2 and 33 days. Starting with about 25 members, the group gradually grew and came to be known as 'the Foundation', because the wealth of observations it produced led to the elaboration of experiential techniques and models of consciousness that set the ground for the courses run by the school.
By 2000, there were about 70 members in the Foundation, and the transcripts of Foundation proceedings totalled millions of words – a massive gathering of information about subtle bodies, states of consciousness, spiritual beings and non-physical levels of reality. But, even more importantly, what had emerged along the years was a method, through which it was possible to take groups of beginners who had never done any work on themselves, and take them step by step to experience the states of consciousness mapped by the Foundation.
This book presents some of the discoveries made by the Clairvision Foundation, as well as a set of principles that can be used by anyone interested in engaging in an exploration of consciousness based on direct experience.
Note that the power of what is presented here lies in the fact that it isn't the product of one individual trying to share his/her vision of the world, as is often the case with books of esotericism, but the result of a collective 'mapping'. No view was adopted until it could be confirmed and objectified through the experience of the whole Foundation, as well as hundreds of students following the courses of the Clairvision School.
This book is divided into two parts:
The first part discusses key principles for mapping consciousness.
The second part introduces a comprehensive palette of terms and concepts that will prove useful to anyone engaged in an experiential exploration of consciousness. Some of these are traditional terms from eastern and western systems of spirituality. Others are original concepts that have emerged through the mapping work of the Clairvision Foundation.
Mapping consciousness simply means establishing references in your inner landscape.
Take the analogy of moving to a new city. At first you only know a few locations and routes from one area to another. Then, as you navigate through the city again and again, the general map becomes ingrained and sinks into your system. Besides, you come to appreciate the intrinsic character of various places.
Discernment increases with time. When you know a city by heart, driving through a street you will immediately and effortlessly notice a new shop, or a building that has been renovated. Whereas on your first drive, the streets seemed like one big continuum where you hardly discerned anything.
Similarly, mapping consciousness means establishing references in your field of consciousness, and systematically exploring different avenues: levels which at first may appear like altered states, but which through 'repeated navigation' become utterly familiar. It becomes as if you had always known them, not just because they are now completely mapped, but also because you realise that these states have always been with you, in what used to be the subconscious and unconscious background of your consciousness.
Through mapping, the unconscious becomes conscious.
Mapping consciousness requires a strict methodology – a methodology that is scientific in essence. But unlike present trends of scientific research where the scientist and his object are separate, here the object and the subject are one. You are the scientist. Your bodies – physical and subtle – are the lab.
Here, knowledge is self knowledge, in a harmonious marriage of intuition and critical discernment.
A key observation as a preamble for exploring consciousness is that words condition the world you live in.
Let's begin with an anthropological experiment conducted with a tribe of natives in a South American jungle. These people did not have a word for 'square'. There is nothing exceptionally strange about this – after all, the square isn't a dominant shape in nature.
The fascinating observation was: when shown a video of a revolving window frame, these people didn't perceive a rectangular object rotating in space. They only saw lines that moved. Having no concept of square, they didn't identify the shape.
This reflects a general principle: without a term to identify a structure in their subtle bodies or a particular state of consciousness, people tend to miss the corresponding experience. Even when the structure is in their immediate field of perception, they do not discern it.
On the other hand, as frequently observed in the courses of the Clairvision School, from the moment students have a term to refer to the structure, they start identifying it. Many realise that they have actually been feeling this structure for a long time. They 'knew without knowing that they knew'.
Hence the crucial importance of words for mapping consciousness!
As far as mapping consciousness is concerned, one thing must be understood right from the start: describing experiences requires many concepts that are not part of the common repertoire of modern languages. This means there is the need for introducing new terms, to describe things for which there are presently no words in English.
Note that as far as this is concerned, the work on consciousness isn't different from any other technical discipline. All sciences have their own jargon.
It is essential to clearly understand the purpose and the value of this terminology. Words are power. If you don't have words, you can't identify states of consciousness. And if your words are vague, so will your experiences be. Try to describe a city if you only have one word for street, and no such terms as avenue or back-lane. Words – precise, accurate words – give you the power to discern, and discerning is mapping. Discerning is vision.
It is fascinating to see what difference language makes to people who begin the Clairvision work. When they arrive at the school, students often have a shy and uncertain attitude to their own experiences of consciousness. When they describe them, it is as if they weren't too sure whether it all really happened or whether they dreamt it. Experiences don't seem to be completely part of the real world.
Then, gradually, the students adopt the language. In sharing times or when asking questions, they tentatively start using terms such 'cathedra' or 'combinessence'. And one or two years later, when they have become fluent in the language, they speak about their experiences with great confidence. As a result, their world has been extended: it now covers a much wider scope of experience. The intangible has become tangible.
In the jargon of consciousness, every term is an opportunity for new realisations – an opportunity to expand your universe and discover new modalities of being.
But just as there are terms that clarify, so there are terms that can create confusion. Words that cover too wide a range of experiential modalities, for example. Imagine two adjacent little chakras: A and B. If you have only one word to refer to the pair, it won't help you discerning the specific characteristics of each of them.
When working on cosmological models, the Clairvision Foundation first used the term 'spheres of nearness' to refer to the intermediary worlds close to the physical plane. This made perfect sense: since these layers are close to us, why not call them spheres of nearness?
There was, however, a problem. In Kabbalah, the term nearness is used to translate Atzilut. This also makes perfect sense: among the 4 worlds of the Kabbalistic model, Atzilut is the closest to the Divine, hence 'nearness'.
So we gave up our spheres of nearness. Why? Because otherwise, anyone familiar with our cosmological model would tend to be confused when reading about Atzilut. And Kabbalists would have to twist their minds when reading Clairvision material – a typical example of a divisive use of terminology.
Conversely, words can be used to create bridges between systems.
In the Clairvision mapping of subtle bodies, for example, extreme care was taken to adopt terms that were also used in major models such as the one of Rudolf Steiner. As a result, if you follow Clairvision courses, you will feel at home when reading Anthroposophical literature on subtle bodies and healing – a vast and rich body of writings. Which means that your spiritual world will have been extended.
Similarly, with cosmology (the description of non-physical levels of reality) as with subtle bodies, whenever possible great care was taken to use terms and models that are compatible with those of the Indian tradition. Again this enlarges your world. Studying one system, you gain familiarity with others instead of gradually being walled up in a tower of your own.
Here it is crucial to stop and reflect on the far-reaching consequences of a situation where spiritual groups would each become locked in a terminology of their own.
If there is one thing that is supposed to unite human beings, not divide them, it is spiritual work.
This is not to say that everyone is supposed to agree with everyone. There are topics on which different systems hold different views, and where it is therefore impossible to use the same words. Still, this leaves scope for establishing wide common ground by ensuring a common terminology for all topics on which there is agreement.
A huge amount of time and effort was invested in this direction at the Clairvision School, and it is hoped that this book will be of help to all seekers with similar aspirations.
Despite large numbers feeling the need for a spiritual quest, it remains that materialistic reductionism is the dominant creed of our time. By materialistic reductionism, I mean models where it is taken for granted that a human being can be equated with his or her physical body: thought processes are the product of the brain, emotions can be manipulated through medication, psychological features are genetically determined. From this point of view, the triumphs of genetics could engender a wave of extreme materialistic reductionsim, where even spiritual aspiration becomes gene-determined – how long before we read in the newspapers that the gene for nirvana has been discovered?
The idea that consciousness may exist independently of the physical body is disputed from all sides, and often ridiculed. It may be tolerated under the label of religious freedom, but virtually all branches of science are evolving in the opposite direction: explaining out soul and Spirit.
Sure, a few physicists have published best-selling books that present physics in spiritual terms (just put God in the title, and the crowds will marvel). But go to a physics symposium, and you won't hear many papers about angels. The fact is, when it comes to making decisions about new trends in the fields of scientific research, industrial and economic development, authorities make their decisions according to hard scientific evidence.
Make no mistake: with the advent of genetic engineering, virtual reality, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, humanity is on the edge of a momentous metamorphosis. It will happen very fast. And if guided only by materialistic views, it could result in complete disasters. Soon, large-scale genetic manipulations will become as common as vaccinations are nowadays. Who says these manipulations will foster spiritual tendencies?
Simple scenario: a scientist develops a gene-therapy that delivers 100% protection against osteoporosis. Will anyone care to check that this therapy doesn't result in a weakening of the ability to tune into spiritual realms?
At the dawn of the 20th century, Rudolf Steiner predicted that some form of 'vaccination against spirituality' would one day be implemented: a physical 'remedy' that would greatly diminish people's ability to open to non-physical realities. As strange as it may have sounded at the time, this possibility comes a little closer with every new triumph of genetics.
Understand me well. I am not advocating a 'return to nature', or the discarding of technology. What I would like to see is not a slowing down of the pace of scientific discoveries, but a greater integration of science and spirituality – a science that investigates topics related to consciousness and subtle bodies, in particular, instead of ignoring them. Without this dimension, spiritual eradication may not even happen through malice, but simply through unawareness. Since the energetic and spiritual effects of drugs or any form of technology are never tested or documented, anything could happen.
But even without a disaster scenario, if nothing was to counterbalance the formidable wave of materialism that is presently unfolding, we could well end up in a polarised world where genuine forms of spirituality become more and more marginalised – a field for fools and nostalgics.
Hence the vital importance of a science of consciousness emerging.
The problem is, nowadays something is considered scientific if it works on rats and if you can make statistics about it. This attitude can at best capture only the most superficial effects of spiritual experience, never its essence.
If, however, a large scale mapping of consciousness were to emerge, something that wasn't just the work of a few individuals but came from the collaboration of a number of groups operating with compatible principles, then a science of consciousness would be born.
Depending on whether this happens or not, the world is likely to be quite a different place when you come back for your next life.
The transcendental level of pure Being, or is-ness. Totally unchanging, beyond forms, beyond duality, uncreated and eternally self-existent.
The term 'relative' is used for anything that is not the Absolute. However, even though the Absolute is beyond anything relative, including all worlds and levels of duality, nothing relative can be beyond the Absolute. For if there existed anything beyond the Absolute, then the Absolute would no longer be Absolute!
The Absolute, therefore, necessarily encompasses all relative levels.
For an exploration of several paradoxes revolving around this, see book 17 of Atlantean Secrets, The Book of the Paradoxes in Highness.
A structure that gradually crystallises out of the of body of energy, and behaves as a foreign element.
The shape of accretions can vary from jelly or clouds of smoke to splinters, crusts, slag and even animal or monstrous shapes.
Accretions can be defined as self-generated entities.
Once fully crystallised, accretions can be processed and cleared as entities.
The formation of accretions is part of the mechanisms of the tessellated pavement, by which human beings go from 'grey' to black and white. Accretions correspond to negative qualities which are being worked out so they can be expelled.
Introduced by Samuel Sagan as part of the mapping of the Clairvision Foundation.
Actions, as opposed to reactions, are not triggered by samskaras but generated from a space of free will. Actions are to reactions what feelings are to emotions. See also response.
The concept comes from masters of Vedanta.
See channel release.
Mighty fallen angel, dark force whose domain is the material world.
Ahriman's main action on humanity is to promote materialism – thought systems which deny the existence of the Divine and of spiritual realms.
The term comes from the Zoroastrian religion, where Ahura Mazda, principle of light, and Ahriman, principle of darkness, fight each other on the stage of the world.
This dualistic vision is said to have been a seminal influence on the Book of Revelation and on Apocalyptic literature in general, with scholars pointing to the Babylonian captivity (Jewish people taken in exile to Babylon, 586-538 BC), as a period of contact with Zoroastrian influence.
One also finds reference to Ahriman in Neoplatonism, and in several other streams of western spirituality.
See Absolute.
The experience of 'I am'.
A level of experience in which being is endowed with a sense of individuality, as opposed to is-ness.
Am-ness is associated with the Ego, in contrast to is-ness which relates to the Self.
A term often used by Hindu masters.
In the cosmology of Atlantean Secrets, the Ancient Days of the Earth is a term that refers to the epochs that preceded Atlantis.
The term was introduced by Samuel Sagan in Atlantean Secrets. The reason for adopting a new term was that, even though the model of the Theosophists and Anthroposophists discerns several periods before Atlantis (the earliest being Polaria, the second Hyperborea, the third Lemuria), these periods were not historical and aren't necessarily clearly delineated. Hence the need for a more general term.
In the cosmogony of the Theosophists and of the Anthroposophists, the Ancient Moon is the cosmic cycle (manvantara) which followed the Ancient Sun, and which came before the present Earth.
Introduced by the Theosophists, and later on taken up by Rudolf Steiner.
The posterior part of the tunnel of the third eye.
A term introduced by the Clairvision Foundation.
In the cosmogony of the Theosophists and of the Anthroposophists, the Ancient Saturn is the cosmic cycle (manvantara) which preceded the Ancient Sun and the Ancient Moon. During the Ancient Saturn the life wave of human beings underwent the mineral stage, endowed only with a physical vehicle.
Note that the Ancient Saturn, like the Ancient Sun and the Ancient Moon, are terms referring to cosmic cycles, that is, periods in time, and not to the corresponding astronomical objects: Saturn, Sun, Moon.
Introduced by the Theosophists, then taken up and developed by the Anthroposophists.
In the cosmogony of the Theosophists and of the Anthroposophists, the Ancient Sun is the cosmic cycle (manvantara) which followed the Ancient Saturn, and which came before the Ancient Moon.
Introduced by the Theosophists, then taken up and developed by the Anthroposophists.
A being in whom male and female polarities are fully developed and harmoniously integrated.
A key concept of western spirituality, with multiple roots both in eastern and western mythologies.
Classifications of angels are rare and few. The most widely used is the model of angelic hierarchies first postulated by 5th-century mystic Pseudo-Dionysius and later on adopted – and adapted – by various streams and schools of western spirituality.
| Greek | Latin | English | Rudolf Steiner | Max Heindel | Planetary Sphere |
| Angeloi | Angeli | Messengers | Spirits of Twilight | Angels | Moon |
| Archangeloi | Archangeli | Spirits of Fire | Archangels | Mercury | |
| Archai | Principatus | Principalities | Spirits of Personality/ Spirits of Egoism |
Lords of Mind | Venus |
| Exusiai | Virtutes | Virtues | Spirits of Form | Lords of Form | Sun |
| Dynameis | Potestates | Powers | Spirits of Movement/Motion | Lords of Individuality | Mars |
| Kyriotetes | Dominationes | Dominions/ Dominations |
Spirits of Wisdom | Lords of Wisdom | Jupiter |
| Throni | Thrones | Spirits of Will | Lords of Flame | Saturn | |
| Cherubim | Cherubin | Cherubim | Spirits of the Harmonies | Cherubim | |
| Seraphim | Seraphin | Seraphim | Spirits of Love | Seraphim |
The Clairvision School's process to tune into higher spiritual beings.
When it comes to connecting with angels, spiritual seekers often miss great opportunities. For a start, they often fail to recognise the precious times when a connection could be established. Even if they can establish some contact, it is usually faint, and based on misconceptions. The result is that they derive only an infinitesimal part of what they could receive from the angel.
The Angelic Resonance process teaches how to identify when the presence of an angel is approaching, and a method to resonate with its lofty presence. Particular gestures of the hands (comparable to the mudras of Hindu and Tibetan traditions) are used to reinforce the connection. Resonance takes place through the use of qualities, in particular levity and heart sweetness.
What is the difference between angelic resonance and theurgy? Angelic resonance is the Clairvision system of theurgy.
See flying dragons of the Great Ant.
In the saga of Atlantean Secrets, A Master of Thunder who defected to the dark side. Before becoming the follower of Ahriman, he was Perihelion, the teacher of Orest (Orest being Gervin's teacher).
Aphelion stands for the fact that anyone can be 'tempted' and end up defecting to the dark side. Even the greatest spiritual masters.
Even though the original Greek word means 'revelation', the term apocalypse is commonly used to refer to a final confrontation between forces of light and forces of darkness.
Just as in the Book of Revelation the apocalypse ends with advent of the World to Come, so in the Clairvision mapping 'apocalypse' refers to the final transition of humanity from the physical world to the Fields of Peace – from Homo sapiens to Homo angelicus.
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Outside scholarly circles, a great deal of nonsense and hysteria often accompanies apocalyptic theories. So let's be very clear: you will not find in the Clairvision mapping any predictions of imminent disasters, or an invitation to start storing tins of food in your cellar. At the same time, the Book of Revelation remains one of the major texts of western spirituality. Ignoring it because of the nonsense of fanatics isn't satisfying either. In the Clairvision mapping, the apocalypse is seen within the philosophical context of the tessellated pavement. Human beings of the past were prepersonal. They had little judgement and free will. Their actions were mostly mechanical, rather than the product of conscious decisions. But as the personal stage unfolds, human beings gradually gain free will. Their actions are no longer random, but the result of conscious choices. Projecting this trend into the future, there comes a stage where every step taken is the result of a conscious choice. Minute after minute, human beings must choose between following their truth or actively denying it. From grey, they become black and/or white – as symbolised by the tessellated pavement. Because of this polarisation between light and darkness, conflicts may be possible. But in essence, what is being discussed here is a full revelation ('apocalypse' in Greek) of the Ego. |
A form of connection in which you are immersed in the presence. Rather than sitting in your column of Spirit, the connection floods the room, sometimes giving you the impression of floating in a 'aquarium of presence'.
Introduced as part of the mapping of the Clairvision Foundation.
The cosmological levels where archetypes are contained.
Archetypes are the perfect prototypes out of which the seeds of things and beings originate.
Plato's theory of forms can be regarded as the source for the concept of archetype (even though the term archetype itself wasn't used by Plato).
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People familiar with Jung's theories should be aware that Jungian archetypes only have a remote resemblance to archetypes as meant in the Clairvision mapping, Sri Aurobindo, Max Heindel or others following Plato's model. Jungian archetypes are structures within the collective unconscious: "...pre-existent forms that seem to be part of the inherited structure of the psyche" (Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pp. 392-393) This is a major departure from the original Greek concept, where archetypes are completely independent of human beings. Even though borrowed from the Greeks (Jung, Psychology and Religion, par. 89), from a Platonic point of view the Jungian archetypes are more the manifestation of some archetypes into the psyche rather the archetypes themselves. |
The fully blossomed and enlightened Ego, with all its transformed vehicles.
The Archive is the Clairvision School's opening onto the Fields of Peace.
According to the legend, it is into the Archive that the Masters of Thunder transferred the knowledge of their time before the cataclysms that marked the end of their civilisation. The creation of the Archive is one of the central themes of Atlantean Secrets.
The people who operate the Archive in the Fields of Peace, helping human beings in several ways: inspiring them to work on themselves and offering guidance, facilitating connections, pouring spiritual forces into them.
The Archive people are human beings who regularly incarnate on Earth, carrying out works aimed at speeding up the evolution of humankind.
An exvolution in which the exvoluted state is mistaken for one's true nature.
A metaphor dear to Vedanta masters is that of spectators so engrossed in a movie that they forget it is but cinema, and believe it to be their real life.
Turning upwards in an attitude of active receptivity.
In its general meaning, the term 'astral being' refers to any being who dwells in the intermediary or astral worlds. However, in the Clairvision work the term is often used in the more specific meaning of astral beings who interfere with the mental consciousness of human beings.
The term 'astral being' is very general and therefore probably used by different groups. The Clairvision Foundation has elaborated very specific processes to explore and become free of the influence of astral beings.
The astral body is the vehicle of emotions and thoughts.
One of the Clairvision Knowledge Tracks deals specifically with a presentation of subtle bodies: the Fourfold Model.
Out-of-the-body experience, also called 'astral projection'.
For the sake of clarity, it is essential to discern two types of experiences:
Astral travelling proper, where consciousness leaves the physical body. People see themselves standing by the side of their bed, or floating above it. They can see their physical body from outside.
In other experiences, there is a sense of 'travelling' but there is no clear-cut detachment from the physical body. For experiences of this type, it is preferable to use another term: space travelling.
Astral energy, or astral quality.
The asuras are a class of beings who appeared early in this cosmic cycle, and who became proud and turned to the dark side.
To combat them, a second creation of gods
had to be manifested.Sanskrit texts.
The epoch which preceded the present age.
The epic novel in which Samuel Sagan presented many aspects of the Clairvision mapping, especially those relating to high states of consciousness and the cosmological ladder of non-physical worlds.
If storytelling plays such an important role in all traditional spiritual teachings, it is because it is a powerful format to convey not just knowledge but also spaces of consciousness and seeds of inspiration. Thus in Atlantean Secrets, many 'special effects' have been crafted behind the lines, taking the reader through a succession of spaces of consciousness and realisations.
Atlantean Secrets is comprised of 22 books grouped in 4 volumes:
Note: Each book is divided into scenes. Thus 'Atlantean Secrets 3.5' refers to Book 3, scene 5. Scene 3.5 is therefore located in Volume 1 (which contains Book 3) – not in Volume 3!
| Atlantean Secrets is also a musical epic. Characters, gods, angels and worlds each have their themes, and a number of scenes are accompanied by musical scores. Many of the tracks can be heard online at www.clairvision.org. |
A point in which consciousness can internalise itself, thereby accessing higher realms.
The Clairvision use of 'atom' is consistent with its Greek etymology: a-tomos, 'un-cuttable', something that cannot be divided, the finest possible particle. Experientially, an atom is infinitely subtle, without width or height.
Indian masters of kriya and kundalini-yoga.
The particular internalization of consciousness which takes place in the white line of the thunderwand, or in one of the atoms. A powerful involution of consciousness, it takes you travelling into high spaces and spiritual realms.
The term attachment isn't part of the Clairvision mapping, but it is worth knowing that many healers use it to describe parasitic entities.
The visual perception of someone's subtle bodies.
The term is awfully vague. It doesn't refer to any subtle body in particular, but to a mixed bag of clairvoyant perceptions. Besides, multiple cliches are attached to the word, from bogus illustrations in cheap aura-reading manuals to a plethora of no-less-bogus derivatives of Kirlian photography.
As such, aura is a quite unusable term for a serious mapping of consciousness. It is preferable to avoid it altogether.
See egg.
In Sanskrit, the word avatara literally means 'descent'. Avatar is the modern pronunciation of the same word.
In Sanskrit literature, an avatar is the incarnation of a god in a human body – a god's descent into the world of mortals. Thus Krishna and Rama were avatars of Vishnu. In 20th-century India, people such as Mother or Satya Sai Baba have been regarded as avatars: Mother, an avatar of the Universal Mother, Satya Sai Baba an avatar of Shiva.
Interestingly, the word avatar has found a new career in the jargon of virtual reality, where it stands for a virtual body used to move through a virtual world (such as a virtual-reality representation of a town, for instance). This use of the word is perfectly in keeping with its Sanskrit origin: your avatar is a 'descent' of yourself into the virtual world. And if your avatar is destroyed, who cares? You will use another one next time.
In this happy linguistic encounter, the IT use of the term is perfectly consistent with the original Sanskrit meaning.
Awakening, like enlightenment, isn't a word with one single meaning. Depending on the context, it can mean:
Like enlightenment, awakening can come in impersonal and transpersonal modalities. Impersonal awakening revolves around the effortless ability to maintain awareness, as in awareness of the Self. Transpersonal awakening revolves around the blossoming of the Ego, and its Life.
But unlike enlightenment, awakening can also come in personal flavour, with features such as structure (and therefore superastral abilities), motivation, reliability and sense of responsibility, etc. In Oliver Stone's 1987 movie Wall Street the Gordon Gekko character, played by Michael Douglas, provides good teaching material on this topic – depicting states of awakening of purely personal and superastral nature, without any spiritual component. In this line, awakening is a measure of how far a person has advanced from the prepersonal to the personal stage, but without stepping into transpersonal opening.
However, the distinction between personal and transpersonal awakening isn't as simple as it could seem at first. In Volume 1 of Atlantean Secrets, when Szar is still a Salmon Robe priest, his degree of prepersonal sleep excludes him from higher teachings. It is only after undergoing personal-stage type awakening through developments such as falling in love and encountering the Nephilim, that Szar becomes capable of receiving teachings on the Power of the Point and transpersonal opening.
In other words if the human destiny is to move from the prepersonal to the transpersonal via the personal stage, then some degree of personal awakening is necessary for transpersonal enlightenment to even become an option.
When consciousness knows that it is conscious, then it is awareness.
Permanent awareness through the device is one of the central aspects of the Clairvision work.
A Master of Thunder with phenomenal powers.
The name is pronounced 'Barkhan Zair'.
"Teyani was crying. The head of the man who faced her remained hidden by his gown's hood. He gradually faded from the space of the room, leaving a bubbly golden imprint and a subtle smell. Szar had not seen his face. But from the special golden light which shone in his aura, he had recognised him.
He was Barkhan Seer the irresistible, prince of Thunderbolt Bearers and patron of the Knights of the Apocalypse." (Atlantean Secrets 18.4)
A state of pure being.
A totally pure form of consciousness, in which there is just being. One is, and that is it.
It can be extremely 'creative', even though not in the ordinary meaning of the term.
Am-ness, is-ness and being-ness are terms often used by Indian masters.
The part of ISIS which deals with:
Before applying abdominal pressure it is essential to ensure that the client is not pregnant, does not have an abdominal cyst, a tumour, or other medical condition incompatible with belly work.
The condition of human beings in the distant past, before and not long after the fall.
By extension, someone who lacks will and displays prepersonal features.
A term that came to the mappers of the Clairvision Foundation when describing their past-life experiences.
To behave like a prepersonal blob.
It is of course not sufficient to stay in bed and do nothing to be genuinely blobbing around. One has to enter a certain mood, a 'state'. Once in the state, however, it is certainly possible to spend entire days blobbing around, hiding behind a facade of activity, or simply lying on the beach or watching TV.
A graphic jargon term of Clairvision mappers.
The term 'body of immortality' refers to any or all of the three transformed vehicles mentioned above. As soon as a sufficient fraction of the transformed astral body has been crystallised, there is continuity of consciousness and memories from one life to another. Further enlightenment is brought about by the development of the transformed etheric and physical bodies.
See also Archetype.
The term 'body of immortality' refers to vehicles of consciousness that do not undergo a shattering after death and in which individual consciousness retains a continuity of existence, purpose, knowledge and memory from one life to another.
According to the fourfold model of subtle bodies, in a human being the eternal principle is the Ego. The body of immortality is therefore comprised of vehicles which are permeated by the light of the Ego. These are: the transformed astral body, the transformed etheric body, and finally the transformed physical body.
The building of the body of immortality is one of the central purposes of the Clairvision work.
Formed from 'embryo of immortality', a common term of Taoist alchemy.
The body of vastness is not a body but an experience, in which you feel your energy extending up to hundreds of metres away from your physical body – sometimes even more.
Introduced as part of the Clairvision mapping of consciousness. Experienced in particular during bush intensives, where the meditators' energy could spread over miles and miles of empty territory.
See Absolute.
See fourfold rhythm of the breath, or throat friction.
See Masters of Thunder.
Etheric vibration accompanied by a buzzing (inner) sound.
A useful convention developed as part of the Clairvision mapping was to reserve capital initials for the nouns that are synonymous with 'God'.
For example: the Divine, Cosmic Fire, Universal Mother, She-Dragon of the Deep.
Capital initials are also used for direct emanations of the Divine (such as the Word, for instance), and principles which are One with and totally connected to the Divine, and therefore not subject to the limitations of manifested existence.
So, all that is One with Highness takes capital letters, all that is below Highness doesn't. No doubt purists and connoisseurs will appreciate this cosmological use of spelling. But this use of capitals is in no way just a purist's exercise. It makes provision for absolutely essential distinctions, such as that between God and the gods. Another critical example can be seen in the distinction between life and Life – two fundamentally different principles.
The connection resulting from the combined energies of a group of people sitting together in silence.
Clairvision mapping. From the Greek kathedra, 'chair'.
When a group of people sit in meditative silence, a column of Spirit is generated by their combined energies. This column is a resonance of each participant's column of Spirit, and of the spiritual beings or upper currents which connect with them.
The cathedra column acts as an antenna through which angels can make their presence felt to the group.
Clairvision mapping.
A bowl-shaped etheric structure, the base of which coincides with the pelvic floor.
One of the important subtle body structures mapped by the Clairvision Foundation.
The most superficial parts of the underworlds. Unlike the rest of the underworlds, they are not magnificent places teeming with the wonders of the Dragon but infernal spaces in which souls undergo seemingly endless wandering and all kinds of torment, as in the inferno of Dante (Divine Comedy) and of Virgil (Aeneid, Book 6) or the numerous hells of Hindu cosmology.
Introduced by Samuel Sagan, to establish a clear distinction between hell-like layers and the magnificent underworlds which Sanskrit texts describe as being replete with treasures.
The Point in its aspect as a toroid-shaped sphincter.
Coined in the early 1990's by William McDougall of the Clairvision Foundation.
See thunderwand.
The line of energy at the centre of the column of Spirit.
In other words, the central thread is the line that begins at the vertex (the top of the head) and from there ascends vertically.
Clairvision mapping. A perfectly limpid term: everyone can tune into the vertical line above the head.
In Sanskrit texts, charkas are wheel-like structures that govern subtle bodies and a whole range of functions of consciousness.
The theory of chakras originated in Tantra, the main traditional reference being a Sanskrit text called the Shat-Chakra-Nirupana.
In the Tantric system, the five lower chakras are the emergence in the human framework of the mahabhutas, the 'subtle elements' of earth, water, fire, wind, and akasha. Thus:
The wave or circulation of energy that follows a movement.
More generally, the after-effect of an exercise.
Clairvision techniques.
Subpersonality. A part of the astral body with its own emotions, soul qualities and desires.
Now widely used in the field of transformation work, the concept of subpersonalities gained popularity through the work of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866?-1949) .
Charges are the dynamic forces behind emotions and desires.
The stronger the pull of an emotion or a desire, the stronger the charge.
One of the key teachings of the Clairvision School.
Learning to perceive and transform the charges behind emotions and desires.
Clairvision work.
Another term for charge process.
A Sanskrit word meaning 'substance of the mind'.
The chitta is a plastic envelope (specialised part of the etheric body) attached to the brain and involved in the thought processes of ordinary mental consciousness.
In the context of the Clairvision work, the name given to study groups.
For the purpose of mapping consciousness, Clairvision students are invited to work in small groups following a precise modus operandi: 'choirs'.
Choir here isn't to be understood as in singing, but as in an angelic choir where beings reinforce each other's connection.
See cord.
The Ego-consciousness of the Solar Logos.
Christ consciousness is the lighthouse of Ego-ness which enlightens humanity. It is the source from which human Egos can be nourished. Through resonance and combinessence with the source, human Egos realise their potential for Divinity.
Even though Christ and Christ consciousness refer to the same level of the Divine, Christ Consciousness is a far preferable term when it comes to conveying the concept of lighthouse of Ego-ness. In most people's minds, 'Christ' conveys fixed, charged religious associations and quite a different register of meanings.
On the relationship between Christ consciousness and the Lord Melchisedek, see Solar Logos.
One of the people who promoted the use of the term Christ Consciousness was Matthew Fox, whose writings provide a useful framework to integrate Christianity into a wider spiritual context, rather than confining it within the dogmatic limits of any particular church.
In esoteric Christianity, Jesus and Christ are considered two distinct beings:
A term coined by H. P. Blavatsky to refer to church establishment and its doctrines as opposed to the original essence of Christianity.
Direct perception of reality, which bypasses the senses and cognises the essence of things.
In its full form, clairvision refers to a state of effortless, heightened awareness and spontaneous discernment in which there is experience of your true nature – your immortal essence.
In the Clairvision mapping the terms vision and clairvision are used interchangeably, as opposed to clairvoyance:
"The two concepts are worlds apart. Clairvoyance refers to psychic abilities. Trance-medium psychics often operate by making their energy porous and soaking in etheric and astral influences. This can easily make them vulnerable to murky energies.
Clairvision operates in a completely different way. It doesn't rest on making yourself permeable but, on the contrary, making your energy dense and solid – diamond like. Clairvision isn't about passively receiving impressions. It is an active process, as in a beam of light-consciousness with which you illumine objects.
And clairvision isn't about seeing auras and astral beings, but seeing reality. It is a vision of the Self, a global vision. As part of it, you will end up seeing auras. But if anything, seeing auras is a way of engaging vision, not a finality. Clairvision is about understanding the world by perceiving the forces which uphold it. In Clairvision there is an aspect of 'peeling' reality: going beyond facades and appearances until you reach the essence. Finding causes behind the apparent diversity of the creation.
A key aspect of vision, as in clairvision, is that it is not just a visual experience. This is another major difference with clairvoyance. Clairvoyance gives you visuals, but not necessarily an understanding of what the visuals are about. You just see things, and then you have to make sense of them. Whereas Clairvision is a knowing – a knowing of the essence of things. The Greeks would have called it noetic vision. It is a communion with the essence of things, in which you cognise their properties and their modus operandi. You literally know them inside out.
Note that in clairvision the visuals are secondary, the knowing is what matters. As part of a clairvision experience, there may or may not be visuals, just as there may or may not be perceptions of inner sound and other non-physical qualities. Much more important is the fact that your consciousness is raised to a higher frequency of being. Vision, in its higher meaning, is an ontological amplifier, something that allows you to be more. And in this exalted level of being, there is knowing – a knowing which is embedded in being.
Clairvision students often first experience this during eye contact practices, sitting in pairs, tuning into each other. Perceptions of halos and auras often take place, but these are only part of the experience. More important is the quality of presence, the depth of consciousness generated by the practice. In this depth of consciousness you are naturally more in touch with yourself – a first step towards being more. You enter an enlarged part of yourself. In this greater 'you', there is knowing: knowing of yourself, and also a profound knowing of the other person... a level where to be, to see and to know are one "
Knowledge Track Portal 1, 3.2.7
| Note that Clairvision is a registered trademark of Clairvision® School Foundation. Its use in printed material is therefore restricted and protected by international law. Vision, however, can be used instead to convey the same meaning of superior function of consciousness as opposed to psychic clairvoyance. In the Clairvision mapping, 'vision' and 'Clairvision' are considered synonymous. |
The 'Clairvision Corpus' (CC) is the body of knowledge which is the background of the Clairvision School. The Clairvision Corpus contains both experiential and theoretical knowledge in the fields of consciousness and the mysteries of human nature, with a special focus on transformation and inner alchemy – the building of the body of immortality.
Clairvision Corpus started as a pun on Corpus Hermeticum, and from there gained momentum.
One of the two main groups of Knowledge Tracks.
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Clarity Path and Vision Path "An in-depth spiritual work has two facets: construction and deconstruction. This doesn't apply only to the Clairvision work but to all traditional paths: Hinduism, Zen, Buddhism, Taoism, any -ism you can find. For enlightenment to be possible, there has to be a work of construction: developing states of consciousness through meditation, gaining understanding, cultivating subtle perceptions, chakras, and so on. But there also has to be an aspect of deconstruction: an undoing of ignorance. Freeing the mind from negative emotional imprints. Letting go of false conceptions, preconceived ideas and beliefs. Reclaiming clarity by letting go of the twisted constructions of the mind. Some would say, before your cup can receive Spirit, capital S, it must be emptied and cleaned. In the Clairvision Knowledge Tracks, this dual nature of spiritual work is embodied in the two principal paths. There are two main groups of Knowledge Tracks: the Vision Path, and the Clarity Path. In the Vision Path you will find the esoteric knowledge, the meditation techniques, the work on the third eye and other chakras, the building of subtle bodies, and so on. In the Clarity Path you will be invited to examine yourself in all possible ways, discovering your real motives and the hidden agendas of your mind, uncovering and releasing emotional charges, conquering fears – in short, knowing yourself and letting go of the garbage. After the first three Knowledge Tracks of the Vision Path, you will be invited to follow the first Knowledge Track of the Clarity Path. After this, you are expected to carry out in parallel the two sides of the work, alternating modules of each path. They go together. Without total inner clarity, there is no real hope of becoming a seer of reality. Vice versa, without a certain degree of inner vision, you may dabble in emotions but you can never reach the metaphysical depth required for this amazing inner simplicity and silence, this incredible lightness of being which we call clarity. Knowledge Track Portal 1, 3.2.8 |
See online list of presently available Knowledge Tracks.
A poetic term used in Atlantean Secrets to refer to vertical knowingness.
A classic of the tradition of Thunder, presented by Samuel Sagan in the epic novel Atlantean Secrets.
Performing an action with intention and full awareness.
A mode of consciousness in which every time you perform a particular activity, you fully engage the device, thereby achieving a dynamic form of awareness specifically adapted to the task.
Clairvision techniques.
Someone who has been initiated into entity clearing.
In self transformation and healing work the term 'clearer' is commonly used, with a variety of meanings. When it comes to clearing entities, however, the term should be used carefully. If people who haven't been properly trained attempt to perform entity clearings, then disasters can result.
The specific process by which entities are removed.
In ISIS and other interactive Clairvision techniques (working in pairs) participants are usually invited to clearly delineate the roles – one taking the part of 'connector', the other being the 'client'.
The connector takes responsibility for directing the course of the practice, while the client follows the instructions of the connector.
The word connector expresses precisely the function of the operator. The word client, on the other hand, has certain connotations which sometimes causes newcomers to the work to wonder if its use is appropriate.
There is, however, no ideal word for 'the other participant'. Patient is too medical, traveller sounds corny, while 'victim' is definitely out.
The term client has several advantages:
Cloaks are 'etheric attitudes', accompanied by (sometimes subtle) changes in the tone of voice, facial expression and body language, and related to a particular character.
When the character comes to the forefront, people unconsciously put on the corresponding cloak.
One of the main effects of cloaks is to invite reactions from others.
Clairvision mapping.
The column of energy that extends below the body.
Clairvision mapping.
The column of energy which extends infinitely above the head, as in an upwards extension of the crown chakra.
The column of Spirit is so-called because it acts as an antenna for Spirit.
Clairvision mapping.
A oneness of essence. A coalescence of beings.
A state of unity, shared by two or more beings – usually angels.
Combinessence is one of the most useful and indispensable words that have emerged from the Clairvision mapping. It fills a real gap in the vocabulary of consciousness, as no existing English word can by itself accurately represent the concept.
See upper complex and lower complex (which refer to groupings of subtle bodies, and have nothing to do with psychological complexes).
A link of consciousness to a non-physical being, or beings, or their world.
Frequently used in the Clairvision mapping. If a modern translation for the Sanskrit word yoga was to be sought, connection would probably be preferable to the usual 'union' or 'yoke'.
In ISIS and other interactive Clairvision techniques, the facilitator is called 'connector'.
Clairvision techniques.
An inappropriate etheric/astral linkage binding two people.
The term is used in various systems of healing, but not necessarily with exactly the same meaning.
Astral beings that manipulate the functioning of organisations or superorganisms.
Clairvision mapping on superastrality
Clairvision mapping on superastrality
See manvantara.
The part of a manvantara that begins with the unfoldment of the creation and ends with a pralaya.
Divine consciousness in action – the Divine Will manifesting into the creation.
Widely used in the texts of western esotericism, and usually with the same meaning.
The part of a manvantara that begins with a pralaya and ends with a Cosmic Dawn, when a new creation emerges.
The principle of universal substance.
Cosmic Fire and Cosmic Waters are the two complementary principles which constitute and run the creation.
Not as widely used as cosmic fire, but nevertheless found here and there in texts of western esotericism.
Theories and myths of the creation of the universe.
A representation of the different spheres or levels of existence in the form of a ladder, similar to the ladder of Jacob.
Even though the image of the ladder is convenient and evocative, it must be kept in mind that the entire creation, with its myriads of worlds and levels of reality, cannot fit into a two-dimensional diagram! The ladder gives a sense of interrelationship of these different levels, it does not pretend to depict them in their spatial reality.
In particular, a fundamental aspect of the model is that the ladder extends up and down infinitely, and that its infinite top (God the Father) is one with its infinite bottom (God the Mother). It would therefore be more accurate to curve the ladder along a sphere of infinite radius. Yet even this would be nothing more than a diagram.
The cosmological ladder is a ladder only on paper.
The study of the different worlds and levels of existence which constitute the creation.
| Atlantean Secrets was written as a cosmological epic, taking the reader through a 'tour' of non-physical worlds from the deepest of the underworlds to the summit of the world of the gods. For a general presentation of the cosmological model used in Atlantean Secrets, see scene 9.25, Flying Dragons and the Cosmological Ladder. |
The totality of all