NooSchool Blog – Charles Winborne

(NOTE: Attempt to read this without those prejudices induced by immature religious indoctrination and reaction to such indoctrination. For your own purposes, revise (if needed) the terms ”soul” and “God” to represent the truths that beckon within your own field of vocational endeavor. Try to occupy the perspective of Assessment, as distinct from Evaluation.–CW)

Stages of Appropriation:

In considering the processes of appropriation, the following phrases should be studied, as they throw a light upon the various stages from different angles:

1. The stage of concretization and materialization. The soul takes to itself what it needs and desires for form building.
2. The stage of incarnation, taken at this time blindly.
3. The period wherein satisfaction of the desires is the major goal. These range all the way from physical desire and its satisfaction to a general and undefined desire for release.
4. The processes, in detail, of appropriating
   • A body or bodies. (Physical birth, emotional birth, mental birth–CW), A sheath or sheaths, A vehicle or vehicles, A form or forms.
5. Immersion in darkness. This was the result of desire. The darkness of ignorance was chosen and man started, through desire, to work his way from darkness to light, from ignorance to knowledge, from the unreal to the Real… It is an elucidation of the Way of Relinquishment.
6. The Path of outgoing in order to possess.
7. Selfishness, the major characteristic of the self in relation to, and identified with, the not-self.
8. Love of possession, the prostitution of spiritual love.
9. Acquisitiveness, the illusion of material need.
10. The period called in the Bible, that of “riotous living” on the part of the Prodigal Son.
11. The application and use of energy for personal, selfish intent.
12. Personality life, with all that is therein implied, – ambition, selfish purpose, etc.
13. Attachment to the seen, the known, and the familiar, external, objective forms.
14. The stage wherein thought forms are built, at first ignorantly, and then with deliberate selfishness.
15. The period of engrossment in the things of the kingdom of earth.

Stages of Detachment:

1. The stage of spiritualisation and of de-materialization. The soul functions with the purpose of liberation before it, and not of further physical plane experience.
2. The relinquishment of form life.
3. The period wherein satiety is experienced; the desires have been so dominant and so often satisfied that they no longer attract.
4. The process, in detail, of liberation from:
   • A body or bodies.
   • A sheath or sheaths.
   • A vehicle or vehicles.
   • A form or forms.
5. Emergence into light, a symbolic way of expressing the reverse of immersion in darkness.
6. The Path of Return, motivated by the wish to appropriate nothing for the separated self. The beginning of group consciousness and of group work.
7. Selflessness, the major characteristic of the Soul or Self.
8. Freedom from the desire to possess, freedom from acquisitiveness, and therefore the state of desirelessness.
9. The establishing of the sense of reality as the ruling principle of the life.
10. The return of the Prodigal Son to the Father’s home.
11. The application and use of energy for group purpose and in cooperation with the Plan for the whole.
12. The life of the soul with all that is implied in that phrase.
13. Love of God in contradistinction to love of self.
14. Attachment to the unseen, the true, the subjective and the Real, which is only possible when there has been detachment from the seen, the false, the objective and the unreal.
15. Complete liberation from the control of the lower mind.
16. The period wherein the center of interest is the kingdom of God and of the soul.
17. Reality. Formlessness. God.