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This glossary features advanced terms that may not be found within many psychological and cosmological systems. Each term is worth pondering.
 


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Attention

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The psychological state of awareness that has an object. Objects of attention may be sensorial, moving-kinetic, emotional, mental, intuitive, and spiritual. Attention may be concentrated, dispersed, synthesizing, or asleep.  Objects of attention are apprehended functionally, or by means of psychobiological functions. Thus, a sensorial object of attention is apprehended by the sense-functions, an emotional object of attention is apprehended by the feeling/emotional-function; a mental object of attention is apprehended by the mental-function, etc.

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Attentional Function

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  1. Instinctive Functions (fight/flight, internal workings of the organism... heartbeat, endocrine function, etc.)
  2. Sensorial Functions (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste)
  3. Moving Functions (balance, movement/non-movement)
  4. Emotional Function (feelings, emotions)
  5. Lower Mental Functions (associative, linear/sequential, categorization, typification, preconception, prejudice)
  6. Higher Mental Functions (concentration, metaphorization, vision, creativity, insight, surrender)
  7. Intuitive Function (intuition, direct knowledge)
  8. Spiritual Apprehension (synthesis)
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Authentic Interest

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Authentic Interest refers to those interests of the Author, the "writer of the story of one's life." Authentic Interests implicate the achievement of self-mastery. In general, we may wish to verify that Authentic Interests are Beautiful, Good, and True. From one angle, one's Authentic Interests CANNOT be in conflict with the Authentic Interests of another.
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Center of Gravity

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Each of us may spend our attention from a predominant Attentional Function.
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Object of Attention

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Objects of Attention include those

  1. physical objects (things and their physical attributes),
  2. emotional objects (feelings/emotions/colors/intonations),
  3. mental objects (words, concepts, numerical formulations), and
  4. subtler objects (intuitive and spiritual energy)

Ordinary Interest

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Interests expressed as a result of enculturation, training, indoctrination, and/or conditioning. Some such interests may be useful; i.e., they may support the eventual discovery of Authentic Interests. If Ordinary Interests suppress the unfoldment of Authentic Interests, we call them not-useful.
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Passive Self Observation

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A self-created psychological function, which is given the job of observing the actions, feelings, and thoughts of self and others without judgment (Thus, "Passive"). This function does not do, does not interfere with objects of attention. It does not prefer and avoid outcomes. It simply watches and records. It is not a natural function... rather, it is self-created in order to verify the roots and processes of one's behaviors.

When created, we intend that this function shall operate 24/7/365. Since this function is not created by natural mechanism, our Attention is required for its continuous opperation. It is possible to sustain this function during the hours of nighttime sleep.

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Remembering Oneself

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Being in the Now, Being in the Present, the strange sense of the mystery of Being. 
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