‘The Path of Peace: A Program for Personal Evolution Toward Spirituality, Oneness, and Cosmic Consciousness’ Course Outline In order to gain maximum benefit from the ‘Path of Peace’ course, it is essential to reset your perspective, purge your maladies, and achieve a moment of enlightenment. There is a natural order to these, and they must be addressed in this way to realize optimal results. The stages below ‘Stage One: The Reset,’ ‘Stage Two: The Purge,’ and ‘Stage Three: Transcendence,’ are sequenced, but there is no prescribed time limit to how long each of these steps should take. As I have stated above, some souls will progress faster than others, depending on their circumstances, degree of personal evolution, and current expanse of consciousness. The process is not a race. In order to progress properly, one must feel they have successfully mastered each step along the path. The SpAn program offers metrics to the observer which illuminate their degree of progress within each step, allowing them to know when they have sufficiently accomplished each. For those unfamiliar with the cross-disciplinary terminology used below, such as ‘Chakra,’ ‘Karma,’ and ‘Chi,’ explanations are given. While the terms themselves may or may not be highly familiar to observers from certain cultural backgrounds and spiritual paradigms, they each have readily-available cultural and experiential correlates, and are not nearly as daunting or exotic as they may at first seem. STAGE ONE: The Reset •Balance Your Chakras The first and most critical step in the process of personal evolution is that of balancing your chakras. The chakras are, in simple terms, one’s energy centers, nodes throughout the body which energize one’s Being to various degrees and radiate to others in their sphere. There are seven chakras in your Being: Root, Sakral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Troath, Third-Eye, and Crown chakras. A detailed explanation of each and their affect on the body, emotions, and mind is given in the SpAn program. The issue from which most souls suffer, with regard to the chakral system, is imbalance. If one or more chakras is dominant over the others, one’s chakral system is out of balance and experiences maladies and dysfunction, radiating those amplified energies to others in their sphere, who suffer the consequences. As an example, if one’s dominant chakra is the Sakral, sex is one’s driving motivation. A balanced Sakral Chakra limits sexual thoughts and behaviors to healthy, consensual, intimate interactions within an equitable relationship. Sakral-intensive people tend to be overly preoccupied with things of a sexual nature. They tend to objectify others, dehumanize their subjects, and profile groups of people using simplified and generalized descriptors, usually in demeaning or degrading ways. Chakras can energize positively or negatively. They are not good or bad in and of themselves. But an overly energized and out-of-balance chakra, regardless of whether the observer leans positive or negative, has an overarching negative impact on that person, as imbalance is a deviation and stunts one’s personal evolution, relationships with others, and their degree of expanded consciousness. Once the observer sufficiently balances their chakras, they are ready to move to the next step in the process of personal evolution, that of redefining their karma. •Redefine Your Karma The most simple way to express the concept of ‘redefining one’s karma’ is in the fundamental tenet of Zoroastrianism, as illuminated by Zarathustra more than four thousand years ago: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds. One’s karma is simply their present life situation as determined by their past thoughts, words, and deeds; and their future life situation as determined by those of the present. In this way, one creates their own reality. That is not to say that they create their own world. The world is what it is – external to our physical self. But our chi---the energies which we allow within ourselves---radiates to others. The perspective through which we experience the world is solely determined by our thoughts, words, and deeds. In the words of the Buddha, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” Once one has sufficiently redefined their karma, pointing their spiritual trajectory in a productive and healthful direction, it is time to purify their chi. •Purify Your Chi One’s ‘chi’ is the flow of cosmic energy to and through them. According to the Ancients, there is only one underlying Field from which all things emerge. This is the Singularity, which the Ancients referred to as the Source, the One Law, the All Father, God. When chi, the universal lifeforce, is received, it is pure, unadulterated, perfect. The state of our consciousness, that of our Being, which we have evolved through the force of our own will, acts as a prism, filtering the pure and perfect light that is ‘chi’ energy. Chi is a pure and innocent energy which our Being, for better or worse, either reinforces or corrupts, affecting us, the state of our Being – body, emotions, and mind – and radiating to others in our sphere. The SpAn program illuminates how one purifies their Chi, according to the teachings of the Ancients. One’s personal evolution along the Path of Peace is a direct product of one’s Chi Momentum along a Karmic Trajectory. STAGE TWO: The Purge •Purge the Poisons Once one successfully resets their Being (balances their chakras, redefines their karma, and purifies their chi), the are ready for Stage Two: The Purge. And the first step in the ‘Purge’ process is of cleansing the Acting Body (one’s physical self). This refers to healthy lifestyle choices, such as adequate sleep, healthy eating, moderate exercise, routine exposure to the forces of nature, deep rhythmic breathing, and meditative practices. It also includes the eradication of poisons and toxins in one’s system that they ingest willfully, including chemicals, unnatural additives, and excesses of sugars, fats, sodium, and ultra-processed foods. Cleansing the physical system is paramount to Peace with the Body, and by extension, Holistic Peace, a necessary component of one’s personal evolution. The SpAn program details the process of cleansing the body, purging the poisons, and reclaiming Peace with the Body. Once one purges the poisons from their Acting Body, it is time to purge the pain in one’s Feeling Body. •Purge the Pain Purging the Pain means to create a platform of love, power, and joy in one’s emotions. This is a process that must be supported by all previous steps in the SpAn program, guiding the progress of one’s personal evolution. In order to successfully Purge the Pain, mastering one’s Feeling Body, their emotional self, one must have balanced chakras, redefined karma, purified chi, and have purged their body of harmful toxins and substances. A regiment of meditation, introspection, and inner connection is critical to this step in the process. Once one has sufficiently purged the pain from their Feeling Body, they are ready to advance along the path of personal evolution toward Purging the Pettiness. •Purge the Pettiness Purging the Pettiness occurs when one creates a state of wisdom, curiosity, and creativity within their mind. This is accomplished by holding only the highest and purest of thoughts, by maintaining a sense of wonder as a state of being, and by actively looking for creative outlets. It is a widely held perception that we can’t control our thoughts, that thoughts just come and go as they please, and that we are only accountable for those which we hold in our mind and ponder or act upon. But, according to the Ancients, this is absolutely not true. Even the slightest most inane thought can send vibrations through our Being, affecting the vibrational states of our cells, the energies which radiate to and through us, and the impact we have on others in our sphere – whether positive or negative. And that controlling these thoughts is within our means. By creating a platform of love, wisdom, power, and joy, and by being intentional in thought, we can not only eradicate errant or rogue thoughts, but reshape our brain to accommodate only the highest, purest thoughts. Our goal is to have only ‘God’s thoughts.’ This is critical to the path of our personal evolution and to expanding our consciousness. The SpAn program provides specific metrics for developing one’s progress along the Path of Peace, bringing one’s body into its ultimate state of health, one’s emotions into the perfect state of balance, and one’s mind into a sublime state of Peace. Once one accomplishes The Purge sufficiently, cleansing their Being of all maladies – physical, emotional, and mental – they are ready to progress to Stage Three: Transcendence. STAGE THREE: Alignment •Get To Know Your Higher Self (Spirit) One’s Higher Self is their Spirit Self. It is the perfection of their Being, which resides in the immaterial, the Abstract, and shares essence with that of the One Law, the Source, the All Father, God. Both the Source of All Creation and one’s Higher Self are Spirit in nature, but separated by the disparity found between our perception of local experience and that of universal experience. Our separation from God, to the extent that it exists, is only to the degree which we experience the Cosmos as being separate from ourselves. Where God experiences the fullness of his Creation, being consubstantial and one with it, we have been granted a local perspective, causing a sense of lack, of separation, of remoteness to God and his Creation. This separation is only an illusion. And the process of our personal evolution brings us back into that conscious realization, that we are One with All Creation and consubstantial with the Creative Force of the Universe. To know the Source, one must become intimate with their Spirit, their Higher Self. The only way to experience spirituality is through one’s Spirit, which serves as a perfect template of one’s Being – body, emotions, and mind. The Ancients referred to this template of our perfection as our ‘Higher Self.’ It serves as a metric, as a basis by which to measure our progress toward perfection. Without this metric there would be no goal toward which we could direct our personal evolution. There would be no target at which to aim. There would be no way to determine if we were improving ourselves or not. The only way to know if one is advancing is to know where the end-goal, the ideal, is and to take regular inventory of their progress toward that point. The SpAn program walks you through steps required to get to know your Higher Self, how to seek it, find it, and commune with it. Becoming familiar with your Higher Self, facilitating communion with the All Father, is key to advancing your personal evolution, expanding your consciousness, and removing the veil. •Align Your Lower & Higher Selves Once one comes to know their Higher Self, becoming intimately familiar with their ideal state, the perfection of their Being, then they will begin to see with pristine clarity where they are in their personal evolution and expansion of consciousness along the Path of Peace toward Cosmic Consciousness. This is as simple as aligning your current state with that of your ideal state, in increments as your will is able to empower – gradually bringing your Lower Self to more resemble your Higher Self. This alignment of Lower Self with Higher Self is necessary to experience communion with the Source, the All Father, God in the most direct and intimate way, the fullness of relationship with the Creative Force of the Universe. •Expand Your Consciousness Once one has sufficiently aligned their Lower and Higher Selves into a state of agreement and harmony, they will be prepared to begin the process of expanding their consciousness. The degree of one’s expanse of consciousness is directly related to their ability to sense and experience the world around them. If one’s consciousness is restricted to their Acting Body (Root, Sakral, and Solar Plexus chakras; also referred to as one’s ‘Lower Self’), meaning it experiences only those stimuli which engage the body, they are in the basest degree of human experience. They sense only that which directly “touches” the body, their immediate senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. They are tactile by nature. This is the state of Being which is most directly tied to the earth and its elements (self-preservation). Those with highly energized Lower-Body chakral centers tend to be very materially fixated; they tend to lack intuition, empathy or compassion, except where the appearance of these benefits their material pursuits; and often tend toward paranoia. Those with Acting-Body dominant energy centers are typically referred to as psychopathic. They tend toward self-servitude, self-centeredness, selfishness, and/or self-obsession. If one’s consciousness is expanded to their Feeling Body (represented by the Solar Plexus, Heart, and Troath chakras; yes, there is an overlap, as the chakral system is a process, not a set of fixed points), then they are emotionally connected to the world around them, can often sense at a distance, especially as radiated by those in their sphere to whom they are entangled (share experience with). They are emotive by nature. Those with a high degree of expanded consciousness which radiates through the Feeling Body are typically referred to as empaths. They cry easily, laugh easily, feel the crushing despair and overwhelming joys of peoples – even distant peoples to whom they have no immediate connection – and to all life forms. If one’s consciousness is expanded to their Thinking Body (found in the Troath, Third Eye, and Crown chakras; also known as their ‘Higher Self’), then they experience a spiritual connection with all things – to varying degrees depending on the state of their personal evolution and expanse of consciousness. They are intuitive by nature. Those with a high degree of expanded consciousness through the Thinking Body are typically referred to as gurus, spiritual leaders, or telepaths. They tend to sense things which are not readily apparent to the less-evolved, derive astute observations from loosely-related concepts or facts, and sense things in advance of their occurrence. A measure of one’s expansion of consciousness is to test the limits of what they can sense, from what distance they can sense it, and the degree and intensity of those sensations. One who is fully-evolved along the path of their personal evolution toward communion with the All Father and Cosmic Consciousness experiences Oneness with All Creation. Many faith traditions refer to Beings who achieved the ultimate state of Oneness, reporting these souls as having been “taken by God,” as in the transmigration from corporeal to ethereal without experiencing physical death. The Ancients themselves speak only of the desired result of personal evolution as being Oneness with All Creation. Decipher that as you may.