Physical, Vital, Mental and their Subdivisions  -- "Human consciousness consist of three levels or planes -- the physical body, the vital plane of life energy and the mental plane of conscious awareness... Each of these three planes can be further subdivided into physical, vital and mental components. Each of the nine levels can be further subdivided into two parts -- surface and depth; as well as positive and negative. (Human Science) (intermediate) 

Nine Levels -- Describes in great detail each of the 9 levels of human consciousness. (MSS) (advanced)

Horizontal Scale (Outer to Inner)

The Evolutionary Planes of the Individual (the Horizontal Scale) -- There is another scale of human consciousness that ranges from our outer surface consciousness to an inner consciousness in the depths of our being; from the outer being to the subconscious within. (Roy Posner) (basic)

The Spectrum of Human Consciousness  -- Our consciousness is not just our normal level of awareness, our mentality, but there is a fully alive subconsciousness, as well as a cosmic superconsciousness. We can become aware of and live in all three simultaneously by developing our own consciousness. (Roy Posner)

The Subconscious Being

Becoming Aware of the Subconscious Influence (Roy Posner)

Power Over the Subconscious  -- Discusses limiting effect of our subconscious on our waking life. By living in a deeper consciousness, we would be more mindful of the negative influences rising from the subconscious. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Our Subconscious is Conscious -- We think of our subconscious as some mysterious aspect of our being, hidden from our view, i.e. from our normal level of awareness. This is true enough. And yet the subconscious realms has a will, intention, and consciousness of its own. Often it is of a greater capacity, insight, and awareness than our own normal state of awareness. (Roy Posner)

Our Psychological Framework

Dimensions of Human Personality

Dimensions of Personality -- Describes six different basic dimensions of Human personality -- Energy, Direction, Values, Consciousness, Strength and Depth. (Human Science) (intermediate/advanced)

Depth of Human Personality

The Determinants of Who We Are and What We Can Become -- What we can become in life is determined in an ascending scale from outer determinants to inner determinants, which have the greatest power. (Roy Posner) (basic)

From Manners and Behavior to Character to True Individuality - We see that people who have made a great difference in the world not only have a defined character, but have something more that we can call true individuality. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Manners-Behavior-Character-Personality-Individuality -- This article presents a model of personality that consists of five layers of depth from surface manners to an inner core we have termed individuality. Each person has all five of these aspects in some degree, but people also differ in the extent to which each of the five is developed. (Human Science) (intermediate)

Personality -- The focus here is on the level of 'Personality' in the five dimensions ranging from Manners to behavior to Character to Personality to Individuality. (MSS) (intermediate/advanced)

Also See "True Individuality" articles (mostly basic)

Other

Human Traits

List of Traits of Human Consciousness -- This table shows various traits that make up a human. They are grouped within the categories of an individual's (1) attitudes, (2) miscellaneous attributes, (3) endowments, and (4) skills. Each trait is shown in two ways; how it manifests in a positive way in a person, and how it manifests negatively in a person.  (Roy Posner)

What We Can Evolve To

Four Levels of Human Progress -- We can evolve at the level of progress, development, evolution, and transformation. (Roy Posner)

Yoga and Four Levels of Personal Progress -- How a person can progress at the level of growth, development, evolution, and transformation. (Roy Posner)

Stages of Personal Growth  -- The four stages or levels of personal growth that we can attain are Social Accomplishment, Psychological Growth, Spiritual Progress, Transformation. (Human Science)

Who Am I?  
In this extensive six-part interview, Roy Posner asks a fundamental question of existence, "Who am I?," and then comes up with some unconventional answers which reveal the vast scope of our human makeup and potential. (Roy Posner)

Conscious vs. Unconscious Growth

Nature's vs. Self-Directed Tapas -- We can wait for life to force us to progress -- on its terms -- or we can consciously determine the changes we wish to make in our nature and life, enabling great success, deep fulfillment, and infinite joy. (Roy Posner)

A New Way of Living -- An explanation of a new way of living your life, in which you determine the outcomes of events from within, leading to a life of endless success, fulfillment, and joy. (Roy Posner)

Overcoming Our Limitations

Take Inventory of Yourself as the First Step to Endless Progress -- We can identify certain personal traits indicating our strengths and weaknesses in life.  If we identify and overcome one or two  not only will we progress, develop, and evolve as individuals, but life will quickly respond in our favor. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Overcoming the Unique Contradiction of Who We Are -- We can discover the half dozen aspects of our nature that are wanting, and make the effort to change them. They are usually found from amongst the following: (limited amounts of-) energy, will, focus, direction, psychological strength, skills, wisdom, positive attitudes, givingness, love, calm, organization, and personal values. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Overcoming our Blind Spots -- When we get at the truth by overcoming our blind spots or by embracing another person's point of view, we open ourselves to infinite possibilities. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Bridging the Psychological and Spiritual Gap -- There is a differential between what we are and what we can become in terms of our psychological status. Often the keys to change are a wanting attitude, or ego, or reluctance to take up new opportunities. There are also spiritual keys like being more self-giving. When we make that change, life responds in our favor. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Strategies for Psychological Growth -- If you aspire to grow psychologically, and make rapid progress toward becoming a better, happier person, you can  raise your aspiration,  increase your self-awareness, become more positive, raise your values,  and develop individuality. (Human Science) (basic)

Fictional Case Studies

A Day in the Life of an Evolving Being -- In this little story we describe how one fictional character expresses in the course of a single day a number of ways she is elevating her consciousness, thereby evoking powerful response from life. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Mr. Darcy's 180 Degree Change -- An essay on how one famous individual in literature makes the effort to completely change wanting aspects of his nature, thereby attract the greatest successes and happiness of his life. We can certainly learn and apply his approach in our own lives. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Becoming a Significant Individual  -- A fictional account of how we can outgrow our limitations, accomplish vastly in a short period of time, and experience the joy of personal growth in the process. (Human Science) (basic to intermediate)

Overcoming Our Illusions and Superstitions that Replaces the Finite with the Infinite -- Others see our deficiencies, illusions, and superstitions, but we do not. If we identify and overcome them, life will respond in our favor. Settled in a deeper poise, we will more readily perceive and overcome them, enabling the infinite to emerge from the finite. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Psychological Growth in Pride and Prejudice -- This article examines the relationship between growth of personality and accomplishment in Pride & Prejudice, including how life responds to our higher or our elevation of consciousness. (MSS Research) (basic to intermediate)

Levels at which We Can Accomplish

Accomplishment in Life: Levels -- There are four fundamental levels at which an individual can accomplish -- survival, growth, development, and evolution. (Roy Posner)

Infinite Potential in Life -- Musings on how Infinity, including our infinite potential,  is a practical concept we can attain in our lives if we take to right perception and the inner methods of bringing it about; i.e. attracting it. (Roy Posner)

Human Accomplishment in Film ''House of Eliott'' -- A number of the keys to accomplishment are described in this analysis of the British TV series. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Human Accomplishment in Film ''Seabiscuit'' --  A number of the keys to accomplishment are described in this analysis of the American hit film about horse racing. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Negative Behaviors that Block Accomplishment in Film 'Seabiscuit'  -- Lack of direction, lack of drive and energy, poor organization, missing skills, flawed execution, poor attitudes, lack of psychological strength, and missing or weak personal values can all block accomplishment. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Accomplishment in Film 'Legend of Bagger Vance' --  Inner psychological and spiritual keys to accomplishment are presented in this analysis of the film about professional golfing. (Human Science)

Accomplishment in "Pride and Prejudice"  A number of the keys to accomplishment are described in this analysis of the beloved Jane Austin novel and film based on it. (Human Science)

Taking Up Opportunities

Envisioning the Future/Taking up Opportunities in Film 'Seabiscuit'  -- Describes how envisioning the future and taking up the opportunities to do so a key to accomplishment in this popular US film about horse racing. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Energy and Accomplishment

Energy Accomplishes -- Energy is the fuel of life. The more fuel we have, the more we can accomplish. In this article we explore a number of strategies that can help us increase our energy. (Roy Posner)

Our Ability to Respond to, Negotiating Obstacles

Inner Power that Overcomes Adversity that Brings Success in Film 'Seabiscuit'  -- A compelling theme in the story is the ability of individuals to overcome great hardship and adversity, and turn it into great success. The story shows that anyone can overcome adversity, so long as one has grit, determination, strength, and positive attitude. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Negotiating Challenges in Film ''House of Eliott''  -- Often what is the greatest determinant of our success is the effect of the environment around us. If it is positive, it will support accomplishment. If it is not, it can retard it, even destroy it. In many instances in the story, the heroines are confronted by hostile situations, yet are able to overcome them. This is perhaps their greatest achievement and the ultimate cause of their success. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Seeing Challenges as Opportunities (Seeing Negatives as Positive in Disguise)

Challenges Become Opportunities in Film 'House of Eliott'  -- From a higher point of view, we will see that each challenge and difficulty that comes our way is actually a stepping-stone for us to rise. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Negatives as Positive in Disguise in Film 'House of Eliott'  -- In life, we take serious blows as indicators of something extremely negative. Yet from a higher perspective, they are often the very instruments that enable us to move forward --to higher consciousness, awareness, and success in life. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Overcoming Counter Forces that Arise when We Try to Rise

Counter Forces that Rise when One Wants to Achieve in Film ''Seabiscuit''  --  When a great opportunity arises, there also tends to be a counter force that can ruin it. If we are mindful of it, we can avoid catastrophe and ride the positive development to great success.  (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Opposition when One Rises in Film ''House of Eliott''  -- One principle of life is that when we try to rise to a higher level, opposition forces come into play that will try to block our achievement. However, if we have enough energy, wherewithal, and consciousness, we can overcome them. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Seeing Contradictions as Complements

Contradictions are Complements in Film 'House of Eliott'  -- Nature progresses through the contradiction and conflicts between individual, parties, ideas, etc. Life puts us in conflict so that we can each through the difficult situation see our limitations and overcome them. There are a number of such examples in the story. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Effect of the Society, Environment on Accomplishment

Accomplishment in Life: Social Environment -- Explains the effect of the social environment on one's ability to rise in accomplishment. (Roy Posner and MSS)

Social Atmosphere for Accomplishment in Film 'Seabiscuit'  -- One important influence on our ability to accomplish is the role played by the environment -- i.e. the atmosphere and conditions around us. When the conditions of life around us is positive, it supports our ability to achieve. When they are negative, it retards it, or even cancels our efforts. In Seabiscuit, we see these external influences in the story at several levels. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Results of Human Initiative

Accomplishment in Life: Human Initiative -- When we try to accomplish something in life through our initiative, it may or may not succeed. Here are some of the subtle workings that affect the success of failure of any initiative. (Roy Posner and MSS)

Human Initiative (Pride and Prejudice) -- Sometimes human  initiatives are critical determinants of the success or failure of major outcomes. Other times they fail to have major impact. In this article, we examine principles governing the success of human initiatives as illustrated in the story. (Human Science)

Spiritual Approaches for Accomplishment

Keys to Infinite Success in Life -- There are three levels of factors that determine our levels achievement in life. They are (1) essentials for success; (2) the more subtle, psychological factors that bring it about; and (3) the inner spiritual-like determinants of achievement. (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Spiritual Method for Higher Career Accomplishment -- Beyond the basics there are several advanced, spiritual-oriented  methods that can take you to the top, including four levels of work, vertical accomplishment, power of thinking, power of imagination, silent concentration, expand your personality. (Human Science) (intermediate to advanced)

Evoking a Month's Earnings Every Day -- If we move a work to perfection (in various ways) and consecrate our action, a months' worth of wages can come to us every work day. (Roy Posner)

Powers of Silence that Attract -- Non-reaction, non-initiative, control of speech, and other inner powers of science tends to attract powerful positive conditions from life.

Consecration that Attracts -- Opening to the spiritual Force attracts staggering positive conditions from life.

The Token Work: Finding the Keys that Continually Evoke the Miraculous -- We can try to find the inner keys to success for our own selves in a token project, and then apply those methods in a larger project, propelling us to the heights. (Roy Posner for Human Science) (intermediate to advanced)

Aligning Ourselves with the Cosmic Intent, Fostering Progress in the World -- The Divine expresses its intention through Real Ideas it seeks to manifest in the world. Among them are spiritual-like qualities like peace, harmony, timelessness, infinity, knowledge, power, creativity, goodness, delight, and love. We can collaborate with that unfolding by being receptive to what is Intended and then implementing those cosmic, spiritual values in a practical way in our lives. (Roy Posner)

Miscellaneous Subtle Movements of Life  

Accomplishment in Life: Human Initiative -- When we try to accomplish something in life through our initiative, it may or may not succeed. Here are some of the subtle workings that affect the success of failure of any initiative. (Roy Posner and MSS)

Applying the Subtle Principles of Life to Attract Infinite Success -- Knowing the subtle principles of life can help you achieve greatly. (Roy Posner)

Synchronicity, Simultaneity, Parallelism in Film 'House of Eliott'  -- Life events that seem coincidental to us are not so. For example, if a person shows up suddenly when his name has just been mentioned, it is not coincidence, but a movement of life. Such events are there everywhere in life; as they are in this story. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Life Takes Unilateral Action (Pride and Prejudice) -- When the social forces are pressing in a particular direction or the subconscious force of individual aspirations is well formed, life brings about circumstances and events that appear to the superficial view as remarkable coincidences, luck or chance events. We see this in the story. (Human Science)

Expectation Cancels, Delays

Expectation, Dissipation Cancels (Roy Posner)

Expectation (Pride and Prejudice) -- Expectation has the power to postpone or cancel the thing that is expected. (Human Science)

Power of Intention in Film 'Seabiscuit'  -- Perceiving an opportunity and then envisioning its accomplishment is one thing, but to insure that it actually comes about, we must garner the sanction of our emotions and will, which together make up our intention. We see how it leads to great success in the story.  (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Intention that Attracts Instantaneous Luck -- Focusing on a work avoided or previously not attended to attracts luck. (Roy Posner)

The Response that Changed My Life -- If we shift from indolence to an intense aspiration and commitment to work, life can respond in overwhelming, even life changing fashion. (Roy Posner)

Life Response in "The Verdict" - When we intensely desire something, above and beyond anything else, life tends cooperate with our deepest aspiration. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Power of Aspiration, Intention in Film 'House of Eliott'  -- Perhaps the single great key to accomplishment is our level of aspiration; i.e. our intention, including our level of will and determination to make it happen. We see how intention evokes success in the story. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Becoming a Significant Individual -- A story that shows how a business executive followed a process to accomplish greatly and become whole. (Human Science)

The Power of Intention that is Great; that Backfires -- There are also instances where you really want something to occur, but the opposite takes place! That usually happens because the thing wanted was not helpful, or the energies you released stemmed from a wanting aspiration, attitude, decision, or action. (Roy Posner)

Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and the Power of Intention -- By collectively focusing our intent and taking all measures for such an eventuality, life cooperates from all quarters, and Nature, or rather Mother Nature, suddenly became quiescent. (Roy Posner)

The Power of Intention on the Eve of the IPhone -- An example of how focus a thing attracts the object of our intent and desire. (Roy Posner)

Young Albert Einstein and the Power of Intention -- When as a young man Albert Einstein rededicated and committed himself to work over other matters, he attracted the job from which he developed an astounding array of papers that changed the history of science and the world. (Roy Posner)

Knowledge and Will Together

Knowledge + Will + the Force that Enables Ultimate Accomplishment in Life -- Accomplishment is determined by the knowledge we have and the will to accomplish it. (Roy Posner)

Knowledge that is Matched by a Will to Accomplish It Produces Ultimate Results in Life -- Any act becomes complete when the knowledge of what needs to be accomplished is matched by the energy, will, and desire to see it come about. Then it gets accomplished. (Roy Posner)

Harnessing Will-Power -- Marshalling collective will is the key to solving social problems. (Roy Posner)

Mind conceives, will achieves  -- Accomplishment is a complex phenomenon depending on knowledge, skill, organization and the supporting environment. Here we focus on the true and proper role of mental foresight, goals and planning in the process of human accomplishment. When is it an aid and support and when is it a bar? What is it that fundamentally determines whether our conception gets translated into reality? (Human Science) (intermediate to advanced)

Will  -- Will that is the executive force of thought that accomplishes. (MSS Research) (advanced)

Focus and Determination

Determination and Focus in Film 'Seabiscuit' -- To powerfully accomplish a goal, one must remain focused on our objective and do so with great determination. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Subconscious Intention

Our Subconscious is Conscious -- We think of our subconscious as some mysterious aspect of our being, hidden from our view, i.e. from our normal level of awareness. This is true enough. And yet the subconscious realms has a will, intention, and consciousness of its own. Often it is of a greater capacity, insight, and awareness than our own normal state of awareness. (Roy Posner)

Interest in a Thing Attracts Things Related To It

How Life Responds to Focus, Interest, and Aspiration -- Life quickly responds with iterations of what we have focused on, taken an interest in, or desired to come about in our lives. (Roy Posner)

What We Put our Focus On, Quickly Manifests in Other Areas (Roy Posner)

Ascending the Steps of the City (Roy Posner)

Buddha's Way Out of the Darkness -- Focusing our thoughts and feelings on a matter with great intensity can attract startling related results. (Roy Posner)

Incident at McDonald's -- When we focus our attention on a matter with great interest, magical things begin to happen. (Roy Posner)

Flight of Fancy -- Even a passing interest in a subject can attract a corresponding response. It too is a form of intention; though a mild one. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Shifting Our Time Perspective and the Response of Life -- If we focus our time, rather than just let time slide by, life tends to respond with sudden good fortune. (Roy Posner )

The Process of Creation for the Individual
(area)

Rapid Progress in Life by Consciously Following a Process of Growth & Accomplishment -- Describes how conscious growth is to follow the process of creation and accomplishment. (Roy Posner for Human Science) (basics)

The Process of Personal Growth and Accomplishment -- Learn the process by which an individual rises to vastly higher levels of accomplishment, success, and joy in life, and apply it in your own life. (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate) Key article

Keys to Envisioning and Creating Your Future (List) -- (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Envisioning and Creating Our Future -- If we know what we want and follow a process to make it happen, life will respond out of all proportion. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book)(Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

The Infinite Power of Creation -- The process of creation is not limited to acts we as individuals engage in, but to all planes and field of life -- whether it is a business, social institutions, or society as whole; even the universe itself. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (basics to advanced) (Roy Posner)

Accomplishment Through the Process of Creation
In this interview, Roy Posner discusses how we can learn to create infinite accomplishment, success, and joy for ourselves, our businesses, for society by following growth and development processes that mirror the process by which the universe was created from the One.  (Roy Posner)

Evoking Luck -- To evoke good fortune from the environment, make the act complete, following the process of creation by a clear idea of what you want, the will and determination for it come about, organization of the details through strategies, and making a persevering effort matched by skills and right attitude. (Roy Posner)

Energy Conversion -- Outlines and shows diagram of how energy is converted into accomplishment when we follow the process of growth and accomplishment. (Human Science)

Following the Process of Accomplishment in Problem Solving -- The process of creation can be applied to problem solving. when we focus on a problem to be solved, intensely want to solve it, consider the details , and act skillfully and consciously to find solutions, they quickly appear. (Roy Posner)

The Spiritual Essence and the Process of Creation -- Just the universe emerged from a Divine source, so too do we create and accomplish in life through a similar process; particularly when we discover our spiritual essence within. (Roy Posner)

The Divine's Power of Creation that is Available to Us -- the process by which a universe of forms emerged from a divine source is also available to us in our own lives.  (Roy Posner)

The Complete Act

Complete Act -- When you envision what you want, develop the intense desire and will for it to happen, and make the full persevering effort, life responds from all quarters. This is the Complete Act in action; a miniature of the process of creation and accomplishment.  (Human Science)

The Complete Act in the Process of Creation -- You can follow the process of creation in the smallest act and make it a conscious, complete one, attracting positive conditions from the world around you. (Roy Posner)

Evoking Luck -- To evoke good fortune from the environment, make the act complete, following the process of creation by a clear idea of what you want, the will and determination for it come about, organization of the details through strategies, and making a persevering effort matched by skills and right attitude. (Roy Posner)

Personal Organization, Attention, Money
(area)

Personal Organization

The Power of Personal Organization   -- Organization is the great secret of life. Cleanliness, orderliness, systemization, and maximum utilization of resources are some of the organizational behaviors that attract sudden good fortune. Learn the keys to personal organization to enable vast accomplishment and success in life. (Roy Posner) Key article

Giving Things, Others Personal Attention

The Power Of Attention -- Everything in life responds positively to attention. People, objects, stocks of inventory, and money are but a few examples. Learn how giving greater personal attention not only attracts sudden good fortune for the recipient, but for yourself as well. (Roy Posner) Key article

Evoking Money

Strategies to Instantly Attract Money into Your Life --  Money is a force. It is a concentrated symbol of energy and power in life. Like all forces in the universe, money obeys certain universal laws or principles. By understanding those laws and acting appropriately, we gain a great power over money, enabling wealth and prosperity to come our way. Learn the hidden keys to instantly attract money into your life. (Roy Posner) Key article

Strategies for Attracting Money -- Presented here are in capsule form a dozen strategies for attracting money into your life from out of nowhere (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) Key article

Evoking a Month's Earnings Every Day -- If we move a work to perfection (in various ways) and consecrate our action, a months' worth of wages can come to us every work day. (Roy Posner)

Dealing with Money in Film 'House of Eliott'  -- In this British TV series, we see how the characters relate to money and its effect on the outcome of events. E.g. not asking for money, attracts it. As does taking the other person's point of view, and other psychological approaches to situations. (Roy Posner)for Human Science)

Breaking a Money Backlog through Self-Givingness -- When it comes to money, if we shift our focus from our own needs to the concerns and desires of another, such as our relationship partner, we can overcome a current situation, such as a financial problem, through a life response outcome. (Roy Posner)

The 1000% Solution -- If we change an attitude about a matter, it can attract good fortune including the receipt of funds that exceed one's wildest expectation. (Roy Posner)

Also See Articles on the Nature of Money

Values and Life Response -- Describes how in recent history we came to accept the power of personal values to affect our lives. (Human Science)

Application of Specific Values

Purity of Values Wins Case in Film 'A Civil Action' -- When one man shifted from lower mercenary value to higher values of concern for the his client victims, life provided him with the intuition of knowledge that won the case for his constituents. A film based on a true story. (Roy Posner)

Values in the Film 'House of Eliott'  -- In the popular British TV series involving two sisters who run a design business in the 1930s, we see many human values applied, including self reliance, practicality, open-mindedness, integrity, concern for well being of others, loyalty, truth, fairness, justice, and substance over money.  In all cases, where positive values are expressed, higher levels of accomplishment and success are created. Often the results come instantly as a positive response from life. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Values in the film The Lord of the Rings  -- Describes the multitude of values applied by the characters in the story. (Roy Posner)

Values in the film 'Seabiscuit'  -- In this film we see the power of applying the values of teamwork, individuality, respect for the individual, content over form, and tolerance, acceptance, and forgiveness. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Power of Values to Shape Our Lives -- Shows how one individual applied certain cultural and social values to determine where he wanted to live and thereby changed the course of his life. (Roy Posner)

Cosmic Accounting -- Shows how the application of a money value attracted good fortune. (Roy Posner)

Less is More -- Shows the power of applying a personal values, such as simplicity in life. (Roy Posner)

Honesty  -- Discusses the essence and meaning of the value of honesty. (MSS Research)

Outworn Values

Life Responds Negatively to Outworn Values -- Life responds negatively when we try to foster outworn values. When they are reactionary, then calamity or something similar ensues. (Roy Posner)

Losing the Advantage -- Shows negative effect of losing touch with core values through self-satisfaction and complacency, and negative effect of habit and routine. (Roy Posner)

Values' Origins in Spirit

Values are Spiritual Skills -- Values are spiritual skills; are higher ideals that we accept and seek to express in life through our decisions, attitudes, skills and actions. They  are based on the knowledge or faith that there is a spiritual principle behind everything. (Human Science) (intermediate to advanced)

Form and Energy -- Describes how energy is related to forms in life, why forms dissolve, what we can do to uphold the energy of the form, and the role of energy in accomplishment. (Roy Posner)

Energy Accomplishes -- Energy is the fuel of life. The more fuel we have, the more we can accomplish. In this article we explore a number of strategies that can help us increase our energy. (Roy Posner)

How Vibrations Spread from the Universal Plane to Us -- Mental, vital, and physical experiences originate at the universal plane, not us, and therefore we see how they are passed around amongst people. It is an indicator that energy is constantly seeking the right form to embody itself. (Roy Posner)

Health and Well-Being

Restoring Our Physical Health -- Describes the four types of energies humans produce, and how they relate to our well-being. (Roy Posner)

Fear and Disease -- Fear breaks down the outer sheath of our physical being that protects us from illness. However, if we remain unmoved by fear (and open to the spiritual Force), we will be immune from any contagion. (Roy Posner)

Physical Transformation

The Mind of the Cells -- Discusses how one individual began the process of overcoming disease permanently in Man by bringing to bear higher consciousness on the conscious aspect of the cells. (Roy Posner)

Mr. Darcy's 180 Degree Change -- By changing one's nature, in this case motivated by someone he loves who has rejected him, he attracts her, giving him compete happiness and fulfillment in life. (Roy Posner)

Levels of Progress We Can Attain

Nirvana, Samadhi, and Integral Realization -- In the Eastern tradition there are two great types of spiritual experience and realization. There is also a new, modern one -- integral realization -- that trumps the other two since it is more dynamic and related to life. (Roy Posner)

Yoga and Four Levels of Personal Progress -- This essay describes how a person can progress at the level of growth, development, evolution, and transformation. (Roy Posner)

Stages of Personal Growth  -- The four stages or levels of personal growth that we can attain are Social Accomplishment, Psychological Growth, Spiritual Progress, Transformation. (Human Science)

A Roadmap for Individual Transformation  
In this interview Roy Posner, president of Growth Online, describes the various approaches and methods to enable an individual to not only make progress in life, which we know as "personal growth," but to discover the pathways and methods that can enable us to reach our ultimate evolutionary possibility as a transformed human being. (Roy Posner)

The Nature of Consciousness

Spiritual Progress, Experience, and Behaviors

Stages of Spiritual Growth -- The stage beyond psychological growth is that of spiritual growth. Experiences from the spiritual planes are universally associated with human qualities such as patience, peace, silence, equality (equanimity, non-reaction), harmony, self-giving, truth, freedom, light, and compassion. (Human Science) 

Manifesting the Spiritual Aspects of the Creator in Creation -- We can experience the spiritual qualities of the Divine -- such as oneness, delight, love, knowledge, truth, and bliss -- fulfilling the creator's intent in Creation. (Roy Posner)

Bridging the Psychological and Spiritual Gap -- There is a differential between what we are and what we can become in terms of our psychological status. Often the keys to change are a wanting attitude, or ego, or reluctance to take up new opportunities. There are also spiritual keys like being more self-giving. When we make that change, life responds in our favor. (Roy Posner) (basic)

Aligning Ourselves with the Cosmic Intent, Fostering Progress in the World -- The Divine expresses its intention through Real Ideas it seeks to manifest in the world. Among them are spiritual-like qualities like peace, harmony, timelessness, infinity, knowledge, power, creativity, goodness, delight, and love. We can collaborate with that unfolding by being receptive to what is Intended and then implementing those cosmic, spiritual values in a practical way in our lives. (Roy Posner)

Experiencing the Reality from Within -- How moving to the depths enables us to perceive the spiritual Reality, including the true oneness and non-contradiction expressing in life. (Roy Posner)