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Spiritual Growth, Evolution, Transformation (Overview)
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Nature vs. Soul's Method of Progress

Nature, Soul, and Human Progress -- We can move beyond Nature's difficult method of progress to the method of evolution by Soul, which we can enable by discovering our highest nature. (Roy Posner)

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 View of Spirit

The Integral View of Spirit and Life Emerging in the World -- In modern life we are moving beyond single-oriented views of existence and the nature of the spiritual Reality, as we synthesize various teachings of the world, and then go beyond the synthesis. This is the ideal of the New Age. (Roy Posner)

Life Divine ... Here on Earth -- The divine life is not for heaven in the next life, but for this life. Society is beginning to consider the possibility of a divine life here on earth which would be the culmination of our evolution from physical to vital to mental to spirit-oriented beings. (Roy Posner)

Connecting to Spirit as Householder, Aspirant, or In Between -- It is not only the yogi or spiritual seeker who can connect to the spirit, but so can the householder and family person, bringing the same power to bear on the practical life. (Roy Posner)

The End of Suffering and the Spiritual Evolution of Man -- Though past spiritual teachings have addressed the issue of the cause of suffering and the nature of the Divine Reality, the newest evolutionary spiritual teachings go a step further and address the possibility of permanent personal transformation and a spiritual oriented existence through an opening to the spiritual Force. (Roy Posner)

The Future Evolutionary Individual and Collective Life on Earth -- In this extensive four-part interview Roy Posner, President of Growth Online, considers what our evolutionary destiny might be; as individuals, and in our collective existence. (Roy Posner)

How the Spiritual Aspirant Can Embrace Social Existence -- (Roy Posner)

The Pantheon of the Indian Gods and Beyond -- Though the Gods, representing profound ancient truths, were once worth worshiping, we can now become true spiritual individuals by personally experiencing the spirit in all its dimensions. (Roy Posner)

Landmarks of Spiritual History -- Describes the great developments and landmarks of spiritual history with a special emphasis on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. (MSS)

Levels of Progress We Can Attain

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

Introduction to Consciousness -- (Human Science)

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)

Higher Consciousness and Life Response -- Describes levels of low and high, spiritual consciousness and three methods to make them real, which evokes sudden good fortune in the process. (Roy Posner)

The Quantum Activist: Merging Science and Consciousness in Quantum Physics -- (Roy Posner)

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)

Qualities of the Spiritual-Oriented Individual -- Describes a number of the qualities that a spirit-oriented individual demonstrates.

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)

Discovering the Spirit Within -- In this interview Roy Posner, President of Growth Online, discusses how we can find the spirit within us to enable infinite delight as well as infinite accomplishment and success in life. (Roy Posner)

Overview of Spiritual Habits -- A list (with brief capsule) of spiritual habits worth practicing are presented here, including opening to the spiritual Force (consecration), inner orientation of silence, silent will, and many others. (Roy Posner)

How We Can Grow through Spiri t -- We can experience the spirit as Consciousness (though harmony, oneness, higher awareness, seeing beyond good and evil, etc.); and through force (such as by calling peace into our being, by opening to the Force, etc.) (Roy Posner)

Dimensions of Spiritual Progress -- This article describes various ways we have the spiritual experience, how we universalize ourselves through spirit, how raising our values is a form of spirituality, how to raise your consciousness, and what constitutes signs of one's spiritual progress. (Human Science)

Positive and Negative Human Traits -- If traits of human consciousness express positively and negatively, then we can take inventory of all of them, and determine where we are lacking. If we then make the sincere effort to strengthen the positive or overcome negative, we grow as individuals and attract powerful positive conditions from life. (Roy Posner)

Strategies for Spiritual Progress -- Several key spiritual methods are presented here, including taking the other person's point of view, equanimity, silent will, practicing spiritual values, and perceiving and acting on inner-outer correspondence. (Human Science)

Spiritual Approaches to Life Response -- Opening to the Force, taking to inner calm and equality in the face of difficulties, and self-givingness are but several spiritual behaviors that attract sudden good fortune. (Roy Posner)

The Life of Spiritual Adventure that Attracts -- We can live a life of thrilling adventure by following life's subtle workings, including the phenomenon of life response. (Roy Posner)

The Other Part of Spiritual Growth: The Personal Purification Process -- In addition to the methods of growth through discovery and experience of soul, we also evolve by consciously shedding our lower nature. Both are methods of conscious evolution. (Roy Posner)

Spiritual Evolution in Film 'Pride and Prejudice' (Human Science) (basics to advanced)

Discovering the Evolving Soul

The Journey of the Soul -- The soul is evolving, seeking nourishment through our own individual personal growth. Here we see how Jean Valjean in Les Miserables makes four distinct levels of progress in life, which enables the evolution of himself as well as the evolving soul that inhabits him in this birth. (Roy Posner)

Consecration, i.e. Opening to the Spiritual Force
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Overview

The Great Secret: Opening to the Spiritual Force (consecration) -- Perhaps the greatest secret known to Man is the existence of a Power that when accessed can attract instantaneous good fortune, solve any problem, enable ultimate success, and bring about infinite great joy and delight. By opening to this spiritual Force before taking any action or commencing any activity, one experiences a sudden shift of luck, as life begins to cooperate from every quarter. (Roy Posner)

Consecration and Life Response -- Presents three practical examples of the life response power of opening to the spiritual Force before engaging in acts or in dealing with current circumstance. (Roy Posner)

Consecration and Spirit-based Living -- Explains how to consecrate to elicit powerful response from life. (Roy Posner)

How to Create Luck in Your Life -- There is a process of growth and accomplishment that when followed to perfection can attract good or great fortune. However, when we add the power of the spiritual Force, vast results are guaranteed, and very quickly. (Roy Posner)

The Ultimate Power of '"The Force" -- By opening ourselves to the spiritual Force, every activity is ennobled, every aspiration is achieved, and every problem is overcome.; life comes under our control -- as negative situations evaporate and positive conditions arise out of nowhere; unprecedented, dynamic, and creative outcomes manifest, and spiritual like experiences become the norm. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner)

What We Can Consecrate; the Results that Come; and the Keys to Make It Happen (List) -- (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner)

The Power of the Spiritual Force -- Sri Aurobindo is known for his discovery of what he called the "Supramental" power. In his view this is the plane that enabled the universe to come about from a Divine source, and is also a plane that we can rise to in our own lives to bring about rapid, ultimate practical and spiritual results and progress. (Roy Posner)

Extraordinary Phenomena in Life -- In this interview Roy discusses a number of extraordinary phenomena that normally go unnoticed in life, including consecration. If we learn to access their powers, we can live lives of never ending, ever-accelerating accomplishment, success, and delight. (Roy Posner)

What is "The Force"? -- In this topic Roy discusses what he believes is the secret power of the universe, and how we can learn to utilize it in our own lives. Using analogies from Star Wars and his own practical experiences, he explores how the force can accelerate achievement, success, and happiness in one's life; and is also the key to personal growth and human evolution.

Consecration of Negatives of the Past -- How we can overcome the negative influence of the past that has created current problems by evoking the spiritual Force. (Roy Posner) New!

An Experience at the County Courthouse -- Through a consecrated effort and the stilling of one's thoughts, the Force attracted a startling outcome that overcome space and time. (Roy Posner)

Miracle Meetings through the Power of Spirit -- We can still our minds and block our personal agenda at the outset of a meeting, attracting sudden, startling, and most unexpected results. (Roy Posner) (basics)

Miracles of the Divine Mother -- We can open to the spiritual Force, i.e. the Divine Mother, and attract extraordinary results, as these true, mini incidents indicate. (Roy Posner) (basics)

Evoking Personifications of the Mother -- When we think of the Mother, we can evoke her physical presence in the form of another individual. Two startling incidents demonstrate this. New!

The Divine-Net -- What if you needed to know something and that knowledge simply appeared in your mind. What if you needed to know what to do next and an inner voice compels you to move in a particular direction. What if you needed to know the future direction of things and it is revealed in the present. The Internet will hardly help you in these areas, but the Divine-Net will. (Roy Posner) (basics)

Consecration and Receptivity

Factors that Determine our Receptivity to Life Power and the Incoming Grace -- Receptivity is the capacity of the Human Vessel to receive the incoming Grace from Life and from the Divine Itself. The degree to which Life responds with good fortune for us through those Powers will ultimately depend on our level of Receptivity. Our receptivity increases due to a number of factors listed here. (Roy Posner)

Consecration and Faith

Your Level of Trust in Life -- Describes the levels at which we have trust and faith in things; from none at all to faith in life to positive attitude about life to faith in the spirit to affect life to faith in/living for the divine intent. (Roy Posner)

Taking Our Faith to the Next Level -- We can have faith offer our problems to the Higher Power, but we can go further and have faith in the manner in which things unfold thereafter, no matter how unusual. (Roy Posner)

Case Studies

Overcoming Repetition through the Power of the Spiritual Force -- Life has a tendency to repeat. And yet such repetitions, particularly those of a negative kind, will cease when Man understands at a higher level; i.e. when he perceives something new that he did not know before. Interestingly, we can also offer the situation to the spiritual Force, which will overcome the inertia to repeat, while attracting other powerful conditions. (Roy Posner)

Journey of a Lifetime -- In this true travel story, discover a number of keys -- including the power of the spirit via "consecration" -- that attract powerful results from the environment. (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

The Moment that Changed Everything -- In a decisive crossroad moment, my friend confronted me with the ultimate spiritual challenge of my life: would I be willing to open to the spiritual Force before engaging in an activity to enable ultimate results in the act. (Roy Posner) (basics)

California Fires and the Response from Life -- We can consecrate a problem affecting a collective of people, even an entire state, and resolve it quickly. (Roy Posner) (basics)

"$100,000" -- A man is pressed by a great obstacle in life, but discovers the Inner Fame that enables him transcend it and attract a powerful response. Based on true circumstance. (William Learner) (MS Word format) (basics to advanced)

Consecration that Affects Others; the Collective

Consecrating for the Benefit of Others -- There are stunningly powerful methods for evoking powerful positive life response for others, using the spiritual Force and otherwise. (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Imagining Spiritual Light Descending on Others -- We can open to and shower others with the Spirit before a work such as a meeting and attract sudden, startling, unexpected results. (Roy Posner) (basics)

Repeating a Life Response for the Collective -- Once you have discovered the power of the spiritual Force to positively affect the collective when there is a great problem, you can use it again in similar circumstance. (Roy Posner) (basics)

Changing the Value of Money Lending Institutions from Within -- Using the power of the Force to influence the consciousness of institutions such as banks and how they value human being. (Roy Posner)

Methods of Spiritual Silence
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Overview

Spiritual Silence and Inner Equality -- There are inner methods of attracting sudden good fortune rooted in mental, silence, reduced and soft speech, and calm and equality of being, amongst others. If we make the transition from excessive thought and speech to silence, and from agitation to inner calm and equality, life can INSTANTANEOUSLY bring us good fortune. (Roy Posner)

Beingness and Life Response -- From a status of "Silent Witness" one can attract powerful positive conditions by not initiating, reacting, and complaining; and by accepting all that comes one's way. (Roy Posner)

Inner Strategies of Silence that Move Life -- There are several strategies relating to inner silence that can move life, i.e. evoke sudden good fortune, including Non-Reaction, Equality of Being, and Silent Will. (Roy Posner)

Discovering the Silence Within -- Moving to a poise of inner silence -- whether through silent will, soft speech, stilled thoughts, non-reaction, or equality of being -- has the power to attract magnificent life response results. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Silence Strategies that Attract the Positive and/or Avoid the Negative -- (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Moving Life from Within as Harbinger of New Way of Living -- Shows how our inner consciousness is the true determinant of what occurs outside ourselves -- including the generation of miraculous-like life response results. (Roy Posner)

Equality of Being, Non-reaction

Detachment that Overcomes Delay -- When we shift away from worrying about a matter, such as a delay, and instead give our full attention elsewhere, the thing longed for quickly moves to fruition. (Roy Posner)

Louis Pasteur and the Power of Inner Equality -- How calm and equality in the face of life's difficulties attract powerful positive response, including altering the course of one's life. (Roy Posner)

Calm that Overcame Time -- If we remain calm and equal when difficult situations arise -- detaching ourselves from the intensity of the problem -- not only are we better able to deal with the issue, but we attract conditions that completely reverse it. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics)

Saving a Precious Life -- An individual remains calm in a difficult situation and attracts a startling result from life. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics)

Shifting to Neutral -- When in a difficult situation, you shift your attitude from one of anxiety and fear to one of detachment and unconcern, settling into a state of inner calm and equality of being, the problem instantly disappears. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics)

Around the World with Phileas Fogg -- Utter calm in the face of difficult circumstances -- a spiritual-like quality -- will invariably attract the very best of results. (Roy Posner)

Eliza's Negative Reaction, and the Negative Response -- When we react in a situation, we make it worse; attracting negative conditions from out of nowhere. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics)

Jane's Equanimity -- Jane's equanimity in Pride and Prejudice (MSS Research)

Non-Complaining

The Nature of Complaining and the Power of Non-Complaint -- (Roy Posner) New

Restraint, Non-Initiating

The Life Response Power of Restraint -- If you restrain yourself and withhold acting outwardly on your intention, life tends to fulfill that intent for you. (Roy Posner)

Consciously Abridging Time -- When you keep still, remain patient, and hold back, letting the other party take the initiative, powerful positive response takes place, including the overcoming of time. (Roy Posner)

Inner Project Planning -- (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (basics to intermediate) (Roy Posner)

From the Liberty of Ego to the Infinite Power of Self-Restraint -- Most times we act out of ego. In these instances we can restrain ourselves, thereby avoiding the negative and attracting the positive. (Roy Posner)

Silent Will

A Magical Meeting/Inner Powers of Persuasion -- When you control yourself and refrain from forcing yourself on others, the other party tends to move toward you on their own. Also, if you withhold verbal expression of a thought during a conversation, the other person will soon speak it out for you. These are two forms of Silent Will. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (basics to intermediate) (Roy Posner)

Silent Will & Positive Thinking (Pride and Prejudice) -- When we refuse or otherwise hold back from speaking out a thought or desire it has the power to manifest through others and life. (Human Science)

Reduced Speech

Reducing, Soft Speech Method, Power of Attraction -- (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Speech (Pride and Prejudice) -- Speech generates a force or power for accomplishment. Repeatedly we see in the story that spoken words are fulfilled, often in unexpected ways. Speaking is an act that puts forth energy and it invariably has a result at the level of thought, word or act. The result may be opposite or unrelated to the intention of the person who speaks. (Human Science)

Too Much Talk Attracts the Negative -- (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Silence of Mind

Miracle Commute -- When we reduce the amount of thinking we do, we not only establish conditions for a steady, serene, and productive life, but we attract powerful life response results. (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Reducing the Amount of Thinking Methods -- (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) (basics to intermediate)

Embracing Another's Point of View

Taking Another's Point of View -- If we open to what others say. we not only gain a far greater knowledge of a matter, but sudden good fortune moves in our direction. (Roy Posner)

Turning a Problem into a Vast Opportunity -- When we shift from rejecting to embracing the criticism of others, we open up vast opportunities for success. (Roy Posner)

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)

Expectation Cancels, Delays

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

Grow by Giving
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Self-Givingness, Goodness

Overview

Grow By Giving -- When you focus on the needs and concerns of others, you not only create benefit for the other party and greater harmony in your relationship, but you attract sudden good fortune back to yourself. This is one of the key lessons of life, and is also one of the central articles in all of Growth Online. (Roy Posner)

The Art of Self-Givingness --Self-giving is an egoless act of goodness and goodwill among equals that expects no return, derives no egoistic satisfaction from the giving. Giving is its own reward. Here are a number of ways to practice it. (Roy Posner)

Life Response Power of Self-Givingness -- The smallest gesture of kindness, generosity, or goodness can evoke tremendous positive response to the initiator. (Roy Posner)

The Art of Self-Givingness -- Self-giving is an egoless act of goodness and goodwill among equals that expects no return, derives no egoistic satisfaction from the giving. Giving is its own reward. A number of the ways of being self-giving are listed here.

Making the Connection with Others (from 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response' book) (Roy Posner) Key article

Subtle Gesture that Overcomes Disharmony in Still Walking -- One small act of self-givingness turns family disharmony into harmony in this film. (Roy Posner)

Rhonda Byrne's 'The Power,' Love, and Self-Givingness -- In her new, follow-up book to 'The Secret,' Rhonda Byrne explains how constantly taking to Love will draw out the very best conditions of life, enabling us to fulfill our heart's desires. Or to put it in Rhonda Byrne's terms, when you express your Love, inwardly and outwardly, you receive in return all that you want from life. (Roy Posner)

How Life Responds through Our Relationships with Others -- Describes several ways to evoke good fortune (and avoid negative outcomes) through our relationships with others. (Roy Posner)

Breaking a Money Backlog through Self-Givingness -- When 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 problems through a life response outcome. (Roy Posner)

Strategies for Meeting with an Acquaintance -- Making others comfortable, focusing on another's interests and concerns, practicing Silent Will, and consecrating the activity beforehand, tends to energize any get together -- turning interactions of dullness and difficulty into ones filled with joy, wonder, and the acute cooperation of life. (Roy Posner)

Self-Giving through Soul Perception and Connection -- By moving to a deeper poise within and discovering our evolving soul, we tend to give love and affection to others unconditionally. (Roy Posner)

The Quantum Activist: Merging Science and Consciousness in Quantum Physics -- Self-givingness is the key to a new understanding and experience of consciousness and therefore of science. (Roy Posner)

Life Response Power of Self-givingness in Literature and Film

Acts of Goodness Instantaneously Attract -- In works of literature such as the novels of Jane Austen, we see how acts of goodness instantaneously attract good fortune. (Roy Posner)

Generosity of Spirit in Julie and Julia -- When we care about others and their concerns rather than our own selves, and are generous to the point of elevating others even at our own expense, life can respond with life changing results, as we see in the life of famed cooking teacher Julia Child. (Roy Posner)

Self-Givingness Attracts Love in 'Scent of a Woman' -- If we self-give in one area of our lives, such as friendship, we can attract powerful response in another, e.g. our love life. (Roy Posner)

Witness for the Prosecution -- There is a wonderful scene in this film that shows how selfless and self-givingness can evoke the miraculous. (Roy Posner)

The Power of Goodness in Arden Forest -- In Shakespeare's 'As You Like It,' one man's goodness and goodwill attracts stunning results for the collective he is in charge of. (Roy Posner)

Esther Summerson's Goodness in Bleak House -- Some people are naturally good. The Divine easily comes to them. They are pleasant, expansive, and ready to oblige, anticipating another person's needs. To them, goodness is a way of life, an instinct, an article of faith. They cannot refrain from being good. Dickens' lovely character Esther Summerson is a prime example from whom we can learn several of the great lessons of the Spirit. (Roy Posner)

Power of Tolerance, Acceptance, and Forgiveness in Film 'Seabiscuit' -- Instances of tolerance, acceptance, forgiveness, and patience establish the tone in the story; and are the distinct human qualities that enable the powerful positive outcomes that follow. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Goodness, Goodwill, Gratitude in Film 'House of Eliott' -- An environment in which there is goodwill, goodness, and gratitude will surely support achievement in life. In House of Eliott, there is abundant goodwill (though occasional ill will from the outside), as well as genuine goodness amongst the principles. (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Goodwill

Referral of a Lifetime -- When we offer our goodwill to others and sustain it over time, we attract overwhelming response, including unprecedented, torrents of money. (Roy Posner)

Complete, 180 Degree Turnaround -- Reversing an attitude from bitterness towards others and feeling underappreciated to one of goodwill towards those parties can evoke overwhelming response, including the fulfillment of our heart's desires. (Roy Posner)

Goodwill (Pride and Prejudice) -- Goodwill is also a vibration that places its stamp of intention on words and actions and evokes a like response from life. We see this in the story. (Human Science)

Spiritual Methods of Giving to Others

Consecrating for the Benefit of Others -- If we are so inclined, we can experiment and try to elicit good fortune for others by using spiritual techniques of sending good will, as we see in this astounding episode. (Roy Posner)

Gratitude

Gratitude that Attracts Good Fortune -- The smallest expression of gratitude for what others have done can attract instantaneous good fortune. (Roy Posner)

Gratitude (Pride and Prejudice) -- Gratitude is a sensation that issues from the spiritual consciousness, and tends to attracts positive conditions from life, as we see in the story. (Human Science)

Harmony, Oneness
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Overview

The Infinite Power of Harmony -- How higher harmony in society, history, and for the individual enables evolution and vast power for accomplishment. How to evoke greater harmony in our own lives through higher consciousness. (Roy Posner)

Overcoming Ego and Creating Harmony

Coming Out of Ego as First Step of Conscious Evolution -- As we continually move to the deeper parts of our being, our seperative ego consciousness gives way, and our true nature blossoms. At that point we will a have made the decisive change that takes us from our old nature to a new super-nature. At that point we are well on our way of personal progress and our own conscious evolution. (Roy Posner)

Strategies to Overcome Ego -- Methods of coming out of ego are presented here including avoiding regret and pride, taking the other person's point of view, recognizing truth of inner-outer correspondence. (Human Science)

Formula for the End of the Reign of Ego -- Ways to overcome ego so that we can forge more harmonic relationships with others and the world around us by opening to the Divine Force, moving the locus of our consciousness to our deepest depths, and taking inventory of our selfish parts and consciously overcoming them. (Roy Posner)

The Quantum Activist: Merging Science and Consciousness in Quantum Physics -- Overcoming ego and practicing self-givingness is the key to a new understanding and experience of consciousness and therefore of science. (Roy Posner)

Self-Givingness and Harmony

Subtle Gesture that Overcomes Disharmony in Still Walking -- One small act of self-givingness turns family disharmony into harmony in this film. (Roy Posner)

Oneness of Life

Interconnectedness of All -- If we look deep enough, we will notice that everything in the physical world is interconnected. When we move to Spirit, we increasingly observe the Oneness that permeates the universe; that exists between ourselves and cosmos; and between ourselves and every other being. Perceiving life this way, we experience Reality from a very different perspective, enabling us to transition from ordinary life to one of profound Wonder and Delight.

Oneness with Life and Surroundings

Experiencing Oneness in the Depths -- An imaginary experience where you make a deep connection within which causes you to feel a deep Oneness with all that is around you. (Roy Posner)

Discovering the Oneness of Life -- We can learn to move from our lower consciousness to a higher one by connecting with the depths within, which will cause us to overcome ego and contradiction, and instead perceive and experience a oneness with all we come in contact with. (Roy Posner)

Right Attitudes, Harmony with Life in Film 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' (Human Science)

Oneness with Others

The Oneness of Adams and Jefferson -- Two men had thus practically become One -- in mental thought, in spirit, almost in body in their later years. They ended up died on the very same day; on July 4th, the birthday of the nation. (Roy Posner)

All for One and One for All in Film 'Seabiscuit' (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Level of Harmony in Film 'House of Eliott' (Roy Posner for Human Science)

Subtle Gesture that Overcomes Disharmony in Still Walking -- One small act of self-givingness turns family disharmony into harmony in this film. (Roy Posner)

Joy, Delight of Being
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Bringing the Sweetness of the Spirit to the Surface of Life -- Imagine feeling a soulfulness, a richness and sweetness and deep connectedness to a Higher Reality, just by breathing in the atmosphere of a spirit-oriented place, but extending it to feel that way any and everywhere. (Roy Posner)

Thoughts on True, Inner Happiness (i.e. Joy and Delight of Being) (Roy Posner)

Contradictions are Complements
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Seeing Beyond the Positive and Negative
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Acquiring True, Integral Knowledge
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Our Essential Ignorance; Movement to Integral Knowledge

Progressive Movement Out of Ignorance -- Our future evolution is to outgrow our fundamental Ignorance, which can progressively grow into an Integral knowledge. The intervening stages require us to take specific inner actions, such as shifting our attitudes from the negative to the positive, to be more self-giving, to have an open rather than a closed mind, to take the other person's point of view, and so forth. (Roy Posner)

Moving from Ignorance to Integral Knowledge -- An introduction to what is the cause of our essential ignorance born of creation, and how we can reverse it and gain, full integral knowledge to enable vast personal growth, accomplishment, and fulfillment. (Roy Posner)

Ignorance of Mind vs. Integral Knowledge and Power of Supermind -- Mind's capacities, limitations, and how Supermind goes far beyond to enable integral knowledge. (Roy Posner)

How We Can Truly Know In Life -- In this extensive interview Roy Posner, President of Growth Online, considers how we can truly understand and know things from their widest truth, so that we can accomplish at the highest level in life. (Roy Posner)

Mind's Limits, Higher Functionings

Beyond the Brain to Mind and Knowledge -- Science lumps the brain and mind together as one thing; but they are two very different things, as is the Knowledge that is processed and utilized. (Roy Posner)

Limits and Higher Functionings of Mind -- Describes the limited functionings of mind as influenced by the senses, and by the vital and physical needs, wants, etc, as well as its higher functionings, from pure rational thought to silent mind to intuition and supramental perception to the subliminal influences within. (Roy Posner)

Levels of Mind that Open to Cosmic Planes of Knowledge -- Explains the planes of Mind in a ascending vertical scale from lower to highest, and in a horizontal scale from surface to depth.

Different Expressions and Results of Mental Energy -- discusses the nature of the energy released at various planes of mind, including rationality, silent mind, intuitive mind, and supramental perception amongst others. (Roy Posner)

Incident at Hearst Castle (Roy Posner)

The Delusions of Sense Mind (Roy Posner)

Overcoming Billions of Error-Filled Perceptions in the World (Roy Posner)

Ignorance of Mind vs. Integral Knowledge and Power of Supermind -- Mind's capacities, limitations, and how Supermind goes far beyond to enable integral knowledge. (Roy Posner)

Several Principles of Truth and Knowledge (Roy Posner)

Moving from the Part to the Whole

Moving from the Part to the Whole (Roy Posner)

Perceiving All Sides of a Matter (Roy Posner)

The Emerging Multi-sided Understanding in the World (Roy Posner)

Practical Applications of Supermind, i.e. Truth Consciousness -- We can come in touch with the part, other parts, and the Whole of any knowledge simultaneously, while evoking astonishing Luck from the environment -- i.e. Supramental perception and power -- by forging harmonic links with others and life. (Roy Posner)

Becoming Truth's Instrument (Roy Posner)

Knowledge and Will Fused Enabling Ultimate Accomplishment (Roy Posner)

Opening the Locked Box (Roy Posner)

Overcoming our Blind Spots (Roy Posner)

Embracing Another�s Point of View -- When you live in the surface consciousness rather than the depths, you tend to ignore the full truth of things. When you are centered in the depths of your being, you tend to embrace the other person's position, bringing you closer to the integral truth of a matter. (Roy Posner)

Taking Another's Point of View (Roy Posner)

Turning a Problem into a Vast Opportunity -- Shows power of changing our attitude and taking the other person's point of view. (Roy Posner)

Accepting All and Every Thing (Roy Posner)

A Thing and Its Opposite are True (Roy Posner)

Holding a Thought in Our Mind and Its Opposite (Roy Posner)

Insight, Illumination, Intuition, Supramental Perception

Archimedes Eureka Moment of Vision through Spiritualized Mind

Ignorance of Mind vs. Integral Knowledge and Power of Supermind -- Mind's capacities, limitations, and how Supermind goes far beyond to enable integral knowledge. (Roy Posner)

The Coming Super-Revolution in Our Ability to Know (Roy Posner)

Knowing without Thinking (Roy Posner)

Go Inward to Soul to Move Upward in Mind to Truth (Roy Posner)

Thought that Evokes Ultimate Response -- Thought unencumbered by the vital and physical, that is logical and rational, that comes through intuition and the spiritual Force evokes ultimate response from life. (Roy Posner)

The Decisive Competitive Advantage of Intuition (Roy Posner)

Intuitive Capacity in Film 'Seabiscuit' (Roy Posner for Human Science)

A New Way of Living through Sudden Descents of Truth Knowledge (Roy Posner)

"This Morning I Awoke with the Entire Solution in My Mind" (Roy Posner)

The Divine-Net (Roy Posner)

Perceiving the Reality

First Glimpse of the Omnipresent Reality (Roy Posner)

Inner Orientation and Integral Knowledge

The Power of Living in the Depths -- Presented here is a series of short essays on how living an inner life, in the depths of one's being enables infinite knowledge, accomplishment, success, and joy in life. (Roy Posner)

Go Inward to Soul to Move Upward in Mind to Truth (Roy Posner)

Thought that Evokes Ultimate Response -- Thought unencumbered by the vital and physical, that is logical and rational, that comes through intuition and the spiritual Force evokes ultimate response from life. (Roy Posner)

Consecration that Connects Us to the "Inner Voice" (Roy Posner)

Experiencing the Reality from Within (Roy Posner)

Incident at Hearst Castle (Roy Posner)

The Delusions of Sense Mind (Roy Posner)

Overcoming Billions of Error-Filled Perceptions in the World (Roy Posner)

The Subliminal Influence that Checks Irritation (Roy Posner)

The Journey of the Soul and the Fulfillment of Our Life's Purpose (Roy Posner)

On Genius

What Enables Genius (Roy Posner)

Inner-Based Decision Making & Problem Solving
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Solving Problems in Life; Decision Making

Overcoming Serious Problems in Life -- Review a number of key strategies to deal with serious problems you or others are having in life. (Roy Posner) Key article

Decisions that Instantly Attract Good Fortune -- One of the most powerful ways to attract sudden good fortune is to take to a decision, instead of letting things slide. (Roy Posner)

Problem Solving and Life Response

The Solution to a Problem is Found in its Cause (Roy Posner)

Decision Making (Human Science)

Consecration that Connects Us to the "Inner Voice" (Roy Posner)

Three Levels of Problem Solving: Rationality, Life, and Spirit (Roy Posner)

How the Small Opens the Portals of the Infinite (Roy Posner)

Knowing without Thinking (Roy Posner)

Taking the Other Person's Point of View -- If we shift from our position on a matter and completely embrace the other person's point of view, no matter its validity in our mind, sudden good fortune will come to one or both parties. (Roy Posner)

Solving Society's Problems through Higher Consciousness

Move to a Higher Level to Resolve a Lower Level Problem (Roy Posner)

Following the Process of Accomplishment in Problem Solving (Roy Posner)

Inner & Outer Strategies to Cope with the World's Problems and Potentials (Roy Posner)

Preemptive Problem Solving in the New World (Roy Posner)

Solving the Problems of the World through Spiritualized Mind (Roy Posner)

Affecting the Problems of the World from Within (Roy Posner)

Spiritual Approaches to a Mission to Mars (Roy Posner)

Intuitive Knowledge that Overcomes the Expanding Problems of Society (Roy Posner)

Yoga (Conscious Evolution)
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Overview

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)

All Paths are One, and Beyond -- (Roy Posner) New!

Human Transformation in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga

The Psychic Transformation (Roy Posner)

The Spiritual Transformation (Roy Posner)

The Supramental Transformation (Roy Posner)

Transforming the Subconscious, Enabling our Supernature (Roy Posner)

The Psychic Being (Evolving Soul)

Psychic Being (Roy Posner)

Psychic Education (Roy Posner)

Surrender

Surrender and Our Ultimate Purpose in Life

Aligning Ourselves with the Cosmic Intention -- We can learn to connect to the divine Intention, becoming Its instrument, thereby evoking powerful positive conditions from life. (Roy Posner)

Experiences of, Overcoming Time and Space

The Ever-Present and Simultaneous Time (Roy Posner)

Time's Arrow -- Describes how life response transcends normal views of time, including the relationships amongst past, present, and future. (Roy Posner)

Becoming the Master of Time (Roy Posner)

Beyond Science Fiction to the Truths of Higher Consciousness (Roy Posner)

Timelessness in Time (Roy Posner)

Thoughts on the Nature of Time for the Spiritual Individual (Roy Posner)

Shifting Our Time Perspective and the Response of Life (Roy Posner)

Physical Transformation

Astonishing Spiritual Experiences of The Mother (Roy Posner)

The Mind of the Cells (Roy Posner)

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