Beyond the Personality
The beginner’s guide to
enlightenment
by
The Implicate Technology Centre
The Implicate Technology Centre
London
Preface
The meaning of life is: life is.
The fulness of this can only be understood through experiencing the unity that is reality. This understanding through experience is not possible within the terms of your ordinary, day-to-day awareness. The first and most difficult step along the path to understanding is to attain the state of awareness known as the psychological stage of enlightenment.
This state of awareness is accessible to you if you are prepared to commit your whole being, your whole sense of purpose, to the enterprise. This book teaches any ordinary intelligent person how to experience the first or psychological stage of enlightenment within the context of ordinary, day-to-day life. This is the great adventure of the human spirit.
It is your destiny.
The Implicate Technology Centre.
Synopsis of Contents
Preface (above)
1 Introduction to implicate technology
1.2 Personality: what it is and what it does.
1.3 The need to transcend the personality in order to understand the meaning and purpose of life.
1.4 Reality: how it interacts with the personality.
1.5 Reality devours the personality.
1.6 Suffering, and escape from suffering.
1.7 Models of reality: Eastern and Western, ancient and modern.
1.8 Comparable Eastern and Western implicate technology products.
1.9 How to use implicate technology products.
2.1 Meditation: its uses and benefits.
2.2 What being set face to face with reality brings to your life.
2.3 The simple meditative technique:
2.3.1 the role of intuition in meditation
2.3.2 the practice of meditation
2.3.3.1 the framework within which meditation unfolds:
the link between thought and breathing
2.3.3.2 how to concentrate the thoughts on the flow of breath
2.3.3.3 the problems of distraction, and their cure
2.3.4 how to measure success in meditation
2.3.5 the transformation of consciousness
2.3.6 the key to enlightenment.
3 Characteristics of the period prior to the psychological stage of enlightenment
3.1 Measuring progress towards the first stage of enlightenment.
3.3 Problems encountered on the spiritual path.
3.5 Centred in the midst of conditions.
3.6 The ten conditions and the associated power structures.
4 The time of testing
4.1 The unifying power of karma.
4.5 The successful outcome of the tests.
5 Confirmatory experiences
5.2 Introduction to the Implicate Technology model of reality.
5.4 The meditation on the Implicate Technology model of reality.
5.7.1 Sexual energy: conventional morality and sexual energy
5.7.2 the first step: retaining sexual energy.
5.7.3.1 the second step: understanding the retained energy
5.7.3.2 deep, slow meditative breathing
5.7.3.3 the natural flow of sexual energy
5.7.3.4 raising the sexual energy.
6 The all-pervasive influence of the emotions
7 Advice on failure to attain the psychological stage of enlightenment
7.1 Anyone can attain the first stage of enlightenment.
7.2 The test of the validity of the teaching.
7.3 Problems despite consistent practice.
7.5 Doubts about starting meditation.
7.6.1 problems you are aware of
7.6.2 problems you are unaware of.
8.3 Relationships with others.
8.4 The process of cultural evolution.
8.5 The role of the enlightened person.