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Five Sacred Traditions Five Secular Disciplines

� Sacred (based on received wisdom) ◦ Mahayana Buddhism- Lama Govinda, ◦ Esoteric Sufism and – G. I. Gurdjieff, Idries Shah ◦ Esoteric Christianity: St Teresa de Avila, St. John of the Cross, ◦ Esoteric Hinduism—Sri Aurobindo, The Mother ◦ Platonic Philosophy articulated through Socrates

� Secular- based on study of science ◦ Evolutionary Biology, Elizabet Sahtouris ◦ Modern Physics- David Bohm ◦ Meta Linguistics- Leonard Shlain ◦ Meta Cognitive & Neuroscience of Consciousness ◦ Geometry of Meaning

� Sacred ◦ Mahayana Buddhism- Lama Govinda, Essence, one substance. ◦ Esoteric Sufism and – G. I. Gurdjieff, Inner work ◦ Esoteric Christianity: St Teresa de Avila, St. John of the Cross ◦ Esoteric Hinduism—Sri Aurobindo, The Mother ◦ Platonic Philosophy articulated through Socrates

� Secular ◦ Evolutionary Biology, Elizabet Sahtouris. James Miller. Living Systems � Human & Earth Body http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/ ◦ Modern Physics- David Bohm � Wholeness and The implicate order ◦ Meta Linguistics- The Alphabet /Effect , The Alphabet versus the Goddess. ◦ Meta Cognitive. Philosophy & Neuroscience of Consciousness- LOC, ◦ Geometry of Meaning- Arthur Young, John G. Bennett

� Lama Govinda and John G. Bennett The Higher Blends with the Lower and creates the middle Spiritualize Existence ,

� Lift to aspiration prior to current existence � Essence lifts existence into a new manifestation