Chapter 12 - The Spiritual Journey

Question 1

Buddhi

Answer 1

shift in awakening, Sanskrit for intelligence

Question 2

First band

Answer 2

creative/psychic/mystic band
discover potency oc quantum self, heightened awareness, and quantum leaps
Continue to explore outer creativity, shift of identity beyond ego only transient

Question 3

Transpersonal band

Answer 3

psychosocial context of living no longer enchants, discover nonlocality and tangled hierarchy of relationship and creativity employs in love and service to others
stabilization in buddhi begins

Question 4

spiritual band

Answer 4

surrenders last vestige of individual ego, idea of creatively serving the world. Act inwholeness of quantum self, experience seamlessness of consciousness. Buddhi stabilized

Question 5

Difference between inner creativity of religion and outer creativity of science

Answer 5

Outer creativity - ego central player

Inner creativity - ego detrimental

Question 6

Gunas

Answer 6

Indian psychology recognizes three qualities that can be interpreted as unconscious drives.
Tamas - sliggishness and inertia; behavioral conditioning
Rajas - fickleness and restlessness, libido, drives us to acquire material prosperity and power for sake of survival and security
Sattva - illumination, drive toward creativity, drive to make unconscious conscious.

Question 7

Repressed archetypes

Answer 7

Missing themes that have thus far not found expression in our lives (Jung)

Question 8

Anima & animus

Answer 8

Archetypal image in male mind comprised of feminine qualities & female mind comprised of masculine qualities.

Question 9

Ardhanarishvara

Answer 9

God as half male, half female

Work toward identifying with quantum monad, jiva