In this final installment of our series on the archetypal mind, Dr. Stephen Tyman joins us once more to help us begin to explore the spirit cycle of the tarot. We discuss the unfathomably vast scope of the spirit complex through the lens of its seven stations. Here seeking has become so refined that desire, the motive force of evolution, and its object begin to blend. Our individuated consciousness stands naked before our true identity as the Creator Itself. Perilous, subtle, and promising, work in the spirit complex involves encountering our deepest emotions, including faith and despair, joy and terror, as we balance these experiences and discipline ourselves to apprehend in some small way the colossal forces of intelligent infinity without recourse to the traction provided by the body complex and the mind complex.Show NotesRa on the primacy of individual interpretation of the archetypes (Session 77, Question 23)Ra on the adept’s dissociation with the world https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#12 disassociation from the miasma of illusionQ’uo on fixing and loving https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/2022/0428 fixing and lovingHatonn on seeking and transformation https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/1983/0501Ra on the infitude of spirit https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#20Ra on archetypes as things-in-themselves https://www.lawofone.info/s/88#17Article on the concept of the thing-in-itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing-in-itselfRa on the origin of the tarot https://www.lawofone.info/s/76#6Ra on the experience of spirit https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#8The Celestine Prophecy (CelestineVision.com)The Sixth Channeling Intensive (High Altitude Receiving Center)

Nithin and Jeremy tackle another 1974 Hatonn session two days following the one they analyzed last episode, this one extending the Confederation's concepts of love, light, and other primal distortions into the area of desire and service. This begins with a discussion about the genealogy of desire, its thread connecting more distorted versions of the desire to more pure versions. Desire achieves its goal ultimately through service, the dynamic projection of the truth of oneness into the limited, novel details of a moment in the illusion. Therefore, serving involves the ability to look through the illusion, recognizing deeper layers of our desires and using the illusion to skillfully address our service to those on levels of calling they may not even understand themselves. This means we cannot arrive at our choices of how to serve solely through intellectual thinking; this ability to serve other selves on deeper levels starts with better self-knowledge and a more intuitional approach exercised in meditation. Jeremy introduces a couple more sessions from the 1970s that reinforce this concept of love's current through the illusion via desire as well as the mysterious, creative, inspirational nature of true service.Show NotesHatonn on desire and service (February 13, 1974)Ra on children’s responsibility (Session 18, Question 7)Monka on mirroring within and without (February 24, 2024)Oorkas on the illusion melting away (September 21, 2024)Luke on Jesus's prayer in solitude (Luke 5:16)Hatonn on seeking and progress (April 22, 1974)Hatonn on the difficulties of service (April 30, 1974)Hatonn on the readiness to serve (February 15, 1976)

After a long break, Nithin and Jeremy return to discuss a 1974 Hatonn session that presages the Ra contact revelations in so many ways. In the context of the long lineage of Confederation channeling, they discuss what they mean by love and light, how they interact and relate to the first distortion, free will. This leads them to address thoughts on the nature of manifestation and the thread connecting it back to the Creator through a variety of successive distortions, a task that doesn't quite yield to the intellect. Evolution then tracks through time the process of this thread being traced back to unity, as we learn how to truly become self-conscious enough to become a participant in the Creator's evolutionary project.Show NotesHatonn on love and light (February 11, 1974)How the Heart Cries Out (First Distortion Press)Ra on negative information (Session 26, Question 36)Ra on limitless light (Session 78, Question 9)Q’uo on the second mind, the heart (March 3, 1991)Ra on the steps of light at harvest (Session 51, Question 1)Pure motion in Larsonian physics (lrcphysics.com)Ra on second density harvest (Session 19, Question 2)Ra on children's responsibility (Session 18, Question 7)

Nithin and Jeremy welcome "Linus," an anonymous Other Selves Working Group member, to the show to help them discuss Ra's concept of contemplation. Distinguishing it from meditation and prayer, they examine these three forms of inner work, observing how contemplation addresses the attention to one's conscious mind in a way congruent to meditation's attention to the deep mind. Reflecting on their own experiences with contemplation, the trio discuss how contemplation relates to other aspects of the seeker's life, especially its relationship with inward inquiry, catalysis, and growth.Show NotesRa on meditation, contemplation, visualization, and prayer (Session 49, Question 8)Ra on daydreaming (Session 16, Question 54](https://www.lawofone.info/s/16#54))Ra on contemplation stimulated by warfare (Session 65, Question 7)Cunningham's Law (Wikipedia)Ra's balancing technique example (Session 46, Question 9)Subscribe to the Other Selves Working Group's newsletter, Working Notes, for updates on the fruits of our gathering in June as well as the Richmond Meditation Circle's forthcoming book, How the Heart Cries Out.

Jeremy is once more joined by Steve Tyman to continue their discussion of the mind and body cycles of the tarot images and their relation to the archetypal mind. They begin with a recapitulation of the idea behind concept complexes with an emphasis on the veil's effect on the operation of the significator. This leads to discussion of the liminal station of transformation and the summarizing/integrating station of the great way, where one can see the reflection of the mind in the body and the delicate resonances of the logoic plan in the archetypal mind. Steve and Jeremy tie back the polarity introduced by the veil between the conscious and unconscious minds which features prominently in understanding the character of transformation and the great way. This sets the stage for tackling the spirit cycle, which we shall address in a future episode in light of the relationships articulated up to this point between the seven stations and the two cycles.Show NotesA Deep Dive Into the Archetypes, Part 1 (Episode 55)A Egyptian Tarot Imagery tool online (https://thirddensity.com/tarot/)Ra on the complexification of the significator (Session 79, Question 42)Ra on the shadows of archetypes in "earlier" octaves (Session 79, Questions 29-30)Q'uo on the latent but unarticulated negativity in past octaves (June 18, 2023)Ra on the Transformation of Mind (Session 99, Question 8)Ra on the initiate releasing distortions (Session 57, Question 14)Ra on the Transformation of Body (Session 81, Question 13)Ra on the abandonment of the unchosen polarity (Session 100, Question 6)Q'uo on the spiralling of cyclical development (August 7, 2007)Ra on transformation or experience stations in other archetypal minds (Session 91, Question 17) Note: I erroneously remembered Ra saying that in earlier octaves, one archetypal system featured either a transformation station or a great way station, but not both. Steve mistakenly agreed with me. In fact, the example Ra described involved one system including catalyst and experience and the other including catalyst and transformation. The error somewhat undermines our brief discussion of the connection between the transformation and great way stations, but not entirely.Ra on the athanor metaphor in the Great Way of Body (Session 81, Question 14)Ra on the veil in the Great Way of Mind tarot image (Session 103, Question 11)Ra on the harnessing of the chariot in the Great Way of Mind tarot image (Session 103, Question 12)Ra on programming an incarnation to hone "a blunt edge of hatred or anger" (Session 54, Question 22)

Nithin and Jeremy team up to explore Confederation messages that discuss those darker parts of the self less understood and accepted. Extremely few if any of us lack imbalances, so we always have material to work with coming through in our dreams, our biases, our catalyst, and those crazy ways we surprise ourselves. Several Confederation messages suggest that incorporating the shadow self into the greater self is part of the service-to-others path where we gain our grit and tenacity to continue walking the path when it is toughest. Jeremy ties in Monka's recent comments on introjection and projection aspects of the mirroring effect and how it relates to the shadow self.Show NotesCarla Rueckert on the shadow self (Bean, Gary, Tilting at Windmills, 2016, p. 319)Monka on Mirroing Without and Within (February 24, 2024)Q'uo on the dark side (February 10, 2002)Q'uo on harvest and the shadow self (September 17, 2006)Q'uo on peace, dark, and light (December 21, 2003)Ra on negative stimulation of green ray (Session 72, Question 17)Q'uo on integrating the shadow self (March 10, 1996)Q'uo on the shadow self and magical working (November 5, 2023)Q'uo on the shadow self and authoritarian personalities (June 17, 2023)

Discussion on using art to work with dreams, qualitative nature of dreams as time/space experiences, interpreting waking life symbolically, exploring dream symbols and intuition, navigating depths of dream analysis

Steve Tyman joins Jeremy for the first of a series of conversations on the twenty-two archetypes that provide a tool for working with the archetypal mind. In this episode they focus on the first five stations of the mind and body cycles: matrix, potentiator, catalyst, experience, and significator. Starting with a re-introduction to the very idea of what an archetype is, they discuss some aspects of these ten archetypes as well as what is meant by "mind" and "body" specifically, with some digressions into the nature of time/space as contrasted to space/time. The other archetypes—the spirit cycle as well as the transformation and great way stations of mind and body—will be discussed in future episodes.Consider watching this on YouTube where the archetype images are spliced in to help the listener grasp the connections.Show NotesEpisode 16: An Introduction to the Archetypal Mind (inaudible podcast)The major arcana images from the Egyptian Tarot (thirddensity.com)Ra on the sevenfold nature of energy centers, densities, and archetypes (Session 78, Question 30)Q'uo on the Matrix, Potentiator, and Significator (August 1, 2021)Ra on the male and female concepts in the archetypes (Session 92, Question 20)Ra on the polarized interpretation of catalyst (Session 94, Question 12)Ra's supermarket example (Session 33, Question 8)Ra on the unconscious perception of catalyst (Session 93, Question 20)Ra on the matrix and potentiator of body (Session 78, Question 11)Yom on the material illusion as an unbiased field of experience (April 23, 1989)

What is addiction, and how does it interact with spiritual evolution? Nithin and Jeremy explore this topic in light of its prevalence and variety in late third density society, bringing in a number of Confederation sources for insight into addiction's relationship with catalyst, desire, comfort, the sinkhole of indifference, and other concepts of interest to the seeker. They also address the psychology in light of the shallow emptiness of the modern "rat race" while also recognizing the catalytic, transformative promise inherent in the suffering that addiction represents.Show Notes Ra on polarized uses of anger (Session 46, Question 9)Hatonn on addiction to the joy of being whole (February 13, 1983)Q'uo on addiction as catalyst (January 7, 2017)Ra on polarized sexual energy transfers (Session 32, Question 2)Ra on overcoming (Session 18, Question 5)David Foster Wallace on worship (Kenyon College Graduating Class of 2005 Commencement Speech)

Responding to the proliferation of warfare on the planet recently, Nithin and Jeremy analyze a post-9/11 Q’uo session discussing bellicosity and peace. The principle addresses several biological, cultural, spiritual, and philosophical factors that make not just our people but past third density populations in our system so warlike while also suggesting an appreciation for war’s intense potential for catalysis. Those of Q’uo direct us to look within at our own attitudes and quality of seeking so that we can discover not just the ideal of peace but how to live it and thereby radiate it to the entire planet. It is this personal commitment to unconditional peace and the sacrifices it may entail that help us confront the spiritual root causes of conflict.Happy Thanksgiving! Show NotesQ’uo on conflict and peace (November 18, 2001)Ra on toolmaking and bellicosity (Session 90, Question 18)Q’uo on the shadow self and the authoritarian personality (June 17, 2023)Q’uo on personality and the subconscious use of will (November 4, 2023)Ra on the "Lovers" / Transformation of Mind archetype (Session 100, Question 6)Hatonn on their late third density experience (November 16, 1980) Ra on the catalyst of trauma (Session 34, Question 14)Jesus on entering the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:20)Q'uo on peace (December 21, 2003)