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Cosmic Yin and Yang: The Primal Qualities of Universal and Bodily Life

Introduction
The cosmic realms (of which our Earth world—on the psychophysical level— is certainly a part), are
all about opposites, paradox. There is up and down, good and bad, mind and desire, black and white, in and
out—and, paradoxically, everything “in-between”! These are all descriptions of energy, and energy has polarity.
Among these energy opposites are the Chinese descriptive qualities of yin and yang and balance, expressed in
personality as introversion (the Solid personality type), extroversion (the Vital type)—and, of course, balance of
these (in a vague sense, the Peculiar). Yin, is inner-directed, contractive, and introverted, which yang is outer-
directed, expansive and extroverted.

Yin = inner-directed / contractive / introversion

Yang = outer-directed / expansive / extroversion

YIN YANG
Contracting energy Expanding energy
Inertia, passivity the lower elements
Opposing the yang quality opposing yin
Air earth, water & fire
Upper body lower part of the body
Introversion Extroversion
Inaction Action
Conservation of energy Expending energy
Coolness, low energy heat, hi energy

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 Verbal-mental orientation vital-physical orientation
Contractive expansive
Jewel Flower
Stream Shaker
Stream-Jewel Shaker-Flower
Stream-Flower Shaker-Jewel
Ring of Expression - constricted Ring of Expression – atonic
Ring of Harmony Ring of Freedom
Ring of Determination Ring of Purpose
Ring of Perfection

The Indian descriptive qualities are Tamas, Rajas, and Sattva. Tamas is the contractive or passive, un-
moving and inert energies, the personality equivalent of being Solid. Rajas is the expansive and moving flow
of energy, the personality equivalent of being the Vital. Sattva is the clarity and balance, where contradiction or
conflict between opposite forces is brot into dynamic balance. The personality equivalent of this—in a very loose
sense—is the Peculiar personality type.

POLARITY AT THE PARENTAL LEVEL

Mother-Force and Father-Force

Our parents care for us in characteristically different ways according to their roles as male and female.
The male and female forces represent a dynamic of the human situation that exists thru-out life, moving from
mommy and daddy to the great forces of existence. We must, as true adults, grow in our participation in this
dynamic, maturing sufficiently to respond to life’s challenges and demands as well as to its comforts and rewards.
The Divine is the One Great Reality Dynamic, calling us to respond to Its Love and Its Demand for our Self-
Transcendence.

The father is the stream of influence in our early life that would have us be a man if we are male, the
influence that would help us invest ourselves in the masculine responsibility. Father’s right energy is our initia-
tion into manhood. We must not refuse this. Refusing, we may deny ourselves our own manhood. For a man,
the father represents his male inheritance, his initiation into manhood, the husbanding obligation, his investment
in masculine responsibility, his maleness, and the seed of his humanity.

We shouldn’t need parenting after the 2nd Stage of Life. Some of us received better parenting than
others, so we are more balanced and secure in this dynamic of mother-force and father-force. In such case, we
tend to be more effective adults—not Divinely Enlightened, but more effective and happy in the ordinary sense—
important enough in the daily world! Below is a summary of the qualities of these two basic forces:

Signs of having handled or dealt with all problems with the parents includes real forgiveness of them, the
full assumption of maleness or femaleness, and being responsible for your relationships with all male and female
others. This is the absolutely necessary clarity that such maturity must demonstrate. Hating one or another par-
ent effectively prevents movement into the 4th Stage of Life—in other words, real Spiritual growth. If engaged
long enough, such hate can and will also destroy the integrity of the physical body. Therefore, we absolutely must
make peace—and for real—with our parents, whether they are still alive or not!

If we are not nurtured, we inevitably feel too much challenged. We wind up unhappy from lack of sus-
tenance, disconnected from the Divine Source, the Divine Sustaining Force. We feel confronted by challenge
and too much challenged—even overwhelmed by challenge. We feel negative about existence, self-protective,
anxious, and over-sensitive to the father-force, resulting in tendency to depression and generally feeling over-
whelmed by life. Sustained, we can deal with challenge and the forces of life that demand self-transcendence and
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• The female influence
• The mother is primary
• Nurturing, supportive, sustaining, connecting you with everything
• The supportive force is expected of the mother
• Makes you feel loved and familiar
• Evokes the loving, radiant response in you
• Female human leaders / bosses (current Culture) tend to nurture & inspire workers and
underlings
• Esoterically, assoc. w/Divine Spirit-Current, conductivity & Yogic infusion of body-mind by
Divine Love-Bliss

FATHER-FORCE
• The male influence
• Controlling and Challenging
• The father is secondary
• Male human leaders & bosses (in current Culture) tend to reward & punish workers &
underlings
• Investment in the masculine responsibility, including husbanding (if we are male)
• Esoterically, associated with the Divine Consciousness, the conscious process and concentration

sacrifice. With only father-force, we would not survive. We need both nurturing and challenge, breaking away
from any stifling, over-protective force of mother (not from her sustaining power), and always finding the father.

The Culture of Inspiration and Expectation

Many indigenous North American tribes (Native Americans, Native Canadians) had a culture of training
and testing, compassion and love. It affirmed strength, not weakness, demanding that people grow and equipping
them to do so: to be strong, to endure the limitations of existence and to transcend them. By contrast, our cur-
rent Westernized “crazy random culture” has us tending to resent demands, wanting to live always like children,
always being given the satisfying goods of life. The attitude of manliness (male or female), the willingness and
capability to live life as an ordeal requiring us to understand and transcend ourselves, has vanished. This “manly”
or appropriately strong, clear and forthright attitude (whether we are male or female) is basic to everything the
Spiritual Master considers with us.

It is necessary in life to have both the Mother Force and the Father Force. The sustaining power of the
Mother Force is crucial to life. But, alone, the protective aspect of the Mother Force will stifle—without the chal-
lenge of the Father. Thus, with the Mother Force alone, you would die. The Native American culture had both
testing (Father Force) and compassion and love (Mother Force). It was definitely not a culture of weakness, like
what has developed in the Western world. A culture must equip people to grow, be strong, endure the limitations
of existence, and transcend it all. There must be an attitude of true manliness and womanliness, in which people
are willing and capable of living life as an ordeal that requires us to understand and transcend ourselves. We
always already exist in a state of Blissful Undifferentiated Unity with the Eternal.

Establishing Unity after birth: Identity vs. Relationship

When we’re conceived, we’re not physically differentiated from the mother environment, but estab-
lished in a state of non-differentiated unity with her via identity. Mere birth is the first (but not a complete)
level of differentiation from the physical world. The infant is still completely dependent on association with the
mother. It then continues to differentiate after birth, but is obliged to establish unity increasingly thru relationship.
(Carefully note the difference between unity via ID & unity via relationship.)
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The Crazy Random Culture vs. The Culture of Wisdom
In the common culture, without proper guidance, we have difficulty letting go of things and relationships
we (at the time) depend on. Our parents weren’t mature in providing the right circumstance for our differentia-
tion. We thus get some sense of differentiation but develop as bizarre, lawless creatures without any profound
understanding. In a true Culture of Wisdom, our adaptation to life and the world is smooth, intelligent, and har-
monious. The parent obligation is to serve and promote differentiation as an independent personality + promote
lawful responsibility of the child’s relationships with the total pattern of experience. To do this kind of parenting,
one must (1) be free in oneself of childishness and any disinclination to move into relationship with the universe
of experience, and (2) must know the needs of the individual as the years progress.

The single parent figure is only needed in the early stages of life when the infant is still in undifferenti-
ated unity with the universe. More complex relations are naturally sought and desired by the young individual as
time goes on so he naturally and easefully becomes a rightly functioning social personality. The initial parenting
role isn’t supposed to happen until marriage or until death, but the parent role should become obsolete when the
child leaves infancy by age 3. The relationship to the child should then change.

Children then need to socialize more with other adults and children, optimally with several women who
are sharing the responsibility for children. Then they (especially boys) may interact more with men thru their
teens. The absolute (two-persons) parent idea is one of the reasons for major psychologically destructive adults’
problems, including promiscuity. In promiscuity, we were made to feel guilty for making our gesture toward the
greater world community. Dependency on the Absolute (not dependency on humans) is the principle of exis-
tence.

We must establish our individuality via relationships. There is a natural physical interest in the child to
break out of the mode of 1-on-1 with the mother and get into complex relationships with the universe, with others
besides the parents. Only thus can one establish real marriage and be rightly associated with everything. Then we
can enter into a true love relationship, having been released into independence with others in right relationship.

Transitioning to the 3rd Stage of Life, the child no longer needs to be parented at all, but is responsible
in and as himself, going thru a period of years of training in the company of elders. This training goes on thru-out
childhood and adolescence into the 3rd Stage of Life where the parent must grant freedom and independence to
the child and no longer oblige the child to be parented to that degree. Independence is granted, but only with ac-
companying responsibility. There is comfortably established sympathetic contact with the real world. Allow it,
grant it, presume it, but expect and demand he behave responsibly in these relationships. So, it’s lessons as well
as freedom.

Age 2 starts the socializing tendency, the child no longer identified with mother in terms of infant need.
Age 3 is another milestone: he seems more independent, no longer quite infantile. They need us in a new par-
ent role; no longer any need to indulge their infantilism from that point. We then grant them more freedom and
responsibility. Three is when moral growth of the truly human character begins. There’s more contact with a
larger society—especially of women, + a more formal approach to learning and relations. There is lots of contact
with the other women as his guides. He must get lessons as to his responsibilities for his new freedoms; no more
indulging regressive tantrums and infantile demands. He learns moral caring and more sympathetic feelings for
things and people, the big moral and social lesson at this stage.

In the 2nd Stage of Life (age 7-14), the energy of life is now about the etheric & the world outside their
body, away from the merely physical world; energy and attention move into the larger universe; they get into the
etheric, the feeling / psychic dimension, the core of their adaptation in the 2nd Stage. The life-process becomes
awake, the emotional / psychic being comes to life; sexuality (although not yet sexual activity) is an expression
of this aspect of life. If people are not properly associated with the world at this stage, they become sexually ac-
tive, promiscuous, self-indulgent, and immoral. Bringing this understanding to life is different than the chaotic
arbitrary life we see in the current world: un-enlightened, not capable of fulfilling our real needs, bringing instead

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Dependence and independence are for most people a seat of conflict rather than a place of growth. Both
are natural to the child, and at every stage these change, with a different expression than at the previous stage.
As adults, we must serve these two qualities in children at each stage of their development. The inherent conflict
between dependence and independence, if not rightly served, brings eternal adolescence. This is what we see in
the current world: people who are chaotic, unillumined, and full of fixed ideas and false presumptions.

Children must be liberated, but also obliged to fulfill the Law. Ready for the 3rd stage of life, (when
raised in a Culture of Wisdom), the child feels the need to be integrated with the larger culture of human beings,
essentially responsible for his action and behavior in relation to things. He knows he is dependent on the Abso-
lute Reality, entering into a phase of life in which he becomes responsible for all the ordinary qualities of life—
physical, mental, emotional, social, and sexual—freely living in the social order and responsible for himself. For
this kind of responsibility, he has to have been well-served in his earlier years.

The usual individual between 12-14 years of age is full of resentment, craving all sorts of self-indulgence
and bad company, but at the same time wants to be loved and wants to depend on somebody. He wants to be
completely free and also dependent in some way, acting and talking as if he’s a chief or a queen, not needing to
hear about anything. He’s a punk. But for every increase in freedom there must be an increase in responsibility.
This is the absolute fundamental functional lesson of Humanity.

People have to assume complete responsibility for all the relationships they have as an individual in the
sacred plane of the Divine. There’s no such thing as a human life without God-communion, which is the submis-
sion of the entire consciousness and functional being into the Absolute Reality on which we completely depend.
Without this there is no freedom, no total plane to our consciousness, but just living the adventure of functional
existence while wandering the realms of possibility. This is the same lesson we all must realize.

We have free access to all forms of existence and experience, but we must fulfill the law with all these
forms of contact—without playing out this dependence-independence neurosis of adolescence, looking to be
loved, and looking to be self-indulgent. The rightly adapted young person is responsible to bring positive energy,
to serve all beings sympathetically and lovingly. The responsible human being IS Love, the Radiance of Infinity,
not self-possessed and exploiting his potential for experience. He is busy submitting himself to the Absolute thru
his experience.

These mal-adaptations, tendencies and NREs don’t disappear just because we believe in The Great One.
We must presume the practice of Love, and live it in the midst of old adaptations. So, Divine-Communion is the
process in which we grow for real. Children raised in a Culture of Wisdom will not find life so burdensome, will
live gracefully and elegantly in society, and will more easily mature in the higher stages of human life.
Rites of Passage

When, in a given culture, there is not a clear acknowledgement of a person’s “coming out”, or “coming
of age”, there are problems. Such rites of passage represent a passing of the baton of responsibility, an actual
and real ability of the person to use discriminative intelligence and the will responsibly as an adult relative to the
4 principal faculties. If not, there will be the adolescent secret life, with private (hidden from the view of oth-
ers) interests, fantasies and notions. The person will feel they still have a right to be a child. They will not fully
exercise their discriminative intelligence. [Hear the powerful audio Presentation by Adi Da, Children Must Be
Liberated; www.adidam.org].

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Our Oedipal-Emotional-Sexual Nature
Our parents loved us as their child, not as a “lover” in the sense that they loved each other. They knew
that, but did we as infants? No! That’s where this whole thing about the emotional/sexual began. Their relation-
ship was about their love, sexuality, whatever that was with each other as our parents. As infants, we had no real
way of rightly interpreting the adult world. Therefore, we necessarily misinterpreted their actions emotionally
and psychologically. At that time, we were experiencing naïve early-life sexual self-awareness and gender aware-
ness, and were not in a position to act on it. So, when we were not given sex by our parent of the opposite sex,
we took that as rejection, as betrayal.

Our first knowledge of sexual self-awareness was what we interpreted to be rejection. So, rejection and
betrayal constitute the basic subject we bring up when dealing with the emotional/sexual (E/S). We feel we may
be rejected or betrayed in any and all of our relationships. We even expect it. We even do things to help bring
it on—to prove that we were betrayed and rejected—the fundamental subject matter of our E/S life! Although
rejection had nothing to do with our early life or even our current E/S situation, this is how we interpreted the situ-
ation then and (amazingly) how we interpret it now. It was crudely conscious then—to us as little vital creatures,
with our inexperience and unsophisticated intelligence—but it is largely unconscious to us now.

In incest situations, it’s worse. Those circumstances enforce the sense of betrayal and rejection with
more or less extreme complication. Those who’ve suffered incest can be much more complicated and disturbed.
It’s a deeper suffering, and such persons may not be inclined at all to deal with it. But, deal with it we must, in
order to grow beyond it, beyond the Oedipal and into true human adulthood.

The simple fact that our parent of the opposite sex did not have sex with us constitutes rejection to us.
This was our first awareness of sexuality: rejection! All of our E/S experiments and experiences are always com-
plicated by this feeling of rejection until and unless we penetrate the whole game via real understanding—which
is rare. Any E/S relationship is about being rejected. E/S awareness immediately means personal rejection—not
great love, union and sexual Yoga, but just dramatized rejection. And it’s never really satisfactory, even with the
ordinary pleasantries and with working things out. The only way it is satisfactory is in those rare individuals who
persist in this observation and understanding to the point of going profoundly beyond themselves.

Our Incest Psychology

In our Oedipal mood and action, all men are daddy for us and all women are mommy. This is carried
over into the bedroom for us as adults, because everything we learned or reacted to about the parent of the oppo-
site sex we bring to adult relations with the opposite sex—and with the same sex. We wanted mommy as our lover
if we are male and daddy if we are female. This in some sense incestuous psychology persists into adult life, so
that this is our attitude with our intimate or marriage partners. Further, we feel in competition with all members
of the same sex—because we subconsciously see them as the parent of the same sex, competing for our erstwhile
“lover”.

Strangely, this is the basis on which human beings in general are trying to create an emotional-sexual
life. We must get in touch with and clarify our understanding of these naïve judgments made in childhood and
the complicated, reactive, adolescent disposition we generate on the basis of it. We must learn how to accept the
fact that we weren’t betrayed by anyone. The fact that our parents loved each other doesn’t mean they rejected
us. It didn’t have anything to do with rejection or with us. They loved us as their child. We weren’t rejected
because they loved each other. With our then-unsophisticated intelligence, we simply imagined they did. This
misinterpretation we made as little children has nothing to do with our parents’ love for each other.

Finding out that we weren’t the victim, weren’t betrayed, weren’t rejected by the fact that our parents
loved one another is clarifying and healing. But, be careful: it is one thing to “know” this mentally, but for effec-
tive understanding, it must be felt deeply at an emotional level. We must be compassionate with our parents and
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forgive them for their lack of love for each other or infidelity—if any of that was witnessed. Virtually everyone
has these complications relative to what they saw happen between their parents in infancy. Very few people work
out anything much at all about it. This is certainly one way to explain all the difficulty we have in the world.

The principal noticing of the play of gender and E/S awareness in infancy and childhood is with our
parents, witnessing what goes on with our parents. This is where we first notice E/S polarization, sexual sug-
gestion, and all the rest. But as children, as infants, we are naïve, without discrimination, no present lifetime
learning about gender and the E/S—so, misjudgments are almost inevitable, associated with incestuous ideas and
complications. So, infants and children, presuming a certain relationship with the parent of the same sex, and
another kind of relationship with the parent of the opposite sex, feel betrayed by the love and sexual signs they see
between parents. They then react naively, making judgments that in most cases have nothing to do with a parental
incestuous interest.

As teens and young adults, our naïve presumptions remain intact as the basis of everything we do in E/S
terms, so that everything we do as adults is complicated by incestuous problems. The whole force of our E/S life
is based on incest—until and unless we achieve real adulthood and get out of our parents’ home, out of our naïve
misinterpretations. We are not free in our individual life, emotionally-sexually responsive, until we transcend our
childhood patterning, until we are no longer confusing our E/S life with our mother-father relationships. Women
typically act as if all men are their father, and men as if all women are their mother.

There is no need for some long, psychiatric course in all of this. However, it is something to be consid-
ered seriously, with real in-group confession and straightforwardness as part of the E/S consideration. All of the
Oedipal misjudgment is made obsolete by not using it, by turning the attention to the Divine. There will be no
such purification, however, if the relationship to the Divine is merely enthusiastic and fan-like. Blaming others
and being the victim isn’t going to help, either. The real in-group confession plus turning to the Divine is the cure.
Otherwise, one continues to dramatize the Oedipal, the E/S “problem” life-long.

Our Sexuality
Our emotional life perfectly reflects our sexual life and self. Emotion and sexuality are exactly the
same thing. There’s no difference between them. What we are emotionally is what we are sexually. Our early
emotional adaptation to the conditions of life determined our sexual pattern in the future. Even without early life
overt sexual incidents, there are emotional incidents that created a double-bind, an emotional dilemma of pleasure
versus fear and guilt—which feeling obstruction appears whenever we become sexually active.

What we are sexually and emotionally is what we are as a living presence, our relationship to the life-
force, the etheric, upon which Spiritual development is based in its early phases. E/S obstruction = obstruction in
the energy of the being. Obstruction in the psyche, the feeling dimension of the being, prevents us from realizing
the 4th Stage of Life, adapting to the functional levels of bodily being above the navel, at the heart and above, the
characteristics of real adult human life: to the capabilities of true Spiritual Awakening and beyond.

Where Self-Understanding Begins

In certain life moments, under certain conditions, we react. To whom, to what and how we react depends
on our prevailing or predominant personality strategy: aggressively if we are mostly Vital, hysterically if we are
mostly peculiar, or passive-suppressive if mostly Solid. In any moment, we needn’t ask whether or not we’re
being loved. We need only rather notice that we are not loving. The feeling of betrayal, of not being loved, is a
cover for our own failure to love. This is the ego. We absolutely must be able to confess that we are the ego. This
is the start of wisdom. This is the beginning of self-understanding.

The unlove reaction is entirely our responsibility. Maybe our parents didn’t love us for a little while, but
whatever they did or seemed to do occurred under the stress of ordinary human life. And they didn’t necessar-
ily have the benefit of the services of the Spiritual Master and His Teaching of Truth to convert them from their
childishness and adolescence.
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 Our adaptation as emotional beings is key to understanding our sexuality. When we are emotionally
responsible, we are no longer looking to see if we are loved or not. In such case, we are also sexually responsible.
If we have sexual problems, we still have a way to go in our emotional development. Our emotional adaptation is
responsible for our sexual pattern. We typically live as if betrayed in order to justify our egoic gesture of avoid-
ance of relationship, which is being unlove, not loving, failing to love all the while. This is the life of separation—
necessary in infancy to differentiate ourselves functionally, but unnecessary for a lifetime of relationships!

The Social Personality: Not in the Realm of Feeling

So, we typically live in our Social Personality (SP). We animate it either successfully or unsuccessfully,
and organize it around behavioral obligations communicated to us from infancy. We are concentrated in perform-
ing or avoiding these behaviors—not within the domain of feeling, but of socially useful functions. Our feeling
is thus reduced to the pleasantness of common social intercourse and all the superficialities associated with the
ordinariness of daily life.

The Pit of Snakes

The pit of snakes is reactive egoity. It results from suppressing emotions in the egoic activity de-
manded by society, by all cultures in their attempt to avoid the dramatization of feeling. But the realm of
Free Feeling is inherently in intimate contact with the Divine force of Being—which Knows Reality without
doubt. It knows love without psychiatric help or intellectual reasons. And so, it lives as love—without end.

The Pit of Snakes: the Dark Side of our Social Personality (SP)
However, all the while there is a pit of snakes is lurking beneath this superficial front, this social face
of personality. We don’t like those feelings, and when they happen, we feel defenseless against them, unable to
stop them. Interestingly, we don’t really feel much when they are demonstrated, but we are quite unhappy when
we dramatize them. They are corrupt feeling. Our child or our marriage partner can say just one word and we’re
off in a rage, our button pushed. We lash back, with a cutting remark or (worse) a slap or some other physical
violence. Or, perhaps in some real sense worse, we suppress our anger, unconsciously driving it deep into an
organ—to be expressed later as physical disease.

We live on the basis of a profound sense of betrayal, rejection and unlove. In turn, we betray, reject and
do not love. Our Social Personality is a nice polite cover we present to the world that hides this sense. It is a
profound suppression of feeling and the basis of our life-strategy. Beneath the nice Social Personality is a “pit
of snakes”, the reactivity we hide, not wanting others to see it. We ourselves don’t even wish to acknowledge it.
We wish it wasn’t there, or are otherwise not even aware of it. It is anger, resentment, and all manner of negative-
reactive emotions (NREs) based on our feelings of betrayal, rejection and unlove.

We try our best to maintain our Social Personality face as many hours of every day as we can. But then
various circumstances arise, moments of weakness and frustration. The phases of our endocrine (hormone) sys-
tem and various other factors cause us from time to time to fall into the pit that is our reactive, nonsocial, even
antisocial personality. We actually live in the pit of snakes all the time, but we only feel it sometimes: anger, fear,
sorrow, righteousness, lust—all of our tendencies. The pit of snakes has been controlling our life all along. We
must come to the point where we can exist in the domain of feeling all the time.

Because the pit of snakes exists outside the realm of feeling, there are many conventional behavior de-
mands, taboos and even laws against it and certain other similar kinds of behavior. It’s commonly understood that
the pit exists (as “negative” behavior) in everyone. Society doesn’t want people dramatizing it, wishing instead
to keep everyone floating on the surface of superficial feeling, locked into conventions of behavior so that society
won’t have to suffer from what is commonly called “human nature”.

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 But the pit of snakes really isn’t human nature. It’s sub-human nature. It’s a tragedy that we’re even
involved in it. It’s a secondary commitment that is made absolute, magnified to the point that it controls and
destroys lives and relationships. Where we may have otherwise been committed to something great or to a great
principle in what should have been a matter of responsibility, we sink to the pit of snakes. It is irresponsible and
destructive of those who had a great commitment. And we’ve allowed this disease—a completely unnecessary
condition—to control our existence. This human tragedy is so because in order to avoid having to suffer it—the
pit of snakes—we all become social superficial robots, loveless beings existing outside the realm of feeling.

The proof of this is our general disconnection from the free domain of feeling that is truly human and
ultimately Divine. We are separated from it because we have allowed our own egoic tendencies to become a
principle that controls our existence. We don’t even want to get close to the realm of emotions that are associated
with the pit of snakes. Common society is devoted to keeping people from getting in touch with it.

But the Divine Teacher (Mohammad, Krishna, Jesus, Adi Da) Instructs and Teaches us, submitting Him-
self to us to help us understand how to be free of the pit of snakes. The pit of snakes has us living as superficial
personalities surrendered to the universal tragedy of un-illumined mankind. Reality shows us this directly. He
makes us sensitive to it and able to acknowledge it and understand it. He provides us various forms of Help so
we will come into intimate contact with the Principle Which enables us to transcend this mechanical existence.

Killing the Snakes

So, we must actually kill the snakes, not just make some sort of social order of them. We must go thru
this consideration to its end. Our behavior as real adult human beings absolutely counts on it. Our mind and
psyche and relationships all count on it. Until we kill the snakes, all we do is deal with everything as the Social
Personality typically does: superficially! Conventional, smiling, suppressed and superficial—that’s the Social
Personality.

To move thru and beyond E/S bondage to the domain of feeling takes real self-understanding—and
even some degree of self-transcendence. To be free of the pit of snakes and the mere Social Personality we must
learn to exist in the Domain of Free Feeling, in intimate contact with the Divine Force of Being, knowing Reality
without a doubt, knowing Love without psychiatric help or intellectual reasons, incarnating it and living it. The
Domain of Free Feeling is the Domain of Love. We actually can abandon the world of the reactive ego and its
rituals and armoring against Ultimate Feeling.

There is nothing cool about loving one another. It is hot and fiery. It is about becoming wounded (by
that love), submitting ourselves to love, to live in the world of love and making our relationships about love. It’s
about being vulnerable enough to love and be loved. To do this we will be wounded by this love but not diseased.
Then, the Great Possibility of Divine Awakening becomes evident. Hardly anyone in human history has known
of It. We typically don’t want to come close enough in our intimacies with one another to be wounded by It. But
It (Love) is the Doorway to the Outshining of phenomenal existence, the Way into the Divine Self-Domain.

Adi Da describes real Love as intense armorless vulnerability. Awakening to this principle, we love one
another, and our sexuality ceases to be problematic, our friendships and community life becoming possible. We
make a different kind of community, a true Spiritual community, a process that only uniquely free people can
enter into. It is enlivening, releasing great force and energy, releasing the armoring of the usual personality and
enabling us to really Love and be in Love. No more promiscuity or lack of interest in one another or all the petty
problems we make for each other in our unconverted emotional state. That all disappears completely. The Spiri-
tual Master is here to Help us make a community of Love with one another.

Our Typical and Constant Ritual: the Self-Contraction of Narcissus

This self-idea we have is based on our E/S “career” of egoity that constantly says “you don’t love me”.
Therefore, we basically have the attitude “I don’t love you”. It’s not, of course, how we typically present our-
selves as social egos, as Social Personalities. We smile when we see each other on the street—most of the time,
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like when we see someone is noticing us. But that’s our social face, not what’s underneath. This is an excuse not
to love others. And it is punishing to all of our relations—social, formal or casual. Fear is the root of it, of course,
because we feel separated from…everything—including the Source of Life.

The ego-“I” is fear, un-love, the total ritual of self-contraction, an activity that must be understood and
transcended. It is only suffering and it is only destructive—and entirely unnecessary. It is what we typically com-
municate, and why the world is in the condition in which we find it now. We can, however, come to a real and
profound (not merely mental) understanding of this ritual. Then, we can become committed to Love, so that even
rejection by others is received and accepted as a wound, not as an insult.

What is the difference between a wound and an insult in terms of our reaction/response? Notice how we
are always tending to defend ourselves against the wounds of love and the signs of un-love in our daily lives. We
act as if these wounds are insults, and therefore reasons to punish. Seeing the suffering of others, our heart goes
out to them. Feeling insulted, we tend to want to punish. In real Love, there is no reaction either way. We only
love.

This reaction can all be released by the self-transcending practice of Love. That means observation,
understanding, and relinquishment of the emotionally reactive cycle of rejection and punishment.

This requires:
(1) Vulnerability—to feel the wounds of love without retaliation
(2) Sensitivity to the other in love—the ability to sympathetically observe, understand, forgive, love,
and not punish or dissociate from the other in love
(3) Love Itself—the ability to love, to know we are loved, to receive love, and to know that both we
and the other, regardless of any appearance to the contrary, are vulnerable to love and
heart-requiring of love.

You have to appreciate how exceedingly few individuals in human history have yet demonstrated these
qualities! We cannot become immune to the feeling of being rejected. To do so would require becoming immune
to love itself. We must instead enter fully into the Spiritual Sphere of Love. This means entering into the Com-
pany of the Spiritual Master, the Divine Person, thereby submitting to the Divine Embrace of Love wherein we are
Love Itself. We then magnify that Love-Radiance into the world of human relationships. This process requires
Divine Grace. We no longer dramatize the egoic ritual of betrayal in reaction to the feeling of being rejected.

If we punish another when we feel rejected, we act as if we are immune to Love’s wound. We pretend
to be angrily insulted rather than suffer to be wounded. We become un-love, deluded, separate from our love
partners—and from Love Itself. But we can allow the hurt while not letting it become the feeling of lovelessness.
We can instead be vulnerable and not insulted, remembering the necessity of love.

The most direct way to know love in every moment is to be love in every moment. The True devotee
is founded in this capability by virtue of his or her constant Communion with Reality, the Spiritual Master—and
thus and thereby with the Divine Person. Failing to be steady in this Communion, the devotee becomes weak in
love, which means to be always already independent, insulted, empty with craving, in search of love, manipula-
tive, unhappy, and moved to punish, betray, and destroy all relationships—always already feeling rejected and
never satisfied. In this mood, we are not found to be truly lovable by others.

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 IRIS-2 ENERGY POLARITY
Introduction
This cosmic or conditional domain we live in is characterized by opposites and paradox. Opposites can
attract, repel &/or balance each other. The two sides or hemispheres of the brain are an example in the sense of
one being inward directed (introversion) and the other outward directed (extroversion). Introverts—whatever
the Structural type—tend to keep mental and emotional qualities within, quiet, to themselves, more or less unex-
pressed. Extroverts, the opposite. Neither of these expressions of energy is necessarily any better or worse than
the other. As mates, Introverts and Extroverts tend to attract each other.

Genetics and personality are inherent in each other. The Deeper Personality plays out in the genetics of
the individual. Introvert / Extrovert polarity may be about 1/3rd genetic / Deeper Personality-based and 2/3rds
Oedipal-based. From there, other influences (the development of the Social Personality, etc.) may take over with
changes accordingly. The personality can move from introversion to extroversion, with greater and dramatic
changes or the more common lesser degrees of change.

Some smaller percentage of people switch from basically one dominant direction to the other during
their lifetime. Perhaps a slightly larger percent switch dominance more than once. Family settings are the single
most influential factor in determining whether we will dominate in one or the other, introversion or extroversion.
And, as Denny Johnson rightly notes, the various stresses and suffering in life make it easier to drive an extrovert-
ed person in, whereas it is less likely to see the various other qualities necessary that tend to draw an introverted
person out. This fact suggests that there are more persons born introverted.

Denny is also right about making a choice to be one or the other as opposed to deciding on a personality
strategy. It is easier to consciously choose to move to either introversion or extroversion and actually accomplish
that (by modifying our degree of expression) than to consciously choose to be a Solid, Peculiar or Vital and actu-
ally accomplish that—although such can be done. The optimum circumstance is for the individual to be “bal-
anced” as regards introversion and extroversion—i.e., capable of using both modes of energy as appropriate to the
situation.

Introversion and extroversion are terms that show the direction of functional energies as used in the
world and worldly life. In the evaluation process, Introverts and Extroverts can be measured or judged on a scale
of 1 – 9, 5 being the middle or balance.

Identification: In the lighter-colored irises, introversion is typically seen as a darkened coloring effect in
the irises toward and surrounding the pupil and within the Ring of Expression, whereas extroversion is seen as a
clearly visible Ring of Expression and a usually deeper coloring outside that Ring. Just as Flowers and Jewels are
attracted to each other, the poles-apart energies of introversion and extroversion mutually attract. If and when it is
real love, or sacrifice in genuine understanding, those who are so different in personality will more likely remain
together.

Scale of Intensity

INTROVERT 4 3 2 1 (balance point) 1 2 3 4 EXTROVERT

• Introvert – Brown, yellow, or otherwise darker coloring within the Ring of Expression;
significantly broken/partially visible or invisible Ring of Expression.
• Extrovert – Clear Mental Zone and Ring of Expression.
• Switched – Clear Mental Zone with color seen outside the Ring of Expression.

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 As noted, the polarity of this kind of energy can switch from introversion to extroversion, and vice versa.
The Extrovert, e.g., may react to various events in life, feeling suppressed or frustrated by them. This could hap-
pen, e.g., in the early years of life as a result of or demonstration of the Oedipal. Thus, whereas one who may
have been more actively an Extrovert becomes inward moving, an Introvert. In any case, Introvert or Extrovert,
the world has the tendency to straighten us out, do its number on us, sensitizing us for the necessity of preparation
for Reality, the great adventure of human Awakening in the Divine. This world straightening means a movement
toward balance.

Once again, in considering the qualities of the Introvert or Extrovert that you (as a practitioner) are eval-
uating, remember that the following signs and qualities are generalizations, and, as such, will not apply to every
single individual exactly. People are not stamped out of a single mold, but are patterns in process. So, it’s patterns
that we’re looking for, groups of signs that suggest introversion or extroversion, so that we can make our recom-
mendations toward balance and right use of these qualities. Compensatory iris characteristics (see “Areas”) may
modify the interpretation for a given individual. However, the descriptions noted will generally hold true.

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 The INTROVERT
Signs: Introversion is shown by an intensity of centralized, usu-
ally darker color (orange or brown in the lighter-colored irises) encircling
the pupil and within the Ring of Expression (see “The Iris-2 RINGS”).
In the lighter-colored irises, introversion is increased by the appearance of
deeper, richer centralized coloring. The Ring of Expression itself shows
introversion when it is mostly broken, barely visible, invisible, or other-
wise when closer to the pupil: the closer it is the more introversion.

Notes: (1) The colored aspect of the Polarity sign cannot be seen
in the darker colored irises; (2) The pale yellow of kidney reactivity of Iris-
1 is not considered a part of this classification; (3) Introversion has nothing
to do with security/insecurity or strength/weakness.

An Introvert moving outward (and toward R brain dominance)

is shown by a clear Mental Zone with intensified color outside the Ring
of Expression. This is verified by a weaker Ring relatively close to the
pupil.

Behavioral Indications: An Introvert typically tends to mentally

go inside and process options. They typically spend too much time in the
conceptual mind, living in the future by conceptual thinking, and react-
ing to those thoughts. Compared to extroversion, there is a tendency to
increased sensitivity, reserve, observing, inwardness and secrecy, inter-
nalization of thoughts and emotions, and the building of mental vitality.

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Introverts tend to be more tolerant and understanding of others, and to hide their true feelings. They tend to be
easier to teach due to being good at both listening and observation. An Introvert Peculiar will likely be less ani-
mated than an Extroverted Peculiar.

One of the better qualities of introversion is found by the expression, “It’s better to be thought of as silly
than to speak and remove all doubt!” On the other hand, Introverts need to understand that lack of expression is
not necessarily any better than expression: If there’s bullshit within, there’s bullshit without. “Going within” is
no better than “going without”. Both have their place in life. At worst, introversion can lead to extreme, self-
destructive negativity to the point of catatonia. At best, it can aide one’s ability in meditation. That’s it.

Mental/Emotional Pathology Tendencies: If one mentally turns in excessively, he or she can become
obsessed, sarcastic, and with a terrible need to always be right. They can become ruthless and insecure, doubting
their abilities and qualities, and thus failing to bring their better ideas into fruition. They would then tend to be
controlling of others, sharing little, and when they do share it’s only when feeling no threat to personal security.

Physical Pathology Tendencies: Vulnerability in the Nutritive (or Gastro-Intestinal) system and the
Eliminative system. Specific organ sensitivity includes the stomach and the bowel.

Rx / Lesson: Introverts typically need to learn is outward expression, moving their energies outward,
being more sociable and communicative, taking risks, bringing their personal energies to others and to the world.
The BIG 7 + right use of the LQF’s, RMVJ, emphasizing eating meals slowly, chewing all food carefully, and
asking for Divine Blessing on the meal. Also, pure expeller-pressed coconut oil, Vitamins C & B-Plex, GranMed
Calming Formula, and the Good Company of those who love the Divine for real.

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 The EXTROVERT
Signs: Extroversion is shown by (1) a noticeable absence of con-
centrated color immediately surrounding the pupil (the Mental Zone), +
(2) a distinct Ring of Expression 1/3rd out from the pupil or farther. The
shape of the Ring of Expression describes your style of self-expression:
nearly round = your overall behavior is relatively steady and even-natured.
Irregular, you likely experience highs and lows. Expanded means propor-
tionately increased degree of extroversion.

An Extrovert moving inward (toward the L brain) is shown by the

color within the Ring of Expression building up & becoming darker and
otherwise more intense. Sure signs of this happening include Jewels ap-
pearing in the Mental Zone, with the Ring of Expression more visible, and
the color within the Ring intensified.

Behavioral Indications: Compared to the average Introvert,

Extroverts are more outgoing and expressive, desirous of communicating
with the outside world, and with an ever-present need for social recogni-
tion. They tend to externalize their thoughts, words and emotions, to be
achievement-oriented, more socially active, and to be good at entertain-
ment, management, PR, and marketing. They tend to want to finish the
job in half the time, and to be the energy that keeps the wheels of society
moving. They tend to be compulsive, and to be able to draw out the high-
est potential of those around them. They tend to have a firmer handshake
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how they really feel.

Extroverts tend to live more in the present moment, finding it more difficult to relate to long-range plan-
ning. Their outward movement of emotional and physical vitality tends to increase their self-expression. This
comes from physical-level rewards and attitudes. They constantly release more vitality than they take in—even
while resting. They tend to be more comfortable working and interacting with groups. In a consultation, they
may tell you what you’re likely to see in their eyes before you even start your evaluation.

Extroverts tend to breathe more thru the mouth, to be more social, practical, animated in their gestures,
achievement-oriented, and making things happen in the physical world. They are generally more physically
active than are Introverts and are accomplishment-oriented, action and movement oriented, desiring immediate
results. They seem to thrive on communication, to be outspoken, and involved with the outer or physical world.
They are looking for instant pleasure and gratification, and are generally less willing than the Introvert to wait for
it.

Physical Pathology Tendencies: The Nervous and Circulatory systems, with various tendencies to
problems with the heart and large arteries, with nervous tension, and becoming stressed out.

Rx / Lesson: Extroverts typically need to learn stillness and patience, calm, relaxation, meditation, and
above all, Contemplation of the Divine. The BIG 7 + right use of the LQF’s, emphasizing RMVJ, Feverfew, Fresh
Raw Garlic, Vitamins B-Plex, C & E400, R-M Exercise, Slant Board, Valerian concentrate, Meditation, Spiritual
Study, Relaxation Therapy, Music Therapy, and Deep Breathing Therapy.

Personality via Eye Markings: Questions & Statements on Key Points

• What does “introverted” mean? What are its characteristics (summarize)?
• Name three characteristics commonly associated with extroversion.
• Can one decide to be an Introvert or an Extrovert and actually make that happen?
• How does one see introversion in the irises?
• What life circumstance might make an Introvert move outward?
• In your case, do you find yourself more of an Introvert or an Extrovert?
• What do your irises suggest as your inherited and/or current brain energy polarity?
• Describe the phenomenon of switching: how is it shown?
• Name three characteristics of the extroverted personality.
• How would you counsel an Introvert to help him/her to move more toward balance?

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 The Basic Principles of Health and Disease
Data drawn from The Treasure Consideration, by Adi Da

The #1 Principle of the Disease Process

When we actively hate someone, or egoically dislike or reject others, we mutilate and effectively destroy
our own psychophysical integrity or “hearted body-mind”. This is how disease really happens, the main way,
not just thru impure diet and life-negative lifestyle. In fact, this is the most negative of lifestyle factors and the
main principle of the disease process. It is a violation of The BIG 7 (#7). It is “missing the mark”, or (if you like)
“sin”.

The #1 Principle of Health

When we actively turn the four principal faculties of (1) sense-body, (2) emotion, (3) attention and (4)
breath, to the Divine, the body-mind becomes “Brightened” by Grace. We no longer do fear, sorrow, anger, or any
kind of un-love in reaction to anything or anyone. We only do Love. This discipline of actively abiding in con-
stant self-forgetting and self-Transcending heart-Communion with the Divine, yielding the 4 principal faculties
in love-response to Reality, brings a different destiny. Therefore, with real study and profound understanding—
which is accomplished only in the context of the relationship with the Divine and by Divine Grace— everything
turns around and we can actually become Love and enjoy ever-deepening heart-happiness.

Health and Disease in Western and Eastern Cultures (paraphrased, Synchronicity Institute)
Physicists are said to have found “an invisible universe of formless potential energy” [the etheric com-
bined with personal energy] that appears to be influenced by our mental-emotional attitude & worldview, ex-
pressed as “consistently held feeling-thoughts” (CHFTs). Our thoughts generate energy fields that influence our
physical and emotional health, family and social relations, educational aspirations and achievements, and our
business and financial situation:
1. Our CHFTs attract events into our lives
2. Our CHFTs reflect our consciousness altogether
3. We attract whatever is energetically consistent with our CHFTs
4. When we look at the world we see what we “know” to be there
5. What we believe / think / feel to be true is what we get in life
6. We reap what we sow
7. Coming from Love, we find it
8. Spoiling for a fight, we find one
9. Being “Good Company”, we attract it

Factors Influencing Health and Disease

• The Western Medicine model:

The gross physical body and gross-level events influence health and disease
Injury, pathogenic organisms & organ dysfunction produce disease
• The Eastern Medicine model:
Mind and spirit are emphasized in health and disease
Thoughts, feelings, beliefs and memories influence health and disease
Spirit manifests as Chi flowing thru energy channels (the meridians) to influence health
CHFTs disrupt Chi and produce disease

“Karma is the inability to function. It is the result of egoity and egoic life,
the inability to live in unity.”—Adi Da

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 Part 3

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PERSONALITY

The Strong Influences on Personality: The BIG 7

During our years in active clinical holistic Naturopathic practice at Grand Medicine (since 1972), we
learned of seven areas of life that most affect health (see Appendix 2). We called these areas The BIG 7.

(1) Pure diet

(2) Adequate rest
(3) Right exercise
(4) Natural hygiene
(5) Right occupation
(6) Life-positive environments
(7) Spiritual cultivation

Each of these areas influences Personality in varying degrees thru-out our lives. These seven qualities
should be taken seriously since their potential to influence, change and modify Personality is often quite pro-
found.

A more complete description of The BIG 7 is described in our book, The GREAT Liquid Diet. We at
Grand Medicine consider The BIG 7 so important that when teach our courses on Physical Iridology and Sclerol-
ogy we state flatly that the patient’s pathology is usually relatively insignificant next to our ability as healers to
get them doing The BIG 7. The BIG 7 is their foundation or platform from which they build good health. Let’s
look.

Diet is whatever we take into the body in the way of nourishment. Since the gross physical body is

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