Glossary

SPIRIT:
Mood, attitude, intention, relative emotional buoyancy, or mental bearing.

SIN:
Mental or physical behavior which causes Cognitive Dissonance.

SALVATION:
Learning the truth.

ETERNITY:
Living in the present.

SOUL:
The mental aspect of a human being

HELL:
Cognitive Dissonance.

SELF:
That with which we identify.

REBIRTH:
Spiritual Liberation.

DIVINE:
That most closely associated with Spiritual Truth.

SPIRITUAL LIBERATION:
Cessation of ego identification. (hereafter, liberation)

GOD:
The entirety of reality, or a personification of humankind’s highest values; the ultimate symbol of the ultimate truth. Truth, itself.

TRUTH:
That which is factually accurate.

WORLDVIEW:
A person’s combined conscious and subconscious understanding and image of the world, universe, cosmos.

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE:
Mental or emotional suffering caused by the difference between Worldview and Reality. (hereafter, dissonance)

CONSONANCE:
The absence of dissonance; a singularity of belief and behavior.
The state of having achieved Spiritual Liberation, or the Practice employed.

CONSONANCE VISION: (hereafter, vision)
A mental state conditioned to Seek Consonance First in all things.

ADAPTIVE CAVITATION:
Evolutionary mismatch (dissonance). (hereafter, cavitation)

REALITY:
Whatever actually exists, regardless of our perceptions, imaginings, beliefs, hopes, or denials.

SPIRITUAL:
Spirit-related, or, having an experiential, rather than a philosophical perspective. Mental, as opposed to physical.

RELIGION:
Whatever practice a person uses to train her spirit; a corrective for cavitation.

HEAVEN:
The experience of life after Spiritual Liberation; Nirvana, Enlightenment.

ONENESS:
Consonance.

FOCUS:
An iteration of Divine Truth.

AFTERLIFE:
Life after Spiritual Liberation.

PRACTICE:
Any repetitious behavior designed to commit a desired skill to habit.

PERFECT:
verb (used with object)
To bring to completion; finish.

TRANSCENDENCE:
Any degree of elevation of relative emotional buoyancy, especially the permanent, irreversible dis-identification with ego.