Practical Evolution of Consciousness

A Brief Abstract from the Lectures

Krasnodar, January, 2001.

What are we going together for? An individual looks for partners for self-assertion and physiology - for sex. Thus a man deceives himself thinking that he is moving towards some end and this very end is not stated.

In this process a man starts two basic channels of getting energy: his ego looks for the opportunities for self-assertion and his physiology looks for the opportunities of reproduction

Actually we look for an opportunity to evoke available energy, wrongly assuming that we look for some new energy...

People cannot be in emptiness for long time . A man runs away from loneliness, hunger – from everything that doesn't not give a sharp “I'm alive”sensation. Thus we act in advance: we avoid possible hunger by eating without being hungry; we are thrown in communication predicting boredom and melancholy of staying alone.

Loneliness may be real when there are no new emotional impressions.

But there is also another loneliness. It is caused by the self-description becuase of feeling pity for oneself.

Why are we afraid of loneliness? The activity is necessary for us: physical and mental (communication, mental work, emotion). In emotional isolation a man has only his memory.

How do we feel that we are alive? Only due to the ability to excite ourselves at the physical, emotional and intellectual levels.

It's the abitily to excite independently all receptors at all levels defines how long a man can be alone, how much he is all-sufficient...

We were taught to live for someone. We go in for sport even not for ourselves but in order to impess the people of the opposite sex .

Primitive people moved in order to survive. In the modern society life is organized so comfortably that a man has to put tasks for himself. And this makes a closed circle: in order to live we have to move and in order to move we need a situation with struggle for our own lives. And such situations don't exist as life in a civilized society is comfortable. A modern man is in the trap of his own achievements.

Before an external situation gave a pulse to survival and, as a consequence, to development.

Now only those people can develop who can predict.

What is prediction? Prediction is an ability to simulate in mind abstract images and to live in them.

All people have this ability at some level but basically the process of predicting occurs uncontrolled and is based on the pity for onself.

To learn how to manage one's prediction is a task to be solved. The art of prediction managing is an area not mastered by people at all. We are people, because we have prediction. All human qualities that we have - empathy, compassion, putting oneself in another's shoes - all these are predicting.

But it's a another subject to be researched.

Who can one be alone for long time? How is it defined?

A weak man always tries to see in other people's eyes approvement that his life is right.

A strong man relies on himself instead of waiting for other peole's approval; he relies on his personal strength.

What are the criteria of personal strength accumulation? After birth all people are given practicaly the same amount of vital energy.

If this vital energy is not released outside it begins to boil up then inside of a man and, as a consequence, we have nervous break-downs. It occurs in different manners at different age.

The vital energy must be sublimed into a personal strength. This process can be compared to a hydroelectric power station work:

Water running in the river is a vital force. It is transformed into electricity – the personal force.

Accumulator charging is the accumulation of personal force.

What is one to do if the water pressure in the river reduces when climax period is approaching but accumulators are not charged?

The sex fixation is schizophrenia. When there comes decay at the physical level but the personal strength hasn't yet been stored, there's only one thing to do: either to hang oneself or to use viagre, artificially raising and intensively spending the rest of energy. But the nature gave a man another way out: to use natural age decay of sexual activity as an opportunity to get freedom.

This freedom is given to a man to approve himself as a human being - to develop consciousness. But if a man has come to this life period without a stock of personal strength- there won't be any new stage.

How to store personal force? We need to live strategically.

It is necessary to see life that was lived as a whole and to predict - what can you expect in future? We know that everyone dies. We should not to be afraid to see all this but to plan our lives knowing about death.

To know about death in order to plan life, instead of simply to be afraid.

And we must be afraid not of death but of a climax, and to be exact, that you reach the period of natural decay of vital energy with uncharged accumulators.

The accidents don't happen - all is determined by how you lived before.

The sensitivity becomes dull after a man has mastered a habitual layer of life. Then we begin to search for a stronger signal from the outside (extreme kinds of sports, sadism - masochism in sex etc.)

Everyone must choose the way of life (ritual) in which he can make himself more and more alive. And we should do it consciously and not just because we want to do something.

The zest for life is determined by the ability to stimulate oneself at all levels.

Development is an increase of a sensitivity level when we can regulate it. We are used to go wide, instead of going deep into. We want to intensify impressions but we fail. We'll fail again if we continue to avoid any pressure.

Do we often wait for the moment when we are hungry? Usually we start eating in order to get an impression instead of maintaining our physical bodies.

Why do we need a group? Only in a group it is possible to develop. Thus, to coordinate our desires in connection with another person, we can go not wide (to suppress another, altering him according to our expectations) but deep into (to try to understand him and to speak to him his language, using knowledge about psychotypes).

The life weariness comes when a person is not capable of catching a new signal and lives only by recollections.

A person knows in advance: who is who and what is what. This prediction doesn't allow to perceive the new. Besides all people around make a person predictable, put him in frameworks, in imposed on all way to a tomb.

The increase of sensitivity is the increase of attentiveness.

People look for the self-assertion in other people's eyes of to be distiguished. Then a person feels alive.

The knowledge about psychotypes allows to free some attention from oserving people's reaction and to direct it on self-sensation. The endless search for approval or condemnation also keeps our attention outside. If we stop to expect evaluation of us by others the great part of attention will be free, that can result in increase of sensitivity.

Are we capable of listening? As it seldom happens that someone speaks the a listener's language, it is necessary to learn how to listen a speaker's language.

Are we capable of speaking? Usually we are engaged in self-ecstasy because of the attention to ourselves – the speaker.

Communication for the sake of communication, speaking for the sake of speaking this is what a man is engaged in. To draw attention to oneself that's the purpose of usual conversation. Sometimes all have moments when we want simply to speak out, it allows throw away pressure, to avoid changes. Thus, conversation replaces action.

But conversation can be used not as an end but as a means, to define how to act, what's the life objective, etc.

Each man has something, that he doesn't like. We need to formulate precisely what don't like and to change it. Everything is based on energy. When the aim is precisely defined it is easy to understand how to make amount of energy hifger, to become stronger.

If a man regrets that he lacks of energy for long time this usually means that he leads a too quiet life. A man, as a rule, goes in direction of pressure reduction.

If a man develops he goes under pressure consciously. Only this allows him to develope new qualities. All evolutions on earth went according to this principle. All kinds of living beings transformed and developed, adapting to changes of the environment, climate, pressure, temperature, bacteria and viruses, external enemies, etc. The only difference is that before the frontal brain lobes developed in living beings, the evolution went due to natural selection. Now, at the age of self-consciousness and abstract thinking ability the people get an opportunity to evolve purposefully, not by a trial and error method, during millions years, but at the consciousness level with complete transformation of a physical body into a new energy level during one human life.

For this purpose it is necessary only to trace attentively how the process of evolution was going on our planet, to find principles and laws of development and to step into this way. We don't need to think out anything, everything was already developed by nature long time ago. All spiritual teachings speak about a certain Way, which we need to step into, each leader gives his own way but we must understand a simple thing: if the evolutionary way on the planet managed to create you and me, we can find this way with the help of right calculation now, to step into it and to move further without stepping aside.

After a man has mastered a new pressure level there comes balance which is followed dy disintegration, if a man doesn't consciously step into a new pressure level, i.e. pain (mental and physical).

Physical pain is often more preferable for the people than mental pain. We grew developing the sensation that we deserve something. The failure of it is terrible and it causes painful sufferings. Death of ego is much more frightful than physical death.

Ego stands between a man and the outer world.

Ego is a prism which refracts perception. the interpretation of what a man perceives is going on all time. And how all is interpreted depends on a man's belonging to a certain psychotype.

But ego is not a psychotype. Ego is a mixture of conditional reflexes. The ego destruction is a stage of awareness of these reflexes. We turn unconscious into conscious. And gradually ego disappears.

After that there comes the period when ego can be put on and put off like clothes. To live in the human world it is necessary to have a person ality with ego displays, otherwise people don't perceive and understand the one who has no ego any more. (naked people are perceive as mad.)

Some postulates

1. Life is a struggle for energy necessary for search for balance.

2. Each system seeks balance.

3. To achieve balance without transition to a new energy level is death.

4. Development is a sequence of transitions from one energy level to the next higher one.

5. There are 4 ways of world perception mastered by people and imposed during the first months of living.

6. According to belonging to one of 4 ways of world perception, people are divided into 4 basic psychotypes which we know from classical psychology:

- introvert impulsive

- introvert stable

- extravert impulsive

- extravert stable.

7. The belonging to a certain psychotype is rigidly fixed and cannot be changed as well as the sexual belonging.

8. The minimal working unit capable of stepping into the way of qualitative development and of getting results quickly is a group of 4 persons including the representatives of all 4 basic psychotypes which are at the same starting level of development.

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How do we speak? How does each of us trace in his speach the desire to draw attention, to show himself from the best side, to astonish another with the knowledge and to assert himself?

During conversation the situation “a teacher – a diciple” is conducted when one person is supposed to listen to another. But usually they both don't listen to each other and expect their turn to start talking. Nobody wants to be a schoolboy, everyone want to teach.

What is this desire to speak out? The very text has no importance, it's only the search for energy that has importance.

People's actions are replaced by words.

When did language appear? Why did living beings begin to use sound signals and language during evolution? In nature it is useful, it is necessary for survival.

Gradually people turned conversation into an end in itself.

We must defined - how to use language propperly?

We must learn to draw our attention to our speaking.

Each of us should defined his purposes and use speaking according to one's purpose.

We should define our tasks. If a man doesn't have conscious purpose, then it is senseless to ask him not to chat because a man needs at least some energy to remain alive.

If a man is moving toward a definite objective he should choose partners for joint actions instead of joint speaking. All of us have a lot of friends who live aimlessly. We should contact mainly those whose objectives are conformable with ours.

Are we able to listen and to speak a listener's language? There are two ways of communication: either the desire to interrupt, not to listen up to the end, to argue; or the attempt to go beyond words, to give a person an opportunity to be what he is. The knowledge about the psychotypes allows to understand another person, to stop interpreting his words and actions. Only awareness that the man standing before me is determined by his psychotype, actually allows to hear and to accept another person what he is.

In a group a man can remain within his psychotype framework (to be a 1/4), developing deep, as the partners supplement his missing three quarters. Outside a group each of us should play all the four roles. Outside the group everyone aspires to be nagual. This is justified energetically and it cannot be in another manner if a person is single he has to be complete, i.e. to cover the whole range of human emanations, speaking Castaneda's language or, to put it easier, to have qualities of all psychotypes. To survive, it is necessary to be able to do everything: to be a theoretical and practical person, to predict and not to use prediction, to be able to move quickly, to have patience, to have intuition, to feel people, to be able to put oneself in another person's shoes, to be able to not put oneself in another person's shoes, to be greedy, to be generous, to be able to store what was acquaired, not to be afraid of risk, etc. But comparing ourselves with others we always can find those qualities which we lack in others, we have to develope them, to simulate, to copy, often failing, or we just stay in silence.

Why it is difficult for me to say “no”, to stop useless for me conversation and to look at myself. Do I often play the role of the one who conducts useless conversation and forces oneself to listen?

What is behind all that? Why do we like to tell someone nonsense?

This is our way of getting social energy.

All of us search for energy through words, we try to draw energy to ourselves by means of conversation,we make social energy run round a circle.

There is no development in this process, we are engaged in mutual bothering to feel alive. But, if a man doesn't have different way to get energy, to give up excitation at the emotional level through words is fatal for him.

So, we have identified 3 basic types of energy running in a man:

1. VITAL ENERGY

2. SOCIAL ENERGY

3. PERSONAL STRENGTH.

What is PERSONAL STRENGTH and where can we get it?

Each man had in moments of energy growth in his life, the moments of energy feeding, not caused by the self-assertion.

When did it happen? At the moment of overcoming oneself.

So, when one is driving, his attention is of higher level (the speed is higher, than pedestrians have, hence, the attentiveness level is higher). The higher attention level gives a feeling of strength.

The higher attention to one's personality displays gives a sense of personal strength.

Such moments are few because everything is mastered, all is known on this life level. Actions are made automatically, they do not require attention, they do not raise energy in a man and, as the consequence, life becomes boring.

In childhood an intensive process of accumulation of personal strength goes on all time. We simply don't realize it. The very process of learning the unknown world gives a child a constant energy inflow.

Adults have to invent the ways of getting energy for themselves. Though we know that the world is infinite, so the process of learning the world is infinite too, for some reason, all of us stop approximately at the same level of learning the world. Why?

The knowledge of the surrounding world, the confidence of its predictability gives us a sense of comfort.

But this very confidence deprives us of searching activity, we begin to go round a circle and then our life becomes boring.

Why is there a stop in our development? Why do we cease to learn the world and we become quiet?

Once we all played in sand-boxes all days long, and it was interesting. Now it is boring for us to do so. We became grown-ups, our energy potential decame higher, playing in a sand-box became boring.

The level of inward energy defines what we are engaged with.

We all remember ourselves in childhood, full of energy and interest to everything. It is necessary to raise in oneself this state on purpose, i.e. the state of constant search and interest in life.

The world is infinite its learning can be infinite too. if at you are bored it's a signal of lack of energy. To justify boredom by the idea that everything is already learned is absurd.

An adult has a lot of energy outflows and no constant energy inflow.

Each man turns into something like a sieve as he grows older.

A adult has: 1. open energy outflows.

2.no constant inflow energy chanal.

Everyone should think of it. It's important to understand it within yourself, to investigate it within yourself - then understanding will give you strength.

In childhood we were in a flow of energy all the time. Now we should manage to return into this flow.

Impressions is something new. The intensity of the perceived impression depends on the ability to concentrate attention on an object.

The ability to be attentive is bot the same in childhood and in adult life. Now when we know about everything beforehand we are completely inattentive, we move with conditional rexlexis, life goes on aroud a circle and we're not interested.

The intensity of impression depends on the sensitivity level. As we grow up we dull our sensitivity.

The ability to concentrate our attention on something gives us energy. If you begin to notice something new in the already known process you get a new energy flow.

We have already learnt the world wide. The world is limited in our perception by the society, by the planet.

It's time to learn the world qualitatively - deep. And this process is infinite.

The knowledge about psychotypes frees a part of energy, it allows to cooperate with the people more easy and effectively. Learning of people's psychotypes is an inevitable step in learning the world.

OUR TASK IS TO LEARN HOW TO CONCENTRATE OUR ATTENTION SO THAT TO MAKE OUR ENERGY POTENTIAL HIGHER.

We need to be aware of ourselves HERE and NOW. Only here and now it is possible to be alive and hence to be in a flow of energy.

Only the ability to be attentive enables us to receive energy all the time.

Each of us should try to keep the attention on something by force, i.e. to learn how to concentrate attention. We're nnt used to do so that's why only our decision can make and help us in such unusual action.

At first it may seem boring, as it won't give an energy inflow at once. But there will come the moment when the attempts on attention concentration will make our energy potential higher.

Personal strength is stored during transformation of vital energy into experience of interaction among the people.

A personality is formed among the people, therefore personal strength is directly connected to the ability of cooperating with the people. The energy outflow is also connected with the people's world. We are constantly engaged in experiencing, considering of various situations connected with other people, thus we we block our vital energy.

Gradually we'll be able to be attentive to ourselves. At first we need to be able to notice our physical body and physical state. Then well be able to draw attention to our personality, and from this the process of destruction of ego-importance will begin.

AT THIS STAGE OUR TASK IS TO AWAKEN VITAL ENERGY THROUGH ATTENTIVENESS TO OUR PHYSICAL BODIES.

We shouldn't just run or jump but also to attract our attention what we do. This way we force ourselves to feel alive.

The concentration of attention on our physical bodies is the simplist and easiest way to make energy potential higher.

To concentrate attention on emotions is much more difficult: we are too involved in the process of communication with the people, our attention is completely seized.

It is possible to learn to be attentive during usual physical actions: when you get up, take a cold shower, brush your teeth, etc.

A cold shower makes an energy potential abruptly higher, since the attention concentrates on the whole physical body. And this happens each time as it's impossible to get used to cold water.

Gradually it is necessary to develop the ability to be attentive to everything that's around us. It is necessary to learn to notice everything, the way people walk, the way they dress, etc.

When this level is mastered we can learn to draw our attention to personality.

TO BE ATTENTIVE IS THE FIRST NECESSARY CONDITION OF DEVELOPMENT.

It's important to learn how to be attentive to everything, then there will be no restrictions in getting impressions. There will be no problems connected to memory: if one decides that EVERYTHING IS SIGNIFICANT then everything will be stored in memory.

But at the same time such memory will not cause indulging.

We were always taught to remember but not to forget. Now our memory looks like a trash.

As soon as we learn to fix our attention on all things we'll clean our memory of all unnecessary things. When everything is equal then the meaningful things (i.e. stored in memory) will cease to be such and will become usual.

Now there exists meaningful and meaningless things. Meaningful things are those which give us energy. As soon as we're able to get energy from everything, all things will be equal. (A review causes the same effect.)

Due to total attentiveness to all things our inner dialogue will stop.

A person's importance sticks to that which gives energy initially. It depends on a man's psychotype.

All of us has a stock of the unknown : 3/4 of the world.

The people belonging to another psychotype perceive the world their own way, as at their attention is distributed completely different way.

In a group where everyone is supplemented by the people of the other psychotypes a person can be his ? and develop deep. But in the society everyone acts as a single person, therefore it's necessary to master other ? for the sake of survival, which is a necessary condition of a person's development but it's a trap at the same time: attention is directed only wide, outside of oneself. To show others that you are not bad you need a lot of energy.

Now we should learn how to direct our attention to ourselves.

To control one's emotions and furthermore one's movements of mind is difficult.

We need to master stage 1- to learn to draw our attention to our physical bodies and to maitain our attention there.

From the age of 5 till 15 a man substitutes natural sources of getting energy by social sources through approval – dissaproval process.

All of us were children and can remember what our world perception was in childhood. We noticed that the sun shines, the wind rustles, etc.

There are people who still have such world perception reaching the age of 20-25 but more often they have failed to adapt for life in the society.

The problem is that it's necessary to maintain children's perception through all the period when adult perception already works, to manage to go through adult life problems with a victory and to return to children's perception going on leaning one's life experience. The children's perception is the transitive period between two wombs- physical and social.

As the years pass children's perception is suppressed by adult problems. Once we didn't crave for being important in other people's eyes. As we grow up we begin to use social energy. Thus, we change living in a greater scale (the planet energy etc.) into living in a smaller scale ( the society).

When we were born we left physical womb where our bodies were formed and got to the social wobm, where our personality is formed and this should be left too. And as our physical navel-string connecting us to our mother was cut, so the same way the second navel-string binding us with the society should be also cut.

If in the first womb the energy came together with blood through the navel-string, in the second womb where a personality is formed the energy circulates in the “approval – disapproval” channel If one is approved by the environment one receives energy, if one is dissaproved by it there's an energy outflow.

The second navel-string falls off by itself, if a person chooses a correct direction and finds new energy sources.

If one tries to cut this navel-string by force, trying to be independent on the opinion of the people around, and doesn't have a full picture of what's going on, one developes only one's own importance and becomes even weaker.

It's not easy to escape from dependence on getting social energy. One should find new sources of energy similar to those which one had in childhood. Everyone can remember what gave him energy in childhood.

In fact the social energy doesn't give energy feeding, it allows to feel alive. 50 / 50: there is an approval (geting energy) - there is a diapproval (outflow of energy).

It's impossible to save, to accumulate the social energy

It exists only in process. Its weaker equivalent may be only money.

We need to admit our dependence on the social energy.

There are many various groupings which offer different types of escape from this dependence: sects, religious groups, etc.

Certainly, many practices are useful, including meditation. They allow us to switch off inner dialogue for some time, and to feel energy and freedom, but it only for some time. Those achievments are taken into account which were fixed in a body and became a part of oneself only. For example, one's self-importance either exists or not, the temporary its switching-off couldn't be taken into account. This is a trap for many seekers who felt an inflow of energy through some practice which substitues for their self-importance. It's a good sublime state but to fix and to maintain it by such a way is impossible. A setting point comes back soon just like a elastic to its previous place, and the seeker remains with his recollection of these experiences, which he carries through all his life and makes an element of his self-assertion. They write books about it and tell tales for children (followers).

How to make process of destruction of self-importance (ego) irreversible is another matter.

Why do all we search for something?

If you can remember the buddist point of view then we can say that the world is full of sufferings, and a man seeks how to avoid them. What are these sufferings?

Sufferings at the physical level are not so important as mental sufferings. (Though our physiology is directly connected with our mentality.)

All of us try to avoid the sufferings connected with disapproval and self- disapproval. We know that to envy, to be jealous, etc. is bad. We know but still we do it. Each person tries to overcome these negative qualities.

Various spiritual trends offer different practices for this purpose which should help us to overcome sufferings.

The question is where are those people who have succeeded in overcoming sufferings?

We know about such people from books: Osho, Aurobindo, Castaneda, ancient Chinese teachers, Christ, Budda and others. But they are few. And all of them wrte wrote with regret that practically no one of their diciples could repeat their ways to insight enlightenment. The conclusion is like this: the ways pointed by them don't work for every one.

Is there an opportunity to leave the social womb in the form of a foetus of some kind without dying but being alive, strong and enriched with life experience?

Do we agree to be foetuses only? Are we going to resign ourselves to such destiny?

There are MYTHS which were imposed on us. These myths are of global character. They exist only to use a man as a means to carry genetic information through time until there will be a human being which will combine two main instincts in one – reproductive and self-preservation instincts and the process of his development and evolution will go on at the consciousness level and he will continue himself within himself.

It doesn't mean, that others are in a wrong way. Everyone has his own way becuase of one's features. If all animals had become humans during the evolution, there would have been no fauna, no nutritious environment for human origin. So human environment allows some individuals to slip further away beyond the limits of human kind. People cannot know about it just as a spermatozoon doesn't know anything about what it will be if it reaches an ovule, it knows only the way. So, if you're in the right way the criterion will be a qualitative transition to a new existence level together with your body. If a man died and was buried that means the transition didn't occur, the social womb was left by a foetus, even if this “foetus” was enlightened.

Look, how eagerly all people go on death. No fear of death is cultivated in all trends, religions and in any social structure.

We are taught to die in order for the State to continued its living. And that's right. For the magority of people, with an average awareness level, it's natural to be a cell in the State's body, it gives them safety.

Very few people are capable of exploring these themes, because to percept these themes they needs a level of consciousness, higher than an average one. In other words, your inner computer should work on higher clock frequency and to have greater volume of operative memory.

By the way, that's why we can put off the myth that there is some secret, confidential knowledge. Ther's no secrets. There's dullness of perception.

Real teachers never asked their followers to give a vow of silence. The only thing that was forbidden was speaking for the sake of self-assertion.

Here are some basic myths in which human life is abound and which make one feel immortal:

MYTH 1. A man is a half which searches for his second half to achieve happiness and balance.

MYTH 2. A man is imperfect but can make himself perfect if he cultivates in himself various virtues.

MYTH 3. Freedom is absence of dependence.

There are also other myths which we'll explore later.

A man is a half if he's considered not as a personality but as a biological unit, which should continue its species.

But we're not only animals, we're humans. And at the personality level we are not halves but 1/4.

The integrity which we seek unconsciously can be displayed only in a group which has at least 4 main psychotypes.

As well as our arms and legs are not yet a man, and they'll never become a man even if you try to connect them, so single people cannot find integrity and reach harmony until they're united in a group based on the rule of psychotypes.

Just as two alive beings feel orgasm and sense of integrity when they merge into one the same works for a group when the culmination and proof of the fact that the group is joined together properly is the experiencing of unity, emotional rise. There is a feeling, that you found what you were looking for all your life - it happens what in some traditional teaching is named a space orgasm, a bliss or inner flame.

Only self-importance doesn't allow him to admit that he's a part of the whole, though there is nothing more obvious in the world and all around confirms it.

A man accepts that he's a part of the universe, a part of mankind and of people, but he cannot admit that he's uncapable tof achieving perfection by his own.

What happens when we seek to be idetified by others? It's not bad but it's not good. When we envy, we are jealous, we state claims to each other – actually we're doing only one thing: seek integrity.

When integrity is not yet achieved, jealousy and envy will stay within, we can only hide them in subconsciousness, like they do it in many practices in the name of spiritual reedom.

What is group integrity?

All that we know is that the personality formation takes place in social environment: first of all, in a family, in a kindergarten, in a school. When one grows he tries to get into any group, any religious trend, discos, clubs,etc.

What attracts us in them?

We seek for integrity, for our parent group intuitively. But we're taught to be independent. We have to burden ourselves with the qualities which we don't have.

We're constantly searching for that what our psychotype lacks, we try to copy the people of another psychotype, we fail to do it, we compare ourselves to others, they compare us (frequently - not for our benefit), we have complexes after that. And we absolutely forget about our nature and about our talents.

The myth that we can achieve perfection, happiness and integrity independently should be destroyed.

We all know any rallied joint group is strong. In the face difficulties people are easily united (climbers, partisans, etc.) During a war or disasters people get together naturally. The possibility to be lost makes our self-importance meaningless and the people are united.

However, in peace when the knowledge of one's death recedes a man lives with a myth supporting his own importance and significance.

Everyone believes he must live and survive independently. If someone decides achieve an enlightenment, he tries to do also it independently.

This myth doesn't allow a man to stand on a right way.

Everyone is frightened of dependence. We all heard about different sects when a person gets into it he loses his individuality and depends completely on a chief's evaluation. We all don't like to depend on our relatives or bosses at work.

But we should learn to distinguish between different types of dependence.

We all depend on the Sun, on the Earth, on the house which we live in. But this dependence is favourable for us, it gives us strength. Without this dependence life and development are impossible.

Development is a process of qualitative transitions from the dependence on a weaker system to the dependence on a stronger system.

To depend on a strong system is useful. When we master one living level, we get rid of the dependence which we had before, we pass to a new level, to a stronger system and we get a new type of dependence automatically. This process is infinite, as well as the process of development.

We should cease to defend our independence. We must look for the dependence which is useful to depend on.

What does it mean to benefit from dependence? It means you take more than you give i.e. it's like in a business, you invest tactically, then you get strategically, and the stronger system in which you get is, the shorter time gap between ivestment and benefit is. And it's important to see this benefit energetically, as a whole, and not only as money.

A man can lose his ego only provided that he can join a group gathered spontaneously or purposefully accoding to the psychotype rule. Why?

In such a group a man doesn't have to compete, to envy, because such a group works by a principle of mutual supplement. Each member of the group can be what he is, giving another person freedom to be what he is. Every person frees another person from himself, from necessity to play a role unnatural for him. The role played by a person coincides with his talents and desires.

Such a group is similar to a single organism and, it's the same as with hands which don't envy legs, so people cease to compete and find integrity.

In the process of group formation a man begins to feel, that it feels like freedom. Ego disapears gradually, in the process of group formation.

The desire to get together is natural. These processes go on in each person, we should just pay attention to them.

“All knowledge is inside of us but it's hidden by a cover of ignorance” – said ancent wise men.

What's main that's to understand a direction. Group forming is a hard work but quite real. This direction can lead towards the end and not in impasse, as it occurs in many spiritual trends when a person dies without having achieved what he seeked.

It's possible to be free from ego, it's important to find the right direction.

What is said in these lectures is not a kind of a new or revolutionary thing, you know all this at the body sensations level too. Yet your knowledge is not structured and is not implied in words that's why the discussed topics are painful for many people.

It's difficult for a man to believe in possibility of making a strong and harmonious group. All his life experience means the opposite: families are built and broken, groups fall apart, close friends keep away from each other.

Instability of various people's associations is because of one reason. This is struggle for power (in a family, in a group, in the State).

We all know how difficult it is to become an authority. Nobody wants to admit that the basic desire by which he moves in relationship with other people is the desire to tame someone, to make him dependent.

The attempts to become a leader are made constantly. Especially actively this process takes place between relatives. The household crimes take the first place in the crime list. Such crimes are all based on the same search for integrity, for energy and power.

Each person admits somewhere deep inside that he would like to make orders, to be a leader even for one man but the few succeed in this.

An adult compensates his crave for power in children. At first he manages to do so but as a child achieves sexual maturity he stops to recognize his parents' authority and this becomes a nightmare for adults.

If an objective is to teach people, to help the people, i.e. to be a leader in fact, it'll never be realized. If a person has the right objective (and the right objective is the same for all of us, people, that's is to be strong, rich, healthy, young, happy and free), and he moves without deviating from this objective, has great results on his way there will be some people, who will want to adopt such experience and knowledge. On this ground a group is formed spontaneously and a leader becomes the man with the largest energy potential than others have, who chooses the right direction faster than others and gets good results also faster.

The leader doesn't make orders but leads towards the objective, and he needs not only to be active but also to be passive on this way , to be able to surrender to a passing wind in time if there is such, or to greater force which also moves towards the right direction, or even to another leader who moves towards this direction faster.

We think the most important thing is to be a leader and where to move is of no importance. But all depends on what energy means for us: is it an end in itself or is it a means (the same concerns money).

Think and be honest in your own answer to this question: what's more important for you: to be a group leader and to not know where to lead it or to be a member of a group which is moving in the right direction.

Certainly, there are people who can move towards freedom independently but it's an exception which must be explored in every given case individually.

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