NOTE 1:  Each of what follows are only little pieces of the complete puzzle, but you engage them one at a time.  Yet as you engage each piece, you bring the meaning to it that you already have from your present state of  life experiences.  Thus, even after reading the allegories/parables and accompanying interpretations, you may experience the illusion of "understanding" what each allegory or parable "really" means.   You cannot help but do this since that is how it is for each of us.  And you will "have an understanding" of each allegory and parable, but it will be incomplete.  To understand it more fully from the overall perspective of OT/MP you must have first reviewed all of the material on this site, i.e., before you can fully "understand" any of it, you must understand all of it.  This is the "curse of systems thinking."  Nor is your understanding complete and full even then.  The author continues to find that his own understanding deepens and changes as he encounters other information, and especially as he meditates on the illusions of his own "understanding."

As you engage the MP, you are building your own Mystical Paradigm and you will be revising it at each step along this path.  Meditate briefly on each allegory, metaphor and parable then on its interpretation. "Understand" them within the current constraints of your present C/consciousness.  Read, pause, meditate, and then move on.

NOTE 2: Allegories and parables that are also linked from the dialogues sections do not follow the same sequence intended for Pilgrims who follow the sequential reading of the parables and their interpretations before going to the dialogues.   Those who have come to any allegory or parable from the dialogues sections of the OT/MP should likewise always go to the interpretation that follows, and then return to the jump point from which they departed in the dialogue. Use the special link provided at the end of the interpretation.

The House of Three Rooms
This link will always take you back to the beginning of the parable/allegory/metaphor analyzed below

This story defines the illusory world of the ego (the I,) compared with the higher realms of Spiritual Consciousness.

"All the powers of Being are summed up and concentrated in the one word I.  All possibility lies in this one word, and from it issues forth everything that appears.  From the standpoint of the visible universe this I is man, and by reason of his divinity he makes and unmakes as he wills.  At work with the powers of Being, man is the transformer of all things.  In this lies his greatest strength and greatest weakness.  The ego itself is possessed of nothing; it is a mere ignorant child of innocence floating in the mind of Being, but through the door of its consciousness must be passed all the treasures of God." [Fillmore, 1953]

The first room represents the physical senses, which includes the perceptual systems by which data can be acquired from the material world outside the body. From this arises the emotional energy contributed as the body's feelings. This data is interpreted in order to assess its own physical status. OT/MP uses the Maslow hierarchy of needs as a definition of this status which will be developed in Dialogue 2, on agendas. Because the biological body has no useful intelligence of its own (except to run its machinery,) it cannot by itself transform the data it detects into relevant information.  It depends upon the activities of the Second room to interpret the data, and transform it into useful information so as to direct the body's subsequent actions.  But the ego structure is fiercely resistant to any mental activity that departs from its focus on serving its primal needs of security, maintenance, and the purely pleasurable stimulation of its own senses. [Note the relationship to S. Freud's "Id"]

The second room represents the ego mind as served by its slave, the intellect. This is the worldly intelligence of the body.  This room depends upon the existence of the physical components in the first room for its machinery to detect and process its subsistence and data.  The mind, under the fierce control of ego, acts to organize and direct the activities of the first room to maintain the integrity of both. However, the mind includes an innate link to the higher Spiritual realms through the third room. But this link typically atrophies and becomes dormant subsequent to birth.  It remains closed if it is not intentionally made open to receive input from the activity of the Third Room.  Instead, the intellect is vulnerable to becoming slave to the ego demands of the first room dwellers when its compensating relationship to the Third Room is disabled, anemic, not apparent, or distracted, such that the link cannot function effectively. [FYI: The General (Living) Systems Theory model of J.G. Miller provides a profound scientific model for the physical and structural processes of how every living system at every level of organizational complexity works.  Note the relationship to S. Freud's "ego."]

The Third Room represents the Spiritual Consciousness of the body.  The "Upper Room"is the Biblical metaphor for the location of the Third room or "Secret Place" in the Bible.  The dwellers of the two lower rooms cannot enter this room, but they cannot ignore its Presence even though its nature and justification for being there is entirely lost to them.  The second room dwellers have the possibility of intellectually engaging the Third Room dwellers in such a way as to benefit from its Spiritual powers. To do this, however, they must overcome the compelling urges and distractions constantly originating from the first room.  Spiritual power manifest as Wisdom and foresight in decision making, emotional tranquility, and confidence.  However, before the individual (Whole Person) can achieve these benefits, they are forced by the nature of their "house" to first control the constant ego demands of the first room dwellers, and integrate the distracting and often irrelevant intellectual process of the second room.

But the ego, driven by its innate fear of loss of control, instantly rises to oppose any threat to its sovereignty over the mind and intellect.  The Spiritual Pilgrim must quiet the mentally noisy ego process of their activities when attempting to cope with the demands of the first room. The second room intellect must allow the information in the Third Room to diffuse into the mind, i.e., it cannot be grasped, commanded, or rationally be orchestrated or resolved. In the next story, the infant grasps and struggles to retain her fading contact with the Spiritual Realms through her Third Room potential. But she is already dominated by the compelling demands of her freshly constructed first room (her body.) Her primal ego is already binding her by its powerful manifestation of primal fear. Fear expresses as hunger, discomfort, and abandonment (crushing vulnerability.) Then she become wholly vulnerable to the character, quality, and devotion of those human influences that will serve her during her maturation to adulthood.

Applications in "The World"
The allegory illustrates the certain "victory" of the lower consciousness over the higher unless there is sufficient Spiritual Consciousness to control and subdue the lower forces.  You will note that the dwellers in the upper rooms can look into the nature and activities of the lower rooms, but the reverse is not true.  Lower level dwellers cannot meaningfully observe the activities of the upper rooms. [Note: this is consistent with the Laws of General Systems Theory per "Ashby's Law" or "The Law of Requisite Variety".]  The point made by the first room dwellers entering the second room and destroying its substance can be understood through two examples:

Level of the individual: a person does not have the personal Consciousness and Spiritual character to adequately use the second room to deny the first room dwellers access is evident in a person succumbing to the destructive practices of drugs, alcohol or other habituation. Then there is a downward spiral such that at some point  their life is effectively destroyed, even to the point of premature death.
Level of the society:   the first room is populated by classes of people with the values of absent or low Spiritual Consciousness who invade the second room with its permission or non opposition. The make the second room population dependent upon their presence by taking over the menial and despised duties and obligations required in the second room.  They thus destroy the capacity of the second room to function at its natural level of of required intellectual consciousness.  Then develops an all consuming pathology with the effect the capacity of the room to function is destroyed which brings down the entire nation (house.)

Or, if your effort to serve these demands is blocked by external constraints of some kind, then your experience of this blockage manifests as various expressions of anger and rage, or its opposite in the form of clinical depression and ultimate immobilization.  In either case, without knowing why, the owner of his/her house is chronically unhappy and unfulfilled. [Some practical means for you to detect and unravel the nature of these feelings for yourself,  is provided in remarkably reader friendly detail by Zukav and Francis, 2001.] But without an applied effort through a Spiritual perspective, you cannot not find out why, even though you may earnestly search.  This is because you search in the wrong places. Even those who have every material blessing suffer from this malady, sometimes referred to as "divine discontent."  All persons instinctively miss and yearn to recover their lost access to their Sacred Self, their Spiritual Truth.

Since societies are extensions of the natures and values of their dominant leaders and their supporters, every society can also be defined and analyzed as a "House of Three Rooms."  An examination of history shows the evolution of C/consciousness manifesting as higher and higher expressions of Spiritual attainment in world societies.  Every society reaches such a state by the initial presence of Spiritually advanced individuals and groups that lead the way, sometimes at their peril and sacrifice. As imperfect as it still is, the United States of America was founded on the Mystical Principles being developed here [note,] and along with certain other nations, has until now, maintained its lead at the forefront of this Spiritual evolution in spite of its obvious failures, weaknesses, and current decline.

Indeed, our weaknesses can be found to be related to the absence of Spiritual Consciousness now growing among certain of our elements who wield dominant social and political influences in controlling our society. Successful civilizations have never been conquered by external forces.  They are conquered by their neglect of the Spiritual forces of their Third Room, and they then rot from within. They progressively revel in their ego's [i.e., the surrogate extension of the dominant coalitions ego values] pursuit of power, and in the pleasures and indulgences demanded by the society's first room values. The United States now stands on the threshold of its own moment of truth in that regard. [The books of the Bible's Old Testament that describe the stories of the kings and prophets. These document cycles of Spiritual strength (the Wisdom of the Prophets) followed by decline into Spiritual emptiness (the excesses of the Kings) then followed by their consequent material destruction.]

Notice how the electorate now ignores the activities of self serving corporate instigators, to permit increasing numbers of third world (room) dwellers to rush across our borders to do the dirty work we are no longer willing to do.  These are soldiers without guns, for now.  They are "sleepers" waiting to wrest control from the inevitable social destabilization now fermenting beneath the visible surface of our society.

Direct Relevance of this Parable to the Role of The United States with Iraq and North Korea:
The dilemma faced was by the Unites States and the UN (United Nations) in the winter of 2003 as an international demonstration of the House with Three Rooms.  The United States and other advanced (Spiritually informed) cultures in the United Nations struggle to decide what to do about terrorist threats emanating from international terrorists, Iraq, Iran, North Korea (and other third world despots.)

Some nations are immobilized against taking violent action by their higher Spiritual Consciousness, others by fear, others by inertia, and still others by self interest, i.e., fear of the possibilities that threaten their own goals and satisfactions.  But Life is R.A.W. The answer what to do is blunt.  After every effort has been made to reason, remediate and resolve the threats that come from these or any terrorist source, they must be swiftly and ruthlessly killed. [see defense of this assertion in the introductory dialogue.]

For a terrorist (or bully) consciousness, any form of appeasement is accepted as weakness to be exploited.  No matter how a terrorist regime is indulged to appease our fear of their threat to commit terrorist attacks, or our fear of the losses that might be required for such defensive actions, the terrorist attacks are inevitable.  The only questions to be answered are: at what place, what time, under what conditions, who decides, and for whose initiative and advantage will lethal force be applied.  Delay equals death to any such threatened system, whether a person or a nation, and regardless of the beauty and depth of their Spiritual status.

How OT/MP, a Spiritual Paradigm, can resolve this seemingly perverse contradiction is complex and subtle, but will be fully developed for those who follow OT/MP into the later dialogues. In February, 2003, the UN (exemplifying the second room,) was anchored in the morass of meaningless intellectual debate about Iraq.  Certain nations, e.g., France, was deeply committed to supporting Iraq with a history of significant prior support that was found to continue during and after the war in March/April 2003.  The terrorist regimes had warily watched the impasse and continued to gather weapons, nurture coalitions, fund sleeper agents, and refine their strategies in order to accumulate overwhelming strength in the hope that the "hawk nations (US, UK, Australia, Spain, and some others) would be defeated and immobilized by the UN.  The results that was the Iraqi war revealed Iraq did not possess the alleged numerous WMD (weapons of mass destruction.) It appeared, after the defeat of Iraq's military, that significant components and trace evidence for weapons of mass destruction had not been hidden by them in case of war.  In the summer of 2004, the United States seems immobilized in a bitterly fought occupation of Iraq.

Now, as will be argued in Dialogue 5, evil forces are now at work within the controlling political power structure of the United States that have led us into an intractable war by deception. These developments are symptomatic that our democracy has already been transformed into a corporocracy [kor poor ok' ra see.]  As this corporate success remains un-addressed by a deceived, distracted and immobilized citizenry, we are in increasing danger of the complete loss of our freedom.  Central to these debilitating conditions is the presence of the religious right and their obsessive focus on the so called wedge issues of abortion, homosexuality, and t-cell research.  The debate around two conservative nominations to the Supreme Court (Edwards and Mier) was framed by the Bush administration to focus on these issues which are irrelevant for the health of our Democracy.  Meanwhile both candidates were totaly pro corporate in view of what recrods were available.  

We are losing our freedoms not from an international terrorist conspiracy, but from our surrender to an un-elected, unregulated, unaccountable, and ego driven corporate autocracy.  We are seeing the beginnings of our nation's internal destruction from those corporate power mongers, those power obsessed second room dwellers who apply their ego intellects to release the destructive dwellers in our first room. They are being given unchallenged license to steal our national treasure, not only our fiscal resources, but the talent of our work force they steadily replace with third world talent.   This progress is because, in our Spiritual ignorance and sleep, we have immobilized our second room's link to the Spiritual resources of our Third room.   This claim applies regardless of any temporary success our nation may have with any international adventure.

The current debates about the economy are a diversion.  The issues kept before the public that are diversionary include:  terrorism, the economy, tax cuts, and so forth.  But the fundamental causes of all of these problems are our out of control corporations. Its not the economy, stupid!  Its the corporations, stupid!

Implications for Subsequent Material
P: The MP will develop the dynamics of each of the three rooms in subsequent sections.  The dynamics will be approached from different perspectives. [The statistically empowered reader will recognize an iterative stochastic process in the development of OT/MP.]  The discussions will include various guidance and antidotes that can empower you as an individual to develop your ability to detect, cope with, and control your own lower level (first room) ego demands. Then the MP can help you advance toward gaining the upper room's (Spiritual) level benefits.   Your mind (second room) is the mediator of this transition.

This information regarding the Spiritual dynamics of human systems will be especially relevant for you to maintain personal and family harmony, guiding your children, healing conflict where you find it, and positively affecting those work or institutional contacts with whom you have influence.  Finally, you and those you can influence, ought become sufficiently empowered to accurately assess what is really threatening our society, and what can (must) be done about it.

OT/MP asserts that our predatory capitalist society now revels entrapped in first and second room distractions. To the extent this condition cannot be remediated in time, our ultimate fate will be the same as described in "The House with Three Rooms."

The terrorist cultures of the world, third world immigrants, and those western and eastern societies that hope to benefit from the
demise of the United States of America are patiently gathering at our borders. As we indulge them, they rush in.

The following pattern of links is used throughout OT/MP's interpretations:

This link will always take you to the next allegory/parable/metaphor in the sequence you find on the Master Allegory page,
This link will always take you to the top of this page to use the links to other explanations on this page.
This link will always take you back to the previous parable/allegory/metaphor on the page of allegories and parables [not applicable for this first allegory.]
This link will always take you to the top of the Master Index Page or Site map (Table of Contents)
Only for those who arrive here from the dialogues linking to the parable or allegory being interpreted. This link will always return you to the jump point of your departure from the dialogue that brought you to this allegory/parable and its interpretation you have just completed reading.

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The Primal Dream of the Infant

Each of us has experienced some version of this primal event at the moment of our birth, but most of us have forgotten.  A few of us can retain some shattered memory through early childhood.  Children consciously retain some memory of prior lives. [Ref Dialogue 6, Karma & Reincarnation]  This precious link persists through early language development.  But when small children try to use their meager vocabulary to report these memories to their adults, these reports are dismissed as dreams, or the indulgence of childish fantasy. [Note] Those who do retain some tiny portion of this memory into adulthood soon learn to be quiet and keep that information to themselves, sometimes even feeling that they are somehow defective.  Some such persons become some of our true Spiritual leaders.

The allegory describes the experience of a human Soul making its transition to earth from the realms of Spirit. Then the soul is entrapped by the commanding sensate world of the flesh. The infant experiences the sense of abandonment which is a primal fear.  Although the Spiritual connection remains and cannot be broken, the consciousness of that connection is broken.  Thus the infant (each of us) begins an instinctive life long quest for recovery of our feared lost Spiritual link.  The "Primal Dream of the Infant" is an allegory descriptive of what is sometimes referred to as "The Fall" of man.

Main Ideas
The allegory describes how the total Spiritual Consciousness of the infant is reviewed in its completeness during birth, and then fades. (It will be reviewed again at death.) The purpose of every human life is to restore to consciousness our lost memory of that complete Spiritual Consciousness which is our only true home within our Spiritual source (GOD.)  To do this we must first reconstruct our lost memory of that sacred link in spite of the inhibiting force of our body's overwhelming senses.  There are three sources from which our earthly C/consciousness is built:

The physical body: the biological manifestation of our Spiritual core.  A scientist has said that, "our bodies are a 'print out' of our Consciousness." [Chopra, 1990]  The body creates our sense limited potential to engage and acquire information from only that portion of the cosmos that our senses permit us to perceive.  The physical quality of our brain and nervous system sets the potential for our type and level of mental intelligence. This material body is the home of the ego.
The ego mind (intellect): selectively acquires, stores, compiles, and constructs the meanings that define our state of mental consciousness [Kelly, 1955.]  But it does this almost entirely under the dominant control of our self serving ego.  While the body provides the "nature" dimensions that define the bio-physical structure of our intellect, the mind is then built in accordance with the "nurture" dimension of our consciousness, i.e., as we mature we fall under influences in the context of parents, peers, and community. The resulting consciousness is constrained and limited by the type, variety and quality of these life experiences.
The Soul: is the individuated "I Am" that never dies. It is the Spiritual essence of who we are. It is the infant prior to birth. It is the indestructible "I am" during and after the death of the body. It is the most lost part of our mental consciousness.  While we are trapped in our fleshy bodies, the power of the biological senses completely overwhelms the subtle intuitive experiences of this vital Spiritual connection.  The overwhelming presence of the force of our physical body, its dominate ego driven senses, and its blind slave, the intellect, is described as the infant's experience of its fading link to the Cosmic Whole.  The "still small voice" is the residual Spiritual Consciousness, that subtle unfailing link to our now hidden but unbreakable Wisdom connection with the WHOLE, with GOD.

We can only nurture and recover this lost memory through deep prayer and meditation.

[Note: the fugal sound elements of the Dream's demonstration can be comprehended by listening the the fugal section of the First Movement (Overture) to the Third Orchestral Suite by Sebastian Bach. The vocal portions can be represented in the conclusion of the Part 1, "Gloria"  portion of Bach's Mass In B Minor, the "Cum Sancto Spirito."  Also there is the Part 3, Sanctus portion of the Mass , and in Part 4, the Hosana in excelsis, and of course as a finale,  there is "The Heavens Extol the Glory of God," from Haydn's Creation Oratorio, and many others of Bach's chorale cantatas and fantasies.]

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Instead of following our ego guidance and crashing around in "the world," we must first discipline our mind and body in The Silence.  This empowers us to revive and recover a usable awareness of our Spiritual link. To serve us, this link must be systematically nurtured through ongoing disciplined prayer and meditation.  Many  people do not know how to meditate or pray, or why they should.  Some religious people routinely and faithfully pray without understanding the Mystical essence that actually empowers prayer.

OT/MP is being built to help each Pilgrim, you, to build your own personal Mystical Paradigm in order to understand where you are on your own Spiritual path. From that vantage point, you will better understand where our society and its institutions are now headed in the larger realm of Cosmic TRUTH.  Then, the dire consequences of a critical mass of our society to not quickly achieve this goal should also become apparent.

Applications in "The World"
One of the most primal bits of advise ever documented, and which has been offered repeatedly by a variety of sources, allegedly attributed to Socrates, is first found chiseled on the ancient temple of the Oracle at Delphi, "Know thy self."  To Know one's "self" is to recover the memory of our Spiritual link to the higher embracing realms of Truth. Only then can that initial fear of abandonment be forever removed. Techniques for doing that have been practiced for thousands of years before the current era.  It was embodied at the core of the Mystical Gnostic Christian practitioners in the first centuries of the current era.

"Knowing," or direct contact with the Spiritual Source of Consciousness, the Gnosis (sometimes spelled and pronounced Nous,) is the ultimate gift of the successful practice of meditation and prayer. It was Jesus' (and His immediate Apostles') Mastery of the Gnosis that empowered His ministry with its abundant demonstrations of Spiritual Power. That this same power is also accessible to those of us who seek to master its discipline is affirmed by Jesus' own words:

"Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these..." [John 14:12, NRSV]

First, there exists the primal PRINCIPLE i.e., "The WORD," [in John 1:1.] This defines the eternal verities, the TRUTH that IS the COSMOS, i.e. the primal  MIND OF GOD, the absolute GNOSIS. From within this constant Spiritual frame of reference (sometimes called the "eternal verities") are recovered the principles of mathematics, geometry, and science, i.e., biology, chemistry and physics.  These in turn are engineered to be made manifest in our experiences as the foundation structural patterns and processes of sounds and sights. These become your version of "The World" that your senses deliver to create your intellectual consciousness.
Within this foundation structure, your fear driven, ego managed, sensate consciousness is mapped by your worldly experiences from birth. You detect the levels of the spectrum of the earth's physical and biological systems that are accessible to interpretation in your mental consciousness through your ego's senses.  Against this territory of experiences, you construct your intellectual map you define and defend as "reality." This intellectual structure and the emotions and feelings assigned to it are directed by your ego agendas.
Then come the creations of humanity in the form of electro-bio-mechanical technologies that extend the capacities of each of our senses and functional capacities.  These increase in complexity, from the crude and primitive early forms of tools, to more complex forms of increasing subtly, elegance, sophistication, and power.
There concurrently arises increasingly sophisticated expressions of cultural humanity, the disciplined expressions of language, music and art that are served by writers, artists and musicians as they collectively reach to reconfirm their feared lost Spiritual link.

But we have lost our Spiritual frame of reference, our only Real connection to it all.  This creates the convincing but deceptive illusion that everything we experience is either outside of us or determined by it. Then we yield to the dominant (i.e., easily accessible) presence of these worldly (sense locked) systems and their cultural expressions.  We devote our lives to serving them. These all combine to further seduce our sensate (perceptual) consciousness into fear driven resistance or compliance.  From infancy on, the lure of the perceived external world drains away our energies and attention from our Spiritual Consciousness.  But it is only the Spiritual Realms that are at once our source, our present, and our destiny.  But the more we serve our ego's distracting and seductive sensate systems, the more difficulty we have in relating our selves to the Spiritual Truth of who we really are and what we ought be about.

Long before children reach their adolescence, they are deeply in bondage to their sensate reality. Adolescence becomes a veritable celebration of this bondage. Therefore, the more difficulty one experiences in coping with the Truth of life, the more one's life become a mess.  The "tar baby" image of Uncle Remus is a near perfect analogy.  The more we crash around in our illusions, the more we punch and pull on these worldly illusions, the more we become stuck, more focused on and trapped in "the world" we become.  The metaphysical Principle that states this is simple:

What you give attention to sticks to you, is empowered, and manifests ever more vigorously in proportion to the energy one brings to it. Unforgiveness is a fatal trap that consumes the angry bitter person until they die or catch on. Often, death catches them still practicing unforgiveness as a way of life. There is no future in unforgiveness, nor in bitter resentment about felt injustices, whether real or imagined.  To heal our world, a critical mass of the public must first alter their intellectual consciousness to permit forgiveness and Love to flourish.  Alas, the intellect can not manage this profound readjustment.  Each person must Spiritually awaken first.

Choose wisely where you send your energy, your thoughts, your chi [life energy]. The sum total consciousness of those who are crashing around chasing their illusions creates our collective social reality.  But the more you know about the Spiritual grounding of your own being and these human systems, the more effectively and persistently you can resist the demanding call of your ego owned intellect, your senses, and sense limited logic.   The more you gain insight into the Spiritual causes of the problems occurring in our world today, the more empowered you become to make a positive difference for yourself, your loved ones, and for our society.

Implications for Subsequent Material
OT/MP will progressively develop each dimension of the infant's experiences in the world for you to relate the implications to yourself.  Each stage of development will steadily enrich the scope and flexibility of your C/consciousness to relate to and empower your Spiritual Truth. The following topics will be addressed, how:

the five physical senses of the body seduce us and how to overcome them (Dialogue 2, agendas)
our sensate decision making capacities are corrupted and limited by our biological priorities and how to cope. Our minds filter the information acquired by the five senses, thus setting limits. But through Spiritual practices, we can transcend those sensate limits. (sensate = based on our five physical sense's, our detector structures: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste)
our ability to communicate is inextricably linked to, defined by, and limited by our sensate experiences and the emotions they create.  The MP will show you how and why certain communication techniques can minimize or defeat the destructive potential of those limits. (Dialogue 3, communication)
and why there is considerable variety in our capacity to detect and process the complexity of sensate communication HIP, (Human Information Processing;) the destructive consequences of low information processing capacity is shown, and you are guided how to respect and transcend those limits. (Dialogue 4, HIP)

Those who have been abused then abuse others in turn.  The cycle of family conflict and spouse and child abuse across generations of families is well documented. The history of childhood as one of chronic abuse in which the truly loved and respected child is a rare exception in western and most cultures (de Mause, 1974.) The history of humanity is a continuous and relentlessly sad story of abuses of Love, and the evil fallout that comes from it.  OT/MP offers you ways to spare yourself and your L/loved ones from becoming one more victim to one more cycle of this tragic pattern of abuse and its sad consequences.

CLUES TO THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The Hidden Treasures

The parable illustrates a Spiritual paradox.  This paradox can only be transcended by Spiritual, not intellectual insight.
Main Ideas:

To be saved from the ego's destructive materialistic obsessions, we must attain Spiritual awakening. But this awakening is obstructed by the very ego and its obsessions we need to defeat.  Because Spiritual insight offers ultimate power over the material world, access to such Spiritual power must be restricted only to those proved trustworthy. Therefore this Truth is covered over and masked by our flesh bound earthly senses and the self serving ego values they nourish. These Truths are inaccessible to mental consciousness no matter how brilliant the mind. In this manner, human beings who serve primal (first room, lower level) needs could not even imagine its existence of higher rooms (mansions) of Consciousness, let alone its location.  Their intellect alone is incapable of recalling this Spiritual link.  To release their Spiritual empowerment, an individual must first submit to, and master, the fierce discipline required for simultaneous control of the senses, emotions and intellect. Much of mythology is devoted to this theme of a journey, e.g., the mythical journey of Odysseus  [Homer, The Iliad and the Odyssey, and the Myth of King Arthur.]

Only by the proof of a highly developed Spiritual capacity to Love, as evident from a person's visible devotion to the needs of others, and by disciplining their ego self, could a human Soul receive the full power of Spiritual Consciousness and thus become an Adept or Avatar.  Only then can they discern completely the Spiritual Truth hiding within their hearts. But by then its power and blessings, as separate from intellectual illusion, could be trusted with such a person. The Adept will use it wisely and with Love.  Persistence in pursuit of Spiritual Truth with its awakening is the key to the full treasure house of the Super Consciousness. [Note: the terms Super Consciousness and Supra Consciousness are used interchangeably in OT/MP.] Only through the excruciating discipline of an intentionally developed Spiritual Consciousness can the GOD Presence within an individual find the power to approach a still higher Spiritual evolution and unfoldment.  The allegory of the Buddhist Saint, Milarepa, will demonstrate the nature of such an ordeal. [Dialogue 6]

Have you ever held the thought, even briefly, that you wish you had the resources to hurt someone for what they did to you, even slightly?  Have you ever wished even for a second, that you would like to cause another person to know themselves how much they have hurt you?  These thoughts, no matter how brief or subtle, disqualify you from receiving the key to Spiritual awakening.

The Key could be given unconditionally only after the collective Consciousness of humanity reached such a state where every human life would acquire sufficient Wisdom to be trusted to KNOW that the only worthy power and glory was the capacity for the giving and receiving of Love. This goal demands the selfless devotion and surrender of each life to achieve their bliss through mastery of the one pointed discipline.  The one pointed discipline creates "The Silence," achieved through deep prayer and meditations. By achieving this, what the Buddhists call Satori (one pointed focus,) that most sacred moment of Enlightenment is created.  Then Bliss (Samadhi) occurs where the observer, the observed, and the process of observing, become ONE. Only then will the result of that Samadhi safely yield its SECRET.

Until then, the Soul of each human is born ensnared in its physical sheath of flesh. It is confined within its overwhelming sense dominated illusions of "reality." It is condemned to remain outside of Spiritual Consciousness and be diverted to persistently seek and eat hungrily of the illusory Tree of Intellectual Knowledge, baal, the idol of materialism which is offered by the Tempter (Maya, in eastern culture, or Eve, in western culture.)  Though one looks, one does not see. Though one listens, one cannot directly hear. [Hence Jesus' frequent admonition: "Those with ears, let them hear."]  Though one suffers, one cannot directly understand its meaning. One's only hope lies solely in at last detecting the faint pulse of innate Spiritual enlightenment hidden within each beating heart. That Presence manifests as the still small voice crying out from the wilderness of sensate confusion, to be released and nourished as an eternal appeal and quest for Love.

Applications in "The World"
The world today, and especially The United States of America, is at the nadir (lowest point) of its materialistic reveling. Although there are many individuals and groups who invest themselves in "save the earth" kinds of healing activities, they too are bound by the intellectual limits of their best understanding. Worse, those who own the power in society, the power to organize, afford, and implement healing change, do not understand how or why it is Spiritually in their interest to do so. They only judge by worldly benefits which they accept as the pay off for their efforts. Mistakenly they serve materialist rules and the limits they impose.

They cannot relate how their materialist focus affects their personal power base, their ego defined "bottom line," or their predatory organizational mission. They obsess over their growth potential for protecting and obtaining more power and control. They invest in their obsessive devotion to acquiring, exploiting, and protecting their personal, political and institutional power. Alas, there is no achievable intellectual solution even to the dilemmas that many of us already perceive.  There must first be a wide spread Spiritual (not religious) awakening.

Implications for Subsequent Material
Notice the role this Spiritual dilemma places upon the quality of our social and institutional life.  There will be sections that present the nature of consciousness which can be a friend or foe to Spiritual awakening depending upon your understanding of it.  There will be sections on how the sensate processes of the body act to corrupt one's capacity to even detect the critical portion of Reality, that Reality that actually affects your life.  Remember the teachings of this allegory as you become more acquainted with the traps of the senses and how to overcome them.  The ultimate goal is for you to first align yourself with Spiritual Truth in such away that you are then empowered to become a blessing to yourself, to others, and the world.

"Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the Gentiles [thoughts devoted to, and trapped in the ego's intellect (MBD, page 228)] who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." [Mat 6:31-32 NRSV; brackets added]

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The Man Who Stomped His Shadow

The story is related to the primal Faust Legend (Goethe) in which a man agrees to sell his soul to Satan in exchange for unlimited worldly power.  This parable illustrates the subtly by which a similar deal can be made.  Instead of accepting an overt proposition from Dr. Faust, who was actually Satan appearing in disguise (Mephistopheles,) the deal is made in this parable by default.  Simply by accepting the shadow (effect of Satan) as real, and choosing to cope with it (i.e., invest in worldly success,) the man gives up his Spiritual work to mis-spend his sacred energies. He attempts to control and dominate worldly matters (cope with the effects of the shadow.) His chosen investment in material success costs him his life's opportunity for Spiritual growth during this earth side cycle of his Spiritual work.

Main Ideas
Beginning with the "Primal Dream" and the infant's sense of abandonment, this parable illustrates the practical consequences of failing to retain or restore some level of memory of one's innate Spiritual link. The darkness the man experiences is the effect of the veil of flesh that "covers" his Spiritual work from which he is removed by birth to the earth.  The more he acts to transcend the darkness by material investments in worldly distractions, (i.e., work that serves the ego self,) the greater the appearance of darkness, the greater the fear, the more frantic the coping.  The ideal work is Spiritual work which when done with joy is "Love made visible"  [Gibran,]  and is therefore liberating. The darkness is the effect associated with working against Spiritual Law (serving only the ego for material gain.)  The ultimate spiritual death is his surrender to anger, violence and immobilizing depression (coma.)  At death, the dominance of the fleshy senses are removed, i.e., the man can once again "turn to the light."  At the end of his life he at last recalls the Spiritual Truth of his Being, but too late in that earth life for him to acquire the required discipline, control his ego, and diffuse the effects of his sensate shadow on earth.

Applications in "The World"
The parable raises the question about how do we invest our life.  Refusal to work at Spiritually relevant tasks yields a decent into Spiritual and emotional emptiness and ultimate depravity.  Self-serving ego oriented work accelerates a decent into alienation and anomie. Work that acts to harm others promotes a precipitous fall into the Spiritual abyss. But all work through acts that serve others promotes ongoing Spiritual upliftment.   Work that directly promotes emotional health and the Spiritual development of others promotes great Spiritual benefits for the giver. "As you give so do you also receive."  [this concept is fully developed under the topics of Karma and Reincarnation (Dialogue 6)]

Implications for Subsequent Material
Use the information found in subsequent Dialogues [2-4] about the Three Traps of Mind to recognize your version of "the darkness."  What form does the "darkness" take as it manifests in your life.  Ask yourself where you seek your greatest joy, and where do you invest your greatest energy?  How do you Really feel about the results of your effort?

The outworking of the Faust Legend will be seen again when we talk directly about power (dialogue 5) as it currently manifests in western predatory capitalism.  In the sections on the Three Traps of the Mind, notice the dynamics of how self-serving work and activities in the shadow functions. Examine the negative consequences that might be accumulating in your life's experiences, in your loved one's experiences, in our society, in the world.  Examine the positive alternatives that might have been, or may be, or can become accessible to you.

The restoration of the man to the realms of Spirit after failing his "darkness test," and the dynamics of Spiritual growth, will be revisited regarding cycles of birth, death, and rebirth in the dialogue on Karma and Reincarnation.

The Tree that Forgot its Roots

This parable presents how tragedy can befall a life spent outside of its natural (GOD ordained) plan, i.e. doing it the hard way, or as the late Frank Sanatra happily exclaimed in song, "I did it my way!"

Main Ideas
The acorn is ambitious to attain a goal that is beyond its natural destiny. When ambition leads a Soul beyond its natural range of Spiritual advancement, then:

much suffering and remorse becomes one's destiny.  But
the Soul ultimately recognizes its dilemma from a much enhanced Spiritual perspective of broad and substantial scope

The trick is to know whether the call of a distant allure is a Spiritually valid destiny or an ego trap. Otherwise it may be the more likely the sirens [satanic call of seductive temptation] that only leads to the ego's ultimate punishment. When a person finally recognizes an unattainable illusion after it is too late to recover from disaster, then that realization can become transformed into the potential for expanded Spiritual Consciousness. Utter failure as defined by the ego may actually become Spiritual Transcendence as defined by the Soul.

Implications for Subsequent Material
The MP will present information about the dynamics of how we lose our Spiritual path when we are unable to defeat the illusions created by the ego's control of the sensate mind.  Also, guidance will become apparent as to what is required to remain on the Spiritual path but still enjoy the sensate benefits of earthly life.  These Principles will be shown to apply not only to you as an individual, but through the material and social means by which many individuals act to extend personal power, e.g., through technology, and especially through controlling the behaviors of other individuals, groups and organizations.

The Tree of Awakened Consciousness

The parable is complimentary with the preceding parable.  The prior parable illustrated an active and overt effort to transcend the material status quo.  The current example exemplifies the passive manner in which Spiritual awakening can occur by having it forced on one's self.  Such a fate represents the condition that many people must typically experience before they can gain their first glimpse of their Spiritual potential.

Main Ideas
The tree experiences some kind of intimate upheaval or devastation.  Much of its familiar landscape is destroyed.  The tree is seriously damaged but survives.  In human terms the "landscape" is the ecology of a person's intellectual, emotional, and social system memberships on which the satisfaction of their ego depends. This landscape creates the comfortable illusion of structural regularity and predictability.  Instead of an atmospheric storm that the tree experiences, the human storm is some kind of fierce emotional, personal, or social upheaval.  As examples, It can be experienced as:

precipitous loss of one's health, either temporary or permanently, or
being forced to become a caregiver to an elder or dependent person
birth of a disabled or mentally or emotionally defective child
loss of a beloved child by an abduction or sudden death.
suddenly being fired from one's livelihood without having an immediate option to turn to (especially after years of loyal service.)
a precipitous divorce or other emotional abandonment by a loved one.
major emotional "ambush" or betrayal by a trusted spouse, family member, supervisor, or trusted colleague(s), friend, group or social system
devastating and permanent loss of valuable stock, savings, annuity, or property, with your capacity to cope denied, or foreclosed
devastating public humiliation, or "loss of face," or other gross assault on the ego
war, insurrection, or social revolution which induces large scale social upheaval, instability, violence or disruption.

Applications in "The World"
In response to any of the above shocks, typically, the person's immediate experience is that of being emotionally devastated and numb.  All the familiar emotional references are altered, gone or ruined.  Strong internal pressures to accommodate to the shock are experienced but fail to justify or explain the devastation in logical and acceptable terms.  Then a sense of betrayal, confusion and anger is often present. [see Kubler-Ross, stages of depression] Sometimes one becomes fixated at one of the stages. This inner rage has led to the literal or symbolic murder of the one or ones held to be the perpetrator(s), or a convenient scapegoat person(s) in some cases. Alternately, the assault may then descend into profound clinical depression, and in some cases, suicide.  These kinds of responses even in their milder  forms inevitably fails to produce an accommodation to the insult and may even worsen conditions.

But as in the example of the tree, after the "storm" there is a brief clarity that exposes the deeper emotional and Spiritual structure within which the person and the experience is embedded. The important challenge for the victim (e.g., you) of any such emotional or physical assault is to accept, retain, and process that brief passing moment of Spiritual clarity.  But to let it go, and not follow it through by acceptance, contemplation and meditation, or to fail to reconfigure your consciousness to embrace a larger frame of reference, you loose that moment of opportunity. In such challenges, your capacity and will to offer or accept forgiveness is an indicator of one's Spiritual status.  Forgiveness that can heal such assaults is only achieved through one's capacity of Spiritual Consciousness.

Where you have been seriously harmed by the actions of another (like the tree experiencing the violence of the storm,) this brief moment allows for you to make an empowering Conscious act of forgiveness. That Spiritual action releases you from victim status, and from further bondage to the event or those you hold responsible. True forgiveness, or other Spiritual investment, inspires and energizes your continuing Spiritual growth.

As will be fully developed in Dialogue 6, forgiveness does not alter the perpetrator's debt to Karma (Spiritual Justice.) A Karmic destiny is always owned by any person or group who has harmed you or a loved one. But your power to forgive does release you from ongoing bondage to the person(s) or event. Failing to capture that moment of Spiritual Truth condemns you to persist in continuing bondage, continually investing your energies in futile service to the residual hurt and numbness with corresponding levels of chronic incapacitation. Only by finding another route to Spiritual awakening can you recognize and practice the power of forgiveness, whether for yourself, or for others.

Implications for Subsequent Material
When you begin the technical study of C/consciousness in Dialogue 1, the use of the Necker Cube will allow you to experience a small scale, precipitous alteration of your consciousness. Once demonstrated, you will be able to grasp the possibility and actuality of a larger, different, more complex, and more embracing frames for the alteration of C/consciousness. Such alterations can occur on a small or grand scale in your life's experiences. Spiritual health will be found to be a key to one's ability to successfully recover and even benefit Spiritually from such physical and emotional assaults.  You may already recognize aspects of your life that are represented by "The Tree of Awakened Consciousness"

Plato's The Meno

In the discussion, Plato describes Socrates' dialogue with his friend Meno about a slave boy who serves his friend.  The boy has had no  training in mathematics other than the most rudimentary numbering skills, but has been guided by Socrates asking questions so that the slave boy accomplished the solution of a complex problem in geometry.  In the course of this guidance, the slave boy responded with answers to questions of complex geometric reasoning which he could not have known from any prior training. The dialogue with Meno continues with reference to the slave boy's demonstration.

Main Ideas
The Meno dialogue illustrates and defends an argument containing the following principles:

ideas about the nature of Reality (embedded in TRUTH) are innate within each person.
we are born with them, but they remain dormant (out of sensate consciousness) if not challenged and brought out.
the presence of these ideas after their emergence defines the functional state of our overall Holistic C/consciousness.  Ideas about universal principles remain hidden until our C/consciousness has unfolded enough to release them. The principles rise to consciousness in the presence of the appropriate challenge.  Then they further add to and enhance (unfold) our Holistic state of C/consciousness.
the process can be enhanced and accelerated by systematic challenges, i.e.,  a systematic dialogue with those of greater C/consciousness. Or, C/consciousness unfolds when a person is forced to deal with a pattern of unexpected events in their life as these interact with the intellectual structure of the individual.  Difference in the nature of C/consciousness develop based on the nature of available information and emotional influences arising from experience.

Applications in "The World"
The Spiritual Consciousness (link to the Suprasystem of Spiritual intelligence and information) that underlies Plato's demonstration of innate knowledge has nourished the Principles of Theosophy and New Thought metaphysics and the central thesis of OT/MP.  The dynamics of intuition can be understood through understanding the dynamics of  the concept of "Spiritual Consciousness." The Spiritual transcends the limits of the intellect. Information can be acquired from these Spiritual Realms that exist beyond the limits of one's physical and mental consciousness. But they can only be reached through a discipline of stilling the senate activities of the body and mind.  ["Be still and know that I am God." Psalm 40:10]  When this transcendence occurs spontaneously, this capability is sometimes referred to as insight, or intuition.  It is sometimes called the Sixth Sense, and has been symbolically represented in Mystical art as a "third eye" located in the forehead. Each of us has this innate capacity at some level. For example, without knowing why, you can "instinctively" trust or distrust someone, or a situation.  The source of this intuitive feeling comes from your innate capacity to resonate within the larger Spiritual Truth. It is a skill that can be developed.

Implications for Subsequent Material
As Spiritual Consciousness is nurtured, there is a progressive increase in your capacity to recognizes intuitive information from the larger Spiritual Realms of Truth.  It becomes an essential skill when decisions must be made without an adequate intellectual frame of reference for all of the factors affecting a situation, e.g., overcoming the challenges facing western civilization today.  The importance of being able to willfully obtain Spiritual guidance becomes more meaningful when you visit the limitations constantly being imposed by the ego driven three traps of mind.

The Beggar, the Jewel and the Treasure Chest

This parable contain basic principles that are also the foundation for many other stories.  This story serves as a demonstration of the Truths underlying the following Spiritual guidance:

Main Ideas
The story is based upon events that occur in the world of humanity but which have a hidden message that can only be read (know fully) by those who have access to the Spiritual code.  Here is what the hidden Spiritual story tells:

the Jewel is emblematic of insight to Spiritual Truth (to know fully)
the "box" is a mundane expression of "the world" (glass or mirror through which we see dimly) that contains and hides the Jewel, i.e., obscures direct access to Spiritual Truth
the "beggar and his rags" appears as an opportunity to receive Spiritual Truth but as perceived by our physical senses.  But the beggar's visible status, as experienced by the guards (our senses and intellect,) is defined by his being embedded in rags, i.e., the worst carnal expressions of "the world."  Spiritual Truth is not functionally useful if it remains covered in its worldly box and advocated by one disguised in rags (advocating from an intellectual posture.)
many such opportunities for Spiritual growth appear to us as beggars (negative or "worthless" experiences.)  When we reject them we are denied access to the Spiritual truths they could provide us had we extended them Spiritual respect and attention. Each of us a Spiritual Being regardless of social status. Your Spiritual Truth (innate Perfection) is a legacy of GOD, but your social status is a contrivance of the world.
the "guards" are the reactive defensive actions of our senses (and the Spiritually unilluminated decisions that follow from them.) These unhelpful or even destructive actions force us to remain locked in our world of ego and its mental illusions (those in the dark glass or mirror.) They deny us direct access to know fully the contents of the box which is Spiritual Truth.
the "Princess" is a daughter of the king.  Metaphysically, the king represents the established and dominant worldly thoughts, values, concepts, and ideas which are defined and offered as secular truth. These ideas establish our worldly values within worldly limits. In metaphysical terms, "daughter" represents fresh and accommodating thoughts which descend from the king, but which are flexible responsive to Principles still connected to Spiritual Truth.  These emergent thoughts form worldly truths that are are more likely to be open and responsive to innovative and intuitive challenges to the intellectual status quo. Because they originate in the Spiritual Realms beyond the senses, they have the potential to transcend the sense locked status quo (ego) inherited from the king. In that way, emergent "daughter thoughts" can permit social movement toward a larger Spiritual Reality and its benefits.
the king's death (old man/woman) symbolizes the removal of the older, inhibiting ego consciousness and its intellectual limits. This removal empowers an increase in a higher Consciousness (Spiritual enlightenment) owned by the kings descendants, the Princess (new man/woman.) These survivors can expand and enhance the Spiritual dimensions of the realm (the full scope of our awareness.)
the new queen's selection of her prince and advisors exemplifies the amplified benefits that follow decisions made by those who support her with Spiritually illuminated authority (i.e., those who can see and relate to the Spiritual Jewel.)  Their power is derived from the valid Spiritual authority of the new queen. (Consider the Spiritual status of the current groups that now govern the United States.)
after the death of the queen, the Jewel (her Spiritual Truth/Character) can neither be inherited by nor bestowed upon her successor. The qualities of Spirituality must be recognized, claimed and developed independently by each individual on their own initiative as did the queen as a princess in accepting the beggar and his gift.

Applications in "The World"
There are occasions when individuals or causes that are messengers of Spiritual truth are not compatible with the dominant worldly values, i.e., their presence and possibilities are opposed by the ego's of the controlling power brokers.  They may then be sabotaged or covered over by aspects of worldly negativity.  Such Spiritually grounded causes are then resisted by the custodians of the status quo (guards.)  Thus we find in history that Spiritual advocates are sometimes rejected, punished, or even killed. Examples today include:

rejecting a qualified applicant, or isolating, denigrating or sabotaging the work of a person (or group) because they are not seen as a "jewel," as defined by the dominant ego serving authorities, i.e., not being of the "correct" race, sex, ethnic group, academic institution, fraternity, sorority, religion, age, physical specimen, etc.
persecuting women in England and the United States up through the first decades of the 20th Century because they wanted to vote, actions taken on a premise that such votes were of no social value (i.e., no "Jewel" there.)

Implications for Subsequent Material
The three traps of C/consciousness (agendas, communication, HIP competence) that are presented in the following sections will illustrate a variety of ways that the principles of this parable are worked out in the world. This is because our ego senses (that keep our Consciousness trapped in the ugly box) act to mask both the jewels of opportunity and the pitfalls of real danger. However, we are actually placed inside the biological box of our five major senses.

Because they are limited by design to only look outward into the world, we are unable to detect and react correctly to the True Spiritual Reality (Jewel) within us.  Around this Jewel we have created our bodies in which we live and move and have our being.  The Spiritual Jewel within each of us is masked from our awareness by the "ugly box," our sheath of flesh with its primal ego and physical senses.  Until we take action to awaken ourselves to Spiritual Truth (to be born again,) our sheath of  flesh serves as a destructive filter which continues to obscure our innate capacity to perceive and benefit from the inner Presence of our Spiritual Truth.

Following are the mechanisms that create a failed Consciousness that will be presented in detail as dialogues 2, 3, and 4:

Dialogue 2, the first overlay on C/consciousness, is our agendas (the physical body and its senses, or first room of the house with three rooms.)  These create "the box" which are the major filters that corrupt our awareness of the larger Spiritual Reality in which we are actually embedded.  The senses act to filter Reality in ways that fit our biological and emotional convenience defined by our ego, but which masks or distorts the underlying Reality upon which our ultimate safety and satisfaction are actually dependent.
Dialogue 3, the second overlay, communication (the intellect or mind, the second room in the house of three rooms,) will show how our language and symbols become associated with raw ego emotions arising from direct and consistent links with our agendas. Communication meaning is derived from the nature of consistent pleasurable, threatening or traumatic emotional experiences within an illusory reality.  From this foundation, all subsequent decisions and behaviors are evaluated and directed. Any perversion of language alters the meanings grounded in direct experience of the communicator. It is corrupted because it is filtered through and interpreted by the ego driven intellect of the receiver.  This trap makes it impossible to speak accurately about both the nature of the "box" and its contents. This is because whatever is spoken by a sender is never heard by a receiver in a way that can give it the identical meaning.  (This is demonstrated in Dialogue 3 on Communication.)   Most of the time this discrepancy is innocuous.  But sometimes the result is disastrous.  Nor can the victims of such communication disaster recognize the Truth of what actually transpired.  Then the blame game begins.  Each side of the dispute (in ignorance of the Spiritual Principles at issue) earnestly believe that only they have the true reality about which they have communicated, and their opponent is either a fool or a knave.
Dialogue 4, the third overlay, HIP (Human Information Processing competence) i.e., the mind's capacity to detect process perceptual and intellectual complexity.  This capacity can link the dynamics of the first and second rooms and create the potential to perceive the presence of the third room in our house with three rooms.  Understanding the dynamics of HIP will show how limits to our learned ability to process information complexity normally makes it difficult or impossible for us to fully and correctly detect complex structures and processes.  Then we can not evaluate their significance for our best interests.  These HIP deficits compromise our capacity to unfold Spiritual Consciousness.  With highly developed HIP competence, our intellect can become aware of the Presence of the Third Room, or a Spiritual link to the larger Spiritual Realms.  But this is neither an easy or certain achievement because the ego immediately rises to cast doubt at the first sign of such awakening. An awakened Spiritual Consciousness informs, inspires, and empowers our highest HIP potential. Such potential empowers us to defeat the defensive ego and its demands and illusions.  Therefore, heightened HIP capacities are required to inspire your energies to be directed toward the disciplines associated with an actual Spiritual awakening.
note that the Third Room (where our Sacred Jewel is securely maintained) cannot be directly reached by any of your five biological senses, nor directly perceived by the biological senses of others. Thus the innate potential for you to access your Third Room is blocked by your ego managed senses and intellect until they are subdued as you develop the essential Spiritual discipline of contemplation, meditation and prayer.

First allegory associated with the first ego overlay on Consciousness, the topic of agendas