Waking Down Glossary
Terms and concepts commonly used in the Waking Down in Mutuality process.
Waking Down is done in Mutuality with the larger community, so that actual comprehension of it is only possible in that context.
It is by nature an experiential teaching and it is not something that can be understood simply by learning the terms associated with the process. We suggest that you use the definitions given below as starting points for explorations in mutuality with others in the process. We especially encourage you to ask WDM teachers about their own personal experience of what you read here. In this way they can pass on to you what is in essence their unique oral commentary, one which eludes the written word and can put flesh on the dry bones of concepts. This is at heart a teaching conveyed in relationship.
With that said here are some basic definitions:
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OnlynessThe seamlessness of Consciousness plus phenomena., especially as it applies to our fullest sense of self (identity) and our fundamental non-separateness from others and all phenomena (relatedness).Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
The dynamic current of unmanifest ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth). expressing itself into, as, and through our human bodies, feelings, phenomena, and all experience.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
A process of being sensitive to our effects upon one another even when there has been no conscious intent of harm. Coconut yoga means being willing to listen to reports of injury resulting from our words or actions and take responsibility for making amends. We “allow our forehead to fall to the floor like a coconut falling to the beach, with a loud thud.” In other words, we bow down and make a sincere apology.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
The infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second BirthA life transition in which there is a permanent and fundamental shift of your sense of what you are. The center of awareness shifts from head (mind) to the heart (feeling) where it fuses into feeling-union with the body/mind, becoming self-aware and experiencing its existential nature as the same in essence with all that is.
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life. (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second BirthA life transition in which there is a permanent and fundamental shift of your sense of what you are. The center of awareness shifts from head (mind) to the heart (feeling) where it fuses into feeling-union with the body/mind, becoming self-aware and experiencing its existential nature as the same in essence with all that is.
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life.).Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life. (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second BirthA life transition in which there is a permanent and fundamental shift of your sense of what you are. The center of awareness shifts from head (mind) to the heart (feeling) where it fuses into feeling-union with the body/mind, becoming self-aware and experiencing its existential nature as the same in essence with all that is.
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life.).Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
A fundamental split at the core of one’s sense of self that is experienced as existential angst or feelings of confusion, separateness, and insufficiency. It happens (innocently) because we are both finite, limited human beings AND infinite ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth)., occurring in a paradox of simultaneity that cannot begin to be fully felt and lived until the Second BirthA life transition in which there is a permanent and fundamental shift of your sense of what you are. The center of awareness shifts from head (mind) to the heart (feeling) where it fuses into feeling-union with the body/mind, becoming self-aware and experiencing its existential nature as the same in essence with all that is.
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life..Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life..Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
The exploration, ever deepening recognition and claiming of your nature as your own unique bodily human life. Embracing and becoming the messy, juicy, delightful, uncomfortable, joyful and sorrowful mystery of this incarnate life. Investigating emotional broken zones to free up trapped energy and attention and thereby become fully alive and freely self-expressed. Ultimately falling into, and living as, the Core WoundA fundamental split at the core of one’s sense of self that is experienced as existential angst or feelings of confusion, separateness, and insufficiency. It happens (innocently) because we are both finite, limited human beings AND infinite Consciousness, occurring in a paradox of simultaneity that cannot begin to be fully felt and lived until the Second Birth., which is the paradox of simultaneity: both as freedom and limits.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
The subtle psychic current that connects and enlivens everything in the field of manifest reality, sometimes experienced as luminous presence.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
While similar to conditioned patterns of thinking and behavior, governing sentimentalities are distinguished by being more like “core mood states” that we became habituated to early in life. While apparently unpleasant, these mood states have a fundamental familiarity that can be subtly comforting, and we often feel “at home” or “like myself” when experiencing them. We may subconsciously set up experiences in our life in order to precipitate these core mood states for that reason.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
Saying “yes” to our experience, regardless of whether it fits any pictures of what is “spiritual” or “desirable.” Not just a passive acceptance or resignation, greenlighting is a radical acceptance of whatever is currently arising in order to bring it fully into conscious awareness where it can be integrated and dynamically transformed. This leads, over time, to ever-greater degrees of freedom and trust.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
It is the historic human attitude of distrust of life, driven by the feeling that “it’s not okay yet” and “it’s not enough.”
It is our tendency to try to conquer the life of limits (improving life and self) or to try to leave the life of limits (transcending life and self). Contracting feeling and attention from our actual bodily experience (disassociating) we live in our heads and superimpose formulas on ourselves to overcome the limits we perceive. There is nothing to do about the Hypermasculine tendency other than to notice it as we see it arise, GreenlightingSaying “yes” to our experience, regardless of whether it fits any pictures of what is “spiritual” or “desirable.” Not just a passive acceptance or resignation, greenlighting is a radical acceptance of whatever is currently arising in order to bring it fully into conscious awareness where it can be integrated and dynamically transformed. This leads, over time, to ever-greater degrees of freedom and trust. it and being with it as it is. Trying to fix it would only be another version of the Hypermasculine tendency itself. The Hypermasculine is our way of avoiding the Core WoundA fundamental split at the core of one’s sense of self that is experienced as existential angst or feelings of confusion, separateness, and insufficiency. It happens (innocently) because we are both finite, limited human beings AND infinite Consciousness, occurring in a paradox of simultaneity that cannot begin to be fully felt and lived until the Second Birth. and becoming conscious of it and conscious as it. The RotThe experience and stage at which we become awakened to the fact that our old ways of dealing with things is no longer working. The Rot is the unwilled way that the hypermasculine unravels. We essentially rot out of the hypermasculine tendency into the Core Wound until it becomes conscious as the paradox resulting in the Second Birth. is the unwilled way that the Hypermasculine unravels.
Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4The exploration, ever deepening recognition and claiming of your nature in relationship with others, in this world of others. Teachers are available and vulnerably revealing of their humanness so there is a container for deep love and trust to grow. Mutuality encourages vulnerable self-expression: daring to speak our truth, even when it might be unpopular. It also involves holding of others in respect: profound, conscious listening and reflecting. Recognition and calling forth of the divinity in one another, as well as interactions that bring us into encounters with our old patterns further integrates both the WakingThe exploration, ever deepening recognition and claiming of your own nature as Consciousness which is free of limits, yet in intimate relationship to them. WDM is a path of awakening, first and foremost, but our form of awakening does not imply or require perfection or extensive purification. It is a clarification of our Conscious nature that paves the way for the recognition of the underlying unity of that formless Consciousness. The infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth). with all lived existence which is known as “Onlyness”. In this form of embodied awakening your sense of identity shifts from exclusive identification with your separate finite, human body/mind to an expanded identity as both infinite Consciousness and the limited human self, now with a distinct sense of being non-separate from the entire cosmos. and the DownThe exploration, ever deepening recognition and claiming of your nature as your own unique bodily human life. Embracing and becoming the messy, juicy, delightful, uncomfortable, joyful and sorrowful mystery of this incarnate life. Investigating emotional broken zones to free up trapped energy and attention and thereby become fully alive and freely self-expressed. Ultimately falling into, and living as, the Core Wound, which is the paradox of simultaneity: both as freedom and limits. dimensions in us and each other. This an essential part of our process.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
The seamlessness of ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth). plus phenomena.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
A natural process of investigating and integrating our conditioned responses to permit greater freedom and authenticity in our self-expression and relationships with others. The steps are: see it, feel it, live it, be it, transcend and integrate it, and speak it as appropriate with trustworthy others along the way. A distinguishing quality of recognition yoga is the GreenlightingSaying “yes” to our experience, regardless of whether it fits any pictures of what is “spiritual” or “desirable.” Not just a passive acceptance or resignation, greenlighting is a radical acceptance of whatever is currently arising in order to bring it fully into conscious awareness where it can be integrated and dynamically transformed. This leads, over time, to ever-greater degrees of freedom and trust. of whatever states are arising without trying to change them before they have had a chance to be fully felt and integrated.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
The experience and stage at which we become awakened to the fact that our old ways of dealing with things is no longer working. The Rot is the unwilled way that the hypermasculineIt is the historic human attitude of distrust of life, driven by the feeling that “it’s not okay yet” and “it’s not enough.”
It is our tendency to try to conquer the life of limits (improving life and self) or to try to leave the life of limits (transcending life and self). Contracting feeling and attention from our actual bodily experience (disassociating) we live in our heads and superimpose formulas on ourselves to overcome the limits we perceive. There is nothing to do about the Hypermasculine tendency other than to notice it as we see it arise, GreenlightingSaying “yes” to our experience, regardless of whether it fits any pictures of what is “spiritual” or “desirable.” Not just a passive acceptance or resignation, greenlighting is a radical acceptance of whatever is currently arising in order to bring it fully into conscious awareness where it can be integrated and dynamically transformed. This leads, over time, to ever-greater degrees of freedom and trust. it and being with it as it is. Trying to fix it would only be another version of the Hypermasculine tendency itself. The Hypermasculine is our way of avoiding the Core Wound and becoming conscious of it and conscious as it. the Rot is the unwilled way that the Hypermasculine unravels. unravels. We essentially rot out of the hypermasculine tendencyIt is the historic human attitude of distrust of life, driven by the feeling that “it’s not okay yet” and “it’s not enough.”
It is our tendency to try to conquer the life of limits (improving life and self) or to try to leave the life of limits (transcending life and self). Contracting feeling and attention from our actual bodily experience (disassociating) we live in our heads and superimpose formulas on ourselves to overcome the limits we perceive. There is nothing to do about the Hypermasculine tendency other than to notice it as we see it arise, GreenlightingSaying “yes” to our experience, regardless of whether it fits any pictures of what is “spiritual” or “desirable.” Not just a passive acceptance or resignation, greenlighting is a radical acceptance of whatever is currently arising in order to bring it fully into conscious awareness where it can be integrated and dynamically transformed. This leads, over time, to ever-greater degrees of freedom and trust. it and being with it as it is. Trying to fix it would only be another version of the Hypermasculine tendency itself. The Hypermasculine is our way of avoiding the Core Wound and becoming conscious of it and conscious as it. the Rot is the unwilled way that the Hypermasculine unravels. into the Core WoundA fundamental split at the core of one’s sense of self that is experienced as existential angst or feelings of confusion, separateness, and insufficiency. It happens (innocently) because we are both finite, limited human beings AND infinite Consciousness, occurring in a paradox of simultaneity that cannot begin to be fully felt and lived until the Second Birth. until it becomes conscious as the paradox resulting in the Second BirthA life transition in which there is a permanent and fundamental shift of your sense of what you are. The center of awareness shifts from head (mind) to the heart (feeling) where it fuses into feeling-union with the body/mind, becoming self-aware and experiencing its existential nature as the same in essence with all that is.
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life..Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
It is our tendency to try to conquer the life of limits (improving life and self) or to try to leave the life of limits (transcending life and self). Contracting feeling and attention from our actual bodily experience (disassociating) we live in our heads and superimpose formulas on ourselves to overcome the limits we perceive. There is nothing to do about the Hypermasculine tendency other than to notice it as we see it arise, GreenlightingSaying “yes” to our experience, regardless of whether it fits any pictures of what is “spiritual” or “desirable.” Not just a passive acceptance or resignation, greenlighting is a radical acceptance of whatever is currently arising in order to bring it fully into conscious awareness where it can be integrated and dynamically transformed. This leads, over time, to ever-greater degrees of freedom and trust. it and being with it as it is. Trying to fix it would only be another version of the Hypermasculine tendency itself. The Hypermasculine is our way of avoiding the Core Wound and becoming conscious of it and conscious as it. the Rot is the unwilled way that the Hypermasculine unravels. unravels. We essentially rot out of the hypermasculine tendencyIt is the historic human attitude of distrust of life, driven by the feeling that “it’s not okay yet” and “it’s not enough.”
It is our tendency to try to conquer the life of limits (improving life and self) or to try to leave the life of limits (transcending life and self). Contracting feeling and attention from our actual bodily experience (disassociating) we live in our heads and superimpose formulas on ourselves to overcome the limits we perceive. There is nothing to do about the Hypermasculine tendency other than to notice it as we see it arise, GreenlightingSaying “yes” to our experience, regardless of whether it fits any pictures of what is “spiritual” or “desirable.” Not just a passive acceptance or resignation, greenlighting is a radical acceptance of whatever is currently arising in order to bring it fully into conscious awareness where it can be integrated and dynamically transformed. This leads, over time, to ever-greater degrees of freedom and trust. it and being with it as it is. Trying to fix it would only be another version of the Hypermasculine tendency itself. The Hypermasculine is our way of avoiding the Core Wound and becoming conscious of it and conscious as it. the Rot is the unwilled way that the Hypermasculine unravels. into the Core WoundA fundamental split at the core of one’s sense of self that is experienced as existential angst or feelings of confusion, separateness, and insufficiency. It happens (innocently) because we are both finite, limited human beings AND infinite Consciousness, occurring in a paradox of simultaneity that cannot begin to be fully felt and lived until the Second Birth. until it becomes conscious as the paradox resulting in the Second BirthA life transition in which there is a permanent and fundamental shift of your sense of what you are. The center of awareness shifts from head (mind) to the heart (feeling) where it fuses into feeling-union with the body/mind, becoming self-aware and experiencing its existential nature as the same in essence with all that is.
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life..Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
A life transition in which there is a permanent and fundamental shift of your sense of what you are. The center of awareness shifts from head (mind) to the heart (feeling) where it fuses into feeling-union with the body/mind, becoming self-aware and experiencing its existential nature as the same in essence with all that is.
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
A subtle event whereby the radiant awakened-and-embodied Being-forceThe dynamic current of unmanifest Consciousness expressing itself into, as, and through our human bodies, feelings, phenomena, and all experience. of the teacher is effortlessly and spontaneously communicated non-verbally as a resonance effect to the student through proximity, gazing meditation, writings, focused intention, or other ways of being together.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
A passage of post-Second BirthA life transition in which there is a permanent and fundamental shift of your sense of what you are. The center of awareness shifts from head (mind) to the heart (feeling) where it fuses into feeling-union with the body/mind, becoming self-aware and experiencing its existential nature as the same in essence with all that is.
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life. integration that is characterized by a profound re-experiencing of our most deeply held conditioning and beliefs about ourselves and the world. Often cyclical, with periods of rather intense immersion in our shadow material and broken zones followed by new openings and expansions of ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth)., which are followed in turn by even deeper “falls” into our human limitedness. The shakedown leads, over time, to greater trust and ease of being in the midst of the ups and downs inherent in the human condition, and also to profound compassion for ourselves and one another.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
This is just the beginning of an ever-deepening journey known as the Second Life. integration that is characterized by a profound re-experiencing of our most deeply held conditioning and beliefs about ourselves and the world. Often cyclical, with periods of rather intense immersion in our shadow material and broken zones followed by new openings and expansions of ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth)., which are followed in turn by even deeper “falls” into our human limitedness. The shakedown leads, over time, to greater trust and ease of being in the midst of the ups and downs inherent in the human condition, and also to profound compassion for ourselves and one another.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
The exploration, ever deepening recognition and claiming of your own nature as ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth). which is free of limits, yet in intimate relationship to them. WDM is a path of awakening, first and foremost, but our form of awakening does not imply or require perfection or extensive purification. It is a clarification of our Conscious nature that paves the way for the recognition of the underlying unity of that formless ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth). with all lived existence which is known as “Onlyness”The seamlessness of Consciousness plus phenomena.. In this form of embodied awakening your sense of identity shifts from exclusive identification with your separate finite, human body/mind to an expanded identity as both infinite ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth). and the limited human self, now with a distinct sense of being non-separate from the entire cosmos.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
The effulgence or intensification of the ongoing and ever-deepening process of recognizing, enjoying, and expressing the OnlynessThe seamlessness of Consciousness plus phenomena. of ConsciousnessThe infinite transcendent ground which is always registering everything while remaining untouched and unbounded. That which makes experiencing anything possible. The unlimited and infinite dimension of what we are. We can distinguish two broad types of Consciousness awakenings: Transcendent (in which Consciousness registers everything without identifying with the body-mind) and Embodied-Feeling (in which Consciousness registers everything while being also fully present in and as the feelings of the body-mind). The awakening of “Embodied Feeling Witness Consciousness” is a prerequisite for the Second Birth (although it may happen simultaneously with the Second Birth). and all phenomena, such that one’s awakened presence as Core Wound / MysteryA fundamental split at the core of one’s sense of self that is experienced as existential angst or feelings of confusion, separateness, and insufficiency. It happens (innocently) because we are both finite, limited human beings AND infinite Consciousness, occurring in a paradox of simultaneity that cannot begin to be fully felt and lived until the Second Birth. has the subjective feeling and the objective impact of causing rapid transformation in the field of BeingThe subtle psychic current that connects and enlivens everything in the field of manifest reality, sometimes experienced as luminous presence. while paradoxically living the naked Truth of “nothing happening”.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4
