Institute of Awakened Mutuality » Immersion http://awakenedmutuality.org Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:22:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Waking Down Glossary http://awakenedmutuality.org/glossary http://awakenedmutuality.org/glossary#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:47:36 +0000 Ron http://awakenedmutuality.org/?page_id=853

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:

Being»

Being-force»

Coconut Yoga»

Consciousness»

The Core Wound (a.k.a. Core Mystery)»

Down»

Field of Being»

Governing Sentimentalities»

Greenlighting»

The Hypermasuline tendency»

Mutuality»

Onlyness»

Recognition Yoga»

The Rot»

The Second Birth»

Transmission»

Wakedown Shakedown»

Waking»

White Heat»


Compiled and edited by Michael Sanborn and Krishna Gauci.

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 1.6.5
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 1.6.5

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.).

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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 1.6.5
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 1.6.5
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 1.6.5
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 1.6.5
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 1.6.5
The 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 1.6.5
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 1.6.5

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..

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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 1.6.5
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 1.6.5

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.

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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 1.6.5
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 1.6.5
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AMS is designed to deepen your understanding and experience of mutuality, expand your discriminative awareness, and provide training in mentoring skills, should you choose to go in that direction. Whether or not you’re considering mentoring others, the experience of being in this course and learning these skills will support your own process of integration and evolution in your second life.

Mutuality is fundamentally about the recognition that self and other are not separate. The implications of that require us to relate with each other at a level we’ve never known before. Following are some of the themes we’ll be working with:

Mutuality Groups
The Mutuality groups that form at this event wont be only about greenlighting each other and saying supportive things; they’ll also be about taking supportive action. We’ll be exploring ways to help each other fulfill our purpose and live our deepest truth. We’ll also be discussing:

  • What mutuality is and isn’t
  • Challenges in understanding and trusting each other
  • Mutuality in friendships and intimate relationships
  • The roles of honesty, compassion, and dignity in mutual trust
  • The meaning of “other realization”
  • Mutuality and hierarchy: issues with teachers and Waking Down organizations
  • Practicing mutuality with peers, elders, juniors, and others in the world
  • Finding the balance between honoring your truth and the truth of others
  • Navigating mutuality in the broken zones
  • Learning how to bless and support each other to actualize our full potential
Discriminative Awareness

The second birth awakens a whole new capacity for discrimination. To reduce unnecessary pain, we must apply our growing discriminative awareness to our relationships, with everything we experience, including our own minds, our whole Being beliefs and conditioning, our relationships with others, and our work in the world. We’ll explore:

  • How the awakening process changes radically after the second birth
  • Balancing feminine skills of holding and greenlighting with masculine skills of discipline and discrimination
  • Going beyond conditioned reactions that keep us stuck in unnecessary suffering
  • Taking responsibility for ourselves
  • Fears that keep us from risking and daring
  • How thoughts and beliefs can keep us in fantasy
  • Listening to the impulses of inspiration and creativity


Mentoring
We’ve long since known that mentoring helps mentors even more than students. This makes the path of mentoring one of the most accelerated journeys of self discovery and self actualization we know of. We’ll be considering:

  • The differences between mentoring and teaching
  • Holding others as a sacred mystery
  • The challenges of dual relationships (mentor/student and friend/friend)
  • Working with shame, blame, and defensive reactions in yourself and students
  • Working with core issues and discriminating gifts from brokenness
  • When and why to suggest other forms of help for aspirants
  • The extreme importance of coconut yoga
  • When and why to suggest other forms of help for aspirants
  • The extreme importance of coconut yoga
  • Reparenting issues and your role in healing family wounds
  • Understanding the power differential between you and aspirants
  • Sexual ethics in the context of our work
  • Confidence: trusting in yourself and standing in your own authority


Morning large group meetings will focus on topics mentioned above (along with others that are important to you); afternoon small groups are designed to assist you in your most cutting-edge personal exploration.

This event takes place over the course of eight days.

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Ongoing Courses: (open to all)

Our online course is always available to take now.

Transfiguration Retreat: (open to those in any stage involved in the WDM process)

Our much-loved 8-day residential spring retreat is a great way to immerse yourself in the Tribal transformation that is Waking Down in Mutuality.

Second-Life Courses: (open to those in the second life)

These advanced courses are an opportunity for those who have awakened through the Waking Down process to explore and develop their new spiritual and human capacities and explore ways of relating to others using them.

Those wanting to mentor or teach using Waking Down in Mutuality should take these courses.

Basic Courses: (open to all)

These courses are for to those who are interested in exploring the fundamental “core dharma” teachings of Waking Down in Mutuality, and can be scheduled when there is sufficient interest.

If you are considering attending one of these courses, please email us at:  registrar@awakenedmutuality.org

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