Refinement, Initiation, and Self Evaluation |
(last updated 2016 October 29)
The steps below, adapted for ITC groups and their members, were inspired by the famous 12-Step Program. These time-proven steps are at the heart of this template site because of their aim to help make us humans more “ITC-compatible.” The idea is that the steps can polish our character and connect us to each other and to finer spirit in the most personal way, in order to promote resonance among ITC researchers.
Nothing is more important in ITC than harmony, or resonance, and the 12 steps might be the most effective process in the world today to provide fertile ground for a resonant field among diverse human beings and their spirit friends at the third level.
Other tools and techniques could be used in addition to the 12 steps to promote resonance in an ITC group. They include prayer, meditation, brain synchronization, breathwork, dream journaling, and lucid dream work.
So here are the 12 steps, adapted for ITC research:
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After working regularly on these 12 steps for at least 3 months, this is the point at which provisional members can choose to become operatives and gain access to the collaborative section of the private site… assuming that they have also assimilated the group’s understanding of the afterlife and of the capabilities of finer spirit.
Members will continue to work on these steps as a regular practice through the self-evaluation section of the private site.
Some people have said that 12-Step groups are kind of like big, dysfunctional families. Some people don't particularly like each other, but there's usually an aura of love, acceptance, and empathy that blankets the room.
There's also talk of hidden dangers in the 12-Step program (read more... ), but those probably wouldn't present a big problem for a multinational, multicultural ITC network using the steps while collaborating mostly through modern communication technologies (rather than in-r0om meetings).
Other good techniques for spiritual purification, or raising one's spiritual vibration (examples here and here... ), could also help researchers to become more ITC-compatible (or resonant), but don't seem to be as concise, well-grounded, and accountable as the adapted 12 steps listed above.
(The Inner Work portion of the private website template is now posted, and can be viewed here... )
-- Mark Macy (posted 2016 July)
The steps below, adapted for ITC groups and their members, were inspired by the famous 12-Step Program. These time-proven steps are at the heart of this template site because of their aim to help make us humans more “ITC-compatible.” The idea is that the steps can polish our character and connect us to each other and to finer spirit in the most personal way, in order to promote resonance among ITC researchers.
Nothing is more important in ITC than harmony, or resonance, and the 12 steps might be the most effective process in the world today to provide fertile ground for a resonant field among diverse human beings and their spirit friends at the third level.
Other tools and techniques could be used in addition to the 12 steps to promote resonance in an ITC group. They include prayer, meditation, brain synchronization, breathwork, dream journaling, and lucid dream work.
So here are the 12 steps, adapted for ITC research:
We...
- Admit that our carnal mind and ego stir up fears, desires, doubts, judgments, and other harmful feelings.
- Acknowledge that the finer spirit within us and around us alleviates these problems by fostering love, trust, and good will.
- Make a conscious decision to turn our lives over to finer spirit.
- Face our fears, desires, doubts, and judgments while taking a moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admit to ourselves, to finer spirit, and to at least one other member of the group the nature of our failings.
- Reach a point through inner work where we’re ready to have finer spirit remove our shortcomings.
- Humbly ask finer spirit to remove those shortcomings.
- Make a list of the persons and relationships harmed by our failings, and be willing to make amends.
- Make amends to those we’ve harmed, if possible, except when doing so would harm them or others.
- Continue to take moral inventory and, when we’re wrong, promptly admit it.
- Use the group's refinement tools (prayer, meditation, dreamwork, binaural beats...) to foster our conscious contact with finer spirit, to understand its greater plan, and to accept that plan.
- Foster the spiritual awakening that we’ve experienced from these steps in our day-to-day lives, especially in our ITC research and collaboration.
After working regularly on these 12 steps for at least 3 months, this is the point at which provisional members can choose to become operatives and gain access to the collaborative section of the private site… assuming that they have also assimilated the group’s understanding of the afterlife and of the capabilities of finer spirit.
Members will continue to work on these steps as a regular practice through the self-evaluation section of the private site.
Some people have said that 12-Step groups are kind of like big, dysfunctional families. Some people don't particularly like each other, but there's usually an aura of love, acceptance, and empathy that blankets the room.
There's also talk of hidden dangers in the 12-Step program (read more... ), but those probably wouldn't present a big problem for a multinational, multicultural ITC network using the steps while collaborating mostly through modern communication technologies (rather than in-r0om meetings).
Other good techniques for spiritual purification, or raising one's spiritual vibration (examples here and here... ), could also help researchers to become more ITC-compatible (or resonant), but don't seem to be as concise, well-grounded, and accountable as the adapted 12 steps listed above.
(The Inner Work portion of the private website template is now posted, and can be viewed here... )
-- Mark Macy (posted 2016 July)
