Glossary

This page contain a list of words and their definitions from the book
"Dancing in the Eye of Transformation: 10 Keys to Creative Consciousness.

Aboriginal: The indigenous cultures throughout the world that are the original known inhabitants of an area..
Aborigines: Indigenous Australians.
Affirmation: A positive statement that may be used to help transform consciousness  and thus transform what is manifesting in a person’s life.
Ajna chakra: Chakra between the brows that relates to spiritual vision and expanded perception. Also known as the third eye.
Akasha: Sanskrit for ether.
Akashic records: Akashic records are the cosmic record of everything that has ever been and ever will be.
Alchemy: The process of transforming literal or figurative lead into gold.
Alpha male: male that is either physically, psychologically, or socially in a position of power within a group.
Anahata: Chakra relating to the heart and connection located in the center of the chest.
Androgyny: Possessing both masculine and feminine traits.
Anima: The male part of the psyche.
Animal Ally: Supernatural animistic-based relationship between a human and the essential energy of animal species which can provide magical assistance to the shamanic practitioner.
Animus: The female part of the psyche.
Archetypes: Symbols that exist within the collective unconsciousness that are blueprints that represent different ways of being.
Assemblage Point: The bio-energetic center of the mode of perception within the field of an individual.
Astral Parasites: Astral creatures who feed on the energy of others. The majority of which have little or no consciousness beyond the compulsion to feed.
Astral travel: The conscious mind/astral body traveling through ordinary or non-ordinary reality without the restrictions of the body.
Athame: ceremonial knife that can be used to delineate sacred space.
Aumakua: The high self in the Kahuna system of magic.
Auric Field: The energy field around the body.
Bindu: Sanskrit, referring to a focal point at the posterior fontanel of the head.
Brahma: Hindu God of creation. Consort of Saraswati.
Butterfly Effect: Small variations in the initial conditions of a dynamical system produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.
Caduceus: Magic wand of the Greek God Hermes messenger of the gods. Also said to represent the three major channels of energy in the spine.
Carl Jung: pioneer in the field of human psychology
Causal Realm: the realm of pure formless consciousness that is prior to the emergence of form or manifestation.
Cellular Memory: An interaction of thought and emotion that creates an ingrained repeated effect on the biochemistry of a physical organism.
Censer: Vessel used for the burning of incense.
Centering: The process of returning focus to the internal self, creating a sense of stability, balance and individuation.
Chakra: Energy vortexes in the body which focalize and express different aspects of the psyche.
Chalice: Ceremonial vessel representing the water element and its attendant attributes.
Chi: Vital life force energy also known as prana and mana.
Clairaudience: Intuitive ability expressed through the sense of hearing.
Collective Unconscious: A term coined by Carl Jung referring to the part of a person’s unconscious which is connected to all human beings through the morphic field. Archetypes exist with in the collective consciousness represented by the common symbols held by all people, e.g. “the Great Mother.”
Consensual Reality: Reality as perceived and created by the consciousness of the collective.
Cosmic Map: A blueprint for the harmonious functioning of all the interrelated parts and aspects of planetary existence.
Cosmology: Theoretical model which describes a person’s world view that can include non-physical energies and beings that influence reality.
Creating the Container: The process of defining and maintaining the psychic boundaries between the mundane and mystical realities.
Dalai Lama: Spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.
Demeter: Greek mother goddess of agriculture who represents ripeness, fertility, fulfillment, stability, and power.
Devas: the over lighting spirits of nature.
Devocation: Releasement of energies that have been called in for a particular purpose in a ceremony.
Dharma: The natural flow of the universal energy in alignment with Divine Law
Dissonance: In music, it is an interval or chord in which the tones oscillate in an inharmonious rhythmical relationship.
Divination: The process of discerning possible reality manifestation anywhere on the time line by psychical means.
Dogma / Dogmatic: Rigid spiritual doctrine which is authoritarian in nature and not to be questioned or doubted.
Double Helix: Two congruent twisted shapes (like a spring, screw or a spiral staircase) with a similar axis. DNA is a double helix.
Double Orobouros: Symbol of two serpents swallowing each other that signifies volatility and/or the balance of our upper and lower natures
Double Standard: A rule which is applied more stringently to one party than to others, particularly relating to the stricter moral behavior demanded of women than of men.
Dr. Harville Hendrix: Co-author, Getting the Love You Want and originator of Imago match relationship therapy..
Dream Catcher: A Native American spiritual tool. A web with a hole in the center built on a hoop, whose purpose is to “capture” good dreams and allow the bad dreams/ energies to pass through the hole.
Dreamtime: This term is commonly used by the aboriginal peoples of Australia to describe non-linear reality.
Duality: The premise that everything has an opposing force
Dynamical System: Mathematical concept in which a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in geometrical space.
Edward Lorenz: American mathematician, meteorologist, a contributor to the chaos theory and inventor of the strange attractor notion. He coined the term butterfly effect.
Ego: The part of the psyche that perceives of all reality as separate and distinct from itself and is highly invested in individuation and self justification.
Electrostatic Forces: Forces exerted by a static (i.e. unchanging) electric field upon charged objects.
Elementals: Air fire, water, earth and ether. The term also can be used to describe the non-corporeal entities which are associated with the elements.
Endorphins: Peptides produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus that resemble opiates in their ability to produce analgesia and a sense of well-being that can act as natural pain killers.
Enlightened Masters: People who have achieved a very high level of spiritual awareness who are dedicated to making positive change by helping others.
Enlightenment: The process or state of embodying the Divine.
Entrainment: Principle of physics in which two or more oscillating bodies in proximity tend to synchronize rhythmically.
Esoteric: Knowledge of an inner nature that is secret or not generally known.
Ether: A unifying force field
Evolutionary Energies: Entities and energies that assist in the transformative process of evolution that can create physical, mental, emotional an spiritual change beyond what has been previously known.
Externalizing: Blaming outside forces for occurrences rather than believing that all reality is ultimately created subjectively.
Fetishes: A small carving that represents an animal ally that is carried or placed on an altar to empower to connection with a specific animistic force.
Fight or Flight Response Mechanism: Animal instinctual response when faced with danger to either face the threat (“fight”), or avoid the threat (“flight”).
Fire Walking: A ceremony where participants on hot coals without getting burned after performing a special ritual of preparation.
Fractal Pattern: A visual representation of a mathematical equation which continues to multiply and expand based on a root pattern.
Ganesh: Elephant headed Hindu deity, son of Parvati and Shiva, who is said to remove obstacles and oversees new beginnings.
Generative Force: Productive creative energy
Gnomes: Elemental spirits of Earth.
Golden Shadow: The Golden Shadow is our own disowned potential that we project onto others that we admire who appear to possess characteristics we believe are beyond our capacity.
Hara: The center of a person’s gravity, awareness, energy, and activity located below the navel.
Hatha: Sanskrit. ‘Ha’ means sun and ‘tha’ means moon. Can also mean force. System of yoga that aims to create a state of equilibrium through balancing various forces.
Hecate: Greek crone goddess keeper of the crossroads, who is wise with of a lifetime of experience.
Holographic Perception: The ability to create a new level of perception of reality through merging varied perspectives
Hypnotherapy: A form of therapy in which the therapist induces altered state of consciousness in the client, characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction in order to make positive changes in behaviors, emotions, thought patterns or relationship to sensations.
Ida: Sanskrit. The feminine or moon channel of energy which spirals up the spine beginning and ending on the left side of the body.
Imago: Description of a type or relationship in which a person unconsciously chooses a partner who exhibits characteristics similar to one’s parents or siblings. This type of relationship often brings up unresolved psychological material to resolve.
Initiates: An Initiate is someone who has formally or informally dedicated themselves to a spiritual path or discipline.
Integrity: Remaining whole or undivided, creating a state of completeness by adhering to one’s personal ethical and moral code.
Interconnectivity: The ability to be mutually connected.
Involutionary: Energies that are inherent in the earth.
Jackson Pollock: Abstract expressionist painter most famous for his works from the 1940’s and 50’s.
Kaala: Ray or force that emanates from bindu.
Kahuna: The Hawaiian system of magic and healing. A high level practitioner of Huna Magic, or any authority such as a professor.
Kali: A fierce Hindu Tantric Goddess who assists in the release of attachment and ego. Kali is the goddess of time and of transformation.
Karma: The metaphysical principle of cause and effect as it relates to the direction of our thoughts and actions .
Kaula Tantric practitioner: Red or left handed path of tantra in which the practitioner moves beyond attractions and repulsions in order to reach enlightenment instead of avoiding the push and pull of attraction and repulsion.
Kore: Greek maiden Goddess (also known as Persephone) who is pure and expansive representing new beginnings.
Kundalini: The serpent energy of the Goddess which rises up the spine bringing about enlightenment.
Lakshmi: Hindu Goddess of abundance, consort of Vishnu
Leela: Hindu belief that phenomenal reality is merely the play of the Gods, and does not tangibly exist.
Left-handed tantra: Tantric practitioners who break certain taboos after much purification to move towards enlightenment instead of choosing the path of abstinence.
Liminal: Identity dissolution. A state of undetermined orientation in which a new perspective may be found
Lucid Dreaming: The ability to be conscious while dreaming and physically sleeping.
Macrocosmic: Large, versus microcosmic, small. According to the golden mean, the pattern of the small can be found in the large and visa versa.
Mamallapuram: A 7th century port city of the South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas around 60 km south from the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. (Also known as Mahabalipuram)
Mana: Life force energy, also know as chi, or vital force
Manipura: Chakra center located in the solar plexus that relates to the power of will.
Mata Amritananda Mayi: Saint from Kerala India, known for her loving compassion and tireless service to humanity.
Metaphysical: Philosophical inquiry into conceptions of reality, including ontology, and the philosophies of religion, mind and perception.
Metta: The Buddhist practice of emanating loving kindness.
Microcosmic: Small (see macrocosmic.)
Middle World: Non-ordinary version of third-dimensional reality.
Moebius strip: A Moebius strip is a one-edged geometric surface with only one continuous side, formed by giving a 180 degree twist to a narrow, rectangular strip of paper and then connecting the two ends together.
Morphic Fields: Fields of energy or awareness which appear to influence behavior and/or biology
Muladhara: The first chakra center located near the perineum that relates to survival issues.
Nada: Sanskrit. Vibration
Nadi or Nadis: Energy channels in the body according to Vedic philosophy. Similar to Taoist version of the energy channels, often called meridians.
Nadi Shodhana: Tantric exercise that balances the male and female energy channels going up the spine, and the hemispheres of the brain.
Nagual Reality: Non-ordinary reality
Natural Law: Fundamental principles derived from the natural world that are not the creation of human societies or governments.
Newton, Sir Issac: English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who created the theory for universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics.
Niels Bohr: Danish physicist who made essential contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
Non-ordinary Reality: Reality as perceived from a multidimensional perspective
Orisha: An aspect or Spirit of the Divine in lineages stemming from Yoruba, including Imago, Oyotunji, Candomblé and Lucumí/Santería.
Orobouros: Mythic serpent who swallows its own tail as an archetypal symbol of regeneration.
Out of Body: also know as astral travel. The process whereby a person’s consciousness leaves the physical vehicle of the body.
Over-lighting Spirit: See Wraith Energy
Paradigm: A belief system.
Paradox: Two differing or opposing truths that are perceived as true simultaneously.
Parashakti: Hindu Goddess. The supreme energy.
Patriarchal: A societal construct in which men possess greater power in relationship to influence, money and privilege than women.
Personas: Inner characters.
Pingala: The male or sun channel of energy that spirals the spine beginning and ending on the right side of the body.
Polarity: Two opposing forces which are complementary in nature.
Polyamory: A type of love relationship in which a person may be in relationship with more than one person simultaneously.
Positionality: A strong belief in the correctness of subjective reality.
Power Loss: A shamanic term describing a condition in which a person has lost power due to trauma, and/or negative projections about the nature of reality.
Prana: Life force energy, also know as chi, vital force, or mana
Psycho pomp: A person who talk with, and potentially helps the dead to communicate to the living or to transmigrate to higher realms.
Pythagoras: Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religious teaching in the late 6th century BC in Greece. He believed that everything was related to mathematics, and thought that everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles.
Quantum physics: Quantum physics provides accurate and precise descriptions for many phenomena including the behavior of systems based on the atomic and subatomic level.
Quintessence: The Alchemists name for the fifth element, or ether.
Ritual: A repeated ceremony that reinforces sacred intent and the energy to support that intent by the placing of attention.
Rupert Sheldrake: British biologist who developed a hypothesis of morphogenetic fields, and has researched animal and plant development and behavior, telepathy, perception and metaphysics.
Sacred Space: A space and time made sacred by the setting of intention and the placing of attention for the purpose of celebrating or transforming reality magically.
Sahasrara: Chakra located at the crown of the head that relates to the process of enlightenment.
Saint Ananda Moy Ma: “The Joy-filled Mother.” Indian spiritual master who came into this life fully realized.
Salamanders: Spirits of fire.
Sami Shaman Ailu Gaup: The Sami are an indigenous people who form an ethnic minority in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Ailu hails from Lapland.
Sandhya: Sanskrit. Union or joined. The perfect balance of the polarities within an individual. Also describes the place between sleeping and waking.
Sanghyang: Balinese ritual trance dance.
Sanskrit: Ancient language of the Aryan people, who migrated to India from Europe some time between 6000BC-1200BC.
Saraswati: Hindu Goddess of knowledge, music and all the creative arts. Consort of Brahma.
Serge Kahili King: Author, humanitarian and curator of the Hawaiian Art Museum on Kauai.
Shakti: Hindu Tantric Goddess who is an embodiment of the primal energy, who is formless. Consort of Shiva.
Shakti-Shiva energy: The dynamic relationship between energy filled emptiness and awakened awareness.
Shamanic / Shamanism: A body of practices in which the practitioner’s consciousness travels between ordinary and non-ordinary reality to access information and healing for self and / or others.
Shiva: Hindu Tantric deity who is the embodiment of awakened awareness, and the destroyer of illusion. Consort of Shakti/Kali.
Shushumna: The central channel of energy that travels up the center of the spine
Simultaneous Time: A hypothesis that in other dimensional realities beyond the third there is no perception of past or future. All events are occurring simultaneously in an ever present now.
Smudging: Cleansing the energy field of a person, place or thing with sacred herbs or resins.
Soul Fragment: A aspect of a person’s consciousness which has split into another dimension in order to avoid pain and trauma.
Soul Retrieval: A therapeutic process in which a soul fragment is recovered and reintegrated through shamanic means.
Spirit: An entity in any level or dimension of existence with some level of consciousness.
Spirit Guides: Entities who are committed to watch out for the well being of an individual for the entirety of that individual’s life.
Star Beings: Refers to entities whose origins are extraterrestrial.
Star Tetrahedron: three dimensional form, it becomes two interpenetrating pyramids
Strong Nuclear Forces: One of the four fundamental forces of nature. The force between two or more nucleons, affecting the binding of nucleons into nuclei and the scattering of two nucleons.
Swadhisthana: A chakra located below the navel that relates to sexuality and vitality.
Sylphs: Elemental spirits of Air.
Symbology: The study, use or interpretation of symbols or symbolism
Syncretistic Philosophy: An attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought.
Synthesis: Integration of ideas or energies. Combining of separate elements to form a coherent whole.
T’ai Chi Tu: Also known as the yin/yang symbol, which represents the dynamic balance between the active a receptive polarities.
Talmud: An authoritative record of rabbinic discussions on Jewish law, Jewish ethics, customs, legends and stories.
Tanoti: Sanskrit. Expansion
Tantra: “Tan” means to expand or weave, and “tra” means liberation. A vast body of related spiritual lineages that seek spiritual liberation through the remembrance of their Divine nature through inner balance, and recognition of the Divine in all things..
Taoist: An approach to life which seeks to honor and align with the universal principle as inherent in nature through taking proper action in its proper time and place, honoring an individuals capabilities and limitations.
Telepathy: Mind to mind comprehension or communication.
Theta brain wave state: A state of deep relaxation and meditation, enhanced creativity, stress relief, light sleep and dreaming, corresponding to brain frequencies ranging from 4Hz to 8 Hz.
Toltec: A path of nagualism, in which awareness, transformation, and intent are primary considerations.
Tonal Reality: Linear, ordinary reality.
Transpersonal Psychology: A school of psychology that studies the transcendent, or spiritual dimensions of humanity. Includes the study of human potential, and seeks the realization of unitive, spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness.
Trayati: Sanskrit. Liberation
Triquetra: Three sided symbol used to represent the triune nature of the Divine.
Tungus: Siberian ethnic group, numbering perhaps 30,000, who live in the area from the Yenisei and Ob river basins to the Pacific Ocean and from the Amur River to the Arctic Ocean, and on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea.
Uhane: The conscious mind or self according to the Huna system of healing and magic.
Undines: Elemental spirits of water.
Unified Field Theory: A theory, if proven, that could tie together all known phenomena to explain the nature and behavior of all matter and energy in existence.
Unihipili: The subconscious mind or self according to the Huna system of healing and magic.
Vishnu: Hindu God of preservation. Consort to the Goddess Lakshmi.
Vishuddhi Chakra: Chakra at the throat relating to the power of expression.
Vispassana: A Buddhist meditation technique that focuses primarily the awareness of breath and sensation to move beyond the mind.
Vortexes: Centers of power and/or swirling energy.
Wand: Spiritual tool for directing energy
Weak Nuclear Force: One of the four fundamental forces of nature. It is a short-range force, limited to distances smaller than an atomic nucleus.
Witness Based Awareness: A practice in which the practitioner is attempts to be perpetually aware of the play of the mind, by examining the quality of his or her thoughts.
Wraith Energy: This wraith energy exists through the focused intent of beings working together. The connection itself takes on an entity-like energy. This entity does not have a will of its own, but draws from the will and intelligence of the beings it connects.
Yang: Active, electrical, or masculine energy.
Yantras: A yogic based visual meditation image representing a Hindu deity or sacred syllable set used to focus and transform consciousness.
Yaqui: a Native American people who live in region comprising the northern Mexican state of Sonora and the southwestern U.S. State of Arizona.
Yin: Receptive, magnetic, or feminine energy.
Yoga: The path of union of the individual atma (soul) with Paramatma, (the universal soul) through the integration of body, mind, and spirit.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: One of the six philosophies of Vedic thought. It is a set of aphorisms (short phrases) that have been enormously influential regarding several branches of yogic theory and practice.