Science & Spirituality Definitions
The terms listed in this Appendix are not alphabetized. They are listed in groups based on their relation to each other.
Energy: A force that initiates action and is involved in everything we do, allowing us to exist, form and store memory, think, act, feel and react.
I: Your unique essence, contained in your unique self. Your name provides the means to personally identify your I.
Identity: Your vision of who you are. Embodies aspects of knowledge contained within you that reflects your unique self in characteristics such as your gender, personality, character, self-image, abilities and code of ethics.
I-identity: represents your entire authentic self. Your I-identity combines your name (your I) with your characteristics (your identity).
Onefulness: A state of being in full realization of your identity, having access to and knowledge of what makes up who you are. Approaching Onefulness in balance offers us an inner sense of being OK with who we are.
Source Energy: A balanced, unconditional energy that simply is. Source energy initiates all life-sustaining Life Force Energy in all forms of life, whether human, animal, vegetable, mineral or elements.
Life Principles: The varied functions present in all forms of life. Whether human, animal, vegetable, mineral, or elements, Life Principles enable each form of life (including us) to serve its purpose and perpetuate its existence.
Life Force Energy: A weak, slow moving, low-emission electric energy wave that exists in all forms of life. Life Force Energy directs Life Principles, maintaining the functions and communications that occur in all cells, from cell-to-cell, and beyond.
The conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind are all brain functions.
Conscious mind: Coordinates activities that let us access, develop and understand present-moment sensory memories; what’s happening within ourselves and around us.
Subconscious mind: Stores and accesses information that doesn’t have to be directly conscious, but can readily be brought into our consciousness or filed away into the unconscious. Together, the conscious and subconscious mind—as represented by the 14 Mental Principles—help create, develop and complete the thought process.
Mental Principles: Represent the conscious/subconscious mind. There are 14 Mental Principles: Allow, Conscious Awareness (CA), Accept, Power, Gratitude, Compassion, Kindness, Trust, Boundary, Respect, Honor, Responsibility, Wisdom, and Judgment. Each Mental Principle accesses knowledge inherent to particular areas of the brain and, step-by-step, together with the unconscious, takes the thought process through thought development and completion.
Unconscious mind: Stores information without our direct or conscious awareness, and has access to all sorts of information which can be incorporated into thought development and expression, like long-term memories; repressed and traumatic memories; automatic personal habits and skills; and automatic and stereotypical social, cultural, global, and religious beliefs. The unconscious mind also controls unconscious functions, like breathing, digestion and pulse.
Emotions: Instinctive or intuitive experiences that are separate from reasoning or knowledge. Emotions enhance our consideration of what’s happening, making it tangible and impacting our attitudes, mannerisms, words we choose, and how we express them.
SoulTelling Energy: A weak, slow-moving electric field that supports communication between neurons, maintaining our Mental Principles, our unconscious, and brain functions. It is an impartial and consistent energy that directs our thought process and the resulting actions, responses and behaviors (aka Tools) from a balanced and grounded perspective.
Influenced Energy: Also a weak, slow-moving electric field that supports communication between neurons, maintaining our Mental Principles, our unconscious, and brain functions. What distinguishes it from SoulTelling Energy are the alternate facts attached to it that support distorted, hurtful, limited and conditional views, memories and events. It is partial, directing the developing thought with a growing inability to maintain a balanced and grounded perspective.
Tools: Devices or implements used to carry out a particular task or function. It’s part of our nature to convert what interests us into some kind of response, so we act on, talk about or express our thoughts in some way. We use Mental Tools to convert our thoughts into actions (statements, physical expressions, behaviors).
Mental Tools: Tools that enable us to shape our experiences and thoughts and express them, internally (as introspection) and externally (to others). Mental Tools are words or short phrases that define how we express ourselves verbally or in the form of behaviors and actions. Mental Tools are grouped by the Mental Principle they support, and fall into two major categories: SoulTelling and Influenced. There are also subcategories of Influenced Tools. See Appendix A for a complete list of Mental Tools.
Note: When more than one form of a word holds the same basic meaning and purpose as a Mental Tool, only one form is listed in the Mental Tools list. For example, “seek” and “seeking” are both Allow SoulTelling Mental Tools, but they are the same Mental Tool, so only “seek” is listed in the Allow SoulTelling tools list.
SoulTelling Tools: Mental Tools that are chosen using SoulTelling Energy. They provide the ability to express true reality with words, behaviors and actions in balance, and offer clarity and flow without getting tangled in baggage, dysfunctions or unproductive reactivity.
Influenced Tools: Mental Tools that are chosen using Influenced Energy. They express varying degrees of distortion and increasing disconnection from SoulTelling. They include Emptying, Emptying Further and Void tools, which drive an unbalanced, unhealthy pushing away; and Filling, Filling Further and Fantasy tools, which drive an unbalanced, unhealthy drawing-in.
Emptying, Emptying Further and Void Tools: Influenced Mental Tools that encompass varying degrees of not respecting or caring about ourselves, others, or even the condition of the planet, buying into that premise a little (Emptying), a lot (Emptying Further), or totally (Void), using our out-of-balance version of reality that is based on assumptions and conditions we are vested in. Represented by attitudes such as “I can’t do this” or “It’s not my problem.”
Emptying Tools express a certain lack of concern. Stepping away from a balanced approach, they associate loss and lack with our position, our situation and what we want to achieve.
Emptying Further Tools express deeper restrictions upon our behaviors, thoughts and actions as we receive and embrace limitations and loss, while also placing restrictions upon others.
Void Tools express rules that distance us from humanity and caring, totally disconnecting from SoulTelling regardless of the consequences.
Filling, Filling Further and Fantasy Tools: Influenced Mental Tools that encompass varying degrees of believing we and our thoughts and actions are better than others’, buying into that premise a little (Filling), a lot (Filling Further), or totally (Fantasy), using our out-of-balance version of reality that is based on assumptions and conditions we are vested in. Represented by attitudes such as “know it all” or being controlling.
Filling Tools express using unsubstantiated or distorted “truths” that were modeled by others and we have accepted as our own, or creating our own “truths” based on distortions modeled by others.
Filling Further Tools express getting what we want in ways that support entitlement.
Fantasy Tools express delusions of love, using assumptions and conditions to verify our version of reality. Anything that doesn’t fit that picture isn’t love and is not accepted or considered.
The Senses: Our sensory system allows us to realize and experience the environment around us by processing external stimulus through physical and mental senses.
Five Senses: Our senses of sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell constantly bring information to the mind regarding what our body is doing, what is happening around us, and what is happening inside of us. There are inner and outer components to these five senses.
Outer (Physical) Senses: Using our outer (physical) senses, we touch a keyboard, a pen, or a pencil with our hands. We hear people speak, a ringing telephone, or the wind whistling as it goes by. We see the world around us and what’s in it. We taste whatever we have in our mouth. We smell the scents in the air around us. Our physical senses act as our antennae to the world, picking up words, sensations, images, colors, smells and sounds.
Inner (Mental) Senses: Our inner (mental) senses constantly bring data to the brain from our physical, mental, and spiritual selves. Our inner senses act as an unconscious feed that brings to our developing thoughts what is happening within our body that is related to what we are experiencing. They tell us how we feel about the information our outer senses experience. When we touch a soft blanket, our outer sense of touch tells us this is something soft and our inner sense tells us it feels comfortable.