“And the Truth shall make you free!”

Gospel of John, 8:32,  King James Version

Lao Tzu – Author – TAO Te Ching

Symbols and Color

• Star: Sage Set – Communication and Imagination
• Person in Concentric rings: Centers Group
• Pharaoh: Exalted Orientation- Worldly -Philosophical
• Diamond: Expressive Axis
• Border Color: Blue – Sage Set

Implications of the Upright Position or Positive Pole

The symbol of the IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination, I extracted from one of our greatest modern mythologies: Star Trek and one of their representative races called the Vulcans. In striving for purity of thought without the distraction of body or emotions, I’d translate that desire into seeking that Higher Intellectually Centered experience of Conceptualization. Imagination transforming thought into reality.

Card messages associated with Illuminated position.

+ Conceptualization

(Truth, Veritas, actuality, principle, revelation rectitude, authenticity, apperception, apprehension)

1. Truth forces liberation from acceptable ignorance. A revelation is coming. What you thought was true will be altered. Is it illumination or a shock?
   
2. “And the Truth shall make you free.” Jesus did not say “set you free”. Religions want you to believe that only they can save you with their doctrine. It takes courage followed by responsibility to live from truth. Have you embraced them?
3. Have you ever noticed when confronted with a truth so profound, so revealing, so undeniable, that tears fall from those honest enough to admit it? Pain is often liberated from being hidden when truth is shed. Tears are the cleansing agent. Allow yourself to notice where you can be liberated and empowered by a simple truth. 
4. An Ah-ha moment opens up an entirely new dimension of thought and realization. It pertains to axioms and maxims that go unquestioned. New insight is near.
5. Better to acknowledge that truth is something you pursue, rather than possess. If there is such a thing called wisdom, it is admitting that there is plenty you don’t know. Yet, facts can be known. Locate the essential ones involved here and you will have taken a wise approach.
6. The power to conceptualize the world has built empires, expanded science, and created beautiful compositions of music, writing and art. Free your mind and imagine. What will you do with it? Here’s one: expand your thinking!
7. You don’t have to recreate the wheel to make things move around. It is perfectly useful to take what knowledge exists and apply it in a new way. Permission granted.
8. Profound simplicity, perhaps paradoxically, is always at the foundation of complex systems. An atom is one thing, And everything is based upon it. From one into multiples. Allow for possibilities that are beyond your imagination to conceive. 
9. A revelation is coming. What you thought was true will be altered. Is it illumination or shock? No matter what stay with the opening.
10. You have just had a moment of truth. What will you do with it? Here’s one: expand your thinking?
11. Truth forces liberation from acceptable ignorance. Someone is about to say ouch! Help them to understand.
12. “Rome wasn’t build in a day,” so the old adage goes, but part of Rome was built in a day! Bust clichés! Get specific. Generalities are seldom, if ever, truth?
13. When an epiphany happens, and you feel its resonance in every part of you, know that you have just had a moment of truth. What will you do with it? Hint: change your mind.
14. Imagination lays the groundwork for the future. Set your mind to dream big!
15. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle paradoxically reminds us of one quantum truth: particles (ideas) can exist in more than two dimensions at once, but when you go to observe (act upon it) you can only do one at a time. Point being: what you believe might have many applications, but you have to test them in one situation at a time to measure where they actually fit.

Quotations that Reflect this Pole

• “It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” Patrick Henry
• “Tell the truth and run.” Yugoslavian Proverb
• “There are trivial truths and great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. But the opposite of a great truth is also true.” Neils Bohr
• “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”  Oscar Wilde
• “We don’t enjoy our lives enough because we are not actually there—we are mindless, not mindful.”  Dr. Ellen Langer

Implications in the Reversed Position or Negative Pole

Interestingly enough, the search for “exclusivity” of emotion and extension of the mind to its ultimate limits gave rise to another interesting aspect taken from the mythical (yet not mystical) Vulcan motif: the
“mind meld”; In parlance of the negative pole of this Shadow center: telepathy.

Card messages associated with Shadow position.

– Telepathy

(Projection, transference, expectation, preconception, commandment, delusion)

1. Read the thoughts and control the person. This is the shadow use of this expanded capability that telepathy portends. It makes a communication a quietus action and eliminates response. It is an imbalance of power. Are you trying to gain advantage by reading someone’s mind?
2. Believing that someone should know what you’re thinking is a recipe for disaster. Ask! Ask! Ask!
3. Stupidity is not a sin perse, but it can be a reflection of poor character. Anyone making claims on ideas they can’t substantiate, or there is evidence to the contrary, you might be dealing with either an idiot or a liar. Don’t acquiesce to either, or you will participate in the ignorance.
4. Thinking is one of the few things that set Homo Sapiens apart from all other animals. It is an astonishing disappointment how few people actually indulge it and how seldom they engage it. Crinkle your forehead and really think! (How would you have said it?)
5. Truth is relative to the situation. But to the mind of the accuser wanting to attack or retaliate, for them, theirs is absolute…nonsense!
6. Rome wasn’t built in a day, so the old adage goes. But, part of Rome was build in a day! Bust cliches’ and get specific. Generalities, seldom if ever, express situational truth accurately. Beware that someone is attempting to hoodwink you; or maybe have deceived themselves? A lack of comprehension is present.
7. Contemplating your navel? Act on something.
8. Existential psychologist Rollo May spoke of the capacity of the higher mind’s various functions. He said, “Imagination is the outreaching of the mind…the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to dream dreams and see visions.” When was that last time you looked inward to take note of a neglected vision you’ve held in imagination?
9. Old Sage and Victorian playwright, Oscar Wilde, revealed in his play The Importance of Being Earnest a dissenting awareness about truth, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Best to deconstruct a situation into parts rather than reduce it into one oversimplified nonsense.
10. If a truth is founded on facts, repeated use, and evidenced by history, don’t let anyone take it away from you. Unless these conditions can be disproven, you will win the day.
11. When you are constantly stuck on a person or idea, it’s like a cord has tethered you to them. Where is this obsession coming from? Is it yours or is it directed at you?
12. Trying to read another’s thoughts? Chances are you are afraid they have some power or advantage over you. Stop guessing. Confront them if you need to.
13. Having a meeting of minds occurs when two people actually listen to what the other person is saying. Yet, sometimes, it is possible to infer what is NOT being said out loud. Look into someone’s eyes deeply and you might know their mind.
14. Read the thoughts and control the person. It is an imbalance of power. This is the shadow use of this expanded capability that telepathy portends. It makes a communication a quietus action and eliminates response. Are you trying to gain advantage by reading someone’s mind?
15. “Well, you know what I mean!’’, blurts someone when they feel exasperated when you ask for clarification. As if the other should be able to read their mind? Would you really want that? You are responsible for making yourself clearly understood, not the other person.
16. Projection is the way that we seek to control our perception of others. When you expect them to conform to your image, you can be greatly disappointed, and pissed!
17. Challenge standing axioms or maxims that have gone unquestioned, OR they will come back to haunt you.

Quotations that Reflect this Pole…

• “Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.” Nicola Machiavelli
• “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Leonardo DaVinci
• “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” Willian Shakespeare – Macbeth
• “What, then is truth?… Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.” – Friedrich Nietzsche 
• “I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me. Aaron Sorkin

Relevance in the Michael Teaching

The Higher Intellectual Center,  sometimes referred to as the Conceptual Center, is one of three Exalted Centers. Referring to the 6th Chakra, it is also referred to in some traditions as the Higher Mind.

These distinctions only make sense if you have had the infamous ah-ha moment of realization, or a revelation, or a blinding flash of genius, when some information or concept comes completely out of the blue.

Isaac Newton has such a moment when the apple dropped out of the tree and into history. Albert Einstein had the same revelation when he saw image of a train and realized the light must travel faster because it always preceded the thing…and we have Relativity.

Popular Examples

LAO TZU, Ah-ha experience, illumination)

Cultural Meaning

One of the most contentious aspects of human thought involves the

Events and Sensations that reflect this Overleaf…

1.  I awoke the other night with an idea that clarified a lot of things for me.

by Stephen Cocconi © 2011, Update, 2024

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