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Anyone who attends our meetings will hear the phrase "to become a vector" used. Another is the "retreat from untruth".
This evening's meeting will pursue a critical review of our understanding of both phrases, which together Rose termed a "reversal technique" and how they are meaningful in our individual attempts for "going within".

Richard Rose's suggestion has been described by some as an aggressive approach to Truth, but regardless, it only matters to the individual if this approach to self-inquiry answers to their intuition.

There is a Law of the Reversed Vector: "Man must become identified with a vector, as a force, if he wishes for results. If the vector is aimed in the wrong direction (relative world objectives) his life is wasted. The Law states that you cannot approach the Truth. You must become (a vector) but you cannot learn the absolute Truth. We find there is only one way, and that is to first build ourselves a very determined person - a vector. We must back into the Truth only by backing away from untruths." -Rose

“… We begin to notice a motion within the head. The physical head does not move, but we become conscious of a mental head that literally turns away from a view. When you are able to turn this internal head, whenever you wish, without any inability to continue thinking, you are halfway home.” -Rose

To aid in the discussion this evening, we'll be selectively referring to a Google Doc by Lenny, here. It is worth further contemplation as are other writings for pursuing a reversal technique. There is no single technique to learn, only hints, inspiration and one's own intuition to guide us. Our evening's discussion will hope to sift through some of these ideas so that each of us can better 'catch the drift'.
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Similar phrases:
Un-Manifesting the Manifested

Becoming via Un-becoming
Retreating From Un-truth, Re-traversing the projected ray
Going within, Backing away, Letting go,
Stopping, Turning away, Subtraction, Eliminating, Shifting, Rising above

Attempts at definition:
Definition of Truth: The Absolute absence of ALL un-truth. Cannot be: conceptualized, described, pointed at, known. Has no existence. “Absolute”

Definition of un-truth: m/Mind/s ~ c/Consciousness/s interpretations of received &/or interpreted data: i.e. our perception of: All & Everything. All that exists.
Definition of Retreating From un-truth: Retraversing The Projected Ray, Un-Manifesting the Manifested, Becoming via Unbecoming
Definition of The Projected Ray: God's Will (i suppose we could say God is the “Light” of The Absolute)
Definition of God's Will: Intent to Manifest All Possibilities (Infinite Creation followed by Intent on continuation of the species)
Definition of Enlightenment: Having “experienced” the Absolute absence of all untruth (death of the m/Mind)… … a word-jumble to attempt description: a shift prior to existence / non-existence…

Examples of simple "untruths" worth investigating:

We/ego/entity/it: wants a snack, feels ashamed, thinks, believes, is confused, questions, feels insulted, awakens, imagines, dreams, story lines
We notice that we have deep seated pre-existing beliefs about various things that don’t allow us to see each individual situations clearly

We are very angry when someone infers we are less than them/others
We see that we have groups of egos/entities that form a “collective” referred to as “states-of-mind”
We get angry, frustrated & depressed in specific situations
We think we know things (it is not the things we think we know but that we think we know)
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Questions to further ponder:

  1. If you do not practice retreating, how do you re-traverse the projected ray?
  2. If you do not or do not believe in re-traversing the projected ray, what do you do?
  3. How does re-traversing work?
  4. Are there differences between: retreating, going within, backing away, letting go, shifting
    surrendering, stopping, turning away, subtracting, eliminating, ignoring, rising above?
  5. How important is retreating from little un-truths?
  6. Who/what is doing the retreating?
  7. How does retreating feel?
  8. How do we know if we are retreating?
  9. What is the outcome of retreating?

Related topics

Advaita Vedanta
G.I. Gurdjieff
Nondualism
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Ramana Maharshi

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