A Glossary for the Charles Material

© 2003 Kurt Leland

Abandoned process--a lesson that one has refused to participate in.

Ambivalence--the state of mind that results whenever one is involved in a process that has no guaranteed outcome.

Anticipation--an emotionally charged expectation.

Belief--an opinion about the nature of reality held as true.

Body consciousness--the purely physical and instinctive “animal nature” of humankind, focused on survival, self-propagation, and internal organization for the accomplishment of various tasks. It arises from the minute awareness of individual identity residing in each cell of the body.

Comfort--the situation created when one is involved only in processes that do have guaranteed outcomes--because all the learning involved in them has been completed.

Core personality--one’s unique function within the whole of humanity, the universe, or God.

Dissatisfaction--the feeling that results from having ignored or improperly addressed a need.

Dormant process--a lesson that temporarily cannot be continued for lack of necessary information or opportunity.

Ego--the portion of the self that results from the interaction between the nonphysical soul and the purely physical body consciousness, usually identical to one’s personality.

Emotion--a message sent from the soul to indicate where and how one is mismanaging one’s life force.

Emotional static--internal noise that affects the mind’s ability to operate efficiently, a nonverbal expression of resistance to fulfilling the soul’s plans for one’s growth (the verbal expression is shadow logic, q.v.).

Energy leakage--any resisted or abandoned growth process, so called because the soul withdraws some of the life force that supports one’s presence in physical reality on account of the resistance.

Energy transformation--the manner in which the soul experiences and understands a lesson, analogous to changes of mood in music.

Enlightenment--the state of knowing what to next under any given set of circumstances.

Essence--an expression of core personality, one of several typical ways of expressing energy in physical reality for the purpose of supporting one’s own and others’ growth.

Essential self--the portion of the personality that develops in response to the movement from pursuing a passionate interest to fulfilling one or more aspects of one’s life purpose.

Expectation--a belief about how physical reality or some part of it--including a person--will behave with respect to one in a given situation.

Fear--one of the five signals of an abandoned growth process (q.v.), the result of refusing to being a process.

Feeling--the physical/emotional sensation of rising or falling levels of life force, which creates the states of satisfaction and happiness or dissatisfaction and unhappiness.

Frustration--one of the five signals of an abandoned growth process (q.v.), the result of refusing to keep a process going by pursuing an appropriate set of steps.

Going unconscious--a shutting down of awareness due to habit, routine, or some kind of impulsive behavior whose intention is to drown out communications from the soul with emotional static.

Growth--the process that results from an alternation of states of awareness between participating in an action and contemplating its consequences in order to prepare for further action.

Guilt--one of the five signals of an abandoned growth process (q.v), the result of refusing to complete a process properly.

Happiness--the feeling that results from a rising level of life force

Idée fixe--an obsessive notion about what will make one happy, often the core of compulsive behavior.

Improving cycle--the manner in which an abandoned growth process is resumed and completed, either piecemeal or all at once.

Impulses--messages from the soul or the body that indicate the appropriateness of the ego’s undertaking a certain activity at a certain time.

Lesson--an experience seen in terms of its meaning to one’s overall development.

Life force--an energy supplied by the soul for the purpose of fueling growth in physical reality

Life purpose--one’s unique contribution to the world in any given lifetime, consisting of activities that involve service to the body, soul, creator, personality, family, humanity, and all life.

Mental and emotional space--the mind’s internal buffer, which, when free of resistance to growth (shadow logic, or mental clutter) and unfinished growth processes (energy leakages and their attendant emotional static), enhances the performance and efficiency of any inwardly or outwardly directed task.

Need--a condition of diminished humanity which, when satisfied, disappears from one’s awareness.

Nostalgia--one of the five signals of an abandoned growth process (q.v). It develops whenever an already completed growth process is not relinquished to begin a new one.

Overload state--the result of an accumulation of ignored impulses or postponed or abandoned processes.

Passionate interest--enthusiasm for an activity in some way related to one’s growth or life purpose, indicating the support of the soul

Postponed process--a lesson that has been put on hold because of the ego’s belief that there is no time for it.

Process--the progression of growth through four stages: its initiation and maintenance through action, and its dissolving and transformation through observation.

Satisfaction--the feeling (q.v.) that results from having properly addressed a need.

Self-pity--emotional static on its way to becoming shadow logic.

Shadow--the portion of the ego that resists the soul’s requirements for growth.

Shadow logic--the manner in which the ego justifies or rationalizes its resistance to the soul’s requirements for growth.

Shame--one of the five signals of an abandoned growth process (q.v.), the result of refusing to own the lessons of an already completed process so that one doesn’t have to repeat it.

Signals of an abandoned growth process--emotional messages sent by the soul to indicate at what point (beginning, middle, end, or afterward) a process has been abandoned. They are: fear, frustration, guilt, nostalgia, and shame (q.v.).

Soul--the nonphysical portion of the self--an energy that resides in nonphysical reality and reaches into physical reality through the body.

Soul’s master plan for one’s growth--the predetermined, or what and why aspects of one’s learning in a given lifetime, seen as a whole.

Soul’s perspective--the analysis of one’s experiences on earth in terms of what one has learned from it.

Soul’s requirements for one’s growth--the predetermined, or what and why aspects of one’s learning in a given lifetime.

Stress--the physical and emotional reaction to ignoring or resisting an impulse.

Surface personality--an expression of the ego generated by the craving for acceptance or approval.

Unhappiness--the feeling that results from a falling level of life force.

Value--a belief that motivates one to take action of some kind.

Want--a subverted need, one that can never be satisfied without a craving for more.

Willingness to be here--a feeling of joyous acceptance of one’s presence in the body and on the planet.

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