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Death

Death Space
Defending
Defense
Deficient Emptiness
Depression
Destiny
Development
Developmental Psyc.
Diamond Approach
Diamond Consciousness
Diamond Dome
Diamond Guidance
Diamond Issues
Diamond Vehicles
Dimensions
Direct Perception
Discipline
Discrimination
Disidentification
Dissolution
Dissolving
Distortion
Divine Light
Divine Love
Dreaming
Duality
Dynamic Presence
Dynamism

Direct Perception

By direct perception we mean what is actually perceived when the inner capacities of Essence are functioning. These capacities are not generally experienced on the ego level, but sometimes a hint of them can be recognized from the perspective of the ego. For instance, the capacity of empathy is commonly recognized, and acknowledged by some psychologists as a valid mode of perception. However from the vantage point of Being, empathy is seen as the first vague glimmer of a capacity of Being. When this capacity is developed, one does not vaguely sense the emotional state of the other person, but one is clearly conscious of the exact inner state of the other. One knows what the other feels, where in the body the feelings are, what tension patterns accompany the state, how the other is interpreting this state, and even what is underneath the state in the unconscious. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 235)

 

 

This organism is all fundamentally consciousness, but in its differentiated manifestation as soul this consciousness can know itself not only in direct perception of its fundamental nature as consciousness, presence, and Being, but also it can know all of its differentiations and manifestations. (The Inner Journey Home)

 

 

The recognition, which is a direct perception, is that everything is in me. The body, the universe, essence, personality, everything that can become an object of perception, is not me, but is in me. I am pure awareness, mere witnessing, where everything arises and passes away. (Luminous Night's Journey)