Regarding group work... I can only speak from my limited experience as part of a Group Unit within the Ashram of Synthesis.
As I've written within The Magic of Consciousness - Workshops,[1] the Ashram of Synthesis includes a number of Group Units or Group Disciples, each of which is composed of a Group:
Crown or Head Center,
Cave or Synthesis Center,
Throat Center,
Heart Center,
Ajna Center (formulated during the precipitation of the Group Unit into partial appearance).
Each of these Group Centers is composed of a Group Nucleus, a variety of Petals around that nucleus, and an Aura. The Nucleus is responsible for holding the focus of intent for that Center, the Petals for the various tasks or duties of the Center, and the Aura for the activity that manifests those tasks.[2]
For instance, the function of my Spiritual Soul is within:
The Wisdom Group (a Group Unit or Group Disciple, within the Ashram of Synthesis, that has primary responsibility for conveying "The New Thought-form Presentation of The Wisdom" to humanity). This Group Unit includes all of the centers listed above, and within that Unit my place and function, as a Soul, is within:
The Group Heart Center: This center is, among other things, responsible for circulating the Life Aspect within the Wisdom Group. The Heart Center, of course, includes a nucleus, petals, and aura as listed above, and my place and function, as a Soul, is within:
The Heart Center Nucleus: This center nucleus is responsible for holding or focusing the point of purpose at the center of the Heart Center, radiating, that Purpose or Intent to the petals (and through the petals to the center aura), and for "overseeing" the circulation of the Group Unit. The petals of the Heart Center include those of "Teaching" , "Healing" , "Economy" , "Transmutation" , "Communication" , and others which are less susceptible to easy description.
All work done by a Soul in any portion of the Group Unit is, of course, done as that portion, not as an individual Soul.
Now, from its place and purpose within a Group Unit, a Soul can (and at times does) identify with and as "larger" or "smaller" portions of the Soul or "I" dentity of that Unit. For instance:
The Soul of a Nucleus may identify as (become in consciousness):
The Center as a whole or any portion (petal or periphery) of that Center,
any other center within its Group Unit,
the Group Unit as a whole,
as the Group Unit, with the entire Ashramic Group Life,
, and work as that consciousness, through its aura, with the body receptive of Ashram, Group Unit, Center, or Petal.
As that Ashramic Group Life, Group Unit, Center, Petal, and/or Body Receptive, one can then perform inner work on one's self without it being "black magic" , because the work is being done on one's self, and not to someone else.
Now, a concern one sometimes encounters when discussing this type of inner work is the supposed loss of individuality that some believe occurs when identifying with a larger life.
I remember once, when I was in college, encountering a follower of one of those Hindu gurus (wearing saffron robes, sandaled, with one hand tucked in a bag hanging from his neck and fondling the prayer beads hidden inside). He approached me as I was passing by and began to preach about the necessity of dropping everything and leaping into the ocean of being.
This is a glamour of the Piscean age.
While it is possible to lose the individual self when one identifies and becomes the group life, that is not really the goal.
Instead, what one experiences as one moves up into the Ashramic Group Life is an expansion of consciousness which includes both "individual" and group consciousness. There is no loss of self, but an expansion of the meaning and experience of self.
As a result, when working as the larger group, there is no suppression of the individuals within that group. There cannot be, for those individual Souls are the group.
The Ashram as a whole has its motivating Purpose, a part of the Planetary Purpose or Plan.
Each Group Unit or Disciple within the Ashram has its motivating Purpose, its part of the Ashramic Plan, which it works to manifest. Each Group Unit recognizes the place and function of the other Units, and works in cooperation with them.
Each Center within a Group Unit has its motivating purpose, its part of the Unit's function, which it works to manifest. Each Center recognizes the place and function of the other Centers, and works in cooperation with them.
Each individualized Spiritual Soul within a Group Center has its motivating purpose, its part of the Center function, which the Soul works to manifest. Each Soul recognizes the place and function of the other Souls, within the Centers, Units, and Ashram, and works in cooperation with them.
This is a Seventh Ray structure, based on the magic of consciousness. In this structure an organization can be quite large (as the Ashram of Synthesis is), without any suppression of the individuals within that group life.
Copyright © 2005 by Glen Knape