Glossary of Terms

As the principles of life and existence are worked with and understood, a person's evolution is powerfully propelled. To encourage the appreciation and understanding of these often subtle principles, a Glossary of Terms is provided. If there is a term you come across that you have questions about, it may be further explained here.

A compendium of these terms (The Surya Lexicon) is available for purchase.

Select the word or phrase from the list. The definition will appear.

  1. 100% responsibility
  2. 2 boxes or 3
  3. 3 realms of existence
  4. 40/40/20
  5. 5 divine currents
  6. alchemical transformation
  7. assemblage point
  8. association
  9. astral
  10. astral projections
  11. Band-Aid therapy
  12. Barbie and Ken doll
  13. be easy with it
  14. being, merging, knowing & doing
  15. belief system
  16. Big Bang theory
  17. black box
  18. blind spot
  19. blocks and ins
  20. body felt sense
  21. Buckaroo Banzai
  22. capture the fort
  23. caretaker
  24. cartoonist consciousness
  25. catharsis
  26. center
  27. chit
  28. churning process
  29. clarity trip
  30. cognition
  31. collusion
  32. colored glasses
  33. communion with
  34. conditioning
  35. cones and vortices/ lotus flowers
  36. connotation
  37. consciousness
  38. consciousness aware of itself
  39. container
  40. cords
  41. Cords
  42. cosmic cushion
  43. cosmic joke
  44. Cosmic transference
  45. cross-realm projection
  46. cultural integrity
  47. current human condition
  48. dangling carrot
  49. dharma
  50. discernment
  51. dissociation
  52. divinity
  53. double bind
  54. Dremmel tool
  55. duality
  56. ego
  57. emotional indulgence
  58. emotional release
  59. energy of coherence
  60. energy/energetic
  61. enlightenment
  62. everyone does something
  63. evolution
  64. expanded self
  65. expectations
  66. exploration
  67. external doing
  68. eye of the needle
  69. facets of the diamond
  70. feeling your way
  71. finest feelings
  72. first response
  73. fold in the paper
  74. gap
  75. give it your best shot
  76. giving space
  77. Gold Star
  78. good and evil
  79. healthy relationship with
  80. Heisenberg uncertainty principle
  81. helation
  82. hidden statement
  83. higher self, lower self, mask
  84. hold it lightly
  85. holding space/resting place
  86. holding up a mirror
  87. humility
  88. humility is the flip side of wisdom
  89. I-get-it Syndrome
  90. ice-cream-cone-in-the-sky reality
  91. idealized notion
  92. identity
  93. identity with…
  94. ignorance
  95. in/out vs. out/in
  96. inner landscape
  97. inner space
  98. integration
  99. intellect
  100. internal doing
  101. IPGACO
  102. judging our judgment
  103. karma
  104. kids on the beach
  105. kind of, sort of, feels like, maybe
  106. King of the Universe
  107. knowing about vs. becoming
  108. knowledge vs. Knowledge
  109. landscape
  110. lateral adaptation
  111. laws of nature
  112. laws of the land
  113. leading while following
  114. life supporting
  115. lines of light
  116. longing
  117. looking at the loop
  118. love
  119. mapping
  120. meditation
  121. mentality
  122. mind/state of "no mind"
  123. mirroring
  124. model
  125. motivation
  126. nadi vigyan
  127. narcissistic
  128. natural healing
  129. natural law
  130. neurotic
  131. non-attachment
  132. objective/subjective
  133. organic shift
  134. other people
  135. overlay
  136. paradigm
  137. paradox
  138. passive-aggressive
  139. past life
  140. personal process
  141. personality level
  142. personified value
  143. perspective
  144. physiology (greater)
  145. pinch
  146. post traumatic stress disorder
  147. potato/pot(aa)to
  148. power
  149. prana
  150. preconceived notion
  151. probability cloud
  152. projective identification
  153. psyche
  154. psychoenergetic
  155. psychophysiological centers
  156. psychophysiological health
  157. psychophysiological release
  158. psychotic
  159. purification
  160. put something out there and see what comes back
  161. puzzle of life analogy
  162. quantum mechanical/finest feeling
  163. Queen of the Universe
  164. razor’s edge
  165. reality
  166. reality continuum
  167. reason/will/emotion
  168. relationship with…
  169. resting place
  170. rosebud metaphor
  171. rubber bands, paper clips, and the blob
  172. S.E.H.
  173. Sama Veda
  174. Samskara/impressions
  175. second response
  176. secret doctrine
  177. Self
  178. self-correcting mechanism
  179. self-normalizing process
  180. Self-realized
  181. Self-referral process
  182. spirituality
  183. stress
  184. subtle sense perception
  185. tail of the kite
  186. taste of a strawberry
  187. tilling the soil
  188. transcendent
  189. transgradient
  190. transgradient exploration
  191. transgradient flexibility
  192. transgradient integration
  193. true freedom
  194. true healing
  195. true health
  196. understanding
  197. unified field
  198. vertical evolution
  199. wheel of karma
  200. white-knuckling
  201. wisdom
  202. you-figure-it-out-approach