Enlightenment

This ScratchPad Wiki is an exploratory project to test if a full Wiki on this topic is feasible. its focus is on Spritual Enlightenment and related themes.

Topic areas include, but are not limited to:

What is Enlightenement? Definitional Limits Attributes from Various Spiritual Traditions Commonalities, Differences and Diversity States or Stages Signs: Internal, External Group Enlightenment / Collective Consciousness Experiences Beyond words What is Enlightened Interpretative Filters and Limits Cognitive Errors

Practices and Methods Yoga Tantric Meditation Breath Neo-Advatic / Satsang Darshan Shaktipat Visual Self-Inquiry Service Chanting and Singing Spontaneous Bodily Western vs. Eastern Herbs, Supplements Ayurveda Yagyas Grace Striving vs Non-Striving

Paradoxes

Traditions / Schools of Practice

Current Teachers

Learning Issues Payment / Service Traditions and Lineages Teacher Qualifications Preparation and Foundations Steps or Limbs Research Physiological Correlates EEG Metabolism Psychological Social and Group

Traditional Literature on Enlightenment

Related Models and Mechanics Mind Intellect Memory / Impressions Karma and Knots (Vasanas) Effects constraining Enlightenment Residual Effects of Karma Impressions, Vasanas Karma -- Post Enlightenment Modifying, Neutralizing and Unwininding Chakras Marmas Kundalini

Terminology

Past Exponents and Teachers

Practioners and Seekers Monastic Recluse Worldly

Claims and Acknowledgements of Enightenment Traditional Premature Self-knowlege Takes One to Know One Group