<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89867861666094359</id><updated>2011-08-04T07:19:07.360-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The LADDER OF LIFE</title><subtitle type='html'>A novel image with which docjp explains the Purpose of Life, and how we ascend the rungs of this imaginary Ladder of Life.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://docjpladder.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/89867861666094359/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://docjpladder.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>James W. Patterson, Ph.D., Esogist</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15068983807305837381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GeEWJdiA2iE/TI_P5Rt_naI/AAAAAAAAAI4/dOweUgl0ZLE/S220/jp+photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89867861666094359.post-6413482588420269723</id><published>2010-04-13T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-21T08:49:26.276-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The LADDER OF LIFE.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;My phrase "Ladder of Life"  is an analogy to help explain  the Purpose of Life.... and yes, I  believe there is a Purpose of Life, and I discuss this in considerable  detail in my  book: &lt;u&gt; "Esochology and the Purpose of Life".&lt;/u&gt;   Published by Publish America in 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To begin this fascinating  trip into one of the most secretive areas of the great "Unknown" of  Life, use your creative juices and imagine  a huge step ladder,  the  bottom rungs of which are much wider than the rungs as they ascend...  because upon the bottom rungs of this ladder are perched the majority of  Souls that have committed to Life.   Committed to life?  A Soul can  "commit" to life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generally unknown to people [other than  some  Eastern mystics, or those familiar with mysticism] is the fact that  there are numberless Souls existing on the Astral and Causal regions of  Creation who have yet to "commit" to "Life".  By using the term "Life", I  refer to the many Esoteric [usually unseen] operations that each of us  are subjected to that are built into Life [my term for the totality of  everything taking place in support of every Soul as it fulfills the  "Purpose of Life"].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To explain what the phrase "&lt;a href="http://thepurposeoflife-is.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Purpose of Life&lt;/a&gt;"  means is easy...... if one comprehends what the Law of Karma means?   Unfortunately, in the West, very few people realize what the Law of  Karma means.  And this lack of understanding is due to 1.  The Christian  penchant for the mistaken notion that Man has only one life to live; 2.   The denial of the &lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/esoteric.html"&gt;Esoteric&lt;/a&gt;  two-thirds of Man by modern mental health; 3. A natural "built-in" fear  of the "Unknown" subtly existing within the &lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/MIND.html"&gt;MIND&lt;/a&gt; of almost every  single person.  The net result of this "denial" is  that in America, the  majority of citizens ignore the Esoteric two-thirds of themselves and  do not realize they are doing so.  And modern mental health has  systematically supported this denial for the last century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  Purpose of Life is to do &lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/karma.html"&gt;Karma&lt;/a&gt;.   One  rises up  the rungs of the Ladder of Life by accumulating  "Spiritual  Evolution".... which is the result of "completing" Karma. And this  entire process takes place entirely "within" oneself.  Within the  "mystical" and Esoteric realms operating within oneself.  But nothing of  this "within" can be seen or experienced by ones physical senses or  ones brain or its thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is.... the ONLY way to  access the Esoteric dimensions operating within oneself is via ones  faculty of intuition.  This "secret" continues because modern mental  health is in denial of the Esoteric two-thirds of Man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have  coined the term "&lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/esotransmutation.html"&gt;Esotransmutation&lt;/a&gt;"  to refer to the many Esoteric elements within Man that makeup this  mystical and fascinating process of Reality .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What if I were to  say that  the &lt;a href="http://thepurposeoflife-is.blogspot.com/"&gt;Purpose  of Life&lt;/a&gt; is  "to do Karma".   Would this make perfect sense to you?   If so, then you know what Karma means.   If you don't know what Karma  means,  check it out:  "  &lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/karma.html"&gt;Karma&lt;/a&gt;" . Again, a  simple verbal listing of words does not Karma explain.  The  most  important aspects of Life are Esoteric. And since the Esoteric  dimensions of Man exist beyond the grasp of ones brain, thinking, and  physical senses, it cannot be conveyed by words.   But it can be  "experienced" by ones faculty of &lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/intuition.html"&gt;intuition&lt;/a&gt;.  Ones  intuition is an aspect of  ones &lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/apapsyche.html"&gt;Apapsyche&lt;/a&gt; -  [Operational Energy of ones Soul].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that the Esoteric  dimensions of Man cannot be known by ones brain or physical senses....  by thinking about them or by talking about them [except in the  "abstract" by using abstract references],  really limits people in their  discovery of the Esoteric dimensions "within" themselves.  And since  the field of education in America ignores the faculty of intuition  -  along with science and  modern mental health or  "&lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/BS-bp.html"&gt;BS&amp;amp;bp&lt;/a&gt;" [Behavioral  Science and the oxymoron "behavioral psychology"], it is relatively  difficult for most people to discover this most important faculty of  Man.  The intellectualism we admire so much keeps the Truth from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So,  the "Ladder of Life" is simply my way of picturing the process by which  we Souls accumulate &lt;a href="http://about-psychology.com/CDK.html"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;CDKA&amp;amp;EU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.   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