Essence's ratio of creative and focused energy.

A grouping of approximately 1,000 essences that together are "cast from the Tao" and so remain linked throughout a Grand Cycle. A spiritual family; there are strong connections between each one and recognition often occurs.

A soul connection, occuring when two people allow a connection to their own essence while allowing energy to flow between them. A great impetus for spiritual growth, albeit rare in its most dramatic forms. It can be a higher centered experience.

Another essence you team up with during the casting process at in the beginning of a grand cycle. The closest bond an essence can have with another. Also known as twin soul" or "twin flame." When both are incarnate and interact on the physical plane, it is the most intense and intimate connection people can have. Essence twins share experiences between lives and even during lives.(See Bleed-through.) Essence twins also act as mirrors or complements for one another. Can can be the same role but are usually from different entities. (See also "Grand cycle.")"

Same as "cardinal". An energy that is "out there" and more noticeable. More comfortable in dealing with larger groups as opposed to one-on-one.

One of the four axes, which are expression, inspiration, action and assimilation. The expression axis is about bringing the inner world into the outer.

(See Creative Energy.)

The quality of being flexible, quick-moving, light, and airy. Connected to the outer edges of the cosmos.

The "four trues", or pillars, include: true play, true rest, true study and true work. These are activities that help you connect to essence and who you are and support you in working with your Life Task You are drawn to each of your "trues" on an intuitive level, but consciously understanding what they do can help you choose your supporting atmosphere. Play brings aliveness; rest brings presence and energy; study brings insight and focus; and true work directs you to your Life Task.

A relative rate of vibration of essence given on a scale of one to one hundred. Slow frequencies feel more solid to others, high frequences more electric and ethereal.

One of the overleaves - the primary motivator, chosen as a focus to be explored in a given lifetime or series of lifetimes. The seven goals are reevaluation, growth, discrimination, acceptance, submission, dominance, and flow.

A unit of seven primary cadences; 49 essences. (See Cadence.)

One of the seven goals. Its expansive pole is comprehension; its contracted pole is confusion. It tends to be chosen for lifetimes that emphasize expansion, trying new things, and diving into new experiences. The most common goal. Those in growth seek experience and stimulation.

The higher intellectual, higher emotional, and higher moving centers. These are gateways to the absolutes of Truth, Love, and pure energy/beauty. Accessed most often during transcendent moments of high intensity. Accessing the higher centers has sometimes been called an "enlightenment" experience.

The essence-based energy of connection to absolute Truth. All there is to know about beingness in connection itself. "The Highest Truth is Love"

One of the seven attitudes. Its expansive pole is coalescence; its contracted pole is abstraction. The point of view of perceiving "what should be" and how a person, situation, thing, or experience could be changed for the better.

Belief in the indisputable reality of the game of life and belief in maya.

The collection of influences upon a child from parents, education, and society in general. Most imprinting is not overtly taught; the child learns more from non-overt imprinting, or simply from being in the energy of his surroundings. You need imprinting in order to learn how to act in society. Imprinting is examined during the 4th internal monad.

The first of the five soul age perceptions on the physical plane. Infant souls learn survival issues, how the physical body works and how to work with instinct and instinctual relationships. Generally prefer primitive cultures to facilitate these lessons.

Each role has a number of "input channels" through which information is gathered. Warriors, Kings, and Scholars are single-focused and have one input. Servers and Priests have two inputs: the other being common good and higher source, respectively. Sages have three inputs, which deal with awareness of the audience while speaking. The artisan has five inputs which aid its creativity.

The energy locus in the body that relates to automatic functions, past life memories, instict, primal fears, and reflexes. It is like a mini computer, holding energy relating to karmas and agreements. Its expansive pole is atomic; its contracted pole is anatomic.

An internal monad is a shift in perception within a lifetime. There are 7 internal monads: Birth, the "terrible twos", "out of the nest" at becoming an adult, the midlife crisis, the "senior citizen" life review, the awareness of approaching death and death itself. There is an association of each monad to both chakras and soul age perceptions.

The body type relating to the posterior pituitary gland. Tendency to be large-bodied, smiling easily, maternal, and humorously extroverted. Its expansive pole is grand; its contracted pole is extravagant. Classic type: Santa Claus. The cardinal body type on the expressive axis.

One of the seven essence roles. Kings seek mastery, which is its expansive pole; its contracted pole is tyranny. Kings like and need a metaphoric kingdom to rule.

A manifestation of the infinite soul who brought energy from the Mental Plane.