The sense of self that allows us to function in the physical world. An uneducated or imbalanced ego can lead to the formation of a false personality where psychological suffering is created.

The broader set of psychological traits that form a person, and through which the sense of self, or ego, manifests.

Attachment to, or involvement with, the entity that goes by our name, and the personal feeling of being separate from the rest of the universe, and the feeling of vulnerability that it generates. The sense of separation is the root of psychological suffering.

Suffering that is created based on wrong identification. Suffering created through false personality. If the wrong ideas are recognized and neutralized, and the identification is corrected, psychological suffering becomes absent.

That part of our personalities that, when active, produces psychological suffering. Usually, the ego does not receive proper education early in life, and thus, fear becomes overblown, and psychological suffering becomes habitual.

The process a seeker goes through in the early phase of spiritual work whereby the ego is re-educated, observed, and controlled. During this period, the seeker does not know what they are seeking or working for, or has a vague intuition but is covered by spiritual beliefs and theories.

A recognition of our True Nature and a simultaneous recognition of the True Nature of the world. That is, All is Consciousness.

The process a seeker goes through in the final period of spiritual work, whereby the personality is stripped of unnecessary concepts, beliefs, and functions. This period begins with Awakening. In this period, the seeker has a clear, intuitive knowledge, based on direct experience, of what is being sought.

The act of investigating the True Nature of “I,” or questioning the veracity of “I.” Before Awakening, this action may lead to Awakening. After Awakening, this action has the function of re-establishing the Truth glimpsed and contributing to further eliminating the unnecessary from the seeker’s personality.

Total Acceptance and peace with whatever is present at this moment. Absence of sense of separation. Absence of psychological suffering. Absence of seeking. Nothing is wrong anymore.

Space and the sense of existing prior to having a name, a personality, or a body. It is the seed of the manifestation or experience. It is the Natural State manifested in sentient form. 

Pure Consciousness. Our True Nature is not a special state that is reached or achieved. It is natural and normal. Now.