Richard Rose’s Psychology of the Observer The Path to Reality Through the Self

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1. Set the house in order (as described).
2. Learn to conserve the vital energies. Find determination and desire for direction with the
success of conserving the energies.
3. Direct the energies profitably (see sections on meditation, Jacob’s Ladder, and betweenness).
THE LIFE [the Sanghat]:
1. Value brotherhood and cooperation. Brotherhood involves spiritual, mental, and physical
help, in that order.
2. Utilize and understand the Law of the Ladder. The Sanghat is the matrix in which the Law
of the Ladder bears fruit.
3. Become a vector. You must become a vector before you become the truth.
THE TRUTH [the Buddha]:
1. Speak and act the truth in all things relative (physical or vocal truth).
2. Do not rationalize (mental truth).
3. Become the truth (Absolute Truth).
All of the above aspects of work must be done simultaneously. One should not concentrate on
personal affairs exclusively and forget the brotherhood or the practice of truth.
One must remove the urgency of habits. Habits are not sins, but can sap one’s energy and
even cause trouble or death. One should not allow slavery to any habit or appetite. These include a
wide range of distractions and obsessions which may not be negative except in relation to the path.
With this energy and desire thus salvaged, add to the intensity of the vector, harmonizing the
body, and raising somatic energy to the head. With this mental energy one will then engage in
philosophical research by investigating the systems taught in the different schools of spiritual and
psychological work. We also meditate upon our reactions, learn discrimination, and learn to react
with discrimination. Finally, when the observation of reactions becomes intense enoughthe mind
will stop.
The group or sanghat serves to sustain and remind the members, thus keeping them on the
path and stimulating their progress. The Law of the Ladder is used. One does not advance without
helping and being helped. The Law of the Ladder is the formula by which the group is able to find for
all someone to help and someone who can use help.
One must become a vector, and to fully implement the Law of the Vector, one usually needs
someone to monitor progress and function as a catalyst at the proper moment. The full understanding
of the Law of the Vector involves the knowledge of reversing it. As it is now, it is aimed at the
relative world scene.
In order to insure individual and group success, we must once again realize the significance of
the term: commitment. As in all things, the commitment should be three fold: body, mind, and
essence. One cannot commit one’s essence, as it is already committed. We are essentially one as far
as the Absolute is concerned. However, there is a paradox in this, which first requires the semblance
of individual effort from within the illusion in order for this realization of noindividuality and noeffort
to occur.
The ThreeFold Path can be summed up like this: to act and relate truthfully in all ways, and
promote parallel effort in working with others is the Life; to thoroughly know the truth about oneself
and the world through mental purification is the Way; and to eliminate the false egoself, to see the