Wednesday, March 7th, 1979

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MULTIPLE DATES: MARCH-JUNE 1979

March 7, Weds.; April 25, Weds.; May 16, Weds.; June 20, Weds.; June 27, Weds.

PB BOOKS; HIDDEN TEACHING

TOPIC: PB Books

SUBJECT: Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga

SUBSUBJECTS: Epistemology, Mentalism, Relativity, Sensation, Vasana, Individual Mind, World-Mind, Memory, Ignorance, Perception, Apperception

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Paul Brunton, The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga

DIAGRAM embedded in notes for 1979 0425:

• FIGURE 1979 0425-1-AB. Mind Produces Experience.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (V13). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

• The notes for these classes are very short so a decision was made to have them all as part of one file.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1979 03/07, 04/25, 05/16, 06/20, 27 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

PB Books; Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga

[Alan Notes Begin]

3/7/79 Hidden Teaching - Relativity

Although experience, space and time are relative, knowledge is not -- to speak of relativity implies something which is not relative.

4/25/79 Hidden Teaching

"The Secret of Space and Time"

[FIGURE 1979 0425-1-AB. Mind Produces Experience. S = Subject; O = Object. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

It is the sensation of touch and muscularity (pressure) that locates you in the body and gives rise to the materiality of the world.

Sensation is not a doorway through which knowledge comes in.

Sensation is the last effect -- thought is prior.

What you experience is your mind -- has to establish the individual mind before bringing in World-Mind in "Downfall of Materialism".

5/16/79 Hidden Teaching

Emotively toned responses are memory in action.

6/20/79 Hidden Teaching

Ingrained in your mind is a positive entity (ignorance) composed of prior experience, interpretive concepts and judgments which form your world experience and distort reality -- it's a real living thing (your ignorance).

Until you understand the role of the individual mind in experience it is a copout to bring in the World-Mind.

6/27/79 Hidden Teaching

Perception is unmediated and does not depend on the body (which is part of what is perceived).

Perception → existence.

Apperception is mediated through the body and therefore presupposes identification with it subsequent to perception.

The world is perceived immediately without the use of the senses.

Apperceptive experience is the product of the ignorance which is a positive entity and interpretive concept.

Your mind is always in a concentrated state (thinking the world into existence).

[Alan Notes End]