A New Earth - Preface

1. Is a "new earth" arising, a world where the egoic state of consciousness in its insanely dysfunctional manifestations, both individual and collective, has dissolved or at least subsided, and where humans no longer create unnecessary suffering for themselves, one another, as well as other life forms on the planet? 2. subjugation The subjugation of one race by another, the domination of women throughout thousands of years of patriarchy, and the devaluing of people based on social class are for growing numbers of us nightmares of the past. 3. There is a growing awareness of the intrinsic oneness of everything that exists, so that more and more we are seeing an awareness of and deep concern for our fellow humans, the countless animals that are our traveling companions, and the planet itself. 4. affiliation This diminishment of the ego gives rise to empathy and compassion beyond tribal, racial, national, or religious affiliations. 5. succumb If you stay present and do not succumb to fear, if you do not believe the media when they tell you that you should be afraid, these things will not affect you deeply. 6. Acute Acute crisis and dysfunction always precede or coincide with any evolutionary advancement or gain in consciousness. 7. All life-forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve. 8. demise Eventually, the ego brings about its own demise. 9. Make sure the present moment is your friend, not your enemy. Honor it by giving it your fullest attention. Appreciate it by being thankful for it. Become internally aligned with it by allowing it to be as it is. That is the arising of the new earth.

A new earth chapter 2

vocabulary:

1. unfathomable
2. primordial
    "I" embodies the primordial error, ...
3. monstrous
4. precariously
    They are ultimately no more than thoughts held together precariously by the fact that ...
5. annihilated
6. compulsion
7. endow
8. despise
8.1 callous
9. renunciation
    Renunciation of possessions, however, will not automatically free you of the ego.
10. insatiable
11. bulimia
12. grim
13. rapacious
14. anorexia
15. conglomeration

A new earth chapter 1

vocabulary:

1. evocation

2. herald
    Prior to this momentous event that heralds an evolutionary transformation in the life of plants ...

3. Mahakasyapa

4. molecular

5. divine

6. perpetuate
    ... as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state.

7. imposter

8. maya
    They call it maya, the veil of delusion

9. dukkha

10. taint

11. inflicted
      and widespread violence inflicted for religious and ideological reasons.

12. ideological

13. combustion

14. perish
      millions of men perished to gain a few miles of mud

15. maim

16. disfigure

17. genocide

18. holocaust

19. khmer
      Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia

20. Rouge

21. regime

22. abate

23. pathological
      a pathological propensity to commit murder ...

24. lucid

25. commendable
      Trying to become a good or better human being sounds like a commendable and high-minded thing to do, yet ...
26. mar
27. Gautama Siddhartha
28. ridicule
29. revile
      Some of the teachers were ridiculed, reviled, or killed ...
30. Gnosticism
31. Sufism
32. Hasidism
32. Kabbala
33. Judaism
34. Advaita Vedanta
35. Dzogchen
      Zen and Dzogchen in Buddhism.
36. iconoclastic
      Most of these schools were iconoclastic.
37. esoteric
38. synagogue
39. influx
40. cult
41. ossified
42. impervious
      The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
43. insurmountable
44. imperative
45. stark
46. vast
47. derive
48. prophecy
49. synchronistic
50. upheaval