We live in an unresolved mystery. It is the mystery of who we really are. Who are you? Are you a name? Are you a body? Are you a product of your thought process? Is thought a product of your brain? Is consciousness dependent on thought? Do you identify yourself as a "soul"? Try to locate the soul. Is it somewhere inside the body? Is the soul an object? Is the soul another word for the mind? Is the "soul" just one more passing thought in a stream of thoughts? Self-enquiry is the investigation of this mystery. Why investigate? Human nature revolts at its own ignorance. Nothing is more insulting...

The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese book consisting of eighty-one brief chapters. It is said to have been written by Lao Tzu more than two thousand years ago. The Way of the Force is an interpolation of the Tao Te Ching.

We assume that we are conscious. In fact our "consciousness" is essentially a dream, not a reality. We do not live. We dream. We sleep. In the space that immediately follows the question "Who am I?" we begin to taste our potential for consciousness. It is our glimmering sense of being present. Conscious development is a science. Consciousness develops from our innate intention to be conscious. That is our birthright. The establishment has hidden it from us. Consciousness is not a privilege that will be given to us. We must develop it by our own conscious action.

To formulate a question properly you really need an intuitive grasp of the answer. I am reminded of a mathematical equation where the equal sign serves as a mirror that reflects either side to the other. A question may be viewed as the reflection of its own answer. This is why a question is often more important than its answer. The question may determine the answer.

There is something missing in every one of us. We live with missing pieces to the puzzle of our existence. Every childhood is marked by experiences that remain a mystery despite our most persistent analysis, experiences that can neither be explained nor entirely ignored. These events pass through the wide nets of distant memory, and shadow the edge of our everyday awareness. We can neither fathom their significance nor deny the power they exert over us, an undertow that is subtle and that pervades every aspect of our lives. The extent to which these forgotten events influence the formation of...

What does it mean to be conscious? It's a question that leads to an intimate investigation of ourselves, of who we are. It's a very hard question to follow up on. The longer we hold the question, the deeper and more difficult the investigation. Consciousness is what knows itself. We possess this in rudimentary form when we are healthy and awake. It is our sense of being present. It is usually overshadowed by compulsive thinking. We typically identify ourselves within compulsive thinking, and from that perspective we have only a dim sense of being present. When we learn to get a feel for that...

We live in an unresolved mystery. It is the mystery of who we really are. We possess a potential for conscious development. Conscious development is a science whereby we generate conscious energy, the Force of consciousness. The circulation of the Force leads to self-knowledge and reveals the Archetype of Reality. The Archetype is the blueprint of consciousness and life. It is a Microcosm, a perfectly proportioned self-sustaining totality. It is the epitome of Beauty. The Archetype is a universal analog that can define and resolve virtually any subject. It is illustrated by the twenty-two...

We must build a bridge of awareness between who we are as individuals and who we are in eternity. The bridge of awareness is the soul, a Microcosm, individual and universal. It is fully conscious rather than only partially conscious as we are in our given condition. To be fully human is to be conscious as an individual while simultaneously realizing our eternal nature. We bridge the individual and the universal with conscious awareness. If we do not build this bridge in time, we lose for eternity.

An electric sensation possesses me, against which I am powerless to defend. My body becomes instantly rigid, the respiration slows remarkably and the heartbeat assumes an unnatural rhythm, while my senses, intensified to an extraordinary degree, invert themselves and blend into a single and altered perception of mere being. The duration of the attacks varies from several seconds to several hours, during which time I am oblivious to the world and to all efforts at reviving me. And during these attacks, although independent of their relative duration, the visions arise. This book contains...

We possess the potential to develop consciousness. There is a science with which we may rise out of our given state of relative unconsciousness and grow fully conscious. The science of conscious development consists of a system that can be understood verbally, allegorically and mathematically. The verbal model of conscious development consists of a glossary of terms in English with precise definitions. The allegorical model of conscious development outlines the components of consciousness in the context of a story. The Archetypal story is an allegory of conscious development. The twenty-two...