Applied Transontology is a process of ontological education and transformation leading to personal realization of the Absolute Truth. In theory, all the information required to attain perfection in self-realization is available from the Esoteric Teaching; in practice, it is very difficult for people without special background and training to benefit from it. The degree of ontological aberration in contemporary people is much greater than when the scriptures of the Esoteric Teaching were recorded about 5,000 years ago. Therefore we developed Transontology to bridge the ontological and cultural gaps between people today and the Esoteric Teaching, making the sublime benefits of this great spiritual tradition easily accessible to everyone.
Transontology is a spiritual technology; like any field of technology or engineering, it is always a work in progress. It must be flexible enough to adapt to a wide variety of circumstances and applications without compromising its principles or losing its effectiveness. Therefore we are always eager to hear about successful applications, new improvisations and inspired inventions that produce results. The only rule is: somehow or other, bring people to the exalted state of self-realization as described in the Esoteric Teaching. We’re only interested in figuring out how a new technique works once we know that it does work. And if it breaks existing rules, so much the better: then we’ve learned something really important!
So this paper, or any other paper on Transontology, is only a suggestion: our best understanding at the time of writing. If you can improve on this understanding, please, by all means go ahead. We are eager to hear of your successful work; after all, the aim of this endeavor is to help people. Exactly how we do it is a detail. With that understanding, let’s review the current state of the art of Transontology.
The Esoteric Teaching
The Esoteric Teaching of the Vedas was first presented in the West in an abbreviated and distorted form by Indian teachers like Swami Vivekananda. This greatly minimized its usefulness, and led many intelligent and educated people to reject it. Finally in 1965, our spiritual Master Teacher presented the Esoteric Teaching in its complete and undistorted form. Unfortunately, the Esoteric Teaching is considered a religious tradition in the Indian cultural context. In Western culture this introduces an unfortunate bias due to widespread cheating and the insufficiencies of Western religion in solving the practical problems of life.
The Esoteric Teaching is actually a science, and it is extremely effective in that form. However it is different from Western science because its ontology includes an extensive understanding of the categories and qualities of transcendental entities such as consciousness, the soul and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This ontology is drawn from the Sanskrit teachings of Vedanta such as the Upanisads, Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam and the works of the Gosvamis of Vrndavana. Transontology presents the Esoteric Teaching in a scientific framework, making it more accessible to Westerners educated in empirical methodology.
The goal of Transontology processes is to bring the client’s personal ontology into alignment with the transcendental ontology of the Esoteric Teaching. This can be done most effectively with a combination of education, counseling and personal spiritual work. The traditional spiritual processes of the Esoteric Teaching may not be effective with people who have little religious sentiment or Vedic cultural background; therefore the educational and counseling approach is preferred, especially for public presentations and new students.
Transontology Counseling
A qualified client for Transontology Counseling has enough educational background in Transontology to have some understanding of and confidence in its aims, intentions and methods. Transontology Counseling develops a personalized set of powerful affirmations to transform the client’s ontology, and start them on the road to realization of the Esoteric Teaching. The affirmations are designed to:
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Counteract the client’s inappropriate Semantic MetaModels.
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Diminish the client’s false ego and introduce concepts of spiritual identity.
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Build the client’s positive relationship with the Master Teacher and the Supreme Personality of Godhead .
Creating an effective set of personalized affirmations requires the Transontology Counselor to develop the following background information:
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Survey the client’s real-time problems and their associated semantic patterns.
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Survey the client’s habitual inappropriate Semantic MetaModels.
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Determine the nature and qualities of the client’s false ego.
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Determine the nature of the client’s concept of spiritual life and God.
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Develop an effective set of positive semantic challenges for the client’s inappropriate Semantic MetaModels and include these in the language of the affirmations.
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Develop a set of affirmations to reinforce the client’s spiritual identity.
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Develop a set of affirmations to reinforce the client’s positive relationship with the Master Teacher and the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Once a set of appropriate affirmations is developed, they are recorded (with hypnotic trance induction if necessary) over a background of a harinama-mantra that the client has faith in. The client listens to this recording first thing in the morning and last thing at night, and at other convenient times in the day (such as while commuting to and from work) meditating on the affirmations as creative visualizations.
There should be enough time between affirmations for the client to visualize the material. The recording should not last more than 45 minutes. There will seldom be enough time to address all the issues developed during the discovery process. The Counselor must therefore consult the client to prioritize the issues to be addressed in the affirmations.
The Counselor performs the discovery process in a session or series of sessions, making audio recordings with the client’s permission. These are for later review and analysis of the client’s semantic patterns, which can be difficult to analyze completely in real time.
Transontology Counseling is an art as well as a science. Individual Transontology Counselors develop unique approaches, skills and abilities that others do not possess. Some will be talented in recognizing and challenging inappropriate Semantic MetaModels; others will excel in spiritual insight and education. A working knowledge of Jyotish (Vedic astrology) is very valuable to expose and develop insights the client is unable or unwilling to articulate. Both the natal chart and upcoming transits can reveal challenges that Transontology can help the client confront and overcome.
Prepare a generic set of affirmation recordings to cover issues that most people have: love, affluence, depression, fear of death, health and energy, etc. This can save a lot of time when preparing specific affirmation recordings for clients.
(to be continued)
