glossary "S" to "T"
schemata : a mental codification of experience that includes a particular organized way of perceiving cognitively and responding to a complex situation or set of stimuli.
Sephiroth (Hebrew) : In the Kabalah ten potencies or agencies through which the Divine produces the manifested Universe. They come forth in successive emanations from the Divine Light, some male, some female.
Shadow (Carl Jung) : the negative side of the personality, of feelings and motives consciously disowned, and projected on to others.
Sophia (Theosophy) : Greek meaning is "Wisdom". Used in a general sense by St. Paul, as when he speaks of earthly and heavenly wisdom; but by the Gnostics, especially Valentinus in his Pistis Sophia, it is the great Mother of all, corresponding to Sephirah, Isis, Vach, divine wisdom, akasa, anima mundi, and the Holy Ghost (when considered as feminine). The idea of a cosmic mother precedes that of the cosmic father, and Sophia is the daughter, the feminine Logos of the cosmic mother.
Sudda Satwa (Sanskrit.) : A substance not subject to the qualities of matter; a luminiferous and (to us) invisible substance, of which the bodies of the Gods and highest Dhyanis are formed.
Supreme Conciliatory Principle (Supreme Doctrine; Hubert Benoit) : In traditional metaphysics the creation of the universe is the result and the interplay, concomitant and conciliatory of two forces that oppose and complete one another. Creation actually results from the interplay of three forces: a positive force, a negative force, and a conciliatory force. The conception of a positive and a negative force, where a Superior Conciliatory principle is lacking, leads man to bestow upon the two inferior principles a nature at once absolute and personal - that is to say "idolize" them, The Superior Conciliatory principle balances the Inferior Positive and Inferior Negative principles of Creation.
Sutratma : (thread-self; sutr to tie, thread). Reincarnating ego. Literally "Thread Soul". So-called because the permanent atoms or nuclei of the various bodies are strung on a buddhic life-web.
Svabhava (Sanskrit) : Svabhava [from sva self + bhu to become, grow into] Self-becoming, self-generation, self-growing into something; the unfolding of the self or monadic essence by inner impulse, rather than by merely mechanical activity in nature — self-becoming or self-directed evolution.
synchronicity (Jung / Wikipedia): Acausal but meaningful coincidences / The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality. Instead, it maintains that just as events may be grouped by cause, they may also be grouped by meaning. A grouping of events by meaning need not have an explanation in terms of cause and effect.
tangled hierarchy (Self Aware Universe) : A loop between levels of categories, such as in logic, that cannot be causally traced without encountering a discontinuity. An example is in the liar's paradox, with the statement, "I always lie." - (If this statement were true then it would be a false statement because it is presented as a truth).
A tangled hierarchy always occurs within the immanent self-reference of a system observing itself. The only way to circumvent a self repeating, or infinitely regressive system of "knowing self as being separate from the reality it observes" is by jumping out of the system, or "process" to an inviolate level before awareness collapses into the classical result of information. According to the idealist interpretation of quantum mechanics, the non-local consciousness acts as the inviolate level, from which, the "quantum collapse" is rendered to the brain-mind. Because this occurs outside of time and space, its nature terminates the von Neuman chain, and there is no Godelian knot from this perspective (see: "Godelian knot" & von Neuman chain").
taxis (Websters): reflex translational or orientational movement by a freely motile and usu. simple organism in relation to a source of stimulation
thought (SOC) : usage of the word "thought" should be considered not so much as the process of full blown logical intellection, such as when we solve math problems, but rather as the very root process whereby distinctions and dualisms are created. Because the Mind of God and the mind of man are intrinsically connected, and maya is merely a "reflection" in God, I consider that the distinctions in God (such as in the multiplicity of phenomenon) become dualistically interpreted via mortal perception even though each is merely the manner in which the illusory process of dividing the "One" into the "Many" occurs (as a function of the Primary Dualism).
transient unity (Heaventology) : the eternal spiritual monad combined with all temporal expressions of the astral-physical monad (its reincarnations), as one atomic unit or identity, and their ability to migrate through the field of consciousness without disseminating.
triad : the Third Cause or Logos. In the human constitution the Triad signifies Atma-Buddhi-Manas, or the lowest (third aspect) of the Monad. This third aspect forms the Egoic or Causal body, the infant or germinal Ego (or Soul), and thus, gives rise to the dense physical manifestation.
tropo- (Websters): turn : turning.