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Richard Rose’s Psychology of the Observer: The Path to Reality Through the Self by John Kent Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in Humanistic Psychology The University of Humanistic Studies San Diego, 1990 Copyright ©1990 TAT Foundation. All Rights Reserved. www.tatfoundation.org 47 Washington Avenue #150, Wheeling, WV 26003 Richard Rose’s Psychology of the Observer: The Path to Reality Through the Self Table of Contents page FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................................................ iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................................................................. v ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................................................................... vi CHAPTER 1. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE OBSERVER: ORIGINS AND PURPOSE ......................................................... 1 2. LITERATURE REVIEW .............................................................................................................................. 26 3. INTRODUCTION TO THE ALBIGEN SYSTEM ..................................................................................... 49 4. FURTHER BASIC PRINCIPLES ................................................................................................................ 72 5. MENTAL PERSPECTIVES ......................................................................................................................... 91 6. SELF-INQUIRY: ITS MEANING AND DIRECTION ........................................................................... 106 7. AN APPROACH TO VALIDITY............................................................................................................. 128 8. LAWS AND OBSTACLES ....................................................................................................................... 137 9. SELF-DEFINITION, POINT-OF-REFERENCE, AND RETRAVERSING THE PROJECTED RAY . 144 10. THE OBSERVER ....................................................................................................................................... 168 11. SEXUALITY AND THE TRANSMUTATION OF ENERGY ................................................................ 175 12. BETWEENNESS, DIRECT-MIND, AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MIRACLES ............................. 195 13. MEDITATION ........................................................................................................................................... 208 14. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OBSERVATION AND PERCEPTION ......................................................... 240 15. JACOB’S LADDER ................................................................................................................................... 254 16. DEATH AND PASSING THROUGH ZERO ......................................................................................... 274 17. REVELATION ........................................................................................................................................... 287 18. PERSONAL TESTIMONIES OF TRANSPERSONAL EXPERIENCES .............................................. 303 19. RECONCILIATORY POINTS .................................................................................................................. 327 FIGURES A. JACOB’S LADDER ............................................................................................................................ 335 B. TRANSMUTATION OF ENERGY — Chart 1 ................................................................................ 336 C. TRANSMUTATION OF ENERGY — Chart 2 ................................................................................ 337 D. EXAMPLES OF TRIANGULATION ............................................................................................... 338 E. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE OBSERVER BOOK COVER ................................................................... 339 DEFINITION OF TERMS ................................................................................................................................ 340 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................................................................................................................. 346 CONTACT THE AUTHOR ............................................................................................................................. 350 iv Foreword During the autumn of 1976, I first encountered Rose’s teaching in a Los Angeles college on a poster in the Psychology Department. From the last line on it: “The Final Observer is One,” I intu- itively recognized that the person who wrote that “note in a bottle” to the rest of us drones in fantasyland had stepped outside our total realm into objective reality and Knew. I joined the local group, then went to the Farm for two weeks in the summer of 1977 to meet Rose and the others. After finishing the first half of graduate school in 1979, I moved to Pittsburgh and spent six years actively involved with the group in all aspects. In 1985, I moved back to California to finish the PhD program in Counseling Psychology. In part, I intended to make my career and identity a form of ladderwork. Another reason was that I knew I needed to totally immerse myself in Rose’s teaching, work through every single aspect of it to the best of my understanding, and compile it into one comprehensive treatise, for my own benefit as much as for anyone else’s. This manuscript was that dissertation. I hope it does service to Rose’s genius and helps seekers clarify the path for themselves. - John Kent August 2005 v Acknowledgements Dedicated in gratitude to Richard Rose for his generous gift to us, and to my fellow “Rosebuds” of the TAT Foundation who labor to make it Reality. Warm thanks also to Jim Burns and Alan Kahaney for their special friendship and to David Lane for his understanding support. Re: “Killing the Buddha”: According to Rose, a crippled chicken can still lay a healthy egg. And according to Zen, after Realization, as mountains are once more mountains, thus too chickens are once more chickens. Nonetheless, while this finger pointing at the moon is crooked and dirty, its aim is true. Sometimes, the Buddha commits suicide for us... vi Abstract This study describes the system of Transpersonal Psychology of spiritual philosopher and Zen teacher, Richard Rose. He calls this teaching the Albigen System, which has as its core the set of principles of mental inquiry referred to as the Psychology of the Observer. The aim of this work is to approach Reality. The system recommended provides ways and means towards this goal through the purification of one’s state-of-mind and self-definition. Based on his own experience, Rose claims this process of inner and outer work will lead the seeker to Enlight- enment or Self-Realization, if diligently followed out to the end. Rose considers this search for ultimate sanity to be the real work of psychology. His system is a practical, common-sense approach to Validity and incorporates esoteric principles dealing with the correction of the mundane, human psyche, as well as the navigation through the more transpersonal aspects of the mind-dimension. A methodology is offered for the transmutation of energy in the process of “becoming the Truth.” The goal of the work is to arrive at the absolute state-of-being, which is said to forever answer all questions and resolve all desires. This study presents Rose’s teaching in an organized, systematic manner, explaining the mean- ings of and interrelationships among the principles involved, and ties in relevant material from simi- lar spiritual doctrines, such as Advaita Vedanta, Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, Vipassana Buddhism, Kundalini, Jnana, and Raja Yogas, and Zen. Rose’s transpersonal “map,” called Jacob’s Ladder, is the central framework of his introspec- tive system and is described in detail, including both its therapeutic and mystical aspects in refining the definition of Self as the final observer. Psychology of the Observer: Origins and Purpose 1 Chapter 1 Psychology of the Observer: Origins and Purpose I am a mirror that madness looks upon and sees a hope surmounting foolishness. (Rose, 1982, p. 95) This book will present a system of transpersonal psychology called the Albigen System. This teaching is claimed by its creator, Richard Rose, to lead one to the direct realization of the Absolute stateofbeing, or in religious terms: union with God. Rose considers this experience to be the ultimate meaning of Selfdefinition; the final answer to the question, “Who am I?” His work is devoted to fulfilling the Delphic Oracle’s maxim: “Know thyself, and all the gods and universe shall be known to you as well.” Selfknowledge is the cornerstone of the temple. Richard Rose: The Man And His Search Rose devised the Albigen System to be a comprehensive transpersonal map to the Self. His purpose has been to lead the seeker as quickly as possible to a personal realization of the final goal pointed to by the highest spiritual teachings throughout history. One might justifiably wonder at this point how Rose came to know about spiritual matters and by what right he claims to be an authority on the subject. After all, if a student of truth encounters a teaching that purports to guide one towards Godhood, at the expense of much time, energy, and commitment, one should have some tentative
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