Glossary

Taking the wheel of your own thoughts, versus living by horoscopes and accepting fate as handed to you.

A person whose thought energy runs at a pendulum's frequency, feeding it with attention and feeling.

The streams of cause and effect that run through the alternatives space along the path of least resistance. Arguing and criticizing swim against it; leaving it alone usually lets the best outcome arrive. Where intention is focused steers your movement across it.

An endless information field holding scripts for every event that was, is or will be, acting as a template for how matter can move. Spelled "alternative space" in places.

A chosen background formula that sets the warm tone of the whole reflection, named after the gold Venetian glassmakers added to mirror backing.

His image for entertaining an unfamiliar idea until it feels ordinary.

Attention fixed on a single object, which a pendulum can then grab and hold.

Living absorbed in a role or on autopilot, as in a non-lucid dream.

The Toltec name for the focus of perception; its position fixes what you perceive.

Setting your thought energy to the parameters of a chosen lifeline.

The energy field around the body, imagined as a sphere and strengthened by exercise.

Impersonal pressures that arise wherever excess potential exists and act to erase it, by any route and with no regard for fairness or your wishes. They often produce the opposite of what you intended.

Wanting without desiring, caring without worrying, striving without distraction, acting without demanding.

His word for constant tension, struggle and self-discipline, which pendulums push you toward.

The worldview and role the pendulums install in you.

The two main energy channels along the spine, one carrying energy up and one down; their width sets your energy level.

The shared hue of an era, drawn in by collective intention.

Placing an order, as in a restaurant, instead of striving. A wish or dream is not a choice and does not come true; a real choice does.

The pendulum seen as a game opponent, not a real enemy.

A calm, non-analytical gaze at the scene, near and far, used in the Transaction exercise.

Serving God by shaping your own layer of the world together with him.

What feels familiar and normal to you, not what is objectively better. Slides can widen it.

A calm, self-sufficient state with no inner or outer importance, offered as the real alternative to confidence; also the principle that your attitude to events shapes how they unfold, so once you have chosen you assume things are going as they should.

Your own values and way of living, which he says you already have, sealed in a "box" of importance.

A present-tense statement of your goal, made while taking an energy credit.

The lag between a thought form and its physical materialization.

A tie built on conditions ("if you do this, I will do that") or on comparison ("I am good because you are bad"). It divides people into opposing sides and upsets balance.

The labels and categories the mind uses to sort what it meets.

Attention fixed on a goal, which implies the goal is absent and may never come; it builds excess potential. Intention, by contrast, is attention on moving toward it.

A pendulum that uses people for energy and competes aggressively for followers.

Seeing without the eyes, through the brain tuning to the field.

Radiating at a frequency unlike a pendulum's, which stills its sway toward you.

The route or activity that leads to your goal; goal and door can coincide.

Reality as a mirror with two sides: the physical world is the reflection and the alternatives space is the image. Also called simply the mirror, which gives your relationship to the world back to you with a delay. The Foreword's "mirror of alternatives" is the same picture: physical reality as a reflection of a chosen sector.

Physiological and free energy together.

A harmful habit seen as an advance of energy repaid with interest.

The image of the two currents leaving the body at top and bottom and meeting to form a sphere.

Your ability to take in and use energy, not how much you hold in reserve.

A person who unconsciously feeds on others' energy by tuning to their frequency.

A sudden energy jump that opens distant sectors and then collapses.

A local energy tension created by giving something more importance than it deserves, whether through desire, blame, worship, pride, guilt, inferiority or fear. Balanced forces then try to remove it, usually at the cost of whoever carries it.

An expanding sphere of energy pictured right after the flash of the frame.

An adherent the pendulum lifts to a leading role because he suits its structure.

Changing outward behaviour in order to change the inner state.

The first is to inflame conflict energy; the second is to stabilize its structure.

A short-lived pendulum created by a one-off synchronized act.

What a person is most passionate or proud about, treated as their resonant frequency.

A person's own frequency or unique set of traits, the soul's signature. A noun the narration uses on its own; probably a related coinage to Frailing.

A relationship technique: drop the aim of receiving and replace it with the aim of giving, mainly by giving the other person full attention, which attunes you to that person's frail.

One integral snapshot of the finished goal, with its feeling and a one-word title; used in the "window" (Chapter IX) and later flashed in the mind at odd moments (Chapter XIX).

Cosmic energy that passes through you; it cannot be stored and feeds intention, arriving as vitality. Also called the energy of intention in its role of generating motivation and drive.

Anyone can choose what they want and simply have it without struggle; the answer comes from reading the whole book, not its last chapter. The heading is garbled in the transcript.

The law that admits only those who assert their right.

Agreeing with a pendulum's first blow, then steering it, as in Aikido.

Dropping visualization when it feels like a chore: tell yourself the "how" is unknown but things will work out, relax and do the physical work.

A strand of favourable lifelines; catching its edge lets you slide onto related good lines.

A protector you can imagine in any form; in the author's view it exists if you believe it does.

The puzzle of how to gain the freedom to choose, which the book is framed as answering.

A noticeable event that marks the start of a move to another lifeline or a turn in the flow, felt as a sense that something is slightly off.

The unconscious or soul, which feels and knows without words and cannot will.

Overrating something and treating it as an idol; it creates a dependent relationship.

Not reacting at all to a pendulum, as opposed to avoiding it, which lets the thing in and then tries to push it out.

Two responses to ill health: the passive victim radiating at the pendulum's frequency, or the active creator working toward health.

Destructive pendulums built around disease and its treatment, including medical institutions and advertising.

The image is your thought content and the reflection is the physical result; work on the image.

The meaning you project onto something, which charges it with energy and, if excessive, creates excess potential. Also called self-worth: the sense of being significant, which he treats as the main human motive and the root of stress.

A deliberately odd or cheerful response to a provocation that breaks the pendulum's script.

Children said to be born with a strong sense of dignity and independence.

The gradual slide onto a lifeline where a pendulum's event occurs, caused by your own resonant reactions after its first push; you end up playing the victim. Chapter XI applies the idea to ageing as a slow script reinforced by repeated confirmation.

The stored template of possible events, readable by the heart.

The part of your attention that watches what you do and how, noticing the importance you project; you can instruct it to remind you to check your state, and it can doze off. Also called the guardian or inner witness.

Overrating, or underrating, your own worth or work.

Shyness before something new; slides can ease it, whereas inner tension they cannot.

Your own will working on the world by effort, as in raising a hand; the mind's will, acting only on material reality. It focuses on the path and pushes at the world for what you want.

The mind talking to itself, which drowns out intuition.

Heaviness, unease or oppression after a decision; the heart's reliable "no".

Resoluteness in the decision to have and to act: readiness to act, as opposed to wanting. Something beyond desire and decision does the acting.

A standing choice to treat present life as a festival.

His image for the world jumping on your nerves when you are tense.

The trap of grabbing at the reflection like a kitten at its double.

Certainty without effort to persuade yourself, in place of belief.

The maze of striving for confidence, whose walls are made of importance.

What you value highly or fear attracts its opposite.

Nature corrects any excess potential; he treats it as the root of the other laws.

The personal reality each being builds on top of the shared world by thought energy; your outlook sets its weather. Also called your world layer.

A chain of neighbouring sectors with similar script and scenery, along which a life runs until an event changes the script. You are always on the one matching your thought energy; negative thought energy moves you to a worse one.

Each event forks into a favourable and an unfavourable branch, and your attitude picks which.

The loop in which an adherent's thoughts and the pendulum reinforce each other.

Dreaming while knowing it, with power to direct the dream; the model for living awake.

A habitual act that helps attunement through the performer's belief rather than any power of its own.

One who creates their layer by observing and allowing.

Your own declared ruling on what is true and right for your world.

Someone who controls others by inducing guilt.

The process by which a sector of the alternatives space becomes physical reality: thought energy lights it up, so the realization moves while the space stays fixed.

Conscious thought and will, bound to words and to the pendulum worldview.

Express your attitude, the mirror consolidates it, observe reality, repeat.

Fortune-tellers, astrologers, prophets and scientists who hand out ready-made mirrors in the form of predictions and models.

The image of an opponent that is really your own importance reflected back.

Someone whose firm conviction that life gets worse becomes their reality.

Your expectation of how events should go.

Heavy meaning attached to an object or event outside you.

The force outside you that selects a sector of the alternatives space and carries your point of realization there; the heart feels it, the mind cannot. It fulfils your aims when you stop pushing and let the world meet you halfway. He admits he cannot define it.

Imagining a boundary five to seven metres out that pulls you, while you play the target slide.

A goal from your own heart, versus one a pendulum or other people installed. Each person has one true goal that brings happiness; finding it and its door is the real work.

Process visualization of the current link in the transfer chain, which speeds you along the flow.

Absolving yourself of your shortcomings before an event.

Playing your part while the inner guardian watches from the "auditorium". Also called the participating spectator or spectator.

A structure formed when many people think alike; it gains a life of its own, feeds on followers' energy and emotions, has a resonant frequency and dies when its followers reach zero. Its main harm is steering people off their own path.

Copy what others do, whatever suits you.

One you choose and use for your own goals.

Energy from digestion, stored as calories and spent on physical action.

Where you currently appear in the alternatives space; shifting it is what "moving" means in his model.

Setting an inflated valuation of one thing against another, so importance on one side draws the opposite into your life. Balanced forces act against whoever created the split.

A chosen picture of the person you want to be, or the world you want, held until it dissolves into fact.

The pendulum's trigger: news, provocation, insult. Your reaction decides whether it spins up.

Pushing your own rejected traits onto other people.

A door that crowds enter, opened by pendulums to recruit adherents.

Intention with no desire or importance in it, assuming the result is as good as done; his example is walking to the shop for a newspaper.

Answering bad events with a deliberate, humorous reversal of the expected reaction.

The part of the alternatives space now shown in matter, versus the part not.

His shorthand for the conscious and subconscious mind; the heart is also the soul.

The remembered position from which this life is seen as a dream.

Staying detached and observant while acting normally; the metaphor is never unpacked.

His description of himself: a relay tuned to one region of the alternatives space, not the originator of the knowledge.

His image for the heart's wordless inner voice.

A counterweight or plan B that lets you lower the stakes, calms the heart and avoids upsetting balance.

Tie each passing thought to your goal and view your surroundings through the slide.

The two parts of an alternative: the script is the path matter takes, and the scenery is its external form. Your expectations select which sector you enter.

One region of the alternatives space holding one alternative; the farther apart two sectors are, the more they differ.

Subtle tonal differences between lifelines.

Moving emphasis from control to observation.

A mental picture of yourself or your surroundings, projected onto events. Negative slides come from heart and mind agreeing, so they come true; deliberate ones can reshape your layer. In Chapter XII, a slide is also a picture held as a goal.

The heart shut in by conditioning, with the mind as jailer.

The hollow that pushes the mind to fill itself with causes.

A sector of the field where a soul's particular qualities fit.

A received belief, such as hard work being required, that pendulums supply.

The emotions and needs a pendulum pulls to capture your attention and draw off your energy; they drop away when you stop fighting. Also called puppet strings.

An ordered group of living beings, held together by its pendulum.

The aimless vacuum after leaving pendulums without setting a goal.

Jung's name for a meaningful coincidence between an inner state and an outer event with no causal link.

A mental picture of the goal already achieved, seen from inside and without scenes of getting there; repeated, it materializes the matching sector.

Energy that passes through a person, takes on the character of their thoughts and radiates out to select the matching sector.

The exercise of turning the key, visualizing the target slide and looking with clear sight. The spelling is as heard.

The ordered series of small links from where you are to a distant goal; you picture only the current link.

Sectors beside the flow, and the oddities you notice when you pass through them.

The two roles: what you give out and what you let in.

The author's method for choosing your destiny from the alternatives space instead of fighting for it; the word can mean gliding through that space or moving across lifelines.

"Be yourself and allow others to be themselves too"; it cancels polarization.

A quick arrow visualization that releases muscle tension.

Admiration without worship or the need to possess, which sets no conditions and so creates no dependence.

Agreement between will and feeling on a goal, strong enough to fill the sail; wish and belief agree, giving the image sharp contours.

The claim that the world's most basic quality is that it takes endless forms; his starting postulate.

The light, easily resolved version of events you choose by treating a problem as a trifle.

The quality of your thoughts and emotions, which sets the lifelines you are tuned to.

A part of the information field not yet materialized, which perception can tune to.

Life lived without a reference point, run by circumstance.

A set of lifelines very favourable to one person, which does not take your energy; one lucky event can carry you along others in the set. A bad patch after early luck means a pendulum has pulled you off.

Obligations, conditions and promises that oppress you. The transcript renders the word as "plummet".

The intention to keep putting one foot in front of the other toward the goal.

The settled, calm permission to have what you chose, held as knowing rather than believing and without insistence; he calls it far stronger than the will to act.

The force that moves your realization; excess potential cuts it off.

A brief gap when the mind dozes and the heart's knowledge surfaces.

The stencil of how things are supposed to be, stamped on a child's mind; you can add another but not erase it.