inner/Outer Light Science: The Official Study Program of the NEW FRIENDS Of The TRUE COURSE.

UNIT ONE: Introduction to the True Course

Now that we've mastered the concepts associated with the Outer Light (perception and feeling), we must move on to the most perilous step along the True Course thus far: the Un-True-th and True-th of the inner Light!

As your Instructor has surely made clear by this point, the Platinum Network Level can never be achieved by attempts to feel the inner light. But why is this mistake so common? And how can you avoid this pitfall?

Early Light Scientists who developed a primitive form of the inner/Outer Light Science first taught that the inner Light could be felt under certain special circumstances. But, as we have definitively learned in Part 2 (see above), the organ of interiority can never “feel” the light that supposedly emanates from within, because light exists in the realm the organ of exteriority, which is perception. Accordingly, it is logically impossible that one could feel (let alone perceive!) the inner light. Charlatans who continue to distort the compass's direction along the True Course will gladly mislead you about this crucial point of understanding. DO NOT BE MISLED! Please report to your instructor if anyone approaches you to discuss the ability to feel the inner light.

As a point of fact, the inner Light is THE source of Un-True-th along the True Course. So does the mean that the Inner Light is evil? Yes and no Even those who distort the True Course (i.e., those who claim to “feel” the inner light) will admit that the un-True-th flows only from the inner light. Yet the inner Light, being a reflection of the Truth of the Outer Light, can also contain elements of True-th. Thus the inner light cannot be dismissed as purely evil.

So how are Un-True-th and True-th of the inner Light made known to those along the course? The answer lies in the processes of cognition and rationalization (or: anti-cognition). Because perception can on only be experienced in the moment after the organ exteriority is attuned, there must be a process in which the mind reaches an equilibrium with the exterior world. This process happens in time, and is the act of cognition and/or rationalization. The process of cognition reveals True-th when the traveler re-cognizes the reflection of Outer Light upon the interior. On the other hand, rationalization(or anti-cognition) find Un-True-th in an act of false discernment. Rationalization is thus the inner light reflecting on the exterior world, confusing the way forward upon the Course.

These are the key concepts associated with both the Outer Light and the inner Light that comprise the core of this scientific system of thought. From this moment forward, you will primarily refine and deepen these basic concepts as you move along the path towards the luminescence of the Outer Light!

**Review and Refraction for Part 3**

(Spend 5-10 per prompt)

1. Explain how feeling and cognition are analogous to perception and rationalization. Use examples from the text.
2. List the ways in which your instructor has modeled the correct mode of cognition. Be specific!
3. Think of an instance in which you or your group members have engaged in rationalization. How has this affected your progress on the path?