Root Meanings

Sourced Definitions
for an Awakened Humanity

Root Meanings

Jeff Vander Clute

Introduction
19 Jul 2023

Root Meanings: Sourced Definitions for an Awakened Humanity is an emerging reference book of sourced definitions of terms that are used in spirituality and science. Root Meanings is co-arising with Beyond Every Teaching and The Ladder of Awakening, and each of the books is informing and empowering the other two.

The main function of Root Meanings is to illuminate the root meanings of spiritual and scientific vocabulary from the perspective of Source, which is the source of all meaning. In root-level clarity, every concept serves awakeness, and supremely clear definitions turn words into transmissions of enlightenment. As communication becomes increasingly lucid, confusion and unawakeness disappear from all minds. When the Mind that is all minds is completely empty of confusion, all that is is known directly and the need for definitions disappears. Thus one purpose of this book is to render itself unnecessary.

Root Meanings is a work in progress that is being shared for the benefit of early readers and as an experiment in defragmenting the Mind. The process of sourcing and refining these definitions is already clarifying the field of consciousness, and as more people encounter this work, it is conceivable that the “Babel effect” will be reversed. The definitions in Root Meanings will continue to be distilled and clarified until they resolve into pure awakeness.

꩜ ꩜ ꩜

Table of Contents

A-G

Abiding
Absorption
Abundance
Acceptance
Activity
Actuality
Actualization
Agency
Alignment
Aliveness
All that is
Allergy
Allness
Allowing
Apex
Arising
Ascended mastery
Ascension
Aspect
Attachment
Attention
Attention: one-pointed attention
Atonement
Avatar
Awakeness
Awakening
Awareness
Beauty
Becoming
Being
Belief
Belieflessness
Big Bang
Black hole
Bliss
Body
Bodymind
Cancer
Cause
Chaos
Christ
Christification
Clarity
Co-creation
Coherence
Compassion
Complexity
Conditioning
Confusion
Consciousness
Consciousness: unity consciousness
Contemplation
Content
Creation
Creation: cyclic creation
Curiosity
Death
Deep decision
Deep listening
Delusion
Density
Depression
Delight
Desire
Discernment
Dissonance
Distinction
Divine descent
Divinity
Dream
Dreaming
Duality
Earth
Ego
Emanation
Emergence
Emptiness
Embodiment
Emotion
Energy
Energy: dark energy
Enlightenment
Entirety
Entity
Entropy
Establishment
Evolution
Experience
Expression
Evil
Faith
Fear
Field
Finitude
Flow
Focus
Forgetfulness
Forgiveness
Form
Freedom

H-Q

Genius
Gnosis
God
God-realization
Goodness
Grace
Gravity
Great Mystery
Ground
Grounding
Healing
Heart
Hell
History
Human
Humanity
I
I-realization
Idea
Identification
Identity
Ignorance
Illusion
Imagination
Immanence
Individuation
Infinite (the)
Infinite/infinitude
Infinity
Infinitization
Information
Intellect
Intelligence
Integration
Intention
Intuition
Involution
Isness
Joy
Justice
Karma
Knowing
Knowledge
Kundalini
Liberation
Life
Life force
Light
Light: clear light
Locality
Love
Manifestation
Map/Mapping
Mathematics
Matter
Meaning
Meditation
Memory
Mind
Miracle
Money
Narcissism
Nature
Negation
Nonagainstness

Nonduality
Nonlocality
Nothingness
Nothingness-realization
Number
Numinosity
Objectivity
Omnipotence
Omnipresence
Omniscience
Oneness
Ontology
Original curiosity
Original denial
Pain
Pathless path
Peace
Perception
Perfection
Personal
Personality
Phenomenon
Physicality
Plenitude
Potential
Power
Presence
Projection
Purification
Purity

R-Z

Radiance
Reactivity
Reality
Reality: consensus reality
Realization
Recognition
Redemption
Relaxation
Resolution
Resonance
Resonance Mapping
Resurrection
Samadhi
Science
Second Coming
Self
Self-realization
Sentience
Separation
Shadow
Shame
Sickness
Siddhi
Silence
Simplicity
Simultaneity
Sin
Singularity
Space
Spontaneity
Soul
Source
Sourceness
Sourcing
Sovereignty
Spirit
Spiritual bypass
Spiritual mastery
Spiritual path
Spiritual practice
Stillness
Story
Structure
Subconscious
Substance
Suffering
Superorganism
Supreme Foundation
Supreme Mind
Surrender
Synchronicity
Synergy
Syntropy
Teaching
Technology
THE SUPREME
The unknown
The void
The Word
The world
Time
Time: the future
Time: the past
Totality
Transcendence
Transfiguration
Transfinite/Transfinitude
Transmission
Transmutation
Transpersonal
Trauma
Truth
Truth: The Truth
Unawakeness (⇒ Confusion)
Unconsciousness
Understanding
Unenlightenment (⇒ Confusion)
Unicity
Unity
Universe
Unreality
Untruth
Vessel
Vibration
We
Wholeness
Will
Wisdom
YOU
Zero

Notes:

1. All of these definitions are still emerging and evolving, and more will be added. Although the book version of Root Meanings is a few years away, this draft is being shared for the benefit of early readers.

2. Bold terms in the table of contents indicate that the associated definitions have been updated since 12 September 2023. Other entries will be revised over time to reflect the current level of clarity.

3. All works in progress and the final work are copyright Jeff Vander Clute.

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