Glossary

The short glossary, the reflected partnerships and the reference table from the Map at the back of The Sovereign Mirror, as the book prints them.

Appreciation
How a Movement’s rising changes, its quickening or slowing. Under the Current’s steady pull, that comes down to how much of the pull a Movement is letting move it: full in free fall, low while holding on. The reflection of acceleration.
Attraction
The entity property made of receptive and resistant; how you draw from the whole what corresponds to you.
Awareness
Two senses. The whole, where everything starts. And the entity property made of limitless and limited: the whole, aware from somewhere.
Belief
What is taken to be true now; energy going Out Through you. The physical weak force, able to shift in the Now.
Conscious-physical energy
The blend of conscious and physical energy at the hinge, the E.
Convergence
The reflection of gravitational lensing. The Current coming together through a Vortex, which defines what can be focused and how much. Where it meets resistance it diffracts, so one source shows up as many images.
Current of Consciousness
The whole, flowing, always at the furthest point it has reached. Idle and reflected; the reflection of the speed of light.
Desire
What is wanted; the expansion that happens in the nonphysical; energy going Out For you. The nonphysical strong frequency at the Point of Reflection.
Emotional evidence
Frequency, felt. The level is a feeling; a change in the level is an emotion. It shows your alignment with the Current.
Empirical evidence
Force, measured: a steady push, or a change in it. It shows what happened in the physical world.
Eternal-Energetic-Entity
The soul: the entity running the crossing where the vibrational and subjective realities meet. The continuum of the same name is its environment.
Expansion
The reflection of time. What the Current does, and can’t undo.
Expansion Dilation
The reflection of time dilation: the nearer the Current, the less of your own time it takes for what you’ve expanded into to reach you. Resistance holds you farther off, and how far it holds you is the gap.
Expectation
What was true; energy coming In From the world. The physical strong force, binding your lived history into a shape.
Focus
Where physical attention and effort go. The reflection of Tune.
Frequency
Movement times Appreciation; what you feel as a Movement’s rising quickens or slows.
In From / In To / Out For / Out Through
The four directions energy flows through an entity, all at once.
Intuition and imagination
What is received; energy coming In To you. The nonphysical weak frequency arriving at the Point of Reflection; when acted on and lived, imagination becomes manifestation in the physical world.
Momentum
The entity property made of collection and radiation. In the equation it is M × C on one side and m × c on the other.
Nonphysical Movement
Receptivity to change in motion; a self-contained part of the whole, like a movement in a symphony. The reflection of mass.
Point of Reflection
The crossing at the center where the two sides meet and energy changes form. Originally called the Point of Attraction in the 2019 version.
Realization / Actualization
One energy, named for the side of the mirror it’s on. On the nonphysical side it is realized: expansion going Out For the entity, culminating with the rest of the Current, and coming back In To it. On the physical side it is actualized: made actual going Out Through the entity, and taken In From what is actual.
Resistance
Resistance to change; what makes the physical physical. Two kinds: your shape, which makes you a particular someone, and holding on, which keeps an old shape after a new one is wanted. Both are Expectation: shape is Expectation with nothing wanted against it; holding on is Expectation with a Desire on the other side.
Resistance Contrast Filter
Why only the wanting crosses into the Current and the pain stays physical.
Sovereignty
Your own place in the whole, which no one else can occupy.
Strong and weak interactions
The reflection of the nuclear forces at the crossing. Physically, Expectation is the strong force (binding the past) and Belief is the weak force (shifting in the Now). Nonphysically, Desire is the strong frequency (binding the future: what is wanted culminates and can’t be undone) and Intuition and imagination are the weak frequency (the quiet signal that slips past Expectation when resistance drops to tip Belief).
The Present
The whole relationship, all four directions crossing at once.
Tune
What you are receptive to. The reflection of Focus.
Vibrance
A Movement’s extent in Vibration: how much of it is vibrating, how ready it is to vibrate. The reflection of volume.
Vibrational Contraction
The shrinking of the felt distance between what you want and its arrival, as you align.
Vortex
The reflection of a gravity well. Desire and Vibrance, organized strongly enough, turning the Current around themselves. It draws in whatever resonates and shapes the paths realization takes.

Reflected partnerships

  • Vibration reflects Space
  • Expansion reflects Time
  • Vibration over Expansion reflects Velocity (Space over Time)
  • Desire reflects Density
  • Vibrance reflects Volume
  • Tune reflects Focus
  • Appreciation reflects Acceleration
  • Imagination reflects Manifestation
  • Frequency reflects Force
  • Strong frequency (Desire) reflects Strong force (Expectation)
  • Weak frequency (Intuition / Imagination) reflects Weak force (Belief)
  • Idle reflects Electro
  • Reflected reflects Magnetic

The reference table

Row NonphysicalPhysicalCo-created result
Properties LimitlessLimitedAwareness
Properties ReceptiveResistantAttraction
Properties CollectionRadiationMomentum
Realities Vibrational RealitySubjective RealityThe entity: where Vibrational and Subjective overlap
Realities Collective RealityObjective RealityThe wholes, lived individually, as Vibrational and Subjective Realities
Continuums Vibration-ExpansionSpace-TimeEternal-Energetic-Entity
Evidence EmotionalEmpiricalBlend of emotional and empirical
Evidence formula Frequency = Nonphysical Movement × AppreciationForce = Mass × AccelerationContrast at the Point of Reflection
Relational formula C² × M = EE = m × c²C² × M = E = m × c²
Energy flow Future: active expansionNow: active resistanceThe Present
Energy flow Current: most receptivePast: most resistantThe Present
Entity contrast Desire: what is wantedBelief: what is trueBalance of desire and belief
Entity contrast Intuition: what is receivedExpectation: what was trueBalance of intuition and expectation
Core interactions Strong frequency: DesireStrong force: ExpectationPermanent expansion vs. hardened past
Core interactions Weak frequency: Intuition and imaginationWeak force: BeliefTransmutation at the Point of Reflection
Symbols C: the Current of Consciousnessc: the speed of lightConscious-physical energy (E)
Symbols M: Nonphysical Movementm: massEnergetic entity
Entity action TuneFocusAttraction
Co-creating partners Idle-ReflectedElectro-MagneticMomentum
Co-creating partners Desire × VibranceDensity × VolumeA particular: Movement and mass
Energy Conscious energyPhysical energy (rest and kinetic)Conscious-physical energy
Energy transmutation RealizationActualizationAbsorption and reflection
Entity transmutation Out ForOut ThroughThe outward crossing: desire and belief
Entity transmutation In ToIn FromThe inward crossing: intuition and expectation

Both Realities rows land in the same place on purpose. The two wholes, Collective and Objective, only ever reach a life as its Vibrational and Subjective realities, and the overlap of those two is the entity. Chapter 6 walks through it.

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The Sovereign Mirror: A Conversation About Consciousness, Resistance, and the Present

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