Influences on the Monastery

This page outlines the foundational influences that currently shape the Christian monastery and the lifestyle we’re building here.

What Is a Monastery?

By “monastery,” I don’t just mean a physical building. A monastery can be:

A community of people living according to a shared spiritual paradigm,
A group of monks in a house, apartment, or nomadic structure,
A rhythm of cooperative life rooted in discipline, presence, and devotion.

It’s about the pattern of life, not the architecture.

Core Influences

1. Christ’s Teachings
The highest authority is the teaching and example of Christ. Every other influence is subject to this. If a practice or insight doesn’t contradict Christ’s words, it may still be useful to deepen our understanding of them.

2. The Early Church
The lifestyle of the early disciples as described in the Gospels and Acts—marked by simplicity, shared resources, prayer, and spiritual power—serves as a strong model.

3. The Essenes
Their commitment to holiness, simplicity, and separation from a corrupt culture resonates. We don’t seek to copy them directly but to carry forward that same radical devotion.

4. Meditation and Mental Training
From Buddhist traditions, we borrow methods of meditation, mental discipline, and introspective cultivation—adapted and reoriented around Christ.

5. The Sciences
Anatomy, physiology, chemistry, physics—these are lenses through which we can better understand the body and its patterns. They are allies in spiritual training.

6. Taoist Self-Cultivation
Taoism offers valuable models for natural alignment, energy management, and self-refinement—when stripped of idolatry or conflicting dogma.

7. Logic and Devotion to Inquiry
We aim to develop strong reasoning and critical thought, not as ends in themselves, but as disciplines of the mind that lead us deeper into truth.

8. Recovery and Inner Healing
Many seekers arrive with wounds, addictions, or disillusionment. The monastery is a place of healing through shared spiritual practice, not escape or stagnation.

Chapter 7 - LWC Book 3 - The 6th Jhana

Post Under Construction 🚧 Click this for a post about The previous Jhana Click this for a Post about Reconciling Buddhism and Christianity The Sixth Jh āna ( viññāṇañcāyatana ): " And at this point it is said: “By completely surmounting the base consisting of boundless space, [aware of] ‘unbounded consciousness’, he enters upon and dwells in the base consisting of boundless consciousness.” In my theory, the Sixth Jhāna involves: Placeholder text Placeholder text If you remember from the last chapter , propriovisuality (PV): involved a 2D visual field that was modified by proprioception to make it 3D. Also in last chapter, the concepts of positive gestalts and negative gestalts were introduced. Let's attempt to combine these concepts. If you pretend to feel something in front of you, or in your hand, you are doing a technique known in Buddhism as "kasina". You can imagine feeling various things, but most things you feel will be groupe...

Sensing an Oneiric/Imagined Object

In the previous post , a conicity was introduced, with its parts described. In terms of gestalts , you could think of a conicity like this: A 4D positive gestalt of perception is overlayed onto a 4D object in the kono side, shown in the above example image on the left side of the conicity. This makes more definition. The 4D object becomes more definite, because perception or positive gestalt is on one possible 4D object (like a 3D object persisting in time) out of many possible 4D objects. If the 4D object grows or rolls in the conic path, it can gain more 4D cross-sections and become a 5D object perceivable as a 5th Jhanic Mass, as shown in the middle of the conicity in the image above. There are 5D objects, that is, multiple overlapping 4D cross-sections, which are not perceivable to vision, because there aren't enough 4D cross-sections yet - like a 5D object that is too small to see or sense because it doesn't yet have enough 5D mass. You may think imagining an obje...

Motivation and Incentive

I've been wondering lately why there is so little interest in LWC Theory. I am highly motivated about it, and it seems to be partly because I believe in what is possible to do with it. Maybe I haven't described enough about the possibilities with the Animalian Directions. I believe there are specific powers related to each. Current Lack of Interest in LWC Theory Considered Two reasons for lack of interest in LWC Theory: a lack of belief in the Messiah's teaching and a lack of ambition. If people believed in the Messiah's teaching, they would read the gospels more often and more carefully. They might take notes or meditate on it. They would eventually produce ideas like LWC Theory, if not exactly like it. They would develop it into something exactly like LWC Theory, and would probably look around physically and on the internet for anything like it or anyone interested. They would then come across this website, my monastery's location on Google Maps, would ask around ...

LWC Theory and Monastery

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