Object — Part Three of Nigredo

A moment or event of consciousness that knows an object in Abhidhamma analysis. Citta arises with mental factors rather than as an isolated substance. The video’s frames, flashes and computer-code comparisons are explanatory analogies, not literal measurements of the brain.

The “life-continuum” of Theravāda Abhidhamma: a series of passive mind moments said to maintain continuity when an active cognitive process is absent. It should not be equated without evidence with an electromagnetic field, a neurological baseline or an eternal soul.

The ten-sefirah Tree belongs historically to Jewish Kabbalah and was reinterpreted in Christian and Hermetic Qabalah. The course uses a modern esoteric form as a comparative model of consciousness. That use should not be mistaken for a standard Jewish interpretation or a historical source of Buddhist doctrine.

States of meditative absorption or unification taught in Buddhist traditions. Their exact interpretation and relation to insight vary. Bliss, altered perception or unusual capacities do not by themselves establish liberation, and difficult after-effects deserve grounded care rather than automatic spiritualisation.

In Theravāda Abhidhamma, supramundane path consciousness directly realises nibbāna and abandons the fetters appropriate to that path; fruition consciousness experiences the corresponding result. This later analytical model is more detailed than the language normally found in early discourses.

A traditional list of ten bonds divided into five lower and five higher fetters. They organise the four grades of awakening in Theravāda teaching. The list supports study and practice, but it is not a casual checklist for declaring one’s own or another person’s attainment.

The stream-enterer, traditionally said to have abandoned identity view, doubt and attachment to rites and observances, and to be assured of eventual full awakening. The assurances concerning rebirth belong to Buddhist doctrine rather than empirical verification.

The once-returner. Early-text formulations emphasise the ending of the first three fetters and attenuation of greed, hatred and delusion. Later summaries often describe the fourth and fifth fetters as greatly weakened.

The non-returner, traditionally said to have abandoned the five lower fetters, including sensual desire and ill will, and not to return to the sensual realm. The course’s lunar, Albedo and “karmic shock absorber” language is interpretive rather than standard Buddhist definition.

One who has completed the path and abandoned all ten fetters in Theravāda Buddhism. Functional consciousness describes action that no longer generates new karma; it does not mean biological automatism. Buddhist traditions differ in how they understand arahants, Buddhas and the scope of awakened knowledge.

Colour stages drawn from alchemical traditions and used by this course to organise a modern path of dissolution, purification, illumination and embodiment. Their alignment with Buddhist grades is a contemporary comparative framework, not a correspondence established by all alchemical or Buddhist sources.