The Process of Enlightenment
The process of enlightenment is different for every individual, but there are many common components. These components include education, emotional awareness and healing, mental and emotional training exercises, reading literature, dialogue, and contemplation.
The church will develop a database of known enlightenment processes. Each process will be assigned numerical values which represents it’s estimate effect on different aspects of enlightenment.
“A half hour of meditation”, for example, may be represented by 1 self-awareness point. Reading a recommended book may be represented by 10 knowledge points. An hour of dialogue with a mentor may be represented by 2 knowledge points, 1 self-awareness point, and 1 happiness point.
Any church member may suggest a new enlightenment process for addition to the database, and no specific enlightenment processes are mandatory. We much each chart our own independent paths to enlightenment.
At the completion of each enlightenment process, the church member must engage in the self-reflection necessary to rate the effectiveness and efficiency of each process. This data will be collated and stored in the database. The database will slowly increase in terms of both quantity and quality. Ineffective processes will be identified and will no longer be recommended. Processes that are found to be effective will be recommended more frequently. This continuous improvement process will allow the slow and steady evolution of our religion over time.
Members will be able to search the database for the value which they wish to maximize (happiness, knowledge, self-awareness, etc…) and view the cumulative ratings of those who have experienced each exercise.