On the Laws of Life XII The Law of Cause and Effect II - Hugh McCague: transcript

greetings everyone it's great to be with you and learning with you once again our presentation today is entitled on the laws of Life 12 the law of cause and effect 2 and we'll continue to examine the law of cause and effect which is ever at work within us and around us this law is also known as the law of causality and with different evidences as the law of compensation and the law of karma the law of cause and effect allows us to experience the consequences of our thoughts and actions the purpose of this law is to convey a lesson and to evolve our understanding now to prepare ourselves for this presentation we'll conduct a meditation and we'll apply the law of cause of effect and I'll introduce a work of art that'll assist us in appreciation of the law cause and effect

and assist us in our meditation this time you'll see before you uh a work entitled Moon bride and Sun bridegroom it dates from 1975 it's a Leno cut that is a print uh using cut lolium it's 44 CM by 662 cm it's in a limited uh print edition of 50 runs it's a work by Dan rotti and he's a South African he incarnated in 1937 and passed through transition experienced a great initiation in 2004 he was an art teacher and an artist and a rosac crucian he studied art in South Africa in fact he was a full

bright scholar or receiv received the full bright scholarship to come and study in Los Angeles where he did a master's degree in African studies at UCLA or University of California Los Angeles it's a very thoughtful work you can see in Dan's Works Often by titles as well that you're it uh he very suggestive of being a rosac crucian if you didn't know that tile such as dweller the threshold um or the Eternal Quest For example very poignantly here we see the law of polarity and law Duality at work and the law Unity ultimately with the bride and the bridegroom the Sun and the Moon these are polarities that are within us and with all around us in nature and they come into manifestation through the law of causation or the law cause and effect the law cause and effect works with all Ros laws and principles indeed

all laws and principles it's a very important all embracing law just like the law of love and we know that love love comes about through the application of love the triangle that is light and Life coming together to form the love through the law cause and effect the law Duality and the law Unity it's a very inspiring work here you'll see centrally the figure of a great reading uh source of energy of all there's the being or persons aligned here that are in awe of what is taking place the the male and the male figure with the Sun the female figure with with the moon but these transcend uh any specific genders we feel them within ourselves and partake in all genders it's a very captivating work you can see he's working with Traditions that have been very influential to him

uh as an African person but he's also very was studied and very interested in in Western Art and combines them in various interesting and subtle ways take some time in to take the great energy that radiates out from this work you get a sense of great system and order that we come into for our Ros acution studies indeed Dan was very grateful for his Ros acution weekly monograph studies for example he attributed them to the tremendous Health uh Improvement that he had in in his own life where we study many things to do with healing we'll practice a form of healing with our meditation shortly in various ways with our metaphysical aid but also the act of meditation in itself is very healing so take some time to take in the work of art now and just enjoy its subtle Beauty and it's energetic nature and when you're ready I invite

you to close your eyes and just enjoy the gentle rhythm of your breath appreciation of both the Moon and Sun aspects of ourselves our physical and non-physical nature each incoming of the breath may feel the creasing presence of what the rose referred to as the Divine with in the vital life force with it charged in the air just as our own Consciousness as an independent expression of life began with our first breath when we were born so in a way we're each time reborn with each incoming breath and with the outgoing of breath there's a wonderful operation that takes place especially if we extend the

exhalation that stimulates the great vag nerve in our body that allows the relaxation response to take place that relaxation and calmness allows healing to take place allowing us to become whole just continue to enjoy the gentle Rhythm of the breath the inhalation and the exhalation

just let go of the cares of the day have this is a time as a mini retreat to be rejuvenated rested reenergized reintegrated is increasingly surrender or be receptive to the divine within particularly with each inhalation we increasingly feel the tingling of the

vital life force particularly it's pos positive player of the cosmic Essence L the V life force is always at work but during meditation we become increasingly sensitive to it as we practice meditation regularly there's various wonderful cumulative effects built up from the cause of the meditation become more sensitive or aware what's going on within us and around us as a as a Unity we can direct the vital life force for healing in the Holy Temple at our body and our mind at this time fors and sorors and participants let us continue our meditation but will shift to a period of meditation attuning with the

cosmic the heights of the celestial sanctum by applying and adapting the instructions of the key rosac crucian instru meditational instruction booklet Liber [Music] 777 will give you result veres on towards the end of this presentation to begin this second part of our meditation let us undertake a prayer and invocation by which I invite you to say with me May the Divine Essence of the cosmic Infuse my being and cleans me of all impurities of mind and body that I may enter the celestial Sanctum and a tune in pureness and in worthiness so M it be now use all your inner psychic faculties and imaginative

ability to picture yourself rising up from the room where you are situated rising up enjoying the exhileration of the ascent over your home even beyond your neighborhood keep rising up experiencing the great Ascent enjoy the ascent as you continue to rise up over your surrounding area your city or geographic

area your Province or state take in the weather systems below the land forms unique to your area on the Temple of the Earth and continue to rise up of your great nation or country take in now the continent where you dwell the hemisphere in the beautiful blue Jewel of the earth rotating about its axis seeing the moon revolving about it enjoy the beauty of the ascent the system in Harmony and Order and look up and see our solar system the beautiful elliptical orbits of the planets the great fiery ball of the sun continue to rise up higher and higher last Myriad

Stars asteroids black holes helping balance the universe nebuli even some of the structure or Galaxy where we dwell the Milky Way galaxy with its great spiraling arms go faster and faster at tremendous Speed Way Beyond the light speed of light as we transcend space and time and gradually shift from the finite plane to the infinite plane continue to rise up past out from the Milky Way galaxy and look back at its beautiful actions taking in a full sea of vibrations and what Rose crucians refer to as the cosmic keyboard the physical to the psychic and Beyond a wondrous Harmony of the fear is that artists musicians seek to imitate back

on Earth in they tune with the cosmic as continue to rise higher and higher past Myriad galaxies and stars and even past Super clust clusters of galaxies you have individual clusters of galaxies see many many clust clusters of galaxies and super clusters of galaxies as we enjoy the exhilaration rising up faster and faster way Beyond speed of light since the great system and Order of the cosmos the related term the rosan use the cosmic which means the universal intelligence back of the cosmos and all natural and spiritual laws that we seek to understand and know it's part of our self-mastery the mastership of

Life full purpose of life and service okay to rise up faster and faster enjoying the beauty and exhilaration flow of the life force throughout identify increasingly your Holy Temple the microcosm the macrocosm the entirety of the cosmos we can continue to rise up sensing more and more vastness of the universe recently be able to sense the cosmos as a whole revolving about a great Cosmic axis sense the presence of that Cosmic axis and zoom great speed towards its midpoint the very center of the cosmos When You Reach toward it slow up

and when you're ready stay still there seeing the great motion about you of the cosmos rotating about in stupendous Harmony and Order law cause and effect ever at work within us and around us throughout the Divine laboratorium of the cosmos the Holy Temple that is the microcosm increasingly aware of these matters for and sores participants I invite you to imply further the instructions of the booklet Libra 777 and picture your personal Celestial sanctum which You may wish on this occasion simply to have the cosmos all about you or maybe a Sacred Space known to you on Earth such as the grand Temple of rosac

crusan park or a particular temple one of the spiritual tradition of the world or maybe some sacred place in nature special to you high vantage point from a mountain a seashore sacred grove whatever it is fill in the sights and sounds make it real make it vital this way we'll set causes into motion that will produce wondrous effects for us we at the heights of the celestial sanctum at the center of the cosmos the center of our being keep filling in the sights and sounds and the full impressions of an inner emotional nature and a psychic nature You may wish to visualize others

with us on this conference call other Seekers visible and invisible Masters the officers of our order the grandm and the imperator Maybe cond in a sacred Convocation at the heights the celestial sanctum now he wish to picture in sense Rising just like we rose up in an active transmutation to the heights of celestial sanctum beautiful artwork symbolizing rosac crusan laws and principles fill in your Sacred Space now as you do that feel the increasing presence of the divine within when you fill in your Celestial sanctum all its wondrous

Impressions release the visualization through the subconscious into the cosmic mind and let us dwell in Stillness increasing presence and surrender to the divine within applying the law correspondence for as we rose up into the heights of the celestial sanctum we went deeper and deeper into our being very place of the master within the divine within let us dwell in silence now just let go and surrender whatever comes

to mind just let go return to the discipline of the breath the center of the cosmos the center of your being increasing presence of the divine within through the law of Silence Cosmic Attunement e

rurs and participants as we attune with the cosmic I invite you allow your mind to expand increasingly encompassing the cosmos and the cosmic picture your mind as being throughout the cosmos part taking fully of the universal intelligence back the cosmos that is the cosmic mind experience as the cosmic mind experiences be the cosmic mind

assume the cosmic mind now e

now as we continue in Oneness with the cosmic mind fully identifying ourselves with it let us undertake certain other spiritual operations of the work and worship of the rosu crusan order AML let us continue to apply the law cause and effect by conducting a period of metaphysical Aid let us radiate love and well-being to all those who have petitioned the Grand Lodge of the Ros order Amor for guidance and healing and all those who've petitioned filiated bodies of the rosu order Amor in our grand lodge for guidance and healing let us radiate love and wellbeing to them as well let us radiate love and well-being to all those who you know who are in

need of guidance and healing and finally let us radiate love and well-being to all sentient beings throughout the cosmos where need of guidance and healing rate the love and well-being out to all filling the cosmos just as as the cosmic mind fills the cosmos and is back of it let the flow continue like a great blood light filling the cosmos from its Center the heights of the celestial sanctum the center of your being s point I think you'll find if you

haven't already that no longer need to make conscious effort for the flow of love and well-being to radiate to all in need the radiations may even speed up and you'll know that it's reaching those in need the law cause and effect the law of service law of cosmic Attunement more when the flow is underway without conscious effort just continue to surrender being one with the one fully identified with the cosmic mind now e

soon we'll formally conclude this period of metaphysical Aid working as a silent Council in conjunction with the Council of soless the Grand Lodge of the Ros Kush order Amar but we'll continue our meditation a while longer now we'll formally conclude our period of metaphysical Aid assured that radiations will continue as a way of life for us as students on the mystical path filling our mission in life maybe invite you to say with me now if it pleases the cosmic it is done so M it be now fs and sorors and participants let's dwell a while longer the heights of the celestial sanct and one with the one enriched and ennobled

regenerated re enlivened reenergized rested e now fors and Soros will'll

begin to formally close our period of meditation the heights of the celestial sanctum this time you may wish to invoke the law gratitude to thank all those who have assisted you in learning and understanding and in loving our elders and teachers our officers Grand Lodge officers spring ground Lodge officers the Ros of chrisan order hmark and all those very special to you we radiate our love and wellbe and gratitude to them and let us begin now our descent from the heights of the celestial sanum moving at tremendous speed p the super clusters of galaxies revolving about the great

Cosmic axis each with many many clusters of galaxies in each cluster of Galaxy with many many galaxies let us continue our descent and feel the exhilaration see in the distance the supercluster Galaxy which is our great home and plunge into it see the Myriad clusters of galaxies see now our home cluster of galaxies and plunge into it and the Myriad galaxies and stars and nebuli Interstellar gases within it and see in the distance wonder and

Beauty Celestial music of the Milky Way galaxy and enter into the great arm which is our home past Myriad Stars asteroids rogue planets planets black holes comets binary Stars Supernova and see in the distance the Wonder and glory of the Temple of the solar system great fiery ball of the Sun The Elegant Beauty of the elliptical orbits and Home in on the beautiful blue Jewel the Earth with seas and oceans and land forms blues and Browns whites of the weather systems come back to the hemisphere we left off continent great nation or country Province or state County your local geographic area or

city let us formally say together conclude another prayer and invocation May the god of my heart sanctify this tunan of self with a Celestial sanctum so mod it be let us continue down in our neighborhood dwelling our home or building where we live left off the room Back River situated either seated or lying down or however but we are stretch and open your eyes feeling remade rejuvenated reborn a new all the more ready for the work and worship the order in our presentation today thank you everyone now to continue on our

presentation on the laws of Life 12 the law of cause and effect we'll look again on a causal diagram here with and working in a more abstract way but we'll have some specific examples first we have our cause on the left and the blue arrow indicating there's a causal effect leading to the effect on the right and this is something that's going on all around us the very fact that you're able to hear me and think about what I'm saying it's intensively applying the C law cause and effect recall um in an earlier Department instruction teleconference we talked about the law of cause effect but if you didn't attend that that's fine this will be self-contained you can also go back to the recording it'll give you the resource for the rosu DV on YouTube if you wish to hear that or other department instruction teleconferences on that occasion we talked about mediators where we have here our cause

and effect diagram we saw simply sometimes there's another variable or condition that the cause mediates through to get rise to the effect and sometimes it's partial mediation in the sense that the cause and effect works directly but sometimes it has to work through a mediator as well but sometimes it has to work entirely through the mediator and that's called Full mediation whereas the partial mediation had both causal Pathways from the me directly and the direct effect and the indirect effect here I know many of you studied psychology so some of this terminology be familiar with you with you I know some of you who studied mathematics you've done graphical models or graph the and yes we're applying all these things here so with these things in mind let us return back to something we covered before uh but also something uh if it's new to you that's fine as well keep in

mind this full mediation diagram here here's a specific example that's of great import to us as students on the mystical path there's often reference to the stages of mystical development the common one is there's five stages sometimes there are different numberings but they're essenti of this type where the Awakening period we come into an awareness uh a new way of being a new understanding of things a new dimension of things could be the spiritual life and we're greatly uplifted in a new idealism comes but we know that that can grow into an illumination but the awaking itself actually doesn't directly cause the illumination it has to work through an important period of of regation or self-discipline and through that that initial idealism and an in influx of Greater knowledge and abilities is worked on in

practice and we become more disciplined then the great illumination could occur and there's an even greater idealism instilled even more faculties come forward even greater sense of the so-called Mystery of Life become more plain and simple before us we can be much more of service to others much more able to radiate love and well-being and be loving and kind and do what's needed and know what's needed but even that must grow because ultimately the stage of mystical Union the ultimate goal of the human that the path along the way is equally important as the ultimate goal of mystical Union we must enter into the Obscure night it's a purging a great purging process that parallels the stage of pration that then that period of which can seem to draw us away way and hence the poetic use of the term obscure night or um Dark Night of the Soul if we remember the illumination and what was learned there we'll be able to see

ourselves through and have the great P purging take place we have not been abandoned the master within our true guide is always with us this is a period to rely even more on the master within and that allows the even greater illumination mystical Union to take place being one with the one just as we did in our meditation today we're building up in the cumulative effect our ultimate entry into the mystical Union where the master within is already waiting for us as we increasingly identify and soak up the master within our outer nature we realize we've been here all along but this is through me the mediate full mediation process taking place through pration an obscure night let us continue and think about these things some more last time we talked about mediators and moderators and confounders in our presentation on the law and cause effect I also want to

introduce you to colliders and these are very important in understanding uh life and the Mastery of life in whatever field we've chosen our endeavors in in understanding our family life and home life you know Central purpose of the rosac crucians is to allow us in humanity to overcome beer Superstition and ignorance in a deep understanding of rosu laws and principles and things that we learn through science and art and all the disciplines are greatly assist us in that now it may be thought of that Superstition as something of the past but is still very much with us because essentially and technically what it means is we are being superstitious when we've falsely accepted an explanation that is untrue we've accepted some false falsehood then we're in indulging in Superstition especially when we apply it so these ideas about the law cause

effect and how that works help us overcome fear Superstition and ignorance as we have more knowledge then we're able to let go of fear more and more we're able to let go of these laws that we've set up in the subconscious and make us fearful and replace them cruly with more Harmon ious laws and this spirit let us continue further in our presentation you recall we spoke about moderators but I'll introduce them again a moderator is something that's crucial that has to assist with the primary cause or act cause the moderator itself can be a cause of the effect as well let me give you an example here in the book Sanctuary self by past imperator Ralph M Lewis there's some beautiful insights and stories in there that are wonderful to learn about and to

come back to one very memorable one was for me was that imperator Lewis talked about a student of the Ros ofr order that have written to the Department of Instruction and told them about a special experience they thought that was of a psychic nature they would circum and when they do their rosac chrisan exercise and they would close by doing a circum evulation around on a rug uh in their stalking feet for example and then they would reach to their metal door and metal door handle and there would be a spark and they would see that Ah that's the psychic Force within me that's acting but they wanted to understand more about how this operated was this really correct and so Department of Instruction class Master wrot back to them and said well how about trying uh you tell us some more about your your room first please and so the student wrote back and

said well yes there's the rug i i i circumambulate around and it used to be a special laboratory room that my brother had set up in the home for certain types of scientific experiments and there's a lot of metal in the room it's between a metal door with a metal uh door knob and handle so this was crucial information uh and this is why the order introduces us to various laws and and principles of Science and it's valuable to know them particularly laws to do with electromagnetism they suggested to the student to do your as you regularly do but remove the rug and do and now the student was puzzled because they did as they did before but there was no spark happening so you can see that the rug was a moderator it was a crucial part of what in fact this person was doing as a scientific demonstration to cause a spark from their hand to the before they

touched the door knob as if there was no rug there was no spark and in this way the student was puzzled and wrote back well how could this be and they were that time the person in US is where often we resist lessons or it's good that be very receptive just as we be receptive and surrender to the master within and they learned about statically electricity they've been known about since ancient times and it's very important there is St to make sure in in our lessons New Order and also in chapters in the book Sanctuary self it's important to make a distinguish between physical phenomena and psychic phenomena yes there is psychic phenomena and we developed that in the r of Krish order but it's important to know laws of of science as well and not mistake U physical phenomena or or psychic pH phenomena let us continue now on looking

at cause effects we've looked at the importance of the moderator how an effect may work through uh a moderator to have to have it I should say a cause will work through its moderate to have its cause at least in part or there may be some essential extra ingredient like the rug that was necessary along with the circum ulation the rug in itself was not causing uh the spark it needed to work with the person having circumambulated built up an electric charge in the body now another notable variable or factor to be aware of when we're understanding cause and effect in our activities in life and students on the mystical path is the con confounder and a confounder is a variable or a factor or condition they can make a c something that may appear like a Cause something appear like a an effect

that arises from it or we could use terms like exposure or outcome or um the treatment and the uh the outcome and so two things can often look like one's causing the other when it's not the what not the uh matter at all what's really happening is just they're related by the confounder is actually causing the exposure the the primary cause CA here and the confounder is causing the outcome and that gives that false impression that these that the exposure and the outcome or this posited or hypothesized cause and effect are related to each other that's why I put the question mark here now to give this more of an common occurrence is that sometimes we'll see two things that are very close together in time and space and think oh that one

thing is caused by the other when that may not be at all the case we have to take care now it's true by evolutionary biology of the human being we had to survive survive in often hostile conditions and looking at or on the lookout for cause and effect in relationships but we still have to take care that we're not coming to a false uh explanation for a cause and effect otherwise we're participating in ignorance and Superstition often unnecessary fear if we fear the effect also there can be time can appear to be a confounder because you could have say uh a person as a child on uh in one home and then across the street another child and they both appear to be growing together was one child causing the other to grow no but it's just natural growth spurts over time and time

there uh is a is a and founder the the one child is not causing the other to grow for example now some of these things I know can be very obvious I'm going to give another one that's a little humorous here some of you may have read the book uh that dates from the mid part of the 20th century called how to lie with Statistics It Was Written In fact actually not how to lie with Statistics but you get people's attention is actually how to use statistics properly how to re reason well with data and one of the examples in that uh book uh was it said there was a case where the stor population appeared to be highly associated with the baby population in a particular part of Britain so maybe those stories about stalks bringing babies uh to parents is actually true and you know when parents put signs out on the front of their lawns showing a a a picture of a stor uh holding its mouth a bag with a baby

inside well maybe maybe there's something to that because there seems to be as the stor population is going up the baby population was going up in that particular part of Britain now we'll smile and say how could this be but often our reasoning this is the type of thing that's happening because we're not seen hidden behind the scenes that can founder for example the explanation in this occasion was there was a particular type of new housing development in that part of Britain it was very attractive to new couples and it those houses typically had a particular Chim type that was very attracted to STS so the chimney type was attracting the STS but that chimney type associated with a particular home that was particularly suitable for young couples and their affordability was attracting couples and hence babies that many of them were having and that gave the false impression that the stores were bringing the babies if you had the idea of that as hypothesis so in fact um the true

situation was the chimney type was a confounded attracting the STS and attracting the babies let's follow this a little longer but be on the lookout for chimney types if you're associating things with cause and effect there might be something like the chimney that's confounding the relationship let's think a little more mystically now practice meditation today one of the things that's been established through the roseu studies and demonstration also some Modern scientific work is that meditation gives a boost to our mood often even when we don't think that's possible but meditation will also improve our memory memory from lab tests done with uh by psychologists now that can appear to give the rise if we didn't know that that the mood is increasing our capacity for memory so if we didn't take account of meditation we might think that mood is improving memory for example if we

posited that or vice versa memory improving improving mood in some way it's possible there's definitely meditation improving mood boosting it positively in memory there may be a cause of relationship directly mood to memory that might be possible but to do that it would be important to control if the amount the person's meditating or whether they're meditating or not to get an accurate measure if mood in fact is boosting it and by how much because it's not just a matter of being causal but how Intense or strong as the cause similarly meditation we know is a very valuable way to rest in addition to sleep it's also at the same time as a dual action to re-energize us without any side effects but if we didn't realize this we might think well is resting causing us to be regener reenergized possibly there's a relationship there and that makes sense

actually from scientific studies in health and psychology but also if we're rested well that can also help us to meditate well so they could be causal action both ways and if we're re-energized that can also help us stay on stay on task and have more energy for our meditation so the causal diagrams can get more involved and there might even be an action back causally in this direction we could think about that so again here you can see it's possible sometimes there's a confounder and there may even be cause here but it helps us to to actually get a good sense of how much resting re-energizes us to take in account or control for how much meditation is being done as well now in reli to this often when we meditate we may find that we fall asleep is the meditation actually causing us to fall asleep well sobering in this regard the main driver of that

is typically that we're sleep deprived but it's true that you may find that oh well I'm sleep deprived but I'm not falling asleep as much as when I I meditate so meditation has got to be a cause primary cause here yes is the sleep deprivation that's and actually meditating helps us to be less sleep deprived so there I could draw a causal uh Arrow going from meditation to sleep deprivation but it also can view meditation as a as a moderator or if you study statistics you may know it as uh an interaction term between meditation and sleep deprivation if you're doing a regression what's called a regression model but what's key here is it isn't meditation causing us to follow asleep but it can allow as a a moderator can moderate how much we're falling asleep and how quickly yes by the calmness of meditation can help that happen but that's still a valuable form of sleep because we enter in it into in a more

calm meditative meditative way the important thing is for us to get more sleep and that helps us with health just as the meditation does now I wanted to talk finally and conclude with the collider maybe it's something you're familiar with but just like uh confounders are something to watch out for colliders and be because they can also give false Impressions between what appear to be cause and effects or exposures and outcomes so I've placed uh what we may have positive as a cause positive as its effect here or there's an association between an exposure outcome I put it as a question mark here sort of the the orange connection now just like with confounders here we said it was important to control for the confounder because when you controlled for the type of Chimney like if you looked at young couples there were in other housing developments that had buildings that were attracted to them

but didn't have the same type of of Chimney that attracted stalks they may be well then the STS aren't coming here but we're still having the baby so doesn't appear the stor being around has has any impact right that was a confounder the chimney type so it's important to control for the chimney type when you did that well here's here's where we don't have the chimney type but we have couples and here we have the chimney type of that was the stalks are attracted to uh and of couples you see that the effect of the of the stalks is gone similarly with the collider here the arrows now you see going in the oppos opposite direction to the compounder the collider it's important to not control for the collider because the cause or the exposure is is also a cause for the collider the the effect in the outcome is a cause of the collider whoops let me jump back here for a moment so you can say well what would be an example of this and why don't you control for it because often you know it's important

it's an important control for other variables if you want to isolate a cause and effect particularly between variables uh yes under search circumstances such as a confounder but let's give an example here say that it seems uh from studies and it's plausible logically that um height can be a helpful cause not the only cause to to increase basketball performance as he increases basketball performances increases to to some to some to some extent but definitely a positive Association that could be viewed as causal because you're higher more easier to shoot up shoot the ball closer you're closer to start for your shooting to the basket for example but if you did a study and this has been done of NBA players so you've got Elite basketball players highly skilled um you'll notice that wa was help was helpful for them to be accepted as an NBA

player so that actually can be viewed as a cause of being in the NBA in part but also being highly skilled in basketball and high performance in basketball helping be a why they were accepted to be an NBA player but what's interesting if if you now look among NBA players you can't find a a relationship between height and basketball performance and you can do it on various metrics or measurements the reason for that is that the collider we had the two arrows going towards the one variable being in the NBA they Collide at NBA the fact there is if we controlled the control contr for NBA or just like NBA data will lose the relationship between height and basketball if we deal with the larger population or don't control or NBA then we see our relationship between height and basketball again similarly um as we draw to a close

here I'd like to mention in the 1980s I worked as a statistician in the Department of Medicine the Health Science mcmas University and at that time uh there was a medical doctor named David sck uh is a renowned epidemiologist and medical doctor in 1979 he he uh wrote an article where he drw uh what he posited as an association between local local motor disease and respiratory disease and so uh but he only studied people that are hospitalized only uh 257 hospitalized individuals and he found that the odds ratio from local motor disease to respiratory disease was 4.06 that you were approximately four if you had local motor disease um four times more likely to have respiratory disease it appeared but he only studied

people they hos hospitalized and that he realized later to hisin that he hospitalization is a collider because he control had in effect control for hospitalization what he did sorry jump back what he did later he did a larger study a few years later with 2,783 individuals in the general population and now the odds if you have local motor disease also having respiratory disease was 1.06 in fact that's pretty much like a 5050 uh chance um uh so he found that the causal effect that your Association vanished he went on on to call for a creation of a catalog of biases which have continued to this day uh through the uh Center for evidence-based me medicine um run through the uh University of Oxford in England they

have over UH 60 biases now on their website you can submit a bias if you think a new one needs to be added I'll give you a resource on that so with uh colliders it's important not to control for them or if you do to control through them through other uh variables in your causal D causal expl explanation and diagram so of so getting close to summing up now um but not quite at a conclusion I want to show you one more diagram you know the rosac crusan tradition we emphasize the importance of contemplative life and the active life and have a good balance of them or an optimal Blend or balance sometimes it's thought well I can just concentrate on this and that's going to get me Enlightenment um actually won't work that way you'll find that off to a degree uh spiritual life will start to dry up because there need to be the input from the active life the work in service and V various other factors to

help same way that both of these contribute as a cause to spirituality and self-mastery when properly applied um they and themselves the relationship between them isn't as uh strong as this one that they're helping create here but if we look at the that's in terms of quantity the amount of redoing of these these things but if we look at the quality of the contemplative life the quality of the ACT active life quality of our spirituality self-mastery we find now that actually the cause and effect can flow both ways among all these things they mutually reinforce each other this is a very important lesson in life for self-mastery and balance and our weekly lessons and our Ros acction teachings do that so we do find a case here where yes spirituality self-match Collide your respect to cont life and active life such as doing meditation various exercises but here applying them in our daily life and in service but there's also a cause and

effect relationship here but an important part of it of these being related or Associated are through spirituality and self-mastery where as we come more into self-mastery more able to have the quality of our active life increase same L as our active life increases it gives us more more material to digest and reflect on and meditate on and increase and understanding which in term helps our spiritual self-mastery this is part of a key in the Ros acution teachings and attaining to the Mystic state of mystical Union that draws us back to where we began for the marriage of the contemplative life and the active life the marriage of the the Sun and the Moon and our inspiring picture by by our frer Dan rotti before I do our conclusion I'll ask Karen at this

time to post in the chat for you the resources for today and she'll also uh place it there as a PDF document which You may wish to um download and by way of conclusion then I'll say that the purpose of the law cause and effect is to convey a lesson and to evolve our understanding the Mastery of life that is living in harmony involves a detailed knowledge and application of this law in our inner nature and Body in the Holy Temple and in the Divine laboratorium of the cosmos in this way we overcome fears through Superstition and ignorance and so you see we've continued to explore rosac crucian laws and principles and their application for self-mastery in service

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