Not recognizing the middle or soul principle of the mental plane as the true heart center.
 

Not grasping that our collective inclusive intelligence or consciousness is the soul.
 

Not understanding that the significance of love is not feeling but thinking inclusively.
 

Failure to progress from ideals about humanity to inclusive soul love for others.
 

Belief that personality awareness is separate from soul consciousness.
 

Habitual or devotional aspiration to soul-consciousness isolates us from becoming the soul; prevents identification with soul knowledge.
 

Belief that the soul, interfacing relationship, is separate from higher mind or monad.
 

Too specific identification with any of the seven rays or seven planes prevents fusion.
 

Literal interpretation of Hierarchy prevents the abstraction necessary for fusion.
 

Hierarchy is collectively to Humanity what the soul is individually to the personality.
 

Imagining the masters, Hierarchy or ashrams as up there or beyond us in either time or space prevents fusion. All are right here, now.
 

Isolation from hierarchical group consciousness by clinging to the notion of ‘my soul’.
 

Suppressing the intuition by seeing oneself as a unit of awareness within the one soul rather than as that one soul.
 

Exclusion from group consciousness by rejection of mass awareness.
 

Working with meaning and with symbols of relationship such as masters, hierarchy, initiations, ashrams, triangles, rays, planes,  petals or centers instead of their abstract significance in terms of oneness.
 

Failure to relinquish the sense of group in favor of the sense of oneness. 
 

Failure to substitute the synthetic will-to-continue for aspiration. 
 

Failure to take that synthetic next step; thinking not of relationships but of wholes.

Failure to accept the synthesis of spiritual ideals.
 

Belief in an individual abstract mind or personal monad.
 

Mistaking unity for synthesis.
 

Poor imagination in working (playing) with eternity, with the sense of oneness.
 

Attempting to function as ‘the soul on its own plane’ (the monad), as an individual.
 

Unwillingness to discard concepts and ignore images which don't reflect oneness.
 

Failing to appreciate, value, and use spiritual disillusionment.
 

Fear that synthetic intelligence jeopardizes self-awareness or promotes uniformity.
 

Not grasping that all progress, qualities, and processes are based on sequential soul perception, not oneness.
 

Using group techniques, acting as if we are the loving soul, slows or stalls personal acceptance of monadic reality, of true universality.
 

Belief in the limitations of time and space.
 

Failure to recognize the antahkarana bridge of relationship consciousness as sufficiently complete.
 

Literal, symbolic or pictorial interpretation of shamballic intelligence prevents understanding and experience of synthesis.
 

Belief that the Path of meaning and the Way of significance are the same.
 

Weak or unpracticed extrapolation skills hinder abstraction.
 

Misguided ‘respect’ factor prevents effective Identification by being too polite to presume.
 

Insufficient humor and irreverence to dispel obstructing sacred cows or obsolete spiritual ideals, crucial for success.
 

Failure to abstract oneself from the relating activity of inclusive intelligence we recognize as the psyche or soul consciousness.
 

Confusing human (planetary) life and spiritual (solar) life with divine (solar) Life in terms of our intelligence.
 

Failure to abstract ourselves from use of both energy and force by a synthetic sense of oneness.
 

Need for stimulated abstract imagination to see ourselves and others as a single, eternal, living, synthetic intelligence.