Intent
The why behind a choice — and in this model, the only part that counts.
Campbell describes intent as the mechanism by which a consciousness interfaces and interacts with everything outside itself, and puts it about as strongly as it can be put: you, at the being level, are your intent. Your intent is the essence of you that interacts with all that is not you.
Which means two people can perform the identical kind act and only one of them grows. The material's own example is helping an old lady across the road: it depends on why. If the intent is right, growth happens. If it is not, you have acted good rather than been good, and the model treats those as different things.
Intent is described as trainable, with three qualities — how strong it is, how well you can focus it, and how clean the signal is. All three improve with the kind of quieting that meditation is for.
Where this gets misread
That intent means intention-setting or manifesting. It is not a wish list, and its effect on events is bounded — the material is explicit that shifting a one-in-a-million probability by three orders of magnitude still leaves it vanishingly unlikely. The harder problem is that your ego actively hides your real intent from you. Finding out what it actually was is the practice.
My Big TOE glossary: Intent; Gems from the Forum #4(opens in a new tab)