Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts, this is why I include a goodly amount of (verifiable) fact-checking data from the mystical/spiritual sciences field.
All ascended mystics voice the same Radical Truth no matter the tradition. . .
Sri Aurobindo said that the Unknowable need not remain the unknown for us because:
fundamentally all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can forever prevail.
This is why when we say, 'there is no reality outside of God, and God is closer to us than our breath', we really mean it . . . because we know that God is everywhere both personal and impersonal/omnicient.
The eternal self-Soul exists independently from the mind and its constantly fluctuating mental-emotional states. Things shift drastically when we reach (permanent) Samadhi state. . .And from this station we describe/share what we were allowed to see (it has nothing to do with mental level comprehension of the concept).
For a change of pace, today I would like to include few quotes penned by Ken Wilber. His writing on spirituality is spot on...save for the part about transcending sexuality. His perspective on what the true/transcendent Shakti-Shiva's Congress Union and mine differ.
In One Taste (in 2000) he writes:
in the very highest Tantric teachings, the mere visualization of sexual congress with the divine consort is not enough for final enlightenment. Rather, for ultimate enlightenment, one must take an actual partner--real sex--in order to complete the circuits conducive to recognizing the already-enlightened mind.
I say there is merit in that pronouncement but this is not the last word. He is talking about 'peak experience' during sexual congress, or Self-realization. . .
I say the real Ravishment, the Real (permanent) Ultimate Consummation of the Soul with the Essence of the Absolute/Supreme takes place at the zenith point of one's Soul's journey through Light-Sound via the Supreme Kundalini Shakti way within one's (celibate) interiority. I know this because this happened to me. . .
And, if Ken Wilber changed his mind since he wrote those words, I have yet to hear it because I don't have a budget for book-buying.
In Wilber's words, from: The Simple Feeling of Being - Embracing Your True Nature
* So as this incarnational nonduality, this ultimately ecstatic tantric nonduality itself, began to unfold, and its manifestation began to unfold, you find that by the time you get to people like Sri Aurobindo, there's such a full-bodied understanding of this process. Even though some of the earlier sages were ultimately enlightened for their time, there's a richness, an unfolding, a resonance of spirit's own incarnational understanding in some of these recent sages that just give you goosebumps.
* Since all things are already Spirit, there is no way to reach Spirit. There is only Spirit in all directions, and one simply rests in the spontaneous nature of the mind itself, effortlessly embracing all that arises as ornaments of your own primordial experience. The unmanifest and the manifest, or emptiness and and form, unite in the pure non-dual play of your own awareness -- generally regarded as the ultimate state that is no state in particular.
* The mystic's claim is that mystical. . .validity claims are anchored in extralinguistic realities that, however much they are molded by cultural factors, are not merely the product of shifting cultural and provincial-only fashions (the referents of the transcendental signifiers exist in a worldspace that is disclosed to those with the appropriate developmental signifieds, even if these are always already culturally situated. Thus, cultural context does not prevent natural science from making and redeeming universal claims, nor likewise does it prevent mystical science from making and redeeming not-merely-culture-bound-claims).
* Cosmic consciousness is not the obliteration of individuality but its consummate fulfillment, at which point we can speak of Self or no-self, it matters not which: your Self is the Self of the entire Kosmos, timeless and therefore eternal, spaceless and therefore infinite, moved only by a radiant Love that defies date or duration.
* Spirit knows itself objectively as Nature; knows itself subjectively as Mind; and knows itself absolutely as Spirit -- the Source, the Summit, the Ground, and the Process of the entire ordeal.
* In the manifest world, what we call "matter" is not the lowest rung in the great spectrum of existence, but the exterior form of every rung in the great spectrum. Matter is not lower with consciousness higher, but matter and consciousness are the exterior and interior of every holon.
(not sure if this (last) snippet is from same book).
I wrote Spirit Speaks in 1995 (after many mystical experiences) -- if curious
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2009/03/spirit-speaks.html
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