Not all Visions and mystical experiences have equal value because they come from different Mind-planes. Based on first-hand experiences, some have the power-capacity to directly plug one to the domain of Consciousness they originate from, others do not.
All values, all ranking and all judging are not equal - this is why in the court of law (for instance) the judge doesn't place behind prison bars someone for 10 years, for stealing bicycle.
Not all feelings and motivations are equal, either.
I appreciate and agree with Ken Wilber's insight, the role motivations and emotions play, when enacted from a deeper/subtler sense-awareness. I like that he used Aurobindo's model to highlight why this topic is important - why it ought to matter very much to spiritual practitioners. Not many people are aware of this, this is why I am more then glad to share what he said in: What is Enlightenment magazine - in article titled Higher Integration Bridging the Gap Between the Map & the Territory (2005):
When Aurobindo talks about intuitive mind and overmind and supermind, it's very telling that he uses the word mind. Because you can also say that there are intuitive emotions, and over-emotions, and super-emotions. The same with motivation -- there's intuitive motivation and over-motivation and super-motivation. So there are all those other lines of development that go up the hill with the mind line, or cognitive line.
But we still find that the cognitive line is usually necessary for these other lines to stick. If you don't have intuitive mind awakened, and overmind awakened, and supermind awakened, the emotions won't stick up there -- they'll come and go. And the higher motivations won't stick -- they'll come and go.
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Some who think they are in Supermind because their mind can understand conceptually the definition of what it is, are not there. In chapter on Gnostic Being in The Life Divine, Aurobindo writes:
"...in the gnostic being the subconscient will have become conscious and subject to the supramental control, penetrated with its light and action. The body will be turned by the power of spiritual consciousness into a true and fit and perfectly responsive instrument of the Spirit. + The Supermind itself in the descending degrees of the manifestation emerges from the Ananda." (*"Ananda=Bliss of Brahman") + "... Ananda is the spiritual matrix from which it manifests and the maintaining force into which it carries back the soul in its return to the status of the Spirit. A supramental manifestation in its ascent would have as a next sequence and culmination of self-result a manifestation of the Bliss of Brahman." Quotes from: intyoga.online.fr/ld2_27.html
People who hanker after worldly status, material riches, admiration and such, are not ready to embody higher motivations and emotions. Saint-like simple folk, are another story.
The keen reader of this blog knows I saw, heard and responded to cries of the world...I was Soul-directed to become Energy Healer at a Master level, and that was only the beginning. In advanced evolution, one is ready-able to submit to the eternal self-Soul's yearning. The fully awakened She/Light Being knows by her own inherent (divine) nature, by her own Light, how to best fulfill her destiny and mission . . . how to be a conscious agent in the evolutionary process, and it takes many types of Soul-level Initiations into the greatest Mystery of all before one become God-realized.
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This is how Aurobindo described Illumined mind, Overmind and Supermind:
1. The Illumined Mind does not work primary by thought, but by vision; thought is here only a subordinate movement expressive of sight. The human mind, which relics mainly by thought is secondary and not indispensable process. In its form of verbal thought, it can almost be described as a concession made by knowledge to the Ignorance. + Illumined Mind is the vehicle through which the Divine Light and Power come down to be transmitted to the human consciousness and from there they work and prepare the transformation of the human consciousness and even the physical nature.
2. At the source of . . . Intuition we discover a superconscient Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determined of all movements below it and all mental energies -- not Mind as we know it, but an overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a Power that at once connects and divides the supreme Knowledge and the cosmic Ignorance.
3. The essential character of Supermind is a Truth-Consciousness which knows by its own inherent nature, by its own Light; it has not to arrive at knowledge but possess it. +
Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature.
* Passages from The Life Divine - quoted with permission from Alan Kazlev: http://kheper.net/topics/Aurobindo/Overmind.html +
Snippet on Supermind, possibly from intyoga.fr.online
And this: in Sri Aurobindo's words on why description of the supreme spiritual level (Divine Gnosis) ought to be left to the true mystic:
"... the true knowledge and description must be left to the language of the mystic and the figures, at once more vivid and more recondite, of a direct and concrete experience." The Life Divine, chapter titled: The Ascent Towards Supermind, http://intyoga.online.fr/ld2_26.htm
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