This post's focus is to show that Soul-level experiences (the state of being beyond/above the mind) can't be explained away by 'brain chemistry'. Quite recently I found out that scholar David Lane meditates. He acknowledges "Mystery", which no mind can penetrate. . . and I concur. I agree that even the most exalted intellect doesn't have access to this domain. On the other hand, the awakened awareness of one's eternal self-Soul, does. If I didn't know this I wouldn't have decades worth of Depth data checked/affirmed by communal confirmation.
I chanced upon Aurobindo's key quote which confirms (for me) that the ascended mystic undergoes many types of Soul-level Initiations before she/he reaches the apex-point of Union and Identification with the Essence of the Absolute Supreme . . . Of being (literally) one with all Reality and its beings in the visible and invisible domains.
In this blog I chronicle many types of Energy-level Initiations, this is why I feel compelled to correct those who think they know better.
Custodians of transcendent knowledge know better because we were entrusted with this Knowledge. We have a moral duty to bear witness to Divine Revelations, no matter the objections. The following snippet in Aurobindo's words, highlights why the unpacking of Divine Gnosis (supreme spiritual level) are best left to one who writes from this level:
"...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."
intyoga.online.fr/ld2_26.htm
This excerpt is from: The Synthesis of Yoga (Sri Aurobindo) where he affirms that a 'multimform dynamic experience' is necessary to transform one's nature. In this blog and other cyber-place I said that Kundalini Shakti gave me a 'complete cosmic makeover'.
The Divine is in his essence infinite and his manifestation too is multitudinously infinite. If that is so, it is not likely that our true integral perfection in being and in nature can come by one kind of realisation alone; it must combine many different strands of divine experience. It cannot be reached by the exclusive pursuit of a single line of identity that is raised to its absolute;
it must harmonize many aspects of the Infinite. An Integral consciousness with a multiform dynamic experience is essential for the complete transformation of our nature.
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Last year in September I wrote Flatland Assertions Debunked - recently I rallied and edit-improved it for clarity's sake. In its original version I said I won't be contacting David C. Lane because that would be exercise in futility, but changed my mind this week and contacted him via messenger on Facebook, to let him know I wrote a critique of his post 'Tangled Lines' on integralworld in my blog and included a link. . . And was surprised he wrote back same day.
Quote: Ironically, I don't think that mystics are necessarily delusional at all. My only point was that we have to be open to alternative explanation concerning shabd yoga and spiritual practices, and too often the religious mindset resist simpler explanations. I have written a little book called WHY I MEDITATE which shows that I deeply admire shabd yoga and do it myself daily, upwards to 3 hours. * David included link to his book. It's when I realized Lane is not exactly 'flatlander'.
To my, 'I'm sticking to my guns' response, David replied:
We don't have to agree. That we have different interpretations of certain phenomena is to be expected.
So that's it. This is how scholars and (genuine/ascended) mystics roll. Our Depth data is meaningless. The awakened Divinity within our eternal self-Soul (the eternal Avatar) and its Communication from the source of Her nature, is seen as "interpretation".... as opposed to "Revelation".
If interested: www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2017/09/flatland-assertions-debunked.html
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So again: In words of one who I say is my 'primary community of the adequate person' - on what we mean when we use the term Divine Revelation.
"As we reach in our thought the line at which the evolution of Mind into Overmind into Supermind, we are faced with a difficulty which amounts almost to impossibility. For we are moved to seek for some precise idea, some clear mental description of the supramental or gnostic existence of which evolutionary Nature in the Ignorance is in travail; but by crossing this extreme line of sublimated Mind the consciousness passes out of its sphere, exceeds the characteristic action and escapes from the grasp, of mental perception and knowledge.
It is evident indeed that supramental nature must be a perfect integration and consummation of spiritual nature and experience: it would also contain in itself by the very character of the evolutionary principle, though it would not be limited to that change, a total spiritualisation of mundane nature; our world-experience would be taken up in this step of our evolution and, by a transformation of its parts of divinity, a creative rejection of its imperfections and disguises, reach some divine truth and plentitude.
But these are general formulas and give us no precise idea of the change. Our normal perception or imagination or formulation of things spiritual and things mundane is mental, but in the gnostic change the evolution crosses a line beyond which there is a supreme and radical reversal of consciousness and the standards and forms of mental cognition are no longer sufficient: it is difficult for mental thought to understand or describe supramental nature".
intyoga.online.fr/ld2_27.htm
Plus: I boldly approve the meaning couched within these words, penned by Sri Aurobindo:
"The defects of Western practitioners or Eastern quacks do not get rid of our true and ancient Yoga".
Also: Including link to sister post, where I quote the 'foremost authority on the world's great religions' Huston Smith's true words about Revelation: "There is no way the finite is going to comprehend the Infinite on its own. It has to be the Infinite taking the initiative, and that is the meaning of Revelation."
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2009/12/yogini-notes-on-kundalinishaktipat.html
I said this before but will repeat again that, for many years I kept silent about any sort of mystical conclusions - about the intense spiritual surges, and the like, because I didn't really know what to make about the myriad of otherworldly phenomena. . . They just kept coming and I kept jutting down the most vivid experiences without having any idea what to expect next. . .I had no one to compare my notes with, no one to turn to for support. I just knew I was 'in good hands' and trusted this (conscious) Force-Power-Bliss.
Today (4/02/2018) I read in The Meditative Mind, penned by Daniel Goleman, something Aurobindo's biographer Saptrem wrote that made sense to me.
"Sri Aurobindo was the first to be baffled by his own experience and . . .it took him some years to understand exactly what had happened. We have described the. . .experience. . .as though the stages had been linked very carefully, each with its explanatory label, but the explanations came long afterwards, at that moment he had no guiding landmarks."
