Not everyone can be a math wizard or ballerina, but everyone can start a spiritual practice and discover consciously who one is in the depths of our being. I share what happened on my journey through transcendent Light and Sound, and you can too. . .
You will discover that finding the way to God (by whatever name) is painfully hard because one cannot find God without passing beyond one's being, beyond one's personal history.
Gopi Krishna knew this too:
Spiritual evolution does not imply greater skill in penetrating to the below-the-surface regions of the human mind but in raising it to levels of perception which it never possessed before. It is to this enhanced perception of gifted minds that all humans progress is due.
I use the term 'ascended Soul', often, and hope by now it is clear I don't mean 'higher mind', since higher mind's desires and psycho-emotional drives, are still very much intact. This mind is still evolving and will do so until she reaches the (higher) Psychic - which is: in direct relation with the transcendent Divine and leads the nature upwards towards the Supreme. In Sri Aurobindo's words.
I second this.
I submitted to and trusted Divine Will because I saw and felt I was in direct contact-communion with the Supreme Divine. My Karma placed me in this position, this is why it was very natural for me to obey Her guidance to become Energy worker (Shabd Yoga Master level). If I didn't, my Soul would not have received all manner of Initiations, would not claim 'I became more than human' - due to Enlightenment grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence--and calling myself 'mystic' sounded strange. This is also why I realize I transcended all power offices. . . and became humanities Servant.
Aurobindo's explanation on Soul-support/guidance is great. Based on my own experience it is 'real-palpable' because She . . Feels and knows simultaneously in a more direct and luminous way, by the very purity of its own nature and the divine instinct within it, and so, whenever it comes to the front it reveals at once what are the right and and what are the wrong movements in your nature. +
The psychic stands behind the being - a simple and sincere devotion to the Divine, an instinctual withdrawal from all that is the opposite are its most visible characteristics. + The soul or spark is there before the development of an organized vital and mind. The soul is something of the Divine that descends into the evolution as a divine Principle within it to support the evolution of the individual out of Ignorance into the Light. + It is the soul that is immortal while the rest disintegrates; it passes from life to life carrying its experience in essence and the continuity of the evolution of the individual. It is the whole consciousness, mental, vital, physical also, that has to rise and join the higher consciousness and, once the joining is made, the higher has to descend into them. The psychic is behind all that and supports it. With gratitude, from www.intyoga.online.fr/ppb5.htm
Someone who studied mystical traditions can have a highly developed spiritual intelligence and philosophically talk about it from the point of view of the whole in an abstract manner.
I noticed that people are not threatened by this type of knowledge.
In contrast, the Knowingness of the subtle and extremely subtle domains that introduces itself to the awakened awareness of the ascended Soul, seems very threatening when seen through the lens of self-contraction.
I didn't study any mystical traditions this is why it took many years before I had the confidence to assert anything. . . because I had no one to compare my experiences and contemplative conclusions with. Discovered Aurobindo's work was heaven-sent. And in due time realized (Integral) Yogic Sciences became my primary source of validation. (* I had a couple of Soul-level encounters with him encouraging me to 'keep going' when gaslighters took turn to attack me)
I agree *with him* that the last rung of the mystical ladder can't be reached by 'the exclusive pursuit of a single line of identity. In Sri Aurobindo's words, from: The Synthesis of Yoga on the importance of 'harmonizing many aspects of the Infinite.'
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 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 harmonise many aspects of the Infinite. An Integral consciousness with a multiform dynamic experience is essential for the complete transformation of our nature.
Rather than repeating what I already wrote in other posts, I am including link to 'verifying examples' (among many others) of what the experiences of being in direct relation/communion with the Divine were like for me, when I became transparent to its Influence: In plain words I describe what happens during the Descent of Peace, Force of Power, and Ananda/Divine Bliss/Satchitananda in post penned in 2009 titled: Solar Heart Initiation - which has a link to Epiphany Day and I think to Cosmic Synchronicity & Confirmation. Each post builds on what happened before, so it reads like one essay that took four years to write.
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2009/03/solar-heart-initiation.html
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In words of the American philosopher Ken Wilber, confirmation on what every ascended mystic asserts - (snippets) from Excerpt G Kosmos:
"Precisely because the quantum potential is not actually a radically formless or nondual domains, it cannot serve as anything resembling a genuine spiritual reality, but rather is simply one aspect of a manifest realm that itself has qualities and quantities, and hence is not radically Unqualifiable. The wisdom traditions are in strong and virtually unanimous agreement on this point. + "What the quantum mechanics formalisms are catching is a brief glimpse of - in a merely third-person, abstract, mathematical form - is the staggering power of etheric-astral-energy, out of which, as a sedimentation and crystallization, the entire gross material world arises. One version of this is: when the Shroedinger wave function collapses, prana gives rise to matter. + "Quantum potential is not Spirit but prana! + "This is not the union of science and and spirituality, but the union of bad physics and bad mysticism. + "Absolute nondual truth, and relative truth are radically different orders. The Absolute is known only by a direct realization involving a transformation in consciousness and "what" is seen in satori cannot be stated in ordinary dualistic words, other than metaphors, poetry, and hints if you want know God, you must awaken, not merely theorize."
w.Kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF/ExcerptG_KOSMOS_2004.pdf
Friday, August 24, 2018
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Deep Science
Michael Bradford, who is affiliated with Canada's Institute For Consciousness Research, penned an important article titled: Prana and Kundalini: Aspects of Shakti.
It's opening statement begins on this note:
For an individual who has gone through a Kundalini process, the task of trying to convey the reality of what has happened to someone who has not had the experience can be quite difficult. This is especially so in the case where the other person is firmly rooted in the scientific approach to understanding reality. The plain fact of the matter is that the concept of Kundalini is inconsistent with the paradigm of reality that science currently uses. How then can the phenomenon be presented in a logical and consistent way so that someone of this bent of mind may at least consider the possibility that something like Kundalini is real?
He asserts - and I agree - that 'human evolution is not finished', because:
there are other faculties of mind evolving in us that are as far beyond the intellect is from basic animal consciousness. Such new faculties of perception would bring into view aspects of creation that we have no conception of at present.
I agree completely with this statement from the ascended Soul perspective. I wouldn't be writing from this state/perspective if the (unsolicited) Supreme Kundalini/Shakti (Divine Will) didn't grab me by the scruff of my neck and guided me through Celestial Light and Sound - and by many types of Initiations, plugged me to the Essence of the Absolute Supreme.
I recall making the distinction between Prana Shakti and the Supreme Kundalini Shakti , somewhere - and rather than repeating myself again and again, I use the term Supreme Shakti when referring to Soul-level experiences and Knowingness. . .
I am glad to see how brilliantly Michael Bradford unpacks this topic.
Like me, he appreciates modern science for what it is - what it has accomplished so far - and/but instructs:
It is important for the proponents of science to realize that the world view presented in this article, and the existence of media such as Prana-Shakti, do not imply the invalidation of any known physics laws. It should be viewed rather, like moving from a black and white television picture to a high definition color one. The picture being shown is the same in essence, but the level of accuracy, the amount of detail conveyed, and closeness to reality of the picture are greatly enhanced. +
Science is quite willing to posit the existence of subtle media such as dark matter and dark energy, but stubbornly refuses to entertain the possibility of a similar medium associated with phenomena like those mentioned above. The difference is that dark matter and dark energy are predictable forces that can be quantified mathematically, but a subtle medium of the sort being proposed is intelligent in its own right, and cannot be quantified in a similar way. +
The basic in dispute is whether consciousness or physical matter is the base for reality. Since science has limited its scope of inquiry to the study of measurable physical phenomena, it has no way to actually disprove the possible existence of subtle media of the sort proposed here. As such, its belief in the primacy of matter is simply an unverifiable assumption.
I will end this post with Gopi Krishna's (verifying) words - from same article:
As Gopi Krishna remarks in The Biological Basis of Religion and Genius, "It is easy to infer, when viewed in the light of the fact that the physical universe is rigidly bound by laws from the movements of atoms to those of colossal suns and nebular systems, that there must also be a similar coherence and consistency in the spiritual realm".
Source: www.icrcanada.org/research/kundalinievolution/aspectsofshakti
It's opening statement begins on this note:
For an individual who has gone through a Kundalini process, the task of trying to convey the reality of what has happened to someone who has not had the experience can be quite difficult. This is especially so in the case where the other person is firmly rooted in the scientific approach to understanding reality. The plain fact of the matter is that the concept of Kundalini is inconsistent with the paradigm of reality that science currently uses. How then can the phenomenon be presented in a logical and consistent way so that someone of this bent of mind may at least consider the possibility that something like Kundalini is real?
He asserts - and I agree - that 'human evolution is not finished', because:
there are other faculties of mind evolving in us that are as far beyond the intellect is from basic animal consciousness. Such new faculties of perception would bring into view aspects of creation that we have no conception of at present.
I agree completely with this statement from the ascended Soul perspective. I wouldn't be writing from this state/perspective if the (unsolicited) Supreme Kundalini/Shakti (Divine Will) didn't grab me by the scruff of my neck and guided me through Celestial Light and Sound - and by many types of Initiations, plugged me to the Essence of the Absolute Supreme.
I recall making the distinction between Prana Shakti and the Supreme Kundalini Shakti , somewhere - and rather than repeating myself again and again, I use the term Supreme Shakti when referring to Soul-level experiences and Knowingness. . .
I am glad to see how brilliantly Michael Bradford unpacks this topic.
Like me, he appreciates modern science for what it is - what it has accomplished so far - and/but instructs:
It is important for the proponents of science to realize that the world view presented in this article, and the existence of media such as Prana-Shakti, do not imply the invalidation of any known physics laws. It should be viewed rather, like moving from a black and white television picture to a high definition color one. The picture being shown is the same in essence, but the level of accuracy, the amount of detail conveyed, and closeness to reality of the picture are greatly enhanced. +
Science is quite willing to posit the existence of subtle media such as dark matter and dark energy, but stubbornly refuses to entertain the possibility of a similar medium associated with phenomena like those mentioned above. The difference is that dark matter and dark energy are predictable forces that can be quantified mathematically, but a subtle medium of the sort being proposed is intelligent in its own right, and cannot be quantified in a similar way. +
The basic in dispute is whether consciousness or physical matter is the base for reality. Since science has limited its scope of inquiry to the study of measurable physical phenomena, it has no way to actually disprove the possible existence of subtle media of the sort proposed here. As such, its belief in the primacy of matter is simply an unverifiable assumption.
I will end this post with Gopi Krishna's (verifying) words - from same article:
As Gopi Krishna remarks in The Biological Basis of Religion and Genius, "It is easy to infer, when viewed in the light of the fact that the physical universe is rigidly bound by laws from the movements of atoms to those of colossal suns and nebular systems, that there must also be a similar coherence and consistency in the spiritual realm".
Source: www.icrcanada.org/research/kundalinievolution/aspectsofshakti
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