Edit-expanded 2023-12-01: Encounters with the Sacred/Divne are not only real, but transformative, and I am still in the process of refining the subtlety of meaning of Soul level experiences *initiations/intuition/visions/divine siddhis, at the apex-point of one's eternal self-Soul's evolution into wholeness and transcendence*, again, with the help of someone who discovered within his innermost interiority the existence of 'two sources of intuition - one in the heart and one above the head'. . .Which I 'knew already', but it hasn't occur to me to unpack it in a more 'substantial' way by including Sri Aurobindo's unpacking of how/in what sense and circumstance, 'higher faculties see and hear for us'.
With permission from Mr Sandeep,from: auromere.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/how-to-develop-intuition/ - to show that Intuition at this Kosmic adress, has nothing to do with 'gut feeling'.
"According to Sri Aurobindo and Mother, there are two sources of intuition - one in the heart and one above the head. These sources of intuition correspond to the two centers of the Divine in us - the soul or psychic being within the heart, and the central Being above the head."
The central Being above the head? . . .Is the Knower of the Field/Reality in all planes of creation = the Supramental/Awakened state of Mind - which is neither male or female. Everyone who is 'called' can become God-realized by making supreme effort in that direction.
Not a 'gut feeling', because, "The Supramental is by its very nature a consciousness of truth, a consciousness always free from that ignorance that forms the foundation in our present natural or evolutionary existence, and from which nature tries to reach within us to self-knowledge and world-knowledge, to a right consciousness and the correct use of our existence in the universe.
For its true nature is knowledge: it does not need to aquire knowledge, but posesses it by nature; it does not go from ignorance to some imperfect light, but from truth, from right vision to deeper vision, from intuition to further intuition, from enlightenment to extreme, limitless fullness of light, from growing vastness to complte boundlessness, to actual Infinity. At its peek it posessess the divine omniscience and the divine omnipotence, and even in the unfolding process of its own highest heights over time, it must be essentially free from ignorance and error according to its true nature: it proceeds from truth and light and always moves in truth and light.
Just as his knowledge is always in truth, so is his Will; it does not foolishly deal with things and does not stumble on its way. In the Supramental, even the feelings and sensations do not give up any of their truth, do not make mystakes or missteps, do not deviate from the right and real, and can neither abuse beauty nor bliss nor, twist their divine straighteness. In the Supramental, even the senses cannot be seduced or brutalized ; it is this rudeness and cumbersomness that their imperfections here are, which leads to further truth, and its unfinished work is a step towards perfection.
*skip* Once the truth consciousness here has built its own natural foundation, the development of divine life will be growth in joy; a departure through the light into bliss, the Ananda." -Excerpt from: The Life Divine
This is why when I say, 'Supramental Revelation is the Communication of the Divine from the source of its nature, we/I mean it literally. Beings at this stage-point SEE instantly the Significane of the Vision's 'message' or, "from above the head", bear witness to what the experience of the descent of Light/Force/Bliss, into every fiber of our being is/feels like - which posts like: The River of Light Revisited, 2019, Solar Heart Initiation Revisited 2019, On Rapture Musings 2009, Cosmic Synchronicity Confirmation 2013, - in plain language and great detail, describe the 'effectiveness' of the true action of a spiritual truth-consciousness *because* "the higher spiritual planes create their own formulations in the subliminal in the depths within us" (but) "to know them Supermind must descend into us". Sri Aurobindo's quotes.
Example from the 'above the head', category?
Cosmic Synchronicity Confirmation, describes my encouter with and Initiation from, Kwan Yin. . .I know it was Her bacause I asked, "what's your name?" and She told me while gazing tenderly at me. . .I saw my room filled-to-brim with spiraling White Light. . .felt my body's floating-like sensation and every particle of my being filled with Bliss unimaginable that never ceases.
Again, Aurobindo affirmed for me this type of Initiation/Event originates *among countless others* "in a region of higher consciousness, which would seem to pertain more to a very high stage of realization, far beyond ordinary nonduality, rather than intuition in the ordinary sense of the term. To avoid this confusion, I sometimes refer to it Revelatory Absolute."
Example from the 'heart-source' category? Many years ago, my spiritual eye (open brow chakra) beheld two bright stars' spiraling down action . . . the closer they got to Earth plane, the brighter and larger their Form. . .In their now morphed Form, still in silver bright glory, in the shape of two very large old fashioned looking Plughs, graced my front yard. AND, instantly I knew my 'walking orders': 'you will work hard in the visible and invisible planes of existence'.
This is why when I say: 'I have a moral duty to obey the inner call of my Vocation', I mean it literally.
Sri Aurobindos' Yoga of Self-Perfection on Intuition resonates with me to a t:
" The intuitive mind dealing with the triple time movement has to see rightly in thought sense and vision three things, actualities, possibilities and imperatives. There is first a primary intuitive action developed which sees principly the stream of successive actualities in time, even as the ordinary mind, but with an immeditae directness of truth and spontaneous accuracy of which the ordinary mind is not capable. It sees them first by a perception, a thought action, a thought sense, a thought vision, which at once detects the forces at work on persons and things, the thoughts intentions, impulsions, energies, influences in and around them, those already formulated in them and these in process of formation, those too that are coming or about to come into or upon them from the environment or from the secret forces invisible to the normal mind, distinguishes by a rapid intuitive vision of actualities, but there are others that are less complete in their character. (skip) This kind of intuitive knowledge is not an entirely perfect instrument of time knowledge. *skip*
It is possible to however to develop a mind of lumnious inspiration which will be more at home among the greater potentialities. . . + This inspired mind will see things in the light of the world's larger potentialities and not the stream of actualitie as a selection and result from the mass of forecful possibilities. It will be liable, however, if it is not attended with a sufficient rvelatory knowledge of imperatives, to a hesitation or suspension of determining view as between various potential lines of movement away from the line of eventual actuality and following another not yet applicable sequence
The aid of imperative revelations from above will help diminish this limitation, but here again there will be difficulty of an inferior power dealing with the materials given to it from the treasury of a higher light and force.
But it is possible to develop too a mind of luminous revelation which taking into itself the two inferior movements sees what is determined behind the play of potentialities and actualities and observe these later as its means of develepoing its imperative decision. An intuitive mind thus constituted and aided by an active psychic consciousness may be in command of a very remarkable power of time kowledge. *skip
It is therefore in relation to the truth of supermind that its workings can be more effectively elucidated : for the mind of knowledge is only a projection and a last step in the ascent towards the supramental,."
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One of the most intriguing (for me) activated in the superconscious field of mind 'Soul powers' are called 'Pramakaya' and 'Vyapati', wich *again" Sri Aurobindo confirmed for me after many years of not having a clue others experienced and named long time ago. The following quote is from auromere blog: "The capricious sprak of intuition when briefly flashed during occurrences of synchronicity ripens in self-realized sages into highly refind powers (Siddhis) called Prakamaya and Vyapati. It is through Prakamaya that one gains knowledge of the "present states of mind, feeling, sensation, etc. of others, and with Vyapati, that we "communicate anything we have in our systems, thought, feeling, power, etc. to another."
Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute / the Divine in its Infinite Essence. . ."cannot be reached by the exclusive pursuit of a single line identity that is raised to its absolute; it must harmonise many aspects of the infinite. An Integral consciousness with a multi-form dynamic experience is essential for the complete transformation." - Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo's biographer, Satprem (1970: p.256), likewise describes the unusual states Aurobindo experienced in the course of his spiritual development but notes:
Sri Aurobindo was 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." -Excerpt from: The Meditative Mind The Varieties of Meditative Experience, penned by Daniel Goleman.
I discovered Aurobindo's work many years after my Soul level experiences *Kundalini Shakti, style* started, and looked to saints for 'clues'.
2023-12-01 Today I'm excited to edit-include excerpts on 'supernormal powers' in the Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga - from book penned by Daniel Goleman, titled: The Meditative Mind The Varieties of Meditative Experience. "The combination dharana, dhyana, and samadhi is a state called samyama. This highly concentrated state holds the key to supernormal powers such as clairvoyance and telepathy. The Sutras have a lengthy section on how to applysamyama to gain various powers. *skip* As in the Visuddhimagga, the Sutras see these powers as subtle snares for the seeker. The yogi is urged to give up these seductive traps as last temptation for the ego. *skip* It is samadhi that is taught as the heart of yoga; Vivekananda (1970) says, "Samadhi is Yoga proper; that is the highest means." *skip*
Nirvikalpa is the deepest samadhi; in it, mind is at its stillest. *skip* In this, says one commentator, "an avalanche of indescribable bliss sweeps away all relative ideas of pain and blame. . .All doubts and misgivings are quelled forever; the oscillations of mind are stopped; the momentum of past actions is exhausted." But one limit of nirvikalpa samadhi is that it can be enjoyed only while the yogi remains still, absorbed in deep meditation.
The final step in ashtanga yoga is extending the deep stillness of samadhi into the yogi's waking state. When samadhi spreads throughout the other states so that no activity or inner stirring can dislodge its hold on the yogi's mind, this marks him as jivan-mukti, a liberated man."
I agree with all of that, and think the reason my 'supernormal powers' are intact still *even though I got plugged to Final Samadhi*, is because all of these different 'powers' feel utterly 'normal'. I never aspired to be 'spiritual', either, but it happened 'naturally' because I was born with unbroken continuity of awareness. My eternal self-Soul was ready to fulfill her 'ancient plan' in this lifetime and it felt utterly 'natural' for me to plead: "Your Will not mine be done!"
Anyone at this stage-point will know what the experiences *felt in every fiber of one's being* of what 'godlike release' is/feels like. Aurobindo's words confirm this for me
"One-pointed to the immaculate Delight
Questing for God as for a splendid prey
He mounted burning like a cone of fire.
To few is given that godlike release."
-Savitri, Book 1.
I am fulfilling the Kosmic purpose by asserting that, when the meeting of Soul and Divine Beloved is genuine, it is impossible to get sucked into a vortex of deception and inflation, not possible to get lost in the intermediate zone.
