Path Ordained By God

Edit-expanded 2024-04-20:
My originally written in June 2009 blog titled, On Rapture Musings, describes three types of descends of Divine Force into my bodily being. I am astonished still, after all these years (early 90s') at the intensity of those Initiations, as well as my unwavering Trust in what was 'happening' (because I knew I was 'in good hands'). I was not a scholar of wisdom teachings or a meditator, and didn't know there were other beings who have undergone same or similar Initiations. . .And, when many years later I read Aurobindo's statement on karma, the pieces of this Kosmic puzzle fell into place: "Karma is not luck, it is transmission of past energies into the present".
In its now vastly edit-expanded form, the now 'Path Ordained by God', title, is a better fit. It reads like a 'new' blog - hence the decision to do a 'do over' in this space.

In this post I will describe three types of Soul level Initiations that are now grounded in a very much grander 'verifying' context *they happend years before I was guided to check out Sri Aurobindo's work. The descent of Divine Force-Light-Bliss-Ananda takes place at the zenith-point of one's eternal self-Soul's evolution. These events, or experiences fall into the Soul science category that act like bridge that joins Humanity and Divinity in a 'not two', sense. Genuine Saints and Siddhas demonstrate that 'Soul Powers' are real. We know that recipients of Grace-bestowed Divine Revelations, have a moral duty to obey the inner call of our vocation for the benefit of all beings.
We encourage: 'open your soul to the Eternal - but it must be the Eternal that draws forth your strength and beauty, not desire for growth. For in one case you develop in the luxuriance of purity, in the other you harden by the forcible passion for personal stature' - in words of an unknown Master.
We remind the spiritual aspirant that, the surrendered one relies on Grace to help us patiently endure years upon years of continous elemination of karmic baggage.
What I share *descends of Divine Force-Light-Bliss-Sound* takes place at the zenith-point of one's eternal self-Soul's evolution (post-enlightenment stages). And, because I didn't misuse this Knowledge, or betray it by imagining I was 'special', I was able to sustain the responsibility of its Command to bring to the world's evolutionary spirituality table, the Story of what needs to happen before one attains the Final Samadhi. In other words *in poetic speak*, the attainment of the stage of Coronation in Omniscience in all its aspects, Wills us to 'bring down heaven to earth for ourselves and mankind'- Aurobindo's quote

Sri Aurobindo confirmed for me that: 'Divine condition descends from above, is given by the Divine. + The higher spiritual planes create their own formulations in the subliminal in the depths within us. + We do not found ourselves on faith alone, but on great ground of knowledge which we have been developing and testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously then any scientist his theory and his method on the pysical plane". + From: The Life Divine, p.956 "For real transformation there must be a direct and unveiled intervention from above; there would be necessary too a total submission and surrender of the lower consciousness, a cessation of its insistence, a will in it for its separate law of action to be completely annulled by transformation and lose all rights over our being."

Brief descripitons:
1. This particular Initiation experience was unlike any other, yet just as startling-intense as the rest *circa 1993*, and occured during a hands-on energy balancing session, in our Master's (Dr. Kiara Galbreath) home. On this rare occasion Kiara allowed us to practice on her. I joined the three students after I finished working on fellow student. Standing room only and hands on teaxher's knees suited me fine, until seconds into it I felt so much energy surging through me that my hands began 'jumping' with strong zaps of electric like currents. Minutes later, a very much 'solid' column-like of Energy began pounding my Crown chakra in rhythmic waves. This was the most fascinating thing to me, because I was standing in a room of talking and laughing people! I know I had to stay as still as possible and take long deep breaths - in order to accommodate the influx of this Energy into my bodily beingsys. I knew I was in an altered state of consciousness because even though I heard the noise/sound as if from great distance, it made my heard hurt. The noise felt very jarring/uncomfortable and very annoying, I decided to ask for silence. . .I made that request more then once, and finally the woman sitting at teacher's feet heard me, and said: "Helen is asking for silence". No one heard her, so she asked again and the room fell silent. The instant that happened, I became very self-conscious of my breathing and asked the Energy to cease its action. . .Within few seconds this Force's rhythmic wave-action diminished in strength and came to a full stop.

2. I named the following *extremely intense* Initiation in 94, 'Thundering Combastion Experience'. I was flat on my back when suddenly my head became like a thunderously roaring ready to explode missile, and thought this Energy will render me 'toast' *dead* and utterd "God be with me!" Next instant I disappeared - without name and history 'I' became a witnessing awareness aware of the transcendent Intelligence immensity and magnitute so great that is beyond the wildest imagination. I don't know how long I stayed in this state, but felt what happened the instant my extremely subtle body snapped back into my flesh body. The impact was so strong-abrupt, I felt my light body's torso rise-up to sitting position before gently laying down.

*Edit-adding 23-05-18, verifying quote from the Darsana Upanishad (6.36-38) "The Darsana Upanishad describes the sound heard when the consciousness becomes centered in the Brahmandra (anterior fontanelle), located in top-center region of the head: when air (prana) enters the Brahmaranda, nada (sound) is also produced there. Resembling at first the sound of conch blast and like roaring of a mountain cataract. Thereafter, O great wise one! The Atman, mightily pleased, will actually appear in front of thee. Then there will be ripeness of the Knowledge of the Atman from Yoga and disowing by the Yogi of worldly existence." - Guy L. Beck, Sonic Theology, pp 39-103

Edit-adding 2024-01-25 recently discovered *verifying* passages penned by the Rig Veda seer and Shankara; on 'the mighty Rudra'. Adi Shankara defined the name Rudra as: "One who makes all beings cry at the time of cosmic dissolution." + "The strength of Godhead never departs from Rudra, him who is sovereign of this world, the mighty." (2.33g).
The Rig Veda seer named the Godhead's Power 'Rudra', which is often associated with the sound not heard with our ears."+ 'His terrifying howl as he embraks on his destructive rampage' *karmic 'demolition* + 'The might of the mighty eradicates problems'. Rig Veda's prayer to Rudra, includes this verse: "We worship the three eye one who has matted hair who shines like the Sun".

Edit-adding 2024-04-20, on 'mighty wind' verifying passages from (King James)
Acts 2:2-4 "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven of a rushing mighty wind, and filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it set upon each of them."
And: Jeremiah 5:13 "And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them."
The rushing wind imagery emphasizes the dynamic and transformative nature of the Holy Spirit's presence.
John 14:26 testified what Jesus promised his disciples:
"But the Helper the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to you remembrance of all that I have said to you."

I am happy to say one who beheld with the eye of Spirit Jesus' spiritual Grace-bestowed 'pure in Spirit' stature, wrote: "Had I lived in Palestine in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet with, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood." - Vivekananda.

I am happy to say that Aurobindo confirmed for me/us that: "There are many Forces (but) it is only the Supramental Force that works absolutely because it ccreates its own conditions. The Force descends for two things: 1. To transform Nature 2. To carry out the work through the instrument. + The descent of Peace, the descent of Force or Power, the descent of Light, the descent of Ananda - these are the four things that transform nature. + At first one is not conscious entirely and in detail. + All these different actions of the Force on the adhara with the intention of opening it up from above and below and horizontally also. The action from above opens it to the descent of forces from above the Mind and the ascent of consciousness above the lid of the ordinary human mind. The horizontal action helps open it to the cosmic consciousness on all its levels. The action from below *Erotic potency transmuted into true force of Ananda* helps to connect the superconscient. Finally the consciousness instead of being limited to the body becomes infinite, rises infinitely above, plunges infinitely below, widens infinitely on every side. + There is besides the opening of the centers to the Light and Power and Ananda that has to descend from above." -Excerpts from: Letters on Yoga - On Descent. *The River of Light Revisited, riffs on same theme*

3. I was awakened suddenly because my entire being was vibrating with a loud high voltage note frequency. That too felt uncanny, but not entirely surprising as by then Kundalini Shakti put me through many types of 'cosmic makeovers'.

Edit-adding in 2023-06-18, statement on Shabd *Sound* penned by Rig Veda seer: "But the perfect saints, irrespective of whether they belong to one religion or the other, have gone beyond this and have spoken of Sar Shabd and Sat Shabd as well, and regions beyond Brahmand." -wikipedia/surat_shabd_yoga

Becuse of these, and many other types of Initiations, long time ago I wrote: 'I am neither Christian, or any other world's tradition mystic, because the Supreme Shakti initiated me into all Wisdom traditions. At this stage-attainment one has the spiritual authority to declare: 'I jumped out of all possible systems by becoming one with the very source of all power, and therefore, am no longer bound by any of them'.

Real Spirituality Explained

World's wisdom teaching found in sacred texts, when misunderstood in the inferior terms of the waking mind's pride, and completely invisible to itself its impulse that rejoices in tearing down thousands of years of contemplative conclusions in service to personal interests, ambition, and gain, is a proud anti-evolutionary force.
Those of us whose moral duty is to perform the Will of the one Spirit, obey the inner call of our vocation. . .We have an obligation to affirm that, 'the experience of oneness in the mystical vision which shows that the triumph of one soul is the triumph of all', is a most precious thing *Gopi Krishna's Q*
It is not our job to change minds. We remind folks that observer-dependent Reality is disclosed by Yogic sciences and demonstrate that this Knowledge must be grounded in experience. . .That, our Depth data is very much verifiable by those who are qualified, and *remind* that genuine encounters with the Divine are transformative. . .
This is why, when someone tells me/us our 'contemplative conclusions are produced by innate human mental schemas projected onto experience rather than objective truth,' I see with crystal clear clarity, what they say has nothing to do with me/us.

We Sing

Beyond the framework of Logic, the vanity of its wisdom
Destroys itself in an empty space of Knowing. . .
Divine, immortal and spiritualized consciousness that's
Grounded in the Will and Power of the Supreme Being,
Acts freely through God-realized Soul *through human body*
Giving meaning to seemingly meaningless life. . .
Establishing a 'heaven on earth' for the benefit of all beings
Without 'what's in it for me', agenda.

Sri Aurobindo's explanation of 'true spirituality' makes sense to those of us who experience in every cell of our being the descent of Divine Beloved's Presence and its Transformative Influence/Power.

The following excerpt is from: Letters on Yoga:

It is a beautiful characater that you describe in your letter, a perfect type of the sattvic man, a fine and harmonised ethical nature supported and vivified by a fine and developed psychic being. But still, although it may be regarded as an excellent preparation for the spiritual life, it cannot by itself be called spirituality - unless indeed we reduce the meaning of the word to the connotation ordinarily given to reduce the meaning of the word to the connotation ordinarily given to it in the West where mental ideation, ethical striving, a flowering of fine character, altruism, self-sacrifice, self-denile, philantropy, service to manor are considered the height of spiritual aspiration or spiritual attainment. Obviously if that is to be the last word of earthly achievement, there is no need for anything farther; the close and vivid discovery of the soul and self, the straining towards that which is behind life and above mind, the passion for the Eternal or the Infinite, the hunger for a freedom and wideness of consciousness and existence not limited by the narrow moulds of intellect, character, and the past Life - aims of humanity, the thirst for union with the Divine or for the pure bliss and beauty of spiritual existence not tied down to mental and vital values must be dismissed as a superfluous dream for which there is neither place nor necessity here.

Yet these things have been not only dreamed of and hungered after but reached and tasted by beings born in a mortal and human body. Spirituality lies there; its essence consists in a bursting of the human mental, moral, aesthetic, vital moulds in order to reach beyond them and enter into a consciousness of which these are the very stuff, to which these experiences are native. Anything less than that, than a striving after it or at least a partial realisation of it is not spirituality.
The spiritual man is one who has realised something of it even if only in one aspect out of many; one who is striving after it is the spiritual seeker. All else however magnificently intellectual, ethical, aesthetically beautiful and harmonious, vitally splendid, great and forceful or physically perfect is a valuable achievement on the way, but not yet that, for one has not passed the Rubicon of mind into a new empire owing to the nature of the past evolution of consciousness and of spirituality itself, there has been much confusion on this point and there is still more today because of the present domination of the Western ideal.
On one side or another mental idealism, ethical development, altruistic charcter and action, religious piety and fervour, occult powers, feats of ascetic endurance have been put forward as the essence of spirituality or the test or proof of achievement or the signposts of the journey to spiritual perfection. It is ignored that any of these things may be there and yet there need not be any spiritual life behind it, any rebirth into a new consciousness or any remoulding of either the inner or the outer consciousness no longer in a higher or richer power of mind and life and body only, the instruments, but in the direct light and force of the hitherto veild user of the instrument, the now revealed and directly active soul, self, spirit or of the Divine or Eternal whose representatives or aspects they are.
This confusion meets us at every point and in all sorts of forms whose common error is to ignore the essence and core of the matter. The Western intellect presnts us with the strivings of the mind, life, emotions, passions, moral will and tells us these are the real spiritual things, man's high aim and endevour. *skip*

To seek one's own inner spiritual growth, to draw back from the ordianry life in order to reach something beyond, to search after the Divine above humanity is mere egoism, not true spirituality, but an aberration, a misdirection of the will and life. All that might be admirable and true - as certainly all the things those eulogised have their place in the human evolution, if the premise on which it were founded were true - that the seeking for something behind, something beyond, something of which the evolution of mind, life and body was only a veil or a preparation is an illusion and chimera.
But if these things are real, if the seeking is a lasting and major drive in Nature, then all those objections and recommendations are futile. For this drive will fulfill itself, this hidden reality will draw and draw us till we achieve it. Those who feel its call, cannot do otherwise then to follow and strive, even if need be leave all else for it, hold all other greatness, splendour, nobility, beauty as cheaper minor things compared with the this other Light and Greatness and Beauty of which they have had the vision, the intimation, the formless attraction or else the passing touch or glimpse.

Ever since Mind itself reached a certain development, there has been at first dimly and gropingly, then more and more clearly and intimately this drive in man towards something behind and beyond Man, towards the discovery or expression of something hidden in his being and a world existence which is more real then his surface self even at its best, greater, fuller, truer, more divine. To arrive at that can come only by a change of consciousness, a new basis of consciousness which is not the lower instrumental consciousness of mind, life and body. *skip*

For a mind is a twilight preparing for light, an ignorance seeking after knowledge, a bondage to Nature groping after freedom and mastery over Nature. It is not on mind, on its self-modifying ignorance and bondage or even on its half-light, half-mastery, half-knowledge that the next step can base itself. It must base itself on soul consciousness, consciousness of the spirit and self - for so only can there can be the full light, the spontaneous mastery, the intimate and real knowledge.