Latest: Flatland Assertions Debunked in its new-improved form
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2017/09/flatland-assertions-debunked.html
Soul Science Musings got a makeover
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2017/08/soul-science-musings.html
did it again www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2017/09/moral-obligation-divine-command.html
01/01/2018 - in this post I declared my Initiation into Christ Consciousness: titled,
Cosmic Synchronicity & Confirmation, written August 2013
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2013/08/cosmic-synchronicity-confirmation.html
10/12/2017 Including edit-improved: Ascension Blues Good News
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2012/08/ascension-blues-good-news.html
05/12/17 adding link to post written Jan/2012 titled Supra-Cosmic BrideGroom Has my Back. I chose this title because I was the target of relentless gaslighting (in a website that was supposed to be tolerant of mystical spirituality).
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2012/01/supra-cosmic-bridegroom-has-my-back.html
Did it gain: if curious edit-improved Yogini Notes written in 2009
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2009/12/yogini-notes-on-kundalinishaktipat.html
* Today 27/11 wrote in comments section couple of notes.
I'm not planning on deleting this post this is why I want to add this note:
When I began writing here I didn't imagine even one person would be interested in my scribbles and for many weeks didn't even occur to me to check if someone did. And when I did, and saw this blog had hundreds of visitors, I was surprised because I told no one! My goal was to write 'for my kids so one day they may know what I have been up to all those years'.
(Because) I have been laughed at - even told few years ago "you have nothing to contribute to evolution of consciousness" - I wanted to write here without looking over my shoulder and deal with nasty gaslighters.
In my original profile I wrote (only) "Student of Life". I wanted to write anonymously, this is why I chose to use made up avatar name Theofilia. . . Then was very surprised when I google-found-out this is a real name. Now that I'm on Facebook (& included link to my wall earlier), I am no longer anonymous . . .and don't wish to be! I have the right to be who I am and bear witness to what I know.
Spirit Speaks has visitors from many parts of the globe - by now well over sixty one thousand page-views (and each page has several posts). I am glad there are folks who resonate with what I share.
* Below, added link to post written in 2009.
Just looked at my post written one year ago titled Silence is Full of Answers,
and decided it was in need of edit-improvement for clarity's sake.
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2016/11/silence-full-of-answers.html
I wrote On Rapture Musings in 2009 - and it was definitely in need of edit-improvement!
If curious
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2009/06/on-rapture-musings.html
(I have many more posts to look at & make a decision to either delete or edit-improve).
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Apollo Complex Decoded
Author of the 'Apollo Complex', is author of many books on human development and consciousness, Ken Wilber - this excerpt is from The Atman Project, chapter 8, p.77.
My mind was, as the Buddhists say, that of a monkey: compulsively active, obsessively motive. And there I came face to face with my own Apollo complex, the difficulty in transforming from the mental sphere to the subtle sphere (or the soul as the Christian mystics use the term) is the beginning of the transpersonal realms; as such, it is supramental, transegoic, and transverbal.
But in order to reach that sphere, one must (as in all transformation) "die" to the lower capacity (in this case mental egoic).
The failure to do so or incapacity to do so is the Apollo complex. As person with Oedipus compllex remains unconsciously attached to the body and its pleasure principle, so the person with an Apollo complex remains unconsciously attached to the mind and its reality principle. ("Reality" here means "institutional, rational, verbal reality"), which, although conventionally real enough, is nevertheless only an intermediate stage on the path to Atman; that is it is merely a description of actual Reality itself, and thus, if clung to, eventually and ultimately prevents the discovery of that actual Reality. (skip)
... as it was, I was fortunate to make some progress, to be able to eventually to rise above the fluctuations of mental contractions and discover, however initially, a real incomparably more profound, more real, more saturated with being, more open to clarity. This realm was simply that of the subtle, which is disclosed, so to speak, after weathering the Apollo complex. (...)
From the subtle, one no longer 'gets lost in thoughts'; rather, thoughts enter consciousness with smoothness, grace, and clarity.
To read more www.kheper.net/topics/Wilber/psychic.html
If curious:
For in-depth teaching on 'evolving soul', take a look at how Aurobindo describes it. . . .
Will add that, I completely agree with his description of what the eternal self-Soul is, and is not. (Psychic being and authentic Soul in Sri A teaching means the same thing).
The following assertion is true to one who 'sacrificed' its lower nature to the Divine:
The supramental change can take place only if the psychic (*Soul) is awake and is made the chief support of the descending supramental power.
http://intyoga.online.fr/ppb5.htm
My mind was, as the Buddhists say, that of a monkey: compulsively active, obsessively motive. And there I came face to face with my own Apollo complex, the difficulty in transforming from the mental sphere to the subtle sphere (or the soul as the Christian mystics use the term) is the beginning of the transpersonal realms; as such, it is supramental, transegoic, and transverbal.
But in order to reach that sphere, one must (as in all transformation) "die" to the lower capacity (in this case mental egoic).
The failure to do so or incapacity to do so is the Apollo complex. As person with Oedipus compllex remains unconsciously attached to the body and its pleasure principle, so the person with an Apollo complex remains unconsciously attached to the mind and its reality principle. ("Reality" here means "institutional, rational, verbal reality"), which, although conventionally real enough, is nevertheless only an intermediate stage on the path to Atman; that is it is merely a description of actual Reality itself, and thus, if clung to, eventually and ultimately prevents the discovery of that actual Reality. (skip)
... as it was, I was fortunate to make some progress, to be able to eventually to rise above the fluctuations of mental contractions and discover, however initially, a real incomparably more profound, more real, more saturated with being, more open to clarity. This realm was simply that of the subtle, which is disclosed, so to speak, after weathering the Apollo complex. (...)
From the subtle, one no longer 'gets lost in thoughts'; rather, thoughts enter consciousness with smoothness, grace, and clarity.
To read more www.kheper.net/topics/Wilber/psychic.html
If curious:
For in-depth teaching on 'evolving soul', take a look at how Aurobindo describes it. . . .
Will add that, I completely agree with his description of what the eternal self-Soul is, and is not. (Psychic being and authentic Soul in Sri A teaching means the same thing).
The following assertion is true to one who 'sacrificed' its lower nature to the Divine:
The supramental change can take place only if the psychic (*Soul) is awake and is made the chief support of the descending supramental power.
http://intyoga.online.fr/ppb5.htm
Friday, September 15, 2017
Moral Obligation - Divine Command
Out of countless tears
She fashined a Mighty Sword In the stillness beyond the internal dialogue
Sword of Justice compels me to report that
which the Divine Logos disclosed
Divine self-disclosure is self-validating. This type of Knowing comes on line *developmentally speaking* when one's eternal self-Soul gets plugged to (the) "I am the Field and the Knower of the Field" - as reported by the Bhavad Gita seer.
One who is not delusional, seeks individuals who write from the bhava Samadhi state/stage - in order to check/verify our contemplative conclusions with. . .
Even though Gopi Krishna's eternal self Soul has not reached its apex-point of evolution, I greately value (and quote) what he had to say with regard to mystical illuminations.
In his book titled The Real Nature of Mystical Experience, he said the following with regard to his level of Realization:
"I do not claim to be illuminated in the sense we ascribe illumination to Buddha, as I still find myself at the human level. (skip) I do not claim to be a mystic or a saint, as I am still very much entrenched in the world and have not completely risen above it".
I have been accused of 'spiritual inflation' and other silly things - not only by the scientific materialist, but by those who think they are 'enlightened'- because the subtlety of meaning contained within the written word is completely invisible to the surface mind.
Sri Aurobindo and other ascended Souls wrote extensively about their mystical experiences without apologies. Nobel prize winners in all fields publish their work without fear of being accused of 'flaunting' their brillaince. . . I feel divine Bliss and its Influence in every fiber of my being 24/7, and see with eyes open & spiritualised consciousness divine Light in the form of golden aura-field, plus a narrow ribbon of blue light next to my skin--which Sri Aurobindo said was (blue) "Krishna light" (discovered by 'fluke' in 1994-and still have that journal note), and am supposed to be ashamed of the fact I am bearing witness to something which the Divine Grace 'plugged' me into? The world's materialists must not be disturbed by the fact that God/Goddess/Spirit reality is as real as the keyboard I'm writing on? I'm supposed hide the fact that Soul Liberation is a real (at the zenith-point of Her journey through Light and Sound). Soul-literate scientists don't look to the spiritually blind for approval-verification of our contemplative conclusions. How in the world the scinetific materialist supposed know what Samadhi is/means< and what theTRUE nature of the Ineffable is/means. They can't see it this is why they tell me things like: "stop pretending you have knowledge of the inner realms" (direct quote). They think that my description of what I-Soul first time witnessed in May 2010, and described in The River of Light, is sheer lunacy http://www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/river-of-light.html">www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/river-of-light.html This is why I am all the more grateful to Gopi Krishna, for saying in Kundalini for the New Age:
All the great mystics who have written on the subject have given their own symptoms openly and plainly. That is the tradition. And from their descriptions, one can compare one's own condition.
What I share is not for personal gain. What I share is not the result of drug-induced hallucinations (from ingesting plant brews and other drugs) - which in some circles are hailed to be the real deal, the real 'expansion of consciousness', thing. I see grasping mind's wishful thinking - they don't, and I'm okay with that, as long as they don't claim theirs is the last word.
The last word belongs to those who know better. Gopi Krishna elaborated (and I agree)
The real meaning of "Soma" refers to the internal processes of sublimation leading to higher consciousness or Samadhi. Since soma is a Sanskrit term its interpretation should be based upon the ancient Vedic religious belief, NOT Western assumption of drug use.
There is no proof in the Vedas that actually mention any human drinking a herbal concoction; it was the Gods Indra and Agni who drank streams of this nectar and then conquered the Dragon or Serpent Vrtra (a symbol of Kundalini).
The hymns of the Vedas are symbolic allegories and shouldn't be interpreted literally, as the Vedas say directly that: "One thinks he has drunk Soma when they press the plant but the Soma the Brahmans know - no one eats that.
I shake my head at (my) lamely written posts, but also can't help but marvel at the intensity of the Evolutionary Impulse compelling me to do this.
Those of us who feel in every fiber of our being this impulse, acknowledge we are guided to become witness to the fact that at the deepest core of our being there is a oneness which drives and guides this universe towards ever-greater emergence. . .for the benefit (transformation) of all beings, for the evolution of consciousness itself in service to the Divine. Some call this force Eros, other's God's Love, etc.
I have a moral obligation to report on things that are not now, never will be acceptable to folks who refuse to acknowledge that (authentic) spiritual sciences is a legitimate profession. I didn't chose to be 'spiritual', the (transcendent) One who is awake within my mortal coil, did.
The following excerpt from Gopi Krishna's book titled, The Man of the Future, explains what types of personality traits define genuine prophet/mystic/saint/accomplished yogi/seer/sage.
We are, therefore, face to face with a mighty problem when we try to find an explanation for the mental condition of religious teachers of the highest order. We have to account for the existence of not one but four outstanding attributes of the front rank mystic minds. They are Ecstasy, Moral Elevation, Psychic Powers and Genius. This remarkable combination is confined to this class and this class alone. Otherwise we find these attributes distributed singly and in too few cases.
The combination of even two out of them in one individual is extremely rare. The man of genius may not have moral elevation, ecstatic vision or psychic gifts, a medium may not have moral stature, vision or genius, and one prone to visionary states may not have the moral armor, psychic powers or the true genius of the true mystic.
In judging the prophet, the mystic and the real saint we have to take the startling fact into consideration that he (she) is in possession of all four rare and lofty attributes, each of which, even when singly present, confer distinction on one possessing it. There is no difference except one of degree between a genuine prophet, mystic, accomplished yogi, seer and sage, and whoever out of them emerged with all these four gems glittering in his crown.
She fashined a Mighty Sword In the stillness beyond the internal dialogue
Sword of Justice compels me to report that
which the Divine Logos disclosed
Divine self-disclosure is self-validating. This type of Knowing comes on line *developmentally speaking* when one's eternal self-Soul gets plugged to (the) "I am the Field and the Knower of the Field" - as reported by the Bhavad Gita seer.
One who is not delusional, seeks individuals who write from the bhava Samadhi state/stage - in order to check/verify our contemplative conclusions with. . .
Even though Gopi Krishna's eternal self Soul has not reached its apex-point of evolution, I greately value (and quote) what he had to say with regard to mystical illuminations.
In his book titled The Real Nature of Mystical Experience, he said the following with regard to his level of Realization:
"I do not claim to be illuminated in the sense we ascribe illumination to Buddha, as I still find myself at the human level. (skip) I do not claim to be a mystic or a saint, as I am still very much entrenched in the world and have not completely risen above it".
I have been accused of 'spiritual inflation' and other silly things - not only by the scientific materialist, but by those who think they are 'enlightened'- because the subtlety of meaning contained within the written word is completely invisible to the surface mind.
Sri Aurobindo and other ascended Souls wrote extensively about their mystical experiences without apologies. Nobel prize winners in all fields publish their work without fear of being accused of 'flaunting' their brillaince. . . I feel divine Bliss and its Influence in every fiber of my being 24/7, and see with eyes open & spiritualised consciousness divine Light in the form of golden aura-field, plus a narrow ribbon of blue light next to my skin--which Sri Aurobindo said was (blue) "Krishna light" (discovered by 'fluke' in 1994-and still have that journal note), and am supposed to be ashamed of the fact I am bearing witness to something which the Divine Grace 'plugged' me into? The world's materialists must not be disturbed by the fact that God/Goddess/Spirit reality is as real as the keyboard I'm writing on? I'm supposed hide the fact that Soul Liberation is a real (at the zenith-point of Her journey through Light and Sound). Soul-literate scientists don't look to the spiritually blind for approval-verification of our contemplative conclusions. How in the world the scinetific materialist supposed know what Samadhi is/means< and what theTRUE nature of the Ineffable is/means. They can't see it this is why they tell me things like: "stop pretending you have knowledge of the inner realms" (direct quote). They think that my description of what I-Soul first time witnessed in May 2010, and described in The River of Light, is sheer lunacy http://www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/river-of-light.html">www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/river-of-light.html This is why I am all the more grateful to Gopi Krishna, for saying in Kundalini for the New Age:
All the great mystics who have written on the subject have given their own symptoms openly and plainly. That is the tradition. And from their descriptions, one can compare one's own condition.
What I share is not for personal gain. What I share is not the result of drug-induced hallucinations (from ingesting plant brews and other drugs) - which in some circles are hailed to be the real deal, the real 'expansion of consciousness', thing. I see grasping mind's wishful thinking - they don't, and I'm okay with that, as long as they don't claim theirs is the last word.
The last word belongs to those who know better. Gopi Krishna elaborated (and I agree)
The real meaning of "Soma" refers to the internal processes of sublimation leading to higher consciousness or Samadhi. Since soma is a Sanskrit term its interpretation should be based upon the ancient Vedic religious belief, NOT Western assumption of drug use.
There is no proof in the Vedas that actually mention any human drinking a herbal concoction; it was the Gods Indra and Agni who drank streams of this nectar and then conquered the Dragon or Serpent Vrtra (a symbol of Kundalini).
The hymns of the Vedas are symbolic allegories and shouldn't be interpreted literally, as the Vedas say directly that: "One thinks he has drunk Soma when they press the plant but the Soma the Brahmans know - no one eats that.
I shake my head at (my) lamely written posts, but also can't help but marvel at the intensity of the Evolutionary Impulse compelling me to do this.
Those of us who feel in every fiber of our being this impulse, acknowledge we are guided to become witness to the fact that at the deepest core of our being there is a oneness which drives and guides this universe towards ever-greater emergence. . .for the benefit (transformation) of all beings, for the evolution of consciousness itself in service to the Divine. Some call this force Eros, other's God's Love, etc.
I have a moral obligation to report on things that are not now, never will be acceptable to folks who refuse to acknowledge that (authentic) spiritual sciences is a legitimate profession. I didn't chose to be 'spiritual', the (transcendent) One who is awake within my mortal coil, did.
The following excerpt from Gopi Krishna's book titled, The Man of the Future, explains what types of personality traits define genuine prophet/mystic/saint/accomplished yogi/seer/sage.
We are, therefore, face to face with a mighty problem when we try to find an explanation for the mental condition of religious teachers of the highest order. We have to account for the existence of not one but four outstanding attributes of the front rank mystic minds. They are Ecstasy, Moral Elevation, Psychic Powers and Genius. This remarkable combination is confined to this class and this class alone. Otherwise we find these attributes distributed singly and in too few cases.
The combination of even two out of them in one individual is extremely rare. The man of genius may not have moral elevation, ecstatic vision or psychic gifts, a medium may not have moral stature, vision or genius, and one prone to visionary states may not have the moral armor, psychic powers or the true genius of the true mystic.
In judging the prophet, the mystic and the real saint we have to take the startling fact into consideration that he (she) is in possession of all four rare and lofty attributes, each of which, even when singly present, confer distinction on one possessing it. There is no difference except one of degree between a genuine prophet, mystic, accomplished yogi, seer and sage, and whoever out of them emerged with all these four gems glittering in his crown.
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Soul Science Musings
25/01/2010 Edit-adding link to sister blog On Rapture Musings
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2009/06/on-rapture-musings.html
Edit-expanded 2024-06-29
Earlier this year I chanced upon very interesting (but definitely not yet 'the last word' on the nature of Reality in all its aspects) information discovered by Lashlo Kortvelyessy -- his claim that Beam is the 5th state of matter. Speculates, "Very probably, no more than six states of matter are possible. In the last two states of matter, no thermal energy exists (*skipping math formula bc I don't know how to do it properly). In the Bose-Einstein condensate no thermal but only very-very low quantum mechanical energy (skip) exists, in the fifth state of matter a very high velocity in only one direction exists and a very high electric energy in form of ions or electrons" +
"The fifth state of matter is the most energetic one because another state of matter (formula) is not possible. One of the states of matter is the Bose-Einstein condensate. It has zero thermal-energy. We should give the number zero to it. Its popular name for the fifth state of matter is clearly incorrect since heated plasma will never be transformed to this Bose-Einstein condensate (formula). + "Nobody has emphasized, but this supposed Magnetic Universe was always thought to be based on a certain Electric Universe in background. Electric Universe clearly acts via filaments. No mysteries anymore, only physics are necessary." Source www.5th-state-of-matter.info/5th-state.html#5ukrk
Only a fraction of the universe is visible/atomic, this is why most of the universe can't be scientifically/mathematically explained.
Quantum Mechanics can explain certain aspects of reality but not the whole enchilada, since
quantum fields, particles and space-time, are cognitive extensions of one's perceptions.
In words of the American philosopher Ken Wilber, excerpt from Kosmos G, confirmation on what every genuine mystic asserts:
"Precisely because the quantum potential is not actually a radically formless or nondual domain, 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. . .+ The wisdom traditions are in strong and viirtually unanimous agreement on this point. + What the quantum mechanics formalisms are catching is a brief glipmse of -- in a merely third-person, abstract, mathematical form -- is the staggering power of etheric-astral energy, out of which, as a sedimentation and crystalization, the entire gross material world arises. + Spirit potential is not Spirit but Prana!" source" www.Kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF?ExcerptG_KOSMOS_2004.pdf
Spirit science explores Reality from the invisible to the eye of mind and its methods, perspective. We assert that, Spirit/Eros/Great Cosmic Power/ Divine Bliss and its evolutionary drive creates and sustains the universe. . .
Sri Aurobindo's cosmology includes the realized in the supramental plane, 'Supreme Satchichidananda which is above all and impartially supports everything'. . .
But, to "live consciously in the supreme Sachichidananda one must pass through the Supermind."
Adds: "The full dynamic truth of Sachichidananda and the universe and its consequence cannot be grasped by any other consciousness than the Supermind, because the instrumentation in all other planes is inferior and there is therefore a disparity between the fullness of the static experience and the incompleteness of the dynamic power, knowledge, result of the inferior light and power of other planes." intyoga.online.fr/ppb2.htm
At the zenith-point of one's Soul's evolution - grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence - the She whose veil no mortal has lifted, achieves permanent Union with the Essence of the Absolute Supreme, knows this Truth directly: I I feel and hear in every fiber of my being the ever-present bliss-vibration/spin and its never-ceasing Erotic Potency's Ananda Essence flow from the Crown chakra into world's hologram via subtle planes. . .I see (with spiritualized consciousness) its influence in a form of light aura-field around my head/body. In this state, the individual attains the ability to perceive reality as Infinite all-knowing Consciousness.
* I discovered 'by fluke' my Light aura-field in 1994.
Modern science is not capable of measuring Divine Essence / one's fully ascended Soul's Nectar of Immortality.
I have yet to read anywhere that 'Divine Bliss' has been discovered and measured/explained by the eye of mind and its 'narrow science' methods.
Soul physics' perspective on why matter is more than material can be captured with this phrase:
Atom's heart is ablaze with Divine Essence. It is all material and it is all transcendent.
24/1/2020 Edit-adding Aurobindo's brilliantly penned poem titled,
ELECTRON
The electron on which forms and world's are built,
Leaped into being, a particle of God.
A spark from the eternal Energy split.
It is the Infinities blind mute abode.
In that small flaming chariot Shiva rides.
The One devised innumerably to be;
His oneness in invisible forms he hides,
Times tiny temples of eternity.
Atom and molecule in their unseen plan
Buttress an edifice of strange oneness,
Crystal and plant, insect and beast and man.
Man on whom the World-Unity shall seize,
Widening his soul-spark to an epiphany
Of the timeless vastness of Infinity.
I always look to my (spiritual) community of the adequate for verification of my Depth data's contemplative conclusions. Today I want to include the following verse attributed to writer of the Dead Sea scrolls:
I have reached the inner vision through Thy Spirit in me
I have heard Thy Wondrous secret, through Thy mystic insight
Thou has caused a spring of knowledge to well within me
a fountain of power, pouring forth living waters
A flood of love and all embracing wisdom
Like the splendour of eternal light.
If that person was alive still, I would have liked to compare notes with. . . I would like to confirm for her/him the validity of their claim by sharing how I came to know the 'splendour of...' etc.. I would say, I-Soul witnessed flowing out of my Crown chakra 'splendour of eternal light' into world's hologram via subtle planes (for the benefit of all beings, for the benefit of evolution of consciousness, documented in post titled: The River of Light (May 2010)
If curious. . .
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/river-of-light.html
Edit-added: this post's sister blog titled Contemplative Science - if curious
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2017/09/contemplative-science.html
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2009/06/on-rapture-musings.html
Edit-expanded 2024-06-29
Earlier this year I chanced upon very interesting (but definitely not yet 'the last word' on the nature of Reality in all its aspects) information discovered by Lashlo Kortvelyessy -- his claim that Beam is the 5th state of matter. Speculates, "Very probably, no more than six states of matter are possible. In the last two states of matter, no thermal energy exists (*skipping math formula bc I don't know how to do it properly). In the Bose-Einstein condensate no thermal but only very-very low quantum mechanical energy (skip) exists, in the fifth state of matter a very high velocity in only one direction exists and a very high electric energy in form of ions or electrons" +
"The fifth state of matter is the most energetic one because another state of matter (formula) is not possible. One of the states of matter is the Bose-Einstein condensate. It has zero thermal-energy. We should give the number zero to it. Its popular name for the fifth state of matter is clearly incorrect since heated plasma will never be transformed to this Bose-Einstein condensate (formula). + "Nobody has emphasized, but this supposed Magnetic Universe was always thought to be based on a certain Electric Universe in background. Electric Universe clearly acts via filaments. No mysteries anymore, only physics are necessary." Source www.5th-state-of-matter.info/5th-state.html#5ukrk
Only a fraction of the universe is visible/atomic, this is why most of the universe can't be scientifically/mathematically explained.
Quantum Mechanics can explain certain aspects of reality but not the whole enchilada, since
quantum fields, particles and space-time, are cognitive extensions of one's perceptions.
In words of the American philosopher Ken Wilber, excerpt from Kosmos G, confirmation on what every genuine mystic asserts:
"Precisely because the quantum potential is not actually a radically formless or nondual domain, 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. . .+ The wisdom traditions are in strong and viirtually unanimous agreement on this point. + What the quantum mechanics formalisms are catching is a brief glipmse of -- in a merely third-person, abstract, mathematical form -- is the staggering power of etheric-astral energy, out of which, as a sedimentation and crystalization, the entire gross material world arises. + Spirit potential is not Spirit but Prana!" source" www.Kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF?ExcerptG_KOSMOS_2004.pdf
Spirit science explores Reality from the invisible to the eye of mind and its methods, perspective. We assert that, Spirit/Eros/Great Cosmic Power/ Divine Bliss and its evolutionary drive creates and sustains the universe. . .
Sri Aurobindo's cosmology includes the realized in the supramental plane, 'Supreme Satchichidananda which is above all and impartially supports everything'. . .
But, to "live consciously in the supreme Sachichidananda one must pass through the Supermind."
Adds: "The full dynamic truth of Sachichidananda and the universe and its consequence cannot be grasped by any other consciousness than the Supermind, because the instrumentation in all other planes is inferior and there is therefore a disparity between the fullness of the static experience and the incompleteness of the dynamic power, knowledge, result of the inferior light and power of other planes." intyoga.online.fr/ppb2.htm
At the zenith-point of one's Soul's evolution - grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence - the She whose veil no mortal has lifted, achieves permanent Union with the Essence of the Absolute Supreme, knows this Truth directly: I I feel and hear in every fiber of my being the ever-present bliss-vibration/spin and its never-ceasing Erotic Potency's Ananda Essence flow from the Crown chakra into world's hologram via subtle planes. . .I see (with spiritualized consciousness) its influence in a form of light aura-field around my head/body. In this state, the individual attains the ability to perceive reality as Infinite all-knowing Consciousness.
* I discovered 'by fluke' my Light aura-field in 1994.
Modern science is not capable of measuring Divine Essence / one's fully ascended Soul's Nectar of Immortality.
I have yet to read anywhere that 'Divine Bliss' has been discovered and measured/explained by the eye of mind and its 'narrow science' methods.
Soul physics' perspective on why matter is more than material can be captured with this phrase:
Atom's heart is ablaze with Divine Essence. It is all material and it is all transcendent.
24/1/2020 Edit-adding Aurobindo's brilliantly penned poem titled,
ELECTRON
The electron on which forms and world's are built,
Leaped into being, a particle of God.
A spark from the eternal Energy split.
It is the Infinities blind mute abode.
In that small flaming chariot Shiva rides.
The One devised innumerably to be;
His oneness in invisible forms he hides,
Times tiny temples of eternity.
Atom and molecule in their unseen plan
Buttress an edifice of strange oneness,
Crystal and plant, insect and beast and man.
Man on whom the World-Unity shall seize,
Widening his soul-spark to an epiphany
Of the timeless vastness of Infinity.
I always look to my (spiritual) community of the adequate for verification of my Depth data's contemplative conclusions. Today I want to include the following verse attributed to writer of the Dead Sea scrolls:
I have reached the inner vision through Thy Spirit in me
I have heard Thy Wondrous secret, through Thy mystic insight
Thou has caused a spring of knowledge to well within me
a fountain of power, pouring forth living waters
A flood of love and all embracing wisdom
Like the splendour of eternal light.
If that person was alive still, I would have liked to compare notes with. . . I would like to confirm for her/him the validity of their claim by sharing how I came to know the 'splendour of...' etc.. I would say, I-Soul witnessed flowing out of my Crown chakra 'splendour of eternal light' into world's hologram via subtle planes (for the benefit of all beings, for the benefit of evolution of consciousness, documented in post titled: The River of Light (May 2010)
If curious. . .
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/river-of-light.html
Edit-added: this post's sister blog titled Contemplative Science - if curious
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2017/09/contemplative-science.html
Friday, July 21, 2017
Real or Fantasy-Constructions
I became active in one Facebook group - and it has been challenging.
Yesterday one member insisted that what I share is nothing more but a delusional fantasy--quote, "nothing but stories that you tell yourself."
I assured him that what I share was never meant for him to see. I said this, because I know that: "A person who has reached a later stage can understand earlier world-views, but a person at an earlier stage cannot understand the later ones", in Susanne Cook-Greuter words.
He made many nonsensical comments and in his last attempt to discredit me (yesterday) he posted a link to an article on "New Age Bullshit".
He feels it is his duty to protect the membership from my "bullshit."
Today, I responded to his indirectly pointing finger in my direction, the following accusation:
We are free because there is no transcendent law (skip) But to protect ourselves from this insight we build various fantasy-construction of the ground of freedom (God, Nature, Consciousness, Being) as defensive mechanisms.
This is what I wrote in response:
Perchance, instead of the names you used (God, etc.) the term 'Lords Love' might be more palpable to someone like you? St Catherine of Genoa - 15th century Christian mystic - described how she "received" in her heart "the wound of the unmeasured Love of God", which shook her very core of being. . .after which she exclaimed: 'O Love, can it be that thou has called me with so great a love, and made me know in one instant that which words cannot express?'
She is one among many other mystics who discovered within their innermost sanctuary (eternal self-Soul) that 'God is Love'. This type of experience is not hallucination. . .I know this because this happened to me.
Gopi Krishna - 20th century mystic and philosopher - described what happened to him:
It was in my thirty fourth year, seventeen years after starting meditation, that I had my first experience of transcendental consciousness. It was in the winter, about the time of Christmas. I was meditating early in the morning when suddenly I found something giving way as if a new aperture had opened, and I felt an energy rising up my spinal cord. At first I was terrified, and my attention went to the sensation caused by the energy.
* I had same experience, minus being 'terrified'.
At that moment the vision ceased. Then I again concentrated, and ultimately I managed to keep my attention focused at the crown of my head, while the energy rose upward, through the spinal cord, to the neck and then into my head. I then suddenly found that a stream of silvery light was pouring into my brain.
* I had similar 'silver light' (multiple) experiences.
There was a sound like thunder or like a waterfall in my ear, and it grew louder and louder. At the same time, I began to expand.
* I had same experience in 1994ish, and named it, Thundering Combustion Experience. It was a full-blown out of mortal body experience. I thought the force of this Energy would kill me which compelled me to utter "God be with me!"
I cannot describe exactly what I mean by this, but it seemed that my consciousness was now gaining a wider and wider space, and I was leaving my body behind and projecting myself, spreading myself, all around in the universe. My body grew dimmer and dimmer, and I could hardly hear any noises coming from the street. I remained totally engrossed in the vision that was now unfolding before me. It was the vision of a silvery luster, alive, living, vibrant with life, conscious and spread all around me. The small self that was "I" seemed to become like a point of awareness, watching this great personality that had now developed and seemed to encompass the whole universe.
I was like a small cork floating in an ocean of consciousness, aware of the whole surface surface at every point of the compass. I felt myself expanding more and more, and this expansion was attended by a happiness that is not possible to describe.
* End of quote*
In my response to him I didn't mention that my sensation of 'spreading everywhere' felt like I was (literally) endlessly flowing out of my crown chakra - this is also why I have been known to say "my chakra system/nervous system uncoiled to infinity". I described this particular experience in Spirit Speaks in post titled The River of Light - in May 2010.
Embodied mysticism is a rare thing. . .and when that happens we see the Many through the eyes of the One. It is because of these types of experiences I have the ability to give Shaktipat transmission (trans-mental experience of non-duality).
Example: During hands-on Energy balancing one student pleaded from that deep under state, "Hold me, I'm scared". I asked why she's scared and she said, "I'm so small". After the session she told me she was terrified because she was 'just a speck in black vastness'.
When that happened to me first time, I (literally) felt a 'shift' sensation in my brain. . .the immensity of this Conscious Intelligence startled me, but by then I had even more intense experiences, and was able to remain conscious.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (translated by A.E. Thurman) has the following description of this 'blackness' (I named poetically The Womb of Creation in some posts).
In the seventh dissolution (death), the stage of imminence, the two drops meet at the heart and enclose the consciousness; one perceives the sky full of bright dark-light, or pure darkness, and then one looses consciousness....
"A voyager into the soul" -- Thurman's term for same as "psychonaut." I like it! In his words description of what it signifies.
A "voyager into the soul," an apt term for the Buddhist adept, who voluntarily abandons the pseudo-security of this planet of delusion, with its solid ground of ordinary, individuated suffering, to launch herself through the death-dissolutions into the subtle between-states to deepen her wisdom by exploring the unconscious and to expand her compassionate heroism by serving universes of beings on the subtle level, and then returns to the ordinary embodiment of the adept to assist her contemporaries.
*
If curious, including link to post titled 'Divine, You Report From the Divine' - which describes what some of the 'voyaging into the soul' experiences were like for me.
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/divine-you-report-from-divine.html
May this be helpful as you journey into the depths of your being! Be bold.
Yesterday one member insisted that what I share is nothing more but a delusional fantasy--quote, "nothing but stories that you tell yourself."
I assured him that what I share was never meant for him to see. I said this, because I know that: "A person who has reached a later stage can understand earlier world-views, but a person at an earlier stage cannot understand the later ones", in Susanne Cook-Greuter words.
He made many nonsensical comments and in his last attempt to discredit me (yesterday) he posted a link to an article on "New Age Bullshit".
He feels it is his duty to protect the membership from my "bullshit."
Today, I responded to his indirectly pointing finger in my direction, the following accusation:
We are free because there is no transcendent law (skip) But to protect ourselves from this insight we build various fantasy-construction of the ground of freedom (God, Nature, Consciousness, Being) as defensive mechanisms.
This is what I wrote in response:
Perchance, instead of the names you used (God, etc.) the term 'Lords Love' might be more palpable to someone like you? St Catherine of Genoa - 15th century Christian mystic - described how she "received" in her heart "the wound of the unmeasured Love of God", which shook her very core of being. . .after which she exclaimed: 'O Love, can it be that thou has called me with so great a love, and made me know in one instant that which words cannot express?'
She is one among many other mystics who discovered within their innermost sanctuary (eternal self-Soul) that 'God is Love'. This type of experience is not hallucination. . .I know this because this happened to me.
Gopi Krishna - 20th century mystic and philosopher - described what happened to him:
It was in my thirty fourth year, seventeen years after starting meditation, that I had my first experience of transcendental consciousness. It was in the winter, about the time of Christmas. I was meditating early in the morning when suddenly I found something giving way as if a new aperture had opened, and I felt an energy rising up my spinal cord. At first I was terrified, and my attention went to the sensation caused by the energy.
* I had same experience, minus being 'terrified'.
At that moment the vision ceased. Then I again concentrated, and ultimately I managed to keep my attention focused at the crown of my head, while the energy rose upward, through the spinal cord, to the neck and then into my head. I then suddenly found that a stream of silvery light was pouring into my brain.
* I had similar 'silver light' (multiple) experiences.
There was a sound like thunder or like a waterfall in my ear, and it grew louder and louder. At the same time, I began to expand.
* I had same experience in 1994ish, and named it, Thundering Combustion Experience. It was a full-blown out of mortal body experience. I thought the force of this Energy would kill me which compelled me to utter "God be with me!"
I cannot describe exactly what I mean by this, but it seemed that my consciousness was now gaining a wider and wider space, and I was leaving my body behind and projecting myself, spreading myself, all around in the universe. My body grew dimmer and dimmer, and I could hardly hear any noises coming from the street. I remained totally engrossed in the vision that was now unfolding before me. It was the vision of a silvery luster, alive, living, vibrant with life, conscious and spread all around me. The small self that was "I" seemed to become like a point of awareness, watching this great personality that had now developed and seemed to encompass the whole universe.
I was like a small cork floating in an ocean of consciousness, aware of the whole surface surface at every point of the compass. I felt myself expanding more and more, and this expansion was attended by a happiness that is not possible to describe.
* End of quote*
In my response to him I didn't mention that my sensation of 'spreading everywhere' felt like I was (literally) endlessly flowing out of my crown chakra - this is also why I have been known to say "my chakra system/nervous system uncoiled to infinity". I described this particular experience in Spirit Speaks in post titled The River of Light - in May 2010.
Embodied mysticism is a rare thing. . .and when that happens we see the Many through the eyes of the One. It is because of these types of experiences I have the ability to give Shaktipat transmission (trans-mental experience of non-duality).
Example: During hands-on Energy balancing one student pleaded from that deep under state, "Hold me, I'm scared". I asked why she's scared and she said, "I'm so small". After the session she told me she was terrified because she was 'just a speck in black vastness'.
When that happened to me first time, I (literally) felt a 'shift' sensation in my brain. . .the immensity of this Conscious Intelligence startled me, but by then I had even more intense experiences, and was able to remain conscious.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (translated by A.E. Thurman) has the following description of this 'blackness' (I named poetically The Womb of Creation in some posts).
In the seventh dissolution (death), the stage of imminence, the two drops meet at the heart and enclose the consciousness; one perceives the sky full of bright dark-light, or pure darkness, and then one looses consciousness....
"A voyager into the soul" -- Thurman's term for same as "psychonaut." I like it! In his words description of what it signifies.
A "voyager into the soul," an apt term for the Buddhist adept, who voluntarily abandons the pseudo-security of this planet of delusion, with its solid ground of ordinary, individuated suffering, to launch herself through the death-dissolutions into the subtle between-states to deepen her wisdom by exploring the unconscious and to expand her compassionate heroism by serving universes of beings on the subtle level, and then returns to the ordinary embodiment of the adept to assist her contemporaries.
*
If curious, including link to post titled 'Divine, You Report From the Divine' - which describes what some of the 'voyaging into the soul' experiences were like for me.
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/divine-you-report-from-divine.html
May this be helpful as you journey into the depths of your being! Be bold.
Monday, May 1, 2017
Spiritual Evolution Beyond Nirvana
One who is interested in Enlightenment grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence - as revealed by the eternal self-Soul - will find the excerpts penned by brilliant minds interesting. The subtlety of meaning couched within these words will resonate with one who is committed to developing their spiritual intelligence.
But first, a reflection (from the eternal self-Soul perspective) on the nature of Enlightenment that includes but transcends Nirvana. Spirit Speaks chronicles the many phases of what needs to 'happen' before one attains the apex-point of Soul's evolution, as well as descriptions of experiences that lead to the 'final Samadhi'-- a stage where one realizes that Nirvana is a necessary, but not the final stage-Realization (in all its aspects). The final stage includes Grace-given descents of Divine Peace-Bliss-Force/Power . . .These Initiations guide the process of inner transformation and can, in some cases, lead to a (permanent) state of Union of the non-biological Soul with the transcendent Beloved. (Because) This 'happened' to me, I have the authority to assert, 'the actual state of Soul Liberation - or the last Samadhi - is Nirvana and full Enlightenment'. . .
One who attains the Last Stage of Coronation into Omniscience in all its aspects is the holder of a Legacy of Eternal Value.
We look to those who are qualifed (communal affirmation) for affirmation. Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche asserts thus:
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom. It is realized through the blessing of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential. Like this mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
These following passages are from book penned by Ken Wilber *author of many books on human development and consciousness* titled, One Taste.
Well, anybody can say, 'All things are One,' 'All sentient beings posess Spirit,' 'All things are part of a great unified Web of Life,' or 'Subject and object are nundual.' Anybody can say those things. The question is, do you directly and actually realize that? Are you speaking with any sort of awakened authority, or are these just words to you?
What if they are just words? What does it matter?
Well, spiritual realities involve not merely statements about the objective world, but also statements of subjective facts, interior facts -- and for those statements to be true when they come out of your mouth, you must be directly in touch with those higher, interior facts, or else you are not being truthful, no matter how 'correct' the words might sound. It is the subjective state of the speaker, and not the content of the words, that determines the truth of the utterance. (...)
Most of my books are written about systems theory, Gaia, the Great Mother, ecopsychology, the new paradigm, and so on, are written with reference to the gross, waking state. You can easily tell this because they never mention any of the subtle realm phenomena -- nothing about the various meditative states, samadhis, interior illuminations, the extraordinary states of dream yoga, transcendental awareness, and so on. Nor do they mention the even higher states of causal formless. So when they claim to be 'holistic' and 'nondual,' they really aren't, not in the full sense. At best, they are at the level of nature mysticism, where consciousness is confined to union with the gross, waking state. This is fine as far as it goes, it just doesn't go very far. It is the shallowest of the spheres of mystical Oneness in the Great Nest of Spirit. (....)
So when somebody at the subtle level says 'All things are One,' they mean something different than when gross-level theorist says that. (...) Usually, when someone whose access consciousness is confined to the gross realm says 'All things are One,' they mean something like systems theory or ecopsychology -- they mean all empirical phenomena are aspects of a unified process. But when someone also has access to subtle-realm consciousness, they mean all empirical and all subtle phenomena are aspects of a unified process. This is much deeper and wider realization, which transcends and includes the gross realm.
So their consciousness is actually stronger.?
In a sense, yes. Their awareness does not blank out at the threshold of the dream state. Because of their own development and evolution of consciousness, they can remain 'awake' even as the dream arises -- or they can enter profound states of savikalpa samadhi and not go blank. And this 'strength' of consciousness becomes even greater at the causal stage of development, because you reach a type of 'constant consciousness' or 'constant witnessing capacity,' which means you are 'awake' or conscious through all three major states -- waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. So consciousness becomes stronger and stronger, persisting through more and more changes of state, and this is reflected unmistakably in your life, your work, your theorizing, and so on. These signs are hard to miss. (...)
At the subtle stage you have access to a variety of forms of deity mysticism -- interior illuminations, nada, shabd, various samadhis or meditative states, saguna Brahman (Deity with Form), prayer of the heart, dream yoga, most of the bardo realms, and so on. This is the subtle realm of deity mysticism. Because the subtle-soul transcends but includes the gross-sensorimotor realm, at the level of deity mysticism you also have access to nature mysticism, so those are not exclusive. But the lower nature mystics tend to think you're nuts.
And the causal. . .
Is the home of formless mysticism -- pure Emptiness, the Abyss, the Unborn, ayn, nirdoh, nirvikalpa, jnana samadhi, classical Nirvana or cessation. This experience (or 'nonexperience') of cessation is unmistakable and indelible. And when somebody has directly experienced that state, and they are writing books spiritual books, believe me, they will write about that! And you will intuitively feel that they know what they're talking about. (....)
Once you push through causal formlessness -- which is the home of the pure Witness -- then the Witness itself collapses into everything that is witnessed through all three states.
*
To truly understand what Soul-level Liberation means/is about, one has to be Initiated (on the Energy level) to a much deeper Mystery, before one discovers what it means to be One with all beings in the visible and invisible domains, and what True Union of the Soul with the Essence of the Absolute Supreme, means/is like.
Aurobidno's words highlight what needs to happen before one reaches this stage.
"By "void" is meant emptiness clear of all content except existence pure and simple. Without that one cannot realise the silent Brahman. + The silence still remains, but if you become full of force, light, Ananda, knowledge etc., you cannot call yourself blank any longer.
In addition: The following explanation on mechanism of descent, is something - as far as I know - no one else has written about. . . and, I second that, because this happened to me and in this blog describe many types of Soul-level Initiations.
The Descent of Peace (Sat) the descent of Force of Power (Chit) the descent of Ananda, these are the things that transform nature. It is not really the plane that descends, it is the Power and Truth of it that descends into the veil between the material and it no longer exists.
+
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. (but) To know them, the Supermind must descend into us.
- Aurobindo's qoutes from intyoga.online.fr
Thousands of years of cross-cultural support from contemplative mystics/scientists bear witness to the fact that genuine Enlightenment is not 'personal' . . . it is for the benefit of all beings in the visible and invisible realms, for the benefit of evolution of consciousness itself.
Edit-expanded:
I have written about 'Cosmic Tonglen Duty' in various posts, this is why don't feel the need to bring it up constantly -- even though this is the context within which much of what I write about arises (on the energy level). So briefly - without going into details of the hows' and whys' of it - I want to add the following reflection. . .
One cannot know what the 'beyond nirvana' truly (literally) means, unless one's Soul-Force (Universal Body) is on 'Cosmic Tonglen Duty'. This happens when one's nervous system (all chakras) uncoils to infinity. . . this is why I don't expect many folks to embrace the meaning within the words I write with full acceptance.
Maybe, if I were a male, it would have been a different story.
Then again:
This blog has visitors from South Korea, China, and other lands, and I marvel. . .
Blessings to one and all brave souls that stop by here! 💗
But first, a reflection (from the eternal self-Soul perspective) on the nature of Enlightenment that includes but transcends Nirvana. Spirit Speaks chronicles the many phases of what needs to 'happen' before one attains the apex-point of Soul's evolution, as well as descriptions of experiences that lead to the 'final Samadhi'-- a stage where one realizes that Nirvana is a necessary, but not the final stage-Realization (in all its aspects). The final stage includes Grace-given descents of Divine Peace-Bliss-Force/Power . . .These Initiations guide the process of inner transformation and can, in some cases, lead to a (permanent) state of Union of the non-biological Soul with the transcendent Beloved. (Because) This 'happened' to me, I have the authority to assert, 'the actual state of Soul Liberation - or the last Samadhi - is Nirvana and full Enlightenment'. . .
One who attains the Last Stage of Coronation into Omniscience in all its aspects is the holder of a Legacy of Eternal Value.
We look to those who are qualifed (communal affirmation) for affirmation. Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche asserts thus:
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom. It is realized through the blessing of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential. Like this mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
These following passages are from book penned by Ken Wilber *author of many books on human development and consciousness* titled, One Taste.
Well, anybody can say, 'All things are One,' 'All sentient beings posess Spirit,' 'All things are part of a great unified Web of Life,' or 'Subject and object are nundual.' Anybody can say those things. The question is, do you directly and actually realize that? Are you speaking with any sort of awakened authority, or are these just words to you?
What if they are just words? What does it matter?
Well, spiritual realities involve not merely statements about the objective world, but also statements of subjective facts, interior facts -- and for those statements to be true when they come out of your mouth, you must be directly in touch with those higher, interior facts, or else you are not being truthful, no matter how 'correct' the words might sound. It is the subjective state of the speaker, and not the content of the words, that determines the truth of the utterance. (...)
Most of my books are written about systems theory, Gaia, the Great Mother, ecopsychology, the new paradigm, and so on, are written with reference to the gross, waking state. You can easily tell this because they never mention any of the subtle realm phenomena -- nothing about the various meditative states, samadhis, interior illuminations, the extraordinary states of dream yoga, transcendental awareness, and so on. Nor do they mention the even higher states of causal formless. So when they claim to be 'holistic' and 'nondual,' they really aren't, not in the full sense. At best, they are at the level of nature mysticism, where consciousness is confined to union with the gross, waking state. This is fine as far as it goes, it just doesn't go very far. It is the shallowest of the spheres of mystical Oneness in the Great Nest of Spirit. (....)
So when somebody at the subtle level says 'All things are One,' they mean something different than when gross-level theorist says that. (...) Usually, when someone whose access consciousness is confined to the gross realm says 'All things are One,' they mean something like systems theory or ecopsychology -- they mean all empirical phenomena are aspects of a unified process. But when someone also has access to subtle-realm consciousness, they mean all empirical and all subtle phenomena are aspects of a unified process. This is much deeper and wider realization, which transcends and includes the gross realm.
So their consciousness is actually stronger.?
In a sense, yes. Their awareness does not blank out at the threshold of the dream state. Because of their own development and evolution of consciousness, they can remain 'awake' even as the dream arises -- or they can enter profound states of savikalpa samadhi and not go blank. And this 'strength' of consciousness becomes even greater at the causal stage of development, because you reach a type of 'constant consciousness' or 'constant witnessing capacity,' which means you are 'awake' or conscious through all three major states -- waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. So consciousness becomes stronger and stronger, persisting through more and more changes of state, and this is reflected unmistakably in your life, your work, your theorizing, and so on. These signs are hard to miss. (...)
At the subtle stage you have access to a variety of forms of deity mysticism -- interior illuminations, nada, shabd, various samadhis or meditative states, saguna Brahman (Deity with Form), prayer of the heart, dream yoga, most of the bardo realms, and so on. This is the subtle realm of deity mysticism. Because the subtle-soul transcends but includes the gross-sensorimotor realm, at the level of deity mysticism you also have access to nature mysticism, so those are not exclusive. But the lower nature mystics tend to think you're nuts.
And the causal. . .
Is the home of formless mysticism -- pure Emptiness, the Abyss, the Unborn, ayn, nirdoh, nirvikalpa, jnana samadhi, classical Nirvana or cessation. This experience (or 'nonexperience') of cessation is unmistakable and indelible. And when somebody has directly experienced that state, and they are writing books spiritual books, believe me, they will write about that! And you will intuitively feel that they know what they're talking about. (....)
Once you push through causal formlessness -- which is the home of the pure Witness -- then the Witness itself collapses into everything that is witnessed through all three states.
*
To truly understand what Soul-level Liberation means/is about, one has to be Initiated (on the Energy level) to a much deeper Mystery, before one discovers what it means to be One with all beings in the visible and invisible domains, and what True Union of the Soul with the Essence of the Absolute Supreme, means/is like.
Aurobidno's words highlight what needs to happen before one reaches this stage.
"By "void" is meant emptiness clear of all content except existence pure and simple. Without that one cannot realise the silent Brahman. + The silence still remains, but if you become full of force, light, Ananda, knowledge etc., you cannot call yourself blank any longer.
In addition: The following explanation on mechanism of descent, is something - as far as I know - no one else has written about. . . and, I second that, because this happened to me and in this blog describe many types of Soul-level Initiations.
The Descent of Peace (Sat) the descent of Force of Power (Chit) the descent of Ananda, these are the things that transform nature. It is not really the plane that descends, it is the Power and Truth of it that descends into the veil between the material and it no longer exists.
+
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. (but) To know them, the Supermind must descend into us.
- Aurobindo's qoutes from intyoga.online.fr
Thousands of years of cross-cultural support from contemplative mystics/scientists bear witness to the fact that genuine Enlightenment is not 'personal' . . . it is for the benefit of all beings in the visible and invisible realms, for the benefit of evolution of consciousness itself.
Edit-expanded:
I have written about 'Cosmic Tonglen Duty' in various posts, this is why don't feel the need to bring it up constantly -- even though this is the context within which much of what I write about arises (on the energy level). So briefly - without going into details of the hows' and whys' of it - I want to add the following reflection. . .
One cannot know what the 'beyond nirvana' truly (literally) means, unless one's Soul-Force (Universal Body) is on 'Cosmic Tonglen Duty'. This happens when one's nervous system (all chakras) uncoils to infinity. . . this is why I don't expect many folks to embrace the meaning within the words I write with full acceptance.
Maybe, if I were a male, it would have been a different story.
Then again:
This blog has visitors from South Korea, China, and other lands, and I marvel. . .
Blessings to one and all brave souls that stop by here! 💗
Friday, February 24, 2017
She is Solitary
Ultimate Transcendence is beyond one's individual existence. . .
This (Divine Vision) theme, runs through all my writings. Divine Vision means direct acquaintance with (first-hand perception) and perfect understanding of, the universal Energy in all the realms of creation as an actual experience, as opposed to 'cognitive understanding' by looking at a consciousness model.
Even though in this lifetime I was destined to become a 'housholder', Kundalini Shakti made me aware that my Soul's virtual memories are grounded in Yogic tradition. Yogic traditions explain the mysterious Kundalini Force as that which liberates the Soul from its lower body. Because this happened to me, I realized it is the same Source-power which creates the universe and knows itself to be the 'Creator'.
I learned that it takes a fully active Kundalini to transform our entire being by burning up all our karmas, unfold the psychic powers (Divine Siddhis), fill us with permanent bliss and reveal the essence of our being to be divine. This happened to me - even though I didn't strive to 'achieve' anything - because my Karma was ripe-ready for this to happen.
One's True Nature is discovered through Divine Vision when one's masculine and feminine Energies are fully integrated in the spiritualized mind-plane (which are neither dominating/controlling or passive). Now we see that we have risen above the male/female distinction due to integration of one's eternal Soul-essence with God's Essence. Here one discovers of being (also) literally one with all beings in the visible and invisible domains of existence. One who ascends to this level of spiritual wisdom has no choice but see that when someone uses alluring spiritual language but doesn't have the Depth data's contemplative conclusions - based on Soul level Initiations - to back their words, is not Enlightened in the ultimate sense.
We see that using high profile spiritual language does not evidence mystical wisdom, since 'correct knowledge' is different from liberating insight - liberating insight, grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence due to having undergone many types of Soul-level Initiations.
Some think that sharing my mystical experiences is a sign of "self-glorification" - and they do that, because their ego-mind can't accept there are universal truth's which are higher/more inclusive then their view of reality.
Gopi Krishna has my back - his discourse on: Signs and Characteristics of Enlightenment for Investigation, includes the following:
The illumined person must be able to write what he has experienced and make that writing available to the world. (...) Therefore, no one can describe the superconscious state unless one has the experience of it. This is the most decisive sign to judge whether a man is enlightened or not. He must be able to give description of the superconscious state in words which are inspiring and which have an originality of their own.
One, whose Soul-journey through transcendent Light and Sound culminates in getting plugged to the Essence of the Supreme Source, can describe in simple words what this Path without a map is like, without using concepts.
In this blog I chronicle the many types of Initiations - such as my with Kwan Yin encounter, and what transpired (just to give one example).
I am glad I have Sri Aurobindo's verifying voice on this subject, as well:
Experience is a word that covers almost all the happening in yoga; only when something gets settled, then it is no longer an experience but part of the siddhi; e.g. peace when it comes and goes is an experience - when it is settled and goes no more, it is a siddhi. Realisation is different - it is when something for which you are aspiring becomes real to you; e.g. you have the idea of the Divine in all, but it is only an idea, a belief; when you feel or see the Divine in all, it becomes a realisation.
Source: intyoga.online.fr/exp_real.htm
Ascended mystics of all traditions wrote from this Kosmic address.
Each Seer discovers that manifestation is Pure Consciousness manifesting itself in ALL the different names and forms - discovers that the experience of our core Consciousness is Sat Chit Ananda (I exist, I am aware, I am Pure Bliss).
Spiritual Joy is the balanced Yin/Yang aspects within our being capable of housing 'super emotions' and it's counterpart 'super motivations'. This Energy is like the Wind beneath our 'angel' wings that carries one's Action and Compassionate Caring into the world of Form.
I had no names for what motivated my feelings during those very intense years, but at some point the High Priestess archetype (in me) compelled me to perform many ceremonial rituals - often with tear-producing intensity/sincerity, whose aim is always. . .
For the benefit of all beings!
I am describing natural surrender to the Divine Will, because by then my heart was broken open.
She/awakened Soul is the mediator of the passage into Reality's supramental Depth. This inner-Guide's serenity, clear-seeing, wisdom and high intuition, has been my Guiding Light - is everyone's Guide when one gets in touch with it.
The Power of the Divine Grace reveals the Light-Radiance of who we are in the depths of our being, becomes everyone's Guide, when one gets in touch with it and is willing to perform the Will of the one Spirit. Her only Intention is to Serve all beings in all domains of life. She doesn't crave to be seen, doesn't seek attention from others. Her Gift to humanity is deep desire to give away everything.
. . .She Sings. . .
Freedom Brought Me Power
In Service I Give What I Have Become.
The Light of Truth Flows Into the World
Free From 'what's in it for me'
Permanent Samadhi state and Soul-level meeting with the Divine, is our means through which we access-See that which the surface mind can't.
Sri Aurobindo's (confirming) words from: Letters on Yoga, p.3 Experiences and Realisations intyoga.online.fr/exp_real.htm:
(Then) there are experiences that help to lead towards the realisation of things spiritual or divine or bring opening or progressions in sadhana or are support on the way - experiences of a symbolic character, visions, contacts of one kind or another with the Divine or with the workings of higher Truth, things like the waking of the Kundalini, the opening of the Chakras, messages, intuitions, openings to the inner powers, etc. *Yes*
The one thing one has to be careful about is to see that they are genuine and sincere, if one is more concern with ego and being a big yogi or being superman than meeting with the Divine or getting the consciousness which enables one to live with the Divine, then a flood of pseudo or mixtures comes in, one is led into the mazes of the intermediate zone or spins in the groves of one's own formation.
Will add that, when the meeting of Soul and the Divine is genuine it is not possible to get sucked into the vortex of self-deception and inflation - not possible to get lost in the Intermediate Zone.
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Including couple of examples of what 'super motivations' & 'super emotions' experiences are/were like for me. Those experiences confirmed for me that my subconscious mind is not split from the surface mind.
1. Years ago I found myself standing on top of a wide peacefully flowing river's current (in the middle) . . .the instant I noticed some folks standing on river's bank, I raised my right hand and blessed their precious presence with the sign of the Holy Cross. I recall concentrating very intently on making the perfect sign of the Cross. *The Holy Cross became the container through which I poured out my heart's blessings (super intentions & motivations).
2. I found myself on a boat with several 'uncouth men'. . .without a thought of 'doing' anything at all, I found myself floating away from the boat . . . The Water's turquoise color shimmered invitingly. . . I turned towards the men and with raised hand Blessed their presence with the Master Symbol.
I have no doubt that my heart-felt 'Rituals' and their Intentions, carried over into sleep state. Example: For many months at noon (every day) I chanted certain Prayer/Blessings for the benefit of all creation and its inhabitants.
This (Divine Vision) theme, runs through all my writings. Divine Vision means direct acquaintance with (first-hand perception) and perfect understanding of, the universal Energy in all the realms of creation as an actual experience, as opposed to 'cognitive understanding' by looking at a consciousness model.
Even though in this lifetime I was destined to become a 'housholder', Kundalini Shakti made me aware that my Soul's virtual memories are grounded in Yogic tradition. Yogic traditions explain the mysterious Kundalini Force as that which liberates the Soul from its lower body. Because this happened to me, I realized it is the same Source-power which creates the universe and knows itself to be the 'Creator'.
I learned that it takes a fully active Kundalini to transform our entire being by burning up all our karmas, unfold the psychic powers (Divine Siddhis), fill us with permanent bliss and reveal the essence of our being to be divine. This happened to me - even though I didn't strive to 'achieve' anything - because my Karma was ripe-ready for this to happen.
One's True Nature is discovered through Divine Vision when one's masculine and feminine Energies are fully integrated in the spiritualized mind-plane (which are neither dominating/controlling or passive). Now we see that we have risen above the male/female distinction due to integration of one's eternal Soul-essence with God's Essence. Here one discovers of being (also) literally one with all beings in the visible and invisible domains of existence. One who ascends to this level of spiritual wisdom has no choice but see that when someone uses alluring spiritual language but doesn't have the Depth data's contemplative conclusions - based on Soul level Initiations - to back their words, is not Enlightened in the ultimate sense.
We see that using high profile spiritual language does not evidence mystical wisdom, since 'correct knowledge' is different from liberating insight - liberating insight, grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence due to having undergone many types of Soul-level Initiations.
Some think that sharing my mystical experiences is a sign of "self-glorification" - and they do that, because their ego-mind can't accept there are universal truth's which are higher/more inclusive then their view of reality.
Gopi Krishna has my back - his discourse on: Signs and Characteristics of Enlightenment for Investigation, includes the following:
The illumined person must be able to write what he has experienced and make that writing available to the world. (...) Therefore, no one can describe the superconscious state unless one has the experience of it. This is the most decisive sign to judge whether a man is enlightened or not. He must be able to give description of the superconscious state in words which are inspiring and which have an originality of their own.
One, whose Soul-journey through transcendent Light and Sound culminates in getting plugged to the Essence of the Supreme Source, can describe in simple words what this Path without a map is like, without using concepts.
In this blog I chronicle the many types of Initiations - such as my with Kwan Yin encounter, and what transpired (just to give one example).
I am glad I have Sri Aurobindo's verifying voice on this subject, as well:
Experience is a word that covers almost all the happening in yoga; only when something gets settled, then it is no longer an experience but part of the siddhi; e.g. peace when it comes and goes is an experience - when it is settled and goes no more, it is a siddhi. Realisation is different - it is when something for which you are aspiring becomes real to you; e.g. you have the idea of the Divine in all, but it is only an idea, a belief; when you feel or see the Divine in all, it becomes a realisation.
Source: intyoga.online.fr/exp_real.htm
Ascended mystics of all traditions wrote from this Kosmic address.
Each Seer discovers that manifestation is Pure Consciousness manifesting itself in ALL the different names and forms - discovers that the experience of our core Consciousness is Sat Chit Ananda (I exist, I am aware, I am Pure Bliss).
Spiritual Joy is the balanced Yin/Yang aspects within our being capable of housing 'super emotions' and it's counterpart 'super motivations'. This Energy is like the Wind beneath our 'angel' wings that carries one's Action and Compassionate Caring into the world of Form.
I had no names for what motivated my feelings during those very intense years, but at some point the High Priestess archetype (in me) compelled me to perform many ceremonial rituals - often with tear-producing intensity/sincerity, whose aim is always. . .
For the benefit of all beings!
I am describing natural surrender to the Divine Will, because by then my heart was broken open.
She/awakened Soul is the mediator of the passage into Reality's supramental Depth. This inner-Guide's serenity, clear-seeing, wisdom and high intuition, has been my Guiding Light - is everyone's Guide when one gets in touch with it.
The Power of the Divine Grace reveals the Light-Radiance of who we are in the depths of our being, becomes everyone's Guide, when one gets in touch with it and is willing to perform the Will of the one Spirit. Her only Intention is to Serve all beings in all domains of life. She doesn't crave to be seen, doesn't seek attention from others. Her Gift to humanity is deep desire to give away everything.
. . .She Sings. . .
Freedom Brought Me Power
In Service I Give What I Have Become.
The Light of Truth Flows Into the World
Free From 'what's in it for me'
Permanent Samadhi state and Soul-level meeting with the Divine, is our means through which we access-See that which the surface mind can't.
Sri Aurobindo's (confirming) words from: Letters on Yoga, p.3 Experiences and Realisations intyoga.online.fr/exp_real.htm:
(Then) there are experiences that help to lead towards the realisation of things spiritual or divine or bring opening or progressions in sadhana or are support on the way - experiences of a symbolic character, visions, contacts of one kind or another with the Divine or with the workings of higher Truth, things like the waking of the Kundalini, the opening of the Chakras, messages, intuitions, openings to the inner powers, etc. *Yes*
The one thing one has to be careful about is to see that they are genuine and sincere, if one is more concern with ego and being a big yogi or being superman than meeting with the Divine or getting the consciousness which enables one to live with the Divine, then a flood of pseudo or mixtures comes in, one is led into the mazes of the intermediate zone or spins in the groves of one's own formation.
Will add that, when the meeting of Soul and the Divine is genuine it is not possible to get sucked into the vortex of self-deception and inflation - not possible to get lost in the Intermediate Zone.
*
Including couple of examples of what 'super motivations' & 'super emotions' experiences are/were like for me. Those experiences confirmed for me that my subconscious mind is not split from the surface mind.
1. Years ago I found myself standing on top of a wide peacefully flowing river's current (in the middle) . . .the instant I noticed some folks standing on river's bank, I raised my right hand and blessed their precious presence with the sign of the Holy Cross. I recall concentrating very intently on making the perfect sign of the Cross. *The Holy Cross became the container through which I poured out my heart's blessings (super intentions & motivations).
2. I found myself on a boat with several 'uncouth men'. . .without a thought of 'doing' anything at all, I found myself floating away from the boat . . . The Water's turquoise color shimmered invitingly. . . I turned towards the men and with raised hand Blessed their presence with the Master Symbol.
I have no doubt that my heart-felt 'Rituals' and their Intentions, carried over into sleep state. Example: For many months at noon (every day) I chanted certain Prayer/Blessings for the benefit of all creation and its inhabitants.
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