Comment below: --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I tend to think that enlightenment confers inner > contentment complete with a sense of wonder, sense of purpose and > more. But on the strength of what I can gather, I am unconvinced that > it necessarilly removes the possibility of the enlightened one living > his/her enlightenment blissfully ignorant about a great many things, > about, ignorant about the truth of the planet's history or the story > of creation, ignorant whether this or that storybook figure actually > existed or not. Perhaps, and this is dangerous territory perhaps, but > just perhaps, enlightenment is no more but no less than living a > wonderfully drugless high, and does not necessarilly confer any > higher perceptions beyond those which that individual personality can > rise to. > **SNIP TO END**
Your conclusion seems sound to me. But as to what constitues "higher" or "lower" perceptions, who's to say? If, for example, on any particular psychedelic drug I have the experience of a red swirling flower -- what is "unreal" about that experience, even though no one else experiences it? I "know" what red is, what a flower is, and what a swirling motion is. And it's all being presented to whomever all the other experiences of my life are presented to and with the same, or even greater, sense of reality. Should I, could I, doubt that just because I am (apparently) the only one having the specific experience of those characteristics all together at the same time? Maybe that hallucination provides some profound insight that puts the rest of my life into clearer or more cogent focus. Or maybe it merely exposes how malleable experience is itself, and in doing so, throws the attention back on who it is that's paying attention in the first place. Perhaps spiritual experiences or insight and subtle/celestial vision function similarly. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
