--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that this is the most accurate and telling > statement in your post, Ron, and the one that is > most relevant to Fairfield Life and the majority > of posts here about spiritual "progress." It's > about *personal experience*, which is valid, and > about *projection of that experience onto others*, > which IMO is not. <snip> I think you are right on this one Barry. I think everybody has a different path, and a different way his/her experiences unfold, even though they may be using similar terminology for their experiences. Most people do some kind of projection, being somewhat overwhelmed by your own 'highest experience', you think this to be the highest for everybody, or at least sort of he direction of the highest. For example, in the traditional kundalini Yoga, the force rises from bottom up, but in Aurobindo's Yoga its the reverse, the force descends from above down and then transforms the rest of the chakras (this is also my experience, I think Aurobindo describes best what I experience). Mirra Alfassa said, that Nirvana can be experienced on many levels, they have a whole spiritual psychology set up, like vital, true and inner vital,the psychic, subtle physical, then inner mental, higher mental, intuitive mental, enlightened mental, overmind, supramental etc, and Nirvana can be experienced on EVERY of these levels, and if a person would do so, he might as well claim enlightenment. I am sure there are some comon elements which are comon in most spiritual practitioneers, like the opening of he heard, or a widening and dissolution of physical boundaries, or the perception of shakti in the subtle system, but he emphasis is different with everyone
