On Jul 23, 2007, at 6:56 AM, t3rinity wrote:
--- 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.
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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
As one of my masters shared: we all have different nadi constitutions
(our bioenergetic body and the way our minds flow are different).
It's this uniqueness that makes our individual experiences and
unfoldment-awakening uniquely our own.
