On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:36 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Him: > No, I don't have time to clarify my position right now but you might > remember that I don't doubt the notion of continuous witnessing (in fact, > I've had very long stretches of it) nor even of "celestial vision/ god > consciousness" (though it is defined and described variously); it's just > that direct experiences has taught me that these experiences are not very > valuable. I don't call these states enlightenment, thought they DO fit > the Hindu model of what the term (in it's various forms: bodhi, > jivanmukta, brahmavidya, etc.) means. This reminds me of what Rory said a few posts back about CC, GC and UC being transitory states.
Yet this is just new age speculation. The tradition itself is very clear on what "UC", videha-mukti, is and it is not a transitional state.
