Friday, December 16, 2016

Yogic Consciousness

This year in August I found out that Peter Heehs  in his book: The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - stated that Aurobindo  suffered from "an inherent streak of madness" -   implied,  he didn't attain Supermind.
Heehs',  and others  of same opinion have no idea that Supermind and its Bliss-Essence  can't be reached by the reasoning mind,  so he/they sooth themselves  with nonsensical theorizing about the state of mind of one whose Soul got Initiated to this Kosmic address.
The non-initiated mind's impulse/motive invents absurd notions in order to shine before others  with 'look at me, I'm  smarter than the one some call "giant of consciousness!'
These types of assertions generate instant  attention . . . After all,  Aurobindo has been called "giant of consciousness",  so instantly the Heehs' of the world compulsive need to feel  superior,  jump into word-action because they are utterly convinced  they have the power to  strip the "giant" of his/her power.  These  special people types can fool a lot of  unsuspecting folks  -  and we, those of us who know better, supposed to say nothing?
Academics, and non-academic folks (without Yogic consciousness) are  NOT in a position to comprehend the highest-level Gnosis.  Some can sound very clever, but clever thinking does not evidence  mystical wisdom.

Aurobindo stated (and I agree that):

Mind cannot go outside its cycle - all ideas of a straight line of movement or of progress reaching infinitely upward or sidewise into the Infinite is a delusion.

The Upanishad lists ten ascending levels of bliss before one reaches the apex-point of  Ananda Bliss--and each level a hundredfold the intensity of the proceeding level.   
Precisely!   Anyone whose Anada Purusha (eternal self-Soul) gets  plugged  via the Crown chakra  to the Essence of the Absolute Supreme  feels  its Influence in every atom  of our being. We  see with the  eyes of flesh and spiritualised  consciousness  Light-aura field  around our head/body.
 Aurobindo expressed this beautifully in his poem titled: The Bliss of Brahman  (snippet)

I have become a foam-white sea of bliss,
I am curling wave of God's delight,
A shapeless flow of happy passionate light,
A whirlpool of the Streams of Paradise.

I am a cup of His felicities,
A thunderbolt of His golden ecstasy's  might,
A fire of joy upon creation's height,
I am His rapture's wonderful abyss. 

Again in Sri Aurobindo's words:

Therefore when the heart and life turn towards the Highest and the Infinite, they arrive not at an abstract existence or non-existence, a Sat or else a Nirvana, but an infinite I am of bliss, and Ananda Purusha;  nor can they emerge and lose consciousness and bliss in featureless existence, but must insist on ALL three in one, for delight of existence is their highest power and without consciousness delight cannot be possessed. That is the sense of the supreme figure of the interest Indian religion of love, Sri Krishna, the All-blissful and All-beautiful. 
- The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 3: The Yoga of Divine Love, ch.5 The Divine Personality, pp 554-555.

If he didn't experience this,  (poems) The Bliss of Brahman,  The Bride of Fire and Bliss of Identity, wouldn't  have been written.
We wouldn't know about the great value and importance of certain  mystical states/experiences, if we didn't get Initiated to this 'Ultimate Consummation'  station-point.
Anyone who is ready to commit to the Divine within ones innermost sanctuary, will go through  years of Love's purifying trials and arrive  . . .

In closing:  Recently I chanced upon a quote attributed to the author of the  Dead Sea Scrolls - whose words' meaning is filled-to-brim with  radiance of a mystical illumination . . .which  ascended Souls world over  no matter the tradition can relate to.

I have reached the inner vision and through Thy Spirit in me I have heard Thy wondrous secret, through Thy mystic insight Thou hast caused a spring of knowledge to well up within me, a fountain of power, pouring forth living waters, a flood of love and all embracing wisdom, like the splendor  of eternal light.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Soul-Infused Personality

Authentically Soul-infused personality is  completely invisible to folks with ego based personality. They see our contemplative conclusions  (empirical data verified by our community of the adequate) as the product of  irrational/delusional/insane mind.  This is why I  don't try to convince anyone of anything  because I know it is literally impossible!  And this is as it should be, because people can only meet another as they've met themselves.  They have the right to their opinion, I have the right to Protect what introduced itself to the awareness of my ascended Soul. . .and, in a non-attached way hold up a mirror to their ego based world-view.  At this stage we  know what solitude and non-attachment is, and crave not companionship with folks whose ego desires are stronger than the pull of innermost Soul's  influence.
                                         Out of Countless Tears (mine)
                                         She Fashioned a Mighty Sword
                                         To Protect That Which I was
                                         Allowed to See.

I am forever grateful to Aurobindo for *having my back*.  . .Grateful, he wrote these (verifying)  words in: A Synthesis of Yoga:
Therefore when the heart and life turns towards the Highest and the Infinite, they arrive not at an abstract existence or non-existence, a Sat or else Nirvana, but an infinite I am of bliss and Ananda Purusha; nor can they emerge  and lose consciousness and bliss in featureless existence, but must insist on All three in one, for delight of  existence is their highest power and, without consciousness delight cannot be possessed. That is the sense of the supreme figure of the interest Indian religion of love, Sri Krishna, the All-blissful and all-beautiful.

Even  the Mother - Aurobindo's spiritual partner -  said after his passing, that  he "remains an enigma" (to her).
Aurobindo knew when he began writing Savitri that its message 'was  not intended for the general public'.  I am pretty sure I mentioned that when I  Google-chanced upon  Savitri  and realized it was a very long poem I had no desire to  look at it. Then one day gave it a  quick look-see here and there, and realized he was talking about the things I was already aware of!
He knew,  and wasn't afraid to say that, the 'message is lost' to ego-based personality.
The following excerpt  from Savitri, 4.3.100 - tells it like it is:

Men are so much engrossed in the crowded life of senses they are hardly
aware of themselves as part of the movements in which they 
are carried helter and skelter.
Even the few who have become conscious of their mental selves and stand aloof  from the
 external life, are lost in the noise of their thought-activity and emotional turmoils.
They are not aware of their soul nor the intimations that came from it.
The soul, delegate of the Eternal in the evolution speaks its own language but
surface person is hardly attentive to it.
And even when the word manages to catch the inner ear, the necessary understanding
to comprehend it is not there. It is interpreted or misinterpreted in the inferior
terms of the working mind. The message is lost.

Mystical revelations reveal themselves to the  spiritual practitioner who submits their will to Lord's Will.  Everyone is invited to find out for themselves  what  (genuine) mystics world-over did, no matter the tradition. I have been describing what my Journey through Light and Sound  has been  like in cyber places that allows 'spirituality',  and found out in a hurry  I'm an easy  target  for peoples aggressive treatment.  For years I've endured character assassinations,  threats of banning me,  informed: "you have nothing to contribute to the evolution of consciousness" = same nasty lady accused me of, "plagiarizing others brilliance and something needs to be done about it".  and more! -  because I would not submit to their mean-spirited will.

 In Ken Wilber's words  *author of many books on human development and consciousness* from: The Eye of Spirit an Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad, page 94-95

Integral philosophy itself is of the mental domain, and cannot by itself, with its mental devices alone, step beyond that sphere. But it firmly acknowledges the role of contemplation in generating data, and it takes that data into account in its own coordinating and elucidating activities. If it does not itself deliver meditative data, it firmly acknowledges the existence and importance of that data. It is mandalic reason at its finest and most encompassing. It knows the difference between relative truth, which it can divulge, and absolute truth, for which it must yield to the eye of contemplation.  

*  I am glad to say that today I edit-improved one of my sloppily written posts  from May/2010, titled:  The Aim of Supramental Yoga -- if curious

www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/aim-of-supramental-yoga-is.html

Thursday, November 24, 2016

The Unknown is not Unknowable

It is fair to say that setbacks and obstacles will always be, but we are greater than any 'good' or 'bad' results- and the best part is that we  are supported by our eternal self-Soul's purpose.
The process of self-reflection, self-deconstruction and self-integration, takes time and most of us need the support of others before authentic transformation can take place, before a deeper form of self-love can take hold of us. Kundalini Shakti awakening has its own set of challenges,  this is why we need to be patient with ourselves.   Aurobindo's words is the best verifying  support I could ever  hoped to have.
Recently I chanced upon  Sri Aurobindo's words describing something that I know its true, and  think it may be useful to you, too. . .May the meaning couched within the written word catches your attention.
The Unknown is not Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we chose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe  faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existant and at a certain stage capable of development. We may chose not to develop them;  where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity.  And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail.

The Knower in us  is  the personal evolving Soul . . .At the zenith-point of her evolution She gets plugged to the Essence of the Absolute Supreme Being.  When inner and outer are united  and integrated in the consciousness of the individual, duality is dissolved.
This is a point one discovers what  embodied  (genuine)  Cosmic consciousness means.

I may return to add more, but for now I would like to include  one of my  (edited for clarity)  posts from 2012 titled:  Ascension Blues Good News - if interested

www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2012/08/ascension-blues-good-news.html

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

God is Closer Than the Air We Breathe

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts, this is why I include a goodly amount of  (verifiable) fact-checking  data from the mystical/spiritual sciences field.
All ascended mystics voice the same Radical Truth  no matter the tradition. . .
Sri Aurobindo said that the Unknowable need not remain the unknown for us because:

 fundamentally all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can forever prevail.

This is why when we say,  'there is no reality outside of God, and  God is closer to us than our breath', we really mean it . . . because  we know that God is everywhere both personal and impersonal/omnicient. 
The eternal self-Soul  exists independently from the mind and its constantly fluctuating  mental-emotional states.  Things shift drastically when  we reach (permanent) Samadhi state. . .And from this station we describe/share what we were allowed to see  (it has nothing to do with  mental level comprehension of the concept).

For a change of pace,  today I would like to include few quotes penned by Ken Wilber.  His writing on spirituality is spot on...save for the part about transcending sexuality. His perspective on what the true/transcendent Shakti-Shiva's Congress Union  and mine differ.
In One Taste (in 2000) he writes:
in the very highest Tantric teachings, the mere visualization of sexual congress with the divine consort is not enough for final enlightenment. Rather, for ultimate enlightenment, one must take an actual partner--real sex--in order to complete the circuits conducive to recognizing the already-enlightened mind.

I say  there is merit in that pronouncement but  this is not the last word.  He is talking about 'peak experience'  during sexual congress, or Self-realization. . .
I  say the real Ravishment, the Real (permanent) Ultimate Consummation  of the Soul with the Essence of the Absolute/Supreme takes place at the zenith point of one's Soul's journey through Light-Sound via the Supreme Kundalini Shakti way within one's (celibate)  interiority. I know this because this happened to me. . .
And, if Ken Wilber changed his mind since he wrote those words, I have yet to hear it because I don't have a budget for book-buying.

In Wilber's  words, from: The Simple Feeling of Being - Embracing Your True Nature

*  So as this incarnational nonduality, this ultimately ecstatic tantric nonduality itself, began to unfold, and its manifestation began to unfold, you find that by the time you get to people like Sri Aurobindo, there's such a full-bodied understanding of this process. Even though some of the earlier sages were ultimately enlightened for their time, there's a richness, an unfolding, a resonance of spirit's own incarnational understanding in some of these recent sages that just give you goosebumps.

*  Since all things are already Spirit, there is no way to reach Spirit. There is only Spirit in all directions, and one simply rests in the spontaneous nature of the mind itself, effortlessly embracing all that arises as ornaments of your own primordial experience. The unmanifest and the manifest, or emptiness and and form, unite in the  pure non-dual play of your own awareness -- generally regarded as the ultimate state that is no state in particular.

*  The mystic's claim is that mystical. . .validity claims are anchored in extralinguistic realities that, however  much they are molded by cultural factors, are not merely the product of shifting cultural and provincial-only fashions (the referents of the transcendental signifiers exist in a worldspace that is disclosed to those with the appropriate developmental signifieds, even if these are always already culturally situated. Thus, cultural context does not prevent natural science from making and redeeming universal claims, nor likewise does it prevent mystical science from making and redeeming not-merely-culture-bound-claims).

*  Cosmic consciousness is not the obliteration of individuality but its consummate fulfillment, at which point we can speak of Self or no-self, it matters not which: your Self is the Self of the entire Kosmos, timeless and therefore eternal, spaceless and therefore infinite, moved only by a radiant Love that defies date or duration.

*  Spirit knows itself objectively as Nature; knows itself subjectively as Mind; and knows itself absolutely as Spirit -- the Source, the Summit, the Ground, and the Process of the entire ordeal.

*  In the manifest world, what we call "matter" is not the lowest rung in the great spectrum of existence, but the exterior form of every rung in the great spectrum. Matter is not lower with consciousness higher, but matter and consciousness are the exterior and interior of every holon.
(not sure if this (last) snippet is from same book).

I wrote Spirit Speaks in 1995 (after many mystical experiences)  -- if curious
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2009/03/spirit-speaks.html

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Silence is Full of Answers

Some claim 'ultimate enlightenment', but if  there is no real experiential data to back that claim -- whose results  has been checked and double checked with those who have adequately completed same journey --  then those of us who know better have the right to think:  'Please stop feigning understanding about the Unknowable (to mind's intellect), about  That which  introduces itself to the eye of contemplation when  one's  third eye chakra, and  the crown chakra, are opened on the subtle and extremely subtle levels.  The Creative Power of the Absolute Supreme  (some of us call Kundalini Shakti, or the Holy Spirit) is the Bliss-Essence, which one feels in every fiber of our being (permanently). If your eternal self-Soul fulfilled her ancient plan, then you should be able to explain in simple words what this journey through (transcendent) Light and Sound was like for you.'

The opening statement is directed towards one who bullied me most and I want to have on record what I had to deal with when writing in a forum where talking about 'integral spirituality' was encouraged.  That forum is no more.  Towards the end of very intense exchanges with his woman (lasting many months), she offered a couple of fake apologies and was indignant when I ignored her (initial) "sorry for razzing your ass", statement. I accepted her another fake apology just to get her off my back.  Truth be told, I didn't need her apology and proposed several times we agree that we disagree, but she ignored me.
LN thought she was fully enlightened (Buddhist) and could explain in few paragraphs the concept of Enlightenment and proudly assured me: "You have nothing to contribute to evolution of consciousness". She insisted I was "delusional". She compared herself to "Lady Tsoygal", (who some call "Queen of Bliss") and tried every nasty gaslighting trick to show how delusional and dangerous I was to the community. She was not even remotely 'the queen of bliss' and her own words betraed her by saying she was 'looking forward to going camping to the forest to get high'. She knew not that Soul level Bliss is a state of being not a temporary experience of being 'high'.
I still have few notes/quotes she wrote to me/about me:
  "I have a life and don't have time to read you..." - "What is being unrooted here is Truth! Your separation from Innate Divinity can't hide behind the grand and accurate words of brilliant others, Helen".  Same comment ended on this note: "I'll leave you to your linenar quilts of squares filled with your unsubstantial words, now."
To Jane she said:  "I don't for one second believe that Helen has been initiated, nor do I believe her capable of what she claims (Soul level Liberation/Divine Siddhis). It's grotesque to me, so,  "no" sorry Jane...as long as I'm seeing  Helen pretending to be what she's not, she will receive critical response from me. I can't look away from the false." *

When my third eye chakra opened circa 16 years ago,  the spot (on forehead) vibrated like crazy and the spot felt quite hot/ painful!   I had no idea there were going to be more openings on ever-deeper levels  in years to come.  Each  initiation  more startling than the last,  but no longer painful.
Also,   in my experience, Crown chakra opening was  not a one time thing, either.  I described my  (94, or 95)  'Thundering Combustion Experience', below.
 Or, the time  (during Energy balancing session on my Master  = class setting w/many witnesses)  I felt a  'wide column' of Divine Energy enter  my being through the Crown chakra in rhythmic waves.

If my Crown chakra was not open, I would never know what authentic Union of the Soul with the Essence of the  Absolute Supreme and (therefore) also  literally one with all beings in visible and invisible domains of existence, feels like.  .  . I would never bear witness to the fact that it is possible  - with spiritual consciousness and flesh eyes open -  to see one's Divine  aura-Light  around (my) head-body and narrow band of blue light next to my skin.  I was startled when I discovered mine in summer 1994', and thought one day I will find some reference to what this signifies in some 'esoteric book'.  In due time I did chanced upon Aurobindo's work  and was very glad to see this (verifying) statement:
 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. +  to know them, the Supermind must descend into us. + By "void" is meant emptiness clear of all contents except existence pure and simple. Without that one cannot realise the silent Brahma.  + The silence can remain when the blankness has gone. All sorts of things can pour in and yet the silence still still remains, but if you become full of force, light, Ananda, knowledge etc., you cannot call yourself blank anymore.

What I share is within the context of:
 In service to the Divine I bear witness to this
 For the benefit of the whole world 
For the evolution of consciousness itself. 

The omniscient cosmic Intelligence is the consciousness of the (Supreme)  Supermind.
Sri Aurobindo coined the term Supermind, and described  it's nature:
Supermind at its highest reach is the divine Gnosis, the Wisdom-Power-Light-Bliss of God by which the Divine knows and upholds and governs and enjoys the universe.
+
The essential character of Supermind is a Truth-Consciousness which knows by its own inherent nature, by its own Light; it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it. (end quote)

            The Ineffable hidden in plain sight
             The closer one gets to the source of ALL that IS
             The purer the Water of Gnosis

One who has first-hand knowledge about this Intelligence is more than happy to describe what happens when the transforming  power  enters one's innermost sanctuary, what it's like when  this Intelligent Force  gets hold of us permanently.
My writing style is not stellar, still I am duty-bound to write  about what actually happens on this journey - what literally  happens when one gets plugged to the Intuitive Mind, the Illumined Mind, Overmind and Supermind and its Bliss energy.
What I describe in this blog is not for the faint of heart, and truth be told I wouldn't volunteer for such a thing.  But it happened  - unsolicited Kundalini Shakti awakening - and even though I had no one in this earth-dimension to connect to, I knew I was in good hands  and calmly endured everything that was being 'downloaded' into me because I submitted to the Divine.
I share what introduced itself to the awakened consciousness of my eternal self-Soul with the intention that someone (who sees value in what I share)  may be inspired to keep on keeping on even if the going is tough.
Some folks  insist that 'Silence' (or 'Emptiness')   is  'empty nothingness'. . .
The ascended mystic asserts,  Silence is full of answers -  and those answers are disclosed to the eye of contemplation. We see its Influence (aura light) and feel its Bliss-force. . .
The spiritual  (cosmic) currents cannot be captured by the  mind/eye of flesh and its scientific  methods. Spiritual sciences has its own methods, it's own verifiable data bank, but its meaning is hidden to the mind which didn't perform the  experiment.  

I rejoiced when I discovered  that Aurobindo knew this!  He knew and declared this boldly. I discovered his work shortly after I began writing in this blog, and will forever be grateful to him.
In his words few snippets:

1.  The psychic and spiritual transformation are within our mental conception. The supramental transformation however is beyond our mental conception. The supramental has a radically different awareness of things. Mentality cannot know its nature. It can only be known via the spiritualized mind.
2.  It can only begin to understand Supermind when we have connected to spiritual mind. Our personal endeavor and aspiration cannot reach Supermind; ours is the life of Ignorance. The higher spiritual planes create their own formulations in the subliminal in the depths within us, but Overmind and Supermind have not been organized in the inner subliminal of the human. To know them too, the Supermind must must descend into us.
3.  In the ascent and descent about which I have written in the Life Divine, the whole being - you may call it the Self - goes up, say, to the Overmind, settles there and meets the Divine and then the descent of the Divine takes place.

                       . . . The winds of Grace are always blowing . . .

The Darsana Upanishad (6. 36-38) describes the sounds heard when the consciousness becomes centered in the Brahmandra (anterior fontenalle), located in top-center region of the head:  When air(prana) enters the Brahmarandra, nada (sound) is also produced there. Resembling at first the sound of conchblast (sankha-dhvani)  and like the thunder-clap (megha-dhani) in the middle of the head, like a roaring of a mountain cataract (giri-prasravanna).  Thereafter, O great wise one! the Atman, mightily pleased, will actually appear in front of thee. Then there will be ripeness of the Knowledge of Atman from Yoga and the disowing by the yogi of worldly existence. 
- Guy L. Beck,  Sonic Thelogy, pp 39-103 - quoted with permission from Sandeep auromere.wordpress.com

I am not a scholar of Upanishad and didn't see  this  quote of subtle sounds until this year. I talked about subtle sounds in this blog.  My 'Thundering Combustion Experience', is one example - and since I  don't have the link handy, I will briefly describe my 'roaring mountain' event:

In 1994-5,  in the middle of the night I was awakened by the sound like thunder's roar in my head and was certain this explosive  Force-power was going to render me toast. I  had only time to think "God be with me! . . .Next instant, the person that was 'me' vanished . . .there was no me to relate to.  I  became the awareness aware of itself, aware of crystal-like (faint) vibrations. . .The moment felt like eternity.
Next, I was snapped back into my flesh form so forcefully, my subtle body's torso bounced up to a sitting position before gently coming to rest in the horizontal.

This is a description - one out of many examples - of what it  means to bring the Divine/Spirit into one's being, what it means to become fully transparent to the  Depths of the Divine, what it takes before one has the (spiritual) authority to say: this is what needs to happen before one is ready to claim  that Soul evolution  and  Her liberation is a real thing  (not same thing as Self realization). The awakened Inner Being (Soul) is the Witness of God and His Messenger.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Shakti's Transforming Power

(Inner) Shakti's transforming power (Master level) affects all levels of body-mind-soul - it awakens us to a radically different dimension of awareness, it makes us see that all of existence (in all forms) - in the visible and invisible domains are aspects of our greater Being.
The surrendered Soul enters the Heart of Compassion  and sees this Truth directly.

To conclude - and many do - that consciousness is nothing more than the result of brain activity, is to declare that the accounts of extremely subtle/causal-level mystical experiences and our contemplative conclusions  of descriptions of reality beyond the material, are not' but insanity and hallucinations, is accurate in one sense...Accurate to the mind that didn't performed the necessary injunctions.  We don't insist they 'get' us. We invite everyone  to perform the experiment and find out for themselves what the fuss is about.
What are the criteria for gaining Depth's knowledge and what constitutes adequate authority, before one is qualified to deliver this Knowledge to the world?
The answer can't be delivered with twitter-like expediency.  The long-hand-style approach of unpacking  decades-worth of accounts of what happens at each level of ascending rungs of the evolutionary ladder on the path without a map takes time.
I like and relate to Aurobindo's  Supramental Yoga because it includes the dimension of: the Illumined Mind, the Intuitive Mind, Overmind and Supermind + Blissananda (Energy).
One's Vision-logic capability, makes sense of and integrates the various perspectives.

One whose consciousness is  permanently plugged to Deep Samadhi  frequency transcends sleep, this is why the inner territory becomes a very familiar environment.  Sometimes I use poetic language to describe what we bear witness to in service to the Divine calling.

Aestheticians of the Good, True  and Just
 Float within Nirvana's Stream-light of
Perfectly braided Bliss/Love-vibrations
Drinking from the Holy Fountain Divine Revelations

She Who Has no Name out of countless  tears
Fashioned Her Sword
To stir ashes of indifference in search
Of one ember's glow
She kindles it with breath of encouragement
Hoping to ignite a Self-sustaining Flame
Prodding, "there is a better plan for you, keep going"

Shifting Forms of Significations
There,
 Like a time capsule, Seeds of Golden Wheat take Root.

We are called to occupy the Sovereignty Throne
Meet Her gaze without flinching  and See clearly
She is the aspect of  us which  Ignites  the
Holy Flame of Service. . .
See we are Her Heart-in-Action
Compelling us to Hear  Cries of the World
And help those who can't help themselves.

 * There are many  humanitarian organizations which desperately need (our) financial support in order to help  victims of war crimes,  etc.  My heart broke open many years ago and I responded. This is why I am not ashamed to speak for those who don't have a voice.
                                                                 *
Shakti's transformig power bestows on us  (Divine) Siddhis.  In Sri Aurobindo's words few snippets:
(Siddhis are)
  "Activated in the superconscious field of the mind. These different abilities include the expression of the Soul's genius in human life."
"Some men sneer at the Siddhis because they do not believe in them; others because they think it is noble and spiritual to despise them. Both attitudes proceed from ignorance. (...) I do not wish to argue the question of the existence or non-existence of Yoga siddhis; for it is not with me a question of  debate, or belief or disbelief, since I know by daily experience that they exist.  I am concerned rather with their exact nature and utility."
"When the subjective experience tells him "I'm hungry", he concedes; "Of course, you must be since you say so." But let it tell him, "I'm full of bliss from an immaterial Source," or "By certain higher instruments repeatedly tested I know I have wandered in regions illuminate by no material sun," and he answers, "You are only fit for the gaol or the lunatic asylum."
intyoga.online.fr/nb_1911 . html#2

I am glad  some scientists  intuit there is more to life than meets the eye: In Einstein's words:

Try and penetrate, with our limited means the secret of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force, beyond anything we can comprehend is my religion.
                                                                     *
I like interacting/hanging out with people in cyber-space,  this is why I joined  few months ago group called Integral Global on Facebook.
Not feeling very ambitious. . . and  I still have a long way to go combing through my posts - in order to delete some and others to edit-improve -  but am glad to say that  yesterday I  edit-improved one of my more relevant entries titled:  Tractor Beams - Supracosmic Tonglen Duty.

if curious:  www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2012/06/tractor-beams-supracosmic-tonglen-duty.html

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Soul Level Spirituality

Evolutionary spirituality invites one to discover within our innermost being eternal self-Soul and find strength to surrender all of our mental and psycho-emotional nature to Her.  The She who  has no fixed boundaries needs our co-operation in order to become conscious  Instrument through which Divinity flows into the world of Form,  as well as the invisible realms of creation.
Purification by the Flame of Love / Kundalini Fire / Holy Spirit  prepares us for this Mission by establishing a very strong foundation for the descent of the Divine Light-Force-Bliss-Knowledge.
 This stage can't be skipped.  Freed from self-deception protects one from attracting the action of 'dark powers' and its temptations, protects us from self-inflation, mental unhinging and its moral aberrations.
Inner self-development grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence gives birth to (permanent) bhava Samadhi state.  In this state we observe with outmost clarity a firm vision of things that introduce themselves to our consciousness and senses  in the subtle,  as well as the extremely subtle domains.
One can not go beyond ordinary nature and enter into Super-nature by becoming irrational - this is why the aim of Soul-level liberation is the conversion of the whole being into spiritualised consciousness and a larger Divine existence.  It is about entering consciously into the boundless space of pure subjectivity. . . and through many types of Initiations getting plugged into the Sea of Divine Bliss - via the Crown Chakra - and meeting there the Divine Eternal.
 This is what we mean when we say 'Yoking of the human and the Divine within one's innermost being'. This is an actual  Soul level experience. 

The surrendered one is guided by Her Wisdom. . .
Through this action divine integration and divine perfection is accomplished. .  .
Every movement is the movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being. . .
Communication  of the Divine from the source of its Nature is for the benefit of all beings, for the benefit of evolution of consciousness itself in service to the Divine.
Such a thing is possible because an ascent into the supramental Truth elevates one's spiritualised consciousness to that height. At the same time it also brings about a descent of Light-Bliss-Power into every fiber of our being.  .  . Because of  this, someone at this stage also knows that:
The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle vibrations"  -  in Sri Yukteswar words.

To those who think I suffer from "megalomania" I say:

 You are making a great mistake to think that one who has reached this (permanent) Ultimate Consummation stage is interested in flaunting  one's 'magnificence' .  Such motive is foreign to me/us. Such notion comes from egoistic conception. . .What I share is the Natural Result of a very long and hard Soul-journey through space/time.   This is  the Communication of the Divine from the source of  its Nature, that's  why it feels very natural to innocently write about this . . . for the benefit of all beings, for the benefit of evolution of Consciousness in Service to the Divine.

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She desires the ancient mornings and fulfills their light;
projecting forwards her illumination she enters into
communion with the rest that are to come.

Rig Veda

Friday, August 12, 2016

Universal Vision

In October/2015 I articulated (in another cyber-place) my encounter/experience with  One Who Defeats Death - His message was clear: "Be Fierce, Say what you Know, no matter what!"
 I received this support because nasty people's bullying was relentless. One desperate lady told me I'm a "charlatan". . .that hurt a little because I liked her and (earlier) extended invitation to visit me in my home. I never internalized projections and know what transference is about, still that one word left me dismayed to what extent someone will go in order to silence me.
Today, I will share what I said in my Thunder Speaks thread (forum, which is no more).
May the meaning within these words inspire you to keep on keeping on, even when the going gets rough!  I survived:)
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Several  days ago, Manjusri's emanation in its Fierce and Uncompromising Intent form, introduced itself to my consciousness while I was floating in a sea of Pure Bliss.  .  .
 His bull-headed Form began circling me at neck-breaking speed.  I recognized  'you and I are not two' intent-message. This was not the first time Manjusri captured my attention.
Today I learned  that Manjusri is universally regarded as  both the historical Bodhisattva, and as the primordial white Buddha who is compared to the sun, and as the "bull-headed" Form.  To this point I knew (only) about his  double-edged sword signifying realization of the transcendent wisdom - whose  task is to  cut down ignorance and duality. I knew already that, the  left-hand holding lotus  signifies  attainment of ultimate realization from blossoming wisdom.

We know that Mythic Lords, Goddesses and Angels are personifications of mystical attributes of one's consciousness'  enlightened qualities / capabilities / powers.
I like what Ken Wilber wrote in The Eye of Spirit about High Archetypes, p. 237:

In advanced evolution, the deity-Archetype emerges, is introduced to consciousness (in the subtle realm), the self then identifies with and as that Deity, and operates from that identification.  The self is then no longer exclusively bound to the ego, but it is bound to its Archetype.  The point is that as each higher-order structure emerges, the self eventually identifies with that structure -- which is normal, natural, appropriate. As evolution proceeds, however, each level in turn is differentiated from the self, or "peeled off", so to speak. The self, that is, eventually dis-identifies with its present structure so as to identify with the next higher-order emergent structure. 

What I share comes from a unique position since I didn't study world's mystical traditions.  I started reading after  (unsolicited)  Kundalini Shakti's Force-Power began working in me.
It took many years to integrate all that I have gone through - all that have introduced itself to the awakened awareness of my eternal self-Soul.  Articulating  in clear and simple words what this journey (through uncreated Light and Sound)  has been like for me, proved to be a great challenge!
But 'figured it out' I did,  with the help of beings who left written records of their  Soul-level experiences...Soul level Initiations (experiences) are the very stepping stones to ever-wider domains of consciousness.

            Heart's Invitation
 We are like the flute through which
 Heart's longing turns to music
. . .
Your heartbeats are in My heart
And in your longing is My longing
In our durability we are deathless
Like the always ever-same
Lilac's  intoxicating fragrance.

Path Ordained By God

Edited for clarity: My originally written in June 2009 blog titled, On Rapture Musings, describes three types of descends of Divine Force in...