Cognitive Bias and Occult Experiences

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Western psychology has
investigated, the impact of

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subtle forms of biased on what
and how we perceive things.

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And how we interpret, what we
perceive. an individual's

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cognitive bias subtly
influences, what he believes has

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occurred and various people
witnessing the same event, but

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coming from different viewpoints
will report out what happened

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differently in line with the
cognitive filter they have

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applied when one is working with
a cult Realms and subtle inner

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experiences, the same type of
filtering and cognitive bias

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process occurs and thus The
science of yoga recognizes the

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need to reduce minimize and
eventually eliminate these

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filters in order to understand
and act upon the truth of

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things.
It must also be noted that vital

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desire and mental predilection
can extrapolate from a set of

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facts or events and create an
interpretation or a vision of

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what is to come.
That is not an actual spiritual

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Insight, but a mental formation.
An interesting story about the

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intersection of vision and
mentality is seen in Sri

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aurobindo Zone life.
He was a fervent work.

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To achieve the independence of
India, from the British Empire

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at a certain point in time.
He received an Oddish to take up

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spiritual practices.
He was asked on several

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occasions about why he suddenly
gave up working for India's

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independence.
His reply was in essence that

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India's Independence was assured
and he had now moved on to other

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necessary Realms of action.
Additionally, many people in

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India wanted to side with
Germany in World War 2.

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As it was opposing, the British
Raj, which had been strangling

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India for hundreds of years.
SRI aurobindo noted that the

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future fate of The evolutionary
prognosis, progress of humanity,

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hung in the balance, and he had
to support the British in that

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situation.
But that after the war was

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concluded, India would be
liberated from British control.

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His vision, of course came true.
The mental formations of others

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were found to be inaccurate and
were based on emotional vital or

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mental body.
Shoes caused.

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By the way, India had been
treated by the British The

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mother writes quote, but when
one wants to have a pure correct

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information to be in contact
with the truth of things and see

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an advance, not according to
one's Petty, mental

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construction, but how things are
decreed in the place where they

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are decreed.
And the time when they are

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decreed, then that requires a
very great mental Purity, a very

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great vital.
Priam and absence of Desire of

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preference, one must never want
anything to be of one kind or

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another.
For this falsifies your vision

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immediately.
All, who have visions usually

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deformed them all, almost
without exception, I don't think

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there is one in a million who
doesn't deform his vision

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because the minute it touches
the brain, it touches the domain

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of preferences, desires
attachments.

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And this indeed is enough to
give a coloring a special look

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to what you have seen.
Even if you have seen it

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correctly, you translate it,
wrongly in your consciousness.

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Who's truly ass for a great
Perfection but you can have

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perfection without the gift of
vision and the Perfection can be

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as great without the gift as
with it.

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If it interests you, especially
you can make an effort to obtain

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it.
But only if it interests you

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specially, if you lay great
store by knowing certain things,

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you can undertake a discipline,
you may undertake a discipline.

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Also, in order to change the
Meaning of your senses.

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I think I've already explained
to you.

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How one can hear the distance?
See at a distance, even

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physically.
But this means considerable

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effort, which perhaps is not
always in proportion, to the

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result because these are side
issues, not the central.

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The most important thing, these
are side issues which may be

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interesting.
But in itself, this is not the

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spiritual life.
One may have a spiritual All

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life without this.
Now the two together can give

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you perhaps a greater capacity
but for this to you must tell

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yourself.
If I want to have it, if I take

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the true attitude of surrender,
to the Divine and of complete

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consecration, if I ought to have
it, I shall have it as if I want

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to have the gift of speech.
I shall have it.

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And in fact, if one is truly
surrendered in the true way and

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totally at every minute, one is
what he ought to be and does

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what he ought to do and knows
what he ought to know.

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No this, but naturally for this
one should have overcome the

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petty limitations of the ego and
this does not happen overnight

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but it can happen.
And quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo in the mother growing
within the psychology of inner

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development.
Chapter 7, growth of

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Consciousness.
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And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 7, growth of
Consciousness.

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