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June 11, 2024

Experiencing and Understanding Infinite Worlds of Experience

Experiencing and Understanding Infinite Worlds of Experience

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Ch. 5 Occult Forces, pg. 111 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/06/07/experiencing-and-understanding-infinite-worlds-of-experience/

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Scientists nowadays are Speaking
of infinite numbers of parallel

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universes, each one carrying out
some different choice that can

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be worked out.
Not every world is based on the

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same set of factors and choices
as the world we currently

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inhabit.
There are also realms that are

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not physical in the sense of the
materiality of the existence,

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but which are much more fluid,
vital domains or worlds of

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mental formations that exist in
a space of pure mentality, et

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cetera.
Many people have a hard time

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separating themselves
sufficiently from the solidity

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and reality of the physical
world to understand,

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acknowledge, and eventually
relate to other worlds or

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domains.
Yet we are clearly moving in the

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direction of gaining these
insights, both on the scientific

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side, on the psychological side,
and among those who practice the

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science of consciousness through
yogic sadhna.

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Over the last couple of 100
years, the Western science of

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psychology took up the study of
dreams and through the extensive

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work carried out by Freud, links
and connections were made

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between dream events and various
experiences in the world, past

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traumas or events, etcetera.
However, this did not exhaust

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the subject and the work of CG.
Jung went further to determine

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that some dreams related to what
he called a collective

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unconscious, which is a separate
domain shared by the mental

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vital space of humanity, not
specifically related to an

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individual's trauma or event
background.

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Some people reported various
forms of prophetic dreams and

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others reported entering into
other realms or worlds and

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interacting there.
Some people visited what has

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been called the Akashic Record
and found the history of

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humanity, past, present and
future available to them for

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review in the time they were
there.

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Others have received detailed
teachings from gurus, teachers,

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or guides while in a type of
dream state while not in the

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physical presence of those
teachers.

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There is such an enormous number
of potential experiences and

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they defy realistic description
to those who have not had those

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experiences.
Thus, the only way to truly

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understand these other states of
awareness or other planes or

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domains is to consciously take
up the study and begin to focus

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on and relate to the experiences
one has and correlate them to

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those related by others or to
other experiences one has

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oneself.
In the end, the only true

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knowledge in this realm is
knowledge through direct

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experience and through identity
with the experienced state.

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When an individual takes up this
type of review, it is important

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to recognize that much of the
validity of the understanding

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must be based on the foundation
provided by the individual who

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is experiencing and reporting.
That is why an inner development

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is needed to ensure that the
results reported are not tainted

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by desire, greed, fear, vanity
or any other vital movement that

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can skew the results.
The mother notes quote.

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So it is difficult to speak of
all these worlds, these

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innumerable worlds, in a few
minutes.

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It is a knowledge which needs a
lived experience of many years,

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thoroughly systematic, and which
requires, as I said, an inner

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preparation absolutely
indispensable to make it

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harmless.
We all get the chance to have a

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little contact, very partial,
very superficial, with these

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worlds in our dreams, and the
study of dreams itself already

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demands much time and care, and
in itself may constitute a

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preparation for a deeper study
of the invisible worlds.

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End Quote reference Shrioro
Bindu and the Mother, The Hidden

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Forces of Life, Chapter 5 Occult
Forces, page 111.