How Do Spiritual Experiences Come About?

0:01 Well we are allured by the idea of spiritual experiences or if one looks at the popular media, the idea of some kind of unusual powers that an individual can develop obtained or possess. We actually have very little idea about what is really possible and how it actually works. Popular entertainment, fixates on Clairvoyance or super strength. Or in some cases, fantastic powers of sight. Hearing speed or the ability to fly communicate with dead souls or manifest other powers, not generally seen within Humanity. For the most part, these are the result of a general feeling of powerlessness in society.

0:51 And our looked on its fantasy. Yet the fixation on these type of powers shows an attraction to the concept that there are potentially enhanced powers of some sort that will accompany the development and evolution of future stages of Consciousness. The seed Within These fantasies is the fact that there are many in explicit inexplicable experiences that arise which outside the framework of the normal current action of the body life, mine complex that we identify as our existence and being the actual experiences that arise tend to be marked as extraordinary by those who have them and carry with themselves a veracity and reality that cannot be challenged.

1:44 Some individuals have experiences spontaneously sometimes through a deep inner connection with someone or something, undergoing an extraordinary event such as experiencing the death of a, loved one at the very instant of their death, despite being on the opposite. It end of the Earth and experience which is recounted any number of times, other individuals begin to have experiences that are outside any known context in this lifetime and which change the course of their lives and their focus as they develop in this new Direction. They may begin to recognize that this is an opening that was prepared in a past lifetime. still others undertake a specific course of action to break through the wall of the external nature in order to experience the wider reality, they then undertake either a Vision Quest or some kind of spiritual practice such as pranayama or tratak, which helps them break through the veil of the external nature, some attempt to do this through use of mind-altering drugs, while still under, Others, use ecstatic song, prayer, or trance dance. As a way to leave the ordinary Consciousness behind. A disciple asks on what do experiences depend weather? The mother responds quote, it

3:19 depends on many things. Some people have experiences quite spontaneously and it is understood that this depends on their former lives or the way in which they were formed the forces, which presided over the construction of their present, physical being and the influence they came under even before their birth. These people have experiences spontaneously, there are not many of these but there are some there are others for whom it is. The result of a very sustained effort. They aspire to have experiences and impose a discipline upon themselves or adopt a discipline. So as to be able to have them sometimes it takes very long to obtain something.

4:09 It depends altogether upon the way. One is built. I knew people who were ignorant. Yes. And who had quite remarkable experiences of Clairvoyance of inner perception. They understood nothing of what was happening to them or of what they saw, but they had the gift and quote. Reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness. Inner experiences page 127.