How Do Spiritual Experiences Come About?

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Well we are allured by the idea
of spiritual experiences or if

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one looks at the popular media,
the idea of some kind of unusual

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powers that an individual can
develop obtained or possess.

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We actually have very little
idea about what is really

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possible and how it actually
works.

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Popular entertainment, fixates
on Clairvoyance or super

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strength.
Or in some cases, fantastic

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powers of sight.
Hearing speed or the ability to

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fly communicate with dead souls
or manifest other powers, not

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generally seen within Humanity.
For the most part, these are the

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result of a general feeling of
powerlessness in society.

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And our looked on its fantasy.
Yet the fixation on these type

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of powers shows an attraction to
the concept that there are

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potentially enhanced powers of
some sort that will accompany

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the development and evolution of
future stages of Consciousness.

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The seed Within These fantasies
is the fact that there are many

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in explicit inexplicable
experiences that arise which

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outside the framework of the
normal current action of the

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body life, mine complex that we
identify as our existence and

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being the actual experiences
that arise tend to be marked as

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extraordinary by those who have
them and carry with themselves a

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veracity and reality that cannot
be challenged.

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Some individuals have
experiences spontaneously

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sometimes through a deep inner
connection with someone or

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something, undergoing an
extraordinary event such as

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experiencing the death of a,
loved one at the very instant of

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their death, despite being on
the opposite.

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It end of the Earth and
experience which is recounted

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any number of times, other
individuals begin to have

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experiences that are outside any
known context in this lifetime

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and which change the course of
their lives and their focus as

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they develop in this new
Direction.

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They may begin to recognize that
this is an opening that was

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prepared in a past lifetime.
still others undertake a

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specific course of action to
break through the wall of the

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external nature in order to
experience the wider reality,

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they then undertake either a
Vision Quest or some kind of

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spiritual practice such as
pranayama or tratak, which helps

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them break through the veil of
the external nature, some

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attempt to do this through use
of mind-altering drugs, while

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still under, Others, use
ecstatic song, prayer, or trance

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dance.
As a way to leave the ordinary

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Consciousness behind.
A disciple asks on what do

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experiences depend weather?
The mother responds quote, it

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depends on many things.
Some people have experiences

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quite spontaneously and it is
understood that this depends on

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their former lives or the way in
which they were formed the

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forces, which presided over the
construction of their present,

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physical being and the influence
they came under even before

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their birth.
These people have experiences

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spontaneously, there are not
many of these but there are some

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there are others for whom it is.
The result of a very sustained

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effort.
They aspire to have experiences

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and impose a discipline upon
themselves or adopt a

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discipline.
So as to be able to have them

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sometimes it takes very long to
obtain something.

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It depends altogether upon the
way.

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One is built.
I knew people who were ignorant.

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Yes.
And who had quite remarkable

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experiences of Clairvoyance of
inner perception.

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They understood nothing of what
was happening to them or of what

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they saw, but they had the gift
and quote.

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Reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 7, growth of

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Consciousness.
Inner experiences page 127.