How To Change One’s Consciousness, Part 1: The Initial Experience

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Through long habit.
And through a process of

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socialization, we desire and
expect that a specific path of

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development, can be placed in
front of us.

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To guide us systematically along
a predetermined track and that

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this path is suitable for
everyone.

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We therefore believe that our
accepted form of worship are

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preferred religion, our systems
of governance and economic

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management are the best and are
suitable for everyone.

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This of course has led to
countless disputes and wars in

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human history.
When it comes to Inner

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development, the development of
Consciousness.

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We apply these same somewhat
faulty ideas to how this should

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occur with us.
Expect everyone to have the same

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experience or else.
We tend to treat other results

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as somehow either invalid or at
least lesser results or method.

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The mother counters, this notion
with a clear statement about the

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uniqueness of the experience,
that brings an individual out of

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the surface Consciousness and
opens up the Realms of the

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spirit to him, whatever the
specific experience, If It Moves

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the individual away from the
limitations of the body life,

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mine complex and the ego
personality to seek for and

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internalized, the spiritual
consciousness.

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It should be recognized as a
valid and useful experience for

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the individual and not discount.
It denigrated, or denied by

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those, who have a different
entry to the spiritual realms.

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A disciple inquires mother, how
to change one's consciousness.

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The mother responds, quote,
naturally there are many ways

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but each person must do it by
the means accessible to him and

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the indication of the way.
Usually comes spontaneously

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through something like an
unexpected experience and for

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each one it appears a little
differently.

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For instance, one may have the
perception of the ordinary

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Consciousness, which is extended
on the surface horizontally and

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works on a plane, which is
simultaneously, the surface of

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things, and has a contact with
the superficial outer side of

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things, people circumstances.
And then suddenly for some

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reason, or other, as I say, for
each one, it is different.

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There is a shifting upwards and
instead of seeing things

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horizontally of being at the
same level as they are, you

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suddenly dominate them and see
them from above in their

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totality instead of seeing a
small number of things

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immediately next to yourself.
It is as though something were

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drawing you above and making UCS
from a Mountaintop or an

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aeroplane.
And instead of seeing each

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detail and seeing it on its own
level, you see, the whole is one

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unity and from far above There
are many ways of having this

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experience, but it usually comes
to you as if by chance One Fine

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Day.
Or else.

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One may have an experience which
is almost it's very opposite but

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which comes to the same thing
suddenly one plunges into a

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depth when moves away from the
thing.

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One perceived it seems distant,
superficial unimportant.

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When enters an inner silence or
an inner calm, or an inward

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vision of things, a profound
feeling a more intimate.

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Emmett perception of
circumstances and things in,

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which all values change.
And one becomes aware of a sort

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of unity, a deep identity, which
is one in spite of the diverse

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appearances.
Or else suddenly.

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Also the sense of limitation
disappears and one enters the

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perception of a kind of
indefinite duration,

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beginningless and endless of
something, which is always been

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and always will be In quote,
reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 2, Awakening of
Consciousness Pages, 24, and 25.