Intensity of an Experience Does Not Guarantee Its Veracity

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There are occasions when an
individual experience is

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something that is so powerful.
So intense that it causes him to

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trust the experience.
Spiritual experiences in

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particular can have a force that
overwhelms, the normal mental

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standpoint of the individual and
impose themselves upon the

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Seeker in a way that goes far
beyond the normal action

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reaction processes of the Mind.
I'd life body complex.

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It is easy in such an instance
to believe that such a powerful

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experience.
Represents a truth that cannot

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be denied.
There is however, a caveat to be

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appreciated.
When the barrier between the

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external mind life body complex
and the inner Realms is

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breached, it can bring all
manner of new experiences.

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Many of them quite intense.
This implies that some

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experiences may represent
spiritual forces, While others

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arise from mental, vital or
subtle physical Realms, another

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issue is the interpretation and
filtering done as the outer

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being receives and transcribe.
The experience in this case, any

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impurity weakness or simply a
lack of complete background and

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understanding can cause the
external being to apply its own

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interpretation, that can clearly
misconstrue what is actually

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occurring?
SRI aurobindo notes quote, I do

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not question it all the personal
intensity or concreteness of

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your internal experiences but
experiences can be intense and

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yet be very mixed in their truth
and their character in your

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experience, your own
subjectivity.

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Sometimes your ego pushes,
interfere, very much, and give

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them their form, and the
impression they create on you,

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It is only if there is a pure
psychic response that the form

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given to the experience, is
likely to be the right one and

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the mental and vital movements
will then present themselves in

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their true nature.
Otherwise the mind the vital,

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the ego give their own color to
what happens their own term,

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very usually their own
deformation.

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Intensity is not a guarantee of
entire truth and correctness in

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an experience.
It is only purity of the

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Consciousness that can give an
entire truth and correctness and

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quote reference SRI aurobindo
and the mother growing within

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the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 7, growth of
Consciousness.

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