So-Called ‘Spiritual’ Experiences and True Spiritual Development

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We tend to associate experiences
of various unusual powers as

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either evidence of high mental
development, or perhaps

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Spiritual Development, most of
what gets mooted about, however,

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may be seen as experiences of
entering into various occult,

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vital planes and bringing back
the experience from those Realms

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into the waking where the dream
state of the individual.

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This does not actually require
that.

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The individual be someone with
either extraordinary, mental

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capacities or spiritual opening.
These experiences may be what

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are known commonly as psychic
experiences.

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Not to be confused with the use
of the term by SRI aurobindo and

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the mother to describe the Soul
Essence or true being other than

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the external ego personality and
may involve things like

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telepathy telekinesis
Clairvoyance out-of-body travel

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psychic.
Crime-solving powers of hypnosis

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As well as things like psychic
readings and past life

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regressions.
Some of these may be real powers

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that manifest for individuals.
While some of it may be either

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fantasy or even fraud intended
to provide an income stream or

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fame to the individual.
And it is obviously not easy to

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sort all of this vital energy
out properly.

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Military units in various
countries.

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Have in fact, invested heavily
in developing teams who could

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undertake remote seeing and
other powers.

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That might give them an
advantage over their enemies and

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others are researching things
like entering into an

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individual's dream state and
influencing their waking

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existence, They can come about
in any individual sometimes

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without warning and may
represent a born capacity or a

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developed capacity to enter
these Realms and bring back

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experiences or transcriptions
from there.

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Obviously, none of those is
actually pertinent to the growth

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of the spiritual personality.
The mother observes quote,

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usually people mean by
experience either altogether,

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extravagant phenomena
levitation, and things like that

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or else.
Sensational Visions being able

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to see the future or seeing at a
distance or maybe ordinary

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things like, being able to tell
where a lost object can be found

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or all kinds of little tricks
like that, this is what people

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call.
All experiences.

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Well, usually people have these
expect guilties are not well

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educated, but for some reason,
they are born with a gift as

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some are born musicians, others
painters and other scientists.

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These there are born
Clairvoyance and so it may be

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when they are in need, they use
this faculty to earn their

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living and they spoil it
completely.

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If they happen to be in
comfortable circumstances and do

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not need to earn their living,
then they become famous among

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their friends.
In any case, this is always an

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opportunity for a certain kind
of commercialism.

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There are very few who can have
these gifts without using them

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either to make a name for
themselves or to earn money, but

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these gifts are not of a very
high level.

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One can have them without having
a very spiritual life.

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They do not depend at all on an
inner spiritual height.

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One should not mistake them for
signs of progress and quote,

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reference SRI aurobindo and 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 129.

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One can have them without having
a very spiritual life.

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They do not depend at all on an
inner spiritual height.

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One should not mistake them for
signs of progress and quote,

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reference SRI aurobindo and 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 129.