The Development of the Psychic Being

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We can identify a systematic
evolution of Consciousness in

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the external World Life evolves
out of matter.

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Mind out of life, we do not
however, thereby determine

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either a significance or purpose
to this Evolution.

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Nor any causative factors that
involve mind and life into

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matter, such that they can
eventually manifest out.

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We also do not discern their by
any purpose for our individual

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life, and conscious awareness
and our aspiration for growth

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development.
And increase of knowledge looked

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at from the Viewpoint of the
individual ego personality, our

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lives are short unpredictable
and have a defined beginning and

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a defined ending with no
visibility of either.

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What precedes our birth or what?
Traits, after our death.

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Seers and Mystics philosophers.
And those who have experienced

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deeper spiritual experiences
from Traditions, all around the

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world.
Have addressed these issues Some

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traditions, which positive first
Creator principle, then create a

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heaven or hell to which the
spirit embodied in the

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individual proceeds after death.
Some talk about resurrection,

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and rejoining one's current
family in some afterlife.

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Presumably in a remade younger,
and healthier body than the one

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from which the individual
departed.

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While there are obvious issues
with this Viewpoint, it is part

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of a Continuum of efforts to
understand and develop some form

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of meaning to our existence in
this lifetime.

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Other approaches describe a
series of births and ascending

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growth of Consciousness.
Over time.

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Transcending, the individual
Lifetime and indeed tying

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lifetimes together, not from the
Viewpoint of the ego personality

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of our current life.
But from the greater

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Consciousness that takes birth,
successively from life to life,

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and which embodies the purpose
of the universal manifestation,

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Such an approach gains Credence.
As we experienced in some cases,

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active recollection of a past
lifetime.

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Although, this is rare since the
mechanism, generally does not

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hold onto individual lifetimes
in their detail, or at least a

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feeling or sense of familiarity
or relationship to some person

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place or event.
Whatever the experience.

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However, it soon becomes clear
that there is a hidden mechanism

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or power that is manifesting the
universal creation, which

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embodies through this creation,
a Consciousness that Embraces

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includes and permeates all and
which works out over vast spans

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of time, far beyond that of an
individual human lifetime.

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The continuity of individual
development, then it's brought

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about through a conscious
participation of a, Divine

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element in each being, which we
aurobindo calls the psychic

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element or Soul element, as it
gathers experience.

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And as the evolution of
Consciousness takes, place it

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becomes more aware more
conscious and is thus able to

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participate actively in its own
development.

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SRI, aurobindo observes, quote,
as the evolution proceeds.

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Nature begins slowly and
tentatively to manifest our

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occult Parts.
She leads us to look more and

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more within ourselves, or sets
out to initiate more clearly,

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recognizable intimations and
formations of them on the

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surface.
The soul in us, the psychic

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principal has already begun to
take secret form.

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It puts forward and develops, a
soul personality, a distinct

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psychic being to represent it.
The psychic part of us is

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something that comes direct from
the Divine and is in touch with

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the divine And its origin.
It is the nucleus pregnant with

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divine possibilities that
support this lower triple

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manifestation of Mind, life and
body.

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There is this Divine element in
all living beings, but it stands

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behind the ordinary
Consciousness is not at first

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developed.
And even when developed is not

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always, or often in the front,
it expresses itself so far as

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the imperfection of the
instrument, Browse by their

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means and under their
limitations.

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It grows in the Consciousness by
God word experience gaining

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strength.
Every time there is a higher

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movement in us and finally by
the accumulation of these deeper

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and higher movements, there's
developed a psychic

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individuality that which we call
usually the psychic being And

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quote, reference SRI aurobindo,
and the mother growing within

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the psychology of inner
development, introduction Pages,

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