The Intermediate Zone and Its Dangers

0:01 We see many examples through time of individuals who began a spiritual quest with good intention and would later come to grief, as they got caught up in the snares of what SRI aurobindo calls the intermediate Zone. When we leave behind the Safety and Security of the external Consciousness and it's grounded physical reality and enter into a world filled with vital forces, pressures, inner thoughts and drives, it becomes difficult to sort out. What is actually taking place. The Seeker is allured by the exposure to new powers and forces and may likely have various hidden desires and ambitions.

0:48 Raised up in fulfilled. If he does not move Beyond this stage, it can be devoured by forces far more powerful than he understands that have their own motivation and which feed on the emotions and experiences of the individual who comes under their control. The intermediate zone is a world of Shifting forces, Illusions pressures, and drives vital enticements and hidden motives that can impact the unsuspecting Seeker, who believes he is making spiritual progress. When in fact, he is being guided or controlled by beings.

1:30 Native to other Realms. There are cases of possession such as the force that took over and eventually destroy. Roy Dolph Hitler. Who which appeared to be a power-hungry Madness. There are also cases of individuals experiencing rapacious sexual appetites or who have a drive to control the lives of others. Such as we saw with Jim Jones and his Jonestown cult and mass suicide that he initiated among his devotees. The protection as one passes through, this is own, I can come in the form of purification techniques such as the yamas and niyamas has set forth as preliminary practices in Raja yoga. And through transition to the soul Centre, the psychic being which is naturally connected to the Divine and not the ego personality.

2:31 SRI aurobindo writes, quote. I mean by the intermediate Zone that when the Sadiq gets beyond the barriers of his own embodied, personal mind, he enters into a wide range of experiences which are not the limited solid physical truth of things and not yet. Either the spiritual truth of things it is a Zone a formations mental, vital subtle, physical, and whatever. One forms or is formed by the The forces of these worlds, in US becomes for the Sadiq for a Time, the truth, unless he is guided and listens to his guide afterwards. If he gets through, he discovers what it was and passes on into the subtle truth of things, it is a border land where all the worlds, meet mental, vital subtle, physical pseudo spiritual but there is no order or firm foothold. Hold a passage between the physical and the true spiritual realms.

3:41 Anyone passing the border of ordinary Consciousness can enter into this intermediate Zone? If he does not take care to enter into the psychic in itself, there is no harm in passing through. Provided one. Does not stop there but ego sex ambition, Etc. If they get exaggerated, can easily lead to a dangerous downfall. And quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness. Inner experiences Pages, 136 to 137,