The Intermediate Zone and Its Dangers

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We see many examples through
time of individuals who began a

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spiritual quest with good
intention and would later come

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to grief, as they got caught up
in the snares of what SRI

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aurobindo calls the intermediate
Zone.

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When we leave behind the Safety
and Security of the external

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Consciousness and it's grounded
physical reality and enter into

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a world filled with vital
forces, pressures, inner

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thoughts and drives, it becomes
difficult to sort out.

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What is actually taking place.
The Seeker is allured by the

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exposure to new powers and
forces and may likely have

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various hidden desires and
ambitions.

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Raised up in fulfilled.
If he does not move Beyond this

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stage, it can be devoured by
forces far more powerful than he

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understands that have their own
motivation and which feed on the

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emotions and experiences of the
individual who comes under their

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control.
The intermediate zone is a world

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of Shifting forces, Illusions
pressures, and drives vital

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enticements and hidden motives
that can impact the unsuspecting

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Seeker, who believes he is
making spiritual progress.

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When in fact, he is being guided
or controlled by beings.

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Native to other Realms.
There are cases of possession

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such as the force that took over
and eventually destroy.

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Roy Dolph Hitler.
Who which appeared to be a

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power-hungry Madness.
There are also cases of

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individuals experiencing
rapacious sexual appetites or

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who have a drive to control the
lives of others.

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Such as we saw with Jim Jones
and his Jonestown cult and mass

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suicide that he initiated among
his devotees.

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The protection as one passes
through, this is own, I can come

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in the form of purification
techniques such as the yamas and

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niyamas has set forth as
preliminary practices in Raja

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yoga.
And through transition to the

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soul Centre, the psychic being
which is naturally connected to

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the Divine and not the ego
personality.

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SRI aurobindo writes, quote.
I mean by the intermediate Zone

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that when the Sadiq gets beyond
the barriers of his own

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embodied, personal mind, he
enters into a wide range of

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experiences which are not the
limited solid physical truth of

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things and not yet.
Either the spiritual truth of

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things it is a Zone a formations
mental, vital subtle, physical,

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and whatever.
One forms or is formed by the

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The forces of these worlds, in
US becomes for the Sadiq for a

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Time, the truth, unless he is
guided and listens to his guide

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afterwards.
If he gets through, he discovers

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what it was and passes on into
the subtle truth of things, it

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is a border land where all the
worlds, meet mental, vital

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subtle, physical pseudo
spiritual but there is no order

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or firm foothold.
Hold a passage between the

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physical and the true spiritual
realms.

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Anyone passing the border of
ordinary Consciousness can enter

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into this intermediate Zone?
If he does not take care to

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enter into the psychic in
itself, there is no harm in

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passing through.
Provided one.

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Does not stop there but ego sex
ambition, Etc.

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If they get exaggerated, can
easily lead to a dangerous

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downfall.
And quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo, and the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development.
Chapter 7, growth of

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Consciousness.
Inner experiences Pages, 136 to

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137,