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May 21, 2023

The Nature of the Reversal of Consciousness Cannot Be Fully Grasped by the Ordinary Human Externalized Consciousness

The Nature of the Reversal of Consciousness Cannot Be Fully Grasped by the Ordinary Human Externalized Consciousness
The Nature of the Reversal of Consciousness Cannot Be Fully Grasped by the Ordinary Human Externalized Consciousness
Sri Aurobindo Studies
The Nature of the Reversal of Consciousness Cannot Be Fully Grasped by the Ordinary Human Externalized Consciousness

referemce: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pg. 169

Also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/the-nature-of-the-reversal-of-consciousness-cannot-be-fully-grasped-by-the-ordinary-human-externalized-consciousness/

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If we reflect for a moment that
a being who does not have a

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highly developed abstract mental
capacity, perhaps a fish or a

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honey bee, or even a cat or dog
is unable to truly appreciate

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and understand the functioning
of the higher reasoning and

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logical capabilities that human
beings consider to be their

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exclusive province.
There is no doubt that the human

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being interacts with these other
beings.

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And in some cases is able to
train them up to a certain

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degree to understand certain
simple ideas concept or

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commands.
But thus far, we have been

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unable to identify the
development of such a higher

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mental capacity in the animal or
insect Kingdom even under the

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direct influence of evolved
human individuals.

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Yes.
If we now transpose this

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reflection to the ability of the
higher mental capacity to truly

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appreciate and understand and
evolutionary stage beyond the

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mind, it becomes possible to
appreciate that.

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There are statuses of being,
which cannot be fully understood

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or properly interpreted by even
the most highly developmental

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intelligence When someone has a
spiritual experience or

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undergoes, a shift of
Consciousness, which enables him

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to see and understand things
from a totally different

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standpoint, there is clearly no
Pathway to communicate the

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actual experience to the mental
substance.

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The best that can be done is to
create imagery, develop

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analogies or other transcription
tools to point the way.

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Even if they cannot fully
Express the experience to a mind

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that is not prepared for it.
We see a similar situation when

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a profound deep thinking
individual tries to explain an

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esoteric concept, he winds up
using language that has little,

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or no meaning to the ordinary
individual.

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And as the saying goes, the
concept goes right over the head

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of the individual, who does not
have that capacity.

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Actively developed within him.
Mother observes quote.

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Those who have experienced this
reversal know what I am speaking

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about, but if one hasn't on
can't understand, one may have a

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kind of idea by analogy people
who have tried to describe yoga

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compare it with the reversal of
a prism.

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When you put it at a certain
angle, the light is white when

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you turn it over it is broken
up.

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Well this is exactly what
happens that is how to SAU

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restore the white in the
ordinary Consciousness.

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There is decomposition and you
restore the white.

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However, this is only an image.
It is not really that.

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This is an analogy.
But the phenomenon is extremely

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concrete.
It is almost as though you were

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to put what is inside out and
what is outside in?

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And it isn't that either.
But if you could turn a ball

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inside out where a balloon you
can't, can you, if you could put

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the inside out and the outside
in It would be something like

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what I mean.
In quote reference SRI aurobindo

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and the mother growing within
the psychology of inner

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development, chapter 9 reversal
of Consciousness.

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The new birth Pages 169 to 170.