The Spiritual Experience Gets Watered-Down or Lost As It is Transcribed into the Mental Framework

0:01 Human beings are essentially dependent on their mental perception. In order to function in the world. This mental perception frames, what we see how we experience it, and our interpretation. We'd us try to transcribe anything provided to us by our senses or provided directly to the mind without Reliance on the senses into a mental framework. It is similar to the idea that we try to translate one language into another, where the one language has heavy inflection inference and subtle meanings that are not truly captured in the language into which it has been translated. Something is lost in the translation. Similarly, there is a Divergence between the mental framework of The Logical, sequential, analytical intelligence and the creative comprehensive and combining intelligence thus, it is virtually impossible for The Logical intellect to understand and pick up all.

1:12 That is being communicated, through a work of art. Or a piece of music, for instance. This provides a background for understanding. The difficulty, the mind has in perceiving understanding interpreting and communicating the truth and essence of spiritual experiences which require a different type or form of understanding, then that provided by the mind. For this reason, many people have deep spiritual experiences, wind up, having them in a state of deep inward Focus. A trance state of samadhi or else.

1:53 They may describe what they can as a type of dream state. In these cases, there are simply no bridge between the spiritual experience and the mental framework, which provides the everyday, understanding of the individual. And thus, the experience cannot be explained or held by the mind. Additionally, the attempt to transcribe the experience into a mental framework, winds up Shifting, the focus from the spiritual where the experience actually occurs to the mental, where it is, simplified and stored, as memory without the power of the original experience. The mother writes quote, for most people, an experience exists, only when they can explain it to themselves. The experience in itself, contact with a certain force, a widening of Consciousness communion with an aspect of the Divine, no matter what experience. And opening of the being the breaking down of an obstacle crossing over a stage opening, new doors, all these experiences, if people cannot explain them to themselves in so many words and materialize them and precise thoughts. It is as though these did not exist, And it is just this need for expression.

3:26 This need for translation, which causes the greater part of the experience to lose its power of action on the individual consciousness. How is it that you have a decisive definitive experience that for instance, you have opened the door of your psychic being you have been in communion with it, you know what this means and then it does not stay it is because it does not have a sufficiently tangible power, unless you can express it to yourself. The Experience Begins for, you only when you are able to describe it. Well, when you are able to describe it, the greater part of its intensity and its capacity of action for the inner and outer transformation has already evaporated there, it may be said that expression.

4:22 Explanation is always a coming down. The experience itself is on a much higher plane. And quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7 growth of Consciousness, inner experiences page 142.