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

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Human beings are essentially
dependent on their mental

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perception.
In order to function in the

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world.
This mental perception frames,

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what we see how we experience
it, and our interpretation.

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We'd us try to transcribe
anything provided to us by our

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senses or provided directly to
the mind without Reliance on the

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senses into a mental framework.
It is similar to the idea that

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we try to translate one language
into another, where the one

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language has heavy inflection
inference and subtle meanings

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that are not truly captured in
the language into which it has

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been translated.
Something is lost in the

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translation.
Similarly, there is a Divergence

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between the mental framework of
The Logical, sequential,

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analytical intelligence and the
creative comprehensive and

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combining intelligence thus, it
is virtually impossible for The

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Logical intellect to understand
and pick up all.

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That is being communicated,
through a work of art.

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Or a piece of music, for
instance.

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This provides a background for
understanding.

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The difficulty, the mind has in
perceiving understanding

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interpreting and communicating
the truth and essence of

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spiritual experiences which
require a different type or form

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of understanding, then that
provided by the mind.

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For this reason, many people
have deep spiritual experiences,

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wind up, having them in a state
of deep inward Focus.

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A trance state of samadhi or
else.

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They may describe what they can
as a type of dream state.

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In these cases, there are simply
no bridge between the spiritual

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experience and the mental
framework, which provides the

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everyday, understanding of the
individual.

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And thus, the experience cannot
be explained or held by the

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mind.
Additionally, the attempt to

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transcribe the experience into a
mental framework, winds up

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Shifting, the focus from the
spiritual where the experience

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actually occurs to the mental,
where it is, simplified and

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stored, as memory without the
power of the original

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experience.
The mother writes quote, for

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most people, an experience
exists, only when they can

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explain it to themselves.
The experience in itself,

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contact with a certain force, a
widening of Consciousness

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communion with an aspect of the
Divine, no matter what

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experience.
And opening of the being the

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breaking down of an obstacle
crossing over a stage opening,

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new doors, all these
experiences, if people cannot

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explain them to themselves in so
many words and materialize them

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and precise thoughts.
It is as though these did not

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exist, And it is just this need
for expression.

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This need for translation, which
causes the greater part of the

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experience to lose its power of
action on the individual

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consciousness.
How is it that you have a

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decisive definitive experience
that for instance, you have

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opened the door of your psychic
being you have been in communion

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with it, you know what this
means and then it does not stay

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it is because it does not have a
sufficiently tangible power,

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unless you can express it to
yourself.

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The Experience Begins for, you
only when you are able to

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describe it.
Well, when you are able to

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describe it, the greater part of
its intensity and its capacity

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of action for the inner and
outer transformation has already

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evaporated there, it may be said
that expression.

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Explanation is always a coming
down.

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The experience itself is on a
much higher plane.

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And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo, and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development.

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Chapter 7 growth of
Consciousness, inner experiences

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page 142.