What Are Spiritual Experiences?

0:01 In our normal human lives, we live in an externally focused standpoint and we create a distinction between objective reality and subjective reality because we are so dependent on the body. Life, mind complex and its relation to the outer World. We tend to assign a greater truth and reality to the external World. Western science has made the ability to measure and reproduce results in the the external world as the Touchstone of what is real subjective. Experiences subjective views are treated as something less real and thereby denigrated in our understanding As the Seeker shifts.

0:48 However, to a more inward Consciousness, it becomes clear that the normal judgements of objective and subjective can no longer apply. We also begin to recognize that the inner life and the outer life are intimately tied to one another influence one another and in fact depend on one another The wall we have set up between objective and subjective begins to disappear. We recognize the power of thought to create external activities and events. We begin to understand the power of emotions to drive our external life. We also recognize that thoughts and emotions have power to influence others and the environment around us. At a certain point, we therefore need to recognize that the spiritual awareness based in an inward Consciousness is real powerful and despite a lack of external validation needs to be appreciated for what in truth is the manifestation of the spiritual power that creates and drives Our Lives. The subtle is seen to be more powerful, more effective and more real than the gross physical world, which is seen as the effect of this subtler action. Not the cause this is just the

2:20 reverse of the way. Western science has historically looked at things yet. How can we say that physical elements can manifest mind? Music, art emotion etcetera. If these things were not already, How involved in the physical reality. This involvement is based on the subtle energies, the Unseen powers of Consciousness, which create the infused Consciousness into the most external forms of existence. This provides for us, a basis for understanding, the need to shift to an appreciation of how thoughts dreams, Visions, moods emotions.

3:05 Ins feelings and intimations actually arise from whence, they come. What their importance and impact is and how they create our external reality for us. SRI aurobindo notes quote. There is no law that a feeling cannot be an experience experiences are of all kinds and take all forms in the Consciousness. When the Consciousness undergoes sees or feels anything spiritual or psychic or even a cult that is an experience in the technical yogic sense for there are, of course all sorts of experiences that are not of that.

3:53 The feeling's themselves are of many kinds. The word feeling is often used for an emotion and there can be psychic or spiritual emotions which are numbered among yogic experiences such as a wave of should have bhakti or the rising of Love towards the Divine. A feeling also means a perception of something felt a perception in the vital or psychic. Or in the essential substance of the consciousness. I find even often a mental perception when it is very Vivid described as a Feeling. If you, exclude all these feelings and Kindred ones and say that they are feelings, not experiences.

4:38 Then there is very little room left for experiences, at all, feeling and vision, are the main forms of spiritual experience. One sees and feels the Brahmin everywhere. One feels of for Center or go out from one. One feels worse. He's the presence of the divine within or around 11 feels or sees. The Descent of light one feels The Descent of Peace were on under kick out all that on the ground that it is only a feeling and you make a clean sweep of most of the things that we call experience again. We feel a change in the substance of the Consciousness or the State of Consciousness.

5:23 We feel ourselves spreading in wideness and the body has a small thing in the wideness. This can be seen also, we feel the heart Consciousness being wide instead of narrow soft, instead of hard illumined, instead of obscured the head Consciousness, also, the vital, even the physical. We feel thousands of things of all kinds and why are we not to call them experiences? Of course it is an inner sight in inner feeling, subtle, feeling not Material. Like the feeling of a cold wind or a stone or any other object, but as the inner Consciousness deepens it is not less Vivid or concrete, it is even more. So in quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness, inner experiences Pages, 133 to