What Are Spiritual Experiences?

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In our normal human lives, we
live in an externally focused

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standpoint and we create a
distinction between objective

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reality and subjective reality
because we are so dependent on

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the body.
Life, mind complex and its

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relation to the outer World.
We tend to assign a greater

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truth and reality to the
external World.

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Western science has made the
ability to measure and reproduce

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results in the the external
world as the Touchstone of what

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is real subjective.
Experiences subjective views are

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treated as something less real
and thereby denigrated in our

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understanding As the Seeker
shifts.

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However, to a more inward
Consciousness, it becomes clear

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that the normal judgements of
objective and subjective can no

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longer apply.
We also begin to recognize that

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the inner life and the outer
life are intimately tied to one

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another influence one another
and in fact depend on one

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another The wall we have set up
between objective and subjective

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begins to disappear.
We recognize the power of

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thought to create external
activities and events.

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We begin to understand the power
of emotions to drive our

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external life.
We also recognize that thoughts

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and emotions have power to
influence others and the

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environment around us.
At a certain point, we therefore

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need to recognize that the
spiritual awareness based in an

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inward Consciousness is real
powerful and despite a lack of

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external validation needs to be
appreciated for what in truth is

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the manifestation of the
spiritual power that creates and

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drives Our Lives.
The subtle is seen to be more

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powerful, more effective and
more real than the gross

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physical world, which is seen as
the effect of this subtler

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action.
Not the cause this is just the

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reverse of the way.
Western science has historically

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looked at things yet.
How can we say that physical

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elements can manifest mind?
Music, art emotion etcetera.

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If these things were not
already, How involved in the

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physical reality.
This involvement is based on the

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subtle energies, the Unseen
powers of Consciousness, which

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create the infused Consciousness
into the most external forms of

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existence.
This provides for us, a basis

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for understanding, the need to
shift to an appreciation of how

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thoughts dreams, Visions, moods
emotions.

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Ins feelings and intimations
actually arise from whence, they

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come.
What their importance and impact

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is and how they create our
external reality for us.

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SRI aurobindo notes quote.
There is no law that a feeling

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cannot be an experience
experiences are of all kinds and

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take all forms in the
Consciousness.

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When the Consciousness undergoes
sees or feels anything spiritual

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or psychic or even a cult that
is an experience in the

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technical yogic sense for there
are, of course all sorts of

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experiences that are not of
that.

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The feeling's themselves are of
many kinds.

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The word feeling is often used
for an emotion and there can be

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psychic or spiritual emotions
which are numbered among yogic

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experiences such as a wave of
should have bhakti or the rising

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of Love towards the Divine.
A feeling also means a

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perception of something felt a
perception in the vital or

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psychic.
Or in the essential substance of

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the consciousness.
I find even often a mental

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perception when it is very Vivid
described as a Feeling.

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If you, exclude all these
feelings and Kindred ones and

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say that they are feelings, not
experiences.

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Then there is very little room
left for experiences, at all,

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feeling and vision, are the main
forms of spiritual experience.

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One sees and feels the Brahmin
everywhere.

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One feels of for Center or go
out from one.

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One feels worse.
He's the presence of the divine

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within or around 11 feels or
sees.

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The Descent of light one feels
The Descent of Peace were on

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under kick out all that on the
ground that it is only a feeling

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and you make a clean sweep of
most of the things that we call

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experience again.
We feel a change in the

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substance of the Consciousness
or the State of Consciousness.

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We feel ourselves spreading in
wideness and the body has a

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small thing in the wideness.
This can be seen also, we feel

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the heart Consciousness being
wide instead of narrow soft,

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instead of hard illumined,
instead of obscured the head

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Consciousness, also, the vital,
even the physical.

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We feel thousands of things of
all kinds and why are we not to

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call them experiences?
Of course it is an inner sight

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in inner feeling, subtle,
feeling not Material.

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Like the feeling of a cold wind
or a stone or any other object,

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but as the inner Consciousness
deepens it is not less Vivid or

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concrete, it is even more.
So in quote reference SRI

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aurobindo and the mother growing
within the psychology of inner

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development.
Chapter 7, growth of

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Consciousness, inner experiences
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