Spirit. Just thinking about it as I glanced at this essay.
I don’t know about the physical and scientific manifestations as a natural extension of complexity, per It’Self; but do have a feeling of Cosmic
Manifestation, grown out of a hidden practice which I have been doing all my life, of which I have become aware of from the age 20 something on. It’s difficult
to describe, and the the only price one has to pay is
the danger of falling into madness. This has been an oft repeated warning offered by various writers of enlightenment , and if goes unheeded, then one can
really not reach it, and is forced land into a middle
zone for which there can be no exit or cure. The cure of this sickness as Kierkegaard speaks of it in philosophical language, becomes much more
credible when those mystics , having had only
mystical experiences of it. It is quite possible that the irrational invasion can only subsist when the phenomenal mystical opening is closed by the
rational closure of any doubt.
Very frequently, but most notably, great thinkers like Jung will describe early experiences of being in a double world, where the content of experience is
enveloped in its formal signification, but here, the opening becomes a dizzying, electrifying doubt, the kind Descartes opened a formal investigation into, -
setting the stage for a general coagulation. With Jung, it must have been a tremendously fragmentive and emotional abyss apart from the pre set formality of his logical edifice. Perhaps this is what saved him
from the impending danger of madness.
The experience has occurred to me in an opening, while taking an eternally repeating nature hike, very early in my life,................................
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where the cognitive motive was the idea of stopping time. Now I know, that my attempt preceded the
understanding of it in another way, where the idea
became contemporaneous with transcending the limitations which time presents, so as to able to understand the objective of negativing time, in order
to arrive at the experience of absolute imminence.
Once this idea is posited, the sole slowly emerges by bits and pieces, and then one day, it explodes like
boom, the whole structure presents It’s Self.
Eternity becomes the only reality, through the Sole, he Ultimate Consciousness through which everything
else is filtered. Here, the scientific paradigms is but a
mere shadow, because it’s reductive and part of only an understanding, a closure to the pervading doubt, whose origin, or opening is simply a multiform
perfection Leibniz comes nearest to reveal.
Think of eternity from a singular point of view, where one starts to excercise in his mind the idea of putting
his feet into other souls shoes, starting with those
exhibiting the greatest proximate similarity, but then widening it to inckude more and more types of people. This practice after a while will increase, not
decrease the psychological uncertainty, the
dissociation accompanied by identity diffusion. Here wedges the danger into it, but here is where a young sole’s energy and compulsive need with the practice .
The general framework of the reified Decartian doubt,
bars this at more mature levels. The many form egolessness which can be a sorry outcome here, may simulate one of the best known signs of psychological
illness, and it can dissolve the effort into a negative
fall into one of the categorically pre set symptomaligies. If this stage is not passed through autonomously, then being stuck at this level will close
off the dynamic quest.
The perfect circle needs a perfect closure, via a total understanding of what Leibnitz proved. The mandala
of life does overcome with a perfect knowledge, a
secret knowledge of the enlightened soul. This can for most people arrive only from the idea attained as Buddha would have it, and Christ, and begin to
understand, that enlightenment viewed in this
manner, can only understood in terms of Paradise a Heaven , from which existence is not preferred, when non existence is viewed from such a plateau. But, the
heavenly sphere knows in perfect closure, that this
experience can be intuited here and now, and when he intuitive process grows to a mature state, the Eternal Consciousness begins to somehow take root.
The next step is the realization that this
Consciousness has always been there, and here, within each and every human being. It is where ‘we’ had come from, and where ‘we’ are going, of course
we are not coming and going anywhere, it is only an
illusion that we think we are.
This egoless state is always set to Descartes razor of
a Doubt, even upon completion of the full circle of all
the symbols of all mandalas ever, and there need always be a double self, one that forms of the original mystic union, and the other, of the very
necessary use of the conventional self. We do not
live in the age of wonders any more, where mystics can recluse themselves into a conventional role, qua as mystics, today’s spiritualists need to live a
conventional life making a living and settling into
established roles , in order to be able to live. The doubt, although an illusion, needs to be entertained, but now, it acquires a different level of
understanding. It can stand on its own leg, and
persist despite all claims to the contrary.
You do not have to live millions of lifetimes to acquire
this knowledge, but certainly, most everyone will
have to, unless they set up the practice very early on , and succeede to cross over the doors of perception, as Huxley so formidably made us aware.