08-28-2008, 12:00 AM
Bob:
This is a very good discussion. And you raised some excellent questions.
I have some questions, and I think I see a commonality with what I experience and what other seekers go through.
I think that I have spent maybe the last 25 years retracing my journey, based on experiences or encounters with Power.
I would say these experiences were characterized by a couple of factors.
I would get a tremendous amount of non-verbal information, of what I would characterize as Truth coming from an Infinite source.
The impressions of the experience, never fades and the information grows bases on the experience.
The experiences are well grounded in Reality, they come from Totality or a Self that is impersonal, and only at times when the ego is silent.
One struggles to re-integrate this new information for some time.
Learning to trust oneself, the process, the Path, and the Sangha, or community.
Finally, one has to let it go and move on, as much as one would like to relive it.
The suggestion about feeling the feeling is really good. In that sense it seems like the experience is not far from me at all.
So I think forging one's own path is in many ways based on Realization and the integration of that realization into one's life.
Ultimately I hope that the entire world is the beneficiary of this process.
So did anyone else have this experience of occasional "flooding of non-verbal information" or overload?
Reflecting on it, it's probably good that it now when this happens kind of rarely, since it takes a while to process the information.
This is a very good discussion. And you raised some excellent questions.
I have some questions, and I think I see a commonality with what I experience and what other seekers go through.
I think that I have spent maybe the last 25 years retracing my journey, based on experiences or encounters with Power.
I would say these experiences were characterized by a couple of factors.
I would get a tremendous amount of non-verbal information, of what I would characterize as Truth coming from an Infinite source.
The impressions of the experience, never fades and the information grows bases on the experience.
The experiences are well grounded in Reality, they come from Totality or a Self that is impersonal, and only at times when the ego is silent.
One struggles to re-integrate this new information for some time.
Learning to trust oneself, the process, the Path, and the Sangha, or community.
Finally, one has to let it go and move on, as much as one would like to relive it.
The suggestion about feeling the feeling is really good. In that sense it seems like the experience is not far from me at all.
So I think forging one's own path is in many ways based on Realization and the integration of that realization into one's life.
Ultimately I hope that the entire world is the beneficiary of this process.
So did anyone else have this experience of occasional "flooding of non-verbal information" or overload?
Reflecting on it, it's probably good that it now when this happens kind of rarely, since it takes a while to process the information.