08-29-2008, 12:00 AM
"The impressions of the experience, never fades and the information grows bases on the experience."
I've come to the conclusion that the experience itself, being waking visions, visitations or whatever are not as important as what you learn from it.
And learning from this type experience is not an overnight thing. But it is still teaching after years as you see similar patterns in various writings.
"Finally, one has to let it go and move on, as much as one would like to relive it."
I don't quite agree here. My teacher seemed to say the same thing but I think what he meant was that we try to rationalize it and "figure it out"
all at once. Like I said it takes years.
But if we were not supposed to relive it, or at least revisit the realm it came from, why give instruction on how to do it?
These Spiritual experiences shock you and make you think about them for quite some time after they happen. At some point you have to put them in the background
and move on, yes. But they are always there to measure reality against, and I believe, to be repeated later on after a maturity has been reached.
Another thing that happens immediately following such experiences is that a person is still in heightened awareness for days or weeks afterwards.
At least that has been my experience. Much is learned from this too. Heightened awareness might be too mild a word for it. In these periods after what I see as
a major Spiritual experience happening, my world changes. I see people differently. Sometimes as animals, some as demons. It is as if I am experienceing
different levels of "this world". It may be what don Juan calls the shift below or a lateral shift of the assemblage point.
I've come to the conclusion that the experience itself, being waking visions, visitations or whatever are not as important as what you learn from it.
And learning from this type experience is not an overnight thing. But it is still teaching after years as you see similar patterns in various writings.
"Finally, one has to let it go and move on, as much as one would like to relive it."
I don't quite agree here. My teacher seemed to say the same thing but I think what he meant was that we try to rationalize it and "figure it out"
all at once. Like I said it takes years.
But if we were not supposed to relive it, or at least revisit the realm it came from, why give instruction on how to do it?
These Spiritual experiences shock you and make you think about them for quite some time after they happen. At some point you have to put them in the background
and move on, yes. But they are always there to measure reality against, and I believe, to be repeated later on after a maturity has been reached.
Another thing that happens immediately following such experiences is that a person is still in heightened awareness for days or weeks afterwards.
At least that has been my experience. Much is learned from this too. Heightened awareness might be too mild a word for it. In these periods after what I see as
a major Spiritual experience happening, my world changes. I see people differently. Sometimes as animals, some as demons. It is as if I am experienceing
different levels of "this world". It may be what don Juan calls the shift below or a lateral shift of the assemblage point.