12-31-2007, 12:00 AM
"Any significant leap of consciousness, in any direction is going to be self defined as a discontinuity. It's all leaps. It's the Art of Leaping."
"There are leaps and there is a continual growing in awareness."
"Drugs are leaps. Leaps are leaps. I don't think we can get around it. Is there an ultimate leap?"
There is an experience that my teacher and Gopi Krishna went through that both described and tradition described as the highest experience a person in a body could attain. It was the result of certain meditations and both agreed it was as if seeing the earth as a grain of sand on an ocean of energy.
Never-the-less over the years my teacher continued going through more and more experiences that he would drop the comment now and again that "This is different", referring a new "phase" that he was experiencing.
If God is infinite, then becoming one with God is not a static condition but must be evolving into more.
"Can I look at the world and physically not see it as it is?"
You do that all of the time.
"Is that an error my physical seeing is prone to? Does it make up things? Does my physical seeing skip things for psychological reasons?"
Physical seeing is partial seeing. You/we make things up in a way that can be and has been agreed upon. It is not illusion, it is one description.
Yet even at a scientific/physical level this can be proven. In order to have depth perception, we must have two images for the brain to interpret into 3-D. A one-eyed person has no depth perception.
Yet, the third image, the one we believe is the "reality"
of all that we are surrounded by does not exist to our eyes at all. We are constantly living our lives according to an interpretation.
"How and why would I be able to seriously see something as something it wasn't?"
I just explained the how. The why is obviously so that we can function on this plane, in this world.
To become aware of another description would be necessary in order to allow you to function in another plane or world. If that is not your wish, it would do more harm than good.Bob
"There are leaps and there is a continual growing in awareness."
"Drugs are leaps. Leaps are leaps. I don't think we can get around it. Is there an ultimate leap?"
There is an experience that my teacher and Gopi Krishna went through that both described and tradition described as the highest experience a person in a body could attain. It was the result of certain meditations and both agreed it was as if seeing the earth as a grain of sand on an ocean of energy.
Never-the-less over the years my teacher continued going through more and more experiences that he would drop the comment now and again that "This is different", referring a new "phase" that he was experiencing.
If God is infinite, then becoming one with God is not a static condition but must be evolving into more.
"Can I look at the world and physically not see it as it is?"
You do that all of the time.
"Is that an error my physical seeing is prone to? Does it make up things? Does my physical seeing skip things for psychological reasons?"
Physical seeing is partial seeing. You/we make things up in a way that can be and has been agreed upon. It is not illusion, it is one description.
Yet even at a scientific/physical level this can be proven. In order to have depth perception, we must have two images for the brain to interpret into 3-D. A one-eyed person has no depth perception.
Yet, the third image, the one we believe is the "reality"
of all that we are surrounded by does not exist to our eyes at all. We are constantly living our lives according to an interpretation.
"How and why would I be able to seriously see something as something it wasn't?"
I just explained the how. The why is obviously so that we can function on this plane, in this world.
To become aware of another description would be necessary in order to allow you to function in another plane or world. If that is not your wish, it would do more harm than good.Bob