Re: GA 13 - Rudolf Steiner's "Secret Science in Outline"
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:04 pm
I have now finished chapter III, still under the strong impression of slowly pushing through distracting forces. I remind myself that the disturbances can only be understood in connection with the experiencer.
Anyhow, with this chapter, I’ve gained a more keen sense that after-death experiences of reality are perceived as coming from within one’s own individuality - non locally - yet incorporating the recognition that other individualities are expressing themselves through them. In parallel with which, connection with other beings is experienced without separation, as an immediate, transparent communion of an individuality with another.
This concrete look into existence between death and birth is clarifying, and also quite alarming in another sense: so immense is the experiential and evolutionary value that can be overlooked and missed when the chance of life on Earth is wasted to an unconscious existential flow. I am reminded of the image of the obscure glass. What hadn’t occurred to me so far is that the obscure glass would be experienced as an inner prison. How terrible to realize very practically that one has been the methodical builder of that prison, and to realize that reality could have finally been known through be-ing, without any mediation, if only one had cultivated the freedom to patiently pursue true knowledge during life on Earth. I will watch with interest the comments to this Chapter in the Youtube discussion.
Anyhow, with this chapter, I’ve gained a more keen sense that after-death experiences of reality are perceived as coming from within one’s own individuality - non locally - yet incorporating the recognition that other individualities are expressing themselves through them. In parallel with which, connection with other beings is experienced without separation, as an immediate, transparent communion of an individuality with another.
This concrete look into existence between death and birth is clarifying, and also quite alarming in another sense: so immense is the experiential and evolutionary value that can be overlooked and missed when the chance of life on Earth is wasted to an unconscious existential flow. I am reminded of the image of the obscure glass. What hadn’t occurred to me so far is that the obscure glass would be experienced as an inner prison. How terrible to realize very practically that one has been the methodical builder of that prison, and to realize that reality could have finally been known through be-ing, without any mediation, if only one had cultivated the freedom to patiently pursue true knowledge during life on Earth. I will watch with interest the comments to this Chapter in the Youtube discussion.