If you want to see superiority go read, for example, Anna Hayes. She has been chosen by the Galactic Federation of Free Worlds to be their (only) speaker on our planet. Now they transmit through her the Freedom Teachings(tm). If you want to verify any of these for yourself you don't have much to do except send your plea to the Galactic Federation so you can be considered for personal audience.Eugene I wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:36 pm That's true, and the insights into the "machinery behind" the mundane human thoughts and perception and studying/observing the mechanics of the ego structures have always been part of many spiritual traditions of the past (including Buddhist: there is a reason they called their meditation technique "Vipassana" which means "insight meditation"). But what I'm saying is: once you penetrate into the deeper levels of the "machinery", everything you can ever perceive, experience or directly know still always appear on the "screen" (in the "space") of your awareness, so you simply expand the space into the layers that have been previously unconscious. But you still can not "penetrate" beyond the screen/space of your awareness (because it is not possible to experience anything that you would not be aware of, anything "beyond" the space of your direct awareness).
So we are back to corner 1: many meditative and spiritual practices of many traditions have been doing exactly the same: they expand the limits of our awareness into higher/lower realms of our consciousness machinery. Yet, you claim that your level of cognition is by far higher than that of others, that you are far ahead of all other traditions and are able to penetrate into much higher/deeper levels of cognition and attain the knowledge of higher-level truths not available to practitioners of other paths. Most content of your posts is targeted do demean the practices and spiritual experiences of other traditions (Eastern in particular) or NDE experiencers, and demonstrate that the level of "high-cognition" that you attained following the path of Anthroposophy is far superior to those. And this superiority claim this the real problem of your spiritual science.
Compare this with a body of work where large part is nothing but descriptions how each one of us can attain to the facts of the deeper strata of reality. It happens not by seeing visions or hearing voices but by being fully consciously active within these deeper worlds. You say "so you simply expand the space into the layers that have been previously unconscious". The fact that you say "simply", simply shows that you conceive of nothing but Freudian psychoanalysis, where previously unconscious things precipitate as thoughts in the intellect. If this expansion was conceived for what it is, then there wouldn't be any doubt about the reality of the etheric and astral body, the soul organs (chakras) and many other things. Because when we "simply" expand into the depths of our being, the unconscious layers are not "simply" thoughts of the intellect seen on the sensory screen but soul and spirit reality on the 'subharmonics' of which our intellect lives.
The finer structures of man were not invented by the West, they were known by the ancient Hindus millennia ago. The difference is that today we can not only know of them as externally revealed imaginative pictures but we can trace how our spiritual activity is being shaped by them and how we in turn are only now beginning to consciously attune them.
I've given many examples for the type of meditation that makes this possible. If they were at least partly understood it wouldn't occur to one to say that the same these things were practiced by all traditions in all ages.
And once again - all this is not to claim superiority. I would accept to be accused of the latter if I was claiming that I possess such and such abilities and no one else can have them. But practically every my post here is giving in one way or another details on how to approach if not the higher states, then at least the understanding of man's higher nature. I don't really understand (actually I do but that's how the saying goes) how can you protest that Western esoterism claims to have attained to deeper realm of cognition, when you don't allow yourself to approach even the most elementary threshold of that realm - livingly experienced thinking - in the way described in PoF. If you do that it'll also be glaringly clear that the method of intensifying and focusing of the thinking activity of the "I" is nothing like the passive and detached contemplation of floating thoughts that come and go by themselves, practiced by pre-Christian time traditions.