Stranger wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:32 pm
Well, yes, all you described applies to the realm of the Demiurge and is definitely relevant for the souls traversing this realm. They would certainly benefit from understanding what is going on at the larger scale in order to speed up their evolution. But that is only as long as a soul stays in this dualistic realm of the Demiurge. Once a soul leaps to the nondual mode, all these structures become less important, and become irrelevant once the switchover is complete. And then the content and dynamics of the nondual mode become relevant for them, but that's a different content.
OK, we arrived at the critical point.
So far we followed how we can start from the givens of our Earthbound experience and work our way towards deeper intuitive orientation within our stream of becoming.
The undeveloped man mainly freefalls through the curvatures of the configuration spaces, much like a ball rolls downhill, following the curvature of the topology. Instincts and desires shape the landscape through which man rolls.
The intellectual man finds certain leeway, where he can navigate through mental images of the past and future, which allows him to conceive novel ways of traversing the spaces. Yet the direction of the ideas is still largely steered by unconscious sympathies and antipathies.
Then the spiritual man, who is only now beginning to make his appearance on the evolutionary stage, finds his unity with the World. Our stream of becoming coincides with the becoming of the World-state, thus to understand the lawfulness through which our states evolve, we have to understand ourselves in the context of the whole Cosmos. As long as we see our Cosmic vicinity as some kind of independent arena, into which our self-sufficient spiritual being is placed, as if dropped from another galaxy, we still live in abstract mental images. We haven’t yet found our true bearings within reality. The World is still outside us, as an alien and even hostile environment that we temporarily visit but which has nothing to do with the structure of our own self-contained being.
To this point we agree. Let’s put the above into a commonly used image in esoterism – that our present Earthly state resembles life below a thick dark atmosphere. Think of an approaching thunderstorm, how it becomes dark even if in the middle of the day.
This is an image for our spiritual constitution. Man is a slice of this environment. The light of consciousness enters the thick cloudy environment from beyond, from the Sun illuminated world above the clouds. Of course, here ‘above’ and ‘below’ should be taken Imaginatively. We have already established that everything is within everything. Thus to find the Sun light in a spiritual sense, we don’t move linearly in some direction but through an inner dimension, so to speak.
In my opinion, the metaphors that are least misleading and which can be seen as an almost literal expression of higher experiences are those that have been mentioned many times here. For example, that the flow of our Earthly states can be seen as a stroboscopic effect. Our ‘rate of vibration’ is such that we ‘sample’ the full spectrum of reality only at a certain resolution, giving us an aliased experience, which nevertheless is fully valid and turns into a world on its own. Through reflection, concentration, meditation, prayer, we can become conscious of the deeper strata, which gives us deeper intuition of the World-flow and correspondingly novel ways in which we can steer that flow. In this sense we can say that the light of our Sun being above the clouds (or beneath the aliased patterns) can penetrate the thick dark atmosphere from within.
To this you also agree, since you accept that we’re not really separate from the essence of our being. Yet something peculiar happens at this point which turns everything that has been so logically and lawfully developed so far, on its head.
It is said “There’s nothing more to learn here. It’s only darkness upon darkness and I’m ready to continue towards the world of light and freedom.” And this is perfectly fine! It is only natural to come to the realization that we can’t go too far when we only rearrange the mental images of dark clouds (the dual world). We have to move in a direction orthogonal to all this (the nondual world).
Now we’re at the point that we reach every time. Suddenly one declares there’s nothing more that can be accomplished in this state and one focuses on the
general truth that we’re the light, even if it is diffused within the dark clouds beyond recognition. Then one is left with no choice but bathe in this diffused and inexplicable light while awaiting death where the lifting to the world of clear Sun light and freedom is expected. There’s a certain orthogonality between planar thoughts in dark puffs of cloud and the inexplicable Sun nature. The two natures speak different languages so to speak. The lower planar nature is seen as hindrance that can be overcome only by leaving it behind through death. In a sense one says “I know with all my being that the light-force through which I think is inseparable from the Source. Yet this thinking is diffused in dark clouds. This dark atmosphere suffocates me and prevents me from knowing the fuller nature of my being. I have nothing more to learn in this darkness. I have to elevate to the more ethereal regions where I’ll live in my higher being.”
Yet for thousands of years the development of the human being has led to the point that the light of the nondual higher being can penetrate the dark atmosphere (as explained above). This has one major difference to the meditation on the diffused light within the clouds – that an actual bridge is being built between the nondual Light being and the lower being that arranges dark puffs of clouds. This can be known only when we reach the stage of Inspired cognition. Then our being is lifted within the splendor of the archetypal currents and we can trace how they inflow into the darker lower being, where they align the mental images in resonance with the higher forces.
We can put that into another metaphor. Let’s say our Earthly state is like a sheet of paper covered with iron filings corresponding to spiritual phenomena, most importantly – thoughts. For most people, the shapes of the filings metamorphose quite instinctively. Yet we can imagine that certain magnetic fields work across the sheet and arrange the filings. In the course of the last few posts we have seen that there’s certain lawfulness of the magnetic forces into which we can consciously grow and understand the deeper patterns of the World-state’s becoming.
To this we have two positions. One says that once we realize the nature of the sheet of paper with iron filings, we can only go further by dreaming to become the higher magnetic forces after death. On Earth we can bathe in these forces, mystically unite with them but they remain orthogonal to the world of the sheet. It’s simply impossible for these forces to be known as clear light of cognition. The conditions are unfavorable.
The other says what proceeds as a completely logical stream – that by making the movements of the iron filings a living experience we come to know something of the magnetic force (this is not surprising granted that the magnetic force
is our true essence). Then through the appropriate methods of meditative concentration our cognitive being begins to awaken within the depth aspect and understand the magnetic force not as some mysterious force whose true nature can be expected only after death but as real intuitive activity of the Cosmos which we experience from the first-person perspective. Then we can say that when living in this depth aspect, we live in Inspirative cognition because we can follow the archetypal magnetic flows (the nondual world) that organize the iron filings. With this the orthogonality is reconciled. Our being now lives along the gradient of the worlds in one unitary Cosmos. Our nondual being reaches into the sheet and cognitively organizes the filings.
These same things have been stated many many times. Yet they are always rejected. To put it bluntly, the whole situation can be presented thus. Let’s say scientists live on an Earth, which similarly to Venus, is covered in a permanent dark cloud layer. Both camps agree that the true source of light is not the clouds themselves but that they only diffuse it.
One camp says “this is the nondual truth – we are the light of the world. Yet we’re in very unfavorable conditions. The clouds of the Demiurge diffuse our light and we can’t know ourselves in our pristine nondual nature. Our scattered light is completely orthogonal to the light of our true being above the clouds and we have no chance to know full reality in this way. Everything is smoke and mirrors. We need to patiently wait for death where we’ll know ourselves in the clear skies above the clouds.”
The other camp says “We agree that the conditions are difficult. It is true that the diffused reflections are highly confusing but it’s still true that the light itself comes from above the clouds. And our essential being
is that light. Thus even through normal reasoning it follows that it should be possible to concentrate our spiritual activity in such a way that we can live in the cognitive floods of light and not so much in the diffused reflections. Indeed, the efforts of initiates through the centuries have perfected the methods for this inner organization and today it is possible for everyone to pave the way for the Light being.”
So to put it really bluntly, the first camp says “Yes, we’re the light but the most we can do within the thick dark atmosphere is to hold on to the intuition that we are indeed the light and await for that intuition to become clear spiritual existence only after death.” The second says “It is possible to investigate the light being even now. In this way we live in both worlds. So to speak, our head is above the clouds where we live in clear cognition of the spiritual (nondual) worlds, while our guts are down below and we use our higher intuition to guide them.”
The main reason that the first camp dismisses the second, is somewhat the following: “what you develop as intuition has to do only with the realm of the Demiurge (the dark cloud layer). Even though you speak of going above the clouds, you are really working with false light. This doesn’t mean that this intuition is completely useless but if we want to aim for the true light we can only do that by focusing on the inexplicable nondual light that diffuses in the clouds and hold on to the intuition that this light will be our being after death. In other words, I recognize that the diffused light in the clouds is a reflection of my true light but as long as I live under the clouds I can only cherish the expectation for the true light. It’s impossible to concentrate the diffused clouds and awaken to my true light that steers them. For this reason, anyone who believes to have developed intuition of the configuration spaces of their true light being must necessarily be confused. They live in the diffused light reflections and delude themselves that they know something about their true light being in this way.”
Now if we speak about science what is more wise? To stay under the clouds and only fantasize about the Solar world above, assuming that it is impossible for man to know it in its reality? Or to seek ways to rise above the clouds and from there build channels through the thick layers such that light can begin to flood the underworld? Who has truer and more practical knowledge of reality? Who has postulated their own limitations and have accepted them for absolute laws of reality? And who keeps overcoming obstacles which leads to expansion of reality?
As simple as it is, the above summarizes the whole thing. The so called ‘nondual switchover’ proves to be nothing but saying “I’ve had enough of these dual clouds. From now on I’ll live in the faith that after death I’ll be free in the clear Sun world. Now I have switched to nondual. Anyone who claims that our Sun being can shine in its true light down here, is deluded. They are even more deluded if they believe that the Sun being has to warm and soften the rigid forms below, make them pliable and organize them according to higher wisdom, propelled by love. Our nondual light being above (Cosmic head) has nothing to do with the dark dual world below (Cosmic guts). If someone wants to explore these regions, they are free to do so but those who have had enough of them can simply move on. The Cosmic head is independent of the Cosmic guts. The latter can be left behind.”
Would you agree with such characterization?
