Soloma369 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:36 pm
I teach that Mind IS "the veil" between our Material experience and our Spiritual experience. You will note that our positions resonate and the only difference lies in "what comes first". I am firm in position based on experience, when I was formulating the Unity Equation, my guide on Reddit who I consider to have been an 'Angel" Polarity guided my thoughts towards "order of operation". When I recorded the UE, I was bumped again in a most profound way. I can only make the assumption that what I am now sharing has been given the thumbs up by Divine Authority. Meaning Source/Spirit/God comes first, created the interface of Mind, which is the Duality of the now Feminine/Lunar and Masculine/Solar energies that synthesize and create the "Son"-Divine-Child/Earth energies.
Maybe we can refine things a little further. Of course, I fully agree that Spirit comes first. That’s why I tried to point out that thinking in its present form is only a more rigidified form of more general spiritual (intuitive) activity. By spiritual activity it is meant that we impress something within the flow of reality according to our meaningful intents. In thinking we focus on impressing mental images, in willing we agitate our whole body. In a sense, through willing the mental images of thinking go deeper in the flow of existence. There are many nuances to be considered but as a whole these are forms of our one spiritual activity.
When you teach that the Mind is the veil, this can be misunderstood as if the Mind is something that exists independently of our inner being and only bars our way towards the spiritual (I'm not saying that
you see it thus). This is also why today it is so popular that people try to deidentify from thinking, to push it aside as something that prevents them from reaching enlightenment. But we gain a much more coherent understanding if we conceive that our spiritual being
feels like a thinking mind/ego when it descends into the constraints of the bodily spectrum. In the astral we’re also spiritually active. We still live in intuition of what existence is and through our intuitive activity we meaningfully augment the flow. If we imagine that this activity feels fluid, then descending into the bodily spectrum feels like chilling that breaks down the flow into ice crystals. In a way we’re the same essential being but now our spiritual activity feels like moving mental ice cubes. An analogy that we often use here is that our thinking ego relates to the higher ego as our dream self to the waking. In our dream if we are to become lucid we don't reject our dream consciousness and expect to receive enlightenment from somewhere else. It's rather that we have been our waking self all along but with diminished consciousness. In the same way, we awaken to our higher self not when we push away the Mind as if it is simply some inert obstacle but when we awaken to the fact that
in our intellect a higher being dreams. Thus true awakening begins not when we stop thinking altogether but when our thinking becomes expression of the flow of destiny, which the higher ego dreamily Imagines. In a sense, the higher and the thinking ego become 'in-phase'.
We should be clear that our thinking ego is not equal to the higher ego whose perspective we can glimpse in the astral. As a matter of fact, being in the astral doesn't at all mean that we live in higher consciousness (which is immanent to the higher ego). We are in the same astral every night we dream and not only that we're there with our intellectual ego but it is even more diminished than usual.
So this is the first thing: higher consciousness is not simply an exchange of our sensory perceptions with other more fluid dream-like images, and putting aside the intellect. Here lies a great temptation in our age: that as soon as we experience ‘ego death’ through psychedelics or another way, we assume we have pierced the veil and now operate through our higher being. This, however, doesn’t grasp the fact that the intuition that we refine through our thinking ego belongs to
one and the same essential being and not only to some 'intellectual' partition of it. This becomes apparent if we soberly assess the facts of non-ordinary states. For example, you often mention Matter. But what is Matter really? When we dream at night we also move through landscapes. Is this Matter? What about OBEs?
If we’re careful with these things we’ll have to admit that none of these experiences reveal their true nature out of themselves. It is very important to understand this because otherwise we move from one Maya into another if we imagine that in the astral (Imaginative) space we behold reality ‘as it is’, in its ‘true’ form. Just because we have left the ice cubes of the intellect behind, we imagine that we’re now no longer subject to errors. If I don’t think, how can I err? Yet through thinking we organize the
one intuitive being in its full depth, not only the intellectual surface. Whether we conceive of astral space as literal reality or as an artistic expression of deeper purely ideal order, depends on the way we think about it – even though in astral space it seems we’re not thinking with concepts about it. Nevertheless, it is through thinking that we adjust and refine the intuitive lenses of our full Cosmic being. In other words, we enter the non-ordinary experiences precisely with the intuitive glasses that we have prepared for ourselves through our normal thinking. If this is not understood and we see Mind simply as an obstacle, then we're completely ignorant of the fact that everything we experience in the loosened state is completely sieved through the intuitive slots that we have prepared for ourselves through thinking. Then we naively assume that we behold reality as it is in truth. All becomes clear if we realize that with thinking we can think about the full spectrum of reality and not only about sense perceptions. In this way it won't be also surprising that we prepare the way for higher consciousness by organizing the subtle organs through proper thinking (and of course the purification and strengthening of our feeling and willing life).
Soloma369 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:36 pm
Thank you for the fine conversation. If you have any interest in my 20m podcast explaining the Unity Equation, I would be happy to drop it. It would require a visit to my r/Liberment sub to have a look at the UE as it is a audio podcast. Thanks again!
Thank you, I'm now looking into it. For others: here are direct links:
the podcast,
the equation.