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The Intermediate Zone and Its Dangers · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We see many examples through time of individuals who began a
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  spiritual quest with good intention and would later come
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  to grief, as they got caught up in the snares of what SRI
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  aurobindo calls the intermediate Zone.
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  When we leave behind the Safety and Security of the external
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  Consciousness and it's grounded physical reality and enter into
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  a world filled with vital forces, pressures, inner
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  thoughts and drives, it becomes difficult to sort out.
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  What is actually taking place. The Seeker is allured by the
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  exposure to new powers and forces and may likely have
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  various hidden desires and ambitions.
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  Raised up in fulfilled. If he does not move Beyond this
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  stage, it can be devoured by forces far more powerful than he
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  understands that have their own motivation and which feed on the
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  emotions and experiences of the individual who comes under their
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  control. The intermediate zone is a world
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  of Shifting forces, Illusions pressures, and drives vital
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  enticements and hidden motives that can impact the unsuspecting
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  Seeker, who believes he is making spiritual progress.
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  When in fact, he is being guided or controlled by beings.
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  Native to other Realms. There are cases of possession
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  such as the force that took over and eventually destroy.
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  Roy Dolph Hitler. Who which appeared to be a
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  power-hungry Madness. There are also cases of
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  individuals experiencing rapacious sexual appetites or
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  who have a drive to control the lives of others.
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  Such as we saw with Jim Jones and his Jonestown cult and mass
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  suicide that he initiated among his devotees.
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  The protection as one passes through, this is own, I can come
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  in the form of purification techniques such as the yamas and
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  niyamas has set forth as preliminary practices in Raja
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  yoga. And through transition to the
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  soul Centre, the psychic being which is naturally connected to
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  the Divine and not the ego personality.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote. I mean by the intermediate Zone
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  that when the Sadiq gets beyond the barriers of his own
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  embodied, personal mind, he enters into a wide range of
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  experiences which are not the limited solid physical truth of
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  things and not yet. Either the spiritual truth of
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  things it is a Zone a formations mental, vital subtle, physical,
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  and whatever. One forms or is formed by the
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  The forces of these worlds, in US becomes for the Sadiq for a
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  Time, the truth, unless he is guided and listens to his guide
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  afterwards. If he gets through, he discovers
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  what it was and passes on into the subtle truth of things, it
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  is a border land where all the worlds, meet mental, vital
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  subtle, physical pseudo spiritual but there is no order
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  or firm foothold. Hold a passage between the
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  physical and the true spiritual realms.
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  Anyone passing the border of ordinary Consciousness can enter
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  into this intermediate Zone? If he does not take care to
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  enter into the psychic in itself, there is no harm in
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  passing through. Provided one.
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  Does not stop there but ego sex ambition, Etc.
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  If they get exaggerated, can easily lead to a dangerous
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  downfall. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development. Chapter 7, growth of
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  Consciousness. Inner experiences Pages, 136 to
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  137,