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Spiritual Experiences Manifest When They Are Ready and When the Seeker Can Perceive Them · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Our ability to perceive is limited by the scale within
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  which we are able to perceive as well as the operation of the
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  all-or-nothing phenomenon. Thus events are occurring
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  activities are underway at wavelength below.
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  Those, we can perceive and above those, we can perceive at some
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  point the impact of those events that occur outside our frame.
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  May have consequences within our frame, but until that occurs, we
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  remain blissfully ignorant of the changes that are in
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  preparation. Similarly, our sense organs have
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  a threshold of perception, the eyes will perceive only Darkness
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  until a sufficient. Number of photons are firing to
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  exceed. The minimum Threshold at which
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  point we suddenly perceive the existence of light, scientific
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  instruments can measure the existence of photons firing even
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  when we cannot perceive them. Thus helping us understand this
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  principle. This principle operates with
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  respect to spiritual experiences, which elude us
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  until such time, as they are ready to manifest and can exceed
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  the minimum limits of perception.
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  We also tend to live in a three-dimensional world and do
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  not perceive the process of change as our existence passes
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  from past into the present and then moves into the future.
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  When we begin to see the process of time, what scientists call
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  the fourth dimension, the entire picture changes as we are no
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  longer limited to the snapshot that stands right before us but
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  can see the movement of time. I'm itself and the changes that
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  occur. Intellectually.
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  We can appreciate the changes of the seasons.
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  The changes within a single day, the aging process.
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  But nevertheless, we remain fixated on a very limited
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  present set of circumstances. We cannot actually utilize this
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  intellectual knowledge for our experience of life until such
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  time as the standpoint can shift to the Divine standpoint.
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  And the three times are incorporated as an integral part
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  of our experience, beyond the fourth dimension.
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  There are also further Dimensions.
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  Scientists are now for instance, beginning to discover Quantum
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  phenomena that seem to not be subject to the universal laws
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  and limitations that we have created as a rule book for our
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  universe. They are now beginning therefore
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  to entertain the concept that a Fifth Dimension, that of
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  Consciousness is operative and thus, our understanding of
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  existence now can move in five Dimensions.
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  This is not to say that this is the limit of the number of
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  possible Dimensions, but certainly for Humanity, which
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  lives primarily in a three-dimensional world.
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  This represents a major breakthrough.
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  Or as the mother indicates a reversal of consciousness.
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  The mother notes quote, this change of Consciousness and its
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  preparation' have often been compared with the formation of
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  the chicken in the egg. Till the very last second the
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  egg Remains the Same. There is no change and it is
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  only. When the chicken is completely
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  formed, absolutely alive. That it itself makes with a
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  little beak, a hole in the shell and comes out something similar
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  takes Place at the moment of the change of Consciousness, for a
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  long time, you have the impression that nothing is
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  happening, that your Consciousness is the same as
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  usual. And if you have an intense
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  aspiration, you even feel a resistance as though, you were
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  knocking against a wall, which does not yield.
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  But when you are ready within a last effort, the pecking and the
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  shell of the being and everything opens and you are
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  projected into another Consciousness.
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  I said that it was a revolution of the basic equilibrium.
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  That is a total reversal of Consciousness comparable with
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  what happens to light when it passes through a prism or it is
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  as though you were turning a ball inside out.
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  Out which cannot be done. Except in the fourth dimension,
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  one comes out of the ordinary three dimensional Consciousness
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  to enter the higher four, dimensional Consciousness, and
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  into an infinite number of Dimensions.
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  This is the indispensable starting point, unless your
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  Consciousness changes its Dimension, it will remain.
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  Just what it is with the superficial vision of things.
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  And all the profundities will escape you in quote reference
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  SRI, aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development. Chapter 9 reversal of
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