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Occult Powers Awaiting Emergence from Our Subliminal Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Doctor Deepak Chopra told an interesting anecdote from his
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  own experience at a talk he gave in Chicago some years ago.
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  Some of the details may have escaped me.
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  So the gist of it was that he was visiting his birth home area
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  at one point and it was recommended to him to visit a
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  famous Vedic astrologer in the area.
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  When he visited without advance warning to the astrologer, the
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  astrologer apparently knew about him and had a scroll which he
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  located that explained many of the highlights past, present and
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  future in Deepak Chopra's life. As a doctor with a long
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  background in the West, he went in with scepticism but used the
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  story to illustrate how sometimes our western way of
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  looking at things, even nowadays to a great degree prevalent in
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  India of this sort, may have to give way to a new, deeper and
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  totally other way of understanding our lives and how
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  the world we live in actually functions.
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  We attempt to judge everything based on an artificial standard
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  and set of limitations set up by the mental consciousness.
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  We make rules for how we can evaluate things and what the
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  limits and conditions for such evaluation are going to be.
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  We then formulate rules for how the universe works, how and why
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  we are alive, and what our lives mean.
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  Yet, as we gain further knowledge or we extend our
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  perception through the use of technology, we find that many of
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  these rules and strictures no longer work and we are forced to
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  re evaluate everything. The advent of quantum mechanics
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  has created major ripples in our understanding of existence.
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  Quantum events seemingly do not conform to our Newtonian and
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  Euclidean mental laws of universal action and
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  organization. As we confront the issues that
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  arise, we find that a wide variety of new theories have
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  arisen, including the idea of there being multiple universes,
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  the concept of antimatter as an opposite mirror image of
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  physical matter. We know in our universe the
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  concept of string theory, and eventually the idea that matter
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  is a condensed form of energy, and then that energy is a
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  condensed form of consciousness which is universal and
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  instantaneous. We explore ideas about the
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  relation of time and space, and even the idea that time and
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  space are adjustable and can be bent or folded, or in the case
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  of time, dilated or compressed, depending on speed of movement
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  through space. Certain experiments are now
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  indicating that present events can influence the past.
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  When we observe stars, we can understand that the light we see
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  from the stars actually was emitted long ago in the past,
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  but based on our point of observation, we see it in the
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  present. There are obviously standpoints
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  in the universe from which observation of our present or
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  future are similarly events of the past.
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  Thus, past, present and future are relative terms depending on
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  the standpoint of the observer. From these observations,
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  scientists are now able to actually predict with a high
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  degree of certainty what the future of certain stars and even
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  galaxies will be. Thus, the artificial
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  distinctions we make due to the frame that our mental capacity
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  set for how things are supposed to happen in a straight line
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  logical sequence are modified by the standpoint of the observer
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  in relation to what is being observed and are now being
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  challenged. All of this means that what we
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  have historically considered to be fixed laws of our existence,
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  invariable and highly limited powers of consciousness, are in
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  fact simply temporary and temporal limitations that can
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  and in fact are being overturned, widened, and
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  extended as we increase our knowledge and experience and
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  thereby release the powers that remain unseen but nevertheless
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  present in our subliminal consciousness.
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  When we look at a seed, an acorn, a fertilized egg, a
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  fetus, we understand that there are powers of growth and
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  consciousness that remain latent, potent, but not
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  expressed in that form. As they develop, however, each
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  of these begins to manifest the innate powers that lie within
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  that seed, until eventually the being emerges to express in its
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  fullness what it actually is capable of doing.
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  The human species is clearly not the final stage of the evolution
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  of consciousness, and this implies that many powers remain
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  as yet unexpressed, unseen, waiting for the proper time,
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  season, and stage of evolution to manifest themselves.
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  As we begin to appreciate the oneness of consciousness, the
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  universal nature of consciousness, and then begin to
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  reflect on issues such as time dilation, multiverses, et
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  cetera, we can see that the concept of past, present and
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  future are relative concepts and that under various circumstances
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  an observer can indeed tap into events we consider to be past or
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  future, or if present, occurring outside our immediate environs,
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  Sri Orobindo notes quote. All these and a multitude of
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  other powers are concealed in our subliminal being, and with
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  the waking of the psychical consciousness can be brought to
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  the surface. The knowledge of our past lives,
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  whether of past soul states or personalities or scenes,
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  occurrences, relations with others of the past, lives of
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  others, of the past, of the world, of the future, of present
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  things that are beyond the range of our physical senses or the
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  reach of any means of knowledge open to the surface.
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  Intelligence, the intuition and impressions, not only of
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  physical things, but of the working of a past and present
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  and future, mind and life and soul, in ourselves, in others.
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  The knowledge not only of this world, but of other worlds or
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  planes of consciousness and their manifestations in time,
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  and of their intervention and workings and effects on the
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  earth and its embodied souls and their destinies, lies open to
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  our psychical being, because it is close to the intimations of
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  the Universal, not engrossed only or mainly with the
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  immediate, and not shut up into the narrow circle of the purely
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  personal and physical existence. End Quote.
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  Reference. Srioro Bindu and the Mother
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  Powers within, Chapter 19. Occult Powers of the Subliminal,
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  pages 146 to 147.