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So-Called ‘Spiritual’ Experiences and True Spiritual Development · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We tend to associate experiences of various unusual powers as
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  either evidence of high mental development, or perhaps
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  Spiritual Development, most of what gets mooted about, however,
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  may be seen as experiences of entering into various occult,
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  vital planes and bringing back the experience from those Realms
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  into the waking where the dream state of the individual.
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  This does not actually require that.
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  The individual be someone with either extraordinary, mental
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  capacities or spiritual opening. These experiences may be what
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  are known commonly as psychic experiences.
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  Not to be confused with the use of the term by SRI aurobindo and
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  the mother to describe the Soul Essence or true being other than
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  the external ego personality and may involve things like
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  telepathy telekinesis Clairvoyance out-of-body travel
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  psychic. Crime-solving powers of hypnosis
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  As well as things like psychic readings and past life
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  regressions. Some of these may be real powers
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  that manifest for individuals. While some of it may be either
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  fantasy or even fraud intended to provide an income stream or
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  fame to the individual. And it is obviously not easy to
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  sort all of this vital energy out properly.
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  Military units in various countries.
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  Have in fact, invested heavily in developing teams who could
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  undertake remote seeing and other powers.
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  That might give them an advantage over their enemies and
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  others are researching things like entering into an
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  individual's dream state and influencing their waking
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  existence, They can come about in any individual sometimes
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  without warning and may represent a born capacity or a
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  developed capacity to enter these Realms and bring back
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  experiences or transcriptions from there.
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  Obviously, none of those is actually pertinent to the growth
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  of the spiritual personality. The mother observes quote,
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  usually people mean by experience either altogether,
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  extravagant phenomena levitation, and things like that
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  or else. Sensational Visions being able
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  to see the future or seeing at a distance or maybe ordinary
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  things like, being able to tell where a lost object can be found
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  or all kinds of little tricks like that, this is what people
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  call. All experiences.
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  Well, usually people have these expect guilties are not well
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  educated, but for some reason, they are born with a gift as
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  some are born musicians, others painters and other scientists.
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  These there are born Clairvoyance and so it may be
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  when they are in need, they use this faculty to earn their
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  living and they spoil it completely.
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  If they happen to be in comfortable circumstances and do
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  not need to earn their living, then they become famous among
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  their friends. In any case, this is always an
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  opportunity for a certain kind of commercialism.
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  There are very few who can have these gifts without using them
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  either to make a name for themselves or to earn money, but
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  these gifts are not of a very high level.
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  One can have them without having a very spiritual life.
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  They do not depend at all on an inner spiritual height.
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  One should not mistake them for signs of progress and quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 7 growth of
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  Consciousness, inner experiences page 129.
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  One can have them without having a very spiritual life.
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  They do not depend at all on an inner spiritual height.
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  One should not mistake them for signs of progress and quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 7 growth of
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  Consciousness, inner experiences page 129.