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Cognitive Bias and Occult Experiences · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Western psychology has investigated, the impact of
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  subtle forms of biased on what and how we perceive things.
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  And how we interpret, what we perceive. an individual's
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  cognitive bias subtly influences, what he believes has
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  occurred and various people witnessing the same event, but
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  coming from different viewpoints will report out what happened
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  differently in line with the cognitive filter they have
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  applied when one is working with a cult Realms and subtle inner
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  experiences, the same type of filtering and cognitive bias
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  process occurs and thus The science of yoga recognizes the
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  need to reduce minimize and eventually eliminate these
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  filters in order to understand and act upon the truth of
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  things. It must also be noted that vital
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  desire and mental predilection can extrapolate from a set of
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  facts or events and create an interpretation or a vision of
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  what is to come. That is not an actual spiritual
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  Insight, but a mental formation. An interesting story about the
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  intersection of vision and mentality is seen in Sri
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  aurobindo Zone life. He was a fervent work.
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  To achieve the independence of India, from the British Empire
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  at a certain point in time. He received an Oddish to take up
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  spiritual practices. He was asked on several
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  occasions about why he suddenly gave up working for India's
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  independence. His reply was in essence that
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  India's Independence was assured and he had now moved on to other
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  necessary Realms of action. Additionally, many people in
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  India wanted to side with Germany in World War 2.
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  As it was opposing, the British Raj, which had been strangling
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  India for hundreds of years. SRI aurobindo noted that the
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  future fate of The evolutionary prognosis, progress of humanity,
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  hung in the balance, and he had to support the British in that
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  situation. But that after the war was
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  concluded, India would be liberated from British control.
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  His vision, of course came true. The mental formations of others
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  were found to be inaccurate and were based on emotional vital or
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  mental body. Shoes caused.
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  By the way, India had been treated by the British The
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  mother writes quote, but when one wants to have a pure correct
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  information to be in contact with the truth of things and see
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  an advance, not according to one's Petty, mental
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  construction, but how things are decreed in the place where they
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  are decreed. And the time when they are
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  decreed, then that requires a very great mental Purity, a very
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  great vital. Priam and absence of Desire of
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  preference, one must never want anything to be of one kind or
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  another. For this falsifies your vision
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  immediately. All, who have visions usually
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  deformed them all, almost without exception, I don't think
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  there is one in a million who doesn't deform his vision
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  because the minute it touches the brain, it touches the domain
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  of preferences, desires attachments.
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  And this indeed is enough to give a coloring a special look
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  to what you have seen. Even if you have seen it
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  correctly, you translate it, wrongly in your consciousness.
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  Who's truly ass for a great Perfection but you can have
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  perfection without the gift of vision and the Perfection can be
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  as great without the gift as with it.
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  If it interests you, especially you can make an effort to obtain
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  it. But only if it interests you
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  specially, if you lay great store by knowing certain things,
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  you can undertake a discipline, you may undertake a discipline.
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  Also, in order to change the Meaning of your senses.
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  I think I've already explained to you.
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  How one can hear the distance? See at a distance, even
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  physically. But this means considerable
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  effort, which perhaps is not always in proportion, to the
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  result because these are side issues, not the central.
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  The most important thing, these are side issues which may be
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  interesting. But in itself, this is not the
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  spiritual life. One may have a spiritual All
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  life without this. Now the two together can give
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  you perhaps a greater capacity but for this to you must tell
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  yourself. If I want to have it, if I take
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  the true attitude of surrender, to the Divine and of complete
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  consecration, if I ought to have it, I shall have it as if I want
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  to have the gift of speech. I shall have it.
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  And in fact, if one is truly surrendered in the true way and
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  totally at every minute, one is what he ought to be and does
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  what he ought to do and knows what he ought to know.
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  No this, but naturally for this one should have overcome the
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  petty limitations of the ego and this does not happen overnight
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  but it can happen. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 7, growth of
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  Consciousness. Inner experiences Pages. 132 132
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness.
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  Inner experiences Pages. 132 132