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An Overview of the Intermediate Zone and Ways the Seeker Can Safely Maneuver Through It · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As the secret begins, to shift the Consciousness in word, he
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  becomes aware of forces powers and Realms that are the native
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  venues for our physical vital, and mental, energies and
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  activities, as well as existing in and buy their own form of
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  reality, and under rules that do not necessarily match up with
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  those, We Believe pertain in our external world.
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  The opening to these Realms can be extremely disorienting as the
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  individual does not know what they are, what they intend, nor
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  how indeed they act. These forces can also take
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  advantage of the ignorance of the Seeker.
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  And in fact utilize the vitally, go to drive the Seeker in
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  directions that meet their intention rather than carrying
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  out his own stated goal, they can be alluring misleading and
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  confusing SRI. Aurobindo terms the opening to
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  these Realms which can occur when the Seeker begins to
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  attenuate or break down the All's separating his external
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  being from the inner planes of existence.
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  The intermediate Zone, the best protection to the Seeker.
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  During such a period, is to have a solid balanced, patient and
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  ego left standpoint, rooted in the psychic aspiration.
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  So as to not be driven under the impression of forces that he
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  cannot understand or control, For your window notes.
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  Quote, the intermediate Zone means simply a confused
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  condition or passage in which one is getting out of the
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  personal Consciousness and opening into the cosmic.
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  Cosmic mind, Cosmic, vital, Cosmic physical something,
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  perhaps of the cosmic higher mind, without having yet,
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  transcended the human mind levels when is not in possession
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  of or direct contact with The Divine truth on its own levels,
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  but one can receive something from them.
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  Even from the overmind, indirectly only as one is still
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  immersed, in the cosmic ignorance all that comes from
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  above can be mixed perverted taken hold of for their purposes
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  by lower even by hostile powers. It is not necessary for everyone
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  to struggle through the intermediate Zone.
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  If one is purified oneself. If there is no abnormal vanity,
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  egoism ambition or other strong misleading element or if one is
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  Vigilant and on one's guard, or if the psychic is in front, when
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  can either pass rapidly and directly or with a minimum of
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  trouble into the higher. Or zones of Consciousness, where
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  one is in direct contact with the Divine truth 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 Pages, 135 to
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  136