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One of the Signs of the Coming of the New Subjective Age of Humanity · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Earlier stages of human development kept the development
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  of spiritual focus and occult powers to small groups of
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  initiates, people who were vetted and who in many cases had
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  to undergo special disciplines and tests to ensure they were
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  both worthy and capable of developing and holding the
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  powers that would inevitably develop.
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  This brought about an age that created the teacher student guru
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  shishya relationships and eventually the development of
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  ashrams, training institutions and schools for teaching the
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  disciplines and practices to the selected students.
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  In the earliest times, the relationships were one to one
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  and a disciple sought out a guru who could aid in the realization
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  of their spiritual aspiration. The teachings were kept as
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  mysteries and shrouded by multiple levels of secrecy.
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  Even the texts were written in a way so as to present an outer
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  significance that acted as a symbolic reference to the
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  deeper, hidden meaning described to the initiate but not
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  available to the casual reader. The Rig Veda as a specific
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  example, was written to have a dual sense of various terms, an
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  outer term for the uninitiated and an inner sense for those in
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  the know. Riora Bindo detailed this in his
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  book The Secret of the Veda and described the doctrine of the
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  Mystics in his book Hymns to the Mystic Fire.
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  We see a dramatic change has occurred whereby much of the
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  knowledge kept secret and protected behind walls of
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  initiation in former times is now widely made available
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  worldwide through explanatory texts, Internet courses and a
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  proliferation of teachers and gurus who make these teachings
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  available to thousands, 10s of thousands or hundreds of
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  thousands of disciples. This change makes it obvious
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  that more of humanity has reached a stage where they can
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  begin to appreciate and practice many of the techniques,
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  exercises and methodologies that can provide them access to
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  spiritual experience and the development of occult powers of
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  varying sorts. Entire institutions have arisen
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  to create course curricula and researchers have undertaken
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  numerous studies to provide a scientific and factual
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  underpinning to support the use of these practices and document
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  their benefits for health, well-being, enhanced power of
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  action and performance and for many, development of a spiritual
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  focus and dedication in their lives.
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  Military units have been set up to identify potential candidates
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  and train them systematically in power, such as remote viewing.
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  Numerous courses have arisen for not only remote viewing but also
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  a range of other so-called psychic powers.
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  Participants are given training and testing as they progress so
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  that they become comfortable with both the use and benefits
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  of the practices they are learning.
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  Madam Alexandra David Neal, a French explorer, was initiated
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  into various practices during her journeys in Tibet, including
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  the generation of psychic heat. Her experience is recounted in
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  her various books about her time in Tibet.
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  All of this new activity represents a broadening of the
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  scope of humanity in the field of spiritual, psychic, mental
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  and vital development beyond what has been considered to be
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  the standard range of action. Such a texturing of
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  consciousness is necessary to prepare the field for the
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  emergence of those forerunners who can then move toward the
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  next evolutionary stage on the basis of a more general human
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  integration of basic powers that have been heretofore very
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  limited in their development. Doctor Dalal observes quote.
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  One of the signs of the dawning of the New Age, adumbrated by
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  Sri Aurobindo and others, is that more and more people are
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  seeking the development of powers within, as evidenced by
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  the emergence of the human potential movement, training
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  courses for the enhancement of sensory and paranormal
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  abilities, devices for expansion of consciousness, trying to
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  develop the inside from outside, and the increasing popularity of
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  meditation and other spiritual practices.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Ovindu and the Mother Powers within
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  Introduction page Roman 14.