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Options and Risks in Widening the Consciousness Using Various Methods · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There are numerous ways to widen, one's Consciousness, to
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  begin to incorporate the Viewpoint and direction of
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  others. Some of these methods are easier
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  than others. In that they utilize a mood or
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  feeling that is evoked from a natural environment.
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  Such as the Starry Sky, the ocean, a wide view from a
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  Mountaintop Etc. These methods also have the
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  advantage of being safer in various ways as they do not try
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  to directly enter and assume Ali.
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  The energies or viewpoints of other individuals who in some
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  cases, may be hostile to the thoughts and emotional process
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  of the Seeker. Similarly when one enters the
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  vital playing through what may be called, an out-of-body or
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  astral plane. Experienced caution must be
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  exercised as the protection afforded by the physical body
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  and the individuality is gone and forces with dramatically
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  different, agendas can exercise power on one's Consciousness
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  there. Entering directly into an
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  individual's Consciousness, has similarities to this type of
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  event. That is not to say that there
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  are not times and places where it becomes useful with due
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  caution to widen oneself to incorporate the understanding
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  and view of another party. The Seeker with a strong
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  aspiration and sense of clear will to progress may be able to
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  withstand the pressures involved in such an action. and some
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  actually seem to be suited for this as part of the larger
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  direction of the manifestation to bring about a higher
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  synthesis and Harmony of opposing viewpoints The mother
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  observes quote, there is a way also, by trying to identify
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  yourself with all things upon Earth.
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  For example, when you have a small narrow vision of something
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  and are hurt by others, vision, and point of view, you must
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  begin by shifting your Consciousness, try to put it in
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  others and try gradually to identify yourself, with all the
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  different ways of thinking, of all others.
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  This is a little more. How shall I put it Dangerous
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  because to identify oneself with the thought and will of others
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  means to identify oneself with a heap of stupidities mother,
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  laughs and bad wills. And this may bring consequences
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  which are not very good, but still some people do this more
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  easily. For instance, when they are in
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  disagreement with someone, in order to widen their
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  Consciousness, they try to put themselves in the place of the
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  other and see the thing not from their own point of view.
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  But from the point of view of the other, this widens the
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  Consciousness though, not as much as by the first ways, I
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  spoke about which are quite innocent, they don't, do you any
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  harm, they do you much good, they make you very peaceful and
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  quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living within the
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  yoga approached. A psychological health, and
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  Growth exercises for growth and Mastery widening, the
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  Consciousness ages 150 to 155.