Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00234)

>The difference as I understand it between "Spiritual" and
>"Psychic" experience, vision, etc... lies in motive ..

Dallas, I have to disagree here (nothing new, huh :-) ). You can
have a really altruistic motive for either type of experience.
>From my own observations, I have to say that the chief
difference is that psychism always has forms, colors, and
details, while spiritual experiences are formless and have
no detail at all (they are, in fact, "mind blowing" experiences).

After a psychic experience, we simply recall what we experienced.
But after a spiritual experience, we have to clothe it in ideas,
thoughts, and then words in order to understand it and communicate
it. During this interpretation exercise, much of the actual spiritual
experience is lost, and it becomes couched in both cultural and
personal details that probably weren't in the original pure experience
at all.


>What I am trying to say is that we, as a Monadic center that is
>striving to universalize itself, employs imagination and will to
>try to contact those areas of the universal Akasic record where
>(either internally, or from those universal records) we can
>experience the information recorded there, and so, to say, we
>become participants and spectators of those.
>

Here again I take issue. Its a subtle point, but an important one,
I think. The divine monad doesn't strive to do anything. It already
is pure and perfect and complete. It doesn't need to read the akashic
records, nor does it care because it is so far higher than that stuff.
We human beings are the one who reads these records. We do the
striving, and so on.

Just a few thoughts, for what they may be worth,

Jerry S.