Theos-Talk Archives (October 1999 Message tt00068)

In a message dated 10/17/99 8:43:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, WLR7D@aol.com 
writes:

<< How do we tap into the non-physical capabilities you say we have to 
discern 
 the truths about reality?  >>

It's a question of identity and where it is focused. If our essential "I" 
ness, is focused and comfortable only in the lower planes the quality of its 
experiences will be conditioned by the limitations of the finite environment 
which surrounds it. The purpose of spiritual exercises, meditation, 
contemplation, transcendent awareness, etc., are to refocus and liberate our 
identity or I-NESS, to other conditions of being.

<<If we do so can we then explain these truths to 
others?  Will the truths we thus discover coincide with those others discover 
by using the same process?>>

Not really. By definition, the experience of non physical realties are also 
non verbal realities. Images beyond words. Transcendent realities can only be 
experienced not explained. all attempts top do so are merely feeble attempts 
to explain the unexplainable. That which is without words cannot be 
contained, or conveyed, through any vehicle of ordinary speech. The poet and 
the visionary has value to us because their extra-ordinary speech triggers 
the non verbal experience itself. Conscious awareness, of a transcendent 
moment, is often the most difficult lesson to learn. The transformation of 
essential identity, from personality to spiritual being cannot be explained. 
It can only be experienced.

Louis

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