Theos-Talk Archives (March 2002 Message tt00293)

<<<The Gupta vidya model can indeed be utelised in meditiative practices when it is understood as a means, and the visualisation not an end in itself.>>>

Yes, and that is why I have insisted on calling it a model. 


<<<It seems healthy people who are open to mystical experiences and have them in supportive situations enjoy lasting, positive aftereffects.>>>>

Yes, providing that they can relate these experiences into their worldview. If not, mental unbalances occur.


<<<But mystical experience and also not schizophrenia have been comprehensively explained.>>>

Mystical experiences are a transcendence of normal human brain-mind activity. Schizphrenia is a failure to keep the planes separated, and confounding the physical with the astral and mental.


<<<Buddhist meditiation on emptines and the self questioning of Zen or what Tibetan Buddhists practice (discussions) with each other, is something different again ?>>>

These lead to the realization of no-self, that just as external objects are maya, so is the internal self.

Jerry S.



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