Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00142)

Yes... Maybe this will help. 

I had that experience (or one similar to it) the first time (and each time 
afterward) -- when I "forced" my mind to concentrate for an extended period of 
time, without any distractions, on an obscure, apparently occult statement of 
HPB in the SD -- followed by her remark that "the intuitive student will 
understand this." 

Incidentally, at that time, I was also studying WQJ's version of the Yoga 
Aphorisms of Patanjali simultaneously with the SD along with the Voice of the 
Silence and also WQJ's articles on the "culture of concentration." 

Apparently, with the many hints given by WQJ (and later by RC), all those 
books and articles were intended to be supportive of each other -- and, along 
with HPB's "tells" (which I later found scattered randomly throughout the SD) 
spoke directly to prospective initiates (Chelas of theirs I would assume) who 
could wade through and surmount the "blinds" designed to misdirect the casual 
reader from certain occult truths that might prematurely lead to psychic powers 
they might misuse. (Apparently, HPB didn't need to dissemble for such 
purposes, with the phony revisions and mystical gobbledygook introduced by later 
teachers such as AB, CWL and AAB -- all of whom tried to take over the lead of the 
TM from her by claiming a direct connection with her Masters -- whose real 
identity I'm almost sure she covered up with pseudonyms in anticipation of such 
machinations. :-)

The trick (taught to me by a master of meditation, an American scientist 
initiated in Tibetan mystical practices) was, starting with a burning desire to 
know the truth, to repeatedly chant the particular statement by HPB like a 
mantra, while staring at and picturing the shapes of the words and letters during 
each of those extended periods of concentration of the mind (focussed 
meditation) until -- without any effort to hold on to the images that appeared and 
disappeared (which, as I remember, each time it happened, took several hours, if 
not days, and sometimes weeks of repetitive sessions) -- a direct insight, of 
what I can only call, fundamental reality, clearly arose in my consciousness 
that was beyond thought itself. At no time, hower, during these "trips" did I 
lose sight of the fact that I was the eternal witness.

The experience of "Aha" each time I approached the hidden occult teachings in 
the SD that way -- after I held that concentrated focus on the images that 
came up related to the statement and the sounds of the words until I completely 
comprehended (without any linguistic interpretation) what HPB was pointing to 
(usually after a period of sleep between sessions) -- came like a bright flash 
of light and an amazing feeling of utter bliss along with an ecstasy that 
washed through my whole mind and body. (Could that be the "divine energies" 
Subba Row referred to?) 

The aftermath was a profound sense of well being -- since, I would assume, 
all the "lives" in my body were also privy to that insight. Could this be what 
theosophy speaks of as, "Raising the (lower animal) self to the (higher 
spiritual) Self"? 

All I can say is that, at that moment of insight, my self consciousness was 
merged with the Self of the universe and centered in it's zero-point of origin. 
During this meditation, the sound of the chanting and all the images it 
generated, eventually disappeared from my mind and all that was left in my 
"awareness"-- which could be described as the soundless "voice of the silence" -- was 
what I can interpret simply as the infinite vibrations (beyond the limited 
range of our sensory organs) of the abstract motion (infinite angular momentum 
or G-force) circling around that laya-point on an infinite number of axes. 
Incidentally, those circling vibrations had to be "The Word" that was "in the 
Beginning" spoken of in the Biblical version of Genesis. 

In my repeated experience, it proved to me, without a doubt, that that my 
individual self awareness was simply a singular radiation and an integral part of 
that one eternal Self awareness. From that singular point of view, I could th
en spin around and look outward, as if I were at the center of a spherical 
mirror, and see the reflection of everything in the universe involving and 
evolving directly out of that center of universal consciousness -- in the only 
manner imaginable -- knowing its (and now, my own) inherent nature and its 
essential geometry's coupled with its cyclic root of universal energy.

>From there, starting from pure awareness, without any objects of sensory 
perception, I could travel the entire path, step by step, from Spirit down to 
matter through the seven fold levels of consciousness, circling through the 
fractal fields (that I could imagine intuitively), and feeling the vibrations 
increase in subtle crescendoes, step by step, until I returned to sensory awareness 
at the lowest frequency phase spectrum, and reentered the physical/material 
world. (This, BTW, was almost exactly opposite the step by step upward path 
described in the VOS.) Apropos, I remember Chogyam Trungpa explaining in a 
teaching lecture some years before, that such an experience was what Buddha called 
"The Great Leap." The opposite way, starting from the physical upward, and 
trying to penetrate the psychic fields, to possibly be blocked there, was what 
Chogyam called "Spiritual Materialism." 

Apparently, HPB gave out all the "seeds" of meditation (that Patanjali 
referred to) necessary to arrive at that "Great Leap." Incidentally, since that 
time, that experience can be repeated by me at will. Although, I rarely need to 
go there anymore -- since the awareness of "emptiness" at the zero-point, that 
is also "fullness" considering its essential "abstract" spin motion, can 
never be forgotten. And, has become the basis of all my present thoughts and 
actions. (Although, there have been times in between when my karma caught up with 
me and caused me to lose it for a while ... But, that's another story. :-) 

The only way I can explain to others what I experienced and actually 
visualized after turning those insights back to thought, was what I have been trying 
to image indirectly in my exposition of the ABC theory for the past 15 years or 
so -- through logical deductive reasoning, starting from zero and extending 
it to infinity -- using "word pictures" along with symbolic diagrams.

With constant reiteration over those years, that explanation, while still 
considered "dense" to some readers -- (possibly because there are certain aspects 
that I hesitate to reveal other than to the "intuitive student" :-) -- has 
been boiled down to a page or two along with a few simple diagrams. 

Hopefully, the same trick of forceful concentration I used in my study of the 
SD might help those who try to realize their self connection with that 
fundamental reality pictured by HPB -- that I have attempted to symbolically 
describe in a simpler and more straightforward way using "the language of this age" 
consistent with modern scientific thinking. It might also be helpful to know 
that I don't think this "Great Leap" method will work for anyone who has any 
desire to stop along the way to attain any psychic powers. :-) 

Best wishes, 

Leonardo 

In a message dated 03/06/05 12:16:57 PM, ramadoss@gbronline.com writes:

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>Has anyone in this list has first hand experience of the forcible opening?
>It would be very useful and educational to hear some first hand account.
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>mkr
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>At 04:03 PM 03/06/05 +0000, Anand Gholap wrote:
>>Christina,
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>>Subba Rao has written occultism involves forcibly opening of
>>consciousness and there is large downpouring of divine energies.
>>Clara Codd has quoted it in 'The way of the disciple'
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>>Anand Gholap
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