The Subtle Error   SPIRITUAL MASTER There is a "subtle error" that people tend to make in relation to the process of conductivity and in relation to the Life-Current itself. When the body-mind is opened to the Life-Current and coordinated with it through feeling-attention, breathing, relaxation, disciplines that purify and balance the body, when all of these practices are introduced into a person's life, then extraordinary experiences begin to arise. And rather than transcend these experiences through the conscious process, individuals tend; to become enamored of them and so attracted to them that their practice becomes meditative submission to the potentials of experience. The Way that I Teach, the expression of the Realization that is fundamental to my own practice, is the Way of the transcendence of manifest conditions of existence-not the mere negation or exploitation of them-in the Radiant Transcendental Being, the Divine Self. This Way is the Way of the transcendence of attention and,, therefore, of all the objects and states of attention. The traditional religious or spiritual approaches to realization in the first five stages of life are typically built upon the process that I have called conductivity, and the traditional paths teach techniques for aligning attention to the Spirit-Force, the LifeCurrent through which feeling, attention, and the body are devoted to the Living Principle. Thus experiences arise hierarchically, beginning with the gross plane and moving toward subtler dimensions of mind or mystical awareness. This is the typical traditional path. Our Way is not such a mystical path. Nor is it the sixth stage path of dissociation from phenomena. Our Way is the transcendental Way of ultimate Realization, of Divine Ignorance or the Eternal Self, prior to all contraction, and Radiant Love-Bliss prior to all phenomenal conditioning, limitation, and egoity. Adherence to this Principle of transcendence is the firm conclusion of my life. My work over these years has been to argue that Principle to people and to offer them forms of instruction, forms of practice, forms of association with me that would help them to realize the certainty of this same Principle in their own lives. My submission to devotees, my play with them, and my instruction over these years have been ways of accommodating those who have come to me, whether they could be called true devotees or not. I have tried to help them to realize the Truth of this Principle and enter into the ultimate practice. And having gone through that process now for a decade, it is as clear to me now as it was at the beginning of this period, that the Way is to transcend phenomenal existence, to understand the mechanism of attention, the process of contraction, and the nature of knowledge and experience.   Back to What Is The Conscious Process - A Beezone Study

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