An Extra Sense of Brightness
John L. Waters
October 19, 2005
By means of sustained eye contact, an extra sense of brightness, unity, peace, and connectedness is shared by a yogi and his/her students. For example, Swami Muktananda was famous for inducing this unitive sense. Gopi Krishna and Jiddu Krishnamurti also described this same sense of brightness. Skeptics deny these and other testimonials have any scientific merit, however. Skeptics don't trust anecdotal reports.
Even so, when thought is suspended, and one isn't preoccupied with thinking or feeling, one is free to sense more keenly. One isn't blocked or distracted by a thought or by a feeling. It's then that the student is ready for the teacher to appear. Most any powerful teacher will do, and many persons have a mystical experience without any teacher inducing it. Then the barriers to perception disintegrate and the person connects with what is. The sense of being connected is felt. You project yourself out into the world and you become the world. Your sense of being a distinguished named entity separate from the world is gone.
The hunter, soldier, and debater focus on a target and project with intent to weaken or destroy the target. The spiritual master is rather like a gunner who destroys your personal will to block the sense of connection. Your defensive armor is pierced by the strong spiritual teacher. As you connect, you let go of pretense. Your distrust dissolves. In your stillness you share the same radiance that your spiritual teacher shares.
The still body and the still mind project to others who are almost still and quiet them even more, so that they sense this same connection and brightness. Master and student integrate. There is no sense of master versus slave. The teacher works in service to his/her student and vice-versa. The sense of union or yoga integrates all the connected people. Doing this connection practice once a day helps keep the community integrated.
Being a good verbalizer builds a shield around the child so that the child grows skillful in debate. The skilled debater wins many arguments and shines in many conversations. Then a spiritual master comes by and projects what yogis project. The master says nothing and the good verbalizer doesn't understand what the master teaches. When skeptics argue convincingly against this unitive sense, it's because they haven't got it yet. Organized institutionalized science doesn't yet teach what Swami Rudrananda called "yogic force."
The peacemaker-Messiah comes and teaches people how to understand the sense of unity that some spiritual teachers say will always be totally beyond intellectual understanding. By understanding is meant understanding by doing as well as understanding in words. When mind and body are totally integrated, then the peacemaker-Messiah's message can be projected out in words, and many persons can study this message at once, and in due time millions of integrated masters will teach the way of integration and peace.
Denying the power of speech to explain this sense of union is shutting down and dissing the human capacity to think and communicate using words. This shutting down reduces the human intelligence. For thousands of years spiritual masters have taught yoga in this old way. Consequently relatively few communities are integrated and peaceful, and many persons feel enslaved. Integration remains the unattainable goal.
Integration comes as the human brain becomes connected within itself. You can share this sense of inter-connection with others both experientially and verbally, and you can be reasonable and forceful in argument. If others haven't yet learned from a teacher how to sense in the unitive way of brightness, unity, peace, and connectedness, then they can study with teachers who are free both verbally and nonverbally. All barriers to freedom then are gone.
Denial of this sense denies a child who is sensing in the unitive way without understanding the unitive sense. The good talkers and debaters may argue that this less articulate child is inferior, defective, damaged, or "autistic." But the verbalizers themselves aren't free, and they may resent being enslaved. Their struggle continues and it can't be resolved until the peacemaker-Messiah comes and teaches articulate people unity, freedom, and respect.
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
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Even so, when thought is suspended, and one isn't preoccupied with thinking or feeling, one is free to sense more keenly. One isn't blocked or distracted by a thought or by a feeling. It's then that the student is ready for the teacher to appear. Most any powerful teacher will do, and many persons have a mystical experience without any teacher inducing it. Then the barriers to perception disintegrate and the person connects with what is. The sense of being connected is felt. You project yourself out into the world and you become the world. Your sense of being a distinguished named entity separate from the world is gone.
The hunter, soldier, and debater focus on a target and project with intent to weaken or destroy the target. The spiritual master is rather like a gunner who destroys your personal will to block the sense of connection. Your defensive armor is pierced by the strong spiritual teacher. As you connect, you let go of pretense. Your distrust dissolves. In your stillness you share the same radiance that your spiritual teacher shares.
The still body and the still mind project to others who are almost still and quiet them even more, so that they sense this same connection and brightness. Master and student integrate. There is no sense of master versus slave. The teacher works in service to his/her student and vice-versa. The sense of union or yoga integrates all the connected people. Doing this connection practice once a day helps keep the community integrated.
Being a good verbalizer builds a shield around the child so that the child grows skillful in debate. The skilled debater wins many arguments and shines in many conversations. Then a spiritual master comes by and projects what yogis project. The master says nothing and the good verbalizer doesn't understand what the master teaches. When skeptics argue convincingly against this unitive sense, it's because they haven't got it yet. Organized institutionalized science doesn't yet teach what Swami Rudrananda called "yogic force."
The peacemaker-Messiah comes and teaches people how to understand the sense of unity that some spiritual teachers say will always be totally beyond intellectual understanding. By understanding is meant understanding by doing as well as understanding in words. When mind and body are totally integrated, then the peacemaker-Messiah's message can be projected out in words, and many persons can study this message at once, and in due time millions of integrated masters will teach the way of integration and peace.
Denying the power of speech to explain this sense of union is shutting down and dissing the human capacity to think and communicate using words. This shutting down reduces the human intelligence. For thousands of years spiritual masters have taught yoga in this old way. Consequently relatively few communities are integrated and peaceful, and many persons feel enslaved. Integration remains the unattainable goal.
Integration comes as the human brain becomes connected within itself. You can share this sense of inter-connection with others both experientially and verbally, and you can be reasonable and forceful in argument. If others haven't yet learned from a teacher how to sense in the unitive way of brightness, unity, peace, and connectedness, then they can study with teachers who are free both verbally and nonverbally. All barriers to freedom then are gone.
Denial of this sense denies a child who is sensing in the unitive way without understanding the unitive sense. The good talkers and debaters may argue that this less articulate child is inferior, defective, damaged, or "autistic." But the verbalizers themselves aren't free, and they may resent being enslaved. Their struggle continues and it can't be resolved until the peacemaker-Messiah comes and teaches articulate people unity, freedom, and respect.
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
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