Ok so I dont agree with everything Ken Wilbur says, but I really like this quote: The experience itself is indeed direct and immediate. You might even become one with that light. But then you come out of that state, and you want to tell me about it. You want to talk to me about it. And here you must interpret what this deep experience was. What was this light? Was it Jesus Christ? Was it Buddha-mind? Was it an archetype? An angel? Was it an alien UFO? Was it just some brain state gone waywire? What was it? God? Or a piece of undigested meat? The Goddess? Or a food allergy? You must interpret. And if you decide it was some sort of genuine spiritual experience, then of what flavor? Allah? Keter? Kundalini? Savikalpa-samadhi? Jungian archetype? Platonic form? This is not some theoretical hair splitting. This is not some merely academic concern. Quite the contrary. How you interpret this experience will govern how you approach others with this illumination, how you share it with the world, how you fit it into your own self system, and the ways you can even speak about it to others and think about it yourself. And it will determine your future relation to this light! And like all interpretations - whether of Hamlet or of the inner light - there are good and there are bad interpretations. And in this interpretation, will you do a good job or a bad job?
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:35:47 +0000
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