QUOTE(trojan_libido @ Aug 21, 2008, 10:01 PM)

Ok, then your answers are so indirect its more like a dance around the question.
I'm under no illusion about how connected to spirituality I am, it was definately a passing state, but one that left me with an immense new passion for humanities wisdom and the pattern we've made. I want to know what this state is, and why it crops up naturally within society, and why religion is as old as conciousness. I want to know why I felt sexual energy during this passionate experience. It 'aroused' my curiosity about the basic drive of humans, how and why we are animated at all.
Forgive me if my own curiosity and experience with entheogens, and also personal experience with natural and spontaneous altered states does make me believe whole heartedly, zealot like. I'm after a direct spiritual-scientific answer to answer the question of 'Why?'. I know all I've found in all religious thoughts, spiritual artwork and history, is our inability to critically look at what we know has happened. We should by now be able to frame the process creating everything with a rational description, the movement of energy of the source is there to see, but its no good just looking at the physical elements of the Universe.
But I'm just an idiot, thinking that 1. my beliefs are any more valid than the next guy, and 2. that history and formations of biological culture has anything at all to do with the movements of our God. I just want to see my creator thanks.
I doubt you are Buddha and have mastered illusion and emotion to the point of Nirvana. If you have and it ends with people posting on forums, then I think I'll opt out lol. But seriously, if you've experienced what you talk about then I envy you. If you haven't, then your talking without experience, which has always caused issues.
Each individual has to follow the nature of free will and choice to discover their connection to the Absolute. How that plays out and how one lives their life is partially predetermined and partially a surrender to each moment, actually a balance of both. There is a direction the universe is taking and that is to expand outward and then collapse in on itself, just as we move outward in action and then turn inward in introspection, or sleep and awaken to the universe created. Consciousness appears to breathe in and out like a sine wave on an oscilloscope showing alternating current which rises above a point that separates the manifest from the unmanifest. Both sides of the line are real and both have characteristics that allow consciousness to recognize itself.
Paradoxically when we experience the seat of consciousness it has no movement at all but to realize non movement one has to be active as the movement of creation which is how consciousness experiences itself.
The reality of consciousness is both simple and complex. Confusion is only the state of the ego because it seeks to stop and analyze nature rather than to flow with it. A river of water moves in a direction and does not stop to see where it is going and does not struggle to fight objects in its way. It takes everything in stride and finds its natural direction toward the Sea and then joins it to become one. This is the nature of spirituality this natural movement of spirit outward in duality to experience the potential of its infinite being and then back to its home to begin all over again for always, and in many dimensional configurations and timelines.
To experience it changes ones outlook on life but does not necessitate one to become the savior of the world. Enlightened individuals come in many forms and are always working with the flow of the current. Some make a bigger splash than others, but the reality of life is that to be in "
Union" with God, your desire is God's desire, God not living for want doesn't need but moves like a wave moving from the sea toward the shore and back to home again never isolating itself strictly to one form or manifestation of thought or experience but alive in timelessness within the time created universe as all things.
God is in all things and is not required to live upon a throne and so the mind that figures how an enlightened soul should occupy itself only does so from a position of standing outside of enlightenment.
You also have to realize there are multidimensional aspects of the soul within the creation of time and space and one is not isolated to one form or one body. When one becomes self realized they become more of who they are as they unite with all aspects of creation. There is no place where one is not.
The first stages of enlightenment are the awakening to the absolute, the direct experience of it, the awareness of it being established within ones self and then the direct experience of what is inside as being the self and it continuing outward into everything else one sees. There is no end to the progression of expanding awareness, we only limit it by our imagination of barriers and concepts of infinite beingness.
I have not by any means reached an end to the road, even Jesus had more to experience after the crucifixion. God is not a finite beingness it is much more than the human concept of infinity, and obviously much more than some scale to be measured and achieved.
Our greatness is only limited by our imagination and most try to imagine by taking what they experience into consideration rather than to let it all go to allow the infinite to really present itself. The senses have been trained in the waking state to see and experience only a small amount of reality.
Children experience celestials but adults who have decided they are illusion tell them to ignore them because they are illusions. So innocence is subdued and redirected to programs of limitation and relative absolutes.
There are far greater experiences to be had than what I experience, I have no monopoly on consciousness and I never claimed to be greater than anyone else. People only assume they know how to measure consciousness and conscious awareness and make comparisons based on their own beliefs rather than to lose their fantasy of being in control of the world and their life. The only thing humans have control over is to join the bigger picture and open the eyes and ears to their greater self and what it is creating or to wear blindfolds and ignore the obvious in the attempts to manipulate personal ideas into the mixture of the mirrored reflection of thousands of ideas trying to take a position on the beachhead of creativity.
There is no reason science should be able to contain the universal mind or to establish a system of relative measure to contain even a part of it. Science is only a process of exploration not a system of containment. Sure there are ways to recognize truth and reality, they have been discussed by Self realized Masters since man first became aware of God, which is long before our recorded history.
5000 years ago the science of Yoga was resurrected from the sleeping consciousness of man who had taken a ride outward into sensory absorption and ignorance but our universe is coming back into the golden age and the souls residing on this particular planet are here to witness an awakening that will take place that hasn't occurred for better than 25 thousand years.
People should be more interested in their own awakening rather than trying to establish where I am. If I was the most enlightened person on the planet there would still be a wave of distrust and the ego's need for proof to to protect the individuals way of life so that it is not rendered obsolete. That is the ego's biggest fear, to become nothing or obsolete in the face of something much greater than the limitations of individuality and separation.
People are much more interested in knocking down the threat to their personal truth than to realize the universal truth, especially if universal truth is undermining the addictions to personal agenda. Either that or they insist they are not capable of matching wits with God because God is too big for their imagination and so they see themselves as fish in the water hoping God will reassure their livelihood as fish without the threat of extinction or a threat to personal agenda.
2000 years ago Jesus was put on a pedestal and everyone wanted him to save humanity from themselves, but instead he said save yourselves. No one had a clue what he was talking about. He came, performed feats that were to their level of consciousness miracles of impossibility, and then sacrificed his physical body to show anyone who was paying attention that the end of the physical body was not the end of the consciousness within the body, and then moved on to leave the herd where they wanted to stand, in their own shit pile. C'est la Vie.
Here we are 2000 years later a little bit smarter but not much... and a wave of energy is about to hit this planet that is either going to knock some sense into a few people or cause them to disappear and take the short bus to repeat the class.
Why not use the internet to send a message? Should God send lightning bolts and another man to walk on water, when man will just stand there staring and drooling again only to give up all sensibility to ones own power of choice and creativity or to make him go thru the James Randi test of 100 obstacles before given consideration and validity?
Man has to reach a state of wisdom that isn't built on fear before he can actually begin to grasp the relative aspects of consciousness let alone the unlimited reality of it. Some are getting pretty close and if it weren't for a few who are brave enough to rattle the cage of complacency and limited scope of vision that comes with some stubborn egos without the need to wear the badge of savior and Christed being, who knows where we would be.
You'd be surprised what an enlightened person would do in surrender and service to humanity.
In the words of a profit, I only pave the way for someone who will do much greater works than I.
Or, I am only an egg....