Chapter 5: The Seamless Garment of Love The Secret of Spiritual
Liberation All experience is conditional (or dependent on temporary
relations), psycho-physical (or subjective and “internal” as
well as formal or functional and “external”), and
self-defining (or tending to define and limit an
“experiencer”). There is no form of experience that does not
demonstrate these three qualities. And there is no entity or
being (whether a god, or a human being, or a lower vital
entity) that is not entirely a specimen of the conditional,
psycho-physical, and self-defining process of
experience. All experience (whether high or low, subtle or gross)
creates and reinforces the illusory, independent,
separative, self-defending, and fearful “I”
conception-unless the entire affair of experience is
transcended. And experience, or “I,” is transcended only in
the instant of ecstatic intuition of the Transcendental
Reality, the Matrix within which all phenomena, all beings,
and all experiences are arising. When there is simple or
native abiding in undifferentiated unity with the Radiant
Transcendental Being (of which all conditions, beings, and
experiences are only superficial, spontaneous or uncaused,
and unnecessary or nonbinding modifications) then the “I” of
experience, the limited psycho-physical self, and the entire
phenomenal and experiential “Realm of Nature” are
Transfigured and Outshined by the Radiant Love-Bliss of the
Eternal Divine. Man is a composite of three primary dimensions of
functional experience. In the lower functional range of the
body-mind, the human individual is an expression of
elemental forces. He is, in the hierarchical strata of his
lower body-mind, a process involving the various states of
“matter” (expressed as earthy mass, or solid elements, water
or liquid elements, fiery or heat-producing chemical
elements, and airy or gaseous elements) in playful
combination with an etheric or pervasive energy field. The
“lower coil” of the human body-mind is, therefore, a
composite elemental or vital entity, and his “mind” or
“psyche” is of an unconscious or subconscious nature. In the higher functional range of the body-mind, the
human individual is an expression of superterrestrial (or
higher psychic), cosmic (or mental-conceptual), and
supercosmic (or superconscious) forces. He is, in his higher
body-mind, a process of perception, conception, creative
intention (or will), and subtle illumination (or sublime
awareness of the ultimate unity of “mind” and “matter”). The
“upper coil” of the human body-mind is functionally senior
to the “lower coil.” The “upper coil” (associated with the
higher brain functions and the central nervous system in
general) commonly acts via the processes of the conscious
mind (in the form of lower or elemental and etheric
perception, conception, and intention) to control or
participate in the common or objective experiences of
ordinary living. And it is this “waking experience” (or the
“lower coil” phenomena, associated with the sympathetic and
parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system)
that provides the conventional model for the popular
understanding of human existence. However, the “upper coil”
of the human body-mind may, when its higher evolutionary
mechanisms are stimulated (usually by esoteric mystical
disciplines, which involve conscious surrender to higher or
subtle energy influences), enter into planes of phenomenal
experience that are superconscious, or apparently
independent of functional relations with the waking self
(the “lower coil,” or the gross physical being, coupled with
the lower or Earth-bound psychic and mental aspects of the
“upper coil,” or the ordinary conscious being). Because of the capacity of the higher or superconscious
aspect of the human individual to function independent of
apparent association with the lower mental, vital, and
elemental aspects of the body-mind, efforts have been made
since ancient times to exploit this capacity as a means of
escaping from the mortal limitations of lower
psycho-physical experience. (There is even a capacity for
the psychic and etheric aspects of the lower functional
being of Man to separate from apparent or fixed association
with the purely physical or elemental body, and this
capacity has also been exploited by various societies and
individuals since ancient times.) Whenever the effort is
made to dissociate the higher or superconscious aspect of
Man from lower mental and gross psychic, vital, and
elemental associations, the process is traditionally called
religion or spirituality, and any direct influence over the
lower mental and gross psychic, vital, and elemental being
by the superconscious being is traditionally called a
religious, spiritual, or even Divine influence. And whenever
the effort is made to dissociate the lower mental, gross
psychic, and vital (or etheric) aspect of Man from the
elemental-physical body (or to control the
elemental-physical body by releasing it to the influence of
the subconscious and unconscious levels of mind) the process
is traditionally called psychism, spiritualism, or
magic. Even so, all experience, whether of a superconscious,
conscious, subconscious, or unconscious variety, is
conditional, psycho-physical (or functionally organized in
both internal, or subjective, and formal, or bodily, terms,
whether the “body” is subtle or gross in nature), and,
therefore, also self-defining. It is only in the third
primary functional dimension of Man that there is the
possibility for Realizing the Transcendental Ecstasy of
unqualified unity with the Divine Reality or Real Condition
of the limited psycho-physical self. That third primary
functional dimension of Man is the root of
self-consciousness, at the origin of attention and
conventional association with the various states of mind and
body (or “matter,” whether in subtle or gross form). The root of self-consciousness, of attention, and of the
“I” conception is not within the realm of the “upper coil”
(or central nervous system) of the body-mind, nor is it
within the realm of the “lower coil” (or autonomic nervous
system). It is in the region of the heart (not the brain or
the solar plexus), on the right side, associated with the
“pacemaker” (or sinoatrial node). The root of attention and
of the psycho-physically defined personality or “I” may, in
the profoundly intuitive depth of true and most radical
spiritual practice, be discovered to be associated with the
region of the right side of the heart. And when the process
of experience, or “I” conception, is thoroughly understood,
the root of attention in the heart is penetrated. Once this
intuitive penetration occurs, there is tacit or native
Liberation from the conditional, psycho-physical, and
self-defining power of all experience. The ultimate Destiny of Man is self-transcendence, or the
ecstatic transcendence of experience. Man, or the human
body-mind (high and low), is a limit . He is arising
mysteriously within the Infinite Radiance that is God. Man,
or a human lifetime, is to be experienced, understood, and
ultimately transcended. Any exploitation of the experiential
capacity of Man in himself is necessarily deluding,
self-binding, and productive of fear, sorrow, anger, and
bewilderment. Therefore, we are obliged to self-mastery and
self-transcendence, and even the higher evolutionary (or
traditionally “magical,” “intellectual,” “religious,” and
“spiritual”) mechanisms of our human experience must be
transcended at last. The entire nervous system and the total
body-mind of Man must be transcended. All the states of
psyche and of “matter” are nothing more than signals of
self-arising and the futile struggle toward everlastingly
unchanging self-survival and perfect self-fulfillment. But
if we transcend our own psycho-physical self-limit and
thereby enjoy tacit unity with the Radiant Transcendental
Being, then we will also Realize that even the planes of
experiential phenomena and apparently limited beings are
always floating in the All-Pervading Love-Radiance or
Transcendental Bliss of the Eternal Divine Being. Such is
the final stage of our human drama. In that Event, the world
and the total body-mind become Radiant with the Fullness of
Love-Bliss, and soon even the physical body and the material
world are Transfigured and Outshined by the Radiance that
was first intuited at the heart. Each functional level of Man belongs to a particular
level or stratum in the hierarchical structure of the
phenomenal Realm of Nature. Each of the structural levels or
dimensions of human functioning and human consciousness is
dependently related to the universal scheme of conditions
within the structural level of Nature to which it bears a
likeness. And each such functional element of human
structure and consciousness is destined, within its own
framework of time, to lose its separated identity through
eventual dissolution into its own particular level in the
scheme of Nature. (Thus, for example, the gross physical or
solid elemental body arises as a dependent and temporary
condition within the gross elemental dimension or level of
the Realm of Nature. The continued existence of the gross
physical body is utterly dependent upon the state of
conditions within the elemental dimension, and, in any case,
the gross physical body will eventually dissolve within its
own plane of time and space, thus losing its individual
identity through disintegration and transformation in the
universal scheme of elements.) Even so, each and every part of Man and of the total
Realm of Nature is always arising as a spontaneous and
nonbinding or free modification of the Radiant
Transcendental Being. Each and every part of Man is always
already pervaded by the ultimate Reality, Life, Light,
Truth, Condition, and Identity that may be Realized at the
heart and via the hearts Ecstasy, which is self-transcending
love-surrender, or radical intuition of the Identity or Real
Condition of the body-mind, the world, and all
experience. The point of this analysis is not that we are born into a
fixed dilemma or an inherently evil domain. The motive that
is native to Man is not escape but surrender, love,
intuitive union, or radical unity with the Transcendental or
Native Condition that is at the Root-and which is the
Source, Sustainer, Help, and Perfect Destiny of all worlds
and beings. We are obliged to Loves Wisdom, not the egos
stealth. We need not pursue the strategic escape from
experience, but we are inherently obliged to understand the
total process of experience itself. Such understanding is
expressed in the naturally self-transcending mood of love,
or the intuitive and spontaneous sacrifice of the
self-position. The Ecstasy that arises naturally from right intuitive
understanding is the only Wisdom of Man. The spontaneous or
nonproblematic surrender of the psycho-physical or
experiential self is the only Freedom. Radical and prior
Unity with the Radiant Transcendental Being is the only Way
of Happiness under any and all of the temporary conditions
of experience.
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