Gentle Phoenix for the ultimate mystical experience 

A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2009 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

Many mystical experiences demonstrate that our unbounded awareness outside the body experiences an infinite realm of energy and matter and an infinite awareness to go with it. That is, our awareness can be localized anywhere but non localized it is everywhere. However, when in the body, we are very fixed in our focus as an ego and seeing through the perception of our mind. The question is, "is there a bridge point, some aspect of our being where can experience the cross over between the localized and non localized experience?" The answer is yes and we feel it. We can feel the non localized experience and we can perceive the energy of another or some other aspect of Creation within our being by how we focus our attention and awareness. The issue is how mind interprets what we feel. It is also clear what we perceive in being human is a localized experience. But is there some way to see the cross over such that we can be in the body but yet have a more conscious awareness of the infinite than just what we feel.

The answer is that it is our creative imagination or what we call our creative imagination. Our creative imagination is actually the access point for our infinite awareness but seeing it as such is blocked by the mind and what it thinks and believes. That is, we can view our creative imagination as a great expansive plane or prairie. Our mind is like reflective fence we place across the prairie in the same way we would place a fence to keep animals from roaming. That is, our mind creates a fence to contain our awareness and keep it from roaming into the expansiveness and infinity of Creation. The fence created by our mind arises from the experience mind has had and what we come to think and believe. Since it only knows what it has experienced, it sees the infinity of Creation only so far as it has personally experienced Creation. To mind, nothing exists outside its experiences. Hence the fence it creates to contain our awareness is an illusion. But it is nevertheless a real barrier to our awareness.

The ultimate mystical experience is to have an experience similar to Jill Bolte Taylor. That is, an conscious experience of the infinity of our being. However, it is to do so without the need for pain or years of meditation or the like. It is clear we can stumble into the Source of Creation as in the Ultimate Accident. But what is clear is that we can access the infinite through our creative imagination realizing the barrier that mind creates is an illusion keeping our awareness from the experience of the infinite while in the body. The way to experience the infinite while in the body is to play with the boundaries created by mind in our creative imagination. Surprisingly, the way to do is rituals directly related to the fears we express.

We can use rituals and metatheater to explore and probe the boundaries of our mind in playfulness. The seven chakra questionnaire for rituals provides a path to being to explore the belief related to key aspects of our being. The goal is to probe the limits of our mind across the a broad range of experiences. But then a question arises "When and where would people have time to do this?" They are too busy with the lives, work, families and the like. One approach is to use the concept of group routinely meeting directed toward this end. It is here the traditional concept of the salon as a model and a place were people can go to discuss the journey and creating a creation dialog partner much as suggest in the Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines. Here the dialog partner would be to help explore the beliefs of the mind to probe the limits of our mind.

It is important for people to talk. Something like a traditional salon is needed for people to talk about their experiences of probing the boundaries of their mind and what they are finding in the experience. The salon provides a place to have someone with whom to talk on the same journey to help each other see where the mind is resisting and to figure out ways to manage a break through. It is a place individual’s can talk about the difficulties they are having in facing what they find.

To obtain this ultimate mystical experience, the concept of the gentle phoenix arise to provide the path for people to break through this illusion of mind within their own creative imagination. That is, they come to know the infinite within their own being and accessible through their own being. One only needs to hold their creativity sacred as they probe their mind. It is to know that one is an infinite creative being capable of creating any experience they desire in any "direction." It is to know our creativity is infinite. It is this fact that is needed when mind is probed. Any place mind pushed back and tries to prevent us form experiencing our own creativity in any given direction is a break through point. Probe enough break through points and the illusion crumbles.

It is not about looking to just play in mind and do rituals, metatheaters and the like. The goal is to look to see where mind resists and figure out a way to playfully break though or step outside mind at those points. "Not doing" experiences whether real or symbolic at such points would be key. It is those points where the infinity of our own being lies. Over time, there will be enough breaks in the illusion created by mind that we can see who and what we really are - we will have that experience of the infinity of our own being from within our own being.

The problem that is faced after experiencing the infinity of our being is to realize how small we have been living life. The issue is then recreate our life to live and be what we have discovered. What grounds us in life will be the intention for our life and why the incarnated in the first place. Here the most natural question will arise when one discovers how infinitely creative they are. It is to ask "Why have I chose to be here?" In asking this question, we will get and answer. In getting the answer we will recreate our lives to go do it for there is a powerful wisdom that created that intention in the first place. This is exactly what has been observed to happen.

Although not obvious till usually after the fact, the fears we expressed are the doorways to the infinity of our own being. Probing our fears in playfulness is the door way to the gentle phoenix for the probing takes us past the limits of mind where we are most vulnerable. Fears are only from the past and are a reflection of the past experiences we have had. The past is what gives rise to and sustains the illusion which prevents us from experiencing the infinity of our own being. This is why many mystics say that when they were a child the knew who and what they were and were in the light. Adi Da is the one who most expressed this remembrance when he referred to being in the "bright" as a child. Then, as we all do, we lost the ability to in the "bright" as mind developed and then we spend a life time trying to regain what we have lost. The issue is simply mind and what it thinks and believes.

We cannot fear the unknown for we do not know what to fear. Our fears are simply the past being projected forward. Fear sustain the illusion of mind. The fears themselves are the door way to a gentle phoenix to experience the ultimate mystical experience.

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