There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.
The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.
If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.
A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child’s attention field.
Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.
The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.
Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness.
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.
A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.
Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don’t survive.
The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.
The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There’s no magic as long as there’s all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.
The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that’s when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That’s when you experience its ecstasy.
If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.
You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it’s overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed – you no longer exist.
There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don’t think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.
This world is not a middle point in evolution. It’s one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.