Post by girlscout on Dec 28, 2018 4:55:55 GMT
I was led to this author when I discovered my favorite author, Michael Crichton, had attended a workshop by this man.
Michael Chrichton’s book that contained this experience is called Travels. He also describes his OBE experience, which I don’t recall right now. =/
Anyway! W. Brugh Joy has written Joy’s Way which describes his group workshops results; working in the positive portion of spirituality.
(I was hoping to gain some insights when I read it but his design wasn’t meant for solo experience.)
30 years later, though, he explores the negative side of spirituality, in the book Avalanche, Heretical Reflections on the Dark and the Light, which I am reading now.
from p94. “In the early stages of spiritual awakening, no harm is incurred in playing out Parent-Child dynamic. To be dependent on the teacher in those stages, perhaps even completely dependent, may be appropriate, with the dependency diminishing as maturation occurs. In later stages, however, the deeper initiations cannot transpire and the fullness of Being is lostif the Parent-Child bonding is not broken.”
[note - I am taking this to mean an external teacher, not our internal Parents, at this point.] Continuing:
”An inclusive path must include not only the Child, but also the Adolescent, the Mature Man and the Mature Woman, the Father and the Mother, The Elder, the Teacher, the Cosmic One, the Self/Source ... and many more selfs as well. All these aspects are to be experienced in some degree in the fuller awakening of Being.”
ok, backing up a bit, from p74: “ ... each individual has potentially at his or her disposal far more vast dimensions of awareness than just those of the outer conscious mind. Precisely because I regularly experience the contrast between my ordinary mind and the greater ranges of consciousness, I can make the statement that the ordinary conscious part of my being is mostly comatose, has only a limited and superficial effect on my life, and is mostly a strongly biased and defensive witness to reality. I suspect the same is true for others. ... control over encounters with expanded or different selves [multi-D?] is initially tenuous and easily interrupted. At least several months of constant attention to the newly encountered self or selves are usually required before a degree of stability is achieved. ... The path of Self-Realization, however, is one of courage, vulnerability, attention, commitment, and sacrifice. Neither getting on the path nor staying on it is easy.”
and, p75: “Having a number of personalities in a single body is termed Multiple Personality Disorder by traditional medicine. ... When I was in medical school,, I heard during a psychiatric lecture that a diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder was considered to be so rare that only one hundred cases were recorded in the worlds literature. ... the multiplicity of Beingness experienced by large numbers of people points to a very different understanding of consciousness than traditional religious, scientific, legal, political, and medical perspectives hold... The discovery of multiplicity in myself and in every individual that I have worked with over the last fourteen years forms the basis, and accounts for a large part of the success, of my approach to helping people engage Self-Realization, fulfillment, and their inherent well-being. Indeed, having multiple personalities may be of extraordinary value to both the individual and society.”
Michael Chrichton’s book that contained this experience is called Travels. He also describes his OBE experience, which I don’t recall right now. =/
Anyway! W. Brugh Joy has written Joy’s Way which describes his group workshops results; working in the positive portion of spirituality.
(I was hoping to gain some insights when I read it but his design wasn’t meant for solo experience.)
30 years later, though, he explores the negative side of spirituality, in the book Avalanche, Heretical Reflections on the Dark and the Light, which I am reading now.
from p94. “In the early stages of spiritual awakening, no harm is incurred in playing out Parent-Child dynamic. To be dependent on the teacher in those stages, perhaps even completely dependent, may be appropriate, with the dependency diminishing as maturation occurs. In later stages, however, the deeper initiations cannot transpire and the fullness of Being is lostif the Parent-Child bonding is not broken.”
[note - I am taking this to mean an external teacher, not our internal Parents, at this point.] Continuing:
”An inclusive path must include not only the Child, but also the Adolescent, the Mature Man and the Mature Woman, the Father and the Mother, The Elder, the Teacher, the Cosmic One, the Self/Source ... and many more selfs as well. All these aspects are to be experienced in some degree in the fuller awakening of Being.”
ok, backing up a bit, from p74: “ ... each individual has potentially at his or her disposal far more vast dimensions of awareness than just those of the outer conscious mind. Precisely because I regularly experience the contrast between my ordinary mind and the greater ranges of consciousness, I can make the statement that the ordinary conscious part of my being is mostly comatose, has only a limited and superficial effect on my life, and is mostly a strongly biased and defensive witness to reality. I suspect the same is true for others. ... control over encounters with expanded or different selves [multi-D?] is initially tenuous and easily interrupted. At least several months of constant attention to the newly encountered self or selves are usually required before a degree of stability is achieved. ... The path of Self-Realization, however, is one of courage, vulnerability, attention, commitment, and sacrifice. Neither getting on the path nor staying on it is easy.”
and, p75: “Having a number of personalities in a single body is termed Multiple Personality Disorder by traditional medicine. ... When I was in medical school,, I heard during a psychiatric lecture that a diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder was considered to be so rare that only one hundred cases were recorded in the worlds literature. ... the multiplicity of Beingness experienced by large numbers of people points to a very different understanding of consciousness than traditional religious, scientific, legal, political, and medical perspectives hold... The discovery of multiplicity in myself and in every individual that I have worked with over the last fourteen years forms the basis, and accounts for a large part of the success, of my approach to helping people engage Self-Realization, fulfillment, and their inherent well-being. Indeed, having multiple personalities may be of extraordinary value to both the individual and society.”