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Originally Posted by Czymra
Dakini, could you try to classify that (Mystic's) path? I sense what you're saying but my intellect isn't following. I'm not particularly intent on manifesting.... but at the moment I'm still hardly conscious of what's going on. I wonder if consciousness has anything to do with it even. The models are all so corrupted.
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I'm not sure that you wouldn't view this path as out-moded, or too traditional, or corrupted. But for someone with so much to say and explore, it could be something to read about to understand this path.
To classify it would be a long post, if I could even do it :-). I would point you to Evelyn Underhill - my favorite to read - herself a British Mystic - she wrote primarily of the Christian mystics, and, leaving out her own process, describes the process of the mystic path so incredibly eloquently bc of her firsthand knowledge of it. Here is what she says:
We begin, therefore, to see that the task of union with Reality will involve certain stages of preparation as well as stages of attainment; and these stages of preparation — for some disinterested souls easy and rapid, for others long and full of pain — may be grouped under two heads.
First, the disciplining and simplifying of the attention, which is the essence of Recollection. Next, the disciplining and simplifying of the affections and will, the orientation of the heart; which is sometimes called by the formidable name of Purgation. So the practical mysticism of the plain man will best be grasped by him as a five-fold scheme of training and growth: in which the first two stages prepare the self for union with Reality, and the last three unite it successively with the World of Becoming, the World of Being, and finally with that Ultimate Fact which the philosopher calls the Absolute and the religious mystic calls God. From, Practical Mysticism, here on
pbs.org
This is a lifelong path, one with no guarantees of any progress. For the Mystics, in the final process of it all, they find themselves integrated back into the normal world, living life, but being carried by their realization.
The Mystic's Path - An old fashioned Way, perhaps, but so compelling to read and experience. There is a new Way that is emerging, and that Way has in common elements of this path.