Posting this for the benefit of all, from a meditation & yoga practitioner of many years
According to yogic tradition, there are three different levels of experiences associated with spiritual practices, significant in relation to the progress of the meditator. Metaphorically speaking they form a cone resting on its wide, flat base, with the pinnacle at the very top. The cone stands as a symbolical model made of different levels of energy, with the speed and velocity vibration directly in proportion to the altitude of each wheel.
It could be divided into three levels, corresponding to the assent of our consciousness from the flat level of gross physical awareness (the world of senses), through the subtler regions of astral and karmic (causal) domains. Finally to the top where the vibration is so infinitely high it is beyond comprehension or measure.
Although there is no clear demarcation line between the energy levels, still the experiences fall within the respective level of our psyche-physiological setup. People tend to confuse the later with the former ones for that reason it would be helpful to list them all. All one's experiences vary in accord and with correspondence to each of the stages of one's awareness, thus forming the three main types (of experiences):
1. Physical and psychological ( born of purification of bodily tissues and cells, cleansing of negative emotional experiences, dissolution of psychological stresses, etc. ) Usually manifesting as re-experiencing of an old stagnant pain; a disease being purged out of the body; as an excessive sweating; spontaneous crying or laughing; involuntary movements of the bodily parts; sudden emotional release in any form from elation to depression; tingling sensations on the surface and inside; etc.
2. Psychic or astral and karmic experiences ( signify the process of purification of the subtle body made of psychic wheels, chakras, in other words purification of the nervous system on the subtlest level from previous experiences which have been deeply stored in the subconsciousness ). They often come as the result of the awakening of the subtle energies (various pranas) manifesting in spectacular experiences as divine or demonic visions; visitations of divine entities; traveling to astral planes; out-of-body experiences, including all the range of so-called mystical or paranormal ones. At a more advanced stage one starts to hear subtle sounds and seeing lights of different colours, from red to yellow, to green, to bright white. Those lights however are the lights perceived from different energy centers (chakras).
3. Spiritual or Divine experiences ( are the result of deep purification on all levels, they come when the nervous system is pure enough to receive a fuller impact of Pure Consciousness. The sign of a highly advanced being these experiences however aren't necessarily mark of a highest state, nevertheless they confirm the dawn of Self-realization ) In its ripe state the aspirant is established in the subtlest form of sound which he/she hears constantly deep within his whole being. This sound is no longer the sound of the astral domain but a pure primordial sound of the Matrix - Mother of all sounds - the sound AUM. After traversing different regions of psyche the aspirant is fully immersed in the Light of Pure Consciousness, the intensity of that experience is beyond any forms of expression.
Most people who haven't undergone the full process will insist that there is no objective way to measure individual experiences, yet contrary to that, most esoteric traditions of far remote cultures seemed to agree on the similarity of the highest experience. It is the basic experiences where the widest range is found, simply because at the base of the cone the filed of experience is the widest, and as one goes higher and higher they become more unified. Needless to say at the very top there are no different points of view, but one clear vision of Reality. At the summit, there is no longer the experiencer or the object of experience - everything is merged into the experience of Oneness.
Jai Guru Dev
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