The Science of Mystical Experiences // Spiritual Intelligence 05

[Music] namaste and welcome back i'm aaron abke and in today's episode of spiritual intelligence we're talking all about the mystical state and the science of mystical experiences themselves as i mentioned last week the mystical state correlates to the heart chakra or the sq level of awakening and this state of consciousness flowers within us at a certain level of spiritual intelligence when we begin to awaken to the reality of oneness and we begin to fall in love with it and so you might be wondering why is this state the entryway into the three states of mastery

join me in this episode of spiritual intelligence to find out as we discuss and explore the mystical state [Music] so i want to talk about the mystical state with you today so that you can learn what it truly is and how to access it because spiritual intelligence is all about learning how to take in these states of consciousness into our awareness and begin integrating them not just treating them like a special fleeting experience i once had because all of these experiences we call mystical are nothing but an experience of your own self so it is

absolutely something you can learn to integrate and that's what we're going to be talking about today from the beginning of recorded history and beyond mankind has experienced this phenomenon and written about it which we classify now as the mystical experience and in places like india and tibet these experiences are commonplace and even expected gopi my friend how are you doing oh i am wonderful thank you for asking i had a great weekend uh i did some meditation uh uh sheared the goats uh oh and i had a mystical experience oh how wonderful my friend i

had a few of them myself just last weekend ah beautiful are krishna krishna in indian culture mystical experiences are a normal way of life but in other cultures having a mystical experience can have dire consequences for example in the middle east or western europe during the dark ages if you had a mystical experience that you couldn't keep to yourself you could be executed for it even now in some religious circles people have mystical experiences all the time that they can't explain and they're even labeled as evil or demonic by their church members for example i

remember having my first mystical experiences at around five or six years old and i would run inside to my parents after playing outside in the grass and say mom dad i saw god in the glass wow that's great buddy well then go outside and keep playing with god then go on let's definitely not bring this up at church most of the christian and catholic mystics of the middle ages whom we read about now were priests and nuns and clergymen who had reached the sq level of awakening and couldn't unsee that vision of oneness and so

they wrote about it and some of them even taught about it and almost all of them were inevitably executed for it some of these mystics even reached the sq level of illumination such as saint john of the cross and saint teresa of avila and the mysterious unknown mystic who wrote the famous cloud of unknowing had clearly reached the level of mastery but there's a famous mystic from italy in the 16th century named giordano bruno who had a series of mystical experiences which revealed to him not only that the sun did not revolve around the earth

but that our sun was just one of trillions of stars with trillions of other worlds and that the magnitude of god's glory throughout the universe could not be anything less than infinite and he could not shut up about these mystical experiences that clearly altered him permanently and as a result of this his tongue was placed in a metal clamp and he was burned at the stake for heresy here is one of his most famous quotes for which he was executed all things are in the universe and the universe is in all things we in it

and it in us in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity god is infinite and so his universe must be too thus is the excellence of god magnified and the greatness of his kingdom made manifest he is glorified not in one but in countless sons not in a single earth a single world but in a thousand thousand i say in an infinity of worlds giordano's mystical experience revealed to him that not only was the universe he was inside of much more vast than he could have imagined but that the universe was also inside of

him that it was not confined to just one small planet and a single star but it was infinite in nature and couldn't be anything else and these are hallmark realizations of a mystical experience but since everyone's mystical experience is a little bit unique it begs the question how do we define a mystical experience and what are their significance a mystical experience is a momentary expansion of awareness that alters one's perception of reality permanently and the reason that these experiences are fleeting and momentary at first is because when we are deeply identified with ego it has

all of its structures and defenses firmly in place but an experience might happen to you where awareness can break through these barriers of the mind and glimpse the undivided supreme reality for a moment but after this reality is glimpsed the ego will quickly set off all the alarms in the system and try to suck you back into ego consciousness again or separation consciousness however every mystical experience that one has alters their state of consciousness permanently because the mystical state gives us access to cosmic consciousness for the first time it allows us to experience our true

inherent nature but like a fish taken out of water we are born into a dualistic mind that hides the non-dual nature of reality from our awareness and so we gasp and flail and suffer from the belief in separation like a fish flapping and flailing out of the water so imagine if this fish could never die but just spent decades of time suffering out in the open air like this what would happen if you plunged that fish back into the deep silent ocean for 30 seconds if that fish could talk how would it describe what it

felt like to be back in the ocean in its natural environment for those 30 seconds it would probably say something like ah it was pure bliss it was the most heavenly experience like i was home for the first time i never wanted it to end sounds like a mystical experience doesn't it but in reality it isn't oneness is the way reality actually is it isn't a fleeting experience it is our true nature which we were meant to exist in but like a fish out of water we have forgotten what our natural state feels like because

we've been living in separation for so much of our life and so this leads me to the five characteristics of a mystical experience and there's certainly many more that we could list but these are probably the five most common traits the first characteristic is that mystical experiences are always paradoxical there's always a paradox involved in the recognition for example a feeling of openness or vastness while sitting in a small room a feeling of newness to ordinary things although nothing in your environment has changed everything is silently sparkling with aliveness and mystery right there in the

midst of their seeming ordinariness both qualities are seen at the same time the second characteristic is unifying there is always a kind of bliss that is felt from the vision of oneness that inspires a joyful view of creation everything seems to be silently celebrating and rejoicing in the divine nature and because of its unifying quality the mystical state is a highly optimistic one it is as if every cell in your being is saying yes to all that is the third characteristic is conviction there is a kind of noetic quality that one can't explain why but

it is intuitively felt that this is far more real than ordinary perception is a total conviction that what you are seeing is the true nature of things and that your ordinary state of mind is like a dirty or dusty air filter that mutes and covers over the mystical reality a recognition that this is far more real than anything you've experienced before the fourth quality is timelessness there is no experience of thought or time but simply pure awareness time may even feel like a laughable concept when people ask you how long your experience lasted you usually

can't decide if it lasted for a brief second or for an eternity both may feel equally true and the fifth quality of mystical experiences is revelation they reveal a sacredness about creation all things are seen as holy and divine emanations of the one often times people are no longer able to kill insects or litter or cause any kind of harm to the earth or to any sentient being to judge or hurt anything in the universe feels like a kind of desecration after having a mystical experience now mystical experiences do not only happen at the awakening

sq level they can happen at any level of sq and so having one does not necessarily mean you are at the awakening level yet but what it means is that as we enter the 101 to 125 range the mystical state begins to flower within us and the depth and the frequency of these experiences begin to increase exponentially because as we start to awaken to the reality of oneness the universe begins to peel back the curtains and reveals its true majesty and perfection to us and so a mystical experience can be an incredibly short or subtle

simple experience like seeing the divine in a blade of grass or a leaf for just a few fleeting seconds or it can be an earth-shattering vision that one is not even able to speak about without crying for many many years so at either end of the spectrum mystical experiences are very important events in one's spiritual journey because they purify the mind from our attachments and desires for the world and they leave us with an insatiable hunger for more because when one truly tastes that nectar of immortality that a mystical experience reveals one can never be

satisfied by anything in the world ever again as we've been discussing the sq chart reveals one's capacity for awareness at each level of spiritual intelligence so as you can see the higher one's sq level is the more often you will have mystical experiences and at a certain point one can even control and induce them to a certain extent by learning to engage with the universe with childlike curiosity and a heart full of love and devotion to the divine the universe cannot resist revealing itself to you but the more often these experiences happen the less radical

that they feel and the more normal that they become and eventually one lives in what most people would consider a permanent mystical state because as one adjusts to this new vision of reality one develops the capacity to integrate and sustain these experiences if you take our fish example from earlier if you place the fish back in the ocean permanently the shock of that experience would soon wear off and the fish would forget all about its suffering outside of the ocean because of the lack of contrast all it knows now is the vastness and unity of

ocean consciousness and this is how illumination feels what is mind-blowing at one level of sq becomes ordinary at another however the bliss of the mystical state always remains the only thing that falls away is one's surprise about the nature of oneness so the question we began with is why is the mystical state at the heart chakra level the entryway into the three states of mastery and the first reason is that mystical experiences are signposts that one's sq level is elevating they only occur when one is transitioning out of duality and into non-duality and they are

shocking only because one hasn't truly seen non-duality or oneness before but the more that one glimpses the reality of oneness the more that the mystical state becomes ordinary consciousness over time and this is because enlightenment or illumination is a state of consciousness that only manifests once the nervous system has been properly prepared for it and this preparation of the nervous system usually takes quite a bit of time our seven energy centers and the entire nervous system make up our subtle body and it takes a certain level of energy and awareness to perceive non-duality and that

awareness and energy depend entirely on the physical state of one's nervous system a weak nervous system doesn't have the bandwidth to perceive reality at this level of vibration and this is basically what ra teaches about spiritual balancing in the law of one that prana cannot flow up to the third eye center when there are psychic knots or distortions in our energy centers our energy centers are what feed the entire nervous system and this is why energy work and chakra activation is such an integral part of the practices that we're going to be learning throughout this

series so when someone is having mystical experiences on a regular basis this is a dead giveaway that their nervous system is being prepared for the state of enlightenment to begin to manifest for instance when i had my own sudden awakening at 27 it happened because of an intense mystical experience which led to a two-week period of full third eye activation that felt like a two-week long mystical experience but once it was over and the ego consciousness began coming back online i started to experience little pains throughout my body like little sparks of electricity or lightning

bolts of pain in my nervous system and i wasn't sure if i was coming down with some kind of neurological disorder until i began reading the law of one and other accounts of sudden enlightenment where people describe the same kinds of physiological pain or burning sensations throughout their body and this can happen because when the nervous system becomes highly positively polarized through a kundalini awakening or a profound enlightenment experience such as i had then when the ego comes back online and all that negatively polarized energy is flowing through the nervous system again the positive and

negative energies sort of conflict with one another and fight for supremacy in the neural networks and this can be experienced as actual physical pain so it's important to cultivate capacity in our nervous system for the state of enlightenment to manifest within us in a gradual and easeful manner and this isn't to say that sudden experiences are bad but they can be a little bit challenging to navigate through the three states of mastery could also be seen as the three ways that consciousness merges with reality from separation to oneness as the law of one says we

are a mind body spirit complex and as we've been discussing throughout the series the first state of mastery is at the throat level which is the i am state of mind heart coherence so that is the mind merging with reality the second state of mastery is the flow state at the third eye which is when the body merges with reality and the third state of mastery is the channeling state at the crown where the spirit merges with reality mind body and spirit so you can see the importance of cultivating the mystical state in order to

prepare the nervous system for the states of mastery so let's talk now about how to cultivate the mystical state now i can only speak from my personal experience but for me personally the two most important practices have been remembering and contemplating remembering past mystical experiences you've had in your mind and imagination reliving that moment and the feelings that you felt is a powerful way of cultivating the mystical state but secondly and probably most importantly is the practice of contemplation spending lots of time each day inwardly and wordlessly contemplating the nature of reality the source of

creation and one's connection to it all is a powerful way of cultivating the mystical state it becomes like the fragrance that the rose sheds to attract the bumblebee the universe will not be able to resist your aroma and it will begin to pollinate your mind with the nectar of mysticism now i'm sure that many of you are thinking okay i totally get it and i'm on board with it but how how do i begin preparing my nervous system what does that even look like and in coming episodes i'm going to be giving you some specific

practices that you can start doing each day to begin expanding your nervous system's capacity for energy gradually and preparing you for illumination but we're not quite there just yet there's still a little bit more foundation laying that needs to be done over the coming weeks to help you really understand each of these seven levels of spiritual intelligence how they are activated and eventually how to begin awakening the serpent power of kundalini shakti at the base of the spine to rapidly accelerate our journey into mastery in our next episode we're going to begin covering the three

states of mastery beginning with the im state at the throat chakra level and now that we've covered brain waves as well as the mystical state that precedes it we can better understand how to activate mind heart coherence and eventually how to abide there so i want to thank you for watching this episode of spiritual intelligence i'm aaron abke and i'll see you in our next episode hey everyone thank you for watching today's video i hope that you were truly blessed by it and i wanted to let you know that i'm really excited to now be

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