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Subject: [K-list] El Collie Tribute: Enlightenment
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent

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>Subject: [K-list] Enlightenment
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>Recent posts (mine, Angelique's and indirectly, Jay's) have brought attention
>to the All That Is, God/Goddess One Self level, which, when directly
>experienced, is described in spiritual literature as "enlightenment." When I
>first had direct experience of this state some 30 years ago, I, as El Collie,
>ceased to exist as a separate individual. The literature speaks of this as
>dissolution of the ego -- the loss of one's sense of being an isolate self
>amidst others. There was only the totality of universal/divine
>consciousness. Three days later, when I "came down" into my personal
>identity again, I could have said that I had an enlightening experience, but
>NOT that I was enlightened. I had just been permitted, by grace or fate, to
>know some of the sacred mysteries, just as now, by grace or fate, I'm
>experiencing risen K. Aside from an innate passion to uncover the truth of
>everything (not that I always succeed), I did nothing consciously to seek or
>earn these experiences.
>
>IMNSHO (newly coined acronym: "In my not-so-humble opinion," LOL), most who
>claim to be enlightened were, at best, given a visitor's pass to the deepest
>level, then returned to their human-ego state. (One sign that someone isn't
>really highly evolved is their egotistical boasting about how much they are!)
> A very, very few have remained centered in the One Self state: Buddha,
> Jesus
>and Neem Karoli Baba seemed to have achieved this. There are others. The
>Buddhist monk who deliberately set himself on fire to protest the suffering
>on all sides in the Vietnam war seemed to personify enlightenment. Media
>film coverage (broadcast worldwide) showed him sitting unflinching as the
>flames consumed his body. After he had burnt to death, only one part of his
>body remained uncharred -- his heart. His fellow monks later tried
>repeatedly to cremate his heart to complete the death ritual, but the heart
>proved indestructible. In the PBS documentary that told the full story, I
>think they said that the monk's imperishable heart remains enshrined in a
>Buddhist temple.
>
>Until we have reached that kind of self-detachment and unconditional love, I
>don't think we can honestly claim to be enlightened. Yet not being
>enlightened doesn't mean we don't have any valid insights, it just means
>we're still learning.
>
>El

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