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Recently on a forum related to self-work, I kicked up some dust in a response to someone posting a thread about the Kabbalistic Holy Guardian Angel, or HGA.
Granted that the said dust may have been kicked up because of communication difficulties - I expressed my experiences and subsequent theory that the historical accounts of the HGA ("knowledge and conversation") are the result of hallucinatory, volatile-mental projections of the same quiet inner-arising that Gurdjieff simply calls Conscience.
It was Gurdjieff's opinion that only by grounding one's full awareness in the living sensations of the physical body can one awaken the 'I Am' presence effectively. This state of conscious, awakened perception was said to result from, amongst other things, significant emotional work - the goal of said work being the awakening and embodiment of Conscience, which Gurdjieff posited was the channel by which higher benevolent forces (a la the HGA metaphor) work on humanity towards harmonisation - a higher guide by which to devote the orientation of one's Will.
Whilst personally I have had experiences of what is called the HGA - encounters with images and forms of a higher self and indeed, experiences of extraterrestrial entities - it is my perspective that such experiential states are not necessary for genuine self evolution, and that in fact - as Gurdjieff often said - having such magickal experiences as a goal only increases the mind-body split and thus induces a form of psychosis.
Ultimately, the information (a sort of inner spiritual guidance) being transmitted by such experiences must be integrated into bodily awareness and thus, fixation on images and forms such as angels may inhibit this.
Theory aside - what are your experiences of a greater intelligence than your own, coaxing you towards harmonic development and evolution, how do you discern between a valid experience and the mind's dreams, and what place do you think experiential states have with the ongoing work of integrating a deeper spiritual connection to your everyday embodied life?
Granted that the said dust may have been kicked up because of communication difficulties - I expressed my experiences and subsequent theory that the historical accounts of the HGA ("knowledge and conversation") are the result of hallucinatory, volatile-mental projections of the same quiet inner-arising that Gurdjieff simply calls Conscience.
It was Gurdjieff's opinion that only by grounding one's full awareness in the living sensations of the physical body can one awaken the 'I Am' presence effectively. This state of conscious, awakened perception was said to result from, amongst other things, significant emotional work - the goal of said work being the awakening and embodiment of Conscience, which Gurdjieff posited was the channel by which higher benevolent forces (a la the HGA metaphor) work on humanity towards harmonisation - a higher guide by which to devote the orientation of one's Will.
Whilst personally I have had experiences of what is called the HGA - encounters with images and forms of a higher self and indeed, experiences of extraterrestrial entities - it is my perspective that such experiential states are not necessary for genuine self evolution, and that in fact - as Gurdjieff often said - having such magickal experiences as a goal only increases the mind-body split and thus induces a form of psychosis.
Ultimately, the information (a sort of inner spiritual guidance) being transmitted by such experiences must be integrated into bodily awareness and thus, fixation on images and forms such as angels may inhibit this.
Theory aside - what are your experiences of a greater intelligence than your own, coaxing you towards harmonic development and evolution, how do you discern between a valid experience and the mind's dreams, and what place do you think experiential states have with the ongoing work of integrating a deeper spiritual connection to your everyday embodied life?
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