Enlightenment

Enlightenment

David Collier

This is written, in the ideal spirit of Quora, to inform. Not to speculate, and not to promulgate the many misunderstandings; misapprehensions; delusions, or mental aberrations published on Quora in the area of spirituality. 

First; let it be understood that knowledge comes only from experience: the final arbiter of truth. 

Second; let it be understood I write from authentic experience. 

Third; let it be understood this is a very difficult topic, in that the authentic experience is beyond words.  We do not have the vocabulary with which to properly describe this event. 

Authentic Enlightenment is a discrete spiritual event.  It is a one-off discretionary mind-blowing gift of temporary at-One-ment with God (Brahman) for those who have pleased God.  This is in the Hindu tradition of yoga, meaning being yoked with God.  It is beyond thought and beyond the mind, which is unable to comprehend this event so shuts down temporarily. 

It is not in the Buddhist tradition of an intellectual or philosophical insight into life in this world.  That Siddhartha Gautama was basically a thinker and philosopher is indicated by on article on his ideas in the book 'Great Thinkers of the Eastern World', Ian P. McGreal (Ed.) 1995. 

To be clear: Siddhartha Gautama was a great thinker whose philosophy has helped the world immeasurably. He was not; however, a spiritually Enlightened person. Further, he did not want to be worshipped, just as Jeshua ben Joseph (Jesus) did not.  They deserve respect but not worship. 

In this event the name; personality, and ego are obliterated.  It is a trans-personal event.  One is taken up beyond time and space in a state of total bliss. One experiences infinite love (insofar as words can serve) and one senses tremendous creative potential, along with a sense of individuality within this God-environment. 

The physical body is left behind, and may die if one stays too long with God. 

In this event one discovers that one is immortal Spirit, a child of God. Refer Psalm 82, verse 6 in the Bible.  We have a body; we have a mind, but we are above such things.  We reincarnate into this or other worlds in order to provide experience for the Soul of which we are an extension into physical reality, and in order to work off any negative karma accumulated in other lifetimes.  We do not possess a Soul; the Soul (existing beyond time and space) possesses us. 

Kundalini arousal to the point where it moves around the inside of the skull in a predetermined manner is evidently a prerequisite, and having no negative karma remaining is another. 

It took an esoteric crystal-assisted meditation twice a day for 7 months to clean out my chakras before kundalini rose up in my system.  And one day apropos of nothing I suddenly knew I had no karma remaining. This was a clairsentient knowing. Suffering an 'incurable' auto-immune disease for 20 years before I healed it permanently following an insight into its psycho-somatic nature was probably one way I worked off my karma. 

I became psychic, with experience of clairvoyance; clairaudience, clairsentience, and precognition in my mid-40's following intensive personal development workshops. These workshops purify the psychological self, without which the mind does not open and Enlightenment probably cannot be given.  In such workshops one faces repressed childhood traumas and neutralises or heals them on an unconscious mind level. I then repeated this work on the cellular memory level, via specialised kinesiology. 

Arguably many people jump straight into fancy spiritual meditation in order to avoid the more challenging, but essential, psychological work. 

I never wanted or expected to have this great blessing and 'reward for effort' at age 55.  I appear to have qualified for it by passing intensive tests of character in the 10 years before this event. In one such test I liquefied my life savings; house, and car in order to set up a humanitarian business that failed, leaving me penniless and homeless for some years.  But I was never without a roof over my head thanks to the generosity of others. 

To conclude, this event is not anything any person can 'obtain' or 'achieve'. It is a kind of loving hug from our Father in heaven for those who somehow qualify for it, in my case unknowingly. 

I hope this article helps to settle obvious extensive misunderstanding of this very rare event. 

N.B. There is no superiority or inferiority in the spiritual domain.  We are all gurus (teachers) for others. 

With respect and regards to all, 

David Collier B.Sc. Biology; B.Sc. Psychology; B.A. Sustainability; Dip.Clin.Hyp.; M.IASK; energetic Master (chakras), and now an appointed Medium for God the Father.