THE VISION. RELATED FACTS II

During my experiment I was able to remain conscious in "conscious sleep" and as a result of it I was conscious too about my consciousness being an independent and autonomous center of perception that I called at that moment a "mental body", in other words, I made contact with the subtle physical, and as for my own experience at least, that mental body was at the same time or could wear a subtler body when in need of it.

It was in this subtler body that I often met Sri Aurobindo, but I'm convinced that the Master did a lot to help me, and after all "He came to me" unexpectedly, I was not thoroughly able to control my subtler experiences, it was a new set of experiences and I had not even idea that I could or would meet Sri Aurobindo.

In the course of my experiment I realized that sometimes there would be some kind of superimposed perception of the subtler body during the wake condition, it was not necessary anymore to have the physical body sleeping in order to feel the subtle body, but subtler perceptions would happen rather suddenly and unexpected with a previous quite condition of mind, a meditative attitude.

In the course of time this subtler perception grew steadily, it was possible living in the material realm having a subtler perception of it. I used to think of Sri Aurobindo as an "anchorage", whenever I focused my consciousness on the Master I was able to enter into a subtler perception of reality. I often used this means to understand the how and why my personal relation with the Master, and this subtler perception led me to remember how and when I met and served as a disciple at His feet.

In "Atem´s Notebooks" I present several akashic registers, in Number 2 and 3 I describe a Pharaoh. That Pharaoh was Sri Aurobindo in a previous life, and you may notice how concerned He was in trying to awake the real cult into the common people. My subtler perception explained me that I was (the soul in me was) the therapist which shows in both akashic registers: at that time a fervent disciple of the great Pharaoh.

While recalling to my memory my previous lives at His service, I realized I was again one of his disciples during Middle Age in Europe.

At that moment the Master was known as Stephen Harding, a saint hermit which is considered the founder of the Cisterciensis Order. But his greater work remains unknown and undervalued.

The facts are worth a closer look.

Stephan was a celtic soul, much like Bernard de Clairvaux, one of his disciple. Though Stephan was a monk of the official christian church, as a Celt he was grown up with the idea of a merciful Mother of the Universe, generous and caring with Her creatures. This belief was deeply rooted in Stephan´s soul, and was antithetical to a God depicted by the church at that time as a vengeful and angry masculine god. A divinity which everybody had to fear rather than love. 

Through Bernard de Clairvaux (his main disciple) Stephen was able to insert the cult to the Merciful Mother into Christianity contra posed to the cult to the vengeful god. 

Suddenly the cult to the Merciful Mother spread all over Europe, but the person at the root of this cult was the humble saint Stephen Harding.

When the Pharaoh asked what to do in order to awaken the real cult into the plain mind of his people, his next purpose as Stephen Harding was to awaken the real cult (the cult to the Supreme Mother) in Occident.

 He was back in Orient, and as Sri Aurobindo he awakened there the real cult to the Mother, so that both Occident and Orient received the message to awaken to the reality of the universal  Mother. In fact, the whole of Sri Aurobindo teaching is centered on the existence of a divine universal Mother, which is the Mother of Yoga.

The very center of Auroville is the Matrimandir, the Temple of the Mother. So is the divine Mother the center of Sri Aurobindo's teachings.

In this way, the ancient Pharaoh united both Occident and Orient under a same cult, it was the natural unfolding of the purpose of the Pharaoh wishing to establish the real cult on earth. And the real cult could only be one: the cult to the divine Mother.

The ancient therapist was born again as Bernard de Clairvaux, again at the service of his Master.

Bernard was not only a server of his Master, but a server of the divine Mother too.

He came back on earth at Her service in an indian body known as Ramakrishna, a very known disciple of the divine Mother. Ramakrishna´s work about the unification of religions is well known to get into it here.

The divine Mother said to Ramakrishna that he would reborn again in Europe towards the middle of the XX century. Ramakrishna himself revealed it to his closer disciples, and his words were registered.

But how strange! Could the divine Mother and Sri Ramakrishna be both wrong on that point?

Nobody has ever heard Ramakrishna be here again, in Europe, in the XX century.

If that happened, this time he probably came unnoticed, doing his work at Her service but completely unknown. At the same time he would hold memories of being one of the long term Sri Aurobindo´s disciples and surely get in touch again with his Master.

This same person will reborn in Italy again, and will erect the first Ziggurat of the Modern Era.

These are not mental speculations, are soul truths which I pass onto you. It is my work to lift a bit the veil, and it is my work because in several lives I've been working and dealing with the faculty of Vision, a Vision which is amplified by the contact with Sri Aurobindo´s Consciousness. It is this training which allowed me to receive, hold and transmit the Vision which is at the base of this blog. When you open your door to subtle perception there is not any need anymore to trust me, you will know it all by yourself. You may surely meet Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physical, but to do that you need your own perception of your subtle body. Later on you will not need any longer to actually "see" Him, whenever you get in touch with "that consciousness" you will be with Him.

 

  

       

THE VISION. RELATED FACTS

 The reader of this blog should know that it was not by my own will but Sri Aurobindo wish that I share the information here contained. The skeptical attitude of mind is not a yogic attitude, in yoga there is not any need of a skeptical attitude because that belongs to the lower mind, the yogic attitude allow us to know by "identification", and that identification can be so deep that we can almost live the experience as it were our own, or at least to connect with the same level of consciousness. If you have read enough from Mother and Sri Aurobindo you know I'm not telling you nothing new because they often said exactly that.

 Basically, I was asked to share what the result of a prolonged contact with Sri Aurobindo consciousness, and that too was not by my own will or aspectative: it happened that I was the witness and the subject of a series of encounters with the Master, and during these I received information to share. The informations are of a different kind: some of them concerning historical akashic events of a very ancient time, in which we can appreciate how the human consciousness acted in several events, some of them bordering extinction of a whole human kind.

Other pages describe akashic registers of the future, I recollected them under the title "The Vision of Savitri". They are actual events to happen in a very next future or in a very far future, and that too related with the arboring of a new planetary consciousness which after a long period of planetary regeneration will give birth to the new, immortal kind of human being.

You should not consider that I was freely gifted by Sri Aurobindo of such plentiful series of visions to share with you: the necessary conditions required to witness and bear them had to be set with many efforts and during a considerable length of time.

Some pages describe exactly which kind of meditation allowed me to get into "conscious sleep" and finally into the perception of the subtle body,  that too was meant to be shared for your own interest and research. There are several pages concerning conscious sleep and subtle body, mental body or subtle physical. In all of them I describe my own experience of the subtle body, the only one I can describe in details. 

The reason for that is, that we need the perception of the subtle body to have the opportunity to meet Sri Aurobindo in the Earth´ subtle physical.

At this regard you should remember that before leaving his physical body in 1950 Sri Aurobindo said to Mother that He would not leave completely but remain accessible in the subtle physical. In 1969 Mother described how often She would meet Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physical, and She assured us that Sri Aurobindo was very active there, in the subtle physical. You should not think that Sri Aurobindo is less active today then He was in 1969, and this blog demonstrates that Sri Aurobindo is still quite active, asking me to share the content of several visions.

 This planet and the humanity with it is to undergo a period of a great crisis, much heavier than today, the visions that I share with you are a warning: be careful because the planetary crisis you are experiencing today is only the beginning of a much deeper crisis which will lead to the final disappearance of the previous model of unsustainable planetary growth.

 A new consciousness need to be born in the humanity and for that to happen, humanity needs to be on the very verge of extinction before it realizes how dangerous it is to continue on the path of unsustainable living. We can only be grateful to Sri Aurobindo that his Presence is still here with us, unknowingly intervening in the manifestation of that new consciousness and avoiding the disaster to be of such magnitude to lead to effective planetary extinction. 

What I'm sharing with you is relevant information Sri Aurobindo wanted you to know, I don't claim to be the message, I'm only the messenger and if something you owe me is the guarantee that whatever I describe I did as faithfully as I saw or heard from the Master. 

For the italian reader but of general interest you should know that Sri Aurobindo has kind of special interest in that country.

In the next future in Naples it will be edified the very first Ziggurat of the modern era, it will be the first of his kind on the planet and this will be deeply connected with the subtle, unknown activity of the Master leading to a full manifestation of a divine Consciousness on Earth.

The concept of the whole building will be symbolized in its three pyramids superposed: the concept of an integral and harmonious healing and integration of Body, Mind and Spirit. This building will be edified at the very entrance of the old Naples, out of Portalba, it will occupy the space of the old hospital now functioning. The presence of the Ziggurat right in that place is also related to the esoteric activity it has traditionally taken place in that area, where famous or less known alchemists and Initiates had shelter and associated there, being the "Cappella di San Severo"  but an example of that activity or the house where Goethe was guest during his visit to Naples in 1787. At that time that whole area was an effervescence of new ideas or the sharing of esoteric truths among students and initiates.The city of Naples was a point of reference in Europe and a destination for esoteric studies, under the name of Partenope the city was since ancient times a crawl of knowledge and civilizations, together with their initiation rituals and sharing of esoteric knowledge. With the Ziggurat, Naples will regain that ancient protagonism it had during several thousand years, being again like a lighthouse on the european territory. Blessed will be that times for Naples, Italy and the whole Earth. 

The Ziggurat will mean a further manifestation of Sri Aurobindo´work at a more concrete, physical level and at a wider range than a community (Auroville), it will be the first time ever that a municipality and a State enter into a conscious service to the purpose of the Mother, and in its layered symbolism the Ziggurat will be the temple of the Mother, much alike as the Matrimandir is the centre of Auroville: it will be a place of healing, where all knowledge regarding body mind and spirit will be reunited to favour the growth and health of a new humanity and a new meaning about our presence on Earth, it will facilitate whatever mean in order to re establish the health of the individual: acupuncture, yoga, ayurvedic or tai chi among new and old remedies will find a place there and will be used to restore health depending on the individual and his needs. In the three section of the Ziggurat  will be facilitated whatever needed at physical, mental or spiritual level in order to ensure an harmonious growth of the individual. 

As Mother described, at subtler levels there is a different perception of time: past events have not fully disappeared and future events are already there anticipating their next manifestation. For this reason we can witness future events, because at the highest level all History melts into an eternal Now. Be merry, the Victory of the Light is already winned in the Mind of God, take care.

If I were to give an advice to the present and next generations I would suggest you to get out of the cities and try to be as much independent as you can about food, energy and shelter, it may come a day when you really need it. People in the cities may face harder times at this regard, and though not everybody may easily leave the cities, those in the countryside will be better prepared to face scarcity of food or energy lockdowns. The knowledge you get on intelligent surviving may be shared with other people in need of it when there will be a more relevant exodus towards the countryside and the need for a life in touch with Nature.

  Be sure that whatever sincere step you take towards Sri Aurobindo, He will take steps toward you preparing the day of your final encounter with Him in the subtle physical.                

Integral Yoga and Subtle World

Whatever step and direction  one takes in integral yoga it is always into a subtler reality;
the subtle world, the subtle physical, the mental body, are all related with subtle reality, it is not an option, it is a fact.
The subtle world is not related with magic (though it may) nor is an exotic entertainment.
The terms astral world, astral travel, seem to me  improper definitions and I decline to use them, in the subtle world may happen a subtle travel, but it is not the only option there.  I substitute the term  "astral world"   for mental world or level, for the keenness I found  it has with my mental substance. 
The term "astral world" only refers to the objective circumstance and do not take in consideration the main issue: any action or fact there, strictly depend upon our control of the mental body. 
I understand this control during sleep has to be achieved by conscious sleeping, but the subtle reality is perceivable also in wake condition, I have observed that after a reasonable familiarity with the mental body  during sleep,  subtler perceptions start to flow into the wake condition as well, with a clear tendency to create an unbroken stream of perception.
In my own experience it is not a regular process since it´s easily upset by an improper diet,  among other factors.

Our conscious step into subtler reality is by decree accompanied by visible or invisible guides, but guides after all. We step into a training we may not always be conscious of, but a training after all.
If we have reached some degree of consciousness into subtle reality we may remember people and places or happenings we have seen, but our conscious memory of it is not always necessary. 
Many times at wake I could only have faint memories of a subtle experience, while other times I could hold the full sequence of different experiences of one single night.

Any researcher is supposed to reach farther levels of subtlety.
Sri Aurobindo cannot manifest himself into physical matter because if he would and we were witness, we would evaporate in a cloud of atoms,
so he holds a subtle-physical body and we can see him while in the subtle body, which is safer, because more malleable and more resistant to energetic stress.

One can see him in dreams, but the final test will always be in the subtle world.
I do not pretend a treatise on the matter, I speak from personal experience
and what may be useful to know if you have not a clear idea.

The physical body itself has to reach some degree of subtlety, so far, only coming under direct influence of the soul one can hope of "subtilizing" his body,
and as the mind is concerned, it must be able to leave the accustomed circle
of the rational mind and elevate itself into subtler circles, of which the intuitive level is already an expression of the soul and represent some degree of fusion of the lower self with the higher Self.

Atem´s Notebooks subtle body

March 2002

A peculiar activity of the subtle body


It was more and more frequent to awaken in the subtle body while the physical was sleeping, in that peculiar condition which is called  conscious sleep.

As a new experience that it was, I would observe whatever detail of these experiences, and that night I got interested in the activity of the subconscious.

I was observing a dream  projected on a screen made of mental substance, much alike  a movie on a large screen. I was just a witness, as a spectator at a cinema show.
I was perfectly conscious it was not myself to produce the dream, but an almost unobservable elusive part of me, my subconscious, which I felt and saw as a strange
animal kind of mind attached at the bottom of my conscious part.

 The dream had affinity with another one which I dreamt years before, so I decided to search for the previous dream, which in that very moment I vaguely remembered.

 While the dream was going on and a part of me was following it, another part split to search in a  kind of dream´s archives, where all the previous dreams were orderly contained much as books on shelves.
I was not surprised, I felt such activity was relative to the actual possibilities of a subtle body, in its  own environment it had quite some peculiarity, but it intrigued me mostly because I had never done it before and notwithstanding, I knew perfectly what to do and how to do it.

I started monitoring previous dreams on a smaller screen which appeared instantaneously at my side, I did it several times, about six or seven, searching and watching  the beginning of the dream or running it at higher speed,  and during all the time, I never lost contact with the "main" dream, it continued unfolding itself in front of my mind´s eyes.

Then, I finally found what I was searching for, I put it on the smaller screen so to compare them. At that moment, I was witnessing at two dreams at the same time: one of them just being produced by the subconscious, and the other, just the result of a volitive action on my side.  In fact I realized both dreams shared a similar "atmosphere": there was not any personage or places, it was just changing shades of colours charged with a peculiar note of poetry, as witnessing a beautifully moved sunset in the sky, and that atmosphere was pretty similar to both the dreams.

I followed them at the same time till the end, then I lost interest  and I moved away within a blue mental atmosphere, a blue kind of space where I felt very comfortable.  As a mental being, I felt it as my own environment, of which daily consciousness was unaware of.  I felt the necessity to build bridges of consciousness through the whole of the time,  that would necessarily meet with changes in sleep, which I was already noticing, I felt the subconscious had to be somehow  domesticated, colonized, opening it up  to some unknown force, and unknown process.

Clarifying the Vision: Auroville

The night was warm in Auroville while we seated on the floor of the little terrace,
we smiled each other, I finally could talk with dear friends which could give me an advice on the whole matter of the Vision and my unexpected visit to Auroville in my subtle body.
I confided in their large years of study and their evident spiritual development, moreover, I knew they should possess the key.

-So, tell us, what happen?

I mentioned them my unexpected contacts with the Master, the Vision he showed me, and how later I resulted very affected hosting the terrible doubt I had been victim of a feverish hallucination, and I continued: -The following night, as soon the body fall asleep I found myself in the subtle body feeling the peculiar sensation of being travelling at incredible speed, ending up in Auroville.

I literally appear in a room, a few meters behind a man sitting at a table, from the open window I can appreciate the luxurious tropical vegetation and the refreshing shadow of the trees. I´m quite surprised, but my first feeling is of uneasiness, I don´t feel comfortable by invading in such a manner the private space of someone else, and I´m thinking fast for what reason and why I´ve landed there, and what I´m supposed to do there.

Then suddenly the beloved Master appear at my right, my surprise is even greater now and I open my mouth with a torrent of questions in my mind but he silently put a finger on his mouth, as asking me silence. He is not in that glorious supramental shape of the previous night, and is wearing a simple white dhoti.

But my heart is silently dancing in my chest with delight for seeing him again and have the privilege to be with him.
Then, as answering to my questions, he silently indicates the man, as inviting me to investigate.

In all this, the man has not perceived our presence and I´m quite surprised he has no  reaction at our sudden appearance at his back. He continues unmoving reading something, I can appreciate he has a solid figure and curly hair. As I feel with permission to investigate I get closer to the man slightly at his left bending over his shoulder to see what is reading and I almost jump with surprise again!
He is actually reading an article of mine!

-The article on integral yoga appeared on a magazine, I said looking at my friends, and you probably remember that I send it to you by post.
-Yes, I remember it, I still have somewhere a couple of issues of the magazine, but please continue your story.

-Well, as I told you I´m quite surprised, but even more because I can perceive a psychological atmosphere which surrounds the sitting man, it is a kind of dense and stiff aura which probably has impeached him to perceive at any rate our presence, and especially his Master just behind him. I´m astonished how that can be!

I´m aware the man is reading the article from a pretentious position, as he were entitled in judging the value of the article and he his searching for some heretic proposition of mine, and in a very inquisitive way. This attitude is producing that almost unbearable aura which surround him. I´m almost sick in perceiving the aura.
I turn myself and I look to the Master, his eyes are sweet, but looks deeply into mine.
Then, he makes silently a gesture with his right hand as to say: this is what it is.
A few moments later we depart from there and I found myself again in my body and my house, at thousands of kilometers from here.

-Could you describe me the man? Did you see his face?
- From where I was I could only see a part of his face, he was definitely a south European, sun tanned face, a man with a solid body, bearded face and curly hair.

-Yes, he said, you are describing X, he was here as a guest, I myself gave him the magazine as it was written in his language, I perfectly remember it. He is still here, he stays now at Y.

We silently stared at each other for a long while, communed by the special atmosphere which surrounds who has suddenly discovered something of a great spiritual value,  I felt as my heart was suddenly free, I could have no doubts anymore, my experience with the Master had been real, finally I had a positive proof of it, and from now on I could answer to the request of the Master with the commitment of my  whole being.

That night, alone, I was wandering why then the Master choose me for the Vision, what did he see in me so worthy of trustfulness when even myself could not have any better consideration of my numberless faults, but for this I had no answer at all.  

Healing and Death

The experience I´ve described in the post with the same title, give us an idea of what generally happen soon after death.
It would not happen exactly the same for everybody, as, a few more experiences of the  kind, shed some light which confirmed it.
Dharma Sangha indirectly confirmed one  such experience of mine when talking of "the blue sky after death".
(Please note, that death is only of the personality, even in life one may "resurrect" in that "blue-sky-after-death"). The physical death is a necessity because it lacks qualities of subtlety as to enter Inner Spaces, but during Yoga a new body is builded which has been called -Body of Light- and that is the counterpart of our physical body in that Realm).
 Much earlier then his words, even before his birth, I indipendently had some  experience  which confirmed this "blue-sky-after-death", leading me to understand there were such after-death possibility of melting the consciousness in a blue-spiritual- space of Peace. (Where this achieved in life, death would be meaningless, and it can be achieved, it is what a Supermental Transformation is meant for).

Colours we direct towards after death depends on personal development, this seems to be the general rule, at that moment there is not anymore the "surface personality" but
what we may call the essential being, the true being, so there is not any possibility of mistake.

After death, we have seen how the souls enter in touch with subtle guides and interdimensional ships, ships which travels in layers of (Divine) Consciousness, taking the soul safely to their corresponding place within the ascensional parameters.
There are very little possibility for physical space-ships to cross the years-light space width necessary to be here from other stars and galaxies, but, interdimensional ships are real and can be seen even with physical eyes, and are confounded with physical ones.

What I call the <personality of surface> is the instrumental ego which develop in life, that personal psychic structure which grow in our constant relation with the ambiance.

The essential being is ever there behind, but the interchange among both is normally severed in one direction, in the way of <surface personality toward essential being>, but not in the other way or not that much, as the essential being(soul) may always enter in touch with the other, via dreams, visions, inner voice, premonitions.

Death always occur anytime this personality of surface is not fused with the soul, after that is done, there is no death anymore. It actually change all the perspective of what  life and death really are, as one discovers that do not exist death as such but life in different dimensions, of which "physical life" is but one of them.

That fusion with the soul, is a "soul-achievement", not a "surface-achievement".
The personality has no means of directing such process, and there is nothing which justify any effort in that direction because the mechanisms of that fusions rely "on the other being"(soul) and...the Will of the Supreme...
What is possible, is a conscious mental-emotional acceptance of the presence of the essential being even if unperceived at first, and a conscious will to open to its inner guidance.
There is nothing to discard, struggle with, fight against, deny and abolish in our nature as we have not knowledge of what has to be abolished or will be transmuted in the fusion, and all that struggle is only the initial gracious expression of a personality already answering to the inner suggestion to get closer, a tentative to answer to that call, but is not the mode anymore afterward.

The Healing process, the Integration, is exactly this we are talking: the reintegration of the surface personality with his essential being. During the process of Integration the personality opens progressively on inner wider spaces of soul-existence and Self-existence.
At the beginning of this process, when soul is unperceived, the process has to lean itself on <faith>.
 But that faith is a personal faith, not a religious, say exterior one.
It is a faith which lean on our belief of the existence of <our own Essential Being> not that of anybody else, is a personal process which is intended as the final manifestation not only of our own soul, but of the Gnostic Being ( Sri Aurobindo), and the Sambhodi ( Dharma Sangha), and the "Corps d´ Êtreté" ( some recent teaching).
All those words indicates one same essence: the Spirit, the Purushottama, the Oversoul.
Sequentially, we have a line as:
Surface Personality---Soul---Spirit.
The Higher Yoga starts between the points Soul---Spirit.
Evidently, if there is not a fusion between the segment Surface Personality---Soul, there can´t be the other fusion which is the other segment: Soul--Spirit.
In effect, all is about fusion, the completeness of  this Fusion gives birth to the Phoenix that You Are, Gnostic Being, Sambhodi, Corps d´ Êtreté.

Conscious?

In my last post on the "Yoga of the Vision" (Sleep? Highways to Knowledge) in the first lines  I´ve written: "Your aim is to be conscious along the day, etc."
And as this blog is about Yoga and Vision and not speculations or worthless mental operations: what do we mean with "conscious"?
Because one can say: -Well, anybody is conscious everyday just because is alive isn´t it? So what´s wrong with it-?
True, we somehow drag our consciousness all along the day to fall into an unconscious sleep just to awaken again at some level of that consciousness and proceed again better or worst along the day and so on for several years if not a whole life.
What we generally describe as <to be conscious>  is an amalgam of different levels of attention (and distraction) depending on a series of reasons, mainly our own interests and motivations.

What we describe as useful for the Vision is a linear unmotivated attention, which is in itself meditation, which can be effectively installed into daily activity, but which is absolutely indispensable in Yoga and the Vision.

Physical activity is an impelling necessity for any living creature, but considering the case of humans, it has been created a dissociation between inner spiritual world and outer material world, and sitting meditation as the mean to reach that spiritual world.
Such an important fracture from inner and outer world, real and illusory world, spiritual and sinful world, it has been the root on  which any doctrine has based itself.
But it has started from a dividing attitude which is the signal of a lower mind at work,
of a mild attitude of spirit at the moment of considering the mind its processes and its functions.
Mind was successful in signalize what was spiritual and what sinful, but not in determine its own spirituality or sinfulness...

Back to sit in meditation, even when we know Enlightenment achieved sitting in meditation, this can´t be true in every and each case and not as an absolute, because meditation is unbounded by methods. We cannot imagine that we can resolve the complexity of spiritual understanding just sitting somewhere with closed eyes.
There must be something else, and in fact, there is something else.
Meditation is absolute freedom and absolute freedom of learning, and do not depend on any mental method and exercises we may ideate or others may ideate for that purpose, as meditation has to be alive, a living creation of the moment.

I was amused in learning Mother explain she never saw Sri Aurobindo sitting cross-legged! Should we infere by that he didn´t meditate?
I prefer how Krishnamurty would put it: he was himself meditation.

Sleep? Highways of Knowledge

The building of the global window is not theoretic matter.
This very night you may experiment with what I say.
Your aim is to be conscious all along the day, but, what happen with the night?
Are we really meant to sleep always at the same manner?..
I tell you what I discovered, and you can discover too.
Before sleeping we retract from surrounding reality, but before landing in total unconsciousness, there is a lapse of time, it is a very little time, in which our consciousness remains in between vigil and sleep.
Normally we do not notice that as many reasons may intervene, tiredness, wrong diet, habits etc.
But that point, it is a world in itself, it is a huge door through which the ancient oracles crossed for learning, or predictions, or visions.
I have crossed that door. So I know it is there. It has nothing to do with dreams.
I´m not saying I went very far in discover this dimension, since the peculiar level of attention which is needed was quite unusual, as I had to "remain conscious" in that half consciousness so to extend that moment (in between vigil and sleep) farther in time.
But often, the action of "being conscious" would interfere with  that half-consciousness and made me awake totally again.
I had to learn to be "unwillingly conscious" in that space.
I´m still learning I mean. I already said that, I´m an apprentice.

But that one is not the only option we have at that moment, it can be also the door to conscious sleep. Here intended -exactly- in the terms described in the integral yoga of Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and not lucid dreams, or astral projections or whatever.
In effect, we may say one can choose between three options at that moment:

1) one can extend the "half-conscious bridge" and penetrate into that region I described: one at that moment is not sleeping nor awake either, it is a suspension of functions, even the physical body do not really sleep but only half sleep.

2)Through that same bridge, one takes another direction, which is towards conscious sleep. So the physical body fall definitely asleep, and one fully retro cede from surrounding (physical) reality, but as we where conscious in that -middle land-
we do not fall into -unconscious- sleep but in -conscious- sleep.

3) To fall asleep totally unconscious.

What I´m calling here conscious sleep, it is in reality self-consciousness of the mental body while the physical is sleeping and the subconscious is dreaming.
As well,it is a door to mental world or dimension, but this world is not the same that one may accede in the "oracular sleep" (just to give it a name), they are quite different and even the mode of consciousness is totally different: in oracular sleeping one is strangely conscious/unconscious, instead, in conscious sleep one is not only conscious but -extremely- conscious.
So much so as to perceive ( see actually) our unconscious zone producing dreams and knowing (seeing) that it is not -us- but only an appendix of that consciousness, which roots seems to deepen into ancestral animal memories and functions.
(I could see a mental lower appendix attached to my consciousness, much as the lowest part of a spinal medula, and possibly it was exactly that but seeing it from a different, peculiar perspective: from within out. But I could freely detach myself from the unconscious part and remain in my full self-consciousness of me as a mental body).

But we should come back on it all afterwards.
The global window I mentioned at the beginning, is the window through which we look at reality. But is perception of reality -only- when we are conscious in daily activity, or is it a process extended in time -without interruption-?
If your experiments with sleep bring some result in the sense I exposed, no doubt you are talented for the Yoga of the Vision.
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Kit Chi on 17th Nov. 2013 wrote: I actually tried to experience what you said, and it was indeed as you said, that I was conscious of my physical sleeping and the subconscious dreaming, and I could choose to just watch the dream scape of my subconscious, or go experience something else.

Kit Chi, born in Hong Kong, is to me an example of how an independent mind, well centered and spiritually receptive may understand and actually experiment with integral yoga. She also informed me of a couple of visions she had of Mother and Sri Aurobindo little time after she learnt of the existence of the Masters. In the post "Awakening, a collective issue" (14/08/12), you may have a glimpse on her spiritual life.

on the Master of Wisdom and the Apprentice visionary

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Additional comments: to "The Master of Wisdom and the Apprentice visionary".

(The reason why I leave those information is not to let you know
what happened to me, but what may happen to you, and know how it happens and to what is related).

Characteristics of the Fire entering from the Sacral Area.

It first entered the most lower point in the subtle physical body corresponding to the base of the spine as a single stream of rushing fire red-orange but immediately subdivided into two(polarized) main streams which farther subdivided each into two and those subdivided again while converting itself in thin streams of white light which orderly started to cross all over the body.

An atlas of acupuncture gives perfectly the idea, as it was exactly that, the streams of white light proceeded in a very ordered way along the members of the body.
I had seen atlas of acupuncture before, but I never thought the circulating energy had the entrance door from the sacral. (There where a few differences from an atlas, but it is the closest association I know).

It had a direct connection with the meridians of acupuncture even in the detail that some specific points along the lines started the reverberate till the body was orderly crossed by lines of light and points reverberating all along the lines.

These lines of light were directing toward the head into two main streams anterior and posterior which converged around the head as two differently polarized groups of beams which had there, each on a side of the head (quite similarly to fig 1), the final end of the circuit. The points played softly on  magnetic patterns which produced circles of light-energy which rhythmically expanded farther into the ambiance.
At that moment I was sitting in padmasana.
I almost felt the points of light reverberating over my skin, especially that of my face,  it seemed as I had little butterflies gently swinging their wings on my skin. But the process was evidently taking place originally at a subtler level, on an electronic body which enveloped the physical body with a net of light.
I was perfectly awake and in no moment lost consciousness, all along the process the red-orange light never ceased to feed the whole structure.

Akashic Records (from "Atem´s Notebooks") V

March 1999
(location: Pacific Ocean, approx.date: unknown)

I'm a point of consciousness, surprisingly underwater, I'm on the rocky bottom facing huge ruins of an archaic city. When I make an effort to understand when it happened it results in an uncountable number of years, close to twenty thousand. I'm surprised both for being underwater and both for this huge city which is lying somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, as I have a clear perception of its geographical location.
A strange woman is approaching me. She's clearly human, definitely she has a face of a race disappeared forever, I can only think of a mixture of Mongols, red Indians and Toltec, kind of original stream of the race.
That woman has some kind of magic powers which I'm perceiving, she talks as half sleeping, in a monotonous tone which can hypnotize a person and fall under her power, but I sense I have nothing to fear as my degree of consciousness in subtle world keeps me safe from that danger. She has started to talk of that ancient city, and while she's talking, I start to see images at real time of the city when she lived in it above the waters. She told the name of the city was ... ... (don't remember, a name made of two words which meant "Wonder of the Earth"), then told me of its glorious past and the big influence it had at that time over large territories. While she talked I slowly entered in the life of the city as it was, large avenues under the sun, big buildings and temples everywhere in a strange mixture of styles, but overall, the huge mass of human beings which lived in it or, as I felt, there for trading, worship, learning magic, and a large etcetera.

She was telling me, and I was seeing it, of a darker side, in fact, there were sacrifices in great quantity, I could see temples with their floor and stairs covered with fresh blood and I felt they would sacrifice human beings too in a daily orgy of blood and dark magic. Being myself in the subtle body, I could understand the  power of a cast of priests which had a clear control over their subtle body, and were able to control even the  subtle body of the  human victims of the sacrifices, abusing of them and having them bound at their service after their death.
It seems they had a special predilection for the vital essence which abandoned the body of their victim, as they somehow could feed themselves of that essence.
She was telling me how the city had been the model for a number of other city-states over the planet, but it was doomed to perish and disappear, the divinatory arts were there highly developed, and it was not a mystery it would sink into the ocean.
Slowly alarming signal started, and a huge number decided to abandon the city, while but a few decided to perish with it. Well, they were not going to perish exactly, as they could, and decided to, consciously reside in their subtle physical, so that just before physical death, they would set themselves into the subtle physical and continue living there, in the city, sharing forever its destiny.
So it was.
I could see when the day came and huge waves where invading the city and the land was sinking into the sea, they shifted their consciousness on the subtle level and sunk in the depths with the city. She was among them. She told me with a subtle, human irony they had changed the name to the city, (again a name with two words, which meant "Wonder of the Ocean"), but in no moment I had permission to enter nor saw any other person. While she proffered her last words I had the clear understanding that in doing so, they had franchised themselves from the evolutionary thread. As a race, they would not die, but they would not evolve either. They would remain as a subtle group of beings tied there till a superior Will would decide.

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Of this strange episode I know that in the actuality fishermen in some pacific islands fear to fall asleep by the sea at night, as they mention some strange spirit which sucks their vital energy. Is this more then a legend?

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The Subtle Body

Mother and Sri Aurobindo spoke quite clearly of the subtle body and subtle world.
But in order to avoid it remain an intellectual knowledge one needs to prove it to himself.
After all it is not about learning but -being- that transformation and knowledge.
So we don´t have any other option then discover it of first hand.
It also means not being afraid to investigate the eventual value of any other useful information.
I found myself a lot of help in the teaching of the Agni Yoga, based almost in its totality on teaching released on subtler levels, with words as "the Subtle Realm" and "the Fiery Realm", which, to a no-discriminating mind may immediately recall its resonance with the "subtle world" and "supermental world" of Sri Aurobindo.
The reason why it ought to be so are evident but is not of our momentary concern, as we are talking of the subtle body.
When I started to experience "conscious sleep", it was evident a number of things.
The first was that the physical body was sleeping.
The second, was that the subconscious as well was dreaming.
If I wanted to, I could see it as a lower mental appendix of my consciousness, attached to me, but with a certain degree of reciprocal independence.
I was not affected at all for the dreams the subconscious was dreaming, I could see them as on a screen if I wanted to see them, but I could just ignore my subconscious and continue with my experiences.
So, I left behind physical body and subconscious.
Then, I found myself as a nucleus of consciousness, a mental being.
I had all the mental faculties of normal wake consciousness  plus this condition of lack of physicality.
But it was not only -who- I was, but also -where- I was.
It was certainly a space, but not a physical space, rather a mental space, without true objects and dimensions but certain basic blue hues everywhere which was not a flat thing but a "space". It was "things" in its potentiality, they weren't there, but at any moment that space would open on something one has to know or remain just as an unseen possibility.
I would not see any subtle envelope of this mental body/mental being which I was, and yet, in some occasion, if the circumstance needed it, a subtle replica of my physical body would be formed, otherwise, the tendency was getting back to formless mental substance.
That subtle body was not a temporary invention, but had a complete reciprocity with the physical body.
Something like you can fold out and unfold at request, but not of an -essential- presence: to be just that nucleus of consciousness was pretty enough for whatever.
It also gained somehow, as it seemed to share some kind of superior intuition, and even subtler senses, which infallibly told the truth of anything happening there.
I normally did not see either a "body of light", or a "nervous body", or any subtle envelope for the circulating prana and the chakras, though this too, would appear in some concrete occasion, otherwise its presence would remain occult.

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As a consequence of my own perception, (then having value only for me), had I to make parallelism with the descriptions in the integral yoga, I would say that the mental body or mental being of this yoga, was without doubt my own experience of being that formless consciousness.
The "subtle physical" of the integral yoga, would specifically refer to that subtle replica of my physical body and even that "body of light", which would or not appear as necessary, but the word -subtle body- would not refer to something in itself but -the totality- of these more subtle parts.
So that a -subtle body- in itself do not exist, but refers to that larger compendium.
At least, those my own conclusions.

The Master of Wisdom and the Apprentice visionary (I)

The following experience inaugurated the whole series of supernatural events which took place at the ancient water mill, where a fortuitous accident kept me a whole year  isolated and conducting by necessity a very frugal existence.  The events culminated in several meetings with Sri Aurobindo and the administering of some special information. Evidently, I was the main beneficiary but later I was required to share at some extent the experiences and a few notes I took while all happened. 

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One morning while I was away from the watermill  I received a clear injunction, a message, a clear thought in my mind which said I had to get back home because "a friend was coming to see me".  Being as it was the 24th December, I had a different plan for the day, basically I resisted the idea of remaining all alone at the watermill if "that voice" had revealed itself untruth, and for a while I tried to ignore the whole matter, but the experience had been so unique and imperative that I found difficult to resist:  less than an hour later I was on my way back to the secluded water mill I had recently acquired.

I actually had no friends at all there, so while I got back I just could not make up my mind which friend it could be, supposing of course,  that the injunction had to be trusted at all. 

Back home I spent the rest of the day making some cleaning, preparing some food and fruits just in case, and when I finished I sat cross legged on the carpet by the fire. 
It was cold, the night of the 24th December, probably 1996.

Night came and the stars, but nobody approached the house,  in the darkness not even myself could recognize  the narrow and difficult path to the next village, it was impossible for anybody else to get to my place at night without knowing the path.

Still cross legged on the floor I was bitterly considering that the inner injunction had not been a real thing,  for a while I recriminated myself for easily giving ear to it and losing the opportunity to spend Christmas Eve with a couple of new friends, now I was there all alone and surely I would remain all alone the following days. 
Next time -I sentenced to myself- I could not just trust any such "voice" prompting me to do something. 
I was about to stand up and go to bed when... something happened...

Someone was at the door. And that "someone" entered the house but I could not -see- him, I was positively perceiving a mighty,  invisible presence, it had such an impressive power that for a moment I feared it would blow up the whole house.

I was... petrified!... All my hair stood up on edge while the presence approached me and now...oh my god! It.. was clearly standing in front of me!
I closed my eyes and whispered a prayer to the Divine Mother hoping for a miracle,  but nothing happened:  when I opened my eyes again the "presence" was still there, unmoving!..
Then, it touched me...

The mighty "presence" touched my subtle body at the lowest point of the sacral area and suddenly a powerful red-orange stream of fire appeared at the base of the spine: it  thinned into a single stream of white light while climbing up my lowest vertebrae, still in the lumbar region the white beam split into two main beams of different polarity and soon they farther split into subsidiary beams alternately charged. They orderly advanced along mi limbs and trunk while progressively surrounding the whole body with a net of white light; several spots along the beams started gleaming faintly. 

 The head was last to be reached by the thin beams of light and their subsidiaries: climbing neck throat and face they all ended up at the same time side by side circling my head,  surrounding it with a magnetic force-field which radiated circular waves through the air. 

Unquestioning, motionless, cross legged on the floor, I stood there simply observing and perceiving that peculiar condition of being.  

I felt as within a deep,  almost solid condition of peace summoned to a physical well being as never before: joining my hands I gave thanks to the invisible presence pleading forgiveness for my previous, frightful welcome.

Still no words from the Presence, I understood must have been a Mahatma, a Guru able to transmit by touch a complex spiritual experience, able to be there at wish ignoring the limitation of space and time, able to send me a message in the morning so I could meet Him.

Suddenly I was curious to know more about that Presence, a name,  identifying himself.

It seemed a signal, at once I felt the Presence was about leaving and I rushed a few questions with the hope of retaining him: 
-Who are you-?..  
-Why...this?-...
 -Shall I meet you again-?..
 But there were no answer to my questions, only, just before disappearing, a single thought reached again my mind, this time clearly coming from the departing Presence: 
-It is a bliss for the work you have to do.

-...Work?...Which work?..... I questioned curious. But the Presence wasn't there anymore to answer my question...

(A few months later I will learn  the "Presence" was Sri Aurobindo).

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With little differences  acupuncture charts have similarities with the experience of seeing the beams of light circling around my body. In acupuncture chart there is no mention of the fire appearing at the base of the spine, though they depict quite well how the main beam split into two and those into subsidiary beams; the charts moreover do not mention the magnetic aura circling the head and emitting waves. The acupuncture charts depict a system closed on itself, but the experience shows that there is a constant inflow of energy which feeds the system, all along the experience the red-orange fire never ceased to flow from the base of the spine, climb and transform itself into thin beams of white light. 

The whole thing looked quite  alike meridians of light and their blinking associated points of acupressure.