Rick started on the batgap homepage this description referencing the cross-cultural experience of the spiritual transcendent.
Craig Pearson enumerates this too in some of his writing: "This same field is described everywhere in the world's great philosophical and religious traditions. Plato refers to it as the Good and the Beautiful. Aristotle calls it Being. For Plotinus it is the Infinite, for St. Bernard of Clairvaux the Word, for Ralph Waldo Emerson the Oversoul. It is referred to in Christiantity as the kingdom of Heaven within, in Judaism as Ein Sof. The direct experience of this transcendental field is referred to in India as Yoga, in Buddhism as Nirvana, in Islam as fana, in Christianity as spiritual marriage. It is a universal teaching based on a universal reality and a universal experience." http://www.tm.org/blog/meditation/laozi-and-the-tao-te-ching-the-ancient-wisdom-of-china/ Evidently is 'repeatable' in experience. Seems scientific as it appears universal across culture and time. Rick writing on batgap: > > > > > > "People everywhere are undergoing a shift to an Awakened state of > > > consciousness which is transforming their understanding of themselves and > > > the world. For some, this shift has been abrupt and dramatic. For others, > > > it has been so gradual that they may not have realized it has occurred. > > > Such shifts, or "awakenings," are not new: Christ spoke of the "Kingdom > > > of Heaven within," Buddhists speak of Nirvana, Zen masters of Satori, > > > Hindus of Moksha, but these traditions generally regard these states as > > > rare and difficult to attain. > > > > > > Many people are therefore skeptical of claims of higher states of > > > consciousness. They find it hard to believe that apparently ordinary > > > friends and neighbors might be experiencing something extraordinary. > > > Maybe they expect Enlightenment to look as remarkable on the outside as > > > it is reputed to be on the inside." > > > > > > > > > About, > > > > "This show will attempt to dispel skepticism and misconceptions by week > > after week, allowing otherwise ordinary people to relate their experience > > of spiritual awakening. The terminology is tricky, because there are no > > universally agreed upon definitions to describe this experience. Also, > > enlightenment is not something that an individual person "gets". It's not > > even something that the mind can grasp. It's an awakening to that which > > contains the mind and all other things. So it's not surprising that > > language is inadequate to convey it." > > > > http://batgap.com/ > > >
