> > These things are better experienced than > > explained. ;-) > > Duveyoung: > So, are you saying The Absolute can be > "experienced" by an enlightened person? > Seems to me it cannot be, but instead the > body/mind system constructs a "nearest > equivalent" as a metaphor. > In order to trigger the reality-structurer it is important simply to feed the human biocomputer the proper data or symbols.
The Sutras, like Talbot says, are a like metaprograms, sets of symbols which enable the biocomputer to communicate with the structurally lower levels of the nervous system that control the reality-structurer. If we cannot acquire the attitude necessary to trigger the reality-structurer, we may, like the yogin, simply choose an arbitrary mantra or symbol. It is far easier to practice simple yogic formulas than it is to deal with highly abstract notions such as the 'nagual' or the 'void.' According to Talbot, "these are the forces wherewith mind creates and animates the whole universe; ordinarily they are not ours to command, for, until the false ego is negated or unless we employ yogic means to transcend its bounds, our individual minds function as it were, like small puddles isolated from the great ocean." The bija mantras, Buddhist and Hindu, are the computer cards, the code. We, as meditators, are the technicians and the bio-computers. Before one can program the structurally lower levels of the nervous system (the levels governing the reality- structurer) one must be able to metaprogram the cerebral cortex with the appropriate set of symbols. "This gives us a remarkable new slant on meditation." - Michael Talbot Work cited: 'Mysticism and the New Physics' by Michael Talbot
