Ignorant, Na?ve, Unlearned and Illumination

Ignorant, na?ve and unlearned all mean lacking knowledge. Furthermore, they all permit gaining knowledge through learning. Stupid is a rather fatal almost permanent, lack of capacity to learn. Stupid is typically directly related to some physical brain damage. On the other hand, ignorant, na?ve and unlearned are topic and/or skill-competence particular. In other words, you (just like every other human being) are ignorant, na?ve and unlearned about some things and quite likely very knowledgeable about many other topics and equipped with perhaps even mastery in many amazing skills. Ignorant, na?ve and unlearned are, most commonly, temporary, and learning (= some kind of education) is the remedy; some way to fix those state conditions of your immaterial ego consciousness.

A personal, private mind is generated when an ego consciousness docks with a physical body/brain/central nervous system. Your mind is simultaneously an immaterial and physical bridge between immaterial consciousness and your physical organism, and that permits you to interact causally with your external physical environment. You have considerable command (= influence), but certainly not control, over your external physical environment, and we call that freewill. It seems unfortunate in the extreme, that so many very intelligent human beings (even physicists who everyone knows are really smart) actually deny that they have freewill, presumably embracing the rather pathetic mantra, “particles made me do it!”

Virtually everyone, even with severe brain damage, is capable of some degree of learning about some kinds of knowledge and some kinds of skill. IQ is a good quantitative measure of some kinds of intelligence, but completely neglects whole categories of intelligence. For instance, IQ tells you little or nothing about emotional intelligence, say a person’s capacity for requited love. IQ tells you virtually nothing about illumination of ego consciousness, a direct personal experience which follows your working intentionally with witness consciousness to access superconsciousness and ultimately access eternal. Accessing higher consciousness, for example the holon unity, M?bius logically entangled, and holographically redundant consciousness leading all the way to enlightenment is far superior to the kind of intelligence measured quantitatively with IQ testing.

Spiritual illumination literally means your inner light goes so bright that you see simply what is real = exists + true, like the difference looking into a dark room and looking into a room that is brightly lit up with visible light electromagnetic radiation. You don’t work harder to see in the room that is lit up, you just automatically see simply what was there all along.?

However, the inner light has nothing to do with visible light electromagnetic radiation, rather it literally means seeing in the dark. That kind (= category) of seeing feels like instantaneous learning of new (for you) organized information = knowledge. Franklin Merrell-Wolff calls that category of seeing = illumination = seeing in the dark = enlightenment, knowledge through identity (see my “Cracking the Metaphysical Code ”).?

Enlightenment = to light within means the commonly normal (but not necessary) separation between 1) the subject to consciousness = you, 2) the objects of consciousness = internal states and external physical environment, and 3) ego consciousness itself = that which is looking, dissolve; they simply disappear in a flash of brilliant illumination = your inner light goes unimaginably bright. Then you grok (= major, big league) knowledge through identity, in which you know with feeling certainty:

Enself: Thou Art That?—?I AM THAT. I am eternal; feels, with certainty, like identity.

Tat Tvam Asi (Sanskrit?—?Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7 )

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“Those who know are always drunk on the wine of the Self.” Ghalib

“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.” “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Norton, 1973, p.48

Every other kind (= category) of knowledge is like a candle to full sunshine. However, even full sunshine can be blocked by dense cloud cover. The awakened ego consciousness can, and almost certainly will (all too soon) fall back into the relative darkness of ordinary intelligence. It is certain that there are levels of enlightenment, and those levels apparently increase without bound, which is possible because eternal is omni-infinite. Each enlightenment experience gives you some small glimpse of that eternal infinity.?

It is literally impossible to tie that up with a little bow and keep it inside ego consciousness, in other words, when you return to ordinary ego consciousness, you forget most of what you have seen, but not all of it. Each tiniest glimpse (commonly only seconds to perhaps several days, but occasionally much longer) changes you forever after, and always for the better. Therefore, in your spiritual practice as you approach mastery, you can expect your inner light will go through cycles of relative clear grokking (revelations of huge gestalts of knowledge) and relative darkness of ignorance. This continues to be true even after you have attained high levels of consciousness mastery.

Most ordinary kinds of learning require accumulation of quantities of organized information, and skill development acquired with many repetitions of practice, and that learning seems to be strictly physically biologically limited by brain size, brain quality and physical health. The truth of that is undeniable.

However spiritual practice has little to do with acquiring quantities of organized information, rather it means taking a different route to knowledge, and in fact knowledge through identity is not like all the other knowledge you either seek or have already accumulated. In fact, knowledge through identity is not accumulation of some quantity of anything, rather it is real-time grokking = seeing with your inner light gone bright, and knowing the meaning of what you see, and feeling that knowledge with certainty. All forms of spiritual practice ultimately permit you to find and reside at the center of the cyclone (John Lilly). At the center of the cyclone, you are capable of remaining still, quiet, calm, relaxed, alert, comfortable, tranquil and at peace with yourself, and at peace with all state conditions of the external environment.?

At that center your inner light goes bright (in spiritual practice that is called realization, actualization, illumination, awakening, etc.), but that does not refer to having a sudden improvement of memory, it is not with reference to your ability to recall what you have previously learned, rather it is real-time grokking = seeing = knowing with feeling certainty. And it feels like you not only can and do know everything everywhere all-at-once, you are actually holographically identical with all of that. However, you also see clearly that because you are in a state of real-time seeing, you cannot capture what you see, you cannot store it inside your tiny physical brain and ego consciousness, in fact you are all too aware that you will forget most, but certainly not all of what you see in the enlightenment, not because it was not real, rather because your vessel, your instrument, your physical self is too small to contain it.

Enlightenment is (as commonly reported) so profoundly discontinuous with your ordinary experiences living your ordinary life in some ordinary set of circumstances, that your ego consciousness can literally be blown apart. That can be terrifying, nevertheless that experience cannot actually harm you, rather it likely compels you (= literally irresistible) to make serious changes in your life; changes that are completely unpredictable, until you actually make them. Your family and friends will almost certainly be confused and concerned about what you are going through, but for the most part, will typically only try to help you recover your former self and style of living, which they are used to and comfortable with. In other words, they may well be afraid and confused, as you might also be, actually having the enlightenment experience. I say “the” enlightenment, because each experience is the same generic illumination of consciousness, only the level of intensity, brightness, quality etc. varies. That is necessarily true because there is only one superconsciousness and only one eternal, that you merge holographically with, but each ego consciousness is unique.

In my experience simple (= a-priori, elementary, primitive, fundamental, ultimate, wholeness, monism, etc.) was revealed to be obvious and unimaginably divinely beautiful, but on a scale that was infinite. In the early moments of illumination, the only words I could bring myself to speak were: “It’s so simple!” On the other hand, complexity, although it obviously has its uses, was revealed to (sometimes) lead directly to seemingly unavoidable but certainly horrendous circumstances (for instance think climate collapse).

Ecocide seems to me silly, not to mention tragic (and completely unnecessary; in other words voluntary!) path for human beings to collectively choose.

Meditate, do yoga, pray, or choose any preferred spiritual path. Always look inside yourself with the intention to wake up! What you are looking for is that which is looking, and you necessarily look for it the only place it could be found, inside yourself.?