Subjective Experience

Excerpt from "Spirituality and Western Psychology."

Normally we take "subjective" to mean what we think and feel in our mind and body; similarly, "objective" means what happens outside the boundary of our body and what we can not experience in our mind. As a student reaches advanced levels of spiritual realisation it regularly happens that he or she finds the "subjective" expanding to include parts of the "objective". Many psychic phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and faith healing can be included in this effect.

At very advanced levels attained by spiritual masters who include deep concentration in their training, the "subjective" becomes practically synonymous with the "objective". Such masters appear to suffer little hindrance in their access to "objective" information and control. In effect they have powers that religion and folklore normally associate with gods. Yet these masters, are simply people who have developed a special side of their innate human nature. And for all their amazing abilities, they still are aware of the normal distinction between subjective and objective, and they consistently honour that distinction for the benefit of those who still take the "objective" as being something wholly outside of themselves.

 

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