Sri Ramakrishna's god-intoxication

[genep]

SELF-intoxication

SELF-intoxication is Non-duality's godless "god-intoxication" of Masts.

 

Self-intoxication is nothing more

and nothing less

than the inverse of IQ.

-- wreally

 

"God-intoxication"

"It is said that if we do not share the insanity of our neighbors, we will be called insane. Sri Ramakrishna's intense God-intoxication appeared excessive even to the many educated people of his time. They had never experienced samadhi, or divine communion, or other subtle realities of the spiritual world. People had long forgotten the nature of a God-centered mind and its constant God-intoxication. It was therefore difficult for them to comprehend the depth and breadth of Sri Ramakrishna's new message of God-consciousness, God-realization, and harmony of faiths... "**

 

 

** Spirituality & Practice: Book Excerpt: The Spiritual Quest and the Way of Yoga, by Swami Adiswarananda

[Pyrotex]

genep,

I'm sorry, but your post above is NOT appropriate here at Hypography. Please read our website rules. Preaching in any form, "spreading the word" of any religion or religious philosophy here is forbidden. Please do NOT do this again.

 

gently yours,

 

Pyrotex -- Hypography Moderator

[genep]

genep,

I'm sorry, but your post above is NOT appropriate here at Hypography. Please read our .... Preaching in any form, "spreading the word" of any religion or religious philosophy here is forbidden. Please do NOT do this again.

 

gently yours,

 

Pyrotex -- Hypography Moderator

 

I'm sorry. There are books and books written about god-intoxicated individuals, like the Masts of India -- I did not know that trying to explain this god-intoxication/"insanity" was PREACHING, "spreading any word."

 

sorry

[HydrogenBond]

If you look how the mind is set up, we have our conscious mind on the surface interacting with reality. There is also a world within that is more connected to the unconscious mind. The imagination is the interface. The imagination doesn't have to follow the rules of culture and the conscious mind. This makes it the matrix for change.

 

Both the conscious and unconscious minds come in layers. The conscious mind is easier to see. If we meet a stranger, they see the surface. If we become friends, they get to see a deeper layer. If there is trust, then even a deeper layer of consciousness appears.

 

The unconscious mind also has layers. Most people are strangers with their unconscious minds, so they can only see its most superficial layer. This layer gives it a bad name since it seems irrational and/or personal. But as you go deeper, the unconscious changes from personal to something more collective. It is where the software for human nature resides. At the deepest layer, the collective unconscious becomes unified This is what some people experience and refer to as God. If you take literal God out of the equation, if one can get this deepest layer to trigger a healthy does of endorphins, as fuel for the imagination, this can often be equated with God. The God intoxication is connected to shifting focus to allow this trigger.

 

Part of the problem with this is this deepest layer is morally neutral since it existed in the DNA way before there was civilization or moral law. Here is the scenario that often occurs. Cults can trigger the core. The core outputs morally neutral. The neutral output causes an ambiguous output to appear, which can change the original game plan in an evolving way. Cults often form a seedy side, where anything is justified, since the impulse appears to come from the place where they believe God resides. With the imagination the interface between the two minds, the core evolves the imagination with evolving expectations. It is irrational but gives an addictive buzz.