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by Marinus Jan Marijs
The methods of transformation: The spiritual methods
The spiritual methods which are aimed at human transformation, to develop to higher levels of consciousness include: Jnana yoga, Advaita, Krishnamurti, Ramana, Buddhism, non-dual approaches. It is mainly directed at choiceless awareness, via-negativa.
Central to these methods here is not a form of concentration which silences the thought processes, but also closes off the subconscious. By a choiceless awareness, by staying with the pure perception without excluding anything and staying with the perception of anything that comes up. In this way the subconscious stays “open” and can be released of its blockades. This blockades (Carl G. Jung did call them “complexes”) have to come into conscious awareness, to be eliminated / removed. While this approach is generally seen as the highest form of yoga, it is rarely effective. This because this approach works only at level 9 and higher. One has to reach first this Level before the non-dual approaches do work.This is why within the yoga philosophy one is first advised to use forms of active concentration before one goes into passive meditation.
German School, 19th Century Two Hermits
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"A philosophical treatise can be mostly written in object or process language,
but phenomenological descriptions must be by its very nature first person descriptions.
It is for this reason that self-observations, and personal experiences of the author are included."
Marinus Jan Marijs.