5 Confirmatory experiences

5.1 Gaining perspective (below contents).

5.2 Introduction to the Implicate Technology model of reality.

5.3 Serenity and harmony.

5.4 The meditation on the Implicate Technology model of reality.

5.5 The unity of time.

5.6 Hearing.

5.7.1 Sexual energy: conventional morality and sexual energy

5.7.2 the first step: retaining sexual energy.

5.7.3.1 understanding the retained energy

5.7.3.2 deep, slow meditative breathing

5.7.3.3 the second step: the natural flow of sexual energy

5.7.3.4 raising the sexual energy.

5.1 How is this chapter to be used?

This chapter can usefully be read by anyone. Unlike the remainder of the book, it is written exclusively from the transpersonal point of view. Accordingly, what is described in this chapter will only be fully realisable by those who have attained the first stage of enlightenment.

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Welcome, and congratulations. You have struggled long and hard, requiring all your courage and powers of endurance to overcome your fears and difficulties. Now is the time to rest and take stock of your new and growing awareness of reality.

You have successfully completed the first and most difficult step along the path to understanding the unity of reality through experience. Become aware of and enjoy your newfound freedom. By now, you know as a certainty that there are such things as enlightenment and a path, and that you are firmly set on that path.

Do not be proud of your achievement: instead, become aware of the wonder of reality as it unfolds to your inner vision. Learn not to be self-seeking in the face of reality: realise that it is not ‘l’ who lives, but ‘that’ which lives you. Care for others: as you travel along the path you will realise that we are all indissolubly linked in the face of reality; no-one in existence is exempt from karma.

You have struggled much, endured much, understood much. Yet, for all that, your work has only begun. You are now correctly positioned to understand, through your own experience, the nature and purpose of reality.

Remember, the way ahead is long and hard. In terms of emotional suffering the searing pains and tensions of the time of testing will grow dim as your capacity to operate free from intellectual and emotional constraints grows bright. Just as your present awareness completely transcends the limitations of what was your ordinary, everyday awareness, so, too, does the awareness brought about by the final stage of enlightenment transform and transcend your present limitations.

The worst is past, yet the hardest challenge lies ahead. This apparent contradiction is resolved by developing your latent abilities and powers; these will develop spontaneously to assist you as you travel  along the path. All that counts, in reality, is where you are along the path in relation to the final stage of enlightenment: between the first and last stages of enlightenment are many transformations of consciousness, but all that matters at any one time is the next step along the path to the final stage of enlightenment.

What, then, is the final stage of enlightenment? The logical conclusion of this teaching of the clear setting face to face with reality must be that the final stage of enlightenment is to realise the unconditioned state; but it is not only for yourself that this is to be done. Full, absolute and final enlightenment is only realised when compassion for the unenlightened is awoken – regardless of the outer form of that life, the fully enlightened person is dedicated, through unremitting inner perseverance, to assisting all others to realise the unconditioned state.

The uses of this chapter are twofold. Firstly, practice of the meditation technique taught here will assist you to stabilise your new awareness, to settle firmly in the psychological stage of enlightenment. Secondly, continued practice in meditation, as directed, will prepare you for the full teaching contained in chapter 2 of the follow-up work from the Implicate Technology Centre, The advanced guide to enlightenment. That chapter teaches how to integrate a life based on meditation into your social, moral, economic and political environment.