This blog entry is meant to give you one reason to be careful about the doctrine that you receive. I think it will help to clarify why I still accept doctrine but also why I take from multiple groups and teachers and am careful about what I accept and don't accept.
Eckhart, Prophet, Suzuki, Blighton, Rama Krishna..., all that any of them can give you is THEIR experience. Even if they are 100% right on (I’m careful and dubious about just who is 100% right,) they still have to bring any experience in to themselves through the distorted perception of both their own personality and the limits of the physical plane. That will certainly wash out some of the colors of the experience, giving it new shapes that it didn't have when it was happening in the etheric, (heaven), and losing some of the clarity and definition of the original experience because it loses definition. When someone has an experience on the etheric it is in an environment that is far more 'real' in a very true sense, than here on the physical. In addition, it is not limited to the five senses which is why, when it is related, it is often in the imagery of archtypes. Even when it isn't we still get only the person's own unconscious interpretation of the experience. The experience itself is for that adept's soul, often on an unconscious level but we get only what the conscious recollection can give us and that recollection may, in a sense, be without as many pixels as the original experience.
Then they have to relate it. Each person is different and so and that means taking the distorted experience of a spiritual event and bringing it back out again through the same personality and paradigm which experienced it in the first place to be expressed through words which only adds to the distortion. If you have ever read directions that were first written in Japanese and then translated into English by someone whose first language was Japanese rather than English you will get the idea.).
Elizabeth Clare Prophet said that when she dictated she could only receive and thus communicate what the ascended masters were giving her if she had some understanding of it herself. That is a refreshing level of honesty from someone who was in a position of profound spiritual authority. That automatically means that unless her understanding was spot on perfect (almost never the case for anyone here in the physical) the translation was not spot on perfect - i.e. it was, to one degree or another, incorrect. Therefore, even the "Dictations" of the ascended masters contain some distortions of the original clarity. (That isn’t to say that you can’t take them as the words of the Ascended Masters. Just consider that you have a translator from one language to another.)
So we have a minor distortion within the experiencer at the time of the experience, a distortion of the experience when put into words by the experiencer. Another distortion by the listener when they hear only what they can accept. These are the basic distortions. There are other factors that can be included but are not important enough to mention.
So be careful and parse what you are given by anyone. This is always good advice.
Eckhart, Prophet, Suzuki, Blighton, Rama Krishna..., all that any of them can give you is THEIR experience. Even if they are 100% right on (I’m careful and dubious about just who is 100% right,) they still have to bring any experience in to themselves through the distorted perception of both their own personality and the limits of the physical plane. That will certainly wash out some of the colors of the experience, giving it new shapes that it didn't have when it was happening in the etheric, (heaven), and losing some of the clarity and definition of the original experience because it loses definition. When someone has an experience on the etheric it is in an environment that is far more 'real' in a very true sense, than here on the physical. In addition, it is not limited to the five senses which is why, when it is related, it is often in the imagery of archtypes. Even when it isn't we still get only the person's own unconscious interpretation of the experience. The experience itself is for that adept's soul, often on an unconscious level but we get only what the conscious recollection can give us and that recollection may, in a sense, be without as many pixels as the original experience.
Then they have to relate it. Each person is different and so and that means taking the distorted experience of a spiritual event and bringing it back out again through the same personality and paradigm which experienced it in the first place to be expressed through words which only adds to the distortion. If you have ever read directions that were first written in Japanese and then translated into English by someone whose first language was Japanese rather than English you will get the idea.).
Elizabeth Clare Prophet said that when she dictated she could only receive and thus communicate what the ascended masters were giving her if she had some understanding of it herself. That is a refreshing level of honesty from someone who was in a position of profound spiritual authority. That automatically means that unless her understanding was spot on perfect (almost never the case for anyone here in the physical) the translation was not spot on perfect - i.e. it was, to one degree or another, incorrect. Therefore, even the "Dictations" of the ascended masters contain some distortions of the original clarity. (That isn’t to say that you can’t take them as the words of the Ascended Masters. Just consider that you have a translator from one language to another.)
So we have a minor distortion within the experiencer at the time of the experience, a distortion of the experience when put into words by the experiencer. Another distortion by the listener when they hear only what they can accept. These are the basic distortions. There are other factors that can be included but are not important enough to mention.
So be careful and parse what you are given by anyone. This is always good advice.
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