Definition: Experience

General notes:

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Revision: 13 May 2023

Experience

A form of indirect knowing.
Interaction with creations.
Interaction with expressions.
Interaction that reflects separation to a greater or lesser degree.
The “receiving end” of creation.
Experience provides feedback that illuminates one’s inner state.
Experience reflects one’s inner state.
Experience reflects one’s state of realization.
Experience requires that there be a belief in separation from Divinity/God/Source.
Experience reveals the extent to which the idea of separation is believed.
Experience cannot be completely nondual. (Pure knowing or gnosis is completely nondual.)
Experience follows from belief.
One can only experience what one believes to be the case.
Experience reveals the beliefs that are operating, often unconsciously.
All experiences are equivalent, being empty.
There is only one experience happening.
Enlightenment is beyond experience.
Experience can serve a liberating purpose by loosening fixed ideas.
Experience is a type of knowing; however, pure knowing transcends experience.
The profound depths of gnosis transcend experience.
Supreme Gnosis is entirely beyond experience.
In apex enlightenment, experience is impossible.
In apex reality, experience is impossible.
The “experience trap” is desiring or requiring that which is transcendent of experience to be confirmed by experience before accepting it.

Sayings:

“The possibilities that one can experience are determined by the consciousness that one embodies.”