DEFINITIONS: Table of Contents

General notes:

  • DEFINITIONS is a work in progress, which will continue to emerge and evolve until the MIND of minds is supremely clear. The definitions below are subject to evolution.
  • Many excellent and useful definitions are not yet included. If you would like make a suggestion, you may do so here.

Revision: 17 Mar 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.
  • The liberating function of experience is to release fixed ideas.
  • The profound depths of gnosis transcend experience.
  • Supreme Gnosis is entirely beyond experience.
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