What are your experiences and thoughts about the relationship between, deities, spirits, entities and spiritual awakening? Are there any modern thoughts or explanations of these phenomena via Transpersonal Psychology, or any other field?
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This falls more under the purview of tantra I feel, but there's definitely a connection there. Rajarshi Nandy is a noted Tantric, whereas Dr Robert Svoboda is The authority on Aghora. You can find many interviews with them on youtube, particularly on the Beerbiceps channel, where they do a deep dive into these topics.
Personally, deities were very important in my own spiritual awakening and Kundalini process in particular, I feel I wouldn't have gotten very far without their help. At the same time, there is always a danger that some would confuse or obfuscate deities with demons / asuras and building a relationship with those would actually hinder your development rather than help it, or in any case their "help" might come at a considerable cost that's not on the brochure.
There are a lots of Causes and Effects, and everything in the process of Cause and Effect - is kind of alive. I personally felt the mathematics in my mind became separate, living entity. I also felt some.
But, normally I think that out-of-body experiences and feeling the entities of nature - without some drug, those are things usually not happening to me. I have many powers developed, but I'm always too lazy with these ones ..but still, I see life in many things, so I have a lots of connections - but the stories of entities, I lack some connections. But I know that all the Nature is alive, and it becomes more alive as you give it your attention - life is contagious. In your mind, you pay awareness to things, and when they were just subconscious entities before, with your meditative attention and awareness, they became alive.
I think as we meditate over the matter, it becomes alive.
Otherwise - I have high respect, and some experience, with all those living entities; enough to be sure in them - but I'm very sure some people have much more. Some people say they help them to become awaken, and Tibetan tradition of Buddhism has a lots of this, I also think Japanese Buddhism has a lot to do with entities. Bön tradition of Tibet, this is probably one of the richest sources of this information.
But for me, it was nice thing to discover that fundamental mathematics of Universe itself is alive. This is a deep connection for me. Also I feel connection with Nature itself, and this is important. Also, with some aliens - but they are not "entities" ..I had many alien feelings ..I also felt energies coming from many Boddhisattvas, which really helped me to become enlightened - a direct energy reaction of chakras ..and cryptic reactions with many people on streets.
But I think for me, the very powerful experiences with entities, like elementals, and the out-of-body experiences - they are yet to come. Somehow I never find energy to even concentrate on this topic; seems very interesting and I feel it's offering a lots of experience, but simply, I have some block with this.
Hi Sameer, there is a chapter in the book, "Blue Diamond Healing, exploring transpersonal and transdimensional aspects of energy psychotherapy" by Phil Mollon which explores entities. It's not directly about spiritual awakening but is an interesting and relevant read. The author is a psychotherapist and has previously published multiple academic books which are extremely well researched.