Enlightenment

To be enlightened is to see everything clearly in the light that emanates from Oneself.

However, the light can only “shine” when the mirror is clean - i.e. when no judgements, emotions and other obstacles obscure the sight.

Since such condition is scarce, even rarer is the event of enlightenment and – considering our characteristic short attention span – fleeting as well.

Yet it is apparently so impressive, that almost anyone who experiences it will seek its re-occurrence.

Taking into account the amount of respective Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu & Zen schools, and the number of permanent enlightened individuals - there seem more efforts being taken in the Orient than in the Occident*. Probably because the dualistic R/P mode of latter, its rationalism and feedback-mechanism of the intellect, inhibit Selfrealisation. Moreover, occidental seekers were often forced into the Occult, and to hide their methods & results – conditions unfavourable to enlightenment which, after all, is synonymous with liberty.
In the beginning of the twentieth century A.Crowley introduced, as head of the “Ordo Templi Orientis”, a liberation tool developed in Buddhist & Hindu Tantra schools, that came to be known as sexual Magick, and to be able to annihilate the social & internal obstacles arising from sexual taboos, and to be a short path to Illumination.

*Orient and Occident connote here R/P (Reflection/Projection) systems, as well as cerebral and global hemispheres (see “Another view of Consciousness”)

I remember once walking into a low-hanging steel panel head on at full-stride speed. I hit it so hard I had to sit down for a few minutes; and the only thought that was going through my whole being at the time was “You really gotta watch where you’re going, Pandora!!”
This is the closest I think that I came to a so-called state of enlightenment. (There were definitely lights there - from my inner being)

Yeah, impressive and unforgettable, for sure, but one such experience is I think enough, for clarity’s sake.

I take it that you, have not as yet, experienced it yourself.

Good philosophy necessarily entails a degree of haziness. When you’re sure you’ve got it, you’re ignoring something true about the opposing view.

How sure are you of that?

And when exactly did we become so effing ‘enlightened’ anyway?

Not too long ago we were just monkeys picking nuts and berries, and runnning away from tigers, then BAM! - extra special enlightened cosmic being and shit.

I mean, GodDAMN monkey!

Meet me and my super special family. We are all dignified special being here.

Don’t be an asshole James. Everyone already knows…you think you’re right about everything, and you think you can solve 1000 year old philosophy problems.

Enlightenment seems most ordinarily to occur during sexual activity, when Kundalini cleans the mirrors on her fiery rise in the spinal cord.
Kundalini is a Tantric term for the energy snake curled at the bottom of the spinal cord - her rushing up manifests as a burning sensation.
Her journey through the Chacras has been published plentiful and ought to be studied in authorised works (any suggestions?)

For Chakras & Kundalini see Wikipedia and
emergingsciences.org/kundali … al-project

“Know Thy Self” and “Do Thy Will” concern Prajna, the active principle of Ultimate Reality, manifesting as integration & differentiation as unifying & creative urge (in Liber Al vel Legis represented by Nuit & Hadit) – Hui Neng calls Prajna the Wisdom of Enlightenment and it to be “inherent in our mind`s essence”, Crowley calls it “True Nature”.

(The many terms should not confuse – after all it is common for the inexpressible to give rise to innumerable words.)