12-20-2016, 03:53 PM
(12-20-2016, 03:33 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: Does no perception mean no experience?
I suppose it depends how you define these words. Experience usually refers to a kind of knowledge of events that occur outside of you, or inside of you, and occur in relation to you, or happening to you, which is then stored as memories of this inner/outer sensory perception.
When perception is transcended, there is no looking "out there" or even "in there" for knowledge, there is just Being. It is like the difference between the snake looking at its tail (outer perception), or it analyzing its inner self concept (inner perception), and it just Being what it is, without a need to define it, or qualify it in some way. I wouldn't personally call that "knowledge". So we could perhaps describe it as direct awareness beyond knowledge, if that makes any sense. As Ra has said, memory is transcended at the seventh level. That isn't to say all memory or knowledge isn't available at that level, just that it comprises a lower order of reality that is encompassed or eclipsed by a higher order (and probably far more blissful) level of reality.