Seeing with the minds eye.
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So what's the point of this post? Just introducing yourself? Hello EgoLuxMens. Nice to meet you.
Or is your point to ask (although you didn't ask, but answered a lot) what is going on with people who have the capability to describe these experiences?
Or is your point to demonstrate that under your own illusion, other people's illusions are fantastically... well... close to deranged? (After all, you do admit that "all perception is illusion," so your perception that some could be called suffering from psychosis is also only an illusion.)
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My illusion was Jim Morrison laughing at me from behind a candle lit flame and some strange dark figure dancing in the background enticing me to follow. I was told how healthy it was to go insane...lol.
However, mine was under the influence...nice to meet you as well EgoLuxMens.
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There's no easy answer. For one thing, if things are happening to you beyond your control, I'd work first to gain control. If some talk therapy or medication helps, there's nothing entirely wrong with that as long as it doesn't become your "life blood." I personally only appreciate psychoactive medical treatment in cases of crisis management and severely disordered cases. If a medication is suggested, see if it is a therapeutic plan that weens you off by way of learning coping mechanisms and new thought models.
In most cases of what you are asking about (and this completely excludes the random attack variety that enters one's life without any background at all), it begins as exactly as you think: active imagination. But active imagination, and various trainings with it and the "mapping" tools of the qabalah and other Western Mystery Tradition ideas, will give these "imaginations" a life of their own. At which point it will seem unreasonable to divide reality from fancy (of a sorts). The point is, this is the training and not fully to be believed in (just yet).
The real question is; are these subjective experiences or actual objective realities? The answer is: Both (or either one or the other depending on your stage of development and the particular practice being examined).
I can give you several examples of the one answer you really want, that these are objective realities and those well trained can and do "see" (in the mind's eye or with the mind's eye superimposing on physical reality) the exact same thing - but you'd only be able to take my word for it so why bother typing it all up? Just take my word for it and proceed to the trainings - then you'll see (or you won't) and that will then be up to you to define.
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Posted this strangley as Takamba was posting apparently.....
@EgoLuxMens said
"are these experiences of communication with "angels" or "spirits" etc. mean literally or metaphorically or what?"
I've often asked the same question myself and find the question asked by others commonly. I also recognize the question as "Are these things totally subjective or also objective? Inside me or out?" As a student, the best observation I've made is the answer is both. Experience is our language. If anything objective were to communicate to us it would do so via the language and symbols that are within (or possibly we can only recognize those). That thought is incomplete though.....
"Every Man and Woman is a Star"
Didn't mean any disrespect - hope you find balance in what you're doing.