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Limitations of Individual Experience & the Nature of Spiritual Bondage

Steven E. Kaufman

Abstract


Whereas the negative experiential limitation dictates the relations in which an Individual can't be involved according to relations in which they're already involved, the positive experiential limitation dictates the relations in which an Individual must be involved according to relations in which they're already involved. Thus, whereas the negative experiential limitation dictates what an Individual can't know according to what they already know, the positive experiential limitation dictates what an Individual must know according to what they already know. The negative experiential limitation is the basis of the phenomena of wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty, whereas the positive experiential limitation is the basis of the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.

There is no bondage other than that which we create for ourselves. And the bondage we create is to trap ourselves into mode of creating unwanted rather than wanted experience through the mechanism of experiential entanglement, whereby we become locked into a resistant mode of being, locked into a relation of Self-resistance, owing to the way we habitually react to physical reality by trying to push away the unwanted and clinging to the wanted, i.e., through aversion and attachment. The bondage we create is to trap ourselves into a mode of being in which we are flowing against, rather than with, what is our Self.


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ISSN: 2153-8212