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The Yogi teaches that the mind itself has a higher state of existence, beyond reason, a superconscious state, and when the mind gets to that higher state,then this knowledge, beyond reasoning, comes to man . Metaphysical and transcendental knowledge comes to that man .This state of going beyond reason, transcending ordinary human nature, may sometimes come by chance to a man who does not understand its science; he , as it were, stumbles upon it. When he stumbles upon it, he generally interprets it as coming from outside. So this explains why an inspiration, or transcendental knowledge, may be the same in different countries, but in one country it will seem to come through an angel, and in another through a Deva, and in a third through God. What does it mean? It means that the mind brought the knowledge by its own nature, and that the finding of the knowledge was interpreted according to the belief and education of the person through whom it came. The real fact is that these various men, as it were, stumbled upon this superconscious state.
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You're suggesting that this state that you call "superconscious" is something other than a physical state of neurons in the brain?
I call BS on "going beyond reason, transcending ordinary human nature"... I don't think you get what the yogis are talking about. I think this is just western thick headed idolatry given an eastern makeover. Or maybe the ideas came out of the east into the west and have always been there.
The whole point of enlightenment is that you're already there. You don't have to "go beyond" or "transcend" (same thing as go beyond) anything. When you get to the "yonder shore" in buddhism and turn to look at where you traveled from, there's nothing there. There's no distinction between pairs of opposites. That's nirvana. The center of the cyclone of rebirth and suffering (samsara) where all oppositely spinning forces sum to zero and there is no distinction.
It's a brain state of neurons in your head. It's not supernatural in the way you're talking about something beyond reason.
This sounds just like the crazy bible thumpers in alabama saying that God is beyond logic. They don't even know what words are coming out of their mouths when they speak like that. They're just repeating something that makes them feel good, not truth.