to the feet and legs, it loses its wandering, i.e. it becomes calm. Only this kind of mind, which is, at the same time, accustomed to concentratedness, can, with the raising base of consciousness, or, awareness, transfer to the sphere of fire and air where the knowledge of the instinctive and emotional life arises; over there it will obtain life experiences which will make it wise. However, wisdom is not a matter of an abstracted factor of being – of the mind, but a fruit of emotional experience whose elements are correctly classified and evaluated by the mind of the mystic. And because the elementary living – the emotional one, even at the level of ideals, belongs only to the trunk, the rising base of awareness or consciousness will then enable a person to experience everything that is offered by the elementary living. Having completely experienced that which the trunk contains in it as hidden experiential qualities, is an accomplishment of the state of the mystical perfection. However, the base of consciousness and awareness can be raised even higher – above the level of the elementary, as well as emotional, living, which is contained in the trunk – up to the sphere of the abstract, i.e. intellectual cognition. It can be even raised up to the sphere of knowledge obtained by means of pure perceptions, i.e. unbiased by prejudice which is caused by the emotional clinging or aversion to the phenomena of the outer world, whether the visible, material ones, or the inner, moral and emotional ones. The sphere of this, so-called, “abstract cognition” corresponds to the head. When the base of consciousness or awareness is raised all the way up to here, the mystic will see life from a detached perspective. This view was obtained by the passage of the analysing thinking and awareness through the trunk. As a result of this, his or her wisdom, obtained by the state of consciousness in the detached perspective, will develop further, until the mystic will finish the entire period of life in a state of a non-violent renunciation of everything. By that, they will attain the peak of the spiritual development – a state, in which they will not wish for anything, because they will be aware of the fact that they have experienced and known everything that can be experienced and known, and so they will find no more elements of ignorance in themselves. I can claim that this high quality wisdom cannot be obtained by other path than “bottom-up”. The concentration into the breast, which is done by many Christian mystics, only develops the states of various feelings. With regard to the relationship of the feelings to imagination, this concentration can bring about visions of the most bizarre subjective pieces of knowledge; however, these pieces are not a variant of life experiences and the entire life experience is not exhausted by them – and only this fully calms down the being at the level of desires. Therefore the mystic concentrating into the breast can, at the best, die with a desire to know God or to identify themselves with him. This – if correctly evaluated – is a proof that the heat of cravings did not extinguish; this craving is perhaps more noble than the elementary taste-related craving, but still it is craving which is rooted in the insatiability of an inexperienced soul – a soul seeking the states of excitement and emotional 74 Květoslav Minařík
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