This is probably obvious, but during powerful experiences of Christ Consciousness (CC), there is no recognition or understanding of what is happening. There is simply amazement. Cognition, reasoning, and intellection cease. There is seeing, but there is no reflexive idea about what is seeing or being seen. There is no inside or outside.
The most powerful realization precipitated by a powerful CC experience is that the entire universe is a unified living unbounded whole--the Big One. All the bells and whistles are probably the body/mind being shaken loose from its attachment to its imaginary conception of the universe.
The experience ends when the body/mind remembers the previously-imagined conception, and returns to "normal." Understanding is then changed (because mind is informed), and the body/mind then sees the difference between the world as it is and the world as it is usually imagined. The world is not seen afterwards in any cosmic sense because everything is ordinary again. A tree is once again a tree, but the difference between what is seen and the distinction "tree" is clearly understood.
Eventually, as the body/mind learns how the mind filters, interprets, and distorts what is seen, there is a growing interest in becoming free of the mind (which does not mean mindless). This interest in freedom is prompted by the intelligence that underlies and informs mind. Body-knowing becomes more highly valued than intellectual-knowing because it leads to deeper intimacy and unity with "what is."
Ultimately, from the standpoint of everyday life, there is neither a Big One nor a little one because both ideas cease to be a focus of attention (except on a forum like this), and there is simply "what is" as it is--unnamed, uninterpreted, unknown, and alive in its unimaginable suchness.
The most powerful realization precipitated by a powerful CC experience is that the entire universe is a unified living unbounded whole--the Big One. All the bells and whistles are probably the body/mind being shaken loose from its attachment to its imaginary conception of the universe.
The experience ends when the body/mind remembers the previously-imagined conception, and returns to "normal." Understanding is then changed (because mind is informed), and the body/mind then sees the difference between the world as it is and the world as it is usually imagined. The world is not seen afterwards in any cosmic sense because everything is ordinary again. A tree is once again a tree, but the difference between what is seen and the distinction "tree" is clearly understood.
Eventually, as the body/mind learns how the mind filters, interprets, and distorts what is seen, there is a growing interest in becoming free of the mind (which does not mean mindless). This interest in freedom is prompted by the intelligence that underlies and informs mind. Body-knowing becomes more highly valued than intellectual-knowing because it leads to deeper intimacy and unity with "what is."
Ultimately, from the standpoint of everyday life, there is neither a Big One nor a little one because both ideas cease to be a focus of attention (except on a forum like this), and there is simply "what is" as it is--unnamed, uninterpreted, unknown, and alive in its unimaginable suchness.
