CHAPTER SIXTEEN
THE MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF WISDOM TEACHINGS
In order to provide further support for my thesis that even Ultimate Reality must necessarily be viewed and expressed from multidimensional perspectives, let me quote Sri Aurobindo in his Letters on Yoga, Volume I:
There are a thousand ways of approaching and realizing the Divine and each way has its own experiences which have their own truth and stand on a basis one in essence but complex in aspects, common to all but not expressed in the same way by all.
Let me also paraphrase Franklin Merrell-Wolff in his Experience and Philosophy: A Personal Record of Transformation and a Discussion of Transcendental Consciousness. In this work he suggests that whereas some refer to Consciousness-without-an-object as a plenum and others refer to it as a void, both have a tendency to be intolerant of the other’s point of view. He states, In general, such attitudes are simply not sound, for even a considerable degree of enlightenment is compatible with a failure to transcend one’s own individual psychology… and if the individual has not become cognizant of the relativity of his own psychology, he can very easily fall into the error of projecting his own attitude as an objective universal.