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Title: The Journey

Subtitle: A Voyage of Light and Sound

Author: David Lane

Narrator: John Longen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-17

Publisher: MSAC Philosophy Group

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism & Eastern Religions

Publisher's Summary:

Detailed description of the inner meditation journey in surat shabd yoga, as given out by the Radhasoami gurus at Agra and Beas. Presents how one goes within using the light and sound within one's own consciousness and how to ascend to higher regions of awareness.

Members Reviews:

Journey home?

David Christopher Lane is a former follower of Radhasoami, a spiritual tradition that exists within both Hinduism and Sikhism. At one point, he was also interested in Ken Wilber's transpersonal psychology. This Kindle article, âThe Journey: A Voyage of Light and Soundâ, references both Wilber and Wilber's de facto guru Adi Da Samraj, alongside various Radhasoami authorities. Today, Lane sounds more skeptical and regularly bashes Wilber at Frank Visser's site Integral World. He has also written exposés of Eckankar and M.S.I.A (pronounced âMessiahâ), two American groups which borrow extensively from the Radhasoami, and perhaps from Scientology, without acknowledging their sources.

âThe Journeyâ is a short article, probably written at some point during the 1980's. Yet, it's quite interesting. Lane describes the spiritual journey of the Radhasoami mystic in some detail. The ascent to the divine could be described as a consciously induced near-death experience, during which the physical body becomes completely numb, as consciousness is concentrated in the âthird eyeâ and then leaves the body behind. The process has obvious similarities with âastral travelâ, and Lane explicitly compares one of the regions traversed to the astral. With one exception, all the spiritual dimensions passed by the soul on its journey back to the divine are âpositiveâ and immensely enchanting. In one of the regions, every wish comes true and the mystic can even create entirely new worlds. Or so he imagines! The soul is advised not to dwell too long in these regions of spiritual space, since they really hinder its progression. One region is described as negative and hence constitutes a kind of âhellâ. Interestingly, itâs the last dimension traveled by the soul before it merges with the divine.

Only a person with a competent guru can undertake the perilous journey back to godhead, the form of the guru guiding the soul through its meanderings in enchanted astral space. The guru also teaches the future mystic various mantras or passwords necessary for the trip. Ultimately, the soul sees the guru as God, and then sees how the guru merges into God, next realizing that it (the soul) has been part of the guru and hence God all along. A distinctive feature of Radhasoami is the emphasis on the âAudible Life Currentâ, the various cosmic or spiritual sounds heard by the mystic during his ascent, showing him that he is on the right track.

Another distinctive feature is the idea of a negative force in the cosmos, called Kal, which represents descent from the divine to the material. Kal (sometimes personified as a kind of Gnostic demiurge) is the ruler of the non-divine realms, including the enchanting ones, and his mission is to hinder the soul from reaching its true destiny and merge with the ocean of the divine. The idea that there is a fallen god in charge of the material and the astral strikes me as non-Hindu.