L. Ron Hubbard was the most incredible person to ever walk this earth if you ask me. He has a way of explaining and dissecting reality that I have not seen matched anywhere. Now, in his ‘Handbook for Preclears’ he makes an accurate observation about the physical universe. Everything here is always in motion.
So, any attempt to get to spirit via motion is probably failure-prone. Of course you can dance til you drop and the dropping (stillness) is spirit. Likewise with a psychodrama type therapy where you freak out until it is all gone.
But let’s talk the Vedas and Siddha Yoga.
4 Layers of Motion
physical, prana, mental, discriminative bodies are nothing but coarse and subtle motion. They are not in the least bit spiritual.
3 Layers of Stillness
“Be still and know that I AM God” — just look at that sentence. BE .. I AM … your being still IS God… fascinating.
Anyway, you have 3 layers which require no motion. These layers are senior to and control the lower layers, as hard as that may be to belive!
bliss, awareness, truth. – the eternal you exists in these still layers.
During meditation, the more spiritual I get, the less capable I am of doing the mantra or visualizing Gurudev. The reason is simple. The mantra and visualization were being done by me with the outer 4 layers.
Interesting. L. Ron Hubbard does refer in some writings to having a good familiarity with the Vedas. He did do a lot of travel in Asia in his early years. Just wait until you read Scientology: 8-80 and Scientology 8-8008. They follow shortly after Handbook for Preclears. Now, THOSE BOOKS are amazing!
While I am not familiar with Yoga, I do understand that the different forms of “I” or “BE” are senior to the physical universe, just as God is senior to the material world.