Hi Kyman:
You are part of a new breed of yogi and yogini, and it will be very interesting to see how things progress in the years and decades to come.
There are plenty of folks around from my generation (baby boomers) who have been doing practices of one kind or other for a long time. Yet, the results have been mixed -- some would say disappointing in relation to the claims that were made early on. I believe this has been due to a lack of full-scope integration of powerful methods that have not been brought together before now. Outside AYP, I don't know of anyone who has been integrating practices across rigid traditional lines the way we have been doing.
It is silly really. In this scientific age, we are only now beginning to effectively combine the essential methods of human spiritual transformation, even though these methods have been around for thousands of years! Well, better late than never.
The experiences being recorded here after a year or two (yours are beautiful) are the kind one might hear from old-style long term practioners, if at all.
Of course, in quite a few cases, long term practitioners involved in one class of practice are coming into AYP and adding on, with big leaps forward in a very short time. That is because they have been selectively purifying for a long time with the one class of practice, and suddenly a new element of yoga is brought in and it can go pretty fast from there. So nothing is ever wasted on the spiritual path. My own practice evolved like that over some three decades, picking up essential pieces along the way as AYP slowly crystalized into an easy-to-use integrated system. And I believe there is much more to do yet. Science is never satisfied and never sleeps. It's a good thing too ... now that we are getting it all out in the open, it means much more progress will be coming.
So, it will be folks like you who are giving the 10, 20 and 30 year perspectives on self-directed integrated practices. It is a real adventure that has the potential to exceed the greatest achievements of humanity so far. We just need to get everyone into the act, and the divine synergy will take over.
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Of course, there are always a few enlightened people around. That is not really a big deal in the overall scheme of things. But thousands? That will be something else entirely.
The guru is in you.