In Rehnadee Shum there is no singular word that conceptualises the experience of spiritual enlightenment as it does in English. Instead there is the Portrait TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha that lays out and explains The Path of Enlightenment. Enlightenment experiences are organised into two distinct types–The Kaeefs and Emkaeef;.
- Rehnadee Shum and Enlightenment
- TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha–The Path of Enlightenment
- Rehnadee Shum's Culture of Meditation
- Meditation Maps, Mystic Skills, Mystic Strength
- Layers of Enlightenment
- States of Enlightenment–The Kaeefs and Emkaeef;
Rehnadee Shum and Enlightenment
Traditions or techniques of meditation that espouse spiritual evolution will direct their followers' meditative effort toward the lofty goal of enlightenment. The goal of enlightenment is idealised as the reason we are born on earth by providing a deeper and more fulfilling purpose to life or as the ultimate answer to all of life's tumult. Rehnadee Shum too idealises enlightenment though there is no singular word in the language that conceptualises enlightenment as in English. This is because enlightenment is not a singular experience, instead it comprises of a series of multi-layered mystical experiences that confer multi-faceted consequences to ones consciousness at different levels of mystical progress.
In Rehnadee Shum each layer of the enlightenment experience is peeled out as in the layers of an onion and meticulously organised and defined as goals that are set in meditation maps. Meditation maps themselves are organised into five levels that start from a beginner to that of a master. These levels are innovations that Rehnadee Shum brings to the practice of meditation as they are laid out according to Path of Enlightenment or TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha in Rehnadee Shum.
TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha defines the attainable goal of spiritual enlightenment at even the Beginner Level. This is possible because the language is able to categorise enlightenment experiences across the dimensions of the Innerverse. So even a beginner who is grappling with her mind can aim for an experience of enlightenment that is commensurte with her ability. This attainment is used as a signpost to advance to the next level of meditation maps with deeper more profound goals of enlightenment.
A Shum meditator progresses in his meditations from enlightenment to enlightenment. Just as a mountaineer conquers a mighty mountain such as the Everest using base camps to gradually reach its summit, the Shum meditator uses meditation maps to reach ever deeper levels of enlightenment until the loftiest state of enlightenment is attained.
TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha–The Path of Enlightenment
In Rehnadee Shum meditations are organised into five levels–Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Guide and Master. There is also a level 0–Rehnadee Shum's Academy–which is its study program. Enlightenment is the goal of Rehnadee Shum meditations from the very start. Even new aspiring mystics can aim for enlightenment experiences that is close to their inherent mystic abilities. Rehnadee Shum's Culture of Meditation provides the methods and instructions that guide a mystics meditation.
Rehnadee Shum's five progressive levels build a meditator's ability and mystical sensitivity that starts with the meditator's natural inner inclinations. From there various techniques are employed which can include yoga postures, breath control, ‘uncluttering’ the subconscious, prayers and affirmations to develop a meditators mystic skills. These skills teach the meditator all the basics such as posture, modulating breath and maintaining clarity and emotional harmony in the mind in their mind. They build the meditator's mystic abilities that lead to initial enlightenment expeirences. From then meditations build on enlightenment goals, one after another, that progress through the dimensions of the Innerverse. The ultimate goal of enlightenment is Emkaeef; which is within the 14th Dimension–the highest dimension.
TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha lays the path on the mountain of spirituality where Emkaeef; is its Summit. There are many paths to the Summit around the mountain, each with their own set of base camps. In TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha the base camps represent signpost enlightenments that are required to go on to the next level. Gathering these enlightenment experiences are like collecting a string of enlightenment pearls that builds the mystic's strength to successfully summit the mountain.
Related Link: TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha–Rehnadee Shum Academy Map
Rehnadee Shum's Culture of Meditation
All schools of meditation have the goal of enlightenment common to them and with one or more techniques to get there. What is unique in Rehnadee Shum is the emphasis it gives to the path because of the nuaunces in mystic experiences that the language is capable of capturing and organising. Rehnadee Shum can easily place and define mystic experiences within their dimensions and this allows growth from the very beginning of effort. It is able to aggregate a meditator's effort based on his or her initial ability and build from there by adding skills and building strength.
Learning about spiritual enlightenment experiences is often the motivator that inspires meditation. Wherever or from whomever you learn about enlightenment, be it from reading a book or hearing a mystic speak about the experience, its description can uplift and move you to seek it. Enlightenment experiences themselves have the effect of flooding the body with 'feel good hormones' like endorphines or dopamine thus colouring their description with positivity and pleasure. The next obvious step after getting inspired about anything is of course to go get it. How to meditate will be the next pertinent question. The answer to that in Shum Sanctuary can be found in Rehnadee Shum's Culture of Meditation. This Culture is about a process in meditation that first emphasises building Mystic Skills which are necessary for sustaining concentration during meditation and then progressing into attaining enlightenment experiences commensurate with one's Mystic Strength. Central to this process are meditation maps that act as a guide and record in ones spiritual quest.
Meditation Maps
What Meditation maps do for the practice of meditation can be likened to what science does for technology. Technology creates practical applications from a scientific body of knowledge to make our life easier. Meditation maps do the same with spiritual knowledge to attain enlightenment. How these maps do this is by aggregating and customising one's spiritual effort into achievable steps from the very beginning. This aggregation takes into account a meditators latent abilities and what needs to be added to initial effort leading to an enlightenment goal close to the meditators ability. They also help define and overcome challenges that a meditator can be faced with in bite-sized chunks. With practice the meditation can bear fruit and when it does it builds the confidence of the meditator that his effort is worth his time. The attainment of a meditation map goal also instructs a meditator in how to acknowledge the reality of his experience. The ability to recognise the reality of mystic experiences through understanding its differences from figments of imagination is crucial to progress in meditation. Believing in oneself that the experience one has had is real and not a figment of his imanignation is an important challenge that meditation maps help overcome. Meditation maps are specific in their steps and goal, and the maps are only entered into the Libraries after they are approved as reliable by Rehnadee Shum Masters. Therefore a meditator practicing a map can be confident that he or she can attain its goal and confirm their experience in conference with a Rehnadee Shum Master or Guide, or even other meditators who have practiced the map successfully. This creates clarity and a sense of certainty in following the path ahead.
Mystic Skills
On the Path of Enlightenment, the first step is developing the inspiration to summit the mountain of spiritualilty. Then the work starts to build the skills and strength necessary to begin the adventure. For a mountaineer they start at home before even going to the base of the mountain. They gather knowledge and equipment and exercise to build strengthe and stamina. Without the prerequisite skills and strenght in place summiting a mountain with sheer inspiration will not work.
As for The Path Of Enlightenment, its mountaineering equipment is synonymous with Mystic Skills. What are Mystic Skills? To start with, it is learning about the Path and Rehnadee Shum's methodology. Study materials are found in Rehnadee Shum's Academy Maps Library. Mystic Skills themselves are found under the Mystic Skills section in the Beginner Map Libraries. These Maps teach everything from how to set up conducive atmosphere and space for meditation, how to decide on time and frequency of practice, posture and pre-meditation preparations and practices such as yoga excercise. Then there are Skills needed while meditating such as diaphragmatic breathing, breath modulation practices, learning to manage distractions to concentration, concentration techniques and learning to visualise to name some of these Mystic Skills. These Skills also have added health benefits especially to do with relieving mental stresses. General Mystic Skills are learnt in the Beginner and Intermediate Levels. while at the Advanced Level Mystic Skills are specialised to meditation maps.
Mystic Strength
Having prepared for climb to the summit of the spiritual mountain, the journey starts from the base of the mountain. A summit is surmounted from one base camp to the next. On The Path of Enlightenment base camps can be found from one dimension to the next. From the base of the mountain the first base camp is at the Fourth Dimension. The Fourth Dimension holds introductory states of enlightenment that are heartfelt experiences which stimulate a gamut of emotions from inspiring to exhilarating. These experiences span the Beginner and Intermediate levels and a mystic can delve into exploring the Fourth Dimension enjoying its many experiences of enlightenment. As the mystic collects one meditation map after another she is building her Mystic Strength. Building Mystic Strength is similar to building muscle strength like how a weight lifter will gradually work toward a target weight by gradually increasing his weights with 5 or 2.5kgs each level until he reaches his target. Progressing through the dimensions of the Innerverse to reach the ultimate state of enlightenment Emkaeef; (situated in the 14th Dimension) requires building up in Mystic Strength by attaining enlightenment experiences of the 4th and higher dimensions. These experiences build a mystic's spiritual sinews needed to hold the energy that successively higher dimensional enlightenment experiences evoke. From the Fourth Dimension to the Seventh Dimension the goal is to grow into each dimension by collecting enlightenment experiences available within them. Getting from one basecamp to the next builds the meditator's Mystic Strength to the point that the mystic reaches the final basecamp to make an attempt to the Summit – attempting to attain Emkaeef; . Growing in Mystic Strength is what a Rehnadee Shum meditator does from the Intermediate to the Advanced Levels.
Layers of Enlightenment
TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha is basically about uncovering and organising the myriad of mystical experiences that the word enlightenment clumps into a singular concept. The word enlightenment gives the perception of a singular experience, thus the effort to achieve enlightenment is over simplified into few methods that may be inflexible to the particular needs of a mystic. Without emphasis on building Skill and Strength as is laid out in TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha, reaching the most lofty experience such as Emkaeef; using but a singular prescribed method plus patience and persistence – from the very beginning of spiritual effort – alone is like deciding to climb and summit a mountain impulsively, anticipating that the skills and strength required can be figured out along the way. It's not impossible, it's just very haphazard. Even in classical systems like Ashtanga Yoga where the path is better defined as Eigth-Limbed, enlightenment is defined as two distinct experiences. One is called 'Union with Seed' (Savikalpa Samadhi) and the other is 'Union without Seed' (Nirvikalpa Samadhi). Nirvikalpa Samadhi is Emkaeef; , the ultimate state of enlightenment, whereas Savikalpa Samadhi are the myriad of enlightenment experiences across the Innerverse that is defined as Truth, Consciousness and Bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda) – and In Rehnadee Shum, Kaeef. There are no unique names for the many experiences contained in Savikalpa Samadhi nor does the concept of building Mystic Strength by attaining a string of Savikalpa Samadhi experiences to then reach for Nirvikalpa Samadhi appear in Ashtanga Yoga. This is why TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha is an innovation in the practice of meditation. Kaeef like Savikalpa Samadhi, is the name of a whole set of enlightenment experiences that dot the Path of Enlightenment even from the beginning of the spiritual journey starting from the 4th dimension all the way up to the 10th dimension. In the Rehnadee Shum Lexicon these enlightenment experiences are collated as the Kaeefs and organised in a list of spiritual goals of meditation maps. You can go to this list from this link.
Meditating on the Kaeef experience closest to the current ability of a mystic provides a nuaunced approach to meditation's goal and allows for the Mystic Strength to develop, leading to the next Kaeef, which is usually in a deeper realm of the same dimension or in the next dimension of the Innerverse.
TyaeeShaLeeUngTiiCha also organises enlightenment goals into three further categories–Pre-Enlightenment, Enlightenment and Post Enlightenment. Pre-enlightenment are meditation goals that build toward an enlightenment experience. They are usually used as goals in Mystic Skills maps. Examples of pre-enlightenment experiences include learning to see the glow of the mind that lights our thoughts, or becoming sensitive to the energy that generates thoughts or becoming sensitive to the flow of energy within the spine. A meditator can choose a pre-enlightenment expeirence that they feel the most affinity to as their starting point in their practice. The pre-enlightenment experience will eventually lead to the meditator's experiencing a Kaeef that is connected to that particular Mystic Skill. After this attainment the following enlightenment experience is revealed in a process identified in Rehnadee Shum as IngLeeYuTyayLinReh or Spiritual Immersion. Spiritual Immersion is achieved by repeatedly having an enlightenment experience until the next meditation goal to attain is revealed. IngLeeYuTyayLinReh is explained in detail in the Culture of Meditation. The meditator will grow in their mystic strength from one enlightenment to the next, gaining access to the higher dimensions of the Innerverse until Immersion reveals Emkaeef; as the next enlightenment to attain.
After Emakeef; is attained, – this goal of goals in meditation requires specialised and closely guided effort in the Advanced Level – the next stage on the Path of Enlightenment that is post-enlightenment will open to the now advance mystic. Post-enlightenment can be likened to floating above the summit of the spiritual mountain. Post-enlightenment meditation maps are for Rehnadee Shum Guides and Rehnadee Shum Masters. These maps are for meditations that develop the chakras above the Crown (7th Chakra) which are in the Eigth, Ninth and Tenth dimensions. During post-enlightenment the mystic enjoys exploring the breadth and depth of the Innerverse while nurturing her immortal spiritual identity.
States of Enlightenment–The Kaeefs and Emkaeef;
In Rehnadee Shum Kaeef and Emkaeef; are two States of Enlightenment which follows Ashtanga Yoga's definition of the two-fold spiritual enlightenment goals. In Rehnadee Shum, Kaeef is Savikalpa Samadhi and Emkaeef; is Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Kaeef preceeds Emkaeef; and consists of many mystical experiences to be found within the Innerverse. In Rehnadee Shum, Kaeef is the name of the group that encompasses the myriad of enlightenment experiences that are known as Savikalpa Samadhi. It can also be called The Kaeefs.
The Kaeefs are subset experiences of Pure Consciousness where Pure Consciousness is at the pinnacle of perception. Every sensation that we feel – whether they originate from any of our five senses or emotions originating from our mind – when meditated upon will ultimately lead to a Kaeef experience. Examples of Kaeef experiences include feeling the power of the Clear White Light of the mind, expansion into the bliss of Pure Mind-Space, the fullness from merging in Oneness with the Cosmos or enjoying the sublime effect of the heart melting in devotion. These are but a few of the experiences encompassed by Kaeef. Experiences of Kaeef can be defined as enjoying life at its core and its effect on the mystic is that it enlivens mysticism and enriches life with a new dimension of experiences. The Kaeefs are open to discovery and it will contain a growing list of experiences as mystics from all walks of life adventure into the Innerverse through Rehnadee Shum meditations. As more of the Keefs are discovered our understanding of the Innerverse to will become more comprehensive. The Kaeefs are listed in Rehnadee Shum's Lexicon in the following link.
Unlike the Kaeefs Emkaeef; is a singular experience. There are no multitude of Emkaeefs, just The One. It is a mighty one at that because it is the goal of goals in the Path of Enlightenment–The Mysterious Experience of Nothing. The Kaeefs are about enjoying the purest states of our consciousness while Emkaeef; is beyond consciousness, it's a non-experience-experience that is glorified in all mystic schools as the ultimate state of enlightenment. There are reams of scriptures and books by gurus and authors dedicated to the wonders of attaining this experience, yet there is little written instruction available about the mechanics of attaining it, though the challenge that this experience poses to the mystic seeking it is well presented. Even in Rehnadee Shum, with its innovation of meditation maps and Path of Enlightenment, the challenge of reaching Emkaeef; is not understated. The mysterious experience of non-experience requires expert guidance, and in Rehnadee Shum the mechanics of the mystic strength required to attain Emkaeef; is explained in detail through sets of Advanced Level Meditation Maps leading up to Emkaeef; . With the help of a Shum Master and application of the apropriate maps an advance Rehnadee Shum mystic can summit the mountain of spirituality to attain Emkaeef; .
The Path of Enlightenment doesn't end with Emkaeef; but continues on to post-enlightenment. Post-enlightenment is about maintaining the practice of attaining Emkaeef;. The aftermath of consistent practice of Emkaeef; develops the chakras above the Crown Chakra which are of the Eight, Ninth and Tenth Dimensions. Within these Dimensions are ‘super-spiritual,’ experiences that develops the mystics now enlightened awareness into an immortal spiritual body that will no longer be subject to the cycle of reincarnation on Earth.This will create a paradigm shift in the conscioiusness of the mystic as she can perceive her existence beyond the mortal world and appreciate the greater purpose of life on Earth as she transforms from a Rehnadee Shum mystic to a Master.
