richard weeden:
Is it always necessary to travel to the PCE through the felicitous feelings stage?
no.
richard weeden:
Sometimes for example I don't seem to be expriencing any negative stuff, but don't feel the positivity of the felicitoous feeling stage - should I just persist with sensuous attention, or try and find more felicity and wonder in my experience?
try those approaches exclusively and try blending them too. discern the cause and effect in those situations ... observe what works and then do that.
richard weeden:
If so, is this what the AF method is getting at when it suggest recalling previous PCE expereinces ie: if we remember a PCE the mind is gladdened and then another PCE follows?
can you ask this question another way?
richard weeden:
Should felicitous feelings just be allowed complete freedom to express and fulfil themselves so they naturally tend to the PCE and then simply disappear when the PCE happens?
try to neither express nor repress any feeling-- felicitous or otherwise. instead, be attentive of them while cultivating sensuousness-- that will allow for the magic of apperceptive awareness (the pce) to become one's experience.
richard weeden:
Sometimes for example I have a subtle sense that something amazing is happening - though this is much more subtle than in the felicitous feeling stage, and isn't grounded in a centred self.
there may be a sense of this, especially the first few times it is experienced. the important thing is to hold one's experiences to a high standard-- perfection being as high as it gets.
richard weeden:
Thanks in advance for anything anyone has to say.
you're welcome.
trent