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A Doctrinal Reassessment in Light of Yogācāra, Tathāgatagarbha, and the Unborn

The Harbough sessions, when viewed within the larger arc of spiritual autobiography, belong to a genuine transitional phase and must be approached with the respect due to an experience that once carried real transformative force. They cannot simply be dismissed as fantasy, nor can they be retained as though their symbolic and metaphysical framework remained doctrinally sufficient in the light of later realization. If the earlier companion essays have shown that Harbough functioned as a meaningful bridge between an outgrown Catholic matrix and a freer spiritual horizon, the present task is more exacting. The task now is to ask how that same material appears when placed under the uncompromising scrutiny of the Lankāvatāra, Yogācāra, Tathāgatagarbha, and the Unborn itself. Such a correction does not exist to invalidate the earlier phase. It exists to reveal its doctrinal limits, to discern what in it was provisional, and to show how the Harbough material can be retained within the autobiography of awakening without allowing its imaginal and metaphysical structures to stand as final truth. read more