INTRODUCTION

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What you have just described is something that I occasionallyexperiencefor brief momentswhenI amalone andsurroundedbynature. Yes ...

likely didn't realize that you were briefly in a state of no- mind. This is because the gap between that state and the influxoft ...

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theevolutionofconsciousnessinthisworld. Everything that exists has Being, hasGod-essence, has somedegreeofconsciousness.Evenasto ...

psychologicalform.Thisistheegoicmind,andthisiswhere considerable dysfunction sets in. It now looks as if somethinghadgoneverywro ...

When consciousness frees itself from its identification with physical and mental forms, it becomes what we may call pure or enli ...

back.Ifthehumanraceistosurvive,itwillhavetogoonto the next stage. Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions ...

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externalizedform, what couldheorshe possiblysayto you otherthanthis:"I am the Truth. Iam divine presence.I am eternallife.Iamwit ...

human consciousness from its current state of mind dominance.Thiswillmakethestateofpresenceincreasingly moreaccessibletoindividu ...

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physical body andyour mind. This "illusionof theself," as the Buddha calls it, is the core error. Free from fear in its countles ...

disliked the word honey, that might prevent you from ever tasting it. If you had a strong aversion to the word God, whichisanega ...

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continuously for most people — you are not in your body. The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stu ...

become.It will feelas if every cell isbecomingmore alive, andifyouhaveastrongvisualsense,youmaygetanimage of your body becoming ...

Whyhavesofewseekersbecomefinders? On the level of the body, humans are very dose to animals. All the basic bodily functions — pl ...

the Buddha is said to have practiced body denial through fastingandextremeforms ofasceticismforsixyears,but he did not attain en ...

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