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First Interlude
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tions, was stored in attics or cellars of friends - once barely escaping a flood, while all the time hiding that envelope.
Then came the day when I was searching for information I - mistakenly - thought this book contained, drew it from its shelf, - and the envelope dropped out.
Like receiving a birthday-gift out of time, I took the pages and read them in utter amazement. But where before I could see only a jumble of perplexing words, I now understood the extraordinary, intense message the text conveyed: - In great detail it described what far more illustrious ancient texts never even mentioned, - it described how to gain access to an awareness underlying the manifested world and the Unmanifested.
This is how I discovered 'The Tibetan Book Of The Great Liberation'
A 1200 Years Old Message Reaching Its Destination But reading and understanding the book intellectually was not the main event that made this whole process remarkable. All during the month following my 'discovery' something was working inside of me, - some vague notion, some hazy idea that seemed to sway just beyond conscious perception, just barely beyond my grasp. I felt as if I started seeing something where nothing seemed to be before.
And then - almost exactly one month after finding the hidden envelope - my mind suddenly zoomed into what the
