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desires and fears) that retain our focus on our present level - if this is what we desire.
STEP Two - Finding out which higher stages
we have insights in already now We all experience brief, intense moments in which our awareness all of a sudden shifts to a radically different mode of operation - irrespective of the level we currently focus on.
These are moments of extraordinary clarity during which we seem to wake up from the constant hustle-bustle of daily life. These moments are very brief, but usually highly agreeable and we mostly also remember that we experienced them 3 to 6 weeks ago as well.
Flashes of this kind occur quite often, yet nobody ever talks about them, and so we generally ignore them and continue with our usual activities as if they never happened.
Yet as fleeting as these experiences may be, they nevertheless
• give us a taste how higher stages feel like • they prove that we are definitely CAPABLE of
experiencing higher stages • and they show that our awareness spontaneously tends
to activate higher functions. We only need to recognize,
amplify and stabilize this natural ability. Being aware of the characteristics of higher stages enables us to identify which stages open up during our flash-insights.