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There is no precondition, no need for outside guidance or assistance, no special knowledge, abilities, locations or guru to seek out, no preparation other than playfully acting on this basic information. The more we progress, the more we discover how it works. Everything we'll ever need for this endeavor already is within us.
This is how it works: We all experience brief, intense moments in which our consciousness all of a sudden shifts to a radically different mode of perception.
These are moments of extraordinary clarity during which we wake up from the constant hustle-bustle that surrounds us. These moments are very brief, but highly agreeable and we usually also remember that we experienced them three to six weeks before as well.
Nobody ever told us how to interpret these fleeting flashes, and so we rub our eyes, choose to ignore them and continue with our usual activities as if they never occurred.
Yet these moments are very precious. They are brief, spontaneous excursions of our consciousness into STAGE 4. They give us a feeling how the extraordinary clarity of higher stages tastes like. They provide a reference how to identify future occurrences of this experience.
How to make these moments more permanent? Simple -
OUR LIFE IS WHERE OUR ATTENTION IS
