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Yet everyone experiences these flashes. Give yourself two months to watch out for them, - to watch out for extraordinary, short-lived happenings in mind and perception. Being aware that moments like this occur, makes it far easier to identify them.
When leaving STAGE 1 (in our moments of extraordinary clarity), we directly experience STAGE 4 without passing STAGE 2 and 3.
Is It Dangerous To Shift Awareness ? One of the greatest barriers to experiencing higher functions of our consciousness is worry that this might destabilize life as we know it.
Now - everything unfamiliar tends to trigger apprehension within us, whether it's a new job, an unfamiliar road, or the first approach to someone we fell in love with.
Thus there's nothing unusual in feeling uneasy with activating new functions of consciousness. We simply are unfamiliar with our higher abilities. We simply don't know where this process may lead us.
Yet shifting awareness is an entirely normal experience: • Just remember being a child, and then consider what you
are now - didn't you enormously enlarge your inner and outer scope of life?
From childhood onward our consciousness continuously expanded to embrace ever broader comprehension. The child we once were couldn't even imagine the abilities we would command as an adult.