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We do not try to remove factors that produced' our attachment to lower levels, we do not 'renounce' material condition, we only extract our focus from these confining bounds. We simply choose to orient towards far more attractive, sovereign dimensions within us. We let go our attachment to some parts of the material world because we recognize how much they constrain the bandwidth of our awareness.
The restricting conditions might well continue to exist, - but only on a lower stage that now hardly holds our attention. Since we invest no further energy in them, they completely cease to engage our attention after some time.
A Period of Lessening Excitement As we orient towards this higher understanding, we sometimes miss the thrill the lower stages evoked. We feel as if life suddenly lacks in excitement, - as if we lost something vital.
Such experience gets triggered by reminiscing of heady, fast-moving, but bygone activities. The feeling of loss can be intense and may occur repeatedly.
Yet these encounters last only limited time. They pass faster when we purposely direct our life towards the expansive future opening up before us now. Inner expansion provides far greater fascination than any mixture of thrill and pain could ever offer.
From Now On WE Are In Command From STAGE 6 onwards access to higher levels becomes a conscious decision. If we decline to reach for more expansive dimensions, we continue to stay in lower stages; if we decide for higher experience, we ascend. We now have the power to