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The Map
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• Our desire for knowledge opens deeper layers of.
understanding within us, far beyond formal learning and
the accumulation of data-bits and pieces Growing sovereignty, inner peace and increasing detachment from irrelevant themes accompany this inner expansion.
Getting Familiar with Higher Stages Stages we experience more permanently soon start to feel entirely normal while memories of lower levels fade.
This happens in ALL stages.
The time we passed on lower levels we now regard as a less developed state that hardly influences our present - similarly as the games of our childhood have little bearing on us now.
Changes within us If we want to find out how far we progressed, we only need to recall any earlier deep immersion in irritating feelings and events, - and how sovereign we now steer our life.
As we contrast our current actions and ideas to those of friends and relatives whose lives did not expand, we can't help noticing how different the themes are that now attract our focus.
Ecstasy Ecstatic experiences arise from the contrast between our predominant stage and a (temporary) insight into a higher level.
Ecstasy is usually highly volatile. It gets easily disturbed by longing for the familiar lower stages. As we steadily dissolve