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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
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This part of the ancient manuscript introduces the key to far more fascinating dimensions of life than we experience at present. It tells us how to overcome the inner and outer barriers that prevent us from perceiving and exploring these dimensions. It tells us how to dissolve 'karmic' clutter, - i.e. how to get rid of our emotional attachment to narrow, restrictive themes of life. Karmic attachment is the only factor that confines our consciousness to our current limits of existence. Once we remove this 'clutter', new insights and a far greater scope of life open up automatically and with inevitable certainty.
Yet to progress on this path is not as casual and comfortable as most new age gurus and books would like us to believe.
It has become chic nowadays to be 'spiritually' active, to do the 'fun mystic thing'. Without paranormal encounters, channeling, UFO invasions and magic rituals we'd hardly know what thrilling themes to talk about at parties. The 'search for our Self' - a kind of casual development into a higher being - grew into a 'must' of modern society, - into a 'recreational spiritual path' that has become high fashion.
These are the people in esoteric workshops and seminars, talking about 'the flow of cosmic energy' and 'descended masters', going to Sedona, Mount Shasta, Stonehenge or Rishikesh, sitting on vortices and sacred spots - my is the scenery beautiful - and wait for some handsome enlightenment - but please, not too fast and not too unsettling.
They are the ones running from guru to guru, from astrologer to astrologer, always looking for some mystic person to tell them time and again what fantastically advanced spiritual beings they are. And because they are so highly evolved, they needn't work up real sweat about their inner growth. - Why should they? - They're privileged, aren't they? Once their time has come, some higher being - probably with noble face, long, flowing garments - will single them out, touch their forehead - that famous 'third eye' - and the light will flow through them and then enlightenment has come. So they think. So
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