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KARMA
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THE MECHANISM
APPLICATION
We recognize that the sum total of actions possible within the context of the material world is limited. We now see the entirety of our material world from an outside perspective. For the first time we become aware that our real personality is far greater than the small part we perceive of it within the frame of our incarnations.
We now are free to choose entirely new lines of thoughts and actions independent of any previous mental and emotional patterns. A feeling of universal love rises within us that is not constrained by personal expectations and demands any more. In the beginning we feel like intoxicated by the potential that now opens up for our life.
Our attention shifts from the fleeting aspect of the present to its comprehensive character. More and more we now become aware of all the associations, expectations, contents and concepts that subconsciously also resonate within us when we observe events. We sense significances and meanings that exist beyond our
senses.
In each event we confront, we recognize how much we can learn from it if we engage in it through our action, - and how much energy we need to invest to gain these insights.
Yet our experience of this superior understanding is not stable. We drift in and out of this state. One moment we are deeply immersed and shaken by the worries and fears that challenge us
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barely understand them, our present so totally overshadowed by dire memories and dread of the future.
And then we sit in the chair. The dentist examines us briefly and states that he would not operate on us today. - All our expectations and dreads amounted to nothing. All our projections of the future needlessly obscured our very present.
In the sixth stage of development we dissolve most of this restriction of the present that previously seemed inescapable. - And the relief we feel when we get out of the chair is only a small foretaste of the excitement we will experience, when we free all our present from the restrictive memories of our past and the narrow expectations and dreads we habitually project onto our future.
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