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APPLICATION
14 STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
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Yet once we direct our attention towards these insights, they automatically lose their fleeting character so we become able to perceive them longer and clearer. We then also have a clearer perception of stage 3 where our clear understanding of level 4 and the delusion and prejudices of level 1 exist simultaneously and parallel to each other. Here we can decide whether to give in to the attraction of the familiar hypnotic envelope of level 1 and fall down to it, or to raise the energy to again reach the clarity of level 4.
It is the purpose of stage 3 to train us in this decision. Though initially not every effort to re-establish the clarity of level 4 might be successful, we create a momentum that eventually but unfailingly will permanently transfer our awareness from stage 1 to stage 4.
After some time we exceed the maximum time we can stay in this phase and thereby automatically advance to phase two. Yet even in phase 2 we lose this state of clarity from time to time and fall back to delusion and prejudices. Depending on the strength of the emotions that draw us to this lowest level, we can become so involved in its hypnotic envelope that we completely forget the clarity of stage 4 or regard it for so unimportant that we invest no effort into regaining it.
Yet when we take every slipping into the envelope of stage 1 as an incentive to increase our efforts to again reach level 4, we stabilize our awareness of the higher stage. We then proceed from its second phase to the third phase, from where we do not fall down to stage 1 any more. This transition is not marked by a clear experience like our sudden ascent from stage 1 to stage 4. We only notice that the silver lining of our conscious perception of the awareness of our self never disappears again.
The permanent shift of our awareness from stage 1 to stage 4 can be reached within one year. This only depends on how seriously we are interested in progressing and how much energy we invest in this undertaking.
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