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we want to go, what to do when we arrive etc., but never how all the levers and switches operate inside or how the engine works.
'Let's apply it.' This integration of (new) insights into our consciousness happens automatically when we discard all mental concepts, contents and emotions that we projected onto the experience while developing or training it, but that have nothing to do with the actual insight itself.
Driving a car becomes a natural ability when we stop thinking how much we liked or disliked our driving teacher, how expensive it was to get the license or what we felt during the theoretical test. Once all superfluous content is discarded we only manifest the pure ability. Our new insight or ability has now become an integrated and effortless part of our consciousness. The seven steps are far more complex than can be described in this book. They also constitute one part of a comprehensive system of logic that developed over the last millennium and on which voluminous books were written. Whoever likes to ponder elaborate theoretical arguments should consider reading these works.
Yet our very own, direct experience is and remains the best key to new insights. Therefore this book mainly concentrated on opening practical access to this knowledge so that everyone may understand and apply it without outside assistance.
We only experience the path to ultimate freedom by progressing on the path itself, - never by the mere reading of books or by any kind of preliminary training that only moves our start further and further into the future and carries the danger of losing ourselves in endless, superfluous preparation.
The path to ultimate freedom exists - but only to the extent WE begin with it.
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