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Hermann Kuhn
APPLICATION
By experiencing these insights repeatedly and by directing our attention towards them, this process loses its fleeting character. In consequence the initial strong contrast to the familiar hypnotic envelope of level one diminishes. Yet we now begin to notice that we loose ourselves less and less in the actions we are involved in. The clarity in our life increases and we become able to steer it far more consciously. Eventually we exceed the maximum time we can stay in this phase and thereby automatically advance to phase two.
- In the second phase some part of the karma that had only become inactive (latent) in the first phase, dissolves completely. This means we understand the limiting influence of some of our attachments, desires and preconceptions that held us on level one. We stop refueling these bonds with new energy and in consequence their influence on us ceases after a while. This lengthens the periods during which we are free from the hypnotic envelope that overshadowed our consciousness on level one.
Yet since not all blocking karma has been dissolved, we still lose this state of clarity from time to time. When - at the end of this phase - all obstructing karma (i.e. all preoccupations that attached our consciousness to the hypnotic envelope of level one) dissolves, we enter phase three.
- In the third phase there exist no more karmic bonds
that may impede our clarity of understanding. To what extent we now put our new insights into action is the theme of the higher stages of development.
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