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Hermann Kuhn
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thoroughly established in the knowledge of our greater potential that they are unable to unbalance us.
More and more clearly we now perceive the mechanisms by which our consciousness forms our environment. We see how our emotions, desires and our attachments to ideas, concepts etc. act like magnets that attract the conditions in which these longings can manifest. We begin to use this insight creatively to structure perfect circumstances for our growth. In a most natural and automatic way this environment is in complete harmony with the Five Great Freedoms. All our being now orients towards unfolding the fantastic potential of our consciousness we sense within us.
We reach the seventh level as soon as the intensity of the 'intoxicated' state of the sixth level that swept though our consciousness like a conflagration, diminishes. We then oscillate for some time between the sixth and seventh level, until we get used to the far more intense energies and possibilities of the higher stage.
We experience the seventh level of development in two phases: - The first phase is characterized by rapid oscillations between level six and seven. For a maximum of 48 minutes we remain in level seven and then fall back to level six. But here we also only stay for a short time before we ascend again.
While in this phase, we are unable to experience any of the higher gunasthanas.
- Once we enter the second phase of level seven, we are caught by a sweeping current that pulls our consciousness up into ever more comprehensive stages of development. Where before we needed effort to
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