Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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First Interlude
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inspiring, original message that opens up untold, fantastic, noble dimensions to mankind.
Onto Further Shores Now - instead of trying to 'resurrect' information long so distorted as to be almost unrecognizable, let's turn to other cultures - let's see if they show similar messages, possibly clearer, less deteriorated, with more details how to purposely perceive and realize this higher part of ourselves.
The story how I discovered such scripture - actually the very first text of this kind I ever found - is worth relating, because the way it came into my focus was bizarre, spans more than three decades and defies logical explanation.
An Ancient Treasure Hidden in a Book It was way back at a time where no more than fifteen serious 'spiritual' books were readily available in print; a time where only one local bookshop sported one single narrow shelf hidden in the back of the store, displaying Lao Tse's 'Tao Te King', Seneca, Yogananda's 'Autobiography of a Yogi", Govinda's 'Way of the White Clouds' etc. Once you were through reading these fifteen works, you were on your own.
Oh yes, we knew that ancient Indian scriptures existed, but this was a huge complex of confusing archaic lore seemingly without discernible structure. And even if we knew a certain book existed, it usually was unobtainable, far too expensive, only available in original Sanskrit,