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Spiritual PracticeSpiritual practice is primarily the cultivation of Presence,
understanding, awareness and surrender. These are the capacities
needed for the later stages of psychic metabolism. Awareness and
understanding are needed for the purification of ego identification.
The Presence and surrender are needed for the process of absorption
itself. One learns to be open, vulnerable and present to one's
experience, in order to allow effective metabolism. This means
that one learns to be in direct contact with one's experience,
which in turn requires the presence of the Personal Essence, which
is the aspect which can make such direct contact without defensiveness.
Thus, when one is realized as the Personal Essence, metabolism
becomes a natural, spontaneously occurring process. Effective
metabolism leads to the realization of the Personal Essence, and
the Personal Essence, in its turn, makes metabolism a natural
process of living. The life of the Personal Essence is a continuing,
ever-expanding process of integration and individuation. (The
Pearl Beyond Price, pg 168) |
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