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It happens not only in the Christian or in the Indian tradition. It is something natural happening all over the world, because it belongs to the entelecheia of the human being, being a sign of growth, even if the beginning is terrifying. For when a man comes for the first time into contact with the force he initially shivers and is at great loss. The purifying energy of it so contrasts the anxiety and the feelings of tension in the body, built up for years, that the contact results in a shock condition.

That way the client will finally realize the wholeness that he actually is. Essays on Spirituality 5. Beauty and its levels of realization Wat is beauty? Beauty is the spiritual dimension of reality made manifest to our senses. Through the workings of beauty we can actually see, hear, touch, taste and smell that there is something deeper, a more profound level of existence, offering meaning, consolation and hope. In beauty the veil of our ordinariness and shallowness is for a moment lifted. By way of the senses we catch a glimpse of a more perfect world beyond.

Then you will totally miss the possibility to find out who you really are. Because at this level you are the most remote from your own true nature. For, remember, your true nature was the highest transcendence, the fifth layer in your interiority. And here at the first layer you are far remote from your true Home. Thatś why people living solely on the material plain are so unhappy and depressed and need drugs and chemicals to bring them into contact with their higher levels. Dissatisfied with the material you can choose to be rational, sane, mindful.

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