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The understanding comes when the seed at the bottom is fried up
through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening to some great opportunity that comes whenever we face death of any kind. I had dealt about this subject in my book PAM and After Life and therefore do not intend to dilate on that here.
In the case of transformation of human consciousness what happens is we die to the notions and thinking patterns to which we were accustomed and become alive to new ideas and refreshingly free mental sphere. To name the new mental atmosphere or new thought patterns is to make them old and this is one of the fallacies of persons who are on the verge of transformation. By sticking to the old they delay the process of transformation. When someone dies to old ideas, there is a psychological death. Thought-forms with which one had identified as “me” the egotistic identity suddenly collapses. And when the Thought- Form (notion of our self- an idea- where we grant
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