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CONTENTS

Introduction

IX

Being Present Self-Remembering Divided Attention Results of Self-Remembering Th Machin False Personality and Essenc

10 23 30 35

44

Buffer an th Many 'I's

51

Imagination and Identification Friction

58 66

Making Effort

71

Suffering

79

Transformation an Negative Emotions Scale and Relativit Time Death Consciousness Higher Centers

89

101 109 114 122 134

Th Astral Body Th Self

146

Influence

150

Art

142

162

T h F ou rt h W a N um b F ou r

166

School

182

Glossary

195

171

INTRODUCTION

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in

to mp ai ts

from Elizabet

Evans, Lind

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Searle an Brunella Windsor. Also gratefully acknowledged r e G ir a Ha wh er oo th ta a ti n lo sion of this book in severa languages.

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-Jeanne Chapman Apollo California

yo do no remember yourselves .. Remember yourselves always and everywhere. Georg Gurdjieff

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n o h in g e ls e h a a n a lu e i t m us t b e t h b as i o f e ve ry th in g Peter Ouspensky

se b eg in n n g

new state

m po r a nc e w h c h Rodney Colli

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