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| + | ====== Exercises in Physical Awareness ====== | ||
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| + | There is a common practice of focusing on the breath. | ||
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| + | The value of this practice is thus: | ||
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| + | The natural faculty of awareness in the soul was noetic. What caught the soul up in matter must have been a quality that she possessed before her fall. In the noetic realm, this was her intuitive awareness. | ||
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| + | She experience the bliss of stillness in the flux of the material. This enticed her. | ||
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| + | Having fallen, she learn the lower forms of awareness in her sojourn in the realm of flux. The practice of physical awareness then seems to be a way for her to regain the faculty she lost while being aware of the physical in the first place. | ||
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| + | The danger is that focusing on the body as she did at the beginning of her fall is wrought with temptations for her. This is not just a speculation on her origins, but an empirical fact that if one spends several hours a day focusing on one aspect of the body, one will induce hallucinations. | ||