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separate human existence, in order to purify and unify those aspects of ourselves which are disconnected from the whole. Our disconnection becomes evident during the course of our childhood experiences during which we cut off from aspects of ourselves, rejecting them as intolerable.

Vistar Method of circle formation,

Both these centering practices will strengthen identification with the objective, compassionate self-observer. Once you have the ability to identify with the witness, you can use your period of meditation for working with your immature selves, and for listening to the guidance of your enlightened selves.

As children, after we experience some of life’s disappointments, we attempt to ward off future pain by making certain generalizations about life, forming conclusions based on our particular experience and our specific interactions with our unique parents.

Pillar 2: When it comes to spiritual reality, each of us is his own authority.

Everyone carries distortions in their sexual and aggressive functioning. The more afraid we are of these distortions, the more we limit the energy available for these vital self-expressions. Everyone creates negative life experience from their unconscious lower self impulses. The more we deny the power of our own lower selves to create negatively,

You have to learn to let go of a desire for pleasure supreme and make do with limited pleasure before you can realize that absolute pleasure is your ultimate destiny. The doing with the lesser is an acceptance of the reality of the limitation of this dimension. For that, the ego faculties are necessary. Only when your ego deals adequately with the

self—intuition as a gateway to greater spiritual awareness.

Daily review prevents self-deception, pretense, and repression—all the ingredients of mental disturbance and confusion.