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replacing the egoic habit of splitting everything into irreconcilable opposites with an integrative attitude. We learn to be flexible and open to life so that we can continue to learn and grow on the basis of our new outlook. We practice humility in the midst of our endeavors to mature spiritually. In this way we avoid the danger of psychic inflation. We assume responsibility for what we have understood about life and the principles of spiritual recovery, applying our understanding to all our relationships so that we can be a benign influence in the world. Guided by our new outlook, we work on the integration of our multiply divided psyche. We cultivate real self-discipline in all matters, great and small. We increasingly practice spiritual communion, which opens us to that dimension of existence where we are all connected. Through such communion and through continued growth in self- understanding, we become transparent to ourselves. We open ourselves to the possibility of bliss, the breakthrough of the transcendental reality into our consciousness, whereby the ego principle is unhinged and we fully recover our spiritual identity. Through this awakening the world becomes transparent to us and we are made whole.
NOTES 1. See G. Feuerstein, Sacred Sexuality: Living the Vision of the Erotic Spirit (Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1992). 2. A. Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1959). 3. Ibid., p. 86. © copyright 1993 by Georg Feuerstein Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. is the author of more than twenty books, including his recent work Wholeness or Transcendence?, which applies Gebser's model to India's long cultural history.
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