OM APHORISMS
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While one is unconscious of the Enlightenment Syndrome,
how can psychological dilemmas not be overwhelming?
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While one is unconscious of the Enlightenment Syndrome,
how can one's ego not be a source of fear?
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Enlightenment is what remains after the Enlightenment
Syndrome is mastered.
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Mastery of the Identification-With Function, which is
one's ability to regard the characteristics, limitations,
or qualities of something or someone as one's own, in
other words, one's ability at pretending to be an object
of knowledge, is crucial for freedom, since this function
determines how one experiences and which experiences one
values.
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Those who would understand Transcendence do well to note
what they are and have been identified-with, since those
identities shape and have shaped how they experience.
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Those who would understand Transcendence do well to note
what they are free to identify-with and free not to
identify-with, since the range of one's freedom to
identify-with and not identify-with set the scope of one's
ability to have experience without bondage.
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The wise know themselves as already being everything they
ever were and everything they will ever be at the same
time that they experience the evolutionary process of
expanding consciousness.
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The evolution of consciousness is a gradual and/or quantum
development process directed toward completion, wholeness,
or absolute fulfillment. It is a becoming process.