The Shift or Reversal of Consciousness Happens All At Once, Not Gradually

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We are used to the idea that if
we practice something, if we

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undertake a course of study, we
will gradually increase our

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ability and our level of
understanding.

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So that eventually we move in
the academic field, for example,

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from primary school to high
school, to college, potentially

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to graduate school.
And at each stage, we become

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more accomplished in our chosen.
Field of endeavor, the shift of

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Consciousness does not appear to
work under that mode of

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development.
However, the preparation takes

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place unseen in the secret heart
deep within the being an until

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it comes forward to manifest at
best.

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It throws up hints and glimpses
of what is possible.

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The shift is thus more akin to
what is known as the

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all-or-nothing phenomenon
Vision, functions like that

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until there are sufficient
number of photons, to trigger

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awareness, we believe everything
is dark.

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The mother uses the example of
the chick maturing inside the

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egg outside.
There is no visible sign.

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Once ready, the chick breaks,
the egg and appears and can

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immediately begin to interact
with the outer environment.

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The mother notes quote and so
long as one, is there inside,

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one is in the falsehood and only
on the day, when by the divine,

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grace one can break the shell
and come out into.

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The light is one free.
This may happen suddenly

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spontaneously quite
unexpectedly.

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I don't think one can go through
gradually.

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I don't think it is something
which slowly wears and wears

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away until one can see through
it.

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I haven't had an instance with
this so far, there is rather a

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kind of accumulation of power
inside and intensification of

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the need and an endurance in the
effort, which becomes free from

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all fear.
All anxiety, all calculation.

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I need so imperative that one.
No longer cares for the

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consequences.
One is like an explosive, that

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nothing can resist.
And when bursts out from one to

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prison in a blaze of light,
after that one can no longer

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fall back again, it is truly a
new birth.

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End quote, reference SRI
aurobindo, and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development, chapter 9

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reversal of Consciousness.
The new birth page 176, End

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quote, reference SRI aurobindo,
and the mother growing within

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the psychology of inner
development, chapter 9 reversal

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of Consciousness.
The new birth page 176,