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From: rostig@fortune.UUCP (Grant Rostig)
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Subject: ECKANKAR; The Ancient Science of Soul Travel.
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Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 00:11:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  6 00:11:59 1984
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          ECKANKAR; the Ancient Science of Soul Travel.

    A fundamental premise of this science is that SUGMAD (God)
radiates the sustaining life force.  A lowering of the vibratory
rate of this wave occurs as it travels through the realms of
existence and flows downward from a oneness to a duality.  In
one of its lowest forms it is called electricity, lower still
mass.  This wave also returns to its originator.  Consciousness
can tune into this vibration to be carried back to its origin in
the heart of truth.  There is an analogy to this in the cyclic
nature of all phenomena and experience in the dual worlds.

    The divine spark of consciousness can place its attention in
the higher worlds of God through Soul Travel.  Once separated
from the body consciousness the realms of experience are
broadened.  St. Paul spoke of this as dieing daily.  One can
travel through the astral, causal, mental, and etheric levels of
awareness.  Once the threshold of the psychic realms is crossed;
time, space, and matter are no longer at issue, all duality
ceases and perhaps this can be called a true heaven.  This stage
is where ECKANKAR leaves off.  Here a quantum leap to ECK, the
Path of Total Awareness, takes place.  The journey never ends.

    Numerous techniques are documented in the works of Paul
Twitchell.  They comprise the methods for experience of the dual
aspects of the SUGMAD, namely Light and Sound.  Others cause a
tuning of the consciousness to the various manifestations of the
life force.  Conscious communication with IT is established.
These experiences unfold Wisdom, Power, and Love.

    May the Blessings Be;

Grant E. Rostig		Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
...!{ihnp4, ucbvax!amd, hpda, sri-unix, harpo}!fortune!rostig
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Grant E. Rostig		Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
...!{ihnp4, ucbvax!amd, hpda, sri-unix, harpo}!fortune!rostig