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We start the Fifth intellectual Level when we begin to look inward within ourselves rather than focusing so much on the outward external manifestations and relationships. We delve deeper into our inner being looking for meaning, purpose, and value. We begin to ask the question of Why. This introspective activity results in a different perceptual organization of the universe. We begin to quiet our mind in an effort to more effectively listen to the intuitive subtleties that permeate our inner selves. The universe seems to start to whisper its subtle secretes to us.
You have entered the Sixth Level of intellectual enlightenment when you are able to stand back sufficiently far enough to gain what could be called the cosmic perspective. At this level of growth you begin to see the most basic laws of the universe in operation everywhere in the cosmos. But in reaching this spiritual space you will have broken sufficient attachments to any one perspective or belief system. You have in a sense left the gross body in that you no longer identify personally with your body and its personality. You come to internalize and become one with ideas that describe the lawful forces underlying and governing all physical manifestation. We come to identify and harmonize with the totality of it all, not the parts.
In the Seventh and ultimate Level of intellectual enlightenment we psychologically merge back into the totality. In our thinking and actions we identify with everything. Everything becomes us. There is no dualism. There really is no separate you and me; there is only us. We are connected because we realize we are of the same source.
Thus, every higher level is a more total intellectual organization of the universe; a more cosmic way of perceiving, understanding, and living with it all. Our responses, our actions start to change with each new level as we see the universe in different ways. This means a higher level of functioning. However, just because we have reached a higher level of awareness and understanding doesn't mean that we cease to function at any of the lower levels. The material environment dictates that we must function at the different lower levels as physical conditions dictate. Our behavior in these lower levels of functioning is, of course, altered and disciplined by our experience in the higher levels. We are also inclined to get stuck at each new level for a while because of its newness and fascination to us
There is another reason that we must sometimes come back to lower levels from those higher levels of intellectually organizing and spiritually experiencing the universe. We may have "uncooked Seeds," in that we have not finished learning from a lower level those things necessary to fully function at those higher levels of being and understanding and that would allow further movement to even higher states. You can even get stuck at the highest level to the negation of the lower planes with which you have unfinished business with and which prevents you from experiencing the highest level to the fullest.
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