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Cosmic Fusion
Many masters who attained this level of the immortal body were
able to transform the material into the immaterial and transfer it
into the spirit body. At the moment of death, they were able to transfer
their consciousness, their energy and the physical elements of
their bodies up with them into the spirit body, although even this
level is not yet the true immortal body. In this process their physical
bodies actually shrank in size; they may have weighed two-thirds
of their usual weight after their physical deaths occurred. This meant
they had successfully transformed much of their material being
into an immaterial state while retaining full consciousness.
Cultivating the Yang Stage of the Immortal Body:
Marrying the Light - Greater Kan and Li
Fig. 1.11 Greater Kan and Li
To merge with the light of the Tao, we must awaken and nourish
the awareness that we are in truth children of the light. Once we
have fully grown the spirit body, it will be the same frequency as the
light of the Tao and can become one with that light. Other traditions
refer to this light by such names as the Holy Spirit or Great Spirit;
we also refer to it as the “outer light.”
The Greater Kan and Li meditation teaches us how to recognize
the inner light of our own spirits and shows us how to merge
with or “marry” it to the outer light. Once we connect with and “marry
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