10. The Supernatural Human Being III

The kind of knowledge I have spoken of, which rises through imagination and inspiration to intuition, makes it possible to truly see human life pictorially, as if looking at mirror images, while at the same time penetrating into the actual reality of this life. But something strange happens when one goes through everything that belongs to pre-birth and post-death life: as one emerges from one's own physicality, as one's own physicality becomes pictorial, what one otherwise has as the self-experience of the ego flutters away and disperses. This is the dangerous moment for knowledge, when the ordinary ego disperses. It is scattered throughout the world, as it were, and feels itself to be without consciousness.