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Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

This qualitative barrier disappears during evolutionary development. Human
evolution begins the first day of life. From age four to eight, the child functions as an
"informational sponge," soaking up all the information he can from the external
world. This informational input induces qualitative changes in the brain and, upon
reaching a critical volume, causes the qualitative barrier be-tween the etheric and
astral bodies to disappear.

From that moment on, the spirit's astral body gets "fed" and begins to develop
actively, and to function. Initially, following the birth of a human, the spirit's astral
and mental bodies are passive and primary matters released within the cells of the

physical body do not reach the astral body. This is due to the presence of a qualitative
barrier between the etheric and astral bodies. Reactivation of the astral body, as noted
above, does not occur until the etheric body completes its development un-der the
impact of the information absorbed by the brain.

Reactivation of the astral body takes place in two qualitative stages,
corresponding to two qualitative conditions: During the first, the astral body is
composed only of G matter and there-fore resonates only with the lower astral
level of the planet. In most cases, astral body reactivation is complete by twelve to
fourteen years of age as a result of brain transformation from absorbed
information(see Fig. 57).

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