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Rather, it seems like certain core practices, if pursued long enough, naturally scaffold into further steps. Like there is an instinct, here, or a consistent set of outcomes from the core conditioning.

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Does this tend to happen in other disciplines? I'm not sure I'm good enough at anything else to evaluate that.

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I'm sure that it does. Look at the crossover in approaches in different fighting systems, for example. There are bound to be fundamentals that, once understood, naturally point in a particular direction.

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That's my feeling, too. I wonder if there is some good writing on this out there.

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I've found this with meditation, dreaming and magick. On several occasions I've put myself through prescribed paths only to find the teachings had already come to me intuitively.

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I never quite believed what I was experiencing was 'the real thing' though, probably due to people further along the prescribed path always stressing 'if you think you've found X, you probably haven't'.

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