Magical Imagination. A Practical Guide to Developing Superpowers

«The first path — the path of the fakir. This is a long, difficult, and unreliable path. The fakir works on the physical body, on overcoming physical suffering.
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The second path — the path of the monk. This path is shorter,... more reliable, and more clearly defined. It requires certain conditions, but most of all it requires faith, for without faith, a person cannot be a true monk.
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The third path — the path of yoga, the path of knowledge and consciousness.
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But there is also the Fourth path — a completely special path, not a combination of the other three. It differs from them primarily in that there is no external renunciation of things, as all the work is internal. A person must begin work in the conditions in which they find themselves, for those conditions are the best for them. That is, initially a person continues to live the same life as before, in the same conditions as before. In many respects, this path turns out to be more difficult than the others, because there is nothing harder than changing oneself internally without changing the external».