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APPENDIX A Significance of The Spiritual Name

Many people tell me after the NSP that they feel they have emerged as new beings; they feel they have been born again as a new person. Of course, you will realize at the end of the program that it truly is a new birth. That is why you have a choice of taking take a new name, a spiritual name, given by a master.

At the end of the NSP, you have a choice of getting a spiritual name from me. The new name which I give you, the spiritual name, is like constantly reminding you to nurture the psychological revolution which has happened in you through this program; to nurture the new life, the new understanding which happened in you. When a psychological revolution has happened inside you, and you enter into a plane of higher consciousness, again and again if you remember your old name, you will be allowing it to pull you back to the older familiar plane with your older mental habits.

Your name is a very powerful thing for you. Let us say your name is John, and you are sleeping with a few people in a room. If somebody walks into the room and calls out, 'John!,' immediately and unconsciously, only you will wake up and respond! This is how deeply your name has been embedded in