One of the other questions I have on this is, as michael mentioned he made a good point on 'our awareness.' I dont believe that we have an 'our awareness' until we will it to be so. Like many folks walk around like mindless bots, thinking they have awareness which is theirs, but really what it is, is its all maya, a superficial conglomeration of belief systems of others, or societal beleif systems which hooked into the first attn, and formulate all they see. So all they do is really, react to all they see, iow, they are asleep to the world around them. Thus their is no solitary, singular awareness of their own.
For those who are waking up to possibilities beyond the CR, beyond the first attention, beyond their physical body, its a different story. They have better shots at having something called 'my awareness,' which isnt connected to the confines of the whole, the collective. Many folks are still glued into the collective, cause they're still bound to the 'human form' which keeps them glued to the collective. They're not free of it, not having their own awareness.
To get the 'gift' as michael calls it, or the eagles gift, my thots on this is, as it says, we all have some entitlement, or ability might be better said, to have this gift. However, there are clues to it, like being impeccable. You gotta be impeccable because this is what opens the doorway to create your own opening. Its the only way to lose self importance is by being impeccable, at least, as often as one can do it. Then, have a better shot at the 'gift.'
So back to it, I wonder, can the 'gift' be obtained before death, actual, physical? If I look into quantum theory, I believe it can, or at least be 'seen' in advance, because quantum theory and time is tricky, all of the possibilities are going on at once, so we shift our train tracks into the direction of the way, say slipping past the eagle, we are there already somewhere. But now, its just a matter of us in the here and now following the right route which leads us there.
I beleive all beings have this same ability; however, if they're on a track of denial of death, like in a belief system which has already guaranteed them eternal life, its gonna take a huge amount of energy for them to make it 'so,' and not be obliterated, tossed back in the recycling bin. And not that its about sin or not sin, but it is about being impeccable that gets one passed the eagle. I think, myself, it say, is not impeccable to be a religious bigot, and spread fear to others and cause more fear. This may not be viewed as impeccable, cause this can affect others on their own path. It can also keep them ignorant. They never meditated, they didnt go within, they took the physical body and ghost in the machine for all there was, but didnt quite get the work involved in working with the light to really get across the way. They didnt live their lives like a warrior should.
Just some thoughts on it, but quantumly, we've done it somewhere, already darted past the bird. Its just a matter of being on the actual road that will lead us there and not astray along the way.
