The Event Horizon

When the glow of awareness turns into the fire from within–a glow that kindles [all of the Eagle’s emanation at a time]. (Fire, 167)

At the moment of crossing, one enters the third attention…
The rule meant crossing to the third attention.
(The crux of the struggle to conceive that is to know the body becomes aware of itself in its totality)…a paramount awareness. (Eagle, 179)

The prerequisite for entrance into any of the three stages of attention is the possession of a life force, because without it warriors have no direction and purpose; upon dying our awareness also enters into the third attention, but only for an instant, as a purging action. (Eagle, 247)