Second Coming Teachings Preparations Series (Altering the Perceptions of Your Mind(continued) and How to Induce a Lucid Dream) Part 5

(Exploring Levels of Consciousness, continued)
You need to understand your own personal symbolism first to make best use of altered states. (Part 1 & 2) Everyone is different. It is the same with REM and lucid dream symbolism.

To get into these consciousness states, but they seem to vague, I suggest you use lucid dreaming to springboard into the levels described within this Chapter of Seth Speaks.

If you want to lucid dream just keep asking yourself to take conscious control of your dream. You can condition yourself to do this while away by asking yourself "Am I dreaming" when obviously you are awake, but the conditioning will get you to do that while REM dreaming and then, soon, boom.... you become conscious within a sleeping dream... it is really cool!

Once you are lucid within your dream, you will need to learn to concentrate not to wake up, but it will happen over and over until you calm down after doing it a few times. Then, you will have to learn how to concentrate not to awaken it will be easy to drift out of lucidity back into the REM mode.

This dream control is your springboard to start exploring the levels of consciousness which Seth is teaching you in Chapter 19, here. You have to want it and you have to practice. When the Second Coming gets here, then you will be a little bit better prepared for the teachings.

The Second Coming will be a world changing teacher. You will learn that the physical time you experience while awake is not quite what it seems to be and you will accelerate with the teachings much faster.

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often you visit such areas of
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consciousness in the dream state where
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you fall into them spontaneously
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remembering in the morning a fantastic
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dream consciousness must use all of its
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parts and activities even as the body
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must when you are sleeping therefore
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your consciousness turns itself in many
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of these directions often perceiving
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willy-nilly bits and pieces of reality
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that are available to it at different
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stages this also happens beneath your
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normal physical focus to some extent
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even as you go about your waking
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activities the alternate presence of
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which I spoke are not simply alternate
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methods of perceiving one objective
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present there are many alternate
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presence with you focused only in one of
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them when you let your attention waver
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however you may often fall into a state
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in which you momentarily perceive
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glimpses of another alternate present
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the whole self the soul knows of its
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reality in all such systems and you as a
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part of it are working toward the same
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state of self-awareness and development
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when you are proficient you will not be
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swept willy-nilly into other stages of
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consciousness as you sleep but you will
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be able to understand and direct those
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activities consciousness is an attribute
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of the soul a tool that can be turned in
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many directions
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you are not your consciousness it is
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something that belongs to you and to the
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soul you are learning to use it to the
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extent that you understand and utilize
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the various aspects of consciousness you
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will learn to understand your own
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reality and the conscious self will
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truly become conscious you will be able
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to perceive physical reality because you
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want to knowing it to be one of many
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realities you will not be forced to
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perceive it alone out of ignorance the
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various levels of consciousness
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discussed here it may appear to be very
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divorced from ordinary waking ones the
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divisions are quite arbitrary these
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various stages all represent different
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attributes and directions inherent
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within your own soul clues and hints of
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them shadows and reflections appear even
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in the consciousness that you know even
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normal waking consciousness then is not
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innocent of all other traces of
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existence or devoid of other kinds of
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awareness it is only because you usually
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use your waking consciousness
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in a limited way that you do not
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encounter these clues with any
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regularity
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they are always present following them
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can give you some idea of those other
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directions and those other levels of
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which we have spoken often for example
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seemingly unrelated symbols or images
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may rise into your mind usually you
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ignore them if instead you acknowledge
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them and turn your attention to them
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then you can follow them to several
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other layers at least for example a1 and
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a2 with ease the symbols and images may
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change as you do so so that you perceive
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little similarity between say the
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initial image and the next one the
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connection may be highly intuitional
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however associative and creative often a
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few moments reflection afterward will
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allow you to see why the one image
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merged into the other a single image may
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suddenly open up into an entire mental
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landscape but you will know none of this
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if you do not acknowledge the first
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clues that are just beneath the present
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awareness and almost transparent if you
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are only willing to look alternate focus
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is merely a state in which you turn your
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consciousness in other than its habitual
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direction in order to perceive quite
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legitimate realities that exists
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simultaneously with your own you must
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alter your perception to perceive any
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reality that is not geared practically
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toward material form this is something
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like looking out of the corner of your
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eye or mind rather than straight ahead
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using alternate focus with practice it
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is possible to perceive the different
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physical formations that have fill at
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any given area of space or that will
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fill it in your terms in some dream
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states you may visit a particular
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location and then perceive the location
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as it was say three centuries ago and
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five years hence and never understand
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what the dream meant it seems to you
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that space can be filled only by a given
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item at a time that one must be removed
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to make room for another instead you
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only perceive in this fashion in
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alternate focus you can dispense with
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the root assumptions that usually guard
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direct and limit your perception you are
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able to step aside from the moment as
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you know it and return to it and find it
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there
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consciousness-only pretends to bow to
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the idea of time at other levels it
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enjoys playing with such concepts in
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perceiving great unity from events that
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occur outside of a time concept mixing
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for example events from various
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centuries finding harmony and points of
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contact by examining both historical and
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private environments plucking them out
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of the time framework again you even do
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this in your sleep if you do not do it
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in the waking state it is because you
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have held your consciousness in too
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tight or rain now as mentioned somewhat
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earlier in this book while your normal
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waking consciousness seems continual to
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you and you are aware usually of no
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blank spots nevertheless it has great
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fluctuations to a large extent it has
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memory only of itself and its own
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perceptions in normal consciousness then
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it seems as if there are no real other
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kinds of consciousness no other areas or
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levels when it encounters quote-unquote
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blank spots and quote-unquote returns it
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blots out awareness that the moment of
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non function occurred it forgets the
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stumble it cannot be aware of alternate
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kinds of consciousness while being
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itself unless methods are taken that
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allow it to recover from this amnesia
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it plays hopscotch in and out of reality
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it is gone sometimes and you are not
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aware of it on such occasions your
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attention is focused elsewhere and what
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you might call mini dreams or
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hallucinations or associative and
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intuitive processes of thought that go
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quite beyond normal focus in these
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lapses you are perceiving other kinds of
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reality with other than normal waking
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consciousness when you return you lose
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the thread normal waking consciousness
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pretends there never was any break this
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happens with some regularity in to
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varying degrees from 15 to 50 times an
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hour according to your activities at
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various times many people do catch
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themselves the experience being so vivid
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that it leaps the gap so to speak with
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perception so intense that even normal
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waking consciousness is made aware of it
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these intervals are quite necessary to
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physical consciousness they are woven
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through the fabric of your awareness so
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cleverly and so intimately that they
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color your psychic and feeling
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atmosphere
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normal waking consciousness weaves in
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and out of this infinite supportive web
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work your inner experience is so
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intricate that verbally it is almost
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impossible to describe normal waking
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consciousness while having memory of
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itself obviously it does not retain all
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memory all of the time it is said that
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memory of past events drops back into
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the subconscious it is still intensely
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alive and by alive I mean living and
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active although you do not focus upon it
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inner portions of your personality also
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have memory of all of your dreams these
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exist simultaneously and suspended so to
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speak like lights over a dark city
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illuminating various portions of the
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psyche these memory systems are all
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interconnected now in the same way you
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have your memory of past lives all quite
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complete and all operating in the entire
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memory system in periods of conscious
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quote-unquote blank spots or certain
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fluctuations these memory systems are
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often perceived as a rule the conscious
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mind with its own memory system will not
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accept them when a personality realizes
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that such other realities exists and
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that other experiences with
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consciousness are possible then he
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activates certain potentials within
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himself
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these alter electromagnetic connections
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both within the mind the brain and even
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the perceptive mechanisms they bring
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together reservoirs of energy instead of
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pathways of activity allowing the
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conscious mind to increase its degree of
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sensitivity to such data the conscious
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mind is set free of itself to a large
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measure it undergoes a metamorphosis
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taking on greater functions it is able
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to perceive little by little some of the
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content before close to it it needs no
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longer perceived the momentary blank
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spot fearfully as evidence of
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non-existence the fluctuations mentioned
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earlier are often quite my new yet
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highly significant the conscious mind
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knows well of its own fluctuating state
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when once it is led to face this it
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finds not chaos or worse non-existence
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but the source of its own abilities and
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strength the personality then begins to
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use its own potential now
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periods of reverie and creative
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moments of consciousness both represent
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excellent entry ways into these other
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areas in the usual creative state of
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consciousness the regular waking
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consciousness is suddenly supported by
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energy from these other areas waking
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consciousness alone does not give you
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the creative state indeed normal waking
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consciousness can be as afraid of
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creative States as it is of blank states
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for it can feel that the eye is being
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thrust aside can feel the up thrust of
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energy that it may not understand it is
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precisely in the low points of
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fluctuation that such experiences
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originate for normal consciousness is
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momentarily at a weak state and in a
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period of rest the whole physical
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organism undergoes such normal
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fluctuations again that are usually
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quite unnoticed these periods also
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fluctuate following rhythms that have to
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do with the characteristic personality
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in some the waves of motion are
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comparatively long and slow the valleys
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within being sloped with others the
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reverse is true with some the lapses are
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more noticeable outside of the norm if
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the situation is not understood than the
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personality may find it difficult to
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relate to physical events if he is able
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to perceive the other areas of
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consciousness he may find himself in
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still more difficulty not realizing that
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both systems of reality are valid the
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fluctuations also follow seasonal
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changes events from any given layer of
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consciousness are reflected in all other
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areas each being actualized according to
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the characteristics of the given layer
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as one dream is like a stone thrown into
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a pool of dream consciousness so any act
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appears in this pool also in its own
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guys alternate focus allows you to
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perceive the many manifestations of any
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given act the true multi-dimensional
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reality of a given thought it enriches
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the normal consciousness you are active
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in these other layers whether or not you
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are aware of it you learn not only in
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physical life and in the dream state but
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in these interior existences of which
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you have no memory creative abilities of
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a specific nature or healing abilities
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are often trained in this fashion only
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then emerging into physical actuality
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your future thoughts and X are as real
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in these dimensions as if they had
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already occurred and as much a part of
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your development you are formed not only
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by your past - by your future and by
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alternate existences these great
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interactions are only a part of the
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framework of your soul you can therefore
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change present reality as you understand
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it from any of these other layers of
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consciousness any one of these various
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layers of consciousness can be used as
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the normal acting consciousness reality
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being viewed from that specific
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standpoint physical reality is therefore
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glimpsed by other kinds of personalities
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and other systems from their own unique
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viewpoints peering at it from this angle
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so to speak you would not recognize it
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as your own home system from some of
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these viewpoints your physical matter
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has little or no permanency while to
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others your own thoughts have a shape
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and form perceived by observers but not
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by yourselves in traveling through the
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states of consciousness these other
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personalities would try to attain some
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focus and perceive your environment
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trying to make sense of data with which
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they are largely unacquainted since many
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of them are unaware of your idea of time
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they would find it difficult to
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understand that you perceive events with
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intervals between and would not perceive
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the inner organization that you thrust
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upon your normal environment yours is
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obviously a probable system to other
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fields also touched by the field of
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probabilities as the events are adjacent
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years so is yours adjacent alternate
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focus allows personalities from other
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realities to perceive your own then as
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it can theoretically at least allow you
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to glimpse into their existence end of
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chapter



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