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If you consider the conscious mind that you know as one door, this is the door through which you usually walk. You stand at the threshold of this door and look into physical reality. But there are other doors—you have other conscious selves. These conscious selves are like windows that belong to your entire identity. When you look from one window, you look out into physical reality. When you look out through other windows, you look into other realities.
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It is true that for a moment when you close one conscious door, the door with which you are familiar, there is an instant perhaps before you open another shade and use another portion of your conscious mind to look into other realities...and you may momentarily feel disorientation.
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Now. Theoretically, you can be aware of more than one consciousness at once. Practically speaking, you must close one door before you can open another. Then you can learn to have both open at the same time. What I objected to in your recording was the implication that once the conscious mind as you know it was quieted there was no other conscious mind to take over, and that the ordinary conscious mind was the only conscious mind that you have.
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