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I do not approve of what has been said so far. And there are a few points I would like to make. You have not one, but many conscious selves. You have more than one conscious mind. What we want you to do is something quite different. We want you to change the channels of your awareness. We want you momentarily to stop using one of your conscious minds and learn how to tune into another one of your conscious minds.
[... 18 paragraphs ...]
And even, therefore, the worms dance in the grass and laugh at your psychologists’ theories, for even they know that they are more than the reality the psychologistswould grant to you. If you were what the psychologists think you are and no more then would you be faced with an extinction predestined for you before your birth.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
In comparison, you see, to the other conscious portions of your own personality, you are asleep. I tell you to awaken. This is not as Ruburt would say, to knock the ordinary conscious mind. It is merely to tell you that it has been adapted for one specific purpose in physical reality.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
([Class Member:] “Would we necessarily, in looking out of all these windows, see a visualization of another channel? Are we limited in our ordinary consciousness by what we think we might see and this would... ?”)
You are indeed. And in many cases, the visualization in itself would be a distortion. However, you could examine the distortion. In many cases, without the distortion, you would see “nothing.”
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
I am not sure whether or not I correctly interpret your question. However, you only seem to be the main conscious part of your identity. Other portions of yourself may consider their selves as the main origin of personality. They would therefore look at you and at your ego, you see, as a fringe self. The ego seems to think that all other portions of the personality circle about it. This is hardly the case.
[... 21 paragraphs ...]
You each exist even in my “now” though you would not recognize the selves that you are. You will help create these realities of which I speak.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]