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([Arnold:] “If we were two-dimensional and were one of a stack of cards placed in the middle of the deck, we would not be aware of those above and below, but if we could pull ourselves out of the stack we would be able to see that which was above and below?”)
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It is very good and the more proficient you become in psy-time the further you can travel from three-dimensional reality. In your terms, and simply as an image, the further up you can go that not only was there one stack of cards, but many other stacks about it.
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Indeed, other portions of your own identity, and as you come even higher you would see that there were other stacks far above the stacks that you originally saw. Now, there is no reason why each of you cannot experience reality, why each of you cannot travel out of the dimensions that you know. Now, in doing so you will find that the personality is as different as, say, this table viewed from different angles and discover all facets of identity with which three-dimensional reality is by nature ignorant. Now, in the dream state you do this, but you can do it in the waking state, and you can do it in times of reverie. You can catch glimpses of your own multidimensional reality, but you must escape three-dimensional existence momentarily in order to do so.
Now, you can return to yourself with all kinds of knowledge. You can regenerate your physical system with the knowledge that you have attained; but do not necessarily expect this knowledge to be intellectual for the three-dimensional brain will not be able to translate all of it. The effects, however, will be felt in the three-dimensional body. It is a good analogy. Those are teaching methods and mark them well.
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