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Now, if you want organization then you shall have it—at any time. You structure your own existence and you choose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time. In this reality you very nicely emphasize all the similarities which bind you together and make a pattern of them and you very nicely ignore all the dissimilarities. But you do not perceive it. Out of a vast field of perception you choose to focus your attention upon certain specific areas and ignore all others, and so there is perfect agreement among you as far as this small area is concerned. The vastness that you do not perceive does not bother you at all and you do not ask questions about it because it does not concern you. And yet it exists.
I have said this before also. If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind could form any idea of an organized reality. I look now between the two of you (looking at the couch where Natalie S. and Arnold were sitting). When the others look at our friends here on the fancy blue couch, they see a picture of true organization. There is an individual here and an individual here on the blue couch with space between. The picture is equalized. It appears perfect and organized. However, the space between our two friends is not vacant. You merely perceive it as vacant because you do not perceive what is there. And so the picture is very organized.
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Now, when you properly understand how to use psychological time, then to some extent you can learn to alter the nature, the focus, of your consciousness. You can turn it in many directions. You can focus it in other ways—away from physical reality. This does not mean that you will be left high and dry here. It does mean that you will begin to explore the reality of yourself and of those other dimensions in which you have your existence.
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