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Now these are your abilities as members of what you now call, simply, the human race. They are inherent abilities that belong to consciousness no matter what form it adopts. You can look in the mirror and take your image for granted and brush your teeth and stare at yourself and think, I am a sorry picture, indeed, or I am quite a beautiful thing and smile, but in either case you are taking it for granted that only physical perceptions are real.
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Each of you in this room can free your own consciousnesses, expand your awareness of identity now, and in your own ways you are beginning to do so. Now in your quiet moments you still identify with the body and think, I am this flesh and I am imprisoned within it and when it is gone then I am done, and these thoughts inhibit your freedom. This will also inhibit you at the time of death for to the extent that you hold them, your emotions will cling to the flesh when instead you should be free of it.
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You contact them in a state which is not waking or dreaming. Now this is something that I do not believe any of you understand. You are familiar, to some degree, with your own state of consciousness but you do not examine these too closely. You assume you are awake under certain conditions, and you assume that you are asleep under certain conditions. Now there is, what I can describe as a mean of consciousness, that is a constant between the waking and sleep states. It is yours whether you are awake or asleep and this is the state you are reaching them in.
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Sending energy in his direction will help but he is doing very well on his own. He has consciously already begun to exist in another sphere of reality. Only the body consciousness lingers on.