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[... 8 paragraphs ...]
As you all know, you can become as conscious sleeping, and you do, as you are in the normal state, or now when you listen to me. But, if you go to bed this week each night with the idea that you are not sleeping in the terms in which you usually accept that term, but you are instead changing the focus of your consciousness and that you will be as much awake and consciousness, then you will become aware of what you do consciously when you sleep. And you can all (to Sheila), all succeed to some extent or another in this experiment, and anything you learn or remember, or take back with you, will be more than worth your while. I cannot impress upon you too deeply the validity of both these existences, that you consider dual.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
([Gert:] “On this business of the Alpha layers, this again is a changing of focus, it is not?”)
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
It does not, indeed. It means alternate focus of consciousness, in other kinds of realities that do exist within your own. But your experience in them will be highly colored by you, as your experience here is colored by you.
[... 26 paragraphs ...]