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Imagine yourself walking out, perhaps as a miniature person, out of this pyramid. If you want you can stop and look back even, at the back of your head. I really believe, and most of the people in the class do, that there are dimensions of consciousness that are open to us if we only try. And that this is one. And that this particular journey of consciousness, we are leaving ourselves completely open to experience to whatever happens without making any demands or suggestions.
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There’s a door at the other end and that it can be easily opened. If you find your consciousness aware of other things, then follow those things but allow it its natural freedom and use it. Unfocus your attention in the usual physical environment in which your’re involved. Your consciousness is like a light for you to use. Then use it freely. Look in other areas of perception than those you usually pursue. You may perceive colors. You may see people. You may see a scene. You may simply be involved in kinetic sensation. But whatever it is follow it and allow yourself the freedom to do so.
You may find that the pyramid itself changes its dimensions. There’s a top that opens or a bottom that opens, or a room that opens from either side. Feel free to explore whatever you find. And by all means enjoy the feeling of your own consciousness as it does these things.
Consciousness has a feel the same way that a body does. When you do different things with it, it feels differently. The feelings themselves can be clues, so that when you feel them again they’re familiar. Consciousness isn’t solid, airy, distant thing that you just see through. It’s an alive, vital part of us. It provides various kinds of sensation. It’s free outside of the body, sometimes freer than it is inside the body. Therefore let it find its own way in this experiment. Let it go wherever it wants. Give it the same kind of a freedom that you would if you were holding a flashlight and flashing it through a forest. You wouldn’t say I’ll only flash the light in this direction because it’s a safe direction. You’d flash it all over so that you could see what was before you. Usually we just flash our consciousness in one direction and say this is real, but in this experiment at least, let us flash that light down that pyramid in whatever direction we choose.
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