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Follow down the path then. If for you the image becomes different or if you’re doing your own thing, that’s great, then follow it, and simply use my voice as a yardstick, as something to connect you to the room. Those who are following the pyramid will find hopefully, that they can travel down it easily; that it extends adjacently to our usual level of experience.
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.
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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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