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In order for such information to rise to conscious levels, it must of necessity be translated into terms that the ego can handle, and the translation must to some extent distort the original experience. The whole physical organism of the body has been trained from infancy to react to certain patterns, these patterns based on physical root assumptions.
The nervous system itself must, you see, be so constituted, and the nervous system reacts definitely to visual block images. Such images are received through the skin as well as through the eyes. The whole system is highly complicated and organized, and organized to react to specific patterns that are formed from these basic root assumptions.
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The fact that this does occur does show that the systems of perception are not basically biologically a form of overall structure however, but learned secondary responses. It is disturbing to the whole physical system however to break up the strong pattern of perception. Inner stability of response is suddenly swept away. Changes that are not yet known occur within the nervous system under such circumstances, both electromagnetic and chemical.
The inner senses alone are equipped and able to process and perceive other reality systems. Even the distortions can be kept at a minimum with training. Indiscriminate use of the psychedelic drugs can severely shake up learned patterns of response, that are necessary for effective manipulation within physical reality, break subtle connections and disturb electromagnetic functions.
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