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Distortions occur at transitionary points, or at points of imbalances. There is a meshing then of data from various levels. A projection obviously need not be conscious. The waking self may be engaged in normal activities while the inner self is someplace else entirely. There are more brief periods of forgetfulness however than people usually realize, and in these periods often projections have occurred.

It can only be achieved as a rule after some proficiency has been gained with recalling dream projections. Here you are dealing with the waking consciousness in its normally strong and dominant condition. You must be able to let it operate and yet perceive beneath its surface the other conditions, the projection conditions, that are also operating.

You must allow the normal waking consciousness to become transparent, so to speak, without however disturbing its flow. When this is accomplished you can also become aware of the projection conditions. This is almost like working backward, for directly beneath the thoughts and impressions of waking consciousness, you will glimpse dream images like those that appear just as you fall to sleep.

You are not attempting a projection here. You are following levels of your own consciousness until you discover yourself in an environment of which the ordinary waking consciousness had been previously unaware. This is a relatively difficult feat, for the waking consciousness must not be shut off, or you defeat your purpose.

Obviously the self that engages upon this study is not the waking normal consciousness, which becomes instead part of that which is studied, so another portion of the self is brought into activity. All of these exercises provide training that helps you in all your other work. This particular exercise however definitely requires some success in the recognition of dream projections.

The ordinary waking consciousness is left intact, you see. Another portion of the self catches it unaware, leaves no ripple upon its surface, and looks beneath it to other layers of reality. You are watching the self in motion.

We must use analogies. It can be thought of as the most exterior projection of the inner ego. When you find yourself, so to speak, watching what you think of as the ego, then you are in contact with this portion of the self. It is aware of both conscious and subconscious motivations and realities, and it is also aware of projections into other fields of actuality. I have hinted before of these matters, for when I say that you will use this other portion of the self to examine waking consciousness and probe beneath it, I already presuppose a you that uses this self. In other words, you are already magnifying the limitations of the self and extending them.

In one respect, and in quite a legitimate and objective manner, all thoughts are also projections. They leave you in an objective actual manner, and exert an objective effect. They are a part of your psychic identity projected outward, yet you do not feel any loss. Nor are you aware of what happens to these thoughts. You could not retain simultaneously all and exert all the thoughts of your lifetime thus far in any normally conscious way. To do so would be psychological suicide.

Various levels of consciousness are projected from the self in much the same manner. They are united however as interior and subsidiary identities that are a part of your own, and they are sent out by the inner self for various reasons. The thought is a psychological reality, a psychological and psychic identity but not a structured personalized identity. The self may send out fragments of itself in projections. These may or may not be structured personalized identities though they will be dependent for their existence upon the whole self.