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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.

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.

It matures as far as the normal you is concerned, you see. You are able to use more and more of its abilities. I am telling this to you because you may find that you are performing this exercise spontaneously. You are about ripe for it. This other self, or portion of the self, can be utilized also in dream projections and in deliberate projections. it is the part of Ruburt with which I normally work.

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.