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The physical explorations of your planet followed such dream information in one way or another. The explorers were not going out blindly. Period. The alternate waking and sleeping patterns—that is, one portion of the species sleeping while the other portion wakes—allows a clear division between waking and sleeping information. In the waking state you check your perception against physical conditions. You see whether or not others perceive what you do. Physical data are the result of pooled information to a large degree. If it is raining outside, everyone should get wet. In the dream state information is not immediately checked against the environment. It may be raining in a dream but your sleeping body remains dry. Your dreams largely involve conditions that were physical, or conditions that might be physical. There, then, the race deals with probabilities.
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There are all levels of codified information, then—molecular, electromagnetic, chemical—and these are all interrelated. The natural world as you think of it depends upon these interactions. Your weathercasters try to predict the weather. They usually fail to a large degree. They deal with exterior patterns that, on that level, can be charted. The weather, however, is the result of the world’s natural moods, and intuitive predictions would be far more predictable, for they would deal with those variables that cannot appear, or be predicted, at the exterior level.
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If they do indeed occur in your future, then they become prime natural events of the moment. In the course of life there is of course a mixture. I am exaggerating somewhat to make an important point. If you overreact to unsynchronized events, then they can invade prime data—and a state of anxiety results.
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Ruburt is used to dealing with subjective events. He examines them. For him it is important, more than for many others, that he choose events with some discretion. When his mental event is, say, a book, he becomes engrossed in it, and this is positive. When he becomes overly concerned with his symptoms, however, the same event occurs, the same process, but with negative results.
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