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When consciousness is being specified, it always sees itself at the center of its world. All specifications of consciousness and all phenomenal appearances occur when the basic units of consciousness, the CU’s, emerge into EE units, and hence into the dimensions of actuality in your terms. Your mainly accepted normal consciousness is within the matter of your body, and through it — the body — you view your world. There is nothing to prevent you from viewing your body from a standpoint outside of it, except that you have been taught that consciousness is imprisoned within the flesh.
(A one-minute pause at 10:25.) The self that you know and recognize carries within it hints and traces of all of your probable characteristics that can be actualized within your system of reality. Your body is equipped to bring any of these to fulfillment. Now, because of the selectivity mentioned earlier,1 certain directions may be easier than others, and some may appear impossible. Yet within the psychological and biological structure of your species, the roads of probabilities have more intersections than you know.
(“All right. Thank you, Seth. Good night,” I said at 12:01 A.M. and Seth was gone almost at once. See the Preface at the beginning of this book. Jane said that although Seth hadn’t actually considered my specific questions about psychology after all, they had served as an impetus for the Preface. She felt good. I read the Preface to her — and she felt even better.
(Although the session ostensibly ended here, there were actually several succeeding — and continuing — effects that grew out of it. Jane’s Saratoga experience is involved, too. All of the relevant material is given in detail in Appendix 4.)
[...] Usually we experience it through neurological connections; that’s when it seems vivid or alive, but actually it’s that way all the time. [...]
[...] Actual complete impact is unlikely under most conditions, though various degrees of interception and intermixing can occur.
“Actually I think today’s experience was a different kind of approach to what happened to me when I was sleeping last night … After reading over all of this material, I see that on both occasions I was experimenting with the process it describes — trying to dip directly into a ‘sidepool’ of data and bypass usual neural connections.”