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[...] They can mix and merge, move through each other while still maintaining their own focus. [...] It follows its own focus, and knows itself as itself, even while its own existence as itself may be but a portion of another “identity.”

In the same kind of manner, your focused existence is dependent upon all those other existences that are not you. [...]

[...] Each of them becomes a primary focus or identity within which all others are implied. [...]

[...] There are all kinds of information available to you, but it must still be perceived through your own focus or identity.

[...] In Psy-Time, as we call it, you simply turn your focus of attention inward. [...]

Since we can’t concentrate fully on two things at once, you may focus your attention on the screen again or on any imaginary image—this will banish the annoying worries. [...]

[...] I need you to coach me, to ask, ‘What’s happening now?’ to keep me focused on one channel…. [...] We just recognize one speed. Other messages leap too fast or too slow for us to focus upon them. By altering our consciousness in the way I’m learning to do now, though, we can line up our focuses with these other ‘ghostly’ messages, that are quite as real as the neurological validity we usually accept.”

[...] Other portions of the self are focused within different dimensions than you own. [...]

[...] While each of you are egotistically focused within your own reality, the deeper layers of the self are aware of the quote “family” relationship. [...]

The drugs not only help him but they also have the effect of emphasizing his presence on his journeys, of concentrating his essence, isolating and focusing those portions of his psyche. [...]

The class tomorrow night might be of benefit because of the focusing of energy, although it is possible that you will encounter him earlier. [...]

In dreams the inner “I” changes its point of focus, and this is important. [...] And because the focus brings it outside of camouflage time and space, it is also able to project itself into what you call the future.

[...] The “I” who dreams, who is aware of motion, action and participation in a dream, this “I” is of course the inner self, focused momentarily upon the particular subconscious layer at which the dream is originated.

[...] However it cannot be stressed too strongly that consciousness is merely a state of focus, and not a self.

[...] For the direction or the focus of the self does indeed change, and even in your own daily lives you experience the fact that what is conscious today may not be tomorrow.

[...] Automatically he drew upon this energy and focused it for his own purposes.

[...] The same amount of energy focused in an out-of-body experience would have resulted in some venture indeed. [...]

[...] When he demands less of himself and then more, and then less, the physical system, geared for steady highly-focused action, becomes confused; the glandular systems upset, and the nervous system as well.

[...] Ruburt’s image is indeed imprinted most strongly in the mind of every child in his classes yesterday, and this focused energy made this possible. [...]

Focusing the senses in time and space is to some extent an acquired art, then — one that is of course necessary for precise physical manipulation. But before that focusing occurs, children, particularly in the dream state, enjoy an overall version of events that gradually becomes sharper and narrower in scope.

[...] This will automatically allow you to break away from too narrow a focus. [...]

Man’s creative alertness, his precise sensual focus in space and time, and his ability to react quickly to events, are of course all highly important characteristics. [...]

Dictation: To encourage creativity, exert your imagination through breaking up your usual space-time focus. [...]

Now, when you properly understand how to use psychological time, then to some extent you can learn to alter the nature, the focus, of your consciousness. [...] You can focus it in other ways—away from physical reality. [...]

[...] Out of a vast field of perception you choose to focus your attention upon certain specific areas and ignore all others, and so there is perfect agreement among you as far as this small area is concerned. [...]

[...] If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind could form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

Now: When you properly understand how to use psychological time, then to some extent you can learn to alter the nature and focus of your consciousness. [...] You can focus it in other ways, away from physical reality. [...]

[...] Out of a vast field of perception, you choose to focus your attention upon certain specific areas and to ignore all others, and so there is perfect agreement among you as far as this small area is concerned. [...]

I have said this before: If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind can form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

[...] The perception of consciousness is not limited … I have told you, for example, that the consciousness of the tree is not as specifically focused as your own. [...]

[...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

[...] The term hypnosis merely applies to a quite normal state in which you concentrate your attention, narrowing your focus to a particular area of thought or belief.

[...] These lie latent, ready to be focused upon and used; any of them can be brought to the fore when a conscious thought acts as a stimulus.

If you are focusing upon ideas of poverty, illness or lack, for example, your conscious mind also holds latently concepts of health, vigor and abundance. [...]

[...] I believe that I will tell you this for your definition: the ego is the portion of identity that is presently focused within an apparent now—that is, it is primarily designed as a mental tool, focusing within time as it is known and experienced by physical creatures.

[...] In common sense terms, the ego handles manipulations within physical reality, and focuses brilliantly within a rather narrow range.

[...] You fear that direct psychic experience in terms of projections could rob you of the energy you should put into your painting and quite unconsciously, though not entirely, when you are focusing upon your painting strongly with particular inner vigor, then you close the door to personal psychic adventures out of a misplaced jealousy for your art.

[...] I qualified this statement twice on purpose, for naturally your main focus is to be your painting.

[...] The exquisite, precise and concentrated focus of your conscious mind is quite necessary in physical life. [...]

[...] They also focus their attention in very specific directions, perceiving from a vast general field of perception stimuli that is “recognized” and accepted in an organized manner.

[...] Without it there would be an “out of focus” effect that would make physical survival impossible, so certain portions of the inner self come to the foreground of being.

[...] In other kinds of realities you may ignore the physical system entirely, however, focusing instead upon those systems of existence that are not now recognized within your own.

I mentioned earlier that strong focus of activity in other areas is of benefit. [...]

[...] An inclination to project a local symptom on the body in general—do you follow me?—is very poor, and takes focus away from very definite advances which go unnoticed.

When the knee is bad, today for example, the tendency is to focus upon it, and the difficulties involved, and to ignore entirely the other portions of the body which are not affected. [...]

[...] Let him use those days as models, the focus of attention being upon them rather than upon the poor days. [...]

[...] They attain their focus, brilliance, and physical validity because they rise into prominence on the backs of other seemingly unperceived events. [...]

[...] These are flashed before a consciousness that momentarily focuses upon the inner rather than the outer arena of reality.

[...] Consciousness not focused in cellular construction involves itself with a kind of direct cognition, involving comprehensions that come in a more circular fashion.

[...] On those occasions when you are able to alter your focus momentarily, then the psyche’s greater experiences come into play. [...]

(11:18.) Ruburt has been involved with what he calls the Sumari language (as referred to in the notes at break). This is an expression of the consciousness at a different focus. It is the native expression of a kind of experience that happens just outside of your official one-line focus of consciousness. [...]

[...] The various focuses of consciousness will have their own “languages.” [...] Others are so slow that he feels a sentence would take a week to utter.¹² These are the signatures of different focuses of consciousness as they are transposed in your space-time system.

[...] You are able to bring into focus other interests and activities. [...]

[...] (Pause.) At night you tune in to dreaming reality simply by closing out so-called waking reality, but the same kind of dream experience continues beneath your focus in waking life. [...]

[...] So you thought of yourself as an artist, primarily, and judged your success, or lack of it, through that focus, and generally through that focus only.

Ruburt saw himself as a writer, and judged himself through that focus, and other accomplishments that did not rigidly adhere to that focus were not considered successes, or even were jealously regarded as detriments. [...]

Some of this he is aware of, but all of it was based upon the specializations, the private focuses through which both of you have a tendency to view your lives. [...]

[...] If a man could actually focus his concentration upon those hidden, feared, mainly unknown, unrecognized elements in the physical universe upon which men simply cannot agree; if he could focus upon the dissimilarities rather than the similarities in the physical universe, he would wonder what gave anyone the idea that there was even one physical object upon which men could agree.

[...] Your conscious energies are focused upon the physical field, and the distortive cause and effect theory holds sway.

It is your focus, intensive, that of itself blots out other perceptions that would allow you to see that the question “What comes first?” is meaningless.

[...] The only difference is that your conscious energies are focused upon only one rather minute aspect of creation, and all other larger fields of activity are closed off by the outer senses, simply so that the bulk of your attention be momentarily fixed upon one small area.

In the same way, however, your consciousness fluctuates—it is here and then it is not here—but the physical self focuses upon only those moments when consciousness is focused in physical reality so your conscious self only has memory of the physical moments that it has known. But because consciousness fluctuates, other portions of yourself have memory of those times “when it is not focused in physical reality” and this is also a portion of your entire existence. [...] Whether or not you remember your dreams, for example, a certain portion of you, under hypnosis, could remember every dream that you ever had in your life and so a certain portion of you remembers those nonmoments when you are not focused in physical reality, when your existence is in another dimension of actuality entirely and you were perceiving what I call, in your terms of reference, pardon me, nonintervals. [...]

Indeed, except that in this focus in which you are now involved, you are not focusing on the full potential of your vitality. [...]

[...] When Ruburt utilizes other focuses and turns his consciousness in other than directly-physical areas, when he turns several angles away, then to some extent (underlined) he frees himself to some degree from beliefs, but certainly from their effects. [...]

[...] He is in it but not directly focused there.