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Chapter Three Part of the difficulty presented by this work with exorcism type activities, (though that is a misnomer for the procedure which amounts to “discarnate counseling"), indicated that most activity that passed for “channeling” could be immediately dispensed with as being merely the production of the so-called “astral realms”, (leaving aside the issue of whether the astral realms were artifacts of consciousness). I began to wonder if there was anything truly “higher”, and if so, what it was and how “high” could one really go? achieving possible high-level contact; I called it the “transducing factor”. This hypothesis suggested that it was evidential that a truly higher level source simply could not make a full and secure connection with consciousness that was embodied in | the physical state because it would be like trying to run a 110V appliance on 220V current. If it were a “higher” source, by definition, its energy would so overwhelm any human recipient that it could not be sustained. Actually, I formulated this idea based on reading case histories. There were many that supported this hypothesis, and there were even examples of people who clearly had lost their minds after contact with “higher sources”. Like meteorites, they flashed across the sky of our collective psychological and spiritual domains, brief illuminators of the landscape, only to crash and burn in ignoble descent. For the most part, it was clear that such efforts posed many dangers as explicated in extensive readings in ancient literature, occult writings and various Eastern mystical teachings. the world around us is growth. What’s more, we observe that growth occurs in cycles. Human consciousness begins to grow from the moment of conception. Whether or not this is the result of a merging of an external consciousness with a developing neurological/physical system, or whether it is merely the result of the “ghost in the machine” effect, consciousness grows. Let’s take that as an observable given principle. At the beginning of life, when there is less apparent consciousness, the being sleeps a great deal. In the prime of life, when the consciousness is most apparent and active, the time spent sleeping, (within wide variation which may depend on richness of (within wide which richness may on At some point, consciousness begins to recede from the body in old age (again, with wide variation depending on unknown factors, This led to the formulation of the idea of the second obstruction to There was another reason that I formulated this idea, and it was based on the observations of Nature. The one thing we observe consistently in consciousness), the body sleeps less.