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"Well, there may be, there could be any of those things but the point is, the student—souls of this density would never know it because they hadn't developed the faculties themselves whereby to sec such things; of course they suppose themselves automatically deserving of any such disclosure gratis, either as if it's constitutionally owed them or as though an obligation of 'God as God' is to offer proofs of divinity up front when claiming the privilege of 'special' appearance. "Even if there are one or two who typically 'have' such powers, virtually by karmic accident, the ego belonging to such beings never allows proper perception or interpretation in any case, and indeed in practicemost often becomes affronted and wildly agitated in the presence of any such Integrity beyond its own so that it actually manages to manufacture a symbol-system of interposing properties grossly the projection of the ego—subject's own quality, and serving to deflect or obscure Reception to what's really There. "In fact, that very difficulty involved in proper apprehension and receptivity becomes part of the learning—framework of this density. It comes to serve as the principal lesson as to what the 3rd density state of consciousness is all about, because involved in that one situation may be found all the puzzles, koans and mind-locks revolving around object—valuation, the antipathy between thinking and feeling, knowledge and understanding and the central paradox that haunts all considerations of time and eternity, 'sacred' and ‘profane’, the 'ordinary' and ‘extraordinary’ etc. The living Teacher of a truly higher—dimensional correspondence manages automatically to embody, and draw forward, the interior crisis of all ‘corporeal’ conditions, succeeds in aggravating their implicit presence to the degree of the unavoidable just by the natural expression of that Value proper to his Being. In his awakened state he's an affront to sleep. "But even the sleep—state dreams; and it dreams on the basis of the available material, the prevailing real conditions of its nocturnal environment. Thus the sleep—state dreams the being of the Awakened one who's really present, there in the room, but through the interpretive medium of the dream—mind or ego—psyche the slumbering subject makes up models and idols of rationalization to account for the peculiar characteristics otherwise known in the intuitive substrate of the dreaming being to belong to a Consciousness completely awake. The processor dreaming tends to covet its state; and, as inbuilt action of its own device, perceives the things reflected into it in such a way as to preserve the artifice of its narrow self—adjustment, interpreting every impression in service to prolonging the dream." "Isn't it true though," the Colonel said, "at least the way I understand it, that in 'compensation' for the opaque resistance typically accorded the higher 'spiritual tutors' who come to this plane, there is the massed support of all the hierarchy functioning through the infeeding octave of densities with whom the incarnating 'helper' had — as you said — first of all arranged a compact..." "In principle, you can certainly say that the incarnating teacher on the 'positive' spiritual side has the cooperation of the Whole behind him, in terms of the beneficent intelligences working on his behalf 'behind the scenes' from the vantage of the deeper leverages of psychic and creative influence (through which every attempt is made to optimize the effectiveness of those patterns serving to coordinate the Earth—plane experiences forming'round the Presence of the teacher). It's hard to look at this as any sort of compensation for the resistance of Earth—plane intelligence, though, since that resistance is at its core both a function and product of will, of deep internal preference or psychic selection rather than the expression of a strictly mechanical flaw that can be offset by mechanical means. "And while it's true that such a psychic orientation is conditioned (given optimum opportunity for framing its volitional prerogative through technical filters and cognitive screens which maximize the potentialfor disiortrve determinations in the first place), once set it has a strictly conscious inertia or momentum of its own; once certain, willed predispositions arise from a maximally—encouraging soil, they exhibit a heartiness that partakes of their specific character and so tends to prevail over the sum of conditioning factors no matter how they may change. Consciousness comes to rely on such willed predispositions or prejudicial habit—patterns ofthe 'screened' dimension as a refuge of familiarity, 211 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm