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It seems to you that you have only one form
the physical one that you perceive, and no other.
It also seems that your form can only be
in one place at one time.
You have indeed other forms that you do not perceive
and you also create various kinds of forms for various purposes
although you do not perceive these physically either.
Your main sense of identity
is involved with your physical body, so that it is
for example, extremely difficult for you to imagine yourself
without it, or outside it, or in any way disconnected from it.
Form is the result of concentrated energy
the pattern for it caused by vividly directed emotional
or psychic idea images.
The intensity is all important.
If you have, for example, a highly vivid
desire to be somewhere else
then without realizing it consciously a pseudophysical form
identical with your own, may appear in that very spot.
The desire will carry the imprint of your personality and image
even though you remain unaware of the image
or its appearance in the other location.
Though this thought-image usually is not seen by others
it is quite possible that in the future scientific instruments
may perceive it.
As it is, such an image may be perceived
by those who have developed use of the inner senses.
Any intense mental act, thought or emotion
will not only be constructed
in some physical or pseudophysical manner
but will also bear to some extent
the imprint of the personality
who originally conceived it.
There are many such incipient or latent forms.
To help you imagine what I am speaking of
you might think of them as ghost images
or shadow images, though this is only for the sake of analogy -
forms, for example, just beneath
that have not emerged completely
into physical reality as you know it,
but are nevertheless vivid enough to be constructed.
You would think them quite real indeed, if you could see them.
Each individual actually sends such replica images
of himself out frequently
though the degree of the materialization may differ
some forms, for example,
being more or less shadowy than others.
However, these forms are not
mere projections - "flat" images.
They have a definite effect upon the atmosphere.
They "make room" for themselves
in ways that are rather difficult to explain
although they may coexist at times with physical objects
or shapes, or may even be superimposed upon these.
In this case there is a definite interaction
an interchange that is, again, beneath physical perception.
You may suddenly strongly wish
that you were standing by a beloved
but distant, familiar seashore, for example.
This intense desire would then act
something like a core of energy projected
outward from your own mind
given a form, your form.
The place that you had envisioned
would then attract the form
and it would instantaneously stand there.
This happens with great frequency.
It would not be seen under usual circumstances.
On the other hand
if the desire were still more intense
the energy core would be greater
and a portion of your own flow of consciousness
would be imparted to the form
so that for a moment
you in your room might suddenly smell the salt air
or in some other way perceive the environment
in which this pseudo-image stands.
The extent of perception will vary here to a great degree.
To begin with, your physical form
is the result of great emotional focus.
The fantastic energy of your psyche
not only created your physical body
but maintains it.
It is not one continuous thing, although to you it seems
permanent enough while it lasts.
It is nevertheless in a constant state of pulsation
and because of the nature of energy
and its construction
the body is actually blinking off and on.
Now: This is difficult to explain
and for our present purposes
it is not entirely necessary that you understand the reasons
for this pulsing; but even physically,
you are "not here" as often as you are.
Your emotional intensity and focus
create forms beside your physical body
however their duration and degree
are dependent upon the intensity
of any given emotional origin.
Your space is therefore filled with incipient forms
quite vivid, but beneath the regular structure of matter
that you perceive.
These projections, then, actually are sent out constantly.
Some more sophisticated scientific instruments
than you now have would clearly show
not only the existence of these forms
but also vibrations in varying waves of intensity
surrounding those physical objects that you do perceive.
To make this clearer, look at any table in the room before you.
It is physical, solid, and you perceive it easily.
Now for an analogy,
imagine if you can that behind the table
is another just like it, but not quite as physical
and behind that one another, and another behind that -
each one more difficult to perceive
fading into invisibility.
And in front of the table
is a table just like it
only a bit less physical appearing than the "real" table
it also having a succession
of even less physical tables extending outward.
And the same for each side of the table.
Now anything that appears in physical terms
also exists in other terms that you do not perceive.
You only perceive realities
when they achieve a certain "pitch,"
when they seem to coalesce into matter.
But may actually exist,
and quite validly at other levels.
that are "relatively more valid" than your own;
in comparison, strictly for an analogy
for example
your physical table would appear as shadowy in contrast
as [like] those very shadowy tables we imagine.
You would have a sort of "super-table" in those terms.
Yours is not a system of reality formed
by the most intense concentration of energy
therefore. It is simply the one you are turned into
part and parcel of.
You perceive it simply for this reason.
Other portions of yourself, therefore
of which you are not consciously aware
do 'inhabit what you could call a supersystem of reality
in which consciousness learns to handle
and perceive much stronger concentrations of energy
and to construct "forms" of a different nature indeed.
Your idea of space is then highly distorted
since space to you is simply where nothing is perceived.
It is obviously filled with all kinds of phenomena
that make no impression at all
upon your perceptive mechanisms.
Now in various ways and on occasion
you can tune into these other realities to some degree
and you do so spasmodically
though in many cases the experience is
lost because it does not register physically.
Think again about this form that you sent to the oceanside.
Though it was not equipped with your own physical senses
it was of itself to some extent able to perceive.
You projected it unknowingly
but through quite natural laws.
The form built up from intense emotional desire.
The image then follows its own laws of reality
and to some extent, and to a lesser degre than you
has a consciousness.
Now: You are, using an analogy again
sent out by a superself who strongly
desired existence in physical form.
You are no puppet of this superself.
You will follow your own lines of development
and through means far too difficult
to explain here, you add to the experience of the superself
and also then extend the nature of its reality.
You also insure your own development
and you are able to draw upon the abilities of the superself.
Nor will you ever be swallowed
by the self that in these terms seems so superior.
Because you exist, you send out like projections of your own,
as mentioned earlier.
There is no end to the reality of consciousness
nor the means of its materialization.
Nor is there any end
to the developments possible for each identity.
Now: Let me make it clear once again:
Your present personality as you think of
it is indeed "indelible,"
and continues after death to grow and develop.
I mention this again
in the middle of our present discussion
so that you do not feel lost, or negated, or insignificant.
There are obviously an infinite number of gradations
in the types and kinds of forms
of which we have been speaking.
That energy which is projected from our "superself,"
that spark of intense identity
that resulted in your physical birth
that unique impetus,
in the one way has many similarities to the old concept of the soul
except that it contains only a part of the story.
While you continue to exist and develop as an individual
your whole self, or soul, has such vast potential
that it can never be expressed fully
through one personality
as somewhat explained in one previous chapter.
Now, through very intense emotional focus
you can create a form, and project it to another person
who may then perceive it.