给意识松绑

此段摘自《灵魂永生》

第十九章  替代的“现在”与多重焦点

你常在梦里自发进入某些意识领域，醒来时却只记得一个奇妙的梦。就像身体的各部分会用进废退一样，意识的各部分也必须经常使用。因此，在睡觉的时候，你的意识转向各个方向，常常随意感知它在不同阶段可进入的实相世界的星星点点。这种情况，在某种程度上也发生在你正常聚焦于物质世界时，甚至发生在你清醒的忙碌状态中。我所说的“替代的现在”，并不只是替换一种对客观现在的感知方法。有许多替代的现在，而你只是聚焦于其中之一。

不过，当你让注意力摇摆时，可能常出现一种状态——你会在一刹那间瞥见另一个替代的现在。全我，即灵魂，知道它在所有这些系统中的实相；而你作为全我的一部分，正朝着同样的自知与发展的状态努力。

当你熟练之后，就不会在睡梦中被胡乱卷进其他的意识状态，而是能了解并指挥这些活动。意识是灵魂特有的一种东西，一个能被转向许多方向的工具。你不是你的意识，它是某种属于你和灵魂的东西，你正在学习使用它。按照你对意识各个层面的了解与利用程度，你会学着了解自己的实相世界，这样，“有意识的你”才会变得真正有意识。

那时你就能因为想要感知而去感知物质世界，同时明白它是众多实相世界之一。你不会出于无知而只是被迫感知它。

这里所讨论的意识的各个层面，也许显得与日常的清醒意识相隔甚远。这种划分是十分武断的。这种种不同的阶段，全都代表你自己灵魂里本来就有的不同属性和方向。这些性向的线索和提示、阴影和反射甚至会出现在你所熟知的意识里。那么，即使是正常的醒时意识，对其他存在的痕迹也并非毫无所知，也并不缺乏其他种类的知觉。只是因为你往往以有限的方式去运用你的清醒意识，所以并不能经常接触到这些线索。

这些线索始终存在。跟随它们就可以了解其他方向，以及那些我们曾说过的其他层面。例如，看似不相干的象征或影像常常会在你心中出现。你通常会忽略它们。如果反过来你接受并注意它们，就能跟着它们进入好几个层面，比如说，至少可以毫不费力地到达“A-1”和“A-2”。

在你这样做时，那些象征或影像也许会不断改变，因而你觉察不到最初的影像与下一个之间有多少相似之处。可是，它们之间的关联也许是高度直觉性的、联想式的、创造性的。事后回想时，通常会让你看到为何一个影像会并入另一个。一个单一的影像可能突然扩展成一整片心灵景象，但如果你不承认当前知觉之下的那些最初线索，你就对这些毫不知情了，而只要你乐意去看，那些线索几乎是显而易见的。

“替代的焦点”只是一种状态，在这种状态中你将意识转向其他不习惯的方向，以便去感知那些与物质世界同时共存的实相世界。你必须改变自己的觉知去感知任何实际上不为物质形式而设的实相。这种情形有点像是你不从正面去看东西，而以眼角余光，或是心灵余光去看。

经过练习，你可以利用替代的焦点去感知已填满或将填满任一空间的不同物质构造。在一些梦境中你可能探访某个特定的地点，而后感知到这个地方三百年以前和五年以后的样子，却从不明白这个梦的含义。对你而言，似乎空间在某一时刻只能被一个东西占据，而必须挪开一个才能让地方给另一个。

其实你只是以这种方式感知而已。而当你利用替代的焦点时，你就可以抛开平时护卫、指挥并限制感知的那些基本假设，你可以从你所知的这一刻走开一会儿，再回来时发现它还在那儿。意识只是假装屈从于时间的概念。在其他层面它喜欢玩弄这种概念，喜欢从时间范畴之外的事件中感知伟大的统一性——比如混合来自不同世纪的事件，把历史的和私人的环境抽出时间架构之外，通过检查它们而找到和谐与交汇点。

其实，你们甚至在睡觉时也这样做。如果在清醒时你没这么做，那是因为你把自己的意识控制得太紧了。

Often you visit such areas of consciousness in the dream state where you fall into them spontaneously, remembering in the morning a fantastic dream. Consciousness must use all of its parts and activities, even as the body must. When you are sleeping, therefore, your consciousness turns itself in many of these directions, often perceiving, willy-nilly, bits and pieces of reality that are available to it at its different stages. This also happens beneath your normal physical focus to some extent, even as you go about your waking activities. The alternate presents of which I spoke are not simply alternate methods of perceiving one objective present. There are many alternate presents, with you focused only in one of them.

When you let your attention waver, however, you may often fall into a state in which you momentarily perceive glimpses of another alternate present. The whole self, the soul, knows of its reality in all such systems, and you, as a part of it, are working toward the same state of self-awareness and development.

When you are proficient you will not be swept willy-nilly into other stages of consciousness as you sleep, but will be able to understand and direct these activities. Consciousness is an attribute of the soul, a tool that can be turned in many directions. You are not your consciousness. It is something that belongs to you and to the soul. You are learning to use it. To the extent that you understand and utilize the various aspects of consciousness, you will learn to understand your own reality, and the conscious self will truly become conscious.

You will be able to perceive physical reality because you want to, knowing it to be one of many realities. You will not be forced to perceive it alone, out of ignorance.

The various levels of consciousness discussed here may appear to be very divorced from ordinary waking ones. The divisions are quite arbitrary. These various stages all represent different attributes and directions inherent within your own soul; clues and hints of them, shadows and reflections appear even in the consciousness that you know. Even normal waking consciousness, then, is not innocent of all other traces of existence, or devoid of other kinds of awareness. It is only because you usually use your waking consciousness in limited ways that you do not encounter these clues with any regularity.

They are always present. Following them can give you some idea of those other directions, and those other levels of which we have spoken. Often, for example, seemingly unrelated symbols or images may rise into your mind. Usually you ignore them. If instead you acknowledge them and turn your attention to them, you can follow them to several other layers, at least, for example, A-l and A-2, with ease.

The symbols or images may change as you do so, so that you perceive little similarity between, say, the initial image and the next one. The connection may be highly intuitional, however, associative, and creative. Often a few moments’ reflection afterward will allow you to see why the one image merged into the other. A single image may suddenly open up into an entire mental landscape, but you will know none of this if you do not acknowledge the first clues that are just beneath present awareness, and almost transparent if you are only willing to look.

Alternate focus is merely a state in which you turn your consciousness in other than its habitual direction, in order to perceive quite legitimate realities that exist simultaneously with your own. You must alter your perception to perceive any reality that is not geared practically toward material form. This is something like looking out of the comer of your eye or mind, rather than straight ahead.

Using alternate focus, with practice it is possible to perceive the different physical formations that have filled any given area of space, or that will fill it in your terms. In some dream states you may visit a particular location and then perceive the location as it was, say, three centuries ago and five years hence, and never understand what the dream meant. It seems to you that space can be filled only by a given item at a time, that one must be removed to make room for another.

Instead you only perceive in this fashion. In alternate focus you can dispense with the root assumptions that usually guard, direct, and limit your perception. You are able to step aside from the moment as you know it, and return to it and find it there. Consciousness only pretends to bow to the idea of time. At other levels it enjoys playing with such concepts and perceiving great unity from events that occur outside of a time context - mixing, for example, events from various centuries, finding harmony and points of contact by examining both historical and private environments, plucking them out of the time framework.

Again, you even do this in your sleep. If you do not do it in the waking state, it is because you have held your consciousness in too tight a rein. 

?阅读前文

让我们去“A-1”玩一会儿（一）

让我们去“A-1”玩一会儿（二）

“A-1-a”带你实验未来

意识状态之A-1至A-3

A-4和A-5神奇如此

深层意识经验待你激活