Dancing in the Shadows of the Moon

by Machaelle Small Wright

THE CHOCOLATE SUGGESTION
This is important. Have a large box of the best chocolates you can find at your fingertips while reading this book. This may not make any sense to you now, but about halfway through the book you will be grateful for this suggestion.

THE KEY WORD: Expansion
This is also important. There will be times while you are reading when you will look to the heavens and ask the question, "What is this book about and why am I reading it?" That?s when you?ll need to turn to this page and read the word "Expansion." Then pop a couple of those chocolates in your mouth, and continue on with the book.

READER INSTRUCTIONS
Pace yourself well. While reading this book, pay close attention to your physical and emotional reactions. If you begin to feel uncomfortable, put the book down and let what you have read settle. This may take fifteen minutes, a couple of hours, a couple of days or several weeks. When you feel comfortable again, continue reading.
    For those of you who use flower essences, I suggest that you test yourself for essences after each reading session. This will assist you in integrating the material. For those of you who use MAP (the Co-Creative White Brotherhood Medical Assistance Program), tell your team that you are reading this book and have frequent MAP sessions.

SETTING THE TONE
Imagine you are in the middle of Manhattan, and you are suddenly faced with this somewhat defiant-looking bag lady. She?s clutching several junk-filled shopping bags. She?s wearing an old, stained raincoat that you know is going to smell if you get too close, and she has several scarves loosely draped around her shoulders. She has one of those umbrella hats plunked on her head—the umbrella open, of course. She?s wearing a high-top sneaker on one foot and a running shoe on the other. Only the running shoe has the added benefit of a shoelace. And she has on stockings. You know this because she likes to wear them rolled down to her ankles. She puts down her bags and starts scratching herself. You react a little. She notices your reaction and explains that she scratches so much because her neurons are on fire. At hearing her razor-edged voice, you react again. She tells you she got her raspy voice because she has to yell all the time because nobody ever listens to her. Her name is Trudy, and she starts talking:

TRUDY:

I know what you?re thinkin?; you?re thinkin? I?m crazy.
You think I give a hoot? You people
look at my shoppings bags,
call me crazy 'cause I save this junk. What should we call the
ones who
buy it?
It?s my belief we all, at one time or another,
secretly ask ourselves the question,
"Am I crazy?"
In my case, the answer came back: A resounding
YES!

You?re thinkin?: How does a person know if they?re crazy
or not? Well, sometimes you don?t know. Sometimes you
can go through life suspecting you are
but never really knowing for sure. Sometimes you know for sure
'cause you got so many people tellin? you you?re crazy
that it?s your word against everyone else?s.
Another sign is when you see life so clear sometimes
you black out.
This is your typical visionary variety
who has flashes of insight
but can?t get anyone to listen to 'em
'cause their insights make 'em sound so crazy!

In my case,
the symptoms are subtle
but unmistakable to the trained eye. For instance,
here I am,
standing at the corner of "Walk, Don?t Walk,"
waiting for these aliens from outer space to show up.
I call that crazy, don?t you? If I were sane,
I should be waiting for the light like everybody else.

They?re late
as usual.

You?d think,
as much as they know about time travel,
they could be on time once in a while.

I could kick myself.
I told 'em I?d meet 'em on the corner of "Walk, Don?t Walk"
'round lunchtime.
Do they even know what "lunch" means?
I doubt it.

And "'round." Why did I say "'round"? Why wasn?t I more
specific? This is so typical of what I do.

Now they?re probably stuck somewhere in time, wondering
what I meant by
"'round lunchtime." And when they get here, they?ll be
dying to know what "lunchtime" means. And when they
find out it means going to Howard Johnson?s for fried
clams, I wonder, will they be just a bit let down?

I dread having to explain
tartar sauce.

This problem of time just points out
how far apart we really are.
See, our ideas about time and space are different
from theirs. When we think of time, we tend to think of
clock radios, coffee breaks, afternoon naps, leisure time,
halftime activities, parole time, doing time, Minute Rice, instant
tea, mid-life crises, that time of the month, cocktail hour.
And if I should suddenly
mention space—aha! I bet most of you thought of your
closets. But when they think of time and space, they really think of
Time and Space.

They asked me once my thoughts on infinity and I told 'em
with all I had to think about, infinity was not on my list
of things to think about. It could be time on an ego trip,
for all I know. After all, when you?re pressed for time,
infinity may as well
not be there.
They said, to them, infinity is
time-released time.

Frankly, infinity doesn?t affect
me personally one way or the other.

You think too long about infinity, you could go
stark raving mad.
But I don?t ever want to sound negative about going crazy.
I don?t want to overromanticize it either, but frankly,
goin? crazy was the best thing ever happened to me.
I don?t say it?s for everybody;
some people couldn?t cope.

But for me it came at a time when nothing else seemed to be
working. I got the kind of madness Socrates talked about,
"A divine release of the soul from the yoke of
custom and convention." I refuse to be intimidated by
reality anymore.
After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin? but a
collective hunch. My space chums think reality was once a
primitive method of
crowd control that got out of hand.
In my view, it?s absurdity dressed up
in a three-piece business suit.

I made some studies, and
reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in
touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle
I found it too confining.
It was just too needful;
it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all
I have to do—
I had to let something go.

Now, since I put reality on a back burner, my days are
jam-packed and fun-filled. Like some days, I go hang out
around Seventh Avenue; I love to do this old joke:
I wait for some music-loving tourist from one of the hotels
on Central Park to go up and ask someone,
"How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"
Then I run up and yell,
"Practice!"
The expression on people?s faces is priceless. I never
could?ve done stuff like that when I was in my right mind.
I?d be worried people would think I was crazy.
When I think of the fun I missed,
I try not to be bitter.

See, the human mind is kind of like...

a piñata. When it breaks open,
there?s a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata
perspective, you see that losing your mind
can be a peak experience.*

* From The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner. Reprinted with permission.

In 1982 I experienced the expansion that I describe in this book. Prior to that event, I did not have benefit of any information or understanding of the following concepts and terms. As I moved through the long process of integrating the expansion, I gained this knowledge. I feel that by becoming familiar with the terms before you read the story, you will be able to more fully absorb, understand and learn from my expansion experience as you read about it.

EXPANSION
A person undergoes expansion when an experience or event affects the electrical, central nervous and sensory systems in new ways.
    Everything in our immediate environment affects us physically. We experience stimulus first in our electrical system, a complex electrical gridwork that is located within and surrounding the body. Once the electrical system responds to the new stimulus, the new impulses are immediately shifted to the central nervous and sensory systems for identification, sorting and integration. All of this happens within a split second.
    There are two main areas of difficulty in an expansion experience. The first is physical. Because an expansion experience affects these three systems in new ways, if the systems are unable to immediately adjust to the new input, they may become over-energized, overloaded and, as a result, nonfunctional as far as the new experience is concerned. As a consequence of this physical breakdown, the person feels confused and is unable to discern what he is actually experiencing. What a person intellectually perceives is a direct result of the funtion of and interaction between the electrical system, central nervous system and sensory system. Sometimes an experience is so far beyond a person?s present ability to sort, identify and integrate within these three systems that he is not even conscious of being influenced by it at all. It is as if the experience never happened.
    The second area of difficulty is intellectual. During expansion, our intellectual understanding of what we are experiencing is challenged because it is new to us. If we try to force understanding, we shove the experience through the framework of what we already know. An expansion renders that framework obsolete as far as this experience is concerned. If we persist in pushing the experience through the old framework, we end up confused and we (via these three systems) misinterpret the experience.
    We can actually distort an expansion by forcing it through our old intellectual framework. In essence, we experience what we think we are experiencing. I have met a number of people who have described some pretty frightening "sixth-sense" events to me. While I listen to them, I can see that their ordeals were actually benign in nature, but because it was new to them, they quickly shoved it through their already-existing intellectual framework. Invariably, these were people who had read a lot about other people?s frightening tales or black magic. So they pushed their benign experience into a frightening framework and literally forced themselves to have a frightening experience that they could describe, even understand. In the process of finding intellectual satisfaction, they managed to scare the bejeezus out of themselves.
    The way I?ve been taught to deal with the intellect during expansion is to simply suspend the intellect: I just focus on the experience, let it integrate—and observe. This enables the organic formation of a new logic or intellectual framework. As a result, we gain a completely different understanding. Before expansion, we don?t have the ability to understand because the new pieces aren?t yet in place. The experience itself builds the new logical framework. By approaching expansion in this manner, I allow the intellect to work for me and not against me.

OZZIE AND HARRIET SCHOOL OF EXPANSION
vs. THE SCUZZBALL SCHOOL OF EXPANSION
If we believed the stuff that is written about expansion experiences, "enlightenment" or eureka moments, we?d swear that all we need to do to achieve such heights is to desire, apply ourselves a little, maybe have a life-threatening accident or two to knock some sense into us and, voilà—we come into enlightenment. Oh yes, it also helps to be special in the first place. Our lives magically change, and we now live in enlightenment. Our hair never gets mussed, our fingernails never break, the crease in our pants (if we have one) never flattens, and we never lose that saintly smile of the enlightened one. This is what I call the Ozzie and Harriet School of Expansion. Nothing ever goes wrong.
    This book is about the Scuzzball School of Expansion, the one I belong to. We get down and dirty. We also have a strong yearning to demythologize and deglamorize expansion. After all, it?s not a gift from God. We are all evolving, and sometimes this means we have the opportunity to expand in major ways. If we take the step, we feel like we just got blown to smithereens. There?s nothing subtle about this kind of expansion.
    Expansion, by definition, implies that we are now faced with an experience that was heretofore unknown to us. If we are already personally familiar with the experience, it?s not expansion—it?s just an experience. Now, the people from the Ozzie and Harriet School want us to believe that we function well when faced with the unknown. Well, balderdash. I happen to find the situation very challenging (as they say), and I suspect this is true for most of us.

MUNDANE-FANTASTIC LIFE
"Mundane" refers to our everyday life. It?s getting up in the morning, drinking coffee, going to work, doing the laundry, picking up the kids, reading the newspaper and watching your favorite TV program. The mundane is the glue that holds our life together.
    "Fantastic" refers to those experiences that are beyond the mundane. They are the magical part of life. They are those moments or events that fall out of the scope of our logic—they are unexplainable. This includes expansion.
    Often, people keep a separation between the mundane and the fantastic in their lives. They don?t see a relationship between the two. They see the mundane as boring, tedious and a necessary evil—sometimes even a trap. They see the fantastic as the "perfect" life, as something to aim for, if they could just release themselves from their mundane trap.
    But there is a strong relationship between mundane and fantastic. The mundane part stabilizes our life, provides life?s tools and training, and creates the platform from which the fantastic springs. The fantastic—those magical moments and events that propel us beyond our logic—then wraps around and becomes integrated in the mundane, resulting in an enfolding and expansion of the breadth and depth of the mundane. The fantastic gives new meaning to the mundane. The more we allow this interrelationship to occur, the more the mundane and fantastic come together and the more they feel indistinguishable. They each become an extension of the other. When the mundane and the fantastic fully interweave, we have what I call the "mundane-fantastic life."
    The story I present in this book is an example of the interweaving of the mundane and the fantastic into one cohesive mundane-fantastic life.

HOW WE PHYSICALLY SUPPORT EXPANSION: Perelandra Coning Session
An expanded experience does not by definition mean it is nonphysical or beyond five-senses form. It simply implies that the experience is beyond that which the person has experienced prior to that time—thus, the sense of expansion. We have said to Machaelle that the band of form is quite complex, and this is true. It includes all that a person can potentially experience while participating within any given level of form such as Earth....
    The laws of form are much broader than what is encompassed when one thinks of the five-sense sensory system. In fact, an expanded experience is simply learning or allowing the sensory system, as most individuals know it, to operate in a fuller capacity. The problem is that individuals tend to see the five-senses system as the one and only sensory system, and anything beyond or outside this basic functioning as being something entirely different. In fact, they are both functions of the same system.
    When a child is born into the Earth level, its sensory system is quite sensitive and expanded. It is, after all, just moving from a state of being prior to birth in which the sensory system naturally functions in a broader state. If left on its own, the child would continue to develop its sensory system from the point of this broader perspective. And what one might call "expanded experiences" would be the norm. Societal preconceptions are what encourage the child to limit the sensory scope, and the development of the sensory system throughout childhood then takes place from this more limited perspective. Along with this, the limited definition of the sensory system and its scope of discernment becomes the rule of thumb by which to judge experience.
    Now, if the sensory system is naturally capable of operating in a much broader scope than most individuals can at present imagine, it follows that the physical body must respond to and support that operation. The sensory system itself is a part of that overall body response and support system. Everything works as a team, ideally. Consequently, one cannot have what is known as an expansion experience without the sensory system and the physical body system as a whole responding to and attempting to support it. So, one may see entering a meditative state as an expanded experience, but, in fact, it is a broader use of the sensory system and draws appropriate response and support from within the physical body itself. Just as one cannot move a finger or toe without the entire body?s muscular and skeletal systems responding, one cannot shift from one state of mind to another without a similar physical response and shift.
    There is a saying many on the Earth level use: "If you don?t use it, you lose it." Normally, this refers to muscle and body tone. When a child limits the scope of operation within the sensory system, the complementary scope of physical response and support is no longer needed or utilized. In those areas, a person stiffens and atrophies. Then, later on, when the individual is an adult and consciously chooses to reactivate the sensory system in a broader way, the physical body no longer "knows" how to respond and support that expansion. The person will experience nothing, no matter how much willpower he musters, or the experience will be partially perceived and most likely distorted, as well.
    Let?s address the body system itself and what happens when the sensory system responds to an experience. Any experience initially strikes the human body through the electrical system. This occurs whether the experience is easily perceived or not. The initial receptor of experience is not the brain or the senses but the electrical system. The impact immediately, almost simultaneously, shifts and translates into the nervous system and routes itself throughout the nervous system appropriately as it begins its identification and experience process. This includes activating the sensory system in an appropriate manner. (All this occurs within a split second.) The point to remember is that the initial level of impact is electrical, followed by an impact on the nervous system. If the experience is within the individual?s perceived notion of "acceptable," the person probably knows how to perceive the experience on all levels operating within the physical body.
    Two things can occur if the individual does not know what to do with the experience. Either the physical body does not know how to respond and support the experience and is in need of assistance, or the experience itself is so beyond the person?s operating scope of reality that it takes on an intensification that literally overwhelms the body and requires of it a level of operation well beyond its present range of capability.
    In the latter case, the person must have a good foundation for such a stretch, or else he risks damaging himself physically. You would not want a person who is not capable of walking a half-mile to suddenly be forced to run three miles. But you could expect someone who easily runs three miles to be able to tackle a seven-mile run without sustaining damage. It?s a challenge, but it is not beyond the scope of possibility—and most likely not dangerous. However, the body used to the exertion of the three-mile run would have a challenge with responding well to the longer run, and it could result in soreness and discomfort until the body learns to better support the longer run....
    Let me sum up the relationship of the cranials, spine and sacrum in the expanded experience. The experience is received electrically and shifted to the central nervous system for sorting and identification. At this point, the physical body systems move to support what is being identified. If the body cannot adequately shift, the electrical system will overload or break, and the corresponding vertebrae, sacrum or cranials will most likely react by misaligning. Hence, you have the sensation of trying to catch six balls all at once while only being able to catch four.
    A special note about the cranials: An expanded experience carries with it an intensity that registers through the electrical system, moves into the nervous system, and continues its impact into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The brain is impacted by both the nervous system activity and the CSF pulse response to the impact. The cranial plates must respond accordingly to accommodate this two-pronged impact. The range of plate movement will be affected. If the cranials have lost their knowledge of how to move within this new range or if they are three-milers stretching for the seven-mile run, they run the risk of jamming or misaligning. This is when you have head pain associated with expanded experience. Cranial adjustments may be necessary over a period of time in order to allow the plates to properly adjust to and move in a more expanded range.
    Just as the leg muscles need to adjust to the seven-mile run, the cranials need time to adjust to expansion. Because of the close working proximity with the electrical and nervous systems, the cranials must be considered one of the primary areas for assistance during times of expansion. In a relatively short period of time, the cranials, as well as the rest of the physical body system, will learn how to operate within the expanded range of experience with ease, accuracy and efficiency.



BASIC SENSORY SYSTEM PERCEPTION: Defined by Nature
We define basic sensory system perception as being that which the vast majority of individuals on Earth experience. The acts of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling fall within what we acknowledge as a basic, fundamental range of sensory development that is predominant on the Earth level. What is referred to as an "expansion experience" is, in fact, an act or experience that is perceived by an individual because of an expansion of the range in which his sensory system operates. Expansion experiences are not perceived outside or beyond an individual?s electrical system, central nervous system and sensory system. These three systems are interrelated, and an accurate perception of an expansion experience requires that the three systems operate in concert. Therefore, it is quite possible for something to occur in an individual?s life that registers in the person?s electrical system and central nervous system but then short-circuits, is altered, or is blocked simply because the person?s present sensory system does not have the ability to process, due to its present range of operation, what has registered in the other two systems.
    People say that "these kinds of strange things never happen to me." This is inaccurate. "Strange" things, experiences and moments beyond the present state of their sensory systems are continuously happening around them and to them. They are simply not at the point where their sensory systems are capable of clear, useful processing. They waste time by directing their will and focus to "make things happen." That is useless since things are happening all the time around them. Instead they should relax and continue through an organic developmental process that is already in effect and that will gradually allow them to accurately perceive what is happening around them. In some cases, events or experiences are vaguely perceived or processed in outrageous, useless ways because their sensory system is expanding but still not operating in a range where events can be usefully processed.

SOUL RAYS/LIFETIMES: Perelandra Coning Session
When souls took on individuation as a result of the Big Bang, they became involved in a vast array of experiences that were also created during the same Big Bang. As a result, individuated souls had to have the tools for experiencing. Not to have these tools would have rendered the soul incapable of experience. In essence, souls that are incapable of experience are also beyond experience, and are in the same state they were in prior to becoming individuated by the Big Bang.
    The tools souls use to experience come from nature and are fully contained in one "package"—the human body. Nature supplies the order, organization and life vitality that create the human body. All the various elements and systems that make up the human body are the tools needed by souls for functioning in form.
    All experiences after the Big Bang have been and are in form. The Big Bang was a soul/nature phenomenon that added order, organization and life vitality to the One, and from this came individuation. Consequently, in order for the soul to function in a post-Big Bang dynamic, it needed to fuse with a form that could expand and modify in ways that would allow the soul to operate appropriately on any level or experience.
    When most people consider the human body, they conclude that the form of that body is the form that is needed for operating on Earth, and that this form is unique to Earth and Earth-related locations. They reason further that once beyond this level, the human body is no longer needed and, therefore, does not exist. These conclusions are wrong. The basic "design" of the human body was created by nature at the moment of the Big Bang. Once the One Soul individuated, it was imperative that the individual souls immediately fuse with appropriate form. The elements and systems present in the human body on Earth are the same as the basic elements and systems that made up the original form that received the individuated soul at the Big Bang. The form system as you see it today is the appropriate system through which the human soul can best operate, experience and express. It forms a structure and foundation through which the soul operates—no matter what level, state or dimension the soul chooses to participate in. It is not unique to the Earth level.
    This is not to say that on every level and dimension the human body is present exactly as you experience it on the Earth level. Remember, every level and dimension was created at the time of the Big Bang. Therefore, because everything created at the Big Bang is form, every level, whether it is seen or not, is also in form. But the many levels and dimensions within the band of form are quite extensive, complex and comprehensive. The body through which the soul operates must be fully compatible with the prevailing life dynamics of the level upon which the soul is presently choosing to participate. This is natural law and falls within the scope of the Horizontal Compatibility Principle. So, although the human body is capable of being present on any level and dimension, the state of that body at any given time will correspond with the prevailing life dynamics of the actual level it is on. For example, from Earth?s perspective, the human body is visible to the naked eye. On another level, that same body may be invisible. But the body is fully present and operating on each level whether it is visible or not.
    In short, the relationship between the soul and its physical body has been present since the Big Bang. Soul and body have worked in partnership through every soul experience, no matter the level on which it has occurred. It is important to understand that the relationship of soul to body has been present since the moment that soul originated in its individual expression and has not been solely a relationship unique to Earth.
    No matter what level or dimension a body is functioning on, it still has all the components that make up the physical body that is familiar to the person on Earth. It has a basic form with all its parts. Although the basic form may modify itself to accommodate the prevailing dynamics of a specific level or dimension, its parts all function in surprisingly similar patterns despite the level. A sensory system on the Earth level functions in much the same manner as the sensory system on any other level. Only the range of function may differ.
    Individuated souls operate beyond time and space. Although time and space are form structures, they do meet not the criteria in the definition of form. Form is any reality that has order, organization, life vitality and consciousness. Time and space are but two kinds of order and organization. There can be form reality without time and space. Individuated souls are in a form reality that does not include time and space.


    Because of this, all that is experienced by the individuated soul, no matter what level or dimension, occurs simultaneously. That is, all that is experienced by the individuated soul is beyond time and space. It has no linear or spatial dynamics to it. However, many of the levels and dimensions within which a soul may have an experience include time and space as part of their dynamics. In order to participate within these levels and dimensions, the individuated soul must modify itself to accommodate time and space. To do this, the soul creates what have been called "lifetimes." At Perelandra, these are called "soul rays." The individuated soul refracts itself into a smaller unit that includes all of the qualities necessary for experiencing within a specific range of time and space. Each individuated soul has countless such refractions that are functioning in concert with it at all times.
    Each lifetime or soul ray has a body through which the refracted soul operates and experiences. The soul-ray bodies are linked to and harmonious with the individuated soul?s body. The common notion on the Earth level is that a lifetime begins at conception or birth and ends at death. The soul-ray lifetime is much more extensive than this. Its birth/death cycle on Earth is but a small part of the overall range of experience that occurs within a soul-ray lifetime. It may include many different experiences on many dimensions and levels—Earth being just one of its levels. [See diagram above.] What distinguishes one soul ray from another is its human body. Each soul ray has one consistent human body that is uniquely developed for allowing the refracted soul of that ray to operate and have experiences on its many different levels and dimensions.
    The soul-ray body is capable of functioning well beyond what is required in a birth/death cycle on Earth. It operates in an overall range that envelopes all activities that make up the full soul-ray experience. What is important to understand for anyone on the Earth level is that this massive array of functioning within a soul ray is occurring in a complex, highly synchronized manner every day. The fact that a person on the Earth level is not aware of this expanded activity has to do with the unique development and expansion of consciousness that is part of the Earth experience. The Earth experience includes a highly structured sense of time, space and consciousness. These properties do not make the Earth experience lesser in importance than experiences on other dimensions. They are simply elements of reality that the refracted soul, in partnership with its body, must learn to operate with. So, from the perspective of the Earth experience, one may not be consciously aware of any other activity being experienced except for the present Earth activity. As one moves through the Earth experience and one?s understanding of time, space and consciousness expands, the Earth body develops and is able to process that greater understanding. There will come a time when an individual operating on the Earth level will be consciously aware of the full scope of his refracted soul activity.
    We have said that a single soul ray contains a single body. Yet the refracted soul of that ray may have many experiences on many different levels and dimensions. In order to understand how one body functions simultaneously on many different levels and dimensions, one must understand that the body has a far more expansive reality than what you know from the Earth perspective. We have said that the Earth experience includes a highly structured sense of time, space and consciousness. While operating within the Earth level, the body functions with a comparably high structure of time, space and consciousness. However, this is but one small range of function for that body. It is also capable of operating in any structure that comprises any of the other levels and dimensions that are part of that soul ray experience. So, for example, the sensory system as viewed from the Earth perspective can be defined scientifically as to its properties, characteristics and range of operation. But this is just the sensory system as viewed from the Earth perspective. From a different perspective in the soul ray?s experience, the same sensory system includes different properties, characteristics and range of operation. It can also include some the same elements that are part of the sensory system from the Earth perspective. Properties, characteristics and range of operatation can overlap.
    Perhaps an easier way to understand this is to see the sensory system as a vast, expanded unit capable of functioning on many different levels. Within each separate level, the sensory system operates with only those properties and characteristics needed for functioning within the range appropriate to that level.
    From the Earth perspective, the key to knowing one?s soul-ray activity is consciousness. As the refracted soul and body learn to work with and through the highly structured elements of time, space and consciousness from the Earth perspective, they (the soul and body) will be capable of expanding their awareness and equally capable of processing the results of that awareness. They will operate with a greater and more conscious expanded sense of the self.
    Expanding one?s consciousness to incorporate new levels of operation has an impact on the body. One does not simply expand consciousness. The body must shift to incorporate this new consciousness, and it must then learn to function in light of the new consciousness. To consciously understand that one?s sensory system is capable of functioning in a more expanded manner than is defined by one level of experience literally allows that sensory system to expand. At that point, it can begin to operate in its more expanded manner. It feels as if the one sensory system as defined from one level is uniting with the sensory systems that are defined by other levels to form a larger, more complex unit. Because they may have different properties, characteristics and range of operation, they feel like completely different sensory systems. In fact, it is the different levels of functioning of one sensory system that are being united within one consciousness.

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