‘There is a form of mind control in which very workable patterns are taken too far. They become obsessions. They become filters through which a person sees everything. Then the fire of life cools and goes out. Then the intelligence of a person works against him. My work is about showing people there is something beyond these patterns. What people are hoping for and wishing for is beyond these mind-patterns, whether they know it or not. I don’t care whether they live in America, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, India, Peru, or the North Pole. They’re hoping for a kind of spontaneity and energy that transforms dead and repetitive days and nights into burning joy.’ (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)
I recently wrote a piece about my collaboration, in the 1980s, with a brilliant hypnotherapist named Jack True. Jack discovered that patients, under hypnosis, would visit ‘separate areas of space and time,’ if he asked the right questions.
In this way, the patients went beyond the consensus structure of the ‘the one and only continuum’ we take for granted. In doing so, they gained a new sense of their own power.
In various ways, science fiction authors have presented this ‘going beyond’ factor. Two of the best were Philip Dick and his early inspiration, AE Van Vogt. Of course, most readers view their novels as a form of exciting entertainment, and they don’t bother pinpointing the source of the excitement.
What sits in the subconscious is not at all what psychoanalysts have theorized about. The contents of the subconscious are far more adventurous: different spaces and times – many of them. And the ‘shapes’ of these spaces and times are not identical. Clock time and geometric space are, in a sense, a default setting. They are what survives after the subconscious goes to sleep.
This post was published at Jon Rappoport on November 22, 2015.
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