Rates of Passage
E.J. Gold
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...I enter into a dreamlike state the quality of
which is like a theater in which I'm watching the
creation of the whole drama of the reality of the
human dimension as well as the five other
dimensions of existence.
Suddenly, I realize where I am. I look around and
see my former selves all absorbed in the drama
that's going on in front of them. I decide to get
up and leave before the drama catches me in its
fascinating grip.
As I walk out, I can't understand how I could have
fallen into that trap again and become hypnotized
and stupefied by an unconnected set of pictures,
and moreover, how I could have come to believe
that something was actually happening to me -- not
only believe it, but also feel the sensations in
myself as I identified with the action supposedly
going on in the drama.
I now realize with sudden clarity of understanding
that there is no sequence of events making up the
time track and that the apparency of time is
simply a random connection of pictures and sounds
associated by significance to each other which
only makes sense from the dream existence, but the
real awakening is still far before me.
-- An excerpt from "The Six Dimensions" by E.J.
Gold, The American Book of the Dead
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