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     Consider that the nervous system consists of three areas:  "A level" is the area above Line-level consciousness, "B level" is below the Line, and "C level" is the containment level.  It is the level of objective conception, and I want you to Consider it in a particular way.  Everything below the Line, when I drew it as just a single line, is everything that you are.  It is everything that you try to struggle against under ordinary conditions.  It is everything that seems to be yourself.  That level is the height of ordinary activation.  You can take up a new field of study, learn new facts, read a new book introducing a wild, new idea that for some reason seems to strike you:  "This is weird.  It says there are secret spirits still hanging around here from the lost continent of Mu, and that if you can get yourself in touch with them, they will come down and aid you in this internal blossoming of the soul."  You think, "That sounds like what I'm after.  I'll remember this."  So the information connects with something that is already in the network below Line-level consciousness.  It's happened to all of you to some degree.  You get through with the book, and maybe you try to send up a chant, or do something else the book said.  But you are trying to move against the ceiling, and the effort goes nowhere.  But what's happened is that it has apparently expanded the existing network.  Yet it is a lateral expansion.  The ceiling stays right where it is.  

     The reality behind humanity's (and your) dreams of enlightenment lies in the area above the Line.  It is an activation of previously unused areas of your own nervous system, above the level where "I" exists.  It is when someone accidentally gets a glimpse of this, that mystical books are written.  You've all read them -- at least one of them -- before you met me.  They all say something along the lines of "We're all of the one great brotherhood.  I saw there was no good or evil.  I saw that there was no beginning or end to the universe.  I saw that everything humanity believes is true and is not true."  I've mentioned such people, such writings to you before.  It runs on the basis of an accidental, one-time occurrence; it was something done through the person, not by him; he doesn't understand what happened, and so he's left with having to interpret it on the basis of his existing Line level knowledge.  But it is not some vague, unspecific, spiritual gift.  The gods didn't select him, nor did secret, magnetic waves from the sunken continent of Mu suck him into a sanctified orbit.  There is no external force at work.  The nervous system itself has been activated beyond the point of necessity for the time and place.  Now, in comparison to the dreams of humanity, compared to all these mystical books, that just sounds as mundane as can be, except for the fact that there are people right in this room who would say "It sure does sound mundane, but there's nothing else that comes close," if you would get them to say anything about it at all.  

     Shift your Consideration from the Line itself to this third level -- the containment level.  Many of you are beginning to get a certain taste of something.  Many of you had a taste of it before you came here, but you didn't know what to do with it.  This level is the rightful point of termination for electrical energy.  It is a turnaround point.  It is the culminating point for electrical energy and that continual pulsation, the electrical charge without which you are literally dead.  Medicine and theology and just about everyone else want to know the difference between a dead man and a man who's still alive.  Well, the difference is this:  the pulsing electrical charge.  If you're dead, it's gone.  The energy of Life itself is simply gone.  And that's it. That person is no longer an active transfer station.  He is no longer a food processor on the level that we all serve, he has now become food.  

     This third level allows that energy to rise a little above the ceiling, in certain people.  It creates the feeling of a potential in you.  I've described it as that one loose wire that is not yet properly fed, but it COULD get fed.  The sensation of that capacity, that potential, is the only reason you're interested in This Thing.  It's a passing sensation, almost like an internal timeout.  It's as though there are split seconds in which you realize you've been seeing the whole world, people included, as a flat, two dimensional picture. And suddenly another dimension has been added:  you're suddenly seeing in 3-D:   people talking, waving their arms, and they're just as serious as hell, and you realize it's not serious as hell.  Remember the pop-up books you read as a child -- you'd turn the page, and the storybook characters would pop up.  A flat page was miraculously transformed into three dimensions and you thought, "How wonderful!   How amazing."  It is the same feeling that some of you have now.  Suddenly you're beginning to see things about people that you never saw before:  "I was talking to someone I've known for years, and it struck me that, though we've worked together for ten years, I have never seen that person."  Or "I've been living with this person for the last five years, and for the first time today, I saw her.  I literally saw her.  She was suddenly a person rather than simply part of a mechanical relationship.  We have been processing and transferring energy for five years, but she didn't really exist."  It's the fleeting sensation that your internal machine has almost shut down; as though the radio went dead, the tiger stopped pacing, and suddenly everything became very quiet.

    That is the operation of the containment level, where objective conception is possible.  It's not a matter of being in a final and complete state of enlightenment.  It is rather a level that is more properly described right now as the struggle itself to reach beyond the normal confines of the nervous system.  Rather than being concerned over "Am I enlightened?", which shouldn't be your concern anyway, get a good personal taste of just igniting the area contained within the C level.  I can give you one of my few assurances:  once you do get a good 3-D taste there is no longer any question "Is all this worth it?"  All questions are gone, and you're hooked.  

    The energy that ordinarily terminates in the feeling of "I", in your thoughts and feeling, is instead contained in the C level.  It is the physical reality of the distinction between ordinary consciousness and what I have labeled omnidirectional consciousness.  Ordinary consciousness is like a spotlight, fixed first on one thing, then another.  It is you walking down the street with your attention focused on one internal picture of your mother saying, "Why don't you ever call me?"  Suddenly a car horn blows, and you look out to see what it is.  And then you go back to the picture, "Why don't you ever call me?"  And then you notice that your right foot hurts a little; then it's back to the phone call again. JC talk 43