Editor's Note:  This article responded to someone trying to learn time distortion.
 
Contexts for Using Skills

Yes, every time I sign onto the internet, I wonder where the time went? All kidding aside, if that is at all possible, and to answer your first question, YES.

And I will say that it is a profound altered state that I believe needs to be contextualized and directed for a purpose. Could you imagine -- Gee, what happened to last year? Where did the time go? Have you ever heard the words -- Time seems to fly when I am having fun. Or -- I thought it was going take forever. I would say these are all examples of time distortion. So too are manipulations in time that follow -- As you see yourself in the future. . . having already made those changes for yourself. . . NOW. . . sitting here. . . looking back at what it was like. . . to have been unable to fully realize that you have always been able to do this. . . which, of course. . . only makes being able to continue doing this . . . in the future. . . that much easier, does it not?

I think, first, it would be most useful to pick a context. Where would you like to be able to do this, and for what purpose? I remember presenting a training when this guy in the front row asked me if I could help him learn how astral travel. And although I didn't know exactly what he wanted, I figured that he did. I said to him, "Have you ever traveled on Trance World Airlines?" He said, "What?" I said, "Never mind," and with that, "Where is it you want to travel to?" Puzzled, he looked back at me and said, "Nowhere in particular, I only want to be able to do it." "Hmmmmm," I thought to myself, "No wonder he wasn't able to step into this representation he had had called 'astral travel', he never took the time to clarify where he wanted go with it." I started talking aloud about traveling, pagan worshipping, and about six's, three of them to be exact -- 666.

Well anyway -- he began quickly defining in his own mind where he did and did not want to use this thing he was asking for. And this was the clue that led him into being able to use this thing he wanted to use. The same can be true in many other areas -- so it is time for me to ask you to take the time to pick a specific context where you will be using this skill. Let me know.

Carmine


 
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