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IMEC (Marie Coble) with “Friends”
September 24, 1984
Session 26: Past and Future Become One
Summary: The past and the future are realities that are agreed upon. We say
something is real when we agree with one another, to validate an experience. We know
the past exists even though we have no physical senses to experience it. We hold the
past inside of our minds on another plane of reality.
Extended Summary: To enter this other plane of reality you will create another set of
senses. But these senses are based on your experience, so they are limited to what you
know as your physical senses. You have labeled this type of experience as imagination.
We are suggesting that you consider it as a possible reality. Just as you know you have
a home and that it exists even though you may be in another location. A person’s past
may exist in totality, but the focus of consciousness is what you call the present. The
mind has created a safeguard to prevent the inflow of the totality of information in order
to refine the data stream of the present and aid in the focus of attention. Just as the past
exists and can be accessed so too is the future. The method of entering into the past
and future is through a belief system where you bring no thoughts or feelings of what
you will find there. Because future possibilities can be frightening, the mind will not carry
the consciousness to that reality. Just like it will not carry you to trauma of the past. The
objective is to bring together the concept of the past and the future to the present,
accept that it is real, and observe it with neutrality. This will lead to a different type of
knowing, a different type of existence.
Report by Daniel Erickson
Extended summary by S. Solomon