EXPLORER: In this reality, as it affects the awareness... as opposed to, as it affects physical matter...let me try to straighten that out... This energy that we are dealing with now is not electromag- netic, it is true. It is not physical in the sense of your physical energies, but it can be used and utilized to change and vary the awareness... and the awareness can be used to change or modify the physical environment. It is not so much that you are using energy to manipulate physical structure as it is that you can this energy to manipulate your awareness of physical structure. For example, you can use this energy to change your awareness of cold... such that you are no longer cold... such that you are warm... Rather than heat the house, heat the man... the man can heat himself by becoming aware of the cold. So it is in that sense that this energy can be used to moderate your environment, by
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EXPLORER 3 13 changing the impact of the environment on the individual, rather than actually using the energy to manipulate matter. Now, this is a fine distinction. If you are not cold, you are not cold because you no longer are aware or sense that you are cold, because your room is heated. It seems to make very little difference in the end... EXCERPT
EXPLORER (TC): I had two encounters. The first one was an intelligent being not in any way visual. The second was a woman in her late thirties. She seemed pleased to give me a tour of her environment... I asked her if she was in any way familiar with physical matter existence as I knew it, and she was not familiar with it, and asked me to explain —which was difficult; the explanation is pretty much im- possible... I didn't really know how to explain physical matter... so I asked her if it was alright if I came back and that I would... I wanted to leave to report in.. she seemed a little dismayed that I was taking off after having gotten just part way through the tour... but she said «alright», so I came back, which brings us to the present moment... Contact was established with same female. She was quite sur- prised that I had indeed returned. At first, I began to wonder what this intelligence did really look like to itself. Was I just imposing my own image of humanoid female form? We discussed this realizing that I was creating this image of her and could not really tell whether this was her own image of herself or not... she likewise, creating an image of me