Lehal Library

visited, and when you have not seen pictures of the house. Of course, if he painted a fluorescent yellow "X" on the roof, with a ten-million-candle-power beacon of light, with similar markers on streets and highways along the route, you just might make it. Now let's take the same trip in the Second Body and examine it comparatively. Again, you are overhead one hundred feet, floating in the air, this time with no physical body. It is a bright sunny day, but your "seeing" is somewhat impaired. You still are not fully accustomed to the technique of "how" you are seeing. As a result, your vision is distorted in one way or another. You can work your way slowly from over your home to George's house much as you would if in the physical body. It would be the same slow process under less favorable visual conditions. There is a better, faster way. Happily, there seem to be built-in directional senses if their use can be mastered. The "if" is the catch. As noted elsewhere, you "think" of the person at the end of your destination—never a place, but a person—and use the method prescribed. In a few moments, you are there. You can watch the landscape move under you if you wish, but it's a little disconcerting when you rush headlong toward a building or tree and go right through it. In order to avoid such traumas, forget about seeing during the traveling process. You never quite get over the physical-body conditioning that such things are solid. At least I have not. I still have the tendency to move in the direction of the door to leave, only to realize again the situation when my Second Body hand goes through the doorknob. Irritated with myself, I then dive through the wall rather than the door to reinforce my awareness of the Second State characteristics. In conjunction with this convenient homing instinct that is unaffected by distance, you are faced with a further problem, which is that the automatic navigational system is too accurate. It works by what and of whom you think. Let one small stray thought emerge dominantly for just one microsecond, and your course is deviated. Add to this the fact that your conscious mind may be in conflict with the superconscious as to what should be that destination, and you can begin to appreciate why so many experiments to produce Locale one evidential data have ended in failure. It sometimes causes one to ponder how there have been any such results when the difficulties are considered. As an experiment, try to concentrate for just one minute upon a single action or event or thing which you "dislike" emotionally and intellectually (the superconscious expressing its will) without the intrusion of any unrelated thought. It takes something more than practice, as you will discover.