There are realities within realities, and your choice of what might be called "the curiosity focus of attention" attracts such a reality and brings it to subjective prominence. However, in all circumstances, your current experience has gateways leading to other realities. These doorways are mental focal points perceived within your three-dimensional physical environment such as an object, a breeze, another individual or an event. Generally these are overlooked because they are so obvious, and also because of man's lack of understanding of his oneness with his surroundings.

As Seth taught, "you get what you concentrate upon," and this has an infinite and expansive depth of meaning because, quite literally, your concentration is the mental analog of propulsion. Pathways of subjective ideas are continuously set into motion by what you choose to focus upon, and once that choice is made and consciously understood, it can be easily manipulated to suit one's purposes and desires.

In the dream state reality construction occurs instantaneously--willful, direct focus illustrates immediate results, while within daily existence time lags occur. There is a trick in learning how to properly utilize your aware "control-of-focus" abilities, and once learned the results can be surprising delightful. They can also be constructively beneficial and rewarding.

An example: You are eating dinner and watching the news on television. You are attuned to the newscaster's voice chronicling an unfortunate situation--your attention is focused as you begin to experience that unpleasant event. At that same moment there are objects, other activities all around you, and each are the doorways I spoke of. By simply switching your attention you will draw a different subjective reality to yourself.

Now intent is highly important here because attempts to deny or avoid any portion of reality, even a newscast, carry an energy of intent. Polarities of good/bad, right/wrong, used as inner statements of intent will back-fire, and negative judgments or fears only increase the intensity or magnetic attraction. So you should not force a change of focus with the "intention" of preserving one's own mental health. Intent and desire are the key in playing with alterations of focus, and the intent is simply to learn a proficiency in willful, focused direction.

You may have read an analogy which says in effect: "attempting to avoid negative beliefs is like running through raindrops." This is a good analogy, but for our purposes I would simply add that to learn the skill of dodging raindrops you must not be afraid of getting wet! And the same with dodging ideas is also true.

You have your own set of beliefs and ideas regarding the nature of reality, and the beliefs of others can be likened to raindrops through which you run while playing a game of "staying dry." And having played the game you are no longer afraid of limiting beliefs--you drenched yourself in them, in the past, and now you are dry. So, gain a proficiency at staying dry.

Once you realize that ideas are the building blocks of reality you can choose to focus on specific unlimiting ideas; then you will feel your own creative process in a direct manner. You will glimpse the subjective propulsion that can carry you through gateways, doorways, or entry points leading into other realities. Such willful focal shifts are what may be termed ultimate action, or reality creating on a conscious level. Your thoughts and your questions, your loves and your dreams, your hopes and your fears have brought you to where you are now. You travel the paths of your thoughts. You meet your thoughts fleshed out in a magnificent living reality. You literally shake hands with your beliefs. You experience ideas made physical.

These gateways of which we speak are invisible to your physical eyes, and yet they exist all around you as surely as do your physical doors and windows. What you perceive are camouflaged avenues and symbolic streets, paths open for mental travel, disguised as objects, events, environment or individuals. Our communication is one such gateway, yet the doorway is invisible. It is always available, yet you must turn your focus of attention in an inward mental direction and listen.

Your new Star Trek television program offers a useful analogy with their "holodeck." Let us pretend that you are the entire ship and ship's crew. The ship is alive in all respects as a manifestation of consciousness in form, and each member of its crew are creative aspects, versions of yourself. The holodeck can represent your natural ability to create a reality. Upon entering this created environment--within the holodeck, the gateway leading to the ship disappears. It is always there, always available, but invisible.

Now, depending upon how involved one is while interacting with events occurring within the created environment, the existence of the gateway may be temporarily forgotten. Yet the door is there, and must be remembered, and willfully called upon to appear in order to return to the greater reality of the ship.

The gateway is always there, waiting in a latent state--awaiting activation by focused consciousness. Thoughts are your motion, and they will always lead you. Thoughts generate emotion, and you feel their weather. Again, you travel the paths of your thoughts even though your current reality has you believing your experience is separate from your thoughts. You are not your thoughts, and you are not your emotions--you choose thoughts and experience their living manifestations. Your "curiosity focus of attention" is a result of choice.

In a real manner, you choose what you present to yourself, from which you make your choice. Yet, you do not need to consciously choose to breathe. That is taken care of automatically. You can choose to be conscious of your breathing, and can be aware of each breath, and even regulate it to some degree. Yet you do not doubt your choice to breathe even though you do not consciously choose each breath. It is taken care of by greater portions of yourself.

The events and experiences of your daily existence are presented to you as automatically as your breath. You make conscious choices from among these. Yet the same "you" that breathes effortlessly also chooses (among a rich fountain of probable infinities) those events and experiences you meet. In a real manner, you choose what you present to yourself, from which you make choices.

Now you certainly have enough on your hands dealing with choices presented to you. As you trust the greater you that serves your interest by breathing, so too can you trust this greater you that provides you with life experiences. Your conscious choice among probable actions reflects significance. And by this, I mean, what is significant to you personally. As you choose to present yourself with physical choices, so you choose to present yourself with mental ideas. You choose which actions you wish to become involved in, yet you also choose those ideas with which you wish to become involved. To do so, in both cases, requires that you ignore other possibilities. Your "curiosity focus of attention" requires "bias" and "ignorance," and here I purposely use such words to illustrate the necessity for what has been called "prejudiced perception." The reality in which you find yourself requires an amnesia of sorts regarding your great-self-source. Each of you have chosen to pretend that you do not know much that you do know. In such pretending a game is spawned of rediscovery.

The particular reality you have collectively chosen allows a framework--an idea-structured reality with chosen limits, chosen hurdles, and chosen barriers--through which learning can take place. In any reality the self is by nature inclined to seek expansion and expression. Each of you will attempt to stretch such chosen limits, jump the self-imposed hurdles, and scale the established barrier walls. For in a manner, each of you is a whim artist striving to solve the puzzle of yourselves. You are yearning to understand the nature of Nature, and hoping to discover the mysteries of time eternal.

Now, you cannot have a game of rediscovery unless you feel and believe something is lacking and needs to be discovered. And so you find yourselves traveling through a variety of belief structures that do not seem to satisfy your inner intuitive senses. Such dissatisfied wanderings provide a thrust for further questioning and exploration. You propel yourselves into a search for a certain something that carries with it a sense of universal "yes-ness" that echoes to the heart and soul: "Yes! That's it!"

You search externally for knowledge you already possess, and this implies you do not believe it is already within yourselves. For the game of re-discovery is afoot, as it were, and the amazing abilities of consciousness shall be your guide. Through the quest for a quality of existence comes a tolerance, a compassion, and an appreciation of yourselves and all that surrounds you.

As the seasons of experience require certain focuses on idea-themes, fleshed out in a predominant brilliance, still others seem temporarily absent or relatively non-distinct. You need to be temporarily blind to discount, to ignore certain realities in order to focus upon others for learning purposes. Yet always, in all cases, you are the director of your life. The key word "temporarily" is used here because linear time realities require it. Your curiosity focus is a result of choice. You are naturally curious and automatically attract those arenas, those encounters, that suit your purposes and challenges.

In no way is it a requirement or a measure of self-worth to become aware of this process of choice in order to fulfill yourselves. However, as you come to understand yourself, and begin to feel how your "past" thoughts--your mental road map brought you here, then you can play at creating new maps. To do this you can willfully choose to focus on certain aspects while ignoring others. Your thoughts can be chosen with greater discretion and greater conscious participation.

The understanding of choice is important. Do not attempt to deny or force your attention away from areas you have already chosen to encounter simply because you do not like what you have created. They are your own creation and you chose them for your own purpose. Learn from them--see the beauty in "how" you brought them to life. When you can feel your own hand in those events, how your focus played a part in choosing those situations, then you can consciously choose to change it.

And as you do change your experiences imagine if you will, a view of yourself from above. Imagine an observer that has a broad overview of you, both spatially as well as within time. Imagine all the probable experience overlays, superimposed, some brighter--shimmering with a grand intensity while other less probable events are not as defined. With each idea, each thought, each action comes changes in intensities and probable patterns. Some flicker, some brighten, and some disappear as new probable scenes come and go. These constantly changing scenes are based in thoughts, action and emotions.

When you play with purposely choosing to switch you focus, to alter your experiences, you can feel these changing emotional probabilities. These can be subtle feelings or strong powerful emotional waves. In any event the conscious choice to switch will create within you a mobility of consciousness and you will begin to perceive paths upon which those subjective feelings ride. The practical applications of such willful focal shifts are limitless.

There is a greater need now for individualized choice in all areas of life. Decisions that in the past were guided by the church or family now rest on the shoulders of the individual. En mass, the authorities are being toppled from their pedestals. So-called heroes are being exposed as having human feet of clay. More and more each individual is constantly returned to the authority of the self.