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PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE:
INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
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PROJECT NUMBER:
N/A
DATE OF SESSION:
01
NOV 88
START:
0900
METHODOLOGY :
ERV
SESSION NUMBER:
03
DATE OF REPORT:
02 NOV 88
END:
1000
VIEWER IDENTIFIER:
025
1.
(S/NF/SK)
MISSION:
TO GO INTO A STATE OF RELAXATION AND
FOLLOW THE COLORS OR ENERGY SYSTEMS AS INTERVIEWER STATED.
2.
(S/NF/SK)
VIEWER TASKING:
TO ENTER INTO A STATE OF
RELAXATION AND TO SEE, FEEL, AND VISUALIZE COLORS OR ENERGY
SYSTEMS.
3.
(S/NF/SK)
COMMENTS:
NO INCLEMENCIES NOTED.
VIEWER WAS ABLE
TO LISTEN TO INSTRUCTIONS AS THE INTERVIEWER LED HER THROUGH
THE COLOR EXERCISE.
INTERVIEWER FELT THAT VIEWER WAS ABLE
TO ENTER A STATE OF RELAXATION IN APPROXIMTELY SEVEN
MINUTES. VIEWER WAS KEPT INTO A STATE OF RELAXATION FOR
APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES WHICH MAKES THIS THE
LONGEST SESSION TO DATE.
VIEWER ALSO COMPLETED AN ESSAY ON
THE FIRST READING ASSIGNMENT WHICH IS "CONSCIOUSNESS AND
CULTURE.
4.
(S/NF/SK)
EVALUATION:
3
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
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025
1 November 1988
Consciousness and Culture
Culture provides a consensus reality throughout the developmental
stages of life which include:
Infancy, childhood, adolescence,
adulthood, and senescence.
People are biased regarding altered
states of consciousness because it is generally believed that
ordinary consciousness is our natural state of mind.
Additionally, people have a false understanding of perception.
multi-faceted social reality exists in our culture influencing
our physical and perceptual views.
Perception is a highly
selective automatic system including preprogrammed decision
making. In other words, what a person believes to be important
will be perceived and the rest ignored. A stimulus triggers a
representation of itself in the mind, thus perceptions can be
distorted. A person may simply not see a stimulus if it is not
one that he or she has already been trained to know.
Even
psychologists do not always apply their perceptual knowledge to
perceptions made by other people.
A
There are numerous studies which are influenced by culture to
support our biases regarding reality.
In order to seriously
study consciousness without cultural limitations, we must
recognize that our ordinary state of consciousness is arbitrary.
Even within the spectrum of human potential, we are prejudiced in
believing that our culture is the best.
This view limits our
acceptance of the Semoi of Matasia, for example, who utilize
spirit guides.
The spectrum of experimental potential is the belief that two
states of consciousness exist within one individual .
Certain
human potentials can be tapped into consciousness A but not B.
This theory is the current factor for interest in the altered
states.
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