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physical faculties, the subtle body finds ample opportunity to show its activities. When the subtle body is able to manifest these finer activities, it senses many etherial vibrations not grasped by the physical body. This is the real secret of clairvoyance.
In induced clairvoyance, the person is asked not to exercise his sense-consciousness. The vibrations of the external cannot make an impression on the physical organs where the sense-consciousness. is not exercised, but at the same time it is not a condition employing perfect or deep sleep. Perfect or deep sleep means the subtle body, as well as the physical, must cease working. If it were only the physical body that stopped its work, it would not be deep sleep, in so much as the subtle body and all its faculties are in a state of activity; and there is the same conciousness but it has not physical faculties, which are asleep, to manifest through. It has not to spend its energies on the many exterior things, which is usually the outcome of physical manifestation. Without that extra spending of force, the vibrations are carried directly from the externa 1 world to the subtle body. In the state of ordinary waking consciousness those very vibrations are interpreted through sensations produced on the physical organs of sense, and therefore very little is left to be done by the subtle organs. Not only that
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