Notes from the Dream (circa 1982-1986) - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

Feel or notice sensations or feelings, thesensations inside your body associated withthat particular desire.Now, very gently, I’d like you to take yourattention away from the story or label of theemotion or desire and place it on the desire oremotion or feeling as made of consciousness or“energy”.A student asked, “How can I “remember”myself?” The instructor replied, “have part ofyour attention focused outwards on the world,and another part of your attention focused onyour inner world.Like in the work of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky,split your attention, placing half of it on youand the other half on the outer world.This split attention will help you rememberyourself.Also you can split your attention, half outsideon the world, the other half on your physicalweight.”Doing these attention exercises seemed to helpthe group staymore focused.I looked off into the emptiness and suddenly asif falling asleep,I was outside of the energy-consciousness114