John, While I have far less experience than Rawn in this area, your question does remind me of a personal experience. I was involved with an ongoing research project that, as I came to know, was centered around Qabalistic symbolism. As with yours, there was an individual, long deceased, who I associated with this project. As time went along, I found myself sort of walking in his shoes. I knew he was a student of Qabala. For unrelated reasons, I found myself studying Qabala. From what I had seen of his writings, I knew that he was very altruistic, though most didn't consider him such. As my spirituality evolved, I found myself becoming more and more so, myself. In fact, the whole purpose of my quest evolved. Looking back, I see now that I had unconsciosly aligned my consciousness in many ways with his. One day, when I woke up, I was "given" some information. I had just begun work and was desparately trying to do something else, but was compelled to doodle. These doodles contained lots of stuff, new, unrelated to anything I was doing, and dead-on what I needed to progress to the next level. This happened a couple of days in a row, each time right after waking, then it stopped. Whether it came from "him," the source that gave it to him, or wherever, I don't know. The sensation was like my first grade teacher taking my hand and helping my write my alphabet."Here, do it this way." I realized at the time that what I been given was pretty big. I remember that for several days, I was both elated and overwhelmed with gratitude. Pretty neat. One other thing I will mention. At the time of this, I was meditating on the center of Case's Cube of Space. (Not the card represented, but the center of the actual figure) Some of these were very, very intense. In one of his books, Case says that the center represents the 5th dimension. Related? I don't know. MM > >> Friends....for a particular course of study I'm engaged in, I want to > access the thoughts and knowledge of a man who died in the 1950's....I'm > currently working my way through Step 1 and this kind of exercise isn't > addressed in IIH until later. I would appreciate some wisdom. << >