One cannot maintain constant being-attention because the emotions of the biological machine will pull one's being-attention into sleep; the trick is to arouse the emotions along with the being-attention.
Sometimes a feeling of danger succeeds where the best mental intention fails.
One could be projecting the scenario that one is not now in the between-lives state, but suddenly one may come to realize that it really is oneself who is in that state, in the labyrinth.
We are capable of creating for ourselves a protective mechanism, a semblance of ordinary reality, to disguise what's really happening. Now one has a good reason to read and study this Work with attention.
The sheer ordinariness of an unprepared experience of the macrodimensional domains of the labyrinth deceives us into complacent acceptance of events; the unsuspecting voyager is unaware of any transition.
-- from The American Book of the Dead (E.J. Gold)
