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Hey, hey, and away! Come to me, my cunning imitators and artful pretenders, secret maniacs and hidden super-freaks! Did you enjoy the imitation game? Let’s repeat what we’ve covered so far.

• Physical reality is accessible here, in the materialisation frame.

• Access to the future is open only from the other side, in the image frame.

• You are doomed to exist in reality, like characters in a film roll.

• You cannot circumvent the script, but you can wake up and start another one.

• You change the filmstrip but continue playing a role, whilst hiding your presence.

Presence in a motion picture. What does that mean? Mostly, it refers to the presence of your conscious awareness of being – your Self, your presence as a living, competent and rational individual in an immutable motion picture. Although the film is spinning fast, it is already as predestined, as the behaviour of all its characters is predetermined.

Your presence there highlights you as awakened among the unawakened. You are consciously aware of your individuality and are aware of what is happening. Your behaviour inside the film is also predetermined by the scenario. However, your presence gives you the opportunity to change the film roll and switch from one to another.

To achieve presence, you have to come alive, give yourself a shake and determine your location: the image frame or the materialisation frame. In other words, where is your attention focused: at the central awareness point or on one of the screens. In essence, you are dual beings that can be both on this side of the mirror and the other.

You are present here when you are there. It’s a paradox. Failing that, you are absent, that is, you are in an incompetent state of non-awareness and entirely at the mercy of the script.