Full Disclosure: Some of the writings in the Awareness Technique printed materials are still beyond my comprehension even after years of working with the Technique, both through decades of personal sessions and running hundreds of clients. This does not take anything away from the power of this technique to expand consciousness and answer questions beyond any other method I have utilized, (and I have tried many.) But since the material is still available, both in the physical form of the original pamphlets on eBay and other platforms, and in pdf format available through Google searches, I felt the need to address them. I leave it to your personal shelf elves and their digital equivalent, plus your own desire for further information, to guide you into the written materials.

(The tl/dr is: The Original Instructions available from this link or on my website are a more accessible and practical way to utilize the work of Diane and William Swygard. )

After rereading this material, I have a different take: It seems that William and Diane Swygard were so far advanced by the time they published the first book in 1970 that they had moved on from mundane earthly concerns to examining the inner workings of the Universe and the Source of all Creation. For myself, even after decades of working with this material, I am still dealing with those mundane concerns of earthly physical existence - relationships, career, family, health, and spiritual practices - that need to be addressed before more cosmic questions can be explored, and these are the topics that clients find me seeking answers.

In a 2018 conversation with Diane Swygard Harper, she mentioned that she only had 6 past lives. With her late husband William guiding her, she would have been able to explore those lives and release any unfinished business very quickly, which allowed them easier access to the cosmic topics of Multi-Plane Consciousnesses and Perfecting the Spirit they cover in Books 2 and 3. Diane confirmed that I had 128 past lives, so I have many multiples of past life unfinished business to run and release than she did. Some people have hundreds and even thousands of past lives, compounding the work that is required and pointing to personal experience of past lives rather than the cosmic information in the books. So run many lives, finish up your unfinished business, then peruse the written materials with an integrated consciousness. The best advice is in a 4-word sentence in Book 1:

“Ask questions, questions, questions.”

But there is some powerful information that I’ve found in this re-reading. From AT Book 1:

I believe that man's difficulties on earth arise from the fact that he does not fully recognize that he is more than a physical being. The Masters, who considered the whole man and his problems, taught that increased awareness is the answer. Metaphysical writings of today attribute much to the Masters, and relegate man to the role of student, follower, or less. I hold that any man can find he is Master when he adds more levels of awareness to his being. I worked hard for many years to provide a simple technique for developing "Multi-Level Awareness," a direct method of adding a tremendous awareness to your present consciousness….With this method, one learns of his past lives - all of his experiences since he was born of the Creator. He learns astral (mental) awareness, etheric (energy) awareness, and celestial (concept) awareness while adding to his physical (detail) awareness. Ultimately, he becomes Master on twelve planes of awareness. All of this is done without trance or suggestion while the individual is wide awake.

The following technique is not to be taken lightly, because it is the beginning of a mental-spiritual experience that will allow YOU to KNOW YOURSELF. By this, it is meant that YOU, without the aid of a teacher or an assistant of any kind, (after a few preliminary exercises) can bring into your physical consciousness your entire past - your incarnations on this planet, your experiences before you came to this planet; in fact, you can see for yourself everything you have experienced since your spirit was released from the Creator.

Could you find yourself worrying whether a question could not be answered? Please do not be concerned whether this always works because your spirit cannot form a question about yourself unless the answer exists somewhere in your experiences or the record of those experiences, called your soul.

What “Multi-Level Awareness” is not: None of the Awareness Techniques are hypnosis. I have often been accused of spreading hypnosis beyond its presently known boundaries. The fact of the matter is, the Awareness Techniques are the opposite of hypnosis.

Hypnosis (mesmerism, animal magnetism) takes away consciousness, as well as energy from the life function. It is not a natural thing to transfer energy in this manner and should be avoided. The Awareness Techniques add to your awareness, and make available great quantities of energy to the life function.

(I remember reading this when I first encountered the Technique in the late 1970s. My 21st century take on this is that the Swygards were writing this in the late 1960s, and needs to be read in context of that era.)

Allow me to explain the function of Items 2, 3, and 4 in the paper, "Multi-Level Awareness." (The instructions)

Item 2 (stretching) is an exercise of introduction to what is sometimes called the Astral Body and Astral Consciousness. It is like saying to you, "Meet your friend, Astral. Astral is right with you all of the time (and always has been) and Astral wants to show you what he can do." It is an introduction.

Item 3 (turning lights on and off) is the same thing all over again. This time you are introduced to what is sometimes called Etheric Consciousness. Etheric has always been there. Time you got acquainted.

Item 4* (coming down into a past life) is Soul introduction. Soul is a complete record of everything you have accomplished since your Spirit was released from the Creator. This is a recording you have been introduced to. It takes three or more levels of integrated consciousness working at one time to be able to read your Soul (sometimes called Akashic) Record, and to bring this information into Physical Consciousness. "Multi- Level Awareness" is the only technique throughout 'the creation to teach this ability

* "Now, are you still high in the air?" The answer will be, "Yes." "Please keep the scene very bright. Come back to earth in another lifetime that you lived many years ago. Come down quickly as you go back in time; bring your feet down quickly and firmly, but gently, and stand on the ground. Tell me as soon as you are there."

Run a past life incident twenty-five or more times. Each time you run the incident, it will be the same. Just as you run a strip of motion picture film (a recording) through a projector, you will see the exact recurrence of action on the screen. So, as you view Soul (a recording) it will always be the same. Imagination cannot provide this stability.

KARMA AS UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Most important of all, when you can realize the imperfectness and "unfinished business" (sometimes called karma) of your past incarnations, it is easy to "forgive and forget" these actions through self-realization on a mental-spiritual level, and absolve yourself of further action in that regard. This means that you will have completed any "unfinished business" through the highest level of awareness, and will not have to work it out on the slow, painful, unaware level of physical consciousness.

Motion, the basis of running:

"Running" is the term given to the use and manifestation of results gained from the Awareness Techniques.

Meditators are told to slow down the mind and concentrate. In dreaming, not enough third-plane consciousness is available to follow the action in detail, and it slips away. In hypnosis, the whole of consciousness is divided, and very little is known or understood by the hypnotist or by the "subject."

Practice of the Awareness Techniques begins with motion. Awareness is consciousness in motion. The common denominator of the Awareness Techniques is motion.

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What follows is not light reading, covering such topics as “This Creation, From the Beginning to Present,” and a “color code” relating to the actual opening words of the First Book of Moses (Genesis.) I still find this material challenging even after running dozens of my own personal past lives and guiding hundreds of people into their own past life journeys. But if called to reading the original pamphlets, it is available online. Here’s the 4 original pamphlets assembled in book form that I found locally: