Conscious Phasing.
The term will come up often nowadays and it's in regards to a certain dynamic of our consciousness. It's called "Phasing" and it's the principle of how, as modern OBE pioneer Robert Monroe explained in an electrical analogy, our consciousness "phases" and can change it's phase-angle relationship to any given point.
It basically works by the Hermetic principle of "All is Mind" in that if everything ever created is just an expression of consciousness in different forms and states, then to that effect we can spread our consciousness across different places and into different areas of creation.
A simple example is [i]bi-location[/i]. It's a phenomena that occurs when we might have left the physical body and as we come, as many people report, we are aware of actually being in two places at one time. This is because the consciousness has entered the body and sees from it's perspective as well as having the perspective of being outside the body around it where the rest of "us" (our individual unit of consciousness) is still placed.
Sometimes it gets even stranger.
In a more involved example, we might actually be phased or placed in two different realms of being. One might be in the mental dimension of a dream or lucid dream, while the rest of our awareness is placed into the astral plane. This is a source of MUCH confusion among practitioners. When we aren't self realized to a certain point we really aren't able to discern where "we" are at, or better said where is the "I" or the "I am" - where is our Being exactly at in terms of location? So people go on to have astral experiences but let the mind's influence pull some of their awareness/consciousness back into the mental realm of the dreaming brain and before we know it we find our self having an experience of both places superimposed over the other.
It's kind of like if you were watching two TVs at once or if their screens were mixing together to show you one picture. We might not actually know what is happening and then mistake polyphased locale of focus for one location altogether.
Bob Monroe explains:
https://www.monroeinstitute.org/node/754
Same principle, when we might be daydreaming, a very fundamental and essential part of "us" just is not present or focused into a concentrated area. Unlike a laser beam "we" are not present and alert to everything that is NOT happening inside the daydreaming mind.
This is another strong reason many mystery schools throughout time have made one-point focus a staple of their curriculum.
In many traditions the practice of self-realization digs deep into our subconscious and unconscious states to recall pieces of "light" or better said "consciousness" that is either stuck in the past for whatever reason or has formed a sort of "corrupted data" impression into the quantum nature of our psyche.
This is, in part, how our Being works. We have many elements to it, but "phasing" is part of the fundamental nature of human consciousness. A consciousness Being human is able to attached desire driven intention and determination to exact specific outcomes. Mineral consciousness can not nor can simple plant by their nature either. We have a fundamentally important and exclusive opportunity as Human Beings to accomplish amazing things which becomes a rare opportunity when you realize other expressions of consciousness have no access to psychological tools to employ.