Dimensions of Conscious Experience
by Daniel Neiman
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Reprinted by kind permission of Daniel Neiman
by Daniel Neiman
http://www.world-mysteries.com/daniel_neiman.htm
Reprinted by kind permission of Daniel Neiman
Contents:
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Introduction
The Archetypal Dimension The Afterlife Dimension UFOs and Aliens Shifting Dimensions Conclusion Notes |
Introduction
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When we go to other dimensions, our consciousness manifests bodies through which to experience those dimensions. Rosalind McKnight, who worked with Robert Monroe to go out of body, describes five different energetic bodies that our consciousness projects and operates through in each dimension. The physical we are well aware of and operate through on a daily basis. Going deeper, there are the etheric-substance, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies.1 Each of these bodies exists at a different energy level to allow us to explore higher and higher dimensions.
Interestingly, William Buhlman, long time 'out of body' explorer, has a near identical chart of the energy bodies of the soul in his book The Secret of the Soul. 2 He, as well as Rosalind, contends that these dimensional bodies, and indeed the experiential dimensions they provide access to, exist within us. It’s not as if these other dimensions are “out there” somewhere beyond the physical universe. They could be said to be deeper and deeper levels of reality. Switching conscious awareness to another dimension is like going to a new universe. It can be populated with beings, landscapes and cities that you previously only dreamed of. It’s like changing the radio station. You could be driving down the road listening to a classical music station and hearing all kinds of classical favorites from Beethoven to Chopin. All of a sudden your passenger reaches down and changes to a hip-hop/pop station and suddenly it’s like entering an entirely new realm of music. The sounds are different, the rhythm is different, and it provides a whole new and different listening experience. It may take some time to adjust to this new listening experience, but you can now explore the world of Britney Spears and Rihanna. Suffice it to say, it’s quite different than the world of Beethoven and Chopin! This is maybe an extreme example because the differences between the two styles of music are quite vast, but we will see when exploring other dimensions that the experience in these other dimensions can be quite different than the physical. So, when you enter another dimensional body, you are changing frequencies, much like changing stations on a radio. You are then operating on a different level of energy than the physical, in a different realm of being. Your physical body, of course, is still on the physical plane. However, your conscious awareness has shifted dimensions and is no longer operating through the physical body, but instead through a higher dimensional body. People operating through the physical will no longer be able to communicate with you, although you may be able to see them and communicate with them on an inner psychic level. |
The Archetypal Dimension
The Afterlife Dimension
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Accordingly, however, there are dimensions within the afterlife constituted of individuals on a more negative wavelength of thought. For instance, Near-Death Experiencer Yvette, whom we met earlier, spent some time in a negative place before going to the Light and experiencing a beautiful place. After spending a little time out of body she says,
“Suddenly, I was violently sucked in by an uncontrollable force. It felt like it ripped my heart out and it swiftly took me into a dark place. I was in pain and terribly scared: it was some sort of wide-open and unstable abyss, with glowing walls and it was terrifyingly dark. The unpleasant smell of sulfur was making me nauseous. Hideous shadows appeared from everywhere and fidgeted in every direction, their moans were dreadful. They were touching me lightly, trying to catch me, to hold me back. I was horrified and my fear was at its worst. Then, a bright and intense constellation enthralled me. I radiated and was attracted by it.”19 It seems as though she somehow ended up in the wrong place. The beings there are moaning, meaning they are probably very depressed about something. She describes them as hideous shadows, meaning that the light of their souls is muddied by dark and negative thoughts. However, this is not a realm she’s subjected to for very long. She soon sees light and is attracted to it. This is because she doesn’t have a desire to stay in this dark realm. Her thoughts are not the negative thoughts of these beings. These shadow beings who are there are not there because of any kind of punishment. It is their selves that keep them there. They are there by choice. They choose to stay in the darkness of their foreboding thoughts. Medium and psychic James Van Praagh has also communicated with spirits who were in a dark place. One spirit named Peter was from a loving family but nonetheless got mixed up with the wrong people, started doing heroin and estranged himself from his loving parents. Blaming his mother for his actions, he told her that it was her fault that he ended up being a junkie because she never loved him as he was. As he was before an honour student and a leader, he was under the misguided idea that she only loved him for his achievements and for being “perfect.” 20 After dying from a heroin overdose, he was under an immense amount of regret for his actions. Describing his situation in the afterlife, he communicated to Praagh that it “felt like he was in a nightmare". He said, “It’s very dark here, and people are crying . . . I feel imprisoned by my own thoughts, and it’s hell. I feel so guilty for blaming my mother for my own problems.” He refused to go to the Light because he felt that he didn’t deserve happiness. He desperately needed his mother to know the depth of his sorrow for what he had done with his life and for not loving her in the way she deserved. After receiving his mother’s forgiveness, he was finally able to move out of the dark place he was in. 21 Here again we have the experience of being in a dark place, where people are crying this time instead of moaning. Trapped in the negative cloud of his guilt and remorse, he stays in this dark place thinking that he doesn’t deserve anything better. It’s important to remember that we are connected to all dimensions and can contact the deceased simply through our thoughts. If you know someone who has died and want to forgive that person, all you have to do is think about them and mentally, or out loud, say that you forgive them. Wherever they are, they will receive this message. And if you are very perceptive, you might just get a message back. In the afterlife, you can meet many different kinds of spirits, not only those of deceased humans, but also highly evolved spiritual beings which serve special purposes. Some of these beings are Masters or highly evolved souls, such as Jesus. These beings emit very powerful love energy. Sometimes they may be viewed as wearing robes. These are beings who can read your energy and know everything about you and your path. They are very wise and know what is best for you, whether you should stay or go back. Other times people describe going before a council of robed beings. These beings are also highly evolved and wise. Each council member has mastered some trait, whether it be courage, forgiveness, loyalty, etc… Near-Death Experiencer David Oakford, author of Journey Through the World of Spirit, says that each council member has their own specialty to represent in terms of the human personality. 22 In-between-lives regressionist Michael Newton states that “Individual Elders seem to identify with a soul’s character, strengths and weaknesses, interests and purposes”. 23 They help us to analyze our lives and to decide what’s best for our learning needs in future lives. In other words, they help us decide what we need to learn and what experiences will help us learn those things. |
UFOs and Aliens
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So, here again we have a seemingly impossible scenario. It is again dreamlike, especially when considering the abrupt transitions. One moment he’s in Paris calling his wife and the next thing he knows is that he’s in Mr. Bied’s car again and back in his hometown. Apparently, there is no memory of the in-between time. And once again we may pass it off as a hallucination, except for the phone call. There is that element of physical reality that can’t be denied or brushed under the carpet. So it begins to look like not only can the aliens project in and out of our dimension, but that they can take our physical bodies in and out as well.
This is a hard number to crunch. It’s much easier to believe that your consciousness could project in and out of different dimensions, but a lot harder to imagine your physical self disappearing and then reappearing. A possible explanation is given in the book Cosmic Journeys by 'out of body' explorer Rosalind McKnight. In the book, McKnight is discussing the five different dimensional bodies of the human self. This is not to say there are only five dimensions, just that there are five different energetic vehicles, so to speak, for human consciousness to operate through in order to experience other dimensions. When discussing the fifth, or spiritual, dimension she states that “The self has control of all the bodily dimensions below the fifth level, and can be in more than one place at once.” 30 Think of the different levels of energy, or dimensions, as giving progressively more freedom and control over reality. Also, try to imagine a projector projecting out a hologram with many different layers. At the level of the physical, or the outer layer of the hologram, there isn’t much control over reality. But as we go deeper and get closer to the projector we have a little more control. And finally when we reach the level of the projector we have full control over reality and what we want to project. So, if you’re operating from the highest level of your self, which is directly connected to God, or Source, Consciousness, you could technically manipulate physical reality. Since you would be operating at the highest level, or base of the projector, you could control what got projected into the other dimensions. If your consciousness is fully operating on that high a level then you would be on the level of a Jesus, per se. And, like Jesus says in the bible, if you told a mountain to remove itself and cast itself into the sea, then it would happen. From the base of the hologram, from the projector itself, you are in control of reality, or what gets projected. Although we have physical laws that control our physical world, these are no more than ideas about how to run the universe in the mind of God. So, these laws can be overridden when we operate from this level. So if Mr. Bied or the alien who took Sparks were operating from the spiritual dimension, they could come in and out of this dimension at will and even take us in and out if they wanted. Now, thinking from the level of our corrupted physical selves, we might imagine that this would be a great opportunity to really do some mischief. We could project ourselves a million dollars or take revenge on an enemy by un-projecting his car. However, I assure you that at that level you would have much greater knowledge and see things with a much higher understanding than you do now. Evil thoughts or selfish desires would not be in operation. Further evidence of the spiritual, or highest, vibratory dimension being in control of the physical comes from spontaneous healings following Near-Death Experiences. One such case involves a woman who contracted the hepatitis virus, likely due to blood transfusions she received in the hospital. Subsequently her liver became “severely distended.” One night shortly after this she had an 'out of body' experience and went through a dark tunnel. “At the end of the tunnel she saw a light, which she described now as the “god force.” After leaving the tunnel, she met a “guy” dressed in a burlap robe, and she asked him, “Are you Jesus?” He stated he was not Jesus, but he did not identify himself, other than to say that he was there to “assist” her. Mrs. C then held a conversation with this being. They discussed the fact that death is a choice, and she could decide whether she would stay in this realm or go back to her body. [. . .] She was then told that her liver could be “fixed,” but her kidneys wouldn’t be repaired, due to the fact that her renal problems were a “karmic carryover” that were destined to remain with her.” 31 Upon awakening, she quickly noticed that her stomach was flat, implying that her liver was healed and no longer distended. The medical staff were equally amazed at this quick and unexpected recovery. They couldn’t explain what happened and asked her mother if someone had given her something. A day later, laboratory studies confirmed that she no longer had the hepatitis antibody. Another test years later again found no evidence of hepatitis antibodies. 32 The man she met was obviously operating in the spiritual dimension. He is what I would consider to be one of the Masters, a highly evolved spiritual being. He informed her that her liver could be “fixed” if she returned and indeed it was; immediately. She was healed immediately through the will of God, or at least through the will of this being in the spiritual dimension. This was not the result of a physical operation to cure her. No, her liver simply returned to normal in the snap of one's fingers. The physical laws of this universe were overridden by the higher spiritual level. If God is the projector, God can alter the projection. This Near-Death Experience brings us to our next observation - that there is a curious connection between UFO’s and robed entities that resemble the Masters of the afterlife dimension. For starters, Betty Andreasson Luca, the subject of many of Raymond Fowler’s books, describes meeting tall human-looking entities that wear a robe many times working alongside the typical grey aliens. She refers to them as “Elders” and describes them as being tall, with white hair and blue eyes. 33 According to Betty, these Elders control the greys and can see through their eyes like remote cameras. Therefore, the stereotypical grey beings are merely workers who are directed by tall robed human-like personages. 34 The famous Harvard psychiatrist and abduction researcher John Mack also found this connection. One of the abductees he worked with, Karen, experienced one night a blue light that came into her room. “[. . .] the next thing she remembered was seeing an orange light at the bottom of a ship, into which she was brought quickly. Once in the ship, she found herself inside of what appeared to be a small metal ball with a piece of metal that came up around her head. Next to her was a tall blond being who appeared to be wearing an odd monklike robe. She recognized this being as her tutor, mentor, teacher and guide – all words that she used – and it was he who had put her inside the ball, “for transport to the light,” he explained.” 35 She goes on to say that this tall robed being was at “a very different energetic level than any of the other beings I’ve been around”. She further states, “He resonated very deeply, very wisely, and I couldn’t see his face”. 36 Furthermore, during this experience she was taken through a tunnel and into the presence of light, “just light, like being in the core”, she states. 37 In fact, she was even given the choice to stay in that place or come back and complete her Earthly mission. This experience is basically identical to a Near-Death Experience. Except in this experience, she doesn’t come close to death, but is instead taken aboard a “ship” and transported to the light by a tall robed being. Another key component of her experience relates to the discussion earlier about all dimensions being within us. We don’t really have to “go” anywhere to experience other dimensions because they are inside our very psyches. She describes being taken to a place by the tall robed being and, “standing in a kind of odd spread-out position. A powerful force of light and vibration seemed to explode and rip through her like “the force of water coming out of a dam. Water doesn’t even describe it.” As this force tore through her, she felt as if she would be knocked over backward, and she sensed that she was becoming smaller and smaller. She was taken through a tunnel and found herself “in presence,” where there were no walls or rooms but “just light, like being in the core.” [. . .] “It’s weird to come back into my body,” she said. [. . .] “I went from being expansive and formless in shape to a pinpoint dot, and then I’m standing there in my body, and my body has not changed position.“” 38 She experiences going inward to the “core.” Then she comes back to bodily awareness, but finds that her body has gone nowhere. Her conscious awareness had shifted dimensions, but this did not require any outward movement. To experience another dimension you simply have to raise your conscious vibration from the physical to a higher energy level. And at that higher level, your consciousness will project a body in which to experience that dimension. Some people can do this more easily than others. And as discussed earlier, UFO’s/Aliens seem to have the capability of vibrating in and out of our physical dimension. |
Shifting Dimensions
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We are all connected to the larger ocean of consciousness, which Jung aptly named the “collective unconscious.” This collective unconscious is within all of us. We just have to remember that all dimensions are within us.
Another avenue to exploring extra-dimensionally is through the use of a psychoactive substance. This is best done under the direction of a trained Shaman or experienced practitioner because it could bring to fruition negative elements which, if not properly understood or worked through, might cause psychological problems in the future. Many of these “psychedelics” take you on an inner journey, producing strong visionary experiences and contact with other dimensions. One theory of their use is that they break down filters of the human brain which normally obstruct one from experiencing other levels of reality. They are chemical catalysts helping one's consciousness to tune into the energy of other dimensions. They seem to make the transition of consciousness from the physical body to higher-dimensional bodies easier. Another way to effect a shift of consciousness into other dimensions is through putting oneself through extreme situations. This could be taking a trek across the north pole, thereby exposing oneself to long hours of travel and freezing temperatures. It could be finding yourself trapped in a burning building struggling to get out. Or it might be fasting for a long period of time or spending a month inside of a dark cave. I’m certainly not going to be the first to volunteer, but if you would like to read about these kinds of situations, I would recommend reading The Third Man Factor by John Geiger. Finally, there are traditional shamanic means of drumming, chanting, and dancing. Drumming for a long period of time seems to effect a shift in consciousness away from the sensations of the physical world and into the higher, or inner, realms of consciousness. This is because the monotonous and rhythmic activity of drumming removes one from the normally varied sensory experience it is used to. Therefore, your conscious awareness loses touch with the physical world and is free to explore other realms. Chanting or dancing for a long period of time similarly can effect a shift in consciousness. |
Conclusion
The exploration of the inner dimensions of consciousness is the next frontier in our search for knowledge. Recognizing that everything emanates from within, and going inward to tap that knowledge, is truly an incredible adventure that has only just begun. I invite you to look at reality from a different perspective and see if you can tap into the inner dimensions of the conscious universe. And if you succeed, make sure to share the knowledge you obtain with the world, to make sure that people are not asleep in this world, but awakened to its everlasting mystery.
Daniel Neiman holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is currently an independent researcher with a focus on altered states of consciousness and life after death. He currently lives in Seoul, South Korea, where he teaches English and researches in his spare time.
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