JOURNAL ENTRY 62

I have recently begun to perform exercises to aid in the expansion of my consciousness.  These exercises are given in Seth's books, the ones I am using now come from The Unknown Reality.  These exercises are designed to allow you to become accustomed to experiencing some of the other levels of reality which are normally blocked off from our normal waking consciousness. 

The exercise I practiced yesterday has two parts.  The idea is to first totally engulf yourself in your physical reality.  Try to become as aware as possible of your environment and your relationship in it, by analyzing the things around you.  Pay attention to each sound and determine where it is coming from, allow everything you see to enter your consciousness, feel your body sensations as they come in contact with the world around you.  Then, when you are at a level of highest awareness, allow your consciosuness to stray.  Let it go off in one particular direction.  It should be allowed to drift as far away from normal physical consciousness as possible.  Feedback such as visuals or feelings or sounds should enter your consciousness from other levels of focus.  As this is practiced more, you will become more and more accustomed to experiencing your consciousness in a different way, in different dimensions.  Basically, the idea is to learn to recognize your point of clearest conscious focus in the physical, so you can in turn recognize when your consciousness is off focus as well, or focused somewhere else.

I have just begun practicing this exercise.  As I drifted away from my normal state of consciousness ( I chose to move off to the left ), I faintly percieved another area of consciousness.  As I drifted, I became aware of having a sort of energy body.  I saw this body more than I was able to feel being inside of it.  I also percieved the environment, although I couldnt make out anything clearly.  I could definately tell I was moving though.  I began to feel as if I really were somewhere else.  It was a very strange feeling.  There was an aspect of duality in this feeling.  However, it also felt like something totally new, I couldn't put my finger on it. 

I was doing this at work, and would do it a few times during two two-hour periods.  To my amazement, the time flew by rediculously fast.  My perception of time was altered from this exercise.  Two hours felt like about half an hour.  This, to me, was amazing, for it was real.  I know what these two hour periods feel like, for I have been working at the two-hour post for a while now.  This is definately something I am going to continue.   

JOURNAL ENTRY 63

Last night I was in a particularly expanded state of consciousness.  I was walking towards a window, and in the glass I could see my reflection.  Suddenly an idea came into my consciousness.  I began to ponder the reality of my reflection.  I thought, what is it like to be my reflection?  I understand that everything is consciousness, and because consciousness is always conscious of itself in its own way, I realized that my reflection must have a reality of its own.

I suddenly seemed to focus into this reality.  I was in a dark space, in front of me was a window which I could see through.  On the other side of the window was the environment I was in when I saw my reflection.(I was still seeing my reflection, although now this aspect of my consciousness was out of focus)  I was my reflection.  I understood that the reason for my existence was to do whatever my human counterpart did while in front of a reflective surface.  I was in a state of happiness and even slight excitement, for I knew my purpose and was content doing it.  This state soon faded and I was back to normal.  This was a very odd, and awsome experience.

JOURNAL ENTRY 64

Last night a series of syncronicities occured which further proved to myself my beliefs of the reality of the dream state and its intimate connection with the waking state.

Last night I received a message from a guy who works with my wife(and obviously thought my cell phone was hers), saying that he wants to pick up thursday or friday.  However, I read this wrong, and thought he said he wanted to pick [i]her[u] up thursday or friday.  I was devistated, thinking he and my wife made plans to go out behind my back.  To investigate this further and see what he wanted to do with my wife, I asked, what do you want to do?  He said, its your call, then he said somthing about their boss which was irrelevant and rather odd.  Then he said something else to even add to the irrelevancy, having to do with their schedule at work.  It didn't matter to me.  By this time, I was having physical symptoms due to my new mental state of shock and heartache. 

However, I received a final message from him.  It said, just let me know if you want me to work thursday or friday for you.  I said, wait... and looked at the first message.  I then realized he wanted to pick up her days at work, not her herself.  I was extremely relieved.

About a minute later I had an amazing realization.  The night before I had a dream that I found out that my wife was going out and having dinner with a guy behind my back. 

Now, one would think, well your dream didn't predict anything because your wife wasn't actually going out with this other guy.  However, in my reality, for that brief and emotionally intense period of time, this was a reality in my eyes.  I mentally and emotionally experienced what it was like for this to happen, even though it was not a fact in physical reality.  Therefore, whether this event was a fact in this reality is irrelevant, for I still experienced it's reality.  The correlation with this event and my dream is uncanny.  Even the time of day she was would have gone out matches with the dream.

During my dream I experienced a probable reality in which my wife was going out with another guy.  The next day, I experienced this same probable reality, only it was temporary.  The reality then changed to another probable one, in which I realized it was actually a misunderstanding on my part and this wasn't happening.  It seems like the dream state is a nonphysical level where probable future realities are experienced in a nonphysical way and manifested into the physical reality later in time.  This is not nearly my first experience in which this occurred, and each one further solidifies my ideas of what dreams really are. 

Recoverer

That is a very logical explanation, and basic, like you said.  However, it feels too basic for me.   There is obviously a strong relationship between the dreaming state and the physical state, for there have been too many syncronicities for this not to be so.  They key here is to try to understand this relationship, and grasp what is actually occurring during these higher levels of consciousness. 

You said the dream showed me a concern I have, and this will lead me to solve my issue.  However, this dream literally manifested in my physical reality to a certain degree.  Your explanation does not touch on this most important aspect of the situation.  We need to understand the mechanics of this manifestation, even if it is a very basic understanding.  This will lead us to the true understanding of what occurs during the dream state.

Hi OutOfBodyDude,

I have been lurking here and reading your journals. I had registered, then lost the password. Now I have re-registered here so I can participate in the forums.

Thank you for such detailed journals. These are especially cool for me to read because I have started my own Gateway Experience CD's. 

Are you still using the Gateway CD's?

Thanks,
Aquamarine

Recoverer

I don't feel I am overdoing it.  I am just beginning to explore this concept.  When your dreams begin to manifest in the physical reality, it is important to know why, and perhaps then begin to take control of this ability/mechanism to further create your ideal reality.  That is all I am doing.

In doing sufficient research on this topic, I feel that maybe you are overdoing it with your interpretation of the parallel universe concept.  The keys behind this idea are experience and choice.  The idea is that everything possible to experience is experienced, each infinite variation in its own dimension of reality.  Every possible choice is therefore explored, and different choices obviously lead to different experiences, and therefore a slightly(or extremely) different world.  

However, these parallel worlds also exists in universes which follow certain fundamental laws, and a parallel earth will exist in a parallel universe, and while events will always be different, in this system the fundamental physical laws remain the same, as they will in parallel earths.  No thought pattern could ever lead to the creation of a Satan being in the physical, this would not follow the basic physical laws.  This being may be encountered in another level of consciousness, a nonphysical one.    

I am not claiming to have all of the answers regarding this theory, for I have just begun to explore its dimensions.  However, I am most certainly not going to disregard it as a possibility, especially since my experience has shown that at least one aspect of this idea is most likely true.  If you agree that the universe is infinite, and that our existence is infinite, and that there is more than one dimension of reality, then this idea should at least be entertained and explored before it is discarded.  

Is it so amazingly "out there" that in other levels of reality we experience every possible choice and thought during a physical life?This would indeed make an experience in the physical earth system more beneficial and practical, wouldnt you think?

I feel your interpretation of the dream world is limited. 

During sleep we drift into nonphysical levels of reality.  These experiences are translated into physical-ness, as dreams.

These levels have always existed and will always exist so long as consciousness is infinite. 

These realities do not simply dissapear just because we are not focused in them, just as the physical world does not dissapear when we sleep and our consciousness focuses into other levels of reality.  They will always exists, and a part of our consciousness will always be a part of these other levels.  It is simply a matter of focus.

I believe we do have activity in these nonphysical realms even when we are physically oriented during the day.  It makes perfect sense when you think of our higher selves.  They are always in these nonphysical realms.  It is quite easy for me to access these levels while awake, however my perception of them is different due to the different mechanism I am using at that time to access these levels.  They may come through as a visualization, daydream, or intuitional thought.  That is where intuition comes from- the nonphysical levels we simultaneously exist in.  Nevertheless, I can tune into these nonphysical realms to a certain degree while awake, just as everyone can although they may not realize what is actually happening, and therefore we must exist in them to some degree while physically awake.

I am actually surprised that you believe the physical world is more real than the nonphysical dimensions.  You must look past the illusion of time and realize that all levels of existence are simultaneously being experienced, and therefore at a higher level none came first and none came last.  They just exist.  To be honest with you, if you look at it from the illusion of time, you are wrong.  Our physical world comes from these higher nonphysical realms.  Where do you think our unlimited energy comes from???  The nonphysical comes before the physical in a linear way of thinking.

You are right that experience in the physical is much different from experience in the nonphysical.  However, that does not mean one is more real than the other.  My personal experience has proven this so.