INTRODUCTION

First off, I am going to be referring to two different ideas of dimensionality. One idea is what we already understand about dimensions: height, width and depth. The other idea is more esoteric and deals with three Universes: The first Universe of Chaos; the second Universe of Reflection; and the third Universe of Form.

The first dimensional Universe is absence of light. It is a vacuum where nothing exists except thought. We'll call it the Chaos Universe since it is a place of Chaos (defintion of Chaos: the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the existence of the ordered Universe*). The Chaos Universe is one dimensional meaning that it is an existence but there is no form, no dimensions. It is just a nothingness or a general existence of is-ness from which thought emanates. When a thought is formed, it is two dimensional and it is absorbed by the Reflective Universe where it remains.

The second dimensional Universe is one of reflection. It has width and height but no depth. It is similar to a mirror in that it reflects whatever thoughts are present in the Chaos Universe or any form in the Physical Universe so whatever exists in these Universes exists in the Reflective Universe as a reflection. Thus we have imagination, dreams, illusions, mirages, etc. The Reflective Universe is the interface between the Chaos Universe and the Physical Universe.

The third dimensional Universe is the Physical Universe which gives life to the reflections of thought. Life is a third dimensional property of the Physical Universe which gives solidity to the reflections of thought. There are two forms of life existant in the Physical Universe: the animate and the inanimate.

So we have the one-dimensional Chaos Universe from which emanates thought. Thought reflects into the Reflective, two-dimensional Universe from which emanates imagination. Thought resides in this Reflective Universe until it is translated into the Physical Universe from which emanates life and gives depth to the two-dimensional emanations of the second dimensional Universe.

YOU AS A SPIRITUAL BEING

What is a spiritual being? A spiritual being is a third-dimensional translation of thought into Consciousness. Thought in the Chaos Universe is general but in the Physical Universe, it is specific--individualized. Therefore you, as a consciousness, exist as a representation of Thought in a physical body and everything else exists as consciousness in some form of animate or inanimate life.

From whom does thought in the Chaos Universe emanate? Many, I am sure, will say that thought emanates from God. This may be so in a general sense. However, each of us is subject to the three Universes because they are our properties (Definition of property: an essential or distinctive attribute or quality*). Therefore when you have a thought, it originates first in the Chaos Universe and then reflects into the Reflective Universe where it resides as an idea or a dream or an illusion or imagination until you cause it to manifest in the Physical Universe by giving it form and therefore inanimate life. We do this without any thought as to the amazingness of it.

There are organizations who purport to deal with the spiritual being or Consciousness through the medium of processing or auditing which simply means that the practitioner asks an open-ended question to the Consciousness and then listens to the answer. The practitioner may repeat the question many times until the Consciousness reaches some kind of realization, or the practitioner may use a series of questions designed to have the same end result. Along with the realization, trapped life force, also known as charge, is released and the Consciousness has become freer to the extent of how much life force or charge has been released. This method of processing or auditing continues until the Consciousness is released from all of the charge in its case up to the present moment. Often when a Consciousness has reached this point, it goes into what is known as an "ascension state" which means that the Consciousness has achieved accessing itself as a spiritual or Reflective being. Unfortunately, many of these organizations do not understand what the ascension state is and mistakenly treat it as something it is not. The end result is that the Consciousness has been awakened as a Reflective Consciousness but does not know how to operate in the physical Universe while in such a state.

THE ASCENSION STATE

When a Consciousness has achieved an ascension state, it is in touch with itself as a Reflective Consciousness.

The state of the Reflective Consciousness causes the being to feel like it is the center of everything and everything relates back to it. While in this state, the Reflective Being or Consciousness is subject to psychic abilities such as telepathy. It is able to perceive the hidden shields that other Consciousnesses use for protection. It understands things on several levelsand it appears that the Universe is communicating with it. The Consciousness also can become aware of many other Universes as well as other Consciousnesses who may or may not have physical bodies. It, of course, feels considerably larger than its physical body mainly due to the fact that as a Reflective Consciousness, it has no boundaries. It is a wonderful state and while the Consciousness is in the Ascension state, everything in life appears to go right. That is until the Consciousness becomes subject to the Crash and Burn phenomenona.

Processing or auditing is all about the physical being and its existence in the Physical Universe whether it be now in the present or somewhere in the distant past many lifetimes ago. So when the Consciousness has been processed to the point of actually accessing itself as a Reflective Consciousness in the true sense of the word (the ascension state), it has received no training as to how to operate as a Reflective Consciousness. So spiritually the Consciousness is kind of like a Helen Keller in that it has no sense of spiritual sight and no sense of spiritual hearing, but even worse, it has no spiritual sense of touch, smell or taste. The awareness mentioned in the paragraph above is actually the awareness the Consciousness as a physical entity has of the ascension state. It is aware of the psychic abilities but has no idea how to use or control them.

It is no wonder that the ascension state does not appear to last and usually, but not always, the Consciousness ends up in a "crash and burn" state. The Reflective Consciousness ends up in some kind of Physical Universe trouble which tends to yank it out of the ascension state and back into its physical existence. It has been suggested that the crash and burn phenomenona happens due to the harmful or overt acts the Reflective Consciousness has committed in the past and are now being replicated in the present. However, the true reason for the crash and burn phenomenona is because the Reflective Consciousness does not know how to operate in its own Universe much less the physical one and it is confused as to who or what it is and therefore believes it is the physical body even though analytically it knows it is a Reflective Consciousness. So, in effect, when the physical Consciousness accesses itself as a Reflective Consciousness, it is like a person driving a car without any knowledge of how to operate or control the car. He can go for a little while but eventually he is going to end up in a crash of some kind.

FROM WHERE DOES CONSCIOUSNESS EMANATE?

Does Consciousness come from the Chaos Universe? Or does it come from the Reflective Universe? Actually, it comes all three. A physical Being or Consciousness is a third-dimensional translation of thought. Thought in the first dimension is general but in the third dimensional Universe, it is specific--individualized--a consciousness. When we go out-of-body, we are simply visiting the Reflective, second dimensional Universe which comprises the reflections of what has already been three-dimensionally created in the Physical Universe and the reflections of what has the potential of being three-dimensionally created emanating from the thoughts of the Chaos Universe. Therefore one can go to different planets or Universes or have seemingly Physical Universe adventures and experiences while visiting the Reflective, second dimensional Universe.

OUT-OF-BODY STATE

In my experiences of leaving the body, I really didn't notice much out of the ordinary as far as perception was concerned although colors were brighter and in one instance I could see through solid walls. However, I didn't notice any anticipation of the future and I didn't notice being able to discern what something was before seeing it although this does not mean these things don't happen. In one experience, I looked in the mailbox and saw letters there but I didn't know what those letters were about. Of course, in the Physical Universe, the letters didn't exist as they were only reflections of what could potentially exist from the Chaos Universe. I even tried to leave a post-it note for myself while out-of-body but no note existed in the Physical Universe when I was back in my body. This led me to conclude that in the Reflective Universe there is a reflection of the physical with minor differences. However, what is in the Reflective Universe may not exist in the physical if it simply is a thought absorbed from the Chaos Universe.

Whatever we cause to exist in the Physical Universe has a reflection in the Reflective Universe. When we go out-of-body, we go to the Reflective Universe of imagination, ideas, mental images, dreams, illusions. All of these are two-dimensional--no depth and no life. So we can travel with ease to different planets or different Universes while out-of-body. Or we can remain in what looks like our present environment. However, we are dealing with reflections while in the Reflective Universe. The post-it note mentioned above was a reflection and the pen I used to write my note with was a reflection. The words that I wrote were created in the Reflective Universe and written on a reflection of a post-it note that actually existed in the Physical Universe but since it was merely a reflection of a post-it note, the words did not translate to the Physical Universe.

There was once an experiment a friend of mine was invited to participate in. This experiment was dealing with abilities while out-of-body. She was to perform some action while in the out-of-body state. The experimenters were testing to see what effect her actions would have on the Physical Universe while she was out of body. We used to joke about going to their lab while out-of-body and attempting to pull the plug on a computer or a lamp. However, since one is in the Reflective Universe while out-of-body, it was not possible to pull out a physical plug in the same sense that it was not possible for me to write a note while out-of-body and have it exist in the Physical Universe. Like the post-it-note, the plug also would be a reflection of the physical plug and pulling it out in the Reflective Universe would have no effect in the Physical Universe.

I am sure there are those who would argue that this is not so; that it is possible to affect the Physical Universe while in the out-of-body or astral state. Perhaps they have had experiences of being able to affect the Physical Universe that way. It just has not been my experience...yet. I feel that if a person is trained to operate as a spiritual being, then, possibly, he would be able to affect the Physical Universe while in an out-of-body state. Those who claim to have done this may have experienced it as an accidental quirk and possibly would not be able to repeat the action on command. But if one can actually claim to affect the physical universe while in an out-of-body state, then I stand corrected.

CREATION

The Reflective Consciousness can not create physical things in the Physical Universe as it cannot impart physicality to the the physical Universe reflections. The writing on the Reflective post-it note that I had written a note to myself on did not exist in the Physical Universe although the post-it-note did. I had a Reflective Universe post-it note upon which I had written with a Reflective Universe pen that actually existed in the Physical Universe. Even though it was my intention to leave a physical note for myself to find in the Physical Universe, the writing did not transfer. So when I went to find the note, it wasn't there, although there was a physical blank post-it-note pad and pen exactly where their reflections were in the Reflective Universe.

So whatever we create in the Physical Universe can exist in the Reflective Universe as a reflection but we cannot transfer a Reflective creation made in the Reflection Universe from the Reflective Universe to the physical. But then, of course, we are dealing with reflections or illusions in the Reflective Universe and it makes sense that such things cannot transfer back into the Physical Universe if they do not exist there in the first place. In effect, we are dealing with mirages so to speak. The only way we can translate a Reflective Universe creation into the Physical Universe is to give the creation form and inanimate life. We do this by actually physically creating the mental image or idea into physical terms such as building a dream house or writing the Great American Novel.

The Reflective Universe is like a mirror that reflects whatever is in the Physical Universe. Whatever exists in the Physical Universe exists in the Reflective Universe as a reflection but reflections from the Chaos Universe that have no physical counterpart do not reflect into the Physical Universe from the Reflective. If this is true, then how is it that it is believed that something has to first exist in the Reflective Universe in order for it to exist in our reality. This is actually true but it is only half of the story. In order for something to exist, it must first be created as a thought in the Chaos Universe. From there it is reflected in the Reflection Universe and thirdly, it is translated into the Physical Universe when it is given a physical form and inanimate life.

EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION OR ESP

Extrasensory perception is simply the ability of being able to discern the reflection of the three dimensional creation. A person holds up a card and the subject is supposed to determine what is on the other side of the card. If he has the awareness, he can simply look at the second dimension reflection of that card and correctly tell the tester what is on the other side of the card. The reflection of the card can be perceived by the subject either as a mental image picture or by a simple knowingness of what it is.

That is probably why Rhine's experiments really went nowhere. He was doing the wrong thing. He thought he was testing for extra-sensory perception (otherwise known as spiritual perception) but it was really a bungled test of spiritual creation and atrophied spiritual perception. In the Duke University experiments, the tester already was holding a card and already knew what was on it--therefore it was already created. There was no way for the subject to create, so he actually had to use an atrophied sense of perception to determine what was on the card. Imagine someone testing eyesight using an eyechart but the subject of the test was nearly blind. Once in a while someone with slightly better eyesight would be tested and could read the chart better than the nearly blind person. Therefore he would score higher and be believed to have some extraordinary power of perception.

Those who were good at guessing the Ziner cards probably were good at creation and could create the card that the tester drew before he drew it. They did not have to guess what the card was because they already knew what it was since they created it. Those who failed the test were trying to use their atrophied sense of spiritual perception to see what the tester had already created instead of creating it before the tester did. Uri Geller was one person who was quite in touch with himself as a spiritual being and could easily create the card before the tester did assuming that was what was going on.

When one goes to the Casino to play Black Jack or 21, he is looking at two things: what the dealer's uncovered card is going to be and what is the next card coming out of the deck. In one case, the dealer already has drawn cards and in the other case the cards are going to be drawn. In the case of the dealer, one could use ESP to determine what the covered card is since it is already drawn. It is still in an undisclosed reality but closer to this reality than the cards still in the pack to be drawn.

In the case of the cards yet to be drawn, the card has not been drawn and in a sense it is still in an undisclosed reality (or an area of Chaos) and therefore can be any card until it is disclosed and becomes a fact in the physical reality.

The undrawn cards are still in a state of Chaos and therefore it is possible to create the card we want to come up. The possibilities are narrow, however, because there are four suits and whatever we create has to conform to one of those suits. But that still should make no difference because all we want to do is create the card that will allow us to win. So, in the game of black jack, one could create what the dealer's card is since it is not disclosed and one can create the ideal card for the dealer to draw so as to get a winning hand over what the dealer has.

CREATION AGAIN

This reminds me of how I used to create things in the physical Universe when I was much younger. I would chose a flea market for this activity because everything in the flea market already existed in the Physical Universe but I could still create in it because everything was in a state of Chaos and all I had to do was decide where a particular item would be and it was always there.

One instance that stands out is a time when my son wanted a particular kind of shower head.Because it was a specific type of shower head, we had to be more specific in our creation. We would go to a table and there would be a shower head. I would hold it up and ask my son if this is what he wanted. He would say no and then proceed to give me more details about the kind of shower head he wanted. So I'd put down the shower head and we would go to the next table and pick up another shower head and go through the same procedure all over again. We kept on creating shower heads until finally, we got it exactly right. When I attempted to pay the vendor for the shower head, he told me I had already paid him and refused to accept the money I was offering. Examination of this incident revealed that since we had created the shower head, it actually was ours and since the vendor was merely holding it for us, he could not accept payment for something that did not belong to him.

In other incidents of creation, I would decide that I wanted something such as lapis lazuli. Generally, the flea market would have turquoise but no lapis lazuli. But after deciding what I wanted, I'd go to the flea market and maybe there would be one small piece of the stone available but it would be just the color and size I had in mind. Usually, afterwards, for a couple of weeks, the flea market would be saturated with lapis lazuli or whatever else it was that I decided I wanted.

Of course, back then, if I had been properly trained on how to create, I would have created the shower head or lapis lazuli without having to go to a place of Chaos. I would have created the shower head the first time around instead of creating many different versions of a shower head until my son was satisfied with the creation.

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