I'm not an expert at programming, but it seems it had been possible to type in the url command in brackets, but that doesn't seem to work now. Apparently you just type in the link as you would in an email message-- <a href="http://www.badongo.com/file/2011740" target="_blank">
www.badongo.com/file/2011740</a> . That's the direct link, and it's the last section, "A Personal Experience."
Section Seven: Other Than Normal
7.1 A Personal Experience.
7.2 Analysis.
7.1 A Personal Experience.
Some years ago, while residing in the City of Los Angeles, the author had an out-of-the-body experience which was, while personally meaningful, rather mundane as far as accounts of this experience go. No conversations with masters or Divinities occurred, and no message to the world was received; it consisted largely of a late night stroll down an empty residential street. We are including it, not for its significance, per se, but because its very ordinary character allows us to examine certain characteristics from the subspace perspective.
Retiring at an accustomed hour, I fell asleep but awakened sometime afterward with a need to urinate. I felt so unusually comfortable in bed and reluctant to arise that I postponed the trip to the bathroom and drifted back to sleep. This waking-sleeping sequence continued several times until I finally got up and attended to my need.
But I was dismayed by my inability to work the bathroom light switch. After several futile attempts I was plodding down the hallway back to the bedroom when I was
seized by a sudden apprehension and immediately found myself awake in bed. I then rose, fully awake, and returned to the bathroom.
Upon returning to bed I drifted off to a state of sleep which gradually (so it seemed) became a state of semi awareness in which I found myself rocking side-to-side, as if lying in the bottom of a small boat rocked by gentle waves.
The intensity of the rocking increased until it was as if I were a balloon buffeted by the wind, or a rag doll being shaken. Along with this I saw lightning-like flashes of red and black. It seemed as though I would be shaken apart, but like an engine coming up to speed, the buffeting soon died down to a complete stillness.
I was suddenly aware of myself suspended in the air above the bed (and my physical body,of course), about four or five feet above the floor.
After a short rest I began to slide feet forward horizontally and tilt up to a vertical position. This maneuver, executed without effort or foreknowledge, left me standing on the floor at the foot of the bed, and produced such a delightful "physical" sensation that I repeated it twice more just for the delight in doing so. The was no hesitancy in moving about, and I felt myself in complete control.
I shortly found myself passing through the wall that separated the bedroom from the living room, with little effort. I then crossed the livingroom and passed through the exterior wall of the duplex apartment to an exterior walkway. I moved through the courtyard to the front yard of the property and descended a few steps to the street sidewalk and headed toward Santa Monica Blvd., which was a little over half a block south. I stopped for a moment a few yards down the street to examine the bark of a camphor tree, and noted that the illumination of the near by street light seemed to wash out the detail of what I was looking at. Examing a side of the tree in the shade, I observed clusters of varicolored lights which resembled very tiny Xmas tree lights. Now and then, a colored ray would shoot out from the cluster.
After satisfying my interest in the tree, I began to cross a library lawn and lost consciousness. My next recollection was that of flying, in an upright position, rapidly but easily, over a mountainous region in what I understood to be the Far East. My destination was an opening cut into the face of a mountain. The interior was brightly lighted and I could see people moving around within.
A white half-portico, reminiscent of the style of Monticello, covered the opening and there was a small landing platform to which I was headed. I have no memory of the excursion beyond this point.
Some Comments:
During an episode of the above exteriorization account, I had a series of perceptions. I am not now certain of when they occured, but it was most likely immediately after separation. In one of them, I saw my daily life as a happening, which was of no particular interest outside of itself. It was perhaps the perspective of a mildly curious person passing by a noisy, active, party.
In a second perception, I found myself suspended in a velvety blackness. The word 'darkness' doesn't do it credit. It wasn't emptiness, but had a tactile, comforting, presence. It is here, I thought, that a soul would go to find security and healing. Betty J. Eadie in Embraced By The Light reported an almost identical experience with the blackness. In this blackness, at a distance, were points of light. Focusing my attention on individual lights, I could see that each was a place of interesting activity. I felt, that had I so chosen, I
could have traveled to any of them. I lacked the inclination to do so, however, and soon lost interest in the blackness itself.
In no way did any part of the experience seem frightening or unusual, and there was a sense of long familiarity. Perhaps it was a familiar routine on which part of the waking consciousness was invited along. It was thus remembered.
There was a sense of personal validation. Everyday life seemed as if a delirium from which I had awakened. I felt like my real self again. Again. this sense of self-validation was also noted by Eadie in her account of a near death experience.
One thing that I found astounding was the amount of psychic energy needed to
remain focused in the physical.There was no sense of being disembodied, and no real sense of loss of faculty. There was indeed, an optimum sense of vitality and freedom
that one knows too seldom in life.
In an actual occurrence, apart from memories and dreams, there is an undeniable sense of being there at that time and place. It is the sense of simple location in time and space, which may be the basis for our sense of reality. There was no sense that the experience was not real.
I did not see my physical body asleep, or I should say, it is doubtful that I would have taken special note of it if I had seen it, and I did not see the connecting cord which is often reported.
7.2 Analysis and Additional Commentary:
The Doctrine of the Duplicate Physical.
My excursion in esoteric, theosophical terms, took place on a subplane of the astral,
which is held to be an exact, or almost exact, copy of the physical plane. Had I no knowledge of this interpretation, it would have been quite easy for me to have concluded that the environment was the physical materiality of daily life. Many others who have
had similar experiences have concluded just that. The lights in the camphor bark were a little something else, though.
The question of why the lowest astral is a duplicate of the physical is often answered by the assertion that a film of astral materiality clings to the physical. However, I had a very clear awareness of the street light, which looked exactly as I remembered it. While I was unable to closely examine the detail of a blade of grass by such light, perhaps that would have been difficult in normal physical vision.
The streetlight was emitting visible light which took work to generate. Need we imagine an astral counterpart of a hydroelectric turbine generating astral electricity?
It has been said, in esoteric accounts, that light travels between the worlds, or planes (for each is a world in itself). In the pyramid model it is indicated, we believe, that light is represented by the corner edges of the pyramid where one phase state becomes the next. When this occurs, one of the spatial dimensions of the first becomes a time dimension, and the time dimension of the first becomes a space dimension in the next.
Again, let's call our 3+1 world, ABC+D (ABC are spatial, D is time). While the letter values are arbitrary, we shall say that the next (astral) phase state is BCD+A. Note that we share a two-dimensional interface, BC, with it. Hence, our time dimension D becomes space dimension D,and our space dimension A becomes the time dimension in BCD+A.
It should also be noted that in the terms we are presenting that the stuff of normal materiality spins through all four phase states in succession. Thus we are in, what would be the lowest astral plane, as often as we are in the physical. The main difference is the direction in which time seems to run.
To keep things clear, we might add that each plane or phase state can have its own species of materiality which is perpetually out-of-phase with the materiality of other planes. One might think of a group of four autos which following one another round and round a roundabout. Four exits, 90 degrees apart lead off the roundabout. Each auto passes each exit once each circuit, but whatever exit our auto may be at, the preceding auto, and the one following, are at different exits and hence measure a different dimension of time because what is actually measured in clock (Bergsonian) time is not
the speed around the roundabout, but a sequence of appearances at a given exit. Hence, each auto has a different dimension of clock time, but they all keep current with one another-- a rather ingenious arrangement.
Locomotion.
In the flying episode, a question that comes to mind is, "How can one float (and there was no more effort than floating) at hundreds or even thousands of miles an hour without expending any energy? We can answer this question.
The universal gauge expansion at the speed of light results in a rapid separation of objects each instant, but because the space between the objects is also expanding, we do not notice the expansion itself.
But let's suppose the rate of expansion between two objects is reduced. From the perspective of relative space-time, it will seem as if a force exists between the objects. They will move toward one another without apparent expenditure of energy.
In the case in point, it is the traveler who is producing the effect and is the relative mover. In spiritualist communications it is not uncommon to find that the preferred method of traveling requires the traveler to visualize the destination. Another way to put this, is that the traveler moves slightly backward in time. Since this is similar to our explanation of gravity, a conventional explanation might require that the motive force be gravitational (should we wish to interpret it in those terms.
As far as normal location was concerned, I do not have any recollection of actually walking, so perhaps, or even likely, floating was the case.
* As a note in passing, there is a controversial phenomenon known as spoon bending, which as far as we can see is totally inexplicable in conventional terms. If the spoon bender can affect the rate of expansion of one side of the spoon by rubbing on it, an effect similar to the bending of the bimetallic strip in some thermometers could be produced.
The 'Tunnel' Perception.
The perception of distant lights while suspended in the blackness was similar to looking at a bright light at a distance and being able to see (as one can seem to see under certain conditions) the rays of light streaming past. It came to mind some time later, that this effect may be responsible for the ' light at the end of a tunnel' effect often reported.
Where Was It?
If one considers the pyramid model we introduced earlier with the paths of light represented by the edges between phase states, and draws corner-to-corner diagonals,
and if we adopt the proposal that perceptible light reaches us at a 45 degree angle
from the past an emitted light escapes at a 45 degree angle to the future, we can see
that the light travels on paths parallel to the diagonals.
If one diagrams this, it will be found that the light from the phase state above us
ought to be (in some conditions) perceptible to us. This applies to all phase states:
light comes from above and not below.
Based on this, I would say my experience must have occurred on the dawnside
phase state slightly in the past of our dayside phase state.
But what this interpretation also tells us, is that if an object from the dawnside is
phase shifted enough to produce perceptible presence in our phase state, it will not
be luminous, since our light cannot be reflected back. Hence the object would appear black, or shadowy.
Each phase state may have its own materiality which remains permanently out-of-
phase with the others--the temple visited in the excursion certainly did not exist in the
physical--yet all of the four phase states share a common materiality.
In The Unobstructed Universe, Betty White tries to explain things from the other
side. She says, rightly, "My matter is your matter, plus."
*****End of Section Seven*****
