Conclusiones

As we wrote in The Shift of the Ages, ancient religions and mythologies, modern “psychic readings,” crop formations, ET messages and now scientific investigation have all converged on the idea that our movement through the Galaxy is causing similar energetic effects on consciousness, only on a much more pronounced level. Scientific data, once put in context, already shows us that these aetheric changes are far more dramatic than anything that we have seen in Cowan’s stock market analyses or in Prof. Shnoll’s chemical

experiments. As we have said, an area of higher vibration is an area of greater love, harmony and intelligence. Consequently, when the evidence is stacked up, we must be willing to consider that all of humanity is moving into a vibrational plane of greater love, harmony and intelligence. And this will literally amount to a “dimensional shift.”

In order for the concept of “planes of existence” to have any definitive meaning to the skeptic or scientist, we must present data from established institutions that supports the notion of their existence. Although more and more of the “common people” are increasingly comfortable with these concepts, the skeptic will simply ask, “What other planes of existence?

Hogwash. There is no scientific evidence that there are other planes of existence, higher, lower or otherwise.”

To deny that other planes of reality exist is to stand in clear ignorance of commonly available scientific knowledge being done by credible Ph.D.’s in various fields.

3.7.1 LUCID DREAMING

For example, Dr. Stephen LaBerge has conducted dream research at

Stamford University Sleep Center for many years, and he has come up with surprising conclusions, featured in his books Lucid Dreaming and Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. Lucid dreaming is defined as “the ability to be awake and aware in dreams.” As Dr. Robert E. Ornstein, author of The Psychology of Consciousness, comments,

Stephen LaBerge has proven scientifically that people can be fully conscious in their dreams while remaining asleep and dreaming at the same time.

Simply put, our current theories about how the brain functions would say that lucid dreaming is impossible; our dream state is “subconscious” because the brainwave activity cannot support normal waking consciousness as we now understand it. At best, most psychology-based dream researchers would say that the dream state is “pseudo-conscious,” the result of the synapses firing haphazardly to transfer the most important information of the day into long-term memory. If the dream state wasn’t a “real” place that was somehow created outside of the brain, then it should be impossible for complete waking consciousness to exist there; all of our existing models of consciousness would fall apart.

And yet, Dr. LaBerge’s research shows that:

In a lucid dream, a person maintains thinking, analyzing and reasoning

properties, while interacting with an entire world of multisensory stimuli that is continually changing.

Furthermore,

As the participant moves through this multisensory world, rich symbolic imagery naturally takes place that will expose the most profound

psychological issues that the person is facing in their life, and offer remarkably insightful solutions using the language of symbolism.

So now, we have a brain that is not exhibiting the normal signs of

consciousness as science understands them; it is asleep, or “un – conscious.”

We have a brain that is supposedly creating a world of intelligent symbolic / metaphorical information that the participant usually will not even understand, but nevertheless provides valuable psycho-spiritual data to the Ego mind. We also have a brain that is supposedly supporting normal conscious thought processes as it interacts with this intricate world. If our brains are truly capable of doing all this, then where do we find the neurological activity that demonstrates it? We don’t.

And while we’re there, let us also cite information from Lt. Col. Tom Bearden regarding certain cases of “hydroencephaly.” This is a condition where a very high percentage of a person’s brain is missing, and only water remains in its place. One would expect that these people, if alive at all, would be totally brain-dead. Although you’re not going to hear much about this in the scientific mainstream, there are fully functional hydroencephalics walking on the Earth right now. One man even earned a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University, and MRI scans of his skull cavity showed that only a tiny stump of nerve tissue existed directly above his spinal cord at the base of the skull.

And all scientific researchers agree that each human being must

physiologically go through several R.E.M. (rapid-eye movement) or dream states each night in order to stay alive; so our hydroencephalic mathematician would be included in that lot as well. Somehow, the true process of

consciousness in the human being is outside of the brain as we now know it;

the brain may be one place for such consciousness to exist, but ultimately all consciousness is a movement of aether. Somehow, the water in the skull cavity gives this movement a chance to register its vibrations to the body in a recognizable way.

Therefore, even as these lucid dreaming events demonstrate effects in the physical body, they can be proven to exist outside of typical neurological functioning in the brain; some people can have fully “normal” lives with nothing but water in their skull cavity. (It is important to point out that not all hydroencephalics are this fortunate.) Again, what all this ultimately tells us is that human beings are fundamentally multi-dimensional creatures, and there are indeed other “planes of existence” that we can move into without the use of the physical brain.

So again, what would we expect from a “higher plane of existence?”

Remember that we said that as the vibrational motion of aetheric energy increases, love and intelligence increases as well. And indeed, the experience of a lucid dream can be so profound as to reveal an entirely undiscovered new plateau of consciousness – literally, a higher vibration, which many automatically feel to be a form of “heaven.” For one who has never

experienced this, the testimony of others is needed to explain it properly.

Consider the following, from Dr. LaBerge’s first book:

The impact resulting from the emergence of lucidity is probably proportional to the clarity and completeness of the dreamer’s change of consciousness.

There are degrees of lucidity, and the common experience of awakening from a nightmare after realizing it was “only a dream” is typical of the lower ranges (or why escape from what is “only a dream”?), and is usually accompanied by no greater feeling than relative relief. But the full-blown lucid dream, in which the dreamer stays in the dream for a period extended enough to allow the experience of wonder, can be associated with an electrifying sensation of rebirth and the discovery of a new world of experience.

First-time lucid dreamers are often overwhelmed by the realization that they have never before experienced their dreams with all their being, and now they are utterly awake in their sleep! This is how one lucid dreamer described the expanded sense of aliveness brought by the lightning flash of lucidity: he felt himself possessed of a sense of freedom “as never before”; the dream was suffused with such vital animation that “the darkness itself seemed alive.”

At this point, a thought presented itself with such undeniable force that he was driven to declare: “I have never been awake before.”

Wilcock has personally used Dr. La Berge’s MILD (Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming) technique for the last eleven years, with ongoing success. In the lucid dream or out-of-body state, you can literally do anything, go anywhere, fly, pass through solid objects, levitate objects of any size, create anything your heart desires and get powerful spiritual questions answered immediately in a very direct format. If you want to see yourself on the flight deck of a UFO, there you are – the possibilities are endless. The MILD technique is quite simple, once you discipline yourself enough to remember your dreams each morning. Dr. La Berge demonstrates that anyone can learn to do this. By making a consistent effort to write down “what was just happening to you”

every morning when you wake up, and remaining motionless upon awakening while you recall the data, you can get consistent results. Here is the four-part MILD technique:

1

During the early morning, when you awaken spontaneously from a dream, go over the dream several times until you have memorized it.

2

Then, while lying in bed and returning to sleep, say to yourself, “Next time I’m dreaming, I want to remember to recognize that I’m dreaming.”

3

Visualize yourself as being back in the dream just rehearsed; only this time, see yourself realizing that you are, in fact, dreaming.

4

Repeat steps two and three until you feel your intention is clearly fixed or you fall asleep.

So, any reader or researcher who is willing to put in the effort can verify it for themselves. Far from a “random firing of synapses” in the brain, Dr. LaBerge’s

research suggests that the world of dreaming is far more “real” than we have given it credit for.

The next logical question from the skeptic might be, “Well, all this is fine and good. Anyone can say that they had a lucid dream, but they are just deluding themselves. There is no way to actually prove that someone is in the lucid dreaming state.”

Wrong again. Dr. LaBerge proved that lucid dreaming is a genuine

phenomenon, happening in real time with the physical world. In order to make these discoveries, it was necessary for him to devise a way for his

“oneironauts,” or dream voyagers, to signal to him that they were dreaming.

After pondering this idea for quite some time, he realized that the eyes are the most mobile part of the body during the dream state; hence the state is referred to as “rapid-eye movement.” So, by training his oneironauts to simply move their eyes back-and-forth horizontally in their dreaming state when they had attained lucidity, they would form a movement in their physical body as well. By simple observation, this repetitive horizontal movement would signal to Dr. LaBerge that they have attained the state of lucid

dreaming. By using this signaling effect and other simpler procedures, he was able to make the following correlations:

Our studies at Stanford cover considerable ground, showing the relationship between physiological changes in lucid dreamers’ bodies and a variety of actions carried out by their “dream” bodies within the dreams. Our

investigations addressed a range of relationships: between estimated dream time and actual time (the time interval that a person signaled with eye

movements as being ten seconds in a dream was the same as when awake - an average exact time of thirteen seconds;) between dream action - including eye movements, speech, and breathing - and corresponding muscle action;

between dreamed singing and counting, and relative activation of the left and right cerebral hemispheres of the brain (since counting and singing activate the opposite hemispheres accordingly;) and between dreamed sexual activity and changes in a variety of genital and nongenital physiological measures.

And so, the proof is now available that dreams are “really real” and really have an effect on the physical body, and yet they exist somewhere outside of normal brain function as we now understand it; we are in “both places at the same time.” Even if our consciousness travels elsewhere, our bodies are still working together with those other levels. This is a far richer model than what mainstream science has conceded thus far, in many published studies. In the lucid dreaming state, there is an entirely new realm to explore with distinct properties all its own. The degree of richness and variety of this realm is arguably far more sophisticated than the brain could create on its own, and this brings us to our next point, which is very important:

Others are capable of entering into the same out-of-body realms and independently reporting the same experiences upon awakening, without talking to the other participants.

Wilcock discovered this for himself in a very dramatic way. While drifting off to sleep as a guest of his high-school friend Jude, he had a dreamlike

experience of being chased by a menacing overweight person with long hair, an obvious symbolic representation of the parts of himself that he had not

fully accepted and integrated at the time, stemming from younger years where he was indeed overweight and wore long hair. As he ran, he had a gun in his belt and knew that he could use it to shoot his pursuer, and thereby save himself, but he was unwilling to stop the chase. Symbolically, the

meaning of “shooting” this former self was the idea of allowing the personality traits and influences from that time of life to literally die out, so that they no longer would affect his thoughts and behaviors in the present. The difficulty that he felt with the shooting was a representation of how hard it is to “let go”

of old attitudes and behavior patterns, such as depression, lack of self-esteem, irresponsibility and desire for rebellion.

Then, as Wilcock continued in this experience, in the bed next to him Jude started tossing and turning.

“Shoot him… Just shoot him. Two bullets,” Jude mumbled.

Needless to say, Wilcock had a very hard time going back to sleep after this!

3.7.2 OBE’S AND THE MONROE INSTITUTE

This parallel experience in higher “dreaming” realms of existence is a

commonplace occurrence in the out-of-body research of Robert Monroe and the Monroe Institute, with numerous MD’s and Ph.D.’s on board as staff and directors to vouch for its validity. The Monroe technique involves stimulating the brain naturally through the use of opposing sound frequencies, where one ear hears a slightly different pitch than the other. The signal from each ear feeds into a different hemisphere of the brain. As the brain attempts to align the signals in the two hemispheres, this causes the synaptic impulses to enter into a “beat pattern”. Since the signals are not quite perfectly aligned, the brain will never be able to synthesize them together permanently, but it will be able to do so in set periods of time, over and over again. Those periodic moments of “hemispheric synchronization” automatically move the brainwave state into a variety of rhythmic states such as alpha, beta and delta, which mimic the brainwave states of advanced yogis and meditators. In the Monroe Institute’s Farsight Voyager course, groups of participants often report

traveling to the same areas together and having the same experiences.

Arguably, the ultimate case of shared experience in the Farsight Voyager course can be found in Monroe’s book Far Journeys. It is a personal account from a female client, number 2312-CF, and we have shortened it considerably for the sake of brevity:

Then quite unexpectedly I was suddenly drawn by a powerful force to one room in particular – to one CHEC unit in particular. (Note: The CHEC units were where each participant was housed individually.) It took me by total surprise, for the man in that unit was someone I didn’t know very well. In fact, he was the only one at the workshop I had never really had a chance to talk to. He was a young, good-looking psychologist, yet for some reason we seemed to be purposefully avoiding each other.

All at once I had an all-knowing, as I seemed to float over him, that his vibrations were my vibrations. I had an overwhelming desire to meld, to feel a part of him – to become one…

I gave to him both my body and soul until there was this tremendous energy surge that rocked and exploded in us. It was an experience that is beyond words, for love, total and absolute, surrounded us more strongly than can be earthly experienced or imagined…

We talked in this state and I came to realize this experience could only have happened at the end of the workshop as it did, for each of us would have been distracted had we ‘met’ earlier on – perhaps hampering other growth experiences that week…

I truly experienced everything I asked for and more, and when I came down to the meeting room after the tape there was an unusual heightened energy where people seemed to be flying. I saw ‘him’ as I came down the stairs to join the group and he looked at me excitedly, ecstatically, as if something totally incredible had happened to him. I hadn’t said a word yet, as he quietly repeated a number of times, ‘Thank you. Thank you.’ I felt elated – I had made contact. We compared our individual experiences, making sure each of us was not coloring the other’s story. It didn’t matter – our stories fit like puzzle pieces, matching perfectly and interlocking. We both had also had the use of all our senses – the strongest being touch.

After this experience we were later reunited to share others together. We’ve been with each other for the past two years now – growing and loving

together.

In the book Cosmic Voyage, Dr. Courtney Brown reports an experience in the Farsight Voyager course where he saw a group of people, all holding hands, enter into a tunnel of energy together. Upon awakening, he realized that this is exactly what they had planned to do together before going in, and they had all experienced the same phenomenon. Furthermore, we remember that the Monroe tapes are used as a preliminary means of training for military remote viewers, then enabling them to travel out-of-body to distant locations and make accurate observations of what they see there. So, it should be obvious to us that this outer realm of consciousness is a genuine plane of existence and not simply a “mass hallucination,” thus explaining how the group of people in Dr. Brown’s experience could all end up sharing the same experience.

In the course of Monroe’s three books, he outlines his own exploration of the various energy realms surrounding the Earth and beyond, including the intelligences that he interacted with along the way. In considering the

information from Monroe, Dr. LaBerge and many others, we must accustom ourselves to the realization that there are indeed higher planes of existence, and that we can travel in them as easily as we travel in this one, once we have gone through the proper training.

Ultimately, if each “dimensional” level is simply a different frequency of one vibrating aether, then each “dimension” above our own must be filled with life

Ultimately, if each “dimensional” level is simply a different frequency of one vibrating aether, then each “dimension” above our own must be filled with life