Intuitive Linked Communication (ILC)

Remember, we are working toward building an understandable picture of non-3D life, proceeding by a process of subtraction from what was familiar, interspersed with substitution compensating for what was lost, and additions beyond that. That’s how life works, when you think of it – subtracting, substituting, adding.

The ex-3D soul had its losses, and experienced them fully. For a while, it may have clung to the sliding board, saying “not yet!” the way some say “not yet!” to death. But sooner or later, it said its goodbyes to Earth and all it had known. From its point of view, it lost everything but its memories, and even these, though not lost, were changed. After that, everything was substitution and addition.

At some point regaining the ability to experience and interact with 3D, I take it.

We’ll get to that. We haven’t yet finished with the additions represented by the ex-3D soul’s realizations of how much farther it extended than it had ever realized. One set of extensions expresses the soul’s own level; the other, the next layer up.

At one’s own level are the non-human intelligences with which the ex-3D interacted during the human life, largely beyond the range of consciousness. These non-human intelligences deserve a word.

Perhaps you can see that the very distinction between human and non-human is an artificial one, an approximation, and sometimes a useful one. Not so useful – and not maintainable – once you have left 3D, though, because the barrier between human and non-human dissolves (or is seen to have been only illusory) as soon as you leave the conditions that sustained it.

Some of those non-human forms of consciousness inhabit the life of the other kingdoms, vegetable and mineral and the rest of the animal kingdom beyond human. Some are included within the human consciousness only because they appear to be within the human body – hence, the intelligence of cells and organs is not necessarily seen as mere extensions of the same intelligence that permeates animals, say. In 3D we were all full of germs, but we didn’t think germs part of being human. We all exchanged (shared) air and – at a remove – solid matter and liquid matter in the form of food, but we never thought of it that way. Human conditions encouraged us to think in terms of us and not-us, not reflecting that the components of either side of such an illusory boundary would be shifting at every moment.

I can put this in a nutshell: All 3D was formed of consciousness. If everything is formed of consciousness, everything is alive and by definition [is] self-aware, although this doesn’t mean that other forms of life experience other forms of life that way. The penguin doesn’t necessarily experience the consciousness of ice or rock or even fish. I could go on, but no need.

Once the soul is ex-3D, this is obvious, because the boundaries and the forces that (seemed to) support those boundaries vanish, and what is left is seamless.

But sometimes people get a glimmering of this, don’t they? Thoreau got in trouble with a magazine for a sentence that said perhaps the pine tree would go to a higher heaven, “there to tower above me still.” That was called pantheism but it was closer to what you are saying here than most people’s beliefs.

What I am saying goes beyond that, but yes, he had a glimmering, and more than a glimmering.

So the whole human / non-human thing is only a relative difference, not only in the case of ETs but of the very air we breathe in and out.

The ex-3D soul has no reason to – and no ability to – maintain the artificial divisions that seemed so natural and obvious in 3D. It knows (not necessarily immediately and not necessarily predictably) that at any level of 3D life, scaling meant that As Above So Below was an accurate judge; that before matter and energy is consciousness. So, when it regains its view on the 3D world, it sees with different eyes. But before that happens, another redefinition is likely to happen.

Just as cells combine to make molecules (if you wish to see it that way, and molecules make tissues, and tissues organs, and organs bodies – in other words just as the entire structure of reality consists of communities of individuals at one level (themselves communities consisting of individuals at a smaller level) creating or participating in another level of organization above them, so it is after the 3D is behind you. So, and more than so.

These successive redefinitions don’t leave the ex-3D soul’s self-definition unchanged. How could they? And that is all that goes on in the after-death process, the awakening from the 3D trance. The ex-3D soul wakens to its new condition and finds that what has changed is only that it is as it always was, but now it knows what it was (and is).

But this is always true, isn’t it?

It is always true that life is the process of assimilation and (therefore) change. It is true that change is the law of life not only in 3D, but in All-D. (How could one walled-off portion of the All That Is be the province of change, and all the rest not?) It is also true that change implies decomposition as well as synthesis. But that’s another story.

 

 

— Edited from Awakening From the 3D World, available from publisher Rainbow Ridge Books (https://www.rainbowridgebooks.com) or from other booksellers.

 

We left off with the soul realizing more what it really was and always had been.

It changes everything, you see. Nothing it was accustomed to remains to it, except – to the extent that it developed it in 3D life – the ability and habit of communicating freely with the rest of itself. If it had no such habit, it now has nothing whatever as a resource from its end of the polarity.

I think I know what that means, but just to be sure –

Everything we will ever examine will at the same time be a unit and a divisible collection, a single thing capable of being treated as if it were multiple. Definitions are relative. So, I say we’re going to examine a polarity between the larger being and the 3D individual, but neither is really a unit, and together they aren’t really a multiple. Single/not-single is a matter of how much stress we put on a given way of seeing it. There is no absolute difference between the larger beings and the various 3D beings each creates and incorporates, but it is not incorrect to examine them separately. Definitions are matters of convenience, in that sense.

Really, all we are saying is “Let’s look at them as if they were separate although we could equally accurately look at them as if they were parts of one thing.”

It isn’t exactly an “as if,” either. It is more a temporary focus on a thing’s separate-ness or community-ness.

To return to the original point: The ex-3D soul, considered as if individual, is, by itself, lost at sea. It has no means of communication, no means of perception, nothing by which to orient itself. A life spent gazing outward provides no resources when “outward” disappears and it is as if that soul were in silent darkness, with no memory of anything outside the 3D life just departed, and no ability to interact consciously with the only life it remembers. Without communication with its deeper self – the larger being – it would remain “stuck” indefinitely.

I get that we could think about ghosts in this context.

Many examples of non-3D spirits interacting in a not very conscious way with the 3D world could be investigated beginning with this description of their situation, and much would become clear, pretty quickly, that has eluded those trying to investigate from other points of view.

But we are following the ex-3D soul to see its possibilities and difficulties. The resolute non-believer is one extreme; at the other is the person who has achieved transparency in its relationship with the non-3D aspects of its being. Look what happens to such a person: It dies to the 3D, but it does not lose contact with that “inner” self, because that connection never depended upon sensory intermediation. It reviews its life, in a way, in that any restrictions on its span of consciousness are removed.  Although the “past life review” is not the sequential process it is often described to be, still the essence is the same. From being held in the present moment, it is now able to get the entire life in a true perspective, and that changes the ex-3D mind’s opinions and judgments retrospectively.

However – seeing one’s past life while being in conscious connection with the larger being makes that experience radically different from what it is when one experiences oneself to be alone. The stages of self-condemnation, etc. are fleeting or non-existent, because one’s basis for discernment is so much more solid and reliable. One has a vastly larger perspective, within which the “sins” and shortcomings of the individual are seen as “just one of those things” that accompany life in the 3D. The awakening to All-D existence of the newly ex-3D soul that has lived its life in close connection with its non-3D component is the other end of the polarity from the soul that experiences a lack of everything it knew.

And everybody fits somewhere in the bell curve between the two extremes.

Set out the extremes and you have delineated the field, and pretty much set out all the possibilities.

So – leaving aside any ex-3D souls that may be considered “stuck” because they have not yet gained the ability to perceive and interact with their new surroundings – we see that the ex-3D soul is in a new condition, but not an uncomfortable one. You have died to the 3D, losing all access as you lose your senses with the death of the only thing [the body] that anchored you to the continually-moving present. You have seen your self-definition change repeatedly, as you became consciously aware of how far you extend among your contemporaries, and how far you extend backward and forward in time. And, most radically, you are introduced to being a small part of a larger functioning being, rather than an independent or at least autonomous unit.

By the way, your new expanded realizations include that you were (hence, are) a community at a lower level of organization, as well. The subordinate consciousnesses that contributed to the 3D individual’s life are just as valid as any other. You know of different intelligences working the body for you – “processing sugars,” as you always say. But is it not clear that your intelligence also has other levels, other components that might be examined as if separate?

So, the first stage of entering upon non-3D life is total redefinition. Everything you thought you knew is seen in so different a context as to be seen only as a special way of seeing things. Even if you are very connected to your non-3D component during life, you’re in for surprises. But they aren’t necessarily unpleasant ones, so don’t concern yourself too much about it. You couldn’t tell a child about the preoccupations and satisfactions of life as an adult, so don’t expect that you as a 3D being can understand All-D life now in the way you will then. Timing is everything.

Remember, the 3D is the natural, unavoidable center of your interest while you are there, but it is not necessarily the center thereafter. So don’t let yourself unconsciously assume that it will be. This is attempting to give you a window to a world that may not concern itself too much with the room you’re living in.

 

— Edited from Awakening From the 3D World, available from publisher Rainbow Ridge Books (https://www.rainbowridgebooks.com) or from other booksellers.

 

Remember, as we proceed, what our goal is. Ultimately we want to convey a sense of “everyday” life in the non-3D, as part of the All-D, and in order to get a standpoint to do that, we are lightly describing the experiences of the soul as it leaves the 3D element in which it was created, successively stripping off illusions and distortions caused by life under 3D conditions. It is by this process of subtraction that we hope to move from the familiar to the less familiar without taking great leaps that may leave people gasping for breath, or disoriented by having lost their grounding.

The soul loses sensory access, and so turns its unbroken attention on to itself. It goes through shame, remorse, vain regrets, etc., and comes to acceptance because after all, “what’s done is done,” and at some point it becomes “where do we go from here.” This wouldn’t necessarily happen if the soul were on its own. It’s important to realize that, and why it is true, and what it means. But before we delve into this subject, a few more orienting words.

The soul, examining itself, begins to realize that in one sense, it was never an individual at all. Instead it perceived itself as individual, mainly because it was unable to perceive all the ties linking it in three different ways. First, by relationship. Second, across time. Third, within.

• Relationship – there was always someone else balancing anything that ever happened in 3D life, and that was never a coincidence. The soul itself was composed of threads, which extended in all directions. In a very real sense, that soul was connected to everything that existed, because the fibers that ran through its being were common to the rest of creation, just as the atoms of air that the body breathed were not unique but were part of a common heritage shared by all.
• Across time – those threads extend to “past lives” and “future lives” because, of course, they are not confined to any one moment. They do not come into being with a given present moment and cease to exist with another. They are part and parcel of the being; they exist. And in extending along the timeline of one given life, they connect it to all other times they share being in. so that is a second way the soul realized that it was more than it knew itself to be.
• And the third, the most profound connection of the three, perhaps, is the soul’s connection not within the context of 3D only (as connections in time and space might be said to be) but with the non-3D, hence with All-D.

As I said earlier, if the soul were on its own, it wouldn’t necessarily be able to move from its isolated sense of itself as it had been, when it experienced itself as bounded by 3D restrictions and conditions. But it is never alone. There are no absolute separations in the universe. Not only was it always connected via its threads to (essentially) everything and everybody else, it was always connected to the larger being from which it was created, whether it knew it or not. It experienced that connection in various ways – as instinct, hunches, intuitions, “luck,” feelings – and it conceptualized it in various ways, mostly culturally influenced. God, the unconscious, the larger being, All That Is, “the universe,” fate, destiny, karma, Blind Chance (this one is a particularly comic way of transposing guidance into a form acceptable to an outlook that does not include the possibility of guidance), and so forth. If the cultural conditioning exists and is strong enough to predominate, the soul may even come to have a strong need to assert that any connection it may feel is only illusion, delusion, superstition, in short, unreal, hence not needing to be further considered.

This is the third profound way the soul is led to redefine itself. It realizes first-hand its identity with the larger being from which it was created. And that gives it an entirely new view of its own existence, purpose, and prospects. It’s simply a matter of reorientation, but not necessarily simply explained.

We have been showing that at any level what looks like units are actually communities at a smaller level and part of an organism at a larger level. An individual human being is a community of trillions of cells and millions of threads, but is only a part of the larger being of humanity, even considered only in physical terms, without considering its connections across time and space. It is that quality of being at once a community of units at a smaller level and a part of a vastly larger organism at a larger scale that I call, for convenience, monad.

Once a soul realizes that it was never individual in the way it thought (or feared), everything changes, both retrospectively and, at least equally importantly, prospectively. Instead of having nothing to do because it could no longer exist in 3D, and instead of having as prospect only, at best, returning to 3D life as part of a new being, suddenly it realizes, 3D isn’t the only game in town, and, as part of something so much larger and more extensive, it doesn’t need to play only in one place and time, so to speak.

 

— Edited from Awakening From the 3D World, available from publisher Rainbow Ridge Books (https://www.rainbowridgebooks.com) or from other booksellers.

 

You – the nominal person who just died to the 3D world – have gone through a couple of difficult stages, of which judgment of your failings was probably the most painful. But as acceptance replaces condemnation, you are ready to move again.

You’ve stopped holding on to the sides of the sliding board.

That’s right. Among the fears, perhaps chief is not, “I can’t take this,” but, “I’m worried about how much worse it can get.” At some point, in one way or another, you release your hold on what you knew of what you are. You allow yourself to see more deeply.

You have passed your first hurdle of unbearable self-criticism, and you are resigned to seeing what comes next. But remember, it is still that process of understanding A and B better by successively looking at each with slightly better understanding, and then seeing differently. In other words, you are alternating perception and discernment, just as in life. That connected two-part process is a mental process, following mental (that is, non-3D) laws, which is why it is unchanged even in the absence of the body and of relentlessly sequential time.

So, you have absorbed the shock to your self-esteem, and you have accepted any guilt attached to your not having done more with your life, or better. You have learned that the narrative wasn’t just the way you experienced it (or, one might equally say, constructed it). Then comes further transformation, that makes what went before into the slightest of prologs.

A parenthesis, here: I am not going to describe large portions of that early stage that may have been described in NDE literature. There’s no point, because even if there are generalities, still every new recovery from 3D is different. I  mention it lest you think I’d forgotten, and lest you think I was by silence contradicting such testimonies.

So, the transformation. You see yourself as you have always seen yourself, as an individual who had gotten born, had grown and lived a life interacting with others. You look closer and you see how you affected others and were being affected. In other words, you see that you lived not independently but as part of the web of life. This is about the stage in the process where your regrets are likely to be strongest.

You absorb that and look again and you begin to see ties you perhaps did not expect to see (invisible connections visible now for the first time) between you as individual and everyone and everything you experienced. Every book or movie, every association or society, every conversation, every ancient philosopher whose life or work touched yours, every piece of music – and therefore all the musicians who made that music. At some point you see these connections are not merely points of contact, but representations of tendencies. Music may seem to connect you to that particular musician, but as you look closer, perhaps you see that the reason why it connected was (as a result rather than a cause) because you share a thread, or a strand, with that musician.

Then it is a short step to see that all the people sharing that thread may be said to be an integral part of you. And there are uncounted numbers of threads, each with uncounted numbers of others sharing them, not all human. Your self-definition takes a serious hit, and either shrinks back or expands, depending upon your temperament.

So, another realization moves back and forth in time as part of that same expansion of self-definition. You realize that “you” — in a sense – lived in other times and places, and can connect those other parts of yourself, in the same way you can connect along threads or any other relationship.

There could be more examples, but that is enough. The point is, you start off thinking you are an individual and you find yourself realizing that yes you are, but also no you aren’t and never were.

• Yes, you are and were, because you as soul were deliberately created by assembling potential traits, and were inserted into a given time and place to form a consciousness mediating your constituent parts. You were created, you were born into one body, you decided several million things, several million times in your lifetime, and so you created the habit-pattern that would (in a sense) be born into the non-3D to function along with its elders. All that is pretty individual, wouldn’t you say?
• At the same time, you were never an individual in the way you thought you were. The soul was created and born, yes, but what was it created of? Two elements at least:
  • (1) threads of strands that had been formed by their own previous 3D existence, now continuing to live through you and anyone else sharing their strands.
  • (2) The indefinable spirit that animates us all. As far as we know, it has always been here, it remains vital and unchanged, and if it needs us, we don’t know why it does or for what it uses us.

Either way you look at it, though, you aren’t what you thought you were, but something far greater. At the same time, you see that at best you are a very small frog in a very big puddle. It’s enough to shake you up.

 

— Edited from Awakening From the 3D World, available from publisher Rainbow Ridge Books (https://www.rainbowridgebooks.com) or from other booksellers.

 

So, we are dead to the world and we first turn our attention to who we are and were, as opposed to who we liked to think we were. We judge, and then judgment becomes acceptance. And then?

And then you are moving again, and what you are experiencing changes as it changes you. As long as you are stuck in judgment, additional perception cannot easily occur. Judgment is a form of shrinking from reality.

Now, we’ve edged into Bruce Moen’s description of our mental process as an alternation between perception and judging, haven’t we? Between open acceptance of input and examination of what has already been received? He pointed out that this is a reciprocal process, one half at a time, never simultaneous, because they are mutually contradictory, though complementary.

The description is accurate, but in your new situation, analysis is impossible. The newly untethered soul, even though it is dealing with its own composition and experiences, has no ability to control its own mental process. Like the newborn infant in 3D, it experiences life coming at it full-tilt, none of it making sense and no way to make sense of it. Consider: What is instinct?

Guidance.

Go to the head of the class. Of course it is. But it will be easier for you to spell out your idea of what I mean, and then I will correct as necessary.

Babies – animal or human – come equipped with instincts, although I’m not sure anybody knows the boundary between instinct and early learned behavior. In general it is as if animals come equipped with firmware as part of their hardware (the body) and as the basis for software (whatever they later learn). Is this firmware physical or mental or spiritual? I think our instincts – our firmware – are probably a little of each. The basis is in our genetics, common to one and all, encoded in matter. But that basis is also mental, or anyway non-3D in origin and function, because it is enabled and controlled from a different part of the entity than the developing fetus, the newborn baby. I suspect that the only reason that instinct seems universal is that most or maybe all babies are in excellent connection with the non-3D consciousness from which they were formed. That’s the best I can do at the moment, and I seemed to feel my concepts being fed to me and expounded upon as I wrote.

Yes, that’s the process called inspiration. You stay attuned and make the effort to respond, and another part of you provides feed. It is common, not always noticed.

All right, so consider your instincts to have been your non-3D component using its vast knowledge to assist you in dealing with a totally new and unpredictable and threatening and confusing and seemingly unstructured state of existence. The newly born 3D mind in so far as it is functioning independently has never experienced any of it. Only the mind that created it (which we call the subconscious or unconscious mind) knows the ropes. In the initial stages, the newly emergent mind is entirely dependent upon the non-3D mind and does not experience it as separate. It is only as the 3D mind gains enough experience that it gradually learns to function on its own,  begins to ignore or reject the promptings from the non-3D mind (the mothership, not the mother) and starts to make its own errors and learn its own lessons and plot its own course.

So now, keeping that in mind, return to your situation after you have dropped the body. You are in a sense new-born in an unfamiliar environment. Unfamiliar to the 3D-shaped part of you! but to the rest of you – it is home. You see the implication.

The better your connection to your non-3D component, the easier it can feed reassurance, calmness, sure-footedness.

That’s right. Instead of being caught in a nightmare or at best a continually changing kaleidoscope, you have a stable place to stand, and your surroundings apparently stabilize. I say “apparently” because of course it wasn’t your surroundings that were the problem.

Now, as you move from perception of chaos to a more structured perception of experience, you thereby engage your process of discrimination, of discernment, of sorting things out. In effect, your new world clears. But remember, that new world is not a world of externals; it is who and what (and even how) you are. In a sense, you retrace your existence in 3D, looking more closely at the underpinnings and the more subtle relationships.

Is it an iterative process, then?

Of course. To understand A, you have to understand B, but to understand B, you have to understand A. It’s the same thing. So each new pass over the same data yields new insights which inform the next pass. Understand, this is being somewhat crammed into 3D terms, but that’s what happens. The more you look, the better you understand. The more you understand, the better you look at the same things and the better you understand them. And so on and so forth, unpredictably according to each soul’s nature, because just as in 3D life (for obvious reasons!) there are the same differences in appetite for knowledge of any given subject, even oneself.

So – putting this only as a rough example, certainly not claiming it as an unvarying rule –

• First comes “objectively,” then the realization that “objectively” doesn’t exist, and things are at the same time different when seen from different viewpoints (rather than this view being right and that one wrong).
• Then you go into it again, seeing how the interactions produced unsuspected consequences, and you begin to see the hand of Fate, or of Divine Providence, or of Chance, depending upon your predilection.
• Then you see that you and the others were not so much pinballs colliding as dancers, and you see that the dance was not improv, nor solitary, and you begin to suspect that there may have been orchestration.
• And then, as you begin to look at yourself more closely, who you are becomes more apparent. Rather than defining yourself by your actions, you begin to see yourself by your tendencies, and then by your motivations, and then by your essential composition. And at this point the solid “you” you have been taking for granted begins in effect to dissolve (as a concept) and you start to see wider connections and implications.

 

— From Awakening From the 3D World, available from publisher Rainbow Ridge Books (https://www.rainbowridgebooks.com) or from other booksellers.

 

You die to the 3D world and your world is now your own mental world, your subjectivity, in a way you did not experience previously, perhaps, except in dreams. Your previous communication with the parts of yourself you were not conscious of may have taken place entirely without your conscious knowledge; or you may have had anomalous experiences; or perhaps you casually or occasionally or routinely or systematically made it a practice to broaden that communication. You can see that in each of these cases, your reaction to the experiences that follow cessation of sensory contact with the 3D is going to be different. What is familiar will evoke different reactions than what is not.

But in any case, your first experience is going to be a confrontation with yourself as you were, rather than yourself as you conceptualized yourself. Your idea of who you were is going to meet the reality of who you were.

Now, by that I don’t mean, you were a fraud. I mean that nobody gets to look at themselves as they are, but only as they look in a mirror, so to speak – and mirrors reflect us to ourselves only to a limited degree, and usually only from one vantage point. We see a small amount, and infer more, and confuse a lot of what we really are with what we wish we were and what we imagine we are.

It is said, we judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.

Largely true, and hard to avoid, because in each case we judge by what is easiest to observe. But now, conditions are different, and in effect everything changes. You know how NDE accounts often stress that one’s past-life review demonstrates all one’s actions not only again from one’s own viewpoint but also from the viewpoint of everyone else involved. Well, that is cramming a non-3D, non-sequential experience into 3D sequential terms.

I can see that. It isn’t that you are watching a movie, but that you suddenly see wider and deeper.

Yes except “suddenly” is a time-oriented term that may mislead. I am describing the change as part of a natural process, a sort of flowering, a blossoming-out as the soul decompresses from its long 3D experience.

When you see your life from all sides at one, to a greater or lesser degree, you pass through a phase of judgment of yourself. The more judgmental you are, the more painful the process, for nobody is perfect. Nobody lives up to his or her standards. Nobody is “without sin,” so to speak.

However – this is only a phase. It is not imposed from without and it isn’t exactly necessary as part of the process. It is, shall we say, a likely part of the process, the result of a bad habit, you might say.

“Judge not, lest you be judged.”

Or perhaps, judge not lest your habit of judging others is going to turn itself on itself when all “external” life is gone. But judging yourself is only a habit! It is only a stage you go through. If you don’t go through it at all (as little children wouldn’t, perhaps) your process is smoother and less painful. If you cannot get out of it, you get stuck, and here you see souls experiencing themselves in hell.

Judgment contains the assumption that there was a standard against which one could be (and would be) measured. As long as you see your remembered life in the context of judgment, just that long are you going to be enmeshed in regret and humiliation and pain and a vain wish that you had been other than you were. And this condition is particularly painful because you can’t (as you did when in 3D) steer it to less painful thoughts, or more self-approving channels. You are, in effect, caught in a nightmare from which there is no exit.

This stage of judgment – of self-judgment, let me emphasize – lasts as long as it lasts, depending upon several variables. One is the degree to which the conscious mind has been accustomed to blocking out data and impulses – guidance – from its non-3D self, like a headstrong teenager. Obviously, the easier the non-3D can smooth the way by suggesting there is another way to see things, the better. Another is, as I say, the extent to which the 3D has been in the habit of judging rather than accepting. In a way, that habit is the same habit as refusing input from guidance; it is an insisting on its own 3D-limited viewpoint as absolute. A third variable may be considered (by the soul undergoing the process) external, and we won’t go into that quite yet.

In any case, the soul, upon losing access to the 3D world, confronts itself not only (not even primarily) as it has been, but as it is.

You see? In 3D you naturally assume that the departed soul sees its life primarily or entirely in the context of the 3D life it just departed, or emerged from, rather. But is that how you live your life day to day while still in 3D? Do you wake up each morning comparing yourself to what you were in fifth grade? Or do you address yourself to the questions confronting you in your present moment? This is often lost sight of, it seems to me, in discussing the soul’s emergence. It may be bewildered and its only immediate frame of reference may be oriented toward the 3D life that is all it remembers (at first), but the past is not its concern. What it needs to know is, “Where do I go from here? What do I do? Who and what am I?”

It is the same group of questions that surround you in 3D, you see, only the conditions are different.

While you are in judgment, progress stops. You go over and over it, unable to correct past errors, unable to retroactively make better choices, unable to – in short – make amends to others or (in a sense) to yourself. “I could have done so much better” is the theme song of this stage. But it doesn’t last forever. It changes, the moment (whether the moment come slowly or all at once) that you realize that what has been done has been done, and you are what you have made yourself, and now what? Once you decide to get on with it, you are through with the vain regrets. Regret and judgment is a form of grabbing the sides of the sliding board, you know. Once you let go of having to be right (for that is what the habit of judgment is all about), progress resumes and you’re moving again. Everything changes, as we shall see.

 

 

— From Awakening From the 3D World, available from publisher Rainbow Ridge Books (https://www.rainbowridgebooks.com) or from other booksellers.

 

Keep in mind always that we are moving toward explaining life “on the other side” – which means life when not constricted by the special circumstances of life in the constricted environment of 3D, and we are doing so by moving from what you know, and subtracting.

So, you lose your physical senses, which reorients you inward. And at first, what do you “see” there? You initially experience yourself as you have been experiencing yourself in 3D existence. That is, Frank on his deathbed, losing sight and even awareness of the 3D, is as if in a dream. He processes thoughts, emotions, memories, fantasies – and does so as he did in dreams.

Well, you know dreams. Sometimes you are the main character and things are happening to you, or perhaps you are trying to do something. Sometimes you are watching a movie and, although you are not aware of yourself as audience, still you are watching a drama that may seem to have nothing to do with you, but is engaging. And sometimes it is as if you come in in the middle of the film and leave – or the film stops – in the middle. All this has one common feature. You do not feel in control of it, it does not seem to be emanating from you even if it is connected with you. you seem to be the passive recipient of experiences with their own autonomy. That is, they seem external to you.

And while they do, I imagine they may seem grotesque or frightening sometimes.

They may. Not every dream is a nightmare. Less important (ultimately) than whether they are frightening is that they are experienced as external to you, in the way the 3D world appeared external.

After dreaming comes Lucid Dreaming, and as you were told, Out-of-Body experiences are merely the third rung on that particular ladder. It’s a useful analogy. First comes the oblivion that is the blotting-out from your mind of awareness of, and ability to communicate with, the 3D. Then comes internal orientation, a rough equivalent of dreaming. These two stages come in very different forms depending upon how the person has lived, and how died. They may be quick and easy or prolonged and painful. Thus the disparity of descriptions. But one way or another, you lose sight of the 3D, and your world is composed of you as you experienced and shaped yourself.

The soul confronts itself.

Let’s say, the soul is no longer distracted by externals, and its world is then – itself.

Now, in a sense it was never any different. In a sense, you have been living in a world that always reflected you to yourself (not that you necessarily knew it) and always seemed to have its own objective existence, amid which you lived as a sort of island of subjectivity.

So, now your world has reduced itself to – you. Not news, not chores, not routine, not projects, and not the inexorable march through time. Now it is you among what happened, you experiencing who you made yourself in a long or short lifetime, and nothing else.

And if you died as an infant?

Then there won’t be much to experience, will there? On to the next stage smoothly and soon. Or do you think they remain suspended? But let’s not divert ourselves, but continue.

Your world now consists entirely of you. As in a dream, you do not direct your consciousness, but seem to be directed, you do not know (nor think about) by whom. Everything you were now appears to you, including and perhaps we should say especially, the parts of yourself that you most actively repressed in 3D life. It isn’t necessarily fun to experience. And it certainly doesn’t fill you with pride. Seeing who you are without being able to sugar-coat it can be a bitter pill. But, it – the bitter taste – doesn’t last forever, only until you get over judgment and get to acceptance.

The specifics of what you encounter when you encounter yourself naked to your gaze are obviously going to be – specific. Everyone will have a specific experience, and the way you have lived will shape what you have to bear. But – don’t worry about it. As in 3D life, you don’t get more than you can bear. Sooner or later, you realize that all is well and is always well – no less between awarenesses (i.e. between worlds) as in 3D or in non-3D.

You move beyond judgment into acceptance. What does this mean? It is the same as saying, you lay down your partial view for a more inclusive one. You realize that the self you are accustomed to, with its values and virtues and shortcomings, is only part of who you are.

This coming to realize that you are not only who you experienced yourself to be, but are more, is dependent upon your ceasing to cling to what you were. You stay stuck, clinging to the sides of the sliding board, until you willingly let your previous identity slip away as the world slipped away. One more loss. One more coin for the ferryman over the Styx.

The price of admission.

The price of admission to the next act, yes. And of course, bear in mind, none of these losses is permanent, or I should say none is what it seems to be.

 

— From Awakening From the 3D World, available from publisher Rainbow Ridge Books (https://www.rainbowridgebooks.com) or from other booksellers.