Throw this book away and look within.

Turn back from these words! The most relevant truth lies within you!

If you insist on continuing, then I will explain, if I must. It won’t be as good, but we’ll make do as well as we can with written words.

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Throughout all of history, people have experienced profound, life-changing expansions of consciousness that reveal the light of a greater reality. While these experiences are colored by each person’s historical and cultural context, they all essentially agree. They all describe the same reality. They’ve experienced the same inner light of being. Though it has been said in a thousand ways, the love they felt, the truth they’ve experienced is the same.

There is a quiet spiritual awakening underway. There is a common story underlying the profusion of spiritual books in the modern age. These experiences are providing a clear understanding of the spiritual reality supporting the world as we know it. Like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, each experiencer tells us about different but overlapping parts of the picture. Together, they reveal what this wonderful spiritual reality is — where we came from, why we are here, and the purpose and inner workings of everything. The goal of these books is to bring together hundreds of sources of first-hand experience along with my own experiences into one complete picture of the spiritual multidimensional reality in which we live.

The resulting picture that has come together is ideal beyond anything that we could have imagined, a perfect system working through natural laws, guided by intelligences immeasurably greater than our own, in which we are free to choose our path, in which everyone’s eventually enlightenment is guaranteed, in which we have chosen and continue to choose the parts we play in physical life and beyond. It is a story of eternal growth, fulfillment, creativity, and rediscovery, one in which our eventual success is guaranteed. These are our spiritual foundations.

Consciousness First

We are in need of a new perspective on reality. Consciousness is not something that arises mysteriously from physical building blocks. Consciousness is our essential nature. Our consciousness long preceded our physical birth and continues uninterrupted after our physical body dies. A Consciousness First perspective is needed. To our greater consciousness, the lives we know are just brief encounters with the physical world. This physical world is one of many realm of experience for it, and a very limited one at that, for the physical universe is merely the outer crust of the infinite inner reality from which all things originate. Relative to that, the physical is slow and unresponsive — an effect rather than a cause. The world within us is the faster, brighter, more connected, more fluid reality. That is where we come from. That is where we return.

Misconceptions

We are awash in a sea of misconceptions. Many of these beliefs have been deeply institutionalized for millennia. They manipulate us through fear. That you are picking up these books is a good sign. Being open is the first step. It is time for us as a civilization to come out of the darkness of those old beliefs and into a better understanding of who we are. The truth is so much better than you might imagine. As you read, let love be your guide. When I read something true, it resonates — literally resonates in my body. I feel waves of tingles across my skin. Our higher self knows no fear. Listen with that fearless higher self, and you will recognize truth.

Sources

Sources of Truth

These modern sources of spiritual knowledge are, as they originally were, personal spiritual experiences. Truth can come from anyone, anywhere, any time. It is the nature of the light to communicate to us through any experience, in a way personal to us and our life’s story. Our spirituality belongs to each of us. We are spiritual creatures experiencing a life in a physical body, one which usually limits our perceptions of that greater world. But we each have direct access to all the knowledge, all the connection, all the light of a deeper reality, even if we’ve temporarily forgotten.

Those who experience a greatly expanded consciousness, who merge with the light of being, with the source of all, who open up to a greater part of themselves have had a mystical experience of one kind or another. These can come through lucid dreams, out of body experiences (OBEs), near death experiences (NDEs), moments of ecstasy, psychedelics, meditation, and many other ways. Note as you read that we seamlessly move from source to source, regardless of cultural background or historical period. These experiencers are explorers, venturing with full consciousness into the same greater reality that we all live within. That’s precisely why we find insights from all throughout history in overall agreement, providing one continuous story of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.

I find that the best information on the inner realities comes from those that actually live there (imagine that!), and so you will find many sources who have used hypnotic regression or channeling to make direct contact and receive information directly from those who know best.

My own experiences and discoveries come through inner exploration, intuition, and close observation of the mind during altered states brought about by psychedelics, marijuana, meditation, and my vivid recall of experiences in the dream state.

The Search for Truth

This book is founded on a search for truth, whatever that truth may be. I am certain that some of what is written here may prove to be incomplete or incorrect. And that is fine, that is part of the journey of rediscovery. I’m even more certain that the broad strokes of it are correct. I hope to publish new releases as understanding grows.

On Selecting Sources

When selecting quotes, my primary goal is those that are most clear and easily understood, and that is often the more modern sources, written originally from a modern perspective and using concepts we’re familiar with. While many of the ancient religious texts have valuable knowledge, their perspective from the distant past puts them further out of our context.

For example, there is great truth in the Upanishads, passed down in ancient India over centuries by oral tradition until first written in 600–300 BCE. These formed the basis of Hinduism. Reading these, I recognize the great truths. But I find that modern sources often provide more clarity. Our foundations are both simple and complex. A single, simple source spirals out into a multidimensional holographic multiverse, and in those complex regions modern knowledge and analogy lends a helping hand.

Terminology

Speaking from Two Contexts

In presenting our spiritual foundations, we will progress from the broadest foundations to more and more specific descriptions and explanations, until every experience of day-to-day physical life can be understood in its larger context and purpose.

1. The Foundations of Consciousness

We begin with the Source, the One, the origin and source of all consciousness, and thus everything, and how it flows eternally outward through higher frequency planes of consciousness to slower. We then continue into the nature of the physical multiverse where we find ourselves. Next we examine how our minds work holographically. We look closely at how the Source flows into us, and how we direct its activity through our focus, producing thoughts with various forms and effects. I then share my psychedelic discoveries of higher consciousness and discoveries about how physical perception works. Finally we explore ways to reconnect with the Source.

2. The Dimensions of Being

We explore the various planes of consciousness, their worlds, and the bodies we have in each.

3. Exploring Beyond the Physical

Next we explore our existence outside the physical body, gathered largely through experiences in OBEs and dreams: how we perceive things, how we communicate, and how we travel.

4. The Law of Dreams

Next we look into where we touch and explore the higher realms of consciousness every night in the dream state. We closely examine the different levels of our selves, how physical forms and understandings are projected onto nonphysical experience, and many details of dreaming, including lucid dreaming, social dreaming, and the dream self.

5. The Grand Cycle

Finally, we look at our journey into the physical, what happens when we die, the purpose of life, our time spent between lives, and our selection and movement into our next physical incarnation.