When is a Dream More than a Dream
Kristina Hemenway
(continued)
Chapter 3
Experimental/Experiential Investigations of the Focus ANE
Guided Meditation, Hypnotic Regression, and Inspirational Writing Under the Guidance of Dr. Henry Reed
The focus ANE experiencer, aware of the exciting work of Dr. John Mack and Dr. Edith Fiore (among others) in hypnotically regressing clients who believe they have been abducted by aliens, desired to pursue a similar line of investigation. In spite of mixed reviews on the hypnotherapy approach, the subject was undeterred. Fiore herself states “it must be understood that hypnosis does not improve upon the original perceptions of the encounter, so what is revealed is only how the person experienced it at the time” (Fiore, 1989, pg. 4) while Mack marvels at “the intensity of the energies and emotions involved as abductees relive their experiences” (Mack, 1994, pg. 3).
The subject arranged to meet with Dr. Henry Reed over a three-day period to revisit and explore the focus ANE. She taped and documented all sessions. Dr. Reed launched the project with a guided meditation. A cassette tape featuring a soothing voice and varieties of music encouraged visualization of pleasant things and relaxation into a meditative state. The subject found herself experiencing past-life flashes which she recorded in the inspirational writing exercise which followed. While still in the altered state of consciousness induced by the lengthy guided meditation, she penned:
I liked being with Jesus the most. When he came, joy soared through me, and my head threw back. My heart was big, and I was pulled upward. It was good to be back with him.
Being the shaman was next best. I saw myself wearing the huge blank mask with tassel and feathers. And Beakie (deceased pet parrot) soared to me from the jungle. I miss her. My throat was sad, but it was beautiful and good.
As a monk, I wrote. It was peaceful. I lived it. There were goats. There were hills, long robes with hoods. It was graceful.
A demonic face came several times. The body was dressed in 18th century European royal court attire. I think I was a fetus looking out.
As a knight, I was an anointed one. My helmet was so heavy...so heavy. I was centered. Died in an ambush. Too bad.
With the exception of the demonic 18th century character, the subject had been visited by all these past-life images before; but, their connection with the focus ANE was unclear.
A second session was an in-depth discussion of the focus ANE and events surrounding it. Recognizing the broad scope introduced by the past-life memories and believing that the focus ANE is probably not an isolated anomalous nocturnal incident in the life of the subject, Dr. Reed inquired about other significant paranormal events, especially those that might have occurred in her childhood. The subject described a relationship she enjoyed until the age of six with an “imaginary,” playmate. The little-girl companion visited in the waking and dream states. Only the subject could see her. Dr. Reed asked if the literature research for this study had uncovered others’ similar childhood accounts. In fact, several of John Mack’s clients report mysterious, childhood “imaginary” friends whom they now identify as the extraterrestrials who repeatedly abduct them (Mack, 1994, pp. 14-15). This session continued with a step-by-step review of the focus ANE attributes.
A third session was structured around a modified version of Dr. Reed’s self-hypnosis technique. His booklet “Using Self-Hypnosis to Receive Spiritual Guidance” contains the basic script he followed to lead the subject into a light hypnotic state and then to guide her meditation (Reed, pp. 26 - 28). Dr. Reed emphasized that she would be able to listen to him and to process other information simultaneously.
After an introductory commentary designed to ease a person into an altered state of consciousness, Dr. Reed directed the subject to select a special sacred place to which she would like to go in her mind. Although she chose Saratoga Springs, New York, the subject was surprised by the immediate appearance in her mind’s eye of a high, thick stone wall. It was covered with circular, carved, motifs that featured depictions of humans and animals. She exclaimed, “My face is right up against the wall. It is a temple or a public building of some kind. I often see these motifs. It is an ancient place and very silent.” Dr. Reed asked a few questions, and words began to flow from the subject.
To briefly summarize, she indicated that in the distant past she knew what the symbols on the wall meant. She explained that extraterrestrials still understand in their conscious minds what the signs represent. Currently, however, even though she doesn’t really need the aliens’ help to interpret them, and the images are right there for her to see, she is unable to connect. She lamented, “something is just...is still missing.” She explained that if people of today knew what the symbols had to communicate, it would benefit them. (Joseph Campbell, one of the foremost authorities on world mythology, described a symbol as a catalyst designed to release energy from the unconscious mind.) (Prata, 1997, p. 3).
Dr. Reed encouraged the hypnotized subject to find out what more the wall could tell her more about the focus ANE. Her reply was emphatic.
That is not the order. What the wall has to say is very important, not my particular experience. But, if I can get in touch with my experience, I’ll know what the wall says.
(Here it seems that the subject’s subconscious mind is validating her efforts to conduct this study of ANEs. The focus ANE is a key, but it is placed in perspective.)
Still staring at the imaginary wall, the subject noticed a gigantic eye which was not looking at her, but was clearly aware of something. She declared, “The Eye is big, and the Other is small.” A huge, free-floating eye is the archetypal symbol for the “Eye of God,” or the known self. Many cultures have likened the Eye of God to the serpent or to the wrath of God, as the ego tends to be greatly threatened by being known or exposed (Edinger, 1984, pp. 41 - 52). “The Other” could be a reference to that which is not considered “God” in dualist thinking; or, “the Other” could be the divine element, and the “Eye,” actually “I.”
Once
we have correctly fathomed the meaning of “The Other” and its total
relevance to our lives, we will perceive how an evolved Intelligence....
mistakenly labeled our “gods” has been challenging us, teaching us, and
preparing us to recognize fully the “god-self” within.
(Steiger, 1976, p. 224)
The subject admits to some confusion on the “Eye” vs. the “I.” Although she was viewing the mental image of the huge free-floating eye, as she found herself voicing the words in question, at the time she wondered if she was actually making an inflated ego statement.
It is significant that the eye was not focused on the subject as she observed in her hypnotic trance. Because a defining aspect of the Eye of God symbol is that it stares through a person’s ego, the likelihood is that the eye was indeed focused on the subject’s ego. Theories of the brilliant and complex philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff offer possible explanations. He believed that a person has an outer personality layer and an inner essence core, this totality composed of many (I’s, i’s). After an initial spiritual awakening (the focus ANE?) and dedication to the spiritual path of discovery, a person’s sense of the (I’s, i’s) evolves dramatically. After reaching recognition of the “Magnetic Center” (those I’s that know of the spiritual side to life), a person may develop the “Observing I,” the ability for a part of the self to step aside and literally observe another part (Speeth, 1989). It is possible that the focus ANE experiencer, during the hypnotic session, became the “Observing I” and saw the Eye of God staring at her ego.
As the hypnotic sessions progressed and the image of the wall lingered, the subject grew uncomfortable - especially when she sensed the wall was under water. She blurted out:
I don’t like it. It is bad enough here, isn’t it? It’s even heavier down there. I’ll never go down to look. It will have to come up.
The whales know what the wall says. They don’t like it because I won’t go there. They feel I’ve let them down. They need help. They’re dying. I could help if I could remember what the symbols on the wall mean.
A believer in reincarnation, the subject also subscribes to the philosophy of the Edgar Cayce readings, which includes the notion that souls live numerous lives and come into each incarnation with a definite spiritual plan. Having spontaneously uttered the above words, the subject was forced to consider the unpleasant possibility that she is shirking a life responsibility.
As this session came to a close, the subject reported feeling as if she were being whisked through a tunnel and away from the wall as the great Eye closed. Persons who have had near-death experiences often report moving through a tunnel (Ring, 1992). These reports have convinced some that the tunnel image, literally or symbolically, is associated with transitional areas between dimensions. The fact that the great Eye closes as the subject moves away from the wall hints that the dimension where the wall exists is a more spiritual one than the earthly plane.
A later hypnotic session was conducted in a similar fashion with Dr. Reed once again employing his customized techniques. He suggested to the subject that her heart could embrace the symbols on the wall and make their wisdom hers. The subject revealed these reservations:
There
is a problem to do with Power. There
is a knot in my heart because I am not comfortable with Power.
The Power hurts. Something
to do with those symbols has to do with Power.
I haven’t liked what I’ve seen.
People don’t make good use of it.
I want to hide from the symbols, but they are stuck in my face.
Something can’t flow.
Dr. Reed interjected, assuring the subject that her heart could guide her to a new relationship. He said, “Ask your heart what it wants.” The subject responded, “Let the wind fill me - like in the dream. It may seem like more than I can tolerate, but I will grow bigger.” (Here the subject is referring to the wind element in the “love of the Mother” attribute in the focus ANE.) Unfortunately, a part of her is apparently fearful of power, and this condition may be what is blocking her synapse with the symbols.
An inspirational writing exercise followed this hypnosis session. The subject described a pain in her solar plexus. (In Indian Yogic traditions, the solar plexus is identified as a power center, one of the imperfectly functioning vital energy centers of the modern-day human being.) (Krishna, 1993, pp. 253 - 254). She expressed a desire to run and hide from the images on the wall. She wrote, “It has come nearer to the light. It’s coming. I promised. I can. I must.” (It would appear that the subject’s subconscious mind is anxious, aware of her probable soul promise to help translate the symbols.)
The last hypnosis session apparently tapped into the focus ANE or another of the subject’s UFO experiences. The subject sensed she was in a spaceship and got a glimpse through a window into deep space. At one point in the regression the spaceship was under water. When it surfaced, the subject was viewing an ancient east coast Native American village. As she returned to normal consciousness, she commented that she was being forced back into a little tiny space - her body most likely.
Some specific points raised in this section warrant further attention, and they require reference to a broader information base than has been accessed thus far. Whether one considers Atlantis a legend or a reality, all generally agree that the remains of the civilization are beneath the ocean. As well, all concur that Atlantis was a more advanced culture than the world of 1999. Speculating within this Atlantean body of knowledge, it does not seem unreasonable to postulate that a wall which displayed symbolic motifs conveying Atlantean wisdom and technological brilliance sunk into the sea with the rest of the vestiges of that civilization. In Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited, the authors include mention that the Edgar Cayce readings indicate the Iroquois (an eastern US Native American tribe) are of pure Atlantean descent. To bolster this claim, a mainstream 1985 linguistic study proves that the Iroquois language is distinct and unrelated to the Native American languages of tribes farther west, peoples who descended from Asiatic ancestors that crossed the Bering Straits (Cayce & Richards & Schwartzer, 1988, pp. 113 - 114).
Additionally, new-age guru Drunvalo Melchizedek in his Flower of Life Workshops contends that whales have been on earth for 500 million years and are the sole repositories of vital historical information regarding the planet (Melchizedek). If this theory is true, it would make sense that whales understand the symbols on the submerged wall. The credibility of Melchizedek’s theory increases with the support of the Cayce readings explanation of the whale as a symbol - “ancient knowledge, soul history” (Prata, 1997, p. 92).
A final inspiration writing session produced these comments: “It has been a lengthy endeavor - not just this life or this place.” (It will be recalled that the past life images which visited the subject in the initial guided meditation were all of spiritually dedicated lives, with the exception of perhaps one.) “They think she can’t do it sometimes (the aliens, her other incarnations?...). She wonders too. How can you operate in the dark? In the dark there is still light. Never done this before. Never close.”
A comprehensive discussion concluded the sessions. Dr. Reed encouraged the subject, and he pointed out that the Essenes had been faced with a monumental task without prior experience. They prepared the way for the Christ and nurtured him upon his arrival. (It was several months after these sessions with Dr. Reed that the subject discovered the references in the spiritual literature to Essene beliefs that helped her explain and understand attributes of the focus AN
Section B:
Experimental/Experiential Investigations of the Focus ANE
Intuitive Dream Interpretation Applied to Focus ANE
Intuitive Dream Interpretation (IDI) was developed by Dr. Henry Reed (Reed, 1996). IDI places the dream in a central position of honor, deeming it so powerful and pervasive that its unspoken memory need only be cradled in the mind of the dreamer for its energy field to provide information for a researcher. IDI theorizes that the dream, as a story alone, is imbued with nuggets of wisdom and potential healing insights.
The focus ANE experiencer singled out IDI as an ideal choice for this section because the methodology places the dream (the ANE event) in central focus. Additionally, she has participated in IDI one-on-one with Dr. Reed and has also conducted and documented sessions with a dozen volunteer dreamers for an earlier independent study course.
The IDI procedure is as follows. The dreamer/subject (she) and the researcher/ dreamworker (he) sit facing one another. (No information about the content of the selected dream has yet been shared.) The dreamer holds the memory of the dream in her mind’s eye. The researcher initiates an intuitive mode of functioning by shifting his attention to his breathing. Once he has attained a state of mindful awareness, similar to a meditative one, the researcher switches his focus to the heart area. Imagining that it is filling with warmth and love, he creates a fantasy in which his heart is reaching out and joining the heart of the dreamer. Next, the researcher makes a silent suggestion that a personal memory come into his mind - one that contains wisdom which will prove useful to the dreamer in regard to the situation represented in her dream. Once the life memory surfaces (and this may take several minutes), the researcher recites it aloud and goes on to reflect on the life lesson(s) that this information seems to be addressing. Lastly, the dreamer reveals the full narrative of the selected dream to the researcher. A discussion ensues about the insights to be gathered from the perceived relationship between the dream and the researcher’s surfaced memory. Often, it is the conversation itself that draws out things not immediately obvious.
The IDI Session on the Focus ANE
The researcher/dreamworker, Ms. R, entered the intuitive state via deep, even, focused breathing. She silently requested her inner/higher self to release a memory apropos to the focus ANE experiencer’s understanding of her “dream.” Ms. R’s surfaced memory sprang from a time several years prior when she was suffering financial difficulty. Her siblings knew of her money problems, and two of three sisters promised monetary help. One offered $5,000, but Ms. R’s pride influenced her to refuse the gift. Just days later though, Ms. R overcame her pride and recontacted her sister, admitting she was desperate for the $5,000. Unfortunately, her sister rescinded the original offer, blaming taxes due. Instead, she offered only $2,000 (not enough for Ms. R to steer clear of trouble). Devastated by the change and withdrawal of support, Ms. R retired to the privacy of her shower where she cried hysterically. While in the shower, she experienced a vivid past-life flashback. Ms. X saw herself as a citizen of France during the French Revolution. A likely candidate for the guillotine, she sought the council of a friend upon whom she tended to rely heavily. The friend assured Ms. R that she really had no cause to worry. Even if the worst-case scenario manifested, and Ms. R was condemned to death, the friend promised he would save her. Regrettably, Ms. R soon met her demise, and her so-called friend was nowhere to be found.
Following the disclosure of her surfaced memory, Ms. R proceeded to the next step in the IDI process and contemplated aloud on the possible life lessons to be gleaned from the story. Ms. R concluded that people sometimes pledge to help others when they really cannot or will not. She feels such people may have an intention to help, but ultimately cannot be relied upon. For Ms. R, the surfaced memory pointed out that she should be prepared to take care of herself, and not overly depend on the possible goodwill of others.
Next, the subject read the written account of the focus ANE to Ms. R. An interactive conversation followed. The two identified commonality in the vulnerability and stressful conditions in their lives (Ms. R in financial difficulty, and the subject going through a divorce) at the time of the altered-consciousness events. Yet, the simple story line of Ms. R’s memory, that people sometimes promise vital assistance that later is not forthcoming, was not clearly evident in the focus ANE.
An insight popped into the mind of the focus ANE experiencer. The researcher’s surfaced memory could be serving as a red-flag alert for her not to depend on extraterrestrials to act as divine intermediaries. The subject wondered if, subconsciously, she had been assigning too much value to the apparent power, compassion, and/or good intentions of the aliens based on the role they played in the focus ANE.
In her classic work Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences, Marghanita Laski notes:
It is of course likely that what has proved to be an effective trigger will be regarded as valuable, and a usually unexplained recognition of value is in fact a characteristic of attitudes to triggers.....so far as the ecstatic is consciously aware, an entirely new focus of value has been brought into his life by contact with the trigger to his ecstasy. (1968, pp. 156 - 157)
The subject, aware of the syndrome in which a messenger is showered with adulation which is properly aimed at the message, vowed to exercise her powers of discernment and free will to avoid this common human pitfall in the future.
By the end of the IDI session, the focus ANE experiencer and the researcher underscored their acceptance of responsibility for their own lives and their commitment to the spiritual path. They both admitted to being genuinely surprised by the nature of the information that the exercise produced, and ever so grateful for the insights and the guidance.
Section C
Experimental/Experiential Investigations of the Focus ANE
Active Imagination Exercise
An independent active imagination exercise will comprise this final research component of the study. C.G. Jung formulated his ideas concerning active imagination and the imaginal realm primarily through his own experience of the unconscious (Watkins, 1992, p. 42). “Jung came to believe that turning willfully to the unconscious while awake, ‘purposive introversion,’ was the ‘basic condition for the act of creation’.” (Watkins, 1992, p. 48). Jung considered active imagination an activity to be carried out while alone and towards the end of analysis (Watkins, 1992, p. 52). Similar to Jung, the subject has formulated many of her most important ideas based on experiences she has had in altered states of consciousness. And, she continues to be convinced that there is value in revisiting ANEs.
In Chapter 2, Section C, the Chumash medicine people are cited as teaching that the imagination is the purveyor of the sixth through tenth senses (lost to modern humanity). The same section includes Rudolf Steiner’s concept that the imagination is a key in linking human sensory perceptions with the etheric (higher) realms. Dr. Robert Bosnak’s research on Aboriginal trips into the imaginal realms is referenced in Chapter 1. With all the preceding information in mind, the subject made the decision to attempt an independent active imagination exercise, specifically based on Bosnak’s directives.
The activity of entering the dream world by way of daytime consciousness is a discipline of the imagination. In contrast to passive daydreaming, during which images are merely perceived, in this disciplined imagination, an active interaction with the image world takes place. The faculty of memory is actively used to reconstruct the dream reality...After this reconstruction, which often begins with the vague remnants and ruins of a dream, it is possible to continue dreaming the dream. This art is called Active Imagination. (Bosnak, 1988. p. 39)
In doing Active Imagination, it is important to alter our state of awareness into an image consciousness. We can accomplish this through the very detailed recall of a dream image. Through this, the sense of reality of the image world intensifies and the I figure can begin to move through the space of the image. (Bosnak, 1988, p. 44)
Focusing on deep, rhythmic breathing to activate a meditative-state-type of altered consciousness, the subject reviewed the focus ANE written text and attempted to visualize the initial images. She managed to reclaim a few new memory fragments.
Approaching the dentist-style chair from the rear, she felt as if she were walking up an aisle way. When she reached the chair, she was standing off to its right. She “floated” up to take her place in the chair atop her friend who has already positioned. An extraterrestrial with long narrow arms and legs, big eyes, and a close-fitting gray uniform, floated nearby and watched. The surrounding floor space was circular. Many small windows lined the perimeter. A number of aliens bustled about engaged in unknown activities. They paid little attention to the two humans in the chair. The subject realized that what paralyzed her was not hundreds of tiny alien arms, but invisible force fields.
The focus ANE experiencer made several attempts at the active imagination exercise, but this first attempt described above is the only one that revealed what seem to be new details on the focus ANE. The subject had difficulty establishing the images in her mind, and even more difficulty retaining focus. Perhaps a highly disciplined meditator would have had more prolific results.
The subject is confident that her efforts have reclaimed as much of the focus ANE memory as is available at this time. There may be more to it. There may not be.
Chapter 4
Summary, Integration, Conclusions
In order to pull together and integrate all the sections of this study, a short reiteration is in order. The study began by illustrating how ANEs astounded and inspired two famous men who are recognized for their great wisdom. That information was coupled with an account of an Aboriginal spirit doctor’s routine participation in ANEs. Inspired to investigate the phenomena because of her own fascinating ANE, the subject included the anecdotes to create a provocative context from which to launch.
After establishing that there is no standard definition for a “dream,” many current systems of dream interpretation were briefly covered. The focus ANE was scrutinized in-depth based on concepts from the Edgar Cayce readings. The conclusion reached - Cayce would deem the focus ANE a spiritual experience, rather than just a dream.
The spiritual literature review revealed the presence of many ANEs in the Bible, referred to as visions and/or dreams. In addition, authors of time-honored spiritual studies were quoted. Their statements gave credence to the categorization of the focus ANE as a classic spiritual experience. However, that traditional spiritual definition is diluted by the presence of the encounter (UFO) characteristics.
The UFO literature review uncovered numerous similarities between the attributes of the focus ANE and those of many other UFO-related ANEs. Ironically, Dr. John Mack, a prominent UFO abduction researcher, informed the focus ANE experiencer that he did not think her February 14/15, 1988 incident was a UFO abduction.
The transpersonal psychology literature provided the most consistent match. All ANEs comfortably qualify as a class of transpersonal experiences. The theories of various proponents of transpersonal thought were touched upon. Several include ideas about humans possessing more than five senses and the existence of multiple levels of consciousness. It was noted that these notions challenge the current western world view.
What emerges from the findings of the literature review is that ANEs possess certain characteristics of dreams, spiritual events, transpersonal experiences, and UFO abductions. The findings also contain convincing arguments that all four types of events can unfold in realms other than the earthly three-dimensional.
The efforts to revisit the focus ANE were fruitful. The experimental/experiential exercises elicited new, unexpected information on: 1) the subject’s past lives and soul’s mission, 2) extraterrestrials’ long association with the Earth and humans, and, 3) the civilization of Atlantis.
Although the spotlight highlighted the focus ANE itself, references to multi-dimensional realities abound throughout the body of this work - from Jung, Yogananda, the Aboriginal spirit-doctor, Bosnak, Cayce, the Bible, Swedenborg, James, Groff, Maslow, Steiner, the Chumash tribe of the Peruvian Amazon,Wilber, Mack, and others.
Following are some specific statements from a few of these experts pointing to their acknowledgment of the existence of other realms. (Recommendations and reflections based on their ideas and the study’s findings are interlaced.)
Every
person, then, who awakens to consciousness of a Reality which transcends the
normal world of sense - however small, weak, imperfect that consciousness may be
- is put upon a road which follows at low levels the path which the mystic
treads at high levels. (Underhill,
1974, p. 45)
Thus, according to mystic scholar Underhill, all ANE experiencers have stepped onto the spiritual path; and, as ANE experiencers, they are conscious of what has happened.
The
Vedantists say that one may stumble into superconsciousness sporadically,
without the previous discipline, but it is then impure.
(James, 1991, p. 308)
(Legendary philosopher William James’s alert should be heeded by all ANE experiencers.)
Dr. John Mack writes:
What
the abduction phenomenon has led me (I would now say inevitably) to see is that
we participate in a universe or universes that are filled with intelligences
from which we have cut ourselves off, having lost the senses by which we might
know them. (Smith, 1995, p. 23)
For whatever reasons, ANE experiencers are not cut off. Privileged to consciously link with other intelligences, they would be well advised to strengthen and amplify the connection by working to fully understand their ANEs, as the subject has attempted to do.
C.G. Jung would agree with making such efforts over a long period of time. These are his comments about an ANE in which a man named Brother Klaus saw a vision of God.
Psychologically, of course, such an event betokens only a potential change; it has first to be integrated into consciousness. That is why Brother Klaus felt it necessary to spend long years in wearisome study and meditation...In this way he transformed the experience into an integrated conscious content that was intellectually and morally binding for him. This work has still to be done...(Jung, 1978, p. 33)
The controversy over the existence of other realms or multi-dimensions is a modern one. Psychiatrist Robert Bosnak reminds us that westerners did not always comprehend the world as they do today.
There were considered to be three worlds (during the Middle Ages): the world of matter below, the world of spirit above, and the world of image in between - each realm entirely real. In the 12th century, according to Henry Corbin (great scholar of Sufism), the middle realm dropped out of western consciousness. (Bosnak, 1996, p. 49)
Perhaps ANE’s take place in this middle realm, or in the parallel universes about which Physicist Fred Wolf and Astronomer Jacques Vallee write. Respected UFO researcher Keith Thompson suggests there is “a continuum that leads directly from primitive magic, through mystical experience, the fairy-faith, and religion to modern flying saucers” and that beings are now meeting in the middle ground (Thompson, 1991, p. 118). Thompson goes on to speculate that quasi-mystical experiences (ANEs) are an experiment designed by nature so that the human race can learn to effect a transition to a new level (Thompson, 1991, p. 223).
The evidence which emerged from the focus ANE experiential exercises adds substance to the ideas Thompson conveys. (It will be recalled that the subject is certain that if she can “get in touch” with her experience [the focus ANE], she will understand what the symbols on the “wall” mean - thereby becoming privy to a whole spectrum of valuable ancient knowledge now unavailable to humans.)
A number of great thinkers offer theories along the lines of Thompson’s above. For the purposes of this study on ANEs, the important thing is the general concept. There is much evidence and convincing speculation that dimensions other than the earthly realm exist, function in their own context, and regularly interact.
An ANE is an opportunity for a human being to participate in a transpersonal, trans-dimensional event. It is a chance to be a pioneer, to be one who forges trails and builds bridges to a greater reality. Indeed, the expanded sense of self brought about by the successful spiritual emergence into a transpersonal perspective is a small but significant step forward for humanity.
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