Thanks for the warm welcome, guys! I'd love to share my learnings.
I am a designer, and as such I am inherently visual by nature. These spirits must have known this, and showed me exactly what I needed to hear and see, in exactly a way I could understand it just as easily as explain it.
Going into the threshold, I was greeted by my deceased grandmother--or a figure that felt like her spirit. I was brought into what felt like an ethereal "waiting room". There were other spirits there--what I would assume to be other psychonauts.
This waiting room was essentially a holding area prior to going into a job interview. It was explained to me that every mortally born potentially divine being goes through this interview process. While I "sat" in the waiting room, I was soothed by the warmth of my grandmother. The colors and lights (in an energy sense) that came from her kept me calm, even after sitting for an eternity in the black void of 'space'.
Eventually though, I was called into my 'meeting'. As Im sucked into a vortex of colors and clouds and lights and sounds, I am injected with truly original thoughts that I had never seen or heard before. It felt like someone was physically placing information into my skull with a plunger!
This is when I blank out. From this moment til the next morning, I don't have any recollection of my actual experience. But when I woke up the next morning to see that legal pad, everything suddenly clicked!
The Quesadilla Theory:![](/forum/FileProxy.ashx?src=http://i.imgur.com/g76yUl0.jpg)
Still a work in progress. Looks more like melted wax than cheese, but it will represent my vision better when complete.
Let's say you're craving a fresh homemade cheese quesadilla. For this explanation Im going to exclude the tortillas, as they are not pertinent to the story. Otherwise, you will need a few things to get started. The following elements all represent one of two things:
Physical reality or
Consciousness:
- A cheese grater
- A plate to collect the cheese
- You, to grate the cheese
- The block of cheese itselfLet's say that physical reality is represented solely by the plate. Any cheese that is on the plate is in the real of the real, or what we see/hear/smell/touch in our day-to-day fleshly lives. Everything else--the cheese, the grater, your arms holding the grater, the air around the cheese as you grate--is part of the non visual spiritual realm.
Flesh)You begin grating the cheese onto the plate. Slowly but surely the cheese starts piling up in a "pyramid" shape.
The cheese that hits the plate represents our consciousness as it leaves the spirit realm and lives in the physical world as living creatures. Free) The more you grate the cheese, the taller the pile gets. Eventually some of the cheese may roll off the plate and fall onto the table.
This cheese that falls onto the table represents Christ-like figures throughout history. They are touched by a divine element, and are host to manifestations that the mortal world calls "miracles".
- Jesus Christ
- Horus
- Buddha
- Attis of Phrygia
- Krishna
- Odysseus
etc...
Teachers)Some of the cheese you grate may end up stuck between realms, dangling half on the plate and half off the plate. The cheese that sits in both realms represent figures that are meant to act as mediums between the realms. They take the teachings of the divine
Free and translate it into a language that the
Flesh can understand. We'll talk more about this later.
- The Twelve Apostles
- Disciples of Jesus
- Prophets of Islam
- Hindu Rishis
etc...
As you're grating the cheese, you (the universe) may decide to grab a handful of cheese as a snack. You reach down and pluck an arbitrary size of grated cheese & put it into your mouth.
The act of picking up the cheese represents events in physical history in which mass amounts of living creatures are taken back at one time.
- Vesuvius
- Atlantis
- A war in history
- 9/11
- Oklahoma City Bombing
- London Bombing
etc...The act of putting the cheese in your mouth represents the moment in which the spirit leaves the physical realm and re-enters the spiritual realm, beginning the journey of rebirth. Upon reentry to the non-flesh realm, you could return as
Flesh, Free or Teacher. I have not been told if there is any method to how these are chosen, but Im hoping I will be told eventually.
Coming back to the
Teacher, and more-so religion. Think of worldly religion as any version of flavored coffee:
- French Vanilla
- Italian
- Cinnamon
- Dark Roast
- Decaf
etc...Each flavor is a different religion: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism. Before the coffee is crafted into their different flavors, they all start as the same single source bean. The bean the body and spirit of the
Free. As the free passes it's knowledge onto the
Teachers, some information may be lost. The Teachers are after all still half
Flesh.
As the
Teachers take the knowledge of the
Free and pass it onto the
Flesh, the divine truth is broken down over time and splits into different sects (religions), further separating itself from the ultimate truth. All flavors (religions) are false, and all religions (flavors) are true. Some however are closer to the truth than others. It is easy to say that Dark Roast is closer to the original source coffee bean than French Vanilla, just as it is easy to say that some religions are closer to the ultimate truth than others.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to what came to me in my first experience. I've yet to have a breakthrough quite as astounding as the first, but I believe I am preparing myself for my second interview.