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Just as understanding consciousness in part necessitates exploring its extremes, so
does understanding the nature of our reality necessitate having extreme
experiences. Piercing the veil and astral projecting while awake fall into this
category. In terms of synchronicity, one of my most eye-opening experiences
occurred one night in a bar during the hurricane aftermath.
At this point
in my spiritual progression, higher states of mind possessed such qualities
that I had to be entirely sober or else I clearly felt a distortion or
dissonance that threatened to lower my vibration.[1] I
was not very intoxicated that evening, but I cannot say that I was in a higher
state of mind proper. And yet, I felt as if my entire being were pumped up on
adrenalin, that I was veritably soaring.
I was
experiencing an extreme amount of synchronistic conditioning, to the degree
that when I had a thought or recalled a memory (or rather a thought or memory
surfaced on its own), I then saw something in the bar or heard lyrics in the
music that ping-ponged a meaning at me through the relative contrast between
the inner and outer event. My thoughts were jumping around like electricity in
a selfless form of vortex thinking, sweeping in insight after insight via
polarity and contrast, a delightful orchestra of revelations conducted by the
synchronicities between what was going on in my mind and my surrounding
environment.
Concurrently,
a different type of conditioning was occurring that was of an artistic or
painterly nature. My eyesight would tunnel in so I focused on an aspect of my
surroundings in such a way that I appreciated the image in its abstract form,
and it glowed with its unique, raw expression. In this manner, everything I
looked at came alive upon my focused attention. I was “reading” my environment
as one appreciated a series of abstract paintings that, although
nonrepresentational, seemed to exude meaning.
Altogether, I
felt like I was speeding faster than a space rocket, that I was evolving at top
speed. As I later read in the Ra Material, “Each opportunity is pregnant
with the most extravagant magical possibilities for the far-seeing adept.”[2]
At one point in the evening, I perceived a clear vision that showed me traveling through
circular tubing, shaped like a donut or torus. Each moment in time was
represented by a flash of one solid color, and each color was full of
intelligence and meaning. I saw the power inherent in the moment and how much
potentiated insight was integrated in every second of our existence.
I reflected on the vision years later while reading a physics article. The circular tubing shape coincided with how the
space/time fabric would look if one were traveling near the speed of light in a
circle. (Why was the tubing circular? Because of the cyclical nature of
evolutionary development?) Perhaps the vision suggested that being in a state
of accelerated consciousness affected a similar warpage, but if space/time were
not involved, then what was being warped? This was when the idea of the
existential matrix first came to me.
[1] Alcohol did not seem to have a
negative effect on my higher states during college because they were of a lower
level. After the hurricane period, higher states came with a sense of faster,
higher-order vibration that simply did not tolerate the distortion of
intoxicating substances.
[2] Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert, and James McCarty, The Law of One By Ra, an Humble Messenger of the Law of One,
Book IV (Aftglen, PA: L/L Research, 1982), 140. Also see www.llresearch.org
Copyright ã 2012 by Makram Abu-Shakra
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