BLUEPRINT FOR LIVING
(Opening the Door to the True Life)

Principles of Power
No.5: True Seeing Brings Awareness Of The Two Worlds.(Ref. Basic Laws No.5)      On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, as I was sitting in a close friend's dining room in Philadelphia, quietly sipping a cup of tea, I had an amazing experience. The air was still and quite cool, the room in semi darkness, shades drawn against the stifling dog day heat and I was at peace with myself and the world. I could hear, faintly, the muffled droning of lawnmowers. I was leaning back in my chair, completely at ease and calmly, without thought, gazing toward the cornice which ran between the tops of the dining room walls and the ceiling. Suddenly the thin dark shadow which marked the bottom edge of the cornice seemed to swiftly open up like a huge horizontal door. As it opened I felt myself being propelled toward it. I could see the walls of the room flash past me. Effortlessly I sailed up and through that black door. I shot toward the sky. In what seemed to be a split second I was flying through space, past stars, flashing lights, planets.Then I was past them all and into total blackness. I sailed on for a couple of seconds at what seemed to me to be a tremendous speed. Then I stopped or was stopped.
                             Blackness was all around me but I sensed it was the blackness of a vast unending space or cosmos. It wasn't claustrophobic. I didn't feel threatened in any way. As I looked around me at nothingness, a voice spoke to me: "This is where God is ". At that, I felt myself being turned around and, far below me (or behind me), I saw planet Earth. It was, to me, about the size of a large beach ball. I saw the continents and the oceans. Then, within the circle of the Earth, I saw another smaller circle and inside that circle I saw me, sitting in my chair, holding the cup of tea, motionless.In that moment, as I stared at the Earth and the picture of me, I realized I could not die. I knew I was a spirit person, living in a human body, understanding and relating to a life of sensory experiences and mental stimuli by means of that body and its brain. All of this flashed through me as a total, instant revelation. I knew it not intellectually, (although I could appreciate it in that sense), but primarily as a total experience in my whole being. In a way which I had never known before, I felt completely me, free as I had never been.
                                   Then, with a great rush, I hurtled back through space and found myself sitting in my chair, my cup of tea in my hand, but with a difference. I had not come back into my body completely. I felt as though I had come back only part-way, about one-third. The rest of me was still "outside". Amazingly, I felt great. I'd never felt better in my life. I went on with my life but somehow there I was, quite literally, looking over my own shoulder. Yet I was happy. I hadn't a care in the world. To tell the truth, I couldn't be concerned about anything. Somehow, because I was more out of my body and more in my spirit, (which I was realizing was the real me), I felt completely freed from life's pressures. I walked along streets. I worked at my profession. I ate, slept, lived as I'd always lived. Except I lived in total bliss, supremely happy. I was experiencing being physically in the world but, in my "true self", not in it at all, and it was fantastic. There was no yesterday and no tomorrow. I was living totally in the today, moment by moment, hour by hour. I did not feel the passage of time. I was "in the spirit" and somehow outside of time whilst still in my physical body. I was experiencing two worlds at the same time, physically and mentally coping with everyday  situations in the world of cause and effect whilst at the same time experiencing the absolute bliss of a world I had merely read about before.
                                   About five weeks later, as I was walking to the nearby mailbox, I suddenly began to shake and I felt myself slipping back more and more into my body. As I did so, I heard these words: " You cannot stay like this. You must live your life fully in that world and experience it in all of its aspects."  With those words the moving stopped but I wasn't fully into my body. I was now about two-thirds in my body but still out one-third and I've been like that since. From that moment on I walked truly between the two worlds, with total awareness of both and the realization that whilst my body could and would die someday, I could never die. I also knew, with a knowing that came from "where God is", that I would always look at and live my life on planet Earth from the perspective of who I really am in my True Self. I could "see" truly and was totally aware of the reality of the two worlds and their co-existence.
              That was in 1972. The year now is 2009 and what do I see now of the two worlds? I have found that life on Earth in the Fallen-World-Belief-System is not at all simple. It can be extremely difficult and the search for the True Life is complicated by deceptions of all sorts. So many seekers of truth are ensnared by their own ideas of what truth should be. So many lead others along their own deluded paths. No one can be prevented from following the seer of their choice or the path so enticing. I have found that Earth is indeed a battlefield; that there is indeed an evil force ruling on this planet and causing terrible suffering and hardship. Its main weapon is deception.
                    Each person in the whole world may choose to believe what he or she wishes to believe but that does not mean they will be believing Truth. The lie of deception has many faces and those faces are to be found in widely varying places and in many different forms, from the blatant power-hungry rule of tyrants to the outwardly respectable boardrooms of big business, from the suave promise-brokers in political office to the guarantors of eternal security in religious guise. Evil has adapted to whatever will buy one's loyalty. Its success is based on asking what will please you. The God of Truth asks you if you desire to please Him. Evil raises up the Self for its own sake. God demands Self die for His sake. When Self dies for God's sake He raises it up to a New Life, a Life filled with His own Life.
                 In 1970, two years before my amazing out-of-the-body experience, I received that New Life through Jesus. He is truly The Way, The Truth and The Life (1). He is the Door through which we each must walk into our True Life.He was the One Who took me to where He is and throughout the years since has walked with me through great times and hard times. Walking the Path of Truth in this Fallen World isn't always easy but walking it alongside Truth Himself has proven more than sufficient.         BASIC LAWS No.5: Each Person In The Whole World Is Free To Believe Exactly What He Or She Wishes To Believe. (Think carefully about this one.)Footnote:1:The Bible, Gospel of John, Cpt.14,v.6. Back to Contents (Principles of Power)                                Next Page
 
 
 
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