Application of Impossible Things: A Near Death Experience in Iraq (4 page)

My understanding is that we do use these energies without being fully aware of it. In the Blink Environment, a wide spectrum of energies, all familiar to us but imperfectly understood, are used as casually as we now toss around the Easter Bunny (so to speak). Until we understand the spaces between what is currently considered physically real and understand thought as energy capable of effect, we’re unable to fully utilize the same energies as creative resources for consciously chosen ends in our physical lives.

Leaving the Easter Bunny (thank goodness) and the dizzying potentials of thought as a primary
force of creation
for the moment,
where
is this environment that I experience?

The Blink Environment is less a physical location than an intensity, a frequency, or dimension. It is specific in location yet is not a part of space as we currently define it. Co-located rather than sitting separately above or below our physicality, I could say it sits beside or within or
between
(that pesky concept again), and that would seem more accurate. It touches and accesses other specific realities although it doesn’t necessarily have deliberate effect within them. Consider radio frequencies, which exist in the same space within and between each other, usually without obvious interaction.

As a vibrational level, the environment seems limitless, yet its limits are obviously defined within the band of vibrational frequency. My understanding is that an infinity is available within the frequency although that frequency does not offer access to every available potential within every
other
frequency. The vibrational frequency where I received the deep rest healing, for example, offers a largely separate infinity. In some potentials it is unique while other potentials are shared with the Blink Environment. They both contain infinite potential but not necessarily each other’s infinite potential.

Every other frequency or dimension cannot be accessed directly from the Blink frequency, or from the deep healing frequency, or from the frequency on which my physical healing took place. Each dimension offers access to various other dimensions while no one offers access to all others. I imagine a sort of latticework or complex network of connections while also understanding that these visuals are only analogies since the reality is so densely layered as to be incomprehensible to my logical mind. Being that there are infinite frequencies, the network is kinetic although some quality within it remains fixed in the sense that once a personality or awareness is familiar with a specific vibration, that state can always be located.

The Blink Environment, like any other vibrational reality, has rules of energy that define structures of experience within it—the rules being cooperative agreements. The personalities or beings that exist or participate in it are aware of the rules and voluntarily create them, maintain them, and operate within them just as we do in our physical world. The accumulation of intent, which is
thought energy
,
fixes the laws of that universe more firmly as experience accumulates in the environment. And yet no law is unbreakable; it is only a guideline for shared experience and ever-expanding exploration of the potentials of creative force.

Because we’re not fully aware of the laws we agree to exist within on the physical dimensions, whether we’re speaking of natural forces or cultural, we’re unable to consciously utilize them to an equivalent extent. By a constant, effortless awareness of the rules and the complexities of the structure underlying them, the personalities that operate within the Blink Environment are better able to use the energies deliberately and creatively. As a gross example, in order to use electricity for our own ends, we first needed to understand some of its potentials, limitations, and properties in order to generate it at will and then control what we generate.

The awareness of one’s own consciousness within the Blink Environment is obviously broader than what we’re accustomed to consider
normal
in our own environment. Through belief systems, present cultures have limited the general awareness of energy systems and the nature of expanded awareness
,
or ritualized those states through various practices. In the Blink Environment the expanded awareness is free of those limits.

Our perceptions are shaped by what we
believe
to be real and possible within the physical environment. The Blink Environment is fully aware of the dimensions that we consider real and of a myriad of other realities that are not necessarily considered real from the current perspective of our physical reality: the dream landscapes that we visit each night and places we go in moments when we drift off into daydreaming, fantasies, and reverie. Or the blank spaces of those sort of lost moments when we can’t think what we were intending to do a moment ago. Or the lost time that we experience driving a car, suddenly coming to consciousness, thinking
Shit, I don’t remember a thing between the office and here!

Those experiences are not throwaways but dips into an expanded consciousness. We slip through time or space as we understand it, visiting the spaces
between
. Instantly forgetting where we were or what we experienced in that missing moment seems to be a function of the conscious mind editing what doesn’t fit into its concept of reality. It is the equivalent of my ability to morph white robed personalities into animals.

If our conscious minds were to accept the substance within the moment, our carefully constructed beliefs of how the world works would likely be threatened.
Everything
might have to change: assumptions of what is possible, what is right or wrong, what is good or bad, what is whose responsibility, what is real and not real, what is meaningful, how time moves, how space is organized, how we move through the environment, how we’re born, how we die, where we came from, who we are . . .

Stop and think through a few examples of each of those things. Then think of more.
Everything
is a lot of things. Change can be frightening.

(Or is
anticipating
change the frightening part?)

In any case, such change isn’t necessarily requisite. We operate within this physical universe as it is currently understood for meaningful reasons. The current limits we’ve designed are a choice. Whether we choose to change within this universe and how we change and evolve is also a choice.

Awareness in the Blink Environment assumes that our consciousness is the enduring Self and that consciousness is more than what we experience, use, or acknowledge from within the physical environment. The body and our entire physical world is real but is not the totality of the Self’s reality. It is not
more or less
real than the places experienced in the dream state nor the places we go between moments. We’ve been taught to focus and, in some instances, agreed to focus on a narrow band of experience proven only through five physical senses. The comical aspect of that is its implication that what is not sensed through our physical bodies’ mechanical system doesn’t really exist. We set up our own paradox: if that assumption is carried through to a logical end, whatever is currently out of the reach of my direct sensory perception doesn’t exist. If I can’t see it, taste it, feel it, smell it, or hear it, it’s gone. Just because I can return to it by focusing on it again doesn’t prove anything. I frequently revisit the same place in my dreams—yet I’m told that dreams are not real and the place I visited in my dream is a figment of my imagination. If the store I went to yesterday and plan to return to tomorrow is real, so then, too, might be the place that is familiarly revisited in my night dreams.

Often esoteric and spiritual literature flip that conclusion, referring to this physical life as a dream, the illusion. The two ways of stating the same reality focus attention from a different vantage point.
It is all real
solidifies and affirms all experience: that which my physical self is experiencing, as well as the expanded realities my consciousness explores. This is useful to me in bringing the expanded consciousness into the physical consciousness, in blending what my logical, linear mind still often splits into separate worlds. It might be a useful little mantra to try when attempting deliberate out-of-body experiences or learning to bend spoons. It might help in teaching the conscious mind that the paranormal is normal.

It is all illusion
can be useful in breaking down those same barriers by coming at beliefs from the other side. Saying
it is all illusion
encourages me to detach from the physical reality by suggesting that something I perceive as unpleasant exists as a temporary state within something else, something larger and meaningful. This could be useful in situations that require a re-examination of assumptions about what constitutes good and evil, right or wrong, for instance. Stating the concept either way can be a surprising exercise in expanding awareness and breaking down some of the programming that has taught me to distrust what I instinctively know.

Other characteristics and implications of the Blink Environment are more easily approached through describing other aspects of my experience, so I’ll move on to the next excerpt of the account, which will provide a basis for discussing the personalities that I encountered out-of-body.

Chapter 3 - Personalities, Interaction, and Intent

The personalities were non-physical in essence, taking on form if they intended to do that for a particular purpose. I perceived the way they looked according to what I preferred for my purposes. At the time, abruptly transferred from the physical plane, it was simpler to perceive them in a human form, wearing glowing white robes.

Most of these thousands were familiar to me, and all were my equal, regardless of their admiration for my latest silly feat on earth. (How intrepid is it really to choose to get blown up?) I knew the Gathering to be a meeting of many groups representing a wide variety of interests and responsibilities pertaining not only directly to earth and physical universe energies but also to dimensions and issues beyond.

A problem I encounter in expanding on this portion of the account is in finding a word to properly describe or portray the individuals in the Gathering. Calli
ng them
spirits
might work if the word didn’t carry religious undertones of angelic creations or conjure a sort of wispy, ethereal ghostly human form. But it does.
Entity
sounds digital to me, robotic and chilly. The word
beings
is accurate, yet so general as to be almost meaningless and lacking the warm connotation of individual liveliness. I’ve been using the word
personalities
, and the word comes closest to my feeling about them—perhaps the best I can do with the language limitations. Semantics matter because a corresponding comprehension of the depth of each personality seems dependent upon it. To properly bring them to life through language, I would most naturally call them
people
or
friends
. That would present its own conundrum since they lack a basic requirement of the definitions: our current focus on physicality. For lack of a better choice, then, and having come this far using
personalities
or
beings,
I’ll stick with those words and attempt to infuse them with a little depth through further description.

As previously noted, I’m aware of the white robed personalities arrayed around me as I stand on the dais, and I’m also aware of them as energies, points of light, or monsters, as I prefer: an allowance of the environment. I’m also aware of each of them as individuals. Changing my visual perception of them doesn’t allow me to change the immediacy of their presence or individuality. They are as real to me as my own hand.

Their number is overwhelming to my conscious mind, yet I’m able to single out any one of them to fully
recognize
the personality of that individual, simultaneously and instantly perceiving and knowing each of the other thousands as unique individuals. That simultaneity of awareness of each of the thousands seems like another nonsensical concept from within the physical consciousness
. It’s too complex to comprehend.
It might help to imagine being in a room full of friends, perhaps at a wedding reception or large birthday party. While listening to one friend telling a story, imagine also being aware of each of the other friends in the room and the ambiance created by the combination of those particular people. Scanning the room, each person is instantly recognized with an awareness of the individual’s uniqueness while you are still listening to a friend’s story. At the same time, an awareness of the overall mood of the Gathering can be felt: it might be tense, awkward but friendly, quietly content, cheerfully lively, openly joyful, or—woo hoo!—drunkenly raucous.

In the Blink Environment, that simultaneity of awareness of the friend talking
and
friends within the room
and
ambiance is simply expanded to allow one the capability of focusing on
innumerable
points at once with
full
consciousness.

Likewise, the recognition of the personalities through the reading of an energy gestalt of that individual has a corollary in physical experience though it is vastly expanded in the Blink Environment. If you’ve ever thought of a friend but inexplicably couldn’t come up with that individual’s name, consider how you knew of whom you were thinking: you may have called up a visual image of that individual, and accompanying that image was a gestalt, or a total sense, of that personality. That
feeling
might have formed over years or within moments, compiled from physical data, memories of shared experience, and judgments of your own about characteristics of the person. Those details are integrated into an idea or a sensed
whole
describing that person as a unique personality. Though you may never have been with a particular friend under some unusual circumstance—after being blown up by a roadside bomb, for instance—if you were to imagine experiencing that incident, you could probably imagine how that friend might react. While your conclusion might originate from accumulated experiences with that friend, you don’t consciously and deliberately page through every single thing you know about that friend in order to reach the conclusion. You have a gestalt, one idea unit,
representing the friend that you can dip into and come out of almost
instantaneously, emerging
with the conclusion.