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Many decades ago I got into a situation where I was imminently about to get badly injured and I freaked out and instantly exited my body (briefly). I suddenly found myself in a completely different reality— a place of the most profound pece and sense of well-being that I had ever experiened, and I had the overwhelming feeling that "Everything Is Perfect Just The Way It Is". Obviously I survived that event, although quite a but "the worse for wear"! But the out-of-body experience was astounding and I had no idea what to make of it. At that point, I had never heard of "out-of-body experiences", and it was before Dr. Raymond Moody had written his seminal work "Life after Life". But it was real and powerful. And it had happened in broad daylight and in full waking consciousness, not like some situations where people try to claim it was caused by low oxygen to the brain or some such pathetic attempt to discount the existence of the non-physical aspects of Reality.

But here's the thing: we all CAME FROM that place of perfect love and peace and bliss. And we separated into individual focal points of that Oneness/Wholeness so we could have the adventures only possible from within the "limited" perspective of this physical manifestation. Us being here is absolutely not an accident, or a punishment, or some sort of school that we have to attend and "graduate" from to be able to "go to heaven", or some test that we have to "pass". Not at all! We come here FOR the adventure. Any "test" is self-chosen and self-imposed. We do things to broaden our understanding, to learn, for the fun of it.

But this physical world IS just an illusion. There is no such thing as solid matter: everything is energy. And nothing here can actually harm us. But neither is anything what it seems. We can't "own" things or "have" things, because they aren't real. Everything is a dance of constantly changing energy. Your beautiful place in Spain is an energy pattern of light and other parts of the "physical spectrum". When we take things too seriously and get too invested in the illusion, we just cause ourselves unnecessary unhappiness. It is "attachment" to the illusion that is the source of all pain. Remember: EVERYTHING is constantly changing. If we could view our lives and this physical world as a "time lapse" movie, rapidly speeded up, we would have a more accurate perspective. That giant oak tree wouldn't be so permanent-looking. We would see it AS IT IS: a PROCESS, NOT A THING: an acorn, then a seedling, then a sapling, then a young tree, then a large mature tree, and finally a battered and scenescent old tree that gradually dies and then decays back into the forest soil. WHAT was the "Tree" but a constantly changing process of LIFE ENERGY (Source Energy) expressing itself physically? Within the illusion of time?

Keeping a little perspective about our adventures here makes things a little easier. Try to see things as they are and not get so attached. Everything "will come out in the wash" in the end, because nothing here is constant. The consistency we seek is the Love that we came from and are made out of. THAT is what is REAL.

Nothing else exists, not even "Evil". Evil is only ignorance of Reality, just as darkness is only the absence of light. Neither darkness nor evil actually exist. They are part of the illusion of this manifestation. To make it more interesting. We are each on our own "Hero's Journey".

But for anything to "exist" outside of Oneness, requires that ONE THING to separate itself out into CONTRAST: the Light and Dark. The Yin and Yang. Up and Down. Positive and Negative.

Think of the zero straight line in the center of an oscilloscope, stretching itself out, up and down into the curvy waves of the positive and negative aspects of the waveform.

Similarly, this changable physical universe was "stretched out" from Oneness into the positive and negative of this physical reality. This Cosmic Playground. Why? I think that Oneness just got bored! So it separated into fragments, much like the one diamond has numerous facets: each reflecting light to make beautiful rainbow colors. But each facet is still an inseparable part of the whole stone. Likewise, we are all parts of an Infinite Diamond, each a unique individual expression of the Whole!

I was just reading a book about "scalar energy". That's what happens or is produced when electromagnetic waves interfere with each other and "cancel" each other out. The waves disappear but the energy doesn't because it can't! Where does it GO? It has to transition BACK out of this physical dimension/manifestation into the Non-physical where it came from originally! The physicists are just beginning to figure out how this universe really works. Yes, there are Other Dimensions. Yes, Consciousness is Infinite Energy. And THAT is what We ARE!

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Mary Morris's avatar

You are by far the best journalist and story teller. You are one of the most interesting women of our times. Thank you, Frances. Do you have a book out yet?

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