Reality BEYOND the Light

SOUL JOURNEYS BEYOND THE LIGHT REALM

True story:
(1998)
I wasn't especially tired or sleepy, just wanted to ease a backache after hours on my feet at work. Stretched out in bed, on top of the covers, adjusted my pillow and tried to find the most comfortable position. Thought over the day's events. Nothing of note. Bored. Decided to relax with a visual exercise in my mind. Not self-hypnosis exactly, just a simple relaxation technique. Pictured a cool, shadowy path with sunlight filtering through the trees on either side. Dirt path under my feet. I put myself on this path and proceeded to imagine walking along, enjoying the serenity and tranquility. Still not sleepy, tried to ignore the stiff and sore muscles in my lower back. Continued with the visualization.
Then something strange happened.
Without warning there were two of me. A second self had appeared on the road several yards before me. This 'other self' turned around to look at me, and when it did, I was engulfed in an enormous wave of energetic vibrations - like liquid electricity. This other self smiled, turned back to continue walking ahead down the path. There appeared a bright white light to the right side of the path just a few feet before my other self. I expected this self to move into the light. But it did not. It turned to glance at me again, as if to say 'watch and see', and bypassed the light. There came another bright light - it appeared ultraviolet - and this is where the other self exited, by moving into this second light.
All throughout this visualization, I had been awake, alert and, like a curious child, eagerly following in my mind this second self to see what would happen. Somehow my imagination had taken on a life of its own? Or had my consciousness divided? What happened to this second self? Why the two lights? Always the endless questions.

This may come as a surprise, but not every culture considers the 'white light' to be end-game goal of the soul. There are those spiritual adepts who caution against the entering thereof, or proclaim the light to be just one more in a long series of 'illusions' which man must pass beyond in order to reach the ultimate reality. And likewise, a few afterlife researchers, such as Peter Novak - author of two incredible books, The Division of Consciousness and The Lost Secret of Death (I cannot recommend these highly enough! If you've yet to read The Lost Secret of Death, please do so at the first opportunity) - propose that the human soul mind is not a single entity and actually divides/splits after death.

The Light Realm, in accordance with what Peter Novak terms the Binary Soul Doctrine, is a right-brain experience, wherein emotion, metaphor, analogies and symbols predominate. Where a connection to all of creation is experienced (omnipresence), language/verbal skills are diminished and telepathy/knowing is the norm. Any reality as experienced by the right brain is lacking in detail, critical thinking and objective analysis.

So what, you may rightfully ask, is the ultimate and true reality which lies beyond death? If the Light Realm is an illusion generated by a right-brain perception, what awaits the fully integrated mind? And is such a state attainable, at least in our present condition?

My personal take, as it stands thus far, is that there is no Here and There, no state of life or afterlife, no yen/yang or anything else dichotomous in nature. What we currently experience as reality is a false experience - an illusion as presented by our divided brain system. I've said this before and here, I say it again: Until man is able to 'factor in' to his equations, concepts and theories the undeniable fact that his mind, itself, is yet flawed, then so must all our deductions, truisms and anything else derived from a faulty system be logically considered as also flawed. We cannot truly know anything, or declare anything with certainty, until this 'bug' in the system is accounted for.

The Daemon Within

DEMONS, DAEMONS AND THE HIGHER SELF

Believe it or not, each of us walks in the company of demons. But before you run for the holy water, first understand that the original concept of daemon is much different that the meaning attributed to the term today.

In an early appearance as the Greek word 'daimon', it was a term applied to demi-gods or one who 'knew'. The demi-god was a being existing somewhere between man and God, sometimes in the role of spirit guide or guardian of man. Only in recent years (so to speak), has the word demon been firmly associated with an evil, supernatural being with ill intent towards man.

The importance of the Daemon in psychic matters may be clarified by understanding the following:

Each and every one of us, both you and I and all besides, are possessed (no pun intended) by a duality of consciousness as exemplified by our left and right brain hemispheres. We can be thought of as two souls within one body; two persons sharing one flesh. Ever since Freud made the astounding discovery of the existence of man's subconscious mind, we have been tortured with the uncomfortable awareness that we are not fully and completely the personality-self-in-charge that we once supposed ourselves to be - the master of our mental castle!

Instead, we are technically two beings in one; and this shadow being - this hidden subconscious self, is the identity of the Daemon we most often fear. This demon is our right brain; the purveyor of all things psychic, telepathic, the mind that functions in a misty fashion outside of time. The utilizer of symbols, magic and metaphor. The Daemon may also be emotionally driven, as opposed to our ego insistence for left-brained logic and linear reason. The Daemon works by association, poised in a hall of memory mirrors, and is the harbinger of warnings and prophecy.

The Daemon is the voice who speaks when channeled, the one who moves the planchette, and who has been called the Djinn or Trickster of man. This is the nature of the subconscious mind. And thus we meet the Demon, and he is us.

And that is the reason for the search for unity that impels us all. We are driven to become one, because the left without the right is a poor construct indeed.

As I see the dilemma of duality, what has happened is this. Man, in his present state, is an incomplete creature. We are caught in a temporary state of evolution, and must cool our heels until nature gets around to the future dissolution of the corpus callosum - the bundle of nerves that serves as a bridge between the hemispheres. One very excellent book which explains the above in well researched detail is 'The Lost Secret of Death' by Peter Novak. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, and all serious students of the psychic should have this book at their fingertips.