I saw this as an indirect way for the ETs to say, "You know, we're get- ting this." So I thought to myself, "Well I'm playing around with fire, here. I think, until I figure out what I'm supposed to do with this, this is enough."
I didn't tell anyone about this episode for a very long time. However, people need to understand why I gave up an established medical career - and the quarter-million dollars per year that came with it - to make known what I know to be true. Certainly not because it's "only a theory"!
While still in this state, asleep, I continued to have some kind of ongoing dialogue with these extraterrestrial beings. My roommate told me quite some time later, that for a number of months he would awaken late at night, and would hear me speaking quietly in my sleep.
He said, "You were speaking, but with a language not of this world." And I thought, "Oh, my God. Somehow, I was in a state of conscious- ness where I could connect to the language used by the ETs. And he was hearing that very clearly. He said, "Absolutely, it was not an Earth language."
After this, I pretty much decided that, until I had a specific reason to utilize these protocols I experienced with the ETs, it would be wiser to be just quietly aware of the ability, but keep it to myself.
In 1974, I left the traditional college at Boone to enter teacher train- ing at Mahar- ishi International University in Iowa. My experiences dur- ing the training there were really quite extraordinary, in part because I remained independent in terms of the institutional, dogmatic aspects of the group. However, there was an enormous amount of profound knowledge being discussed.
I immersed myself in the study of the Vedas and the Sanskrit language. I was enormously impressed with the amount of knowledge in the Vedas - how the experience of consciousness and universal awareness was articulated. This experience enabled me to have a time and place to be completely dedicated to the development of higher states of consciousness.
One of the most profound things I absorbed was the unfolding of the cosmology. This came not so much from didactic learning as from direct experience, which
included the astral or causal thought realms and the realms of light.
Once one understands the structure of creation and begins to experience it in detail, it becomes very understandable how people can have dreams of the future, alter their physical body to levitate, or to de-materialize and re-appear in another place. All the things you've heard about in what are considered mythological stories or so-called miracles become more comprehensible. They are also completely attainable by every single conscious human being. All beings will one day be capable of experiencing these things. The ability is our birthright- not just humans, but every conscious being in the universe. We are all children of God and all of these gifts and states exist within each of us.
That year, I began to have experiences that brought the infinite Being into this world. I could see a rock and know that it also contains pure awareness. Within the rock is the energy and the frequency of a light form, an astral form that gives it structure and its crystalline matrix form. And within that is the idea of it, and within the idea is the primal thought that created all things. And within that is pure, quiet conscious mind. In fact, the totality of everything is nothing but pure conscious awareness, phasing, resonating and playing in different forms and in different ways.
Much of the knowledge that goes with this has to be realized from experience. The good news is that everyone, at some time in their life, has experienced that type of integration and oneness. They just have to remember it. My intention is to try to describe it in a way that will help you remember. If I could accomplish this from my personal background- having grown up with a total absence of exposure to the world of spirituality, then anyone can!
As all of this began to unfold, I dedicated myself for a number of years to teaching meditation and higher states of consciousness. During those years, I took an advanced course in the Catskills, in New York. On that retreat, I fasted and spent several hours a day in meditation, in a really beautiful, quiet state.
I began to awaken to an ability I'd had since childhood -- but then only beginning to emerge -- of being able to see things within conscious- ness that were not visible to the naked eye. Walking down a corridor, I would try to see what was around the corner. Almost every time, I would see what was there or who was coming. And I wasn't trying to guess until I got it right. It was like staying in a steady state of consciousness and actually seeing it.
Then I would attempt to see things happening at a distant point on Earth or at a distant point in time -- the next day or the next week. I practiced this a great deal. It became routine for me to be able to go to sleep and see a distant place or event, and know what was going to hap- pen the next day.
Now, this is no mystery, if you understand the omnipresent nature of consciousness. Because it is omnipresent, it is beyond the restrictions of time or space, which means that you can break those bonds through entering this state of awareness. And when you do, you will find yourself able to see things one isn't "supposed to be" able to see. Space and time are obliterated, and you are free to really see.
One day during this retreat I wondered about some of the so-called siddhis (or spiritual powers) described in the Vedas.
I thought it would be interesting to test the limits of this for the physical body. I began to think about the abilities we have- if we are all consciousness and our bodies are actually filled with the light of awareness. What might we really achieve? Well, one day I was in an enormously happy, joyful, peaceful state. I was out walking on a magnificent, clear spring day. Being so affected by Earth and nature, the moment was right for what followed.
As I was walking in the field behind the manor where we were stay- ing, I spontaneously -- without effort or forethought -- levitated. It was reminiscent of that prolonged experience of bounding down the mountainside after my ET encounter in October of '73. This time I just lifted vertically, maybe two or three feet above the ground.
Instead of walking to my destination, I glided there in an upright, vertical levi- tation experience. And then at the moment my intellect kicked in and I exclaimed, "My God, look what's happening. How can I be doing this?", I settled down to Earth. It was halted by my own intellect and ego!
One of the many lessons I learned from this is that there's a certain grace, along with faith, needed for such extraordinary experiences. I don't mean religious faith per se, but the certainty of, or knowing the capacity latent within. It is beyond self, ego, and intellect. If we can give our- selves freely to it, incredible things can be accomplished. And if it fails to flow, it's because we are stopping it. Ultimately, it is recognizing and embracing the power of God within each of us.
After this experience, it became increasingly clear that we have with- in us any capability, and that anyone can acquire and develop them. We're coming into an era where such things will become routine and accepted as "the norm."
There is sometimes a tendency by people involved in various spiritual and religious groups to put people who have this level of experience or knowledge on a pedestal, as if it's unattainably unique. It's not, and that's very important to understand. It is, in fact, a disservice to the nature and potential of humanity to idolize something that should be understood as the birthright of everyone.
In 1975, I went with some friends to Isola, France, up in the Maritime Alps, to become instructors of meditation. While on this particular retreat, I had a number of experiences with higher states of consciousness, what might be called unity consciousness and God consciousness.