This process, this divine architecture, exists with every thing -- whether it be a galaxy or a star or a person. And this is how conscious mind creates the thought- causative level of an object, and then manifests the astral and then manifests the physical object.
What is essential is pure consciousness. Through deep silent, non- local mind, we can connect to an object and dematerialize it or rematerialize or move it across points in space and time. This is how certain Yogi adepts have been able to take an object and make it dematerialize and rematerialize like a teleportation device. You can connect to any object through awareness, and if you understand how awareness and mind- stuff becomes matter, you can affect that object. There is no separation whatsoever except the intellectual constructs that we have made. We build our own cages and only we can open them.
And so we have to unlearn those habituated intellectualizations, and quietly experience the 'unitive state'— the state of oneness. And empowered with the subtle operation of will and an active faith, 'this will be', almost anything is possible. Do you see what I'm saying? This will be. This is and it will be ... Without any doubt of it whatsoever.
Our lives have been created this way. The fact that we are still connected to our bodies is because of this. Think about it. You build a house. You had an idea of it that emanated from your conscious mind, and then you saw it and then you drew it, and then you built it.
This is the creative process and the Creator -- the divine Being -has created the
entire cosmos this way. And within us is folded the same ability.
This is why it has often been said, "He who has known his true self has verily known God."
The question is: Are there different gradations within the astral realm?
And the answer is absolutely yes -- just like there are different gradations within the material.
You can be in the sewers of Manhattan or you can be in a beautiful garden. We choose.
Within the worlds of light, there are lesser and greater worlds, and there are different stations, and different levels. And when someone passes out of this world, and is in their astral body, remember that "like seeketh like and taketh pleasure in the company of its kind."
That means that those of a certain level of consciousness and proclivity will gravitate to those of like mind. And they may not necessarily be pleased with their company. Do you see?
When people speak of hell, it is a state of mind on the other side. It is because of your own state of mind that you are with people who are a lot like you. Those worlds are created through thought forms, and if those beings or people are thinking terrible things, they are creating terrible manifestations around then.
You can sit and visualize a rose garden or a torture chamber. Do you see? That is the reality of that.
Now, there are finer and finer levels of the astral that create the "fine celestial realm," and the really high angelic realm. This refinement in mind, thought and energy continues until you get to the level of the station of the Avatar -- the station of the Godhead -- the Creator state.
There are countless degrees of refinement -- without cessation. And that is just the astral. Beyond that, there is the so-called idea/causal -- the essence of what relative existence is. At a certain level, you may evolve to where you don't even need to be in the astral body form, and you are in this point of thought/ consciousness. It is very expansive, beautiful, and divine.
For example, when I had my near-death experience, I didn't have a body shape. I was in this point of pure conscious light that was individuality and awake - it was causal. I went straight to causal and then went into infinite Mind.
The emotional texture of the astral worlds is very full and the light and the color are very beautiful - celestial.
But the existence that is beyond that -- the causative state — is a finer frequency. It is more essential, less differentiated and directly connected to the pure-
ness of mind and spirit.
The question is: Where does reincarnation come into this cosmology?
This is an often asked question. 'The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off '. So now I am going to piss off everybody.
The fact is this: The mass retail teachings of reincarnation are no more true than the mass retail teaching of other orthodoxies.
The truth about reincarnation is that it is true and it is absolutely false. Remember what we just experienced. Every individuality is a unique creation. And once it is in creation, it exists forever as a unique thing. That individuality is here, and it will continue forever.
And yet the awake mind within each of us is the same mind that is within all of us.
Every individual, by connecting to this non-local aspect of awareness, can experience the individual life of any individual now on earth or who has ever been on earth or who will ever be on earth or who has ever been in existence anywhere in the universe.
The description of reincarnation is therefore a misnomer. In reality, it is the realization of the oneness between individuality and infinity. That aspect of each of us that is the infinite Self, is also experiencing each of us. Thus, an individual's awareness can connect to this expanded non- local awareness and then experience the life of another. Because in reality, we are always all one Being.
Now, I have met probably five people who swear to God they were Cleopatra! And in a sense they were: Because the awake-ness within us is universal. In this way, an archetype person— or someone who has had an important impact as an icon within society or history like Cleopatra
can be experienced by certain other related souls in her fullness.
But does one die and kind of dissolve into nothingness and then reincarnate as Joe Cohen in Brooklyn, New York in the year 2030? No. What is understood about reincarnation is completely false, and yet within it is a profound truth that doesn't get taught because it's more abstract and nonlocal and higher ordered in complexity.
It is possible that people with individual souls will resonate with beings of a similar nature, or overarching resonant frequency. It isn't as if one ends life in this body, dissolves into some nothingness of the matrix of awareness, and then becomes another being or person. That isn't it at all. It is something much more profound. And the profound truth is we are all beings at all times. And if we choose to, we can experience an individual being and life in the past, in the now, or in the future
in its complete fullness.
Do you know who you are? Do you know that the entire universe is folded
within you, and therefore the awake Mind within you is omnipresent and that it transcends space and time? And you can resonate with, and experience in its complete fullness, all the soul experience of any being, with complete compassion?
Within ourselves is an infinite and eternal conscious Being. So if you understand the nature of mind and consciousness within ourselves, it is very understandable how we may go to sleep at night and within that relaxed state, break the bonds of space and time and see what will hap- pen next week, or see what happened a thousand years ago or even experience fully the life of someone who lived a million years ago.
We are coming into the maturity of the human race and need to have a more profound understanding of these things, so we don't fall into superstition and silliness, where people have to do certain rituals so they don't come back as an ant!
Of course, if you want to experience what it is like to be an oak tree or an ant or a dog, you can. You do not have to wait for another life!
When I swim with the dolphins, the reason they accept me is that they see me as one of them. They literally experience me as a dolphin. I become a dolphin.
When you drop the body and go to the next level, you will have all your memories, you will remember every one you were with on earth, you will evolve as this individuality through all the worlds of creation and through all the states of consciousness. At some point, if you wish, you will be the drop returning to the ocean.