An Expanding View

My first consciousness expansion coupled with a real visual experience came while sitting in my high school study hall, peering at the table in front of me as I had my chin resting on my hands on top of it. As I stared at the table, I began to see layers upon layers of waveforms all nicely nestled into each other, seemingly creating the table. It was like I was seeing beyond the form.

The most vivid point was ‘seeing’ the layers of the laminates used in the table top. As I watched intently it appeared as though these patterns ebbed and flowed with my breath. The orchestration of their movement was truly amazing at the time. I could literally see the layers as waveforms, undulating to some magical rhythm that I could not hear....yet.

Eastern philosophy offered an explanation that everything is vibration, not near as solid as one might believe. Many years later, quantum physicists and leading-edge pioneers in the field described very similar structures to reality.

I know that was just a moment in time with a profound viewing of the nature of creation, or at least that is what it appeared like to me. Instead of just turning on, tuning in and dropping out, like Tim Leary suggested, I was intensely curious about the experience and the effects on my senses. It seemed much deeper.

I never had the ‘hallucinations’ that I heard about, just a much more vivid display of perceptual reality in the outer world. Inside was much different. I got the chance to speak to Dr. Leary a couple of years before his death. My excitement waned quickly, though.

At the time Dr. Leary seemed only a shell of what I expected from one so intimately involved in the expansion of consciousness. Age and fragility takes its toll. Many years had passed and not all of them suited him. His own battle with physical reality was failing, although he still had a twinkle in his eyes.

One of my early desires had finally been fulfilled at least and his partner, Richard Alpert, would have been deeper connection, it seems. Be Here Now was my first real insight into consciousness. I’d spoken to the man responsible for so many trips into the depths of consciousness and beyond, outside looking in as the line from the Moody Blues song proposed.

Continued Maturation

What I found later was the explanation for it all, along with a growing understanding of cooperating with the natural actions of time, space and matter. Mathematical formulas for constructing geometric shapes we all study in school really do have a connective framework with the foundational structure of time and space, thus facilitating the manifestation of matter. Recent movies like The Matrix, What the Bleep Do We Know?, and TRON-The Legacy hint of it.

Many years later I would return to the quest of understanding, only with my mind free of substance and much better prepared to ask prudent questions. Those questions helped to formulate an understanding of the depths of consciousness that included similar layers that I’d seen so many years prior. I felt I was making progress. Being introduced to the Multiplane Awareness Technique much later set me on another quest for deeper integration and understanding.

Sitting in an advanced geometry class in high school, I became aware that many of the internal images and patterns I was seeing were indeed mathematical models of these equations, passed down through discovery and revelation of earlier inquisitors of the nature of matter. I couldn't understand what it all meant then. I'm not sure I do now, though my perception capacity has increased.

All I knew was that, with eyes closed, I was seeing these same patterns in the movements of my mind and the traveling of my thoughts during those earlier experiences. I had an intuitive understanding that this was ‘sacred’ geometry. Many years later it became even more obvious as I found and studied the Fibonacci sequence and Golden Mean as natural constructs throughout reality.

Many artists and computer animation wizards are creating the same images for mandalas, wormhole effects for movies, and the imagery of the inner journey expressed on canvas. I'm still in the quest of how it flows together; to understand its significance in the natural order of our evolution, which this exploration seems to precipitate.

An Evo-Leap in Understanding

We are given many indicators as to how to find truth, a cohesive reality of connected experiences, in spite of what the neighbors might think. Back then there was little information to explore beyond religious texts. Now, quantum physics models and comparative research like Valentina Mironova presents impacts a much larger thoughtmosphere of possibility.

Now there is a plethora of paths one can take through any chain bookstore, across the sections of occult, psychology, religion, self-help or spirituality. I found a much more exciting world within than many were able to reach, hearing and seeing more subtle realms than most people considered at the time. I found things, for a moment, at least.

There is still something to be said of the pure path, free of substance. It takes more discipline and the practice is replete with inherent benefits always, not just during a few moments of clarity.?It is surely a life worth living to its fullest.

If you enjoyed the article, I invite you to view some apocalyptic (uncovering knowledge) chats from the more recent times. My guests reveal how they found their inner guidance or voice, not necessarily the geometry of it, and made it practical and pragmatic in their lives. One World in a New World Apocalyptic Chats are a new paradigm discussion playground.

Today, and through a serendipitous moment in one of those chats, I've become the Executive Director of a global peace movement and foundation - Live and Let Live . It's time we returned to the simple things that bring us together.