Meet The Risen

Dr. Melvin Morse was one of the first to read the manuscript, and immediately insisted on writing the Foreword for it. Here's a link to his wonderful piece, as well as the introductory material to The Risen.

Grief Transformed: Read the Chapter

A reader comments on our posting, "The Pastime of Reincarnation":

"Thank you for the information about this book, and especially thank you for the PDF of the chapter from your book on this subject. This is something that has caused me such untold suffering for the last 58 months, it is impossible to find words to describe it. It has utterly crippled me to the point that I have not even been able to function beyond getting up out of bed, and sometimes, not even able to accomplish that. When I lost my mother and dad because of cancer, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I would find evidence that they somehow continued to live, yet would lose them AGAIN ... PERMANENTLY ... to reincarnation. I won't go any further, but just know that the words I have written here do not even come close to describing what I have had to endure because of this.
-Bob"

Dearest Bob – it is with heartfelt gladness that some of our words may have brought you a certain amount of reassurance and comfort. Although the grieving never stops; it can and ought to transform into a higher, finer kind of energy. Many people avoid asking and answering the questions about reincarnation that have haunted you, caught in a grey area bounded by unrelenting grief; yet the grey area, which is where all the true colors are, contains the way in and out; the way infinitely forward – the Truth of Reality. As you say, words just do not function well to describe your feelings.

Yet why don't we see any beautiful, heavenly colors, just dismal, dismal grey? It is with our spiritual senses – sight, hearing, and feeling – that we are able to experience the sights and sounds of the spiritual dimensions. If they are not active, then either our spiritual senses are inert, still in seed form and waiting to sprout and become functional, or they are shrouded and dampened by the veils of our deep, deep sadness, held firmly in place by loneliness, abandonment, panic, worry, and especially fear. In our book, The Risen, we go into great detail about how this predicament comes about, and how to begin to re-conceptualize our thinking so that we reclaim our kingdom – the domain of our mind, wherein we reside. We reclaim it from the ego-mind. Our book has suggestions about that as well.

This dampening of the spiritual senses disables us in several ways, which you have been experiencing for the past five years – physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. Like an increasingly expanding shadow, the darkness of the growing grief keeps us imprisoned in a kind of “frozen hell of numbness,” as is says in our book.

You need not be crippled – this is a false state of being that will keep you from moving forward, as your parents are now doing themselves - moving forward. It is also an act of unkindness to yourself, and unkindness is never necessary, especially to one’s self. Rest assured that they will never move beyond you, for they can use time differently; hence they wait while they grow, and you grow while you wait. Waiting, which takes place in the present, and which is where you and where your parents are, is a true virtue. Waiting is not patience, something that is a form of control, and initiated by fear of loss of control. Waiting is the ability to rest in time, while simultaneously moving forward, still at rest. “Forward” and “rest” are meant here as states of existence, which is another way of saying “dimensions.” The Risen loosely refer to such seemingly paradoxical states as “geographies.”

We would like to offer you another chapter, “Grief Transformed,” from our book.

From the Archives: Out of Chaos, Order: A Liberation Drama

[First Posted 5 May 2010]

Tim and I recently teamed up together on a spirit rescue — or "liberation drama" as we say in our book, The Risen. This one had a twist that was a new one — to me, anyway. As always, being with Tim in this aspect as colleague, friend and companion is thrilling in ways that are far beyond written or spoken language, and I'm sure I'll continue to feel "high" (as in vibrations) from last night's experience for the rest of the day.

[As a kind of aside, but still an integral part of the experience, it's significant to note that Tim often does and says interesting — well, really the word is "weird" — things while we're together in these astral dimensions that impress and sometimes even shock me a bit. Not because he's being mean or playing with my mind, but for the purpose of overriding the usual psychospiritual amnesia effects that set in quite quickly after numinous spiritual events, so that I'll retain as many details as possible upon returning to my physical body. So they're very "zen-like" things brilliantly designed to catch me off-guard and make me think in different ways. It's these little quirks that stick with me for later and help me build and retain a kind of mental and emotional structure to which I can return for further review, such as the retelling of it here — in essence an "infosphere".]

Liberation dramas are multi-layered, complex, challenging, often baffling, and sometimes frustrating and exhausting. The overall deterrent to becoming healthily Risen and remaining bound to the earth or other non-Risen geographies is the fear of death and the ignorance of survival. But also, as noted in The Risen, "all unhealed and unresolved biopsychosocial disturbances, including addictions and ego-mind controlled mental conditions, will immediately transport a newly-disembodied person to less-than-positive geographies that reflect the existing state of mind." (p. 196)

These disturbance most certainly can include self-beliefs, as in this particular case, where a young woman, while on the earth, had become absolutely convinced that she was a "space alien" and not a native of Planet Earth. This was not at all true - she was a normal human being, but desperately needed to believe otherwise that she was special in some way, to compensate for childhood traumas that made it too difficult to accept being human. So deeply embedded did this ego-mind belief of simulate self become entrenched in her psyche that it continued to stay with her after her transition from the earth to the next plane of existence, and hindered any ability to move into the higher Risen vibrations of existence. In a fascinating series of linked events, and driven by the Principle of Affinity, she transitioned to a geography we've referred to as "diakka" (see The Risen for more details about this; a search on this blog will also give some good explanatory material).

There, she was overtaken and "captured" by residents who had once been scientists on the earth, and whose careers had hinged on seeking and finding "tangible proof of extraterrestrials". They still believed that they were scientists on Earth, having been unable to accept that they had transitioned, which went against their scientific beliefs and "knowledge" of how the Universe works. Now, through the Principle of Affinity, an actual "specimen" had been delivered right into their hands! Actually, into their own drama - one can, perhaps, begin to comprehend the idea of a "drama" that many people mistake for life, and how different ones will intersect and interplay. She was being held for "scientific study and observation" against her will, and it was her cry of help which was intercepted by Higher Risen, who sent Tim and me to help her.

We found her - alone - in a laboratory-like room, placed into a semi-conscious, almost comatose state, unable to move. She was also further mentally paralyzed by these circumstances, unable to decide how to respond to the situation, because these circumstances only strengthened and supported her delusion of being a space alien. She'd been captured and identified as "an alien" so therefore, she must be one. So while we initially said she was being held "against her will," she was also being held because of her will to believe that she was an extraterrestrial. If she let go of these beliefs, she would be freed; but then who would she be free to be? Either choice seemed threatening and frightening. She must have had a moment of clarity and was able to shift her mental position enough to send out a "distress call."

Interestingly, the other people there at this facility, the scientists, were preoccupied with something else in another room, and had no awareness of our presence, so we were able to work quickly and without interference. In retrospect, I see this had all been orchestrated for our benefit by Higher Powers.

Tim and I were able to show her a kind of visual representation of a potential "before and after" scenario of her being, in order to give her a contrasting viewpoint outside of her mind, so to speak. In turn, this gave her the chance to gain a more objective viewpoint of her life, and to begin to separate from the subjective aspects that were imprisoning her. She was then able to physically move from her position, and we escorted her to a "back door" where higher vibrating advocates awaited to transport her to new and safe surroundings.

New Era of Ectoplasm? Full Materialization Reported

Since 2005 the experimental sitters circle for Seance Room Phenomena, Physical Mediumship and Spirit Contact near Frankfurt/Germany is active and involved in highly sophisticated experimentation and group healing activities.

I received an excited phone message last night from friend and colleague, Dr. S., that yesterday, Kai Mugge's FEG Spirit Team achieved a full manifestation of a Risen person in full red light during a special sitting in Spain. To read a very initial report, which also contains some ground-breaking scientific information about the very nature of ectoplasm (photos to come later) go here.

From The Archives: Krishnamurti Speaks: Negation & Dimensionality

This communication from K. is from the Archives of February, 2006.

We speak of dimensionality, of dimensions, which suggest quality and quantity — time and space — in mixed measures of unlimited ideas and approaches to one's life experience.

Negation is not positive thinking. Positive thinking works, by willful and consistent repetition, to overcome negative aspects, by turning off those aspects, as it were. So it can be seen that positive thinking can actually be quite violent in effect. Positive thinking needs negative thinking as a side-by-side companion, or as the background against which to stand and to be counted. Regard the system of binary code, which is represented by "1" and "0", which represent, respectively, on and off, yes and no, this and not this. They can exist only in direct but separate relationship to one another. Without one, the other is nothing. They may be perceived as opposites, yet are bound by something invisible and intrinsic that cannot be defined, although it would seem that they themselves are the defining factors. To ponder how this invisible something is used is to begin to touch the edge of the road that leads to other dimensions.

Negation is not of the binary. It is not of thought; rather, it is a non-thought or the space of absence of thought, which appears first as "no", and then becomes "yes". To negate something may appear, sound or look as if one is saying "no" to something else. Rather, as a more organized truth, which some may call "higher" or "greater" or "holier" and so on, negation neither recognizes nor remembers what it does not wish to manifest or occur. It is using the mind for something other than thought, which requires perception and memory. Without them, there is no thought, and without thought, there is no time. In this way, so-called miracles arise. It's not that what was unacceptable is now acceptable; rather, it is now not. What was damaged is healed — in the eternal nowness of what is, then, it has always been healed — and in fact, it was never otherwise than whole. This truth is what exists before, during and after the perception of events within the experience of psychological time. Neither the no nor yes exist, except if and as one chooses. This is the core of one's Self, and by extension, the expansion of one's view of the outer and inner dimensions, which become one when all else is negated. Then Reality becomes a dream, and the dream becomes Reality, and they co-exist.

What arises from this co-existence contains all the probabilities of dimensional experience; there is no time where this oneness is concerned; in fact, it is not concerned at all nor in any way. What arises is not static, or dead, but moving and living. When the mind uses thought to make decisions, which is judgment, and assigns the judgment with "1" or "0", then time and space, which is dimensionality, arises within the field of perception. When the attention is withdrawn from them, they collapse, and wholeness, which is peace, emerges from the dark waters of the mind.

Negation collapses the binary. Negation is conscious non-awareness of "1" or "0", which leads to conscious awareness of something else. This something else can be of one's choosing, which can be judged or not, although from any greater perspective in the cosmos the judgment is neither good nor bad, "1" nor "0". Negation is not turning off both the "1" and the "0", but turning the attention away from them. Negation is choosing this, and this only — there is no that. Once this choice is made, that does not exist, and one is left with this.

The Withering of Finer Ancient Senses

An excerpt from Tim's brilliant chapter, "The Pastime of Reincarnation" from The Risen. To read the entire chapter, go here.

“Because of the withering of such finer ancient senses, the reigning earthly  cultural view disables any abilities to perceive the underlying realities, thus rendering them invisible to the mind. Now, in your time, Nature itself is being  disabled and destroyed by humankind, which means that humankind is  destroying itself. When you attempt to destroy Nature you are literally  destroying your hearth. Destructive thinking leads to manifested violence.  Humankind is an inextricable part of Nature because, like the baby trees, their  spirits arise out of the same spirit of Greater Nature. Humankind is now  increasingly dismantling its own hearth, which contains the collective memories  of countless individual homes. Decreased access to the collective underconscious  leaves a feeling of emptiness and longing, and so people are filled  with increasing urges escalated by their ego-minds to fill that emptiness—even  with stories that aren’t completely true or which have yet to be realized. These  urges demand instant satisfaction regardless of the damages incurred, while  neglecting the health of the overall collective and causing severe imbalances  within the greater system." 

“I give you an image here of your blue planet swimming in the Cosmic Ocean of Ceaseless Voyaging. Its never-ending development continually advances it as a new species in every unit of space-time. Although Earth appears finite, it is, in countless and generally unknown ways, infinite and nonpredictable in its own evolution. This is because it is a living, organic being itself. Although it has long been studied by earth-born Risen, our terrestrial home is still a great creature of greater mysteries. Citing the repetitive tendencies of human histories, some see Earthkind’s present destructive actions as signs of evolution and an element of the process of earth’s unfolding nature, where growth appears as an occurrence from a four-dimensional perspective, like the movement of a pendulum swinging to and fro, further and wider. They wonder what the limits of this pendulum are and if it is reaching the state of its final limitations—many believe that it has. From multidimensional perspectives that are beyond the usual four—within most of humankind’s ken—there are yet other models. The spiral is one that well-describes the Risen perspective, a model that is greatly downsized and a relatively static example of higher dimensions.”

The geology of spirit.

[First posted 3/26/11]

Just for the heck of it, I re-scanned Boris's image at 300 dpi with certain enhancements, to see how it would appear here. (Sorry it's a little crooked.) Of course it depends on the resolution of one's computer screen, but keep in mind that this is a 3x5 card. Click on the image below to see closer details. Most of us will be able to then click again on the image to enlarge it even more. My computer has refined resolution, so I don't know how many can see the "geology" of the image, which appear (to me)  as complex ridges, whorls, miniature streams and valleys created by the precipitation of molecules of pigment. The biologist's loupe I use reveals much more nature.

[Keywords: precipitated art, boris pasternak, card, hoyt robinette ]

More on the Myths of Reincarnation.

“Wherever you go, there you are.”
~ Zen Buddhist Saying
“Do not adjust your screens. This is not a test.”
~ Zen Risen Saying

Just finishing the reading of our special friend, Anita Moorjani's new book from Hay House, Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

So very much of what she shares resonates with and validates an exceptional amount of what we also struggled to put into words, which, as some may know, are inadequate and even misleading when trying to explain the numinous to the phenomenal mind. We are especially happy that her experience joins with and validates what a very few others are finally beginning to realize: that what has been taught as "reincarnation" can be something else entirely! This idea was explored in great detail in the chapter, "The Pastime of Reincarnation" in The Risen. We offer a link to a pdf of that chapter for those so interested, while echoing Anita's suggestion that we suspend beliefs for even a little bit, to begin to experience the expansion that she had during the spiritual adventure of her NDE.