“Immortality Unleashed”, is a new series of essays, explorations and discussions of how this life looks once the bogeyman of mortality is bypassed by the discoveries and insights explored in the previous series, “Journey To Knowing”. Once we have expanded into eternity and immortality there is still the many shades of, “Well, what do we do now?”
Understanding the new and often invisible parameters to the many dimensions at our doorstep and coping with the excitements of psychic abilities and mental powers can be a tall order for the citizen still charting a career and raising a family. Even the retiree, like myself, with time on his hands, can be somewhat overwhelmed with all the possibilities beckoning from the horizon.
So, over the coming months we shall meander through the maze of new realities and old illusions and see if we can separate the wheat from the chaff, perhaps making two neat piles we can play with at recess.
The Travelling Self
In the beginning, or what seems like the beginning, you are thrilled to be out there in the Astral Planes, making your presence felt, or what feels like your presence.
Three Short Unplanned Contacts
Throughout my inner journey, there have been a number of seemingly spontaneous contacts that surprised and intrigued me.
The Transience Of Experience
The transience of experience, a category referred to by committed meditators and temple retreat attendees of various traditions.
Balancing Idealism With Knowing
Likely due to the seemingly endless wars, "extreme weather events", and waves of debilitating disease currently obsessing our bodies, hearts and information feeds, there seems to be more than the usual imprecations and prayers in the cause of love, light and peace on earth.
More On Channeled Wisdom
As a community we’ve been living with channeled wisdom for decades and if you go back to Ancient Greece for example there was a culture very respectful of Oracles.
Self-Consciousness Becomes The Observer
I was reminded of a sudden insight from decades ago as I made my way through esoteric teachings, both traditional and contemporary and the mystical practices they engendered, to find the real me hiding inside the various selves built by ego, education, family and culture.
Life’s Meaning And Its Knowing
From time to time on the quest for our true self, that identity hidden beneath the layers of personality, desires, fears and all those belief systems we absorbed on our way through youth to maturity, we feel we can see clearly beyond the clouds of mystery and mystification, to the purposes and results of our strivings.
Why Enemies Seem Necessary
As one watches the actions of societies as they seek to maintain the sovereignty and safety of their citizens on a planet of ruthless competition, one is repeatedly reminded of our recurring need for enemies to resist, battle and vanquish.
The Choice To Be Born
Why would a soul choose to be born into an already well established and powerful cult? As with extreme poverty and dangerous war zones, this is a question that is often posed by seekers.
The Passing Moment
When one arrives at the calmness, where duties and obligations have settled themselves, and the passing moment with its various gifts and blessings can be quietly enjoyed, one can easily wonder why one gets worked up over anything.
4am Anxieties and the Observer
You might be surprised, but I am just as prone to those middle-of-the-night negative thoughts and projections as anyone I have met or counselled. Extended periods of relative enlightenment and perceived multidimensionality do not preclude that dive into the deeps of vaguely threatening shadows.
Joy and Serenity
I regularly see folks on various Facebook threads and groups writing enthusiastically about the joy they feel in various aspects of their spiritual practice. No, I do not feel they are ramping up their giddiness quotient to be noticed or celebrated, but are revealing an almost childlike happiness they have discovered...
Surveying The Channeled Literature
Whether you take on Jon Klimo’s encyclopaedic Channeling or revisit your own collection, as I am currently doing, it does not take long to be reminded that there is lots of it out there, so much that you can see you’ll never encompass it all. The question is, if indeed there is one that can be successfully isolated, what to do with it. Absorb, critique, enjoy?
Spotlight on Heroes and Villains
I recently viewed the Netflix doc on the abuse scandal in The Boy Scouts Of America, which, like its counterparts in the various religious communities thus poisoned, continued for many decades being denied and swept under the rug. The details of the grim drama will astonish you as much as it did me...
Out-of-Body Journals 2023
I have been exercising myself, or if you prefer myselves, in projections and contacts with a variety of spirits and spheres for some years now, at least since 2017 as far as my WordofGord videoblog goes. Initially employing a before-dawn respite before the work day, I sought to unveil some of what I knew I’d been up to while "asleep"...
My Role As Facilitator
I facilitate the expansion of consciousness within and around the being before me, on the couch or in the screen, so that they can believe the journey they go on rather than doubt it as imaginative fantasy.
Balancing The Forces Of Creation and Destruction
It can be an overwhelming challenge, whether we are on the inner journey of spirit or not, to find that point of balance between what we perceive as creative in the world and what we see as destructive to that world.
Creativity, The Mental Plane & DMT Elves
I have been fascinated by the various descriptions offered by Terence McKenna of the, "DMT Elves" encountered on the inner journey that arises when DMT is smoked. All have attempted to paint a picture and each set of perceptions reveal another aspect of the amazement undergone.
Predictions of Apocalypse and Destructive Weathers
All my adult life I’ve been witnessing the parade of dire predictions, coming at me from various sources, sometimes the leaders of doomsday cults, others the self-appointed shock troops of environmental and economic degradation and destruction, all threatening some form of hell-fire if we don’t change our ways.
Psychic Sensitivities
Some days I find myself passing people and feeling some aspect or other of their aura as our energies briefly merge. Past life personalities and activities bubble up briefly, often quite at variance with, "who they are now".
The Perfection Of The Moment
Sometimes I find myself poised in the perfection of the moment, unwilling to disturb the spontaneous arrangement of objects and inhabitants of the room, the street or the open expanse by objectifying, theorising or otherwise categorising the sudden harmony of the passing seconds.
Facing Up To Infinity
Those of us who explore what seems like the fringes of experience, know that the real adventure is confronting one’s immortality - the many lives, planes and planets that become the furniture of infinity as we move to the music of multidimensionality.
An Existential Dilemma
One of my teachers, influencers as the saying now goes, wrote about a century ago that waking up and not knowing who you were or are, even for a few seconds, is but a taste of higher self consciousness.
Giving Up The Gurus
Finishing up the third volume of Michael Posner’s oral biography of Leonard Cohen, as full an account of a celebrity’s life as one is likely to get, complete with as many contradictions, paradoxes and self-indulgent scandalous behaviours as you can handle, I was struck by Cohen’s seemingly endless dependence on gurus and teachers to give meaning and significance to his path through life.
Overactive Astral Bodies
I can clearly see the turbulence of the astral body as an attribute of youth itself and little to do with personality types or psychological categorizing. Achieving balance and serenity through practice in one’s twenties is nearly impossible
Our Best Interests
I was reading a book, interesting and enjoyable, when the author wrote about choosing a course of action that was “in our best interests”. A common enough sentiment, and one I have used myself in many a conversation. But as we pursue our course along the inner journey where all conventional assumptions are challenged and sometimes overturned, such thoughts often turn into questions. I found myself wondering what are “our best interests” exactly?
Visiting Others in The Astral
Just as birth is but the appearance of a start and death the simulation of an ending, so too your "first" exit from the body is but a conscious replication of a long standing practice, albeit an unconscious one.
Thought Forms and Fear
From time to time I am asked about the possible actuality of "dire predictions", …of war, environmental collapse, of political upheaval. Whether in public or private forums, I usually poo-poo them and not because I am a skeptical curmudgeon dedicated to some kind of know-it-all denialism.
The Intellect and the Spirit
I have long been intrigued with the struggles of intellectuals and artists to come to terms with what seems to be the chaotic destructive madness of the world as they experience it. Poets, novelists, philosophers, administrators, legislators, and the like, all look to be permanently on the edge of hopeless gloominess about humanity’s performance and potential.
Is There a Real Self?
The self that we think we are, were or will be, is merely an expression of attachment, something we like to love when discontent is at a low ebb. The self is a bauble, a plaything, a vehicle that takes us places and plonks us down to play the game at the local level...
Releasing Attachment to Ritual and Practice
One of the early stages on the inner journey is seeing that we are lost in the fogs of society’s directives and the ego’s fear based vanities. We start to feel as if everything we once knew for sure is wrong and that a new set of truths and values have to be discovered and developed. As we explore these many possibilities for action we usually have to let go of our need for approval from family and friends, those supports we used to take for granted when we played by the rules no-one talked about.
Why Desire Deserves To Be Satisfied
In our indulgence and guilt culture, the importance of desire has been diminished to some level just above crime and punishment. Diminished by some distant echo of puritan piety which values denial and control over daring and experimentation.
All Time is Now
All time is now: that is an expression we, in the community of independent spiritual seekers, have all become familiar with, either through our own meditations or reports from lucid dreamers and obe travelers living through complex experiences and returning 15 minutes later.
The Fate of Dissidents
The other day I was reminded of the fate of dissidents in Putin’s Russia, the ones who think his rule repressive and his war in Ukraine unlawful. They have to leave in a hurry to avoid frozen bank accounts, harassment, imprisonment or worse.
Why Fears Are Reinforced
In our human culture many channels have evolved to reinforce the basic drive of fear. After centuries of the geological formation process, poisonous gases fiery furnaces and the like, we left the paradise bubble of spirit for the physical plane, knowing that it was especially designed to accommodate separated forms all dependent on nourishment to survive and thus confined to being either hunter or hunted.
Immortality Unleashed
"Immortality Unleashed" is a new series of essays, explorations and discussions of how this life looks once the bogeyman of mortality is bypassed by the discoveries and insights explored in the previous series "Journey To Knowing".
Spontaneous Enlightenment
There are numerous accounts of spontaneous enlightenment spread throughout the mystical and esoteric literary archives. With little or no warning people have found themselves erupting into a new and expanded consciousness that could be as overwhelming as it was revelatory. Suddenly they seemed to be living in a new country with some kind of multidimensional awareness they were little prepared for. Adapting was a fierce struggle but somehow the only option. Shrinking back to safety seemed impossible.
Expressions of Cosmic Consciousness
Mystics and philosophers of all traditions have tried in their way to describe the transcendent awareness that they experience during prayer, meditation, ritual, varied disciplines of a spiritual nature and what I might call spontaneous descents of grace.