Visitation To The Star System Of Tao
Lost in the Tashchishma Blizzard: The Survival Crisis
The winter of 1948 remains etched in the historical memory of the Tatarstan region not merely for its geopolitical tensions during the early Cold War, but for the brutal, unforgiving environmental conditions that defined life in the Soviet interior. It was within this landscape of iron-gray skies and frozen steppes that Galy Galiev, a twenty-six-year-old Red Army officer, would undergo an experience that defied the materialist doctrines of his era. Galiev, born in 1922, was a man of his time – disciplined, physically robust, and accustomed to the rigorous demands of military service. However, on one cold night in February, while navigating the treacherous route toward his native village of Tashchishma, he encountered a force that rendered his military training and Soviet resolve entirely secondary to the primal struggle for survival.
Having been assigned to a new duty station, Galiev was operating under a strict military leave and transfer schedule. Any delay in his arrival would have been viewed as a breach of duty, necessitating a forty-kilometer trek from Ark Station to Tashchishma. Arriving at the station late in the evening, he checked his heavy luggage into storage and set out on foot. At the outset, the journey possessed a deceptive, almost pastoral quality. Despite the moonless night, the tracks of a sled cart were visible in the snow, and Galiev, confident in his childhood knowledge of these paths, estimated he could cover the distance in a brisk seven or eight hours. He began the journey with a cheerful military march, whistling familiar tunes to keep pace against the biting wind.
The transition from a routine march to a life-threatening crisis was swift and absolute. The brisk wind intensified into a howling blizzard, a white wall of ice and air that erased the sled tracks and obliterated all visual landmarks. Galiev’s progress slowed to a crawl as visibility dropped to less than ten meters. On this moonless night, the familiar landscape transformed into a labyrinth of ravines and waist-deep snow drifts. The sensory experience was one of escalating agony. Galiev’s military attire – specifically his chrome boots and standard-issue overcoat – offered no defense against the plummeting temperatures. The leather of his boots grew stiff and brittle, the cold seeping through the soles and numbing his feet until each step felt like treading on glass. The wind pierced the fabric of his overcoat, drawing the heat from his core and replacing it with a creeping, rhythmic shivering.
Compounding the physical exhaustion was a visceral, psychological terror. As he struggled through the ravines, Galiev became acutely aware of the wolves that roamed the region with impunity. The thought of a predatory pack closing in on a lone, exhausted officer produced a cold sweat that instantly froze against his skin, a chilling glaze that sapped the last of his willpower. His situation reached a dramatic pivot point when he stumbled, falling flat on his face into a deep, snow-filled hole or ravine. Overwhelmed by a sudden, crushing fatigue, he found himself unable to rise immediately. He slowly turned onto his back, staring up into the low, solid clouds, momentarily resigned to the prospect of freezing to death on the outskirts of his own home.
It was at this moment of total collapse that the “bright spot” appeared. Through the thick cloud cover, a concentrated point of light began to descend. Initially, Galiev’s military mind searched for a terrestrial explanation – perhaps a search party or a low-flying aircraft. As the light grew larger and more brilliant, he found the strength to climb out of the hole, desperately seeking a way to signal the craft. Suddenly, the light extinguished, replaced by a massive, silent, dark mass hovering motionless above him. Despite the gale-force winds, the object remained perfectly still. Galiev, naively looking for a passenger cabin or a ramp as one might find on a Soviet airship, began to shout into the wind, but his voice was swallowed by the storm. Then, a round hatch opened in the underside of the vessel, and a brilliant beam of light erupted downward. An invisible force, described by Galiev as a powerful upward pull, seized him and lifted him directly into the interior of the craft.
Inside the Craft: Technical Specifications and Military Dialogue
The transition from the sub-zero blizzard to the interior of the craft was instantaneous and disorienting. Galiev found himself in a brightly lit, almost round room where the illumination was entirely shadowless, appearing to emanate directly from the structure of the walls. The interior was characterized by a sterile, high-technical aesthetic that Galiev, despite his artillery background, found incomprehensible. He counted six oval doors, and the walls were adorned with devices that featured scripts resembling a hybrid of Latin and Arabic characters. The central control area was devoid of traditional mechanical interfaces; there were no steering wheels, levers, or handles. Instead, a large tabletop-sized screen dominated the center of the room, with smaller displays embedded into the walls between the oval portals.
The occupants of the craft were four humanoid entities, standing approximately 1.5 meters tall. Their physical appearance was strikingly consistent: narrow faces with slightly humped noses, wide foreheads, elongated chins, and large, dark, expressive eyes. Their skin possessed a unique reddish-violet hue that Galiev found particularly distinct. Two of the entities, appearing to be male, wore green overalls, while the other two, appearing to be female, were dressed in flowing pink robes.
Galiev’s first instinct was to establish communication. He greeted them loudly in Russian, then Tatar, then attempted fragments of German and English. It was then that he offered the Islamic greeting common to the region: “Assal alaykum.” To his surprise, he received a polite response that he understood perfectly, though he could not determine if the sounds were produced by their lips – which moved in an unusual rhythm – or if the communication was entirely telepathic. The entities were immediately hospitable. As they sensed his frozen state, they gestured for him to undress. As he did so, a gentle stream of warm air rose from the floor, instantly drying his snow-soaked military uniform and restoring sensation to his limbs. A humanoid robot attendant, described as an “experienced attendant” with manipulator hands, emerged from one of the doors to assist him with his clothes and serve him a tray containing a hot drink and biscuits that immediately removed his fatigue and restored his vigor.
The interaction quickly evolved into a technical and military interrogation. The entities expressed a focused interest in Galiev’s background as a Red Army artillery officer. They questioned him extensively on the mechanics of terrestrial warfare, specifically:
- Artillery and Small Arms: They sought detailed specifications on the design of ammunition, the chemical properties of various Soviet gun powders, and the combat characteristics of small arms.
- Defense Concerns: They revealed that human anti-aircraft batteries posed a specific “danger” to their aircraft, noting that smaller, fast-moving projectiles were more difficult for their automated systems to track and repel than larger missiles or rockets.
During this exchange, Galiev experienced what he called “accelerated reception.” While a full curriculum on these military subjects at a Soviet school would typically take 300 hours, Galiev processed the entire technical catalog in seconds. He felt as though he were projecting his own military memories onto the craft’s tabletop screen, where images of artillery shells and small arms appeared with perfect clarity.
The entities also provided a technical briefing on their own defensive and propulsion technologies, which Galiev documented with the precision of a technical documentation:
- Repulsion Force Fields: The craft generated specialized fields capable of physically deflecting solid projectiles, including shells and bullets.
- Invisibility Systems: These fields were designed to bend both light rays and radar-waves around the hull, rendering the craft undetectable to both the human eye and early Soviet radar.
- Atmospheric Ionization: They explained that when air humidity is high, the propulsion system ionizes water molecules, causing the craft to appear to ground observers as a “blurry glowing ball.”
- Remote Electron Manipulation: They demonstrated the use of “highly directional fields” projected over long distances to manipulate the movement of electrons. This allowed them to remotely turn wires into either insulators or superconductors at will, effectively disabling any terrestrial electrical system.
- Material Synthesis: The entities noted that they used gold and copper as primary conductors and maintained factories capable of manufacturing synthetic diamonds of any size.
The Star System of Tao: Life, Culture, and the Great Catastrophe
Following the technical exchange, the entities provided Galiev with a deep dive into their origin through a stereoscopic, three-dimensional presentation. Galiev described the screen as more like a “transparent window” into another reality than a flat display. He watched as the stars of the Ursa Major and Ursa Minor constellations shifted until a single star began to blink – the star Tao.
Astrophysics and Environment
The star Tao was described as a yellow dwarf, similar in composition to Earth’s sun but slightly smaller and cooler, located approximately 12 light-years away. The system consists of seven planets, with a unique pairing of planets that share a common orbit: Tagir (also phonetically referred to as Tiger) and Zukra (a smaller planet). These worlds possess 12-hour days and 300-day years. Because of their rapid rotation and the proximity of the two planets, their surfaces do not cool significantly during the night cycle. Tagir was presented as a lush, tropical world where the climate is exceptionally favorable for a vast diversity of life.
Agrarian and Marine Infrastructure
The society of Tagir was portrayed as having achieved a state of total environmental harmony through advanced technology.
- Gravitational Harvesting: Galiev witnessed “fruit harvesters” equipped with frame antennas that generated controlled gravity fields. These machines gently plucked ripe fruit from giant, tropical-style trees and placed them into containers without damaging the flora.
- Acoustic Marine Trawlers: The floating cities of Zukra utilized fishing trawlers that operated without nets. Instead, they projected specific acoustic signals that directed schools of fish into the holds of the ships, where they were processed by automated machines.
- Seabed Harvesting: On the ocean floor, underwater combines harvested sea plants and “fruit-like growths,” which were then transported to the surface for processing in floating canneries.
- Zero-Waste Economy: The inhabitants had eliminated industrial waste entirely. Every fallen leaf, dried branch, or organic scrap was collected and processed into industrial goods, fertilizers, or fuel.
Energy, Architecture, and Society
The energy infrastructure was entirely renewable, following the exhaustion of mineral resources long ago.
- Tow Batteries: Every building and factory was covered in “thermal tiles” or “tow batteries,” which converted light energy directly into DC electricity, making each structure an independent power plant.
- Seismic Architecture: Due to the gravitational tension between the paired planets, Tagir and Zukra experience constant “planet-quakes.” To mitigate this, homes were limited to five stories and constructed from micro-porous reinforced glass – a lightweight, soundproof, and durable material. These buildings were mounted on hydraulic shock absorbers to sway with the seismic waves.
- Social Structure: Education began at the age of two or three, with a focus on practical machinery and the care of animals. By school age, children were capable of assembling cars and operating electric tractors. A striking visual in the presentation was that of the “flying angels” – residents who used “thermo-flying wings.” These were flight suits powered by muscle energy that converted the thermal energy of the air into mechanical flight, modeled after the biological mechanics of insects.
The Legend of the Great Catastrophe
The presentation concluded with a sobering history of the planet Tagir. The entities described a “legend” from their distant past when the planet was divided into warring states and military alliances. Despite the public’s desire for peace, the rulers amassed vast nuclear arsenals, claiming they were “safe” because they were managed by super-intelligent computers. However, during a major planetary earthquake, the computers malfunctioned, activating the weapons and initiating a global nuclear war. The air heated to 200 degrees Celsius, the oceans boiled, and all life on the surface was extinguished. Survivors and descendants of this disaster became a small population stationed on the neighboring planet Zukra. Their primary mission in visiting Earth to collect biological samples and seeds to eventually restore their lost ancestral ecosystem.
Real-time Observation, Descent, and the Parental Dream
As dawn approached, the entities shifted the display from historical records to a real-time observation of the Soviet Union. A 3D relief map appeared, and Galiev watched as the view zoomed in from the Volga River and the city of Kazan to the Ashit River near his home village. The scale changed until he could see the very streets of Tashchishma.
The screen then provided a live view of his parents’ house. Galiev was moved to tears by the intimacy of the image: he saw his mother sleeping, her gray hair peeking out from beneath her scarf, with her “thin bony arm” wrapped around her head. Beside her lay his father, sleeping with his mouth slightly open, revealing his missing front teeth. The entities informed Galiev that they could not remain at such a low altitude as the sun rose and that it was time for his return.
The descent process was as technologically baffling as its arrival. Galiev was told that the secrets of the craft were not to be disclosed and that he would forget the specifics of the encounter, though the information would return to him in “kind dreams.” He was dropped through a hatch in the floor, but instead of the terror of free-fall, he felt himself descending slowly on a bed of “invisible force.” He described the sensation as falling onto a material that felt like “frozen jelly” or “sea jellyfish” against his back, which cushioned his landing into a deep snowdrift near his family’s barn.
When Galiev regained full consciousness, he found himself in the yard of his home. The environment was filled with the mundane sounds of the morning – chickens clucking and a cow mooing – contrasting sharply with the silent, sterile craft. His parents were already outside, appearing terrified. When they saw him, their shock was compounded by a physical anomaly: despite having supposedly been lost in a blizzard for hours, Galiev’s hands and body were remarkably warm, as if he had just stepped out of a bath house.
The most chilling external validation of the event came from his parents. Both independently recounted a shared dream that had awakened them moments before his arrival. In the dream, a “strange bird” had grabbed their son in the yard with its claws. The father recounted how he had chased the bird away with an axe, while the mother described how she had “pleaded” and “begged” the creature to let him go. This shared vision served as a startling confirmation of the timeline and the physical presence of the “bird” (the craft) interacting with their son.
Forty Years of Secrecy and the Inventive Legacy
Following the encounter of 1948, Galy Galiev entered a self-imposed forty-year silence. Living within the rigid social and political framework of the USSR, he understood that to speak of reddish-violet humanoids and nuclear catastrophes on distant planets would invite ridicule at best and psychiatric institutionalization at worst. He spent decades attempting to rationalize the event, suggesting to himself that it might have been a “hyper-sensitivity” or an “orientation instinct” triggered by the shock of the blizzard. Yet, no rationalization could account for the physical warmth of his body that morning or his parents’ shared dream.
Despite his silence, the encounter remained a functional part of his reality through what he termed “dream communication.” The entities had promised that he would see “machines that do not yet exist” in his sleep, and for four decades, Galiev’s inventive career was driven by these nocturnal downloads. He claimed that when he faced a scientific problem during the day, he would receive an exhaustive answer in a dream that night. This resulted in several tangible technological outcomes:
- Stereoscopic X-Ray Equipment: Between 1958 and 1960, Galiev claimed he was shown designs for 3D medical imaging. He constructed a physical model of a stereoscopic X-ray machine and in 1960 presented it to a professor at a Russian Institute. Notably, a similar device would not appear in Germany until 1965, lending credence to his claim of “accelerated” insight.
- Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVTs): Galiev repeatedly documented designs for CVTs that he claimed were shown to him by the entities.
- Automotive Microturbines: He produced detailed schematics for compact, high-efficiency turbines intended for use in vehicles, decades before such technology became a focus of mainstream engineering.
In 2003, Galiev’s account was finally brought to light by researcher Ravil Iskakov in Kazan. By then, Galiev had realized that his “dreams” and the 1948 encounter were part of a single, interconnected reality. He concluded that the entities used the dream state to bypass the social and political barriers of the time, allowing them to continue their “contact” without endangering Galiev or themselves.
The legacy of Galy Galiev is defined by the “Human Reality” at the center of his testimony. He was a soldier who was saved from certain death by an intelligence he spent a lifetime trying to decode. Whether the encounter is interpreted as a literal physical event, a profound psychological survival mechanism, or a genuine contact with a 1,000-year-advanced civilization, the impact was the same: it transformed a military officer into a visionary inventor compelled to document the advanced technologies and cautionary tale of an advanced non-terrestrial intelligence.
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Beyond The Veil: Reports Of The Paranormal
The human experience has long been punctuated by accounts of the inexplicable, moments where the boundary between our known reality and something altogether different seems to blur. These reports come from a variety of backgrounds – some from individuals describing the nature of an afterlife, and others from professionals like police officers whose duties place them in environments where they witness things they cannot easily explain. To explore these accounts is to look at a tapestry of experiences that, while varied, often share striking commonalities in how they describe the persistence of consciousness and the environment of the “other side.”
One of the most detailed perspectives on what follows life comes from an account by a man named Mr. Olson, who communicated his experiences through a medium several years after his sudden passing. He describes his transition not as a descent into a void, but as an arrival in a place that felt remarkably familiar, resembling a country village or a rural setting complete with trees and birds. This initial environment appears to serve as a sort of “reception station,” designed to help new arrivals adjust to their new reality. According to this account, the transition is not always easy, particularly for those who have strong emotional ties to Earth or those who possess very rigid, narrow religious convictions. These reception stations are staffed by what are described as advanced souls who offer help and attention to those struggling with the realization that they are now separated from their loved ones. (more…)
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‘Thought’ In The Spirit World
by Anthony Borgia
When the spirit world is described as being a world of thought, where thought is the great creative power, and where thought is concrete and perceivable by all men, the conclusion is very often erroneously drawn that the spirit world is an unsubstantial place, and that we, its inhabitants, are vague shadowy people, lacking any real substance, and answering for all purposes to that very earthly designation of ‘ghosts’! Pursuing this mistaken deduction, the life of the spirit world people must inevitably be somewhat dreamlike and illusive.
The incarnate think along these lines because to them thought is something that can be practiced unseen and heard. On earth thought is secret to the thinker until such time as he wishes to give verbal or other expression to his thoughts. It is customary to say on earth: our thoughts are our own; we can think what we like; thoughts can never harm anyone, and so on. So that when we of the spirit world assert that our world is a world of thought, the incarnate immediately revert to their own thoughts and their unsubstantial nature, and thereupon place the spirit world in the same category of tenuous things. (more…)
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The Sun Behind The Sun
by Ruth Tristram
He was an 18-year old English schoolboy. He drowned in the north Atlantic in 1943. He was returning home to England from America. The convoy of ships in which he was a passenger was sunk by enemy action in April of that year.
His mother, Ruth Tristram, was a “sensitive” from birth. Another son, Lancelot, had died at an early age. She had been in communication with him for several years at the time of Christopher’s death. There was shock and loss, of course, but no grief. The necessary work of Samael, the Angel of Death, held no terrors for her. Death is a change, not an end. So Mrs. Tristram was not surprised when, during a quiet time only one month after receiving word from her government that the boy’s ship was “greatly overdue”, she felt her son’s consciousness blending with hers. It was June 3, 1943. (more…)
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The Architecture Of The Hereafter
Introduction: The Waking Dream
We navigate our daily lives with a somnambulistic certainty, convinced that the world we touch and see constitutes the bedrock
of reality. Yet, what if the textures of our physical existence are merely a “narrative we weave for survival” – a fragile scaffolding of thoughts designed to interpret an inherently alien reality? For over fifty years, Jurgen Ziewe, a consciousness researcher and explorer of the unseen, has journeyed beyond the boundaries of the physical senses. Through the pages of his illustrated testament, Elysium Illuminated, Ziewe invites us to reconsider the ultimate transition. He suggests that what we call “life” is a restricted state of awareness, and what we call “death” is the moment the dreamer finally awakens to a far more vivid architecture of existence. (more…)
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The Death Experience
by Dolores Cannon
Since I began my work in 1979, I have had hundreds and hundreds of people go through the death experience. They have died in every conceivable manner: accidents, shooting, stabbing, fire, hanging, decapitation, drowning, and even in one case by death in an atomic explosion, which I reported in my book A Soul Remembers Hiroshima. They have also died naturally from heart attacks, disease, old age and peacefully in their sleep. Although there has been a great deal of diversity, there have also been definite patterns that have emerged. The manner of death may be different but what happens afterward is always the same. Thus I have come to the conclusion that there is really no reason to fear death. We subconsciously know what happens and what lies over there. We should; we have had so much practice at it. We have all gone through it countless times before. So in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life. It is far from being a morbid subject, but a most fascinating other world.
With death also comes wisdom. Something happens with the shedding of the physical body and a whole new dimension of knowledge opens up. Apparently the human being is limited and hampered by being in the physical. The personality or spirit that continues on is not hindered in this way and can perceive so much more than we can even imagine. Thus when I talked to these people after they had “died,” I was able to obtain the answers to many puzzling and perplexing questions – questions that have haunted humankind since the beginning of time. What the spirit reported depended upon the personal spiritual growth of that spirit. Some had more knowledge than others and were able to express it clearer in terms that were easier for us mortals to grasp. I will attempt to describe what they experienced by letting them speak for themselves. This is a compilation of what many people reported.
The most common descriptions I have found of the moment when death occurs is that there is a feeling of coldness and then suddenly the spirit is standing by the side of the bed (or wherever) looking at their body. They usually can’t understand why the other people in the room are so upset because they feel so wonderful. The overall sensation is one of exhilaration rather than dread.
The following is a description of the moment of release by a woman in her 80’s who was dying of old age. It is an example that is typical and constantly repeated.
D: [Dolores] You lived a long time, didn’t you?
S: [Subject] Um, yes. I move slow, takes so long. (Moaning) There’s not much joy any more. I am so tired.
Since she was obviously experiencing discomfort, I moved her ahead in time until the death was over. When I finished counting the subject’s entire body jerked on the bed and she suddenly smiled. Her voice was full of life, nothing that even resembled the weary tones of only a moment before. “I feel free! I’m light!” She sounded so pleased.
D: Can you see the body?
S: (Disgusted) Ohh! That old thing? It’s down there! Ohh! I had no idea I looked so bad! I was so wrinkled and shriveled. I feel too good to be that shriveled. It was all wore out. (She was making sounds of delight.) Oh, oh, I’m so glad I’m here!
I could hardly keep from laughing, her expression and tone of voice was quite a contrast.
D: No wonder it was shriveled; that body lived many years. That’s probably why it died. You said you are “here”. Where are you?
S: I’m in the light, and oooh, it feels good! I feel intelligent . . . I feel peace . . . I feel calm. I don’t need anything.
D: What are you going to do now?
S: They tell me I’ve got to go and rest. Oh, I hate to rest when I’ve got so much to do.
D: Do you have to rest if you don’t want to?
S: No, but I don’t feel like I want to be cramped again. I want to grow and learn.
After this I was unable to get any more answers from her except that she was floating. I could tell by her expression and her breathing that she was in the resting place. When a subject goes there it is as if they have drifted into a deep sleep and they don’t want to be disturbed. It is useless to try to question them because their answers will be incoherent.
In another case a woman was reliving the birth of a baby at home. Her breathing and bodily movements showed that she was experiencing the physical symptoms of childbirth. This often occurs when the body remembers as well as the mind. In order not to cause the subject discomfort I moved her ahead in time to when the birth should have been over.
D: Did you have the baby?
S: No. I had a difficult time. It just wouldn’t come. I was wore out, so I just left my body.
D: Do you know what the baby was?
S: No. It doesn’t make any difference.
D: Can you see your body?
S: Yes. Everybody’s upset.
D: What are you going to do now?
S: I think I’m going to rest. I’ve got to come back eventually, but I’m going to stay here awhile. I’m in the light. It’s restful.
D: Can you tell me where this light is?
S: Where all knowledge and everything is known. Everything is pure and simple. There is more pure truth here. You don’t have the things of the world to confuse you. You have the truth on Earth but you just don’t see it.
D: But you said you have to come back sometime. How do you know that?
S: I was weak. I should have been able to tolerate the pain. I must learn to better withstand it. I could have stayed if I hadn’t been so weak. I’m glad I can’t remember the pain. I know I need to go back and I must become complete, whole. Pain is one thing I must overcome. I must overcome all the pains of the world.
D: But experiencing pain is very human and it’s always difficult to do when you’re in the body. From the side you’re on now, it’s easier to look at it in a different way. Do you think that’s a lesson you want to learn?
S: I will, yes. It takes me awhile sometimes, but I can do anything. I think I should have been stronger. I would have done better, but I think I had a lot of fear from the illness I had when I was a child. I was afraid that this would be as bad. And … I gave up. Pain … when you deal with the higher conscious level of your mind and remove yourself to the pure light and the pure thought; the pain ceases to be. Pain is only a lesson. When we learn about pain on the human level, we get frantic and show outward concern for just the moment. By removing ourselves and concentrating and reaching deep and having patience, we can rise above it.
D: Does pain have a purpose?
S: Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain.
D: But like you said, people become frantic and they think they can’t handle it.
S: They become too self-centered. They need to rise above their own interests and what they’re feeling at the moment to a more spiritual level and then they can deal with it. Now, some people, they bring the pain on because it’s a shelter. They may have the pain as an excuse or as an “out,” and that’s the purpose. It varies with the individual. What is pain? It cannot touch you if you don’t let it. If you admit that you will hurt, you’re giving power to pain. Do not give it power. It’s unnecessary to feel it. It’s all connected to man. Reach into your spirit, your higher mind, it has no hold on you
D: People can separate themselves from pain?
S: Of course, if they want to. They don’t always want to. They want the sympathy and self-punishment and all sorts of things. People are funny. Everyone knows how to do these things if they take the time. They must find a way for themselves because they wouldn’t believe it if you told them there was an easier way. They have to figure it out on their own. That’s part of the lessons that get you there.
D: People are so afraid of dying. Can you tell me what it is like when it happens?
S: Well, when I’m in the body it feels heavy. It pulls on me. It’s just uncomfortable. But when you die it’s a lifting of weight. It’s relaxing. People carry all those problems around. And it’s like they are carrying around a weight because they are heavy and laden with all these other things. When you die it’s like tossing them out the window and it feels good. It’s a transition.
D: I guess people are mostly afraid because they don’t know what to expect.
S: They fear the unknown. They must just have faith and just trust.
D: What happens when somebody dies?
S: You just rise up and leave it. You go up here. In the light.
D: What do you do when you’re there?
S: Perfect all things.
D: Where do you go if you have to go away from the light?
S: Back to Earth.
D: Is it unusual for us to speak to you through time like this?
S: But time has no meaning. On this frame there is no time, all time is one.
D: Then it doesn’t bother you that we speak to you from another time or plane?
S: Why should it?
D: Well, we thought it might and I didn’t want to disturb you.
S: I find that it disturbs you more than it does I.
Another example concerns a little girl who died at the age of nine. When I first began speaking to her she was going on a hayride to a school picnic in the late 1800’s. There was a creek near where the picnic would be held and the others would be going swimming. She couldn’t swim very well and was afraid of the water, but she didn’t want the other children to know it for fear they would make fun of her. Since some of the others had fishing poles, she had decided she would pretend to fish so no one would know she couldn’t swim. The little girl was really worrying about it and was not enjoying the hayride at all. I told her to move forward to an important day when she was older. When I finished counting, she announced happily, “I‘m not there anymore. I’m in the light.” This was a surprise, so I asked what had happened.
S: (Sadly) I couldn’t swim. The dark just closed in on me. I felt my chest burning. And then I just came out into the light, and it didn’t matter any more.
D: Do you think the creek was deeper than you thought?
S: I don’t think it was that deep. I got real scared. I think my knees just folded up and I couldn’t stand up. I was just scared.
D: Do you know where you are?
S: (Her voice was still childish.) I’m in forever.
D: Is anybody with you?
S: They’re working. They’re all busy … contemplating what they have to do. I’m trying to get the hang of everything.
D: Do you think you’ve ever been to this place before?
S: Yes, it’s very peaceful here. But I’ll go back. I must overcome fear. Fear is something you bring on and it is paralyzing. I don’t really think the water was deep. I think I doubled up because of my fear. The worst thing that can happen usually isn‘t near as bad as what we fear. (The voice was now more mature.) It’s a monster in man’s mind and fear only affects those on Earth. It’s the carnal mind. The spirit is left unaffected.
D: Do you think when people are afraid of things that they draw it to them?
S: Oh, yes! You bring those things upon yourself. Thought is energy; it is creative and it makes things happen. It‘s easy to see how another person’s fears can be silly and unimportant and you think, “Why would they be afraid of that?’’ Yet when it’s your fear, it’s so deep and so personal and so touching that it just engulfs you. So if I can look at other people’s fears and try to help them understand theirs, I think somewhere along those lines it would help me understand the ones I had.
D: That makes a lot of sense. You know one of the biggest fears people have is that they are so afraid of dying.
S: That’s not so bad. That’s the easiest thing I’ll ever do. It’s like the end of all confusion, until you start all over again, and then it’s more confusion.
D: Then why do people keep coming back?
S: You must complete the cycle. You must learn all and overcome all the things of the world so you can enter into perfection and everlasting life.
D: That’s a big order though, to try to learn everything.
S: Yes. Sometimes it’s very tiring.
D: Seems like it would take a long time.
S: Well, from where I am here it all seems so simple. I am in control. For instance, I can understand the fear, and the way I feel now; I feel like I couldn’t be touched by it. Yet there’s something about the human person. When you’re there, it engulfs you. I mean, it becomes part of you and it touches you and it’s not so easy to stand off and be objective.
D: No, it’s because you’re emotionally involved. It’s always easy for somebody else to look at it and say, “How simple.”
S: It’s like looking at somebody else’s fears. I must learn to endure and stay with a life and not leave until I can take as much as I possibly can from that life. I think if I had a life that I could stay with to go through many experiences, it would be much easier than going through so many short lives. I’m wasting a lot of time. So I will choose carefully to get one where I can experience many things and therefore limit my trips back. But I also think it will be harder. There are certain things you have to work out between people while interacting in a relationship. What you do comes around.
There has long been an expression in our culture, that when you are dying your life “flashes before your eyes.’’ This has occurred in some of the cases I have investigated. It happens more often after death when the deceased looks back over their life and analyzes it to see what they have learned from it. This is often done with the help of the masters on the other side, who are able to look at the life more objectively, with emotions removed.
One of my subjects was able to review her past life in an unconventional way. Although it’s difficult to say what is conventional and what follows a set pattern when you’re working in this field of regressive hypnotic research.
The woman had just relived a past lifetime through regression and had come to the point of death in that life. She died peacefully as an old woman, and watched as her body was taken to a hilltop near her home to be buried in a family cemetery. Then instead of going on to the other side, she decided to return to her home to try to complete some unfinished business. There she was startled to find herself appearing as a ghost, and having the ability to walk through walls. She saw herself as a fog or mist in the shape of a person, but she was amazed to discover that furniture and objects could be seen through her, as though she was transparent. It was very interesting to her to find herself in this strange condition, and she wandered through the house discovering what she was able to do. At one point she overheard the chambermaids remark that the old woman was haunting the house, because they could hear her walking around.
After a while being a ghost became boring, because she knew no one could see or hear her, and she was unable to communicate. She soon discovered that she would not be able to accomplish whatever she had gone back to the house to do, because of her unsolid state. The instant she came to this revelation she was out of the house, and standing on a hill overlooking a valley. Her deceased husband had come to meet her, and was standing next to her. In that dimension they were young again, looking exactly as they had on the day of their marriage. As they stood arm-in-arm looking out over the valley, it became a “valley of life”. She later described this as if a brightly colored pallet or quilt had been thrown over the valley, and it appeared as a collage of scenes and places from the life she had just left. Instead of her life passing before her eyes in linear fashion, one scene following the other, the whole thing was laid out before them.
She said, “We can see the cemetery, we can see the city, we can see the house, we can see the mountains. It’s like we can see everything we’ve ever known all combined together. It’s as if this was our life, and this is what we had together. And we can see that we shared it and we got through it together. We were glad we came through that life like we did. We had something intact when it was over with. It’s peaceful. It’s sort of like you stand there and survey. As if you had some great big fields, and you had different things growing in them. Or if you had lots of flowers in a garden, and you stand and survey it. You’d remember what you did to get the garden ready. You’d remember how things grew and developed. And this was the final result spread out before you. You look out over this valley of life, point to certain areas, and you say, ‘Well, we really did have a good time here, and this was the great thing that we did together here.’ You’re admiring all the different parts of the garden, and you can see it all at once. All the different scenes of your life are laid out, and you can touch them. It was literally as though we were going through a scrapbook looking at our lives, but it was more or less like a valley.”
This was very satisfying to her to look at the scenes, even though the hard parts of the life were difficult to review. There was also no judgment involved. There appeared to be a mental note-taking to remind them of what they wanted to change the next time around. This is undoubtedly not the only method of viewing the life that had just been departed, but it was a beautiful one.
In another case I was speaking to a man who had just died in an avalanche. I asked him what it was like to die.
S: Have you ever dived into a deep pool . . . to where it’s dark and murky at the bottom? As you come back up towards the surface of the water it gets lighter and lighter. Then when you break through the surface of the water there’s sunlight all around. Death was like that.
D: Do you think it was like that because of the way you died, with the rocks falling on you?
S: No, it was like that because I was going from the physical plane to the spiritual plane. As I left my body it was like coming up through the pool. Then when I reached the spiritual plane it was like breaking the surface of the water and coming out into sunlight. If you die in an accident, physically it is painful just before you lose consciousness of the physical plane because your body has been injured. But after you lose consciousness it is very easy and natural. It’s as natural as anything else in life: making love, walking, running, swimming. It is just another part of life. There’s no such thing as dying. You just go on to a different stage of your life. If people are worried about it, tell them to go to a place in the river that has a deep pool. Tell them to dive down to the bottom of the pool. And then, at the bottom push up vigorously with their feet and come plunging up to the surface. Tell them it is like that.
D: I think many people are worried that death will be painful.
S: Death is not painful unless that you have need of pain. For the most part there is no pain unless it is wished for. It can be extremely painful if you wish it to be or if you feel you have need of it in order to teach you a lesson. But you can separate yourself from that at all times. And this is available no matter how connected you are with what is going on. It is available to everyone, the separation of the body and soul during this time of pain.
D: But the actual death itself, the leaving of the body, is that painful?
S: No. The transition is one of ease rather than of duress. Pain comes from the body. The spirit feels no pain except remorse. That is really the only pain that a spirit can feel. A feeling that they could have done something . . . more. This is painful. But physical pain no longer has meaning because that was left with the body.
D: Is it possible to leave the body before actual death occurs and let the body suffer the pain?
S: Yes. The person has that choice, whether or not they want to stay there and go through it or if they want to leave and just watch. That is an option that is open to everyone.
D: I personally think it would be easier, especially if it was going to be a traumatic death.
S: This is strictly up to the individual.
In my work I have come across examples of this. In one regression a young woman was being burned at the stake for her beliefs while the whole town watched. She was terrified but was also very angry at the bigoted people who were responsible for this. As the flames leaped higher, she decided she would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her suffer. So she left the body and watched from a hovering position above the scene. There, much to her chagrin and aggravation, she saw her body screaming as it went through the agonies of burning to death. In this case it was very obvious that the body and the spirit were two separate things.
I think it would be very reassuring and comforting to people who have lost loved ones in a violent, horrible way, to know that they probably did not even experience the most traumatic part of the death. It makes a great deal of sense to realize that the spirit would not want to remain in the body and experience all that pain. Therefore the spirit removes itself and the body is merely reacting spontaneously. Much in the same way that we react when we cut or burn ourselves accidentally. We yell and pull our hand away. This is not a conscious reaction but an involuntary one. Thus it would appear that during a horrible death the body is merely reacting while the real personality has vacated and is watching from the sidelines.
Another Description Of Death
S: Imagine yourself naked, cold and bleeding, walking through the dark woods full of briers and wild animals and strange noises. You know that behind every bush is a beast ready to pounce and tear you apart. And then suddenly you walk into a clearing where there is grass growing and birds singing, clouds in the sky and a pleasant laughing brook that meanders on its way to its destination. Imagine the difference in these scenarios and you can see my analogy portraying what you would call life and death.
D: But there are many people on Earth who are afraid of it.
S: Many people who are in the forest are afraid, that is correct. Once they are out of the forest there is no fear. The fear is in the forest.
D: Then there is nothing to be afraid of in the transition?
S: There are some transitions which are more desirable than others. I will not mince words on this. However, a door is merely a door. No matter how many times you open it, it simply will not change from being a door.
Another Description
S: People should not be afraid of dying. Death is no more to be feared than breathing. Dying is as natural and as painless as . . . blinking your eyes. And that’s almost the way it is. At one moment you’re in one plane of existence and you blink your eyes, so to speak, and you’re in another plane of existence. That’s about the physical sensation you have, and it’s as painless as that. Any pain you feel in the process is from physical damage, but spiritually there is no pain. Your memories are intact and you feel the same, as if your life is continuing. Sometimes it takes you a little bit to notice that you’re no longer connected to your physical body, but usually that is noticed right away because your perceptions are broadened to where you can perceive the spiritual plane without the veil in the way. This is the clouded mirror, as some have likened it to. What happens is that at first there is a period of orientation. You are still very conscious of the physical plane but you are exploring and absorbing the sensations of being aware of the spiritual plane, until you get used to the fact that you’re really on the spiritual plane and you are comfortable with it.
D: Can you tell me, does your spirit include your soul when it leaves your body?
S: Your spirit is your soul. The soul concept encompasses that energy which you would call your spirit, your identity, your reality. That is indeed your true self. You may call it your spirit or your soul depending on which perception you would choose to integrate into your reality.
D: What about people who seem to die in groups? There are many cases such as train accidents, massacres, earthquakes, where several people die at one time. Did they all choose to go at the same time or did they have anything to say about it?
S: You are aware of the concept of karma on an individual basis. There is indeed also what is called “group” karma. There have been, through many eons of time, instances where souls have tended to group together to perform certain tasks, or to establish changes, or to experience life in a group, much as you tend to experience on an individual basis. These “group deaths” are nothing more than individual souls who would come together at some certain points in their transition; that is, in their learning experience of dying. And in so doing find themselves at a juncture at which it would be most appropriate for them to depart simultaneously.
D: Did they agree to do this before their entry into the life?
S: That is accurate. For it is in this group transition that they find support. There is a sharing of the experience in that they are not alone in this transition. In many cases there have been multiple births and lives shared, so it is not uncommon to find multiple or shared deaths.
Many subjects describe the experience after leaving the physical body as journeying toward a bright dazzling light at the end of a tunnel. These descriptions have been duplicated in reports of NDES (Near Death Experiences). One of my subjects said that this white light was an intense energy field that served as the barrier between our physical world and the spiritual realm. In NDES the person will approach the light, but are pulled back into their body before entering it. They have actually been in a near death situation, but they did not complete the transition. They did not go far enough. When my subjects have relived the death experience, they pass through the white light, the barrier. At that point the energy is so intense that it severs the “silver cord,” the umbilical that attaches the spirit to the physical body. When this occurs the spirit cannot cross back through the barrier and enter their body again. The two have been forever separated. Without this connection to its life force (the soul or spirit) the body quickly begins to deteriorate.
Excerpt from Between Death & Life
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There Is No Death
by Vaughn Shelton
In nearly half a century of practice as a “full time” clairvoyant, the late Edgar Cayce answered every kind of question. But none was asked him more often than these two: What is the nature of death? What is the nature of life after death?
As a result, his files contain thousands of single-spaced, typed pages of “information” on this ultimate enigma, including much “eyewitness” description of life beyond the veil. (more…)
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Entry Levels Of The Higher Realms ~ Part III
by Michael George Reccia
The Nature of the Spheres
Joseph: I wish to explain a little today about the nature of the spirit realms. Everything, as I said in Revelation [reference to Joseph’s first book], is based on the concept of a circle – everything is circular, everything is contained within God and everything is an expression between the point at the center of the circle and the edge of the circle. All experience takes place within that sphere …and so it is in the spirit realms. (more…)
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Entry Levels Of The Higher Realms ~ Part II
by Michael George Reccia
Joseph: I suppose I should end this particular segment (reference to the communication session started in [previous post – Part I]) by saying something about the entry levels of the higher spiritual realms: they are like the earth plane …and yet they are not. They are like a super earth plane. They are like the earth plane in sharp focus or, to use terminology that Michael has recently embraced, in ‘high definition’ (reference to advances in television broadcasting) – they are the earth plane ‘perfected’. Souls find themselves in landscapes that are very familiar to them and yet are brighter, cleaner and more polished. The skies are bluer; the clouds are whiter; the architecture more perfect; there is a symmetry to the trees (and by symmetry I do not mean they are equally balanced on each side – I mean that the God within them is more apparent, so more symmetry, perfection and harmony is perceived within their form) and there is nothing that jars about the landscape. (more…)
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Entry Levels Of The Higher Realms
by Michael George Reccia
Joseph: Good morning and a greeting from the higher side of life – or, should I say, the more enlightened side of life (and by ‘enlightened’ I mean the side of life that has more Light apparent in its workings, in its dealings and in the way it conducts itself). Over the past few weeks we have watched the situations on Earth with great interest because, here and there, there are pockets of resistance to the Field – pockets or bubbles of Light that are trying to expand. But, for every ten bubbles of Light that exist only one or two come to the surface. That is because the Field dampens down anything that threatens it and also because, with many people who are working for the Light, there is an enemy within, so they fall at the first or second or third hurdle because they do not have the conviction that overcomes all the workings of the physical mind. We watch and we pray, and we add Light to the bubbles of Light – praying that one or two of them will make it and will pour enough higher energy and sufficient Light atoms into the Field for there to be a difference …and for there to be a breeding ground for more bubbles or pockets of Light. (more…)
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The Afterlife Is Real
“Consciousness is energy and it exists outside of our understanding of reality and energy never dies.” ~ Sara Holcomb
Is the afterlife real? Is it just another dimension of energy? Since energy never dies, does that mean we never die too? In the following videos, Linda Moulton Howe talks about and discusses with Dan Drasin, author of A New Science of the Afterlife: Space, Time, and the Consciousness Code, the reality of the afterlife and the nature of consciousness. A declassified 1983 Pentagon/CIA report is also referenced strongly hinting to life after death and reincarnation [see pdf below].
The conversations continue with Dan Drasin and Howe exploring near-death experiences, communication with the deceased, and the possibility of extraterrestrial involvement in a larger cosmic framework, including observations of human and non-human interactions. (more…)
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Shakespeare Returns
by Robert R. Leichtman, M.D.
“The original version of Romeo and Juliet was very bad, I thought. I burned it.”
”All through the history of mankind, censorship has always appeared to protect public morals, but censorship has always been aimed at something else. It’s always political.”
”Behind the scenes the action was even more bawdy than it is in the modern theater.”
“The plays almost wrote themselves. The ideas came so clearly and so completely – not only to my mind but the company’s mind as well – that a play would almost write itself once we started working on it.”
“Any creative effort, any attempt to construct a tangible, physical reality from an idea, is a high form of magic.”
– William Shakespeare, speaking through the mediumship of D. Kendrick Johnson (more…)
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The War Dead
by Stewart Edward White
Introduction
This book bears my name as author. As a matter of fact, my contribution was the plain drudgery of verbatim reporting and the professional writer’s knack of putting the material into easily readable form. None of the concepts were mine: they were dictated to me by my wife Betty some six months after her death through a friend who chooses to protect her anonymity under the pseudonym of “Joan.” Joan is a psychic of the type that would be called a “trance medium,” were she a professional. But I can count on the fingers of my two hands the number of people who know Joan as Joan.
Betty herself was a “psychic.” She had accepted this fact for some twenty years before her death, since the evening of March 17, 1919, to be exact, when she accidentally made the discovery. And between 1919 and 1939 she underwent a continuous and rigorous training as a means to what she called “expansion of spiritual consciousness.” Though the gain of so-called psychic powers was not the objective, nevertheless she acquired them as a sort of by-product, and was able to do various feats supposed to be possible to “psychic” persons. She could enter at will a higher consciousness from which she reported back her experiences and what she had seen and was taught. She was also able to transmit to me the ideas of discarnate entities we called the Invisibles, either by reporting back as though by dictation or by permitting her speech mechanism to be used directly. These powers and abilities she never used idly, for curiosity, personal satisfaction or any such lesser purposes. She sought and used them to one end only, the expansion of spiritual consciousness. (more…)
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The Astral Plane
by F. Homer Curtiss
The astral influences are invisible, but they act upon man, unless he knows how to protect himself against them. Heat and light are intangible and incorporeal; nevertheless, they act upon man, and the same takes place with other invisible influences.” ~Paracelsus.
Student: “What IS the astral plane? Is it a place or locality in any sense at all? With all the evidence of the substantiality of the astral plane, when we try to prove things it at once becomes unsubstantial. I can find no landmarks; I cannot even prove whether the beings are external to ourselves or are creations of our own brain, made of the same stuff as are our thoughts – dramatizations of our thoughts – yet this solution does not seem true when checked up by all the facts. What then is real?” (more…)
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The Gateway Of Understanding
by Carl A. Wickland
“Truth wears no mask, Bows at no human shrine,
Seeks neither place nor applause, She only asks a hearing.”
The world stands today between two domains of thought: Science, which presents a knowledge of the Laws of Nature and Matter; Religion, which teaches Morality and Spirituality. These two activities are not irreconcilable, but yet a gap exists between them which must be bridged by a Spiritual Science based on actual knowledge of the interrelationship of the two worlds, the visible and invisible.
What is the purpose of Life? In this age of unrest and disturbance many earnest minds are seeking the fundamentals underlying life itself. Humanity is still kept in subjugation by fear and superstition, by repressive laws, by dogmas, creeds and false doctrines, and has not yet attained liberation through a fuller understanding.
Happiness is unquestionably the goal of all human endeavor; all activities have this one aim in view. There are various conceptions of happiness, some confined entirely to physical, others to mental pleasures, while still others reach for spiritual happiness. What is this happiness, sought for through the ages? (more…)
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