BACK FROM THE VOID
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Excerpt from Introduction...

Much like my first book, Back From The Void also deals with a serious subject: self-experimentation on one’s brain to uncover the riddles of the mind. Currently in academic circles, as well as the greater whole of society, knowledge is largely acquired through the written word—via scientific journals, books, and other similar means—without much hands-on experience. Unfortunately, this approach leads to the understanding of a mere fraction of the overall spectrum that most subjects being investigated might be able to offer. Using this incomplete method of inquiry, researchers can still acquire a lot of information about what is being studied. However, given my experiences in consciousness exploration, I have realized that unless one actually applies what has been discovered through intellectual means, one will come up short with regard to one’s understanding of this field in particular.

In the past it was common for researchers—especially those who created pharmaceuticals and medical devices—to experiment on themselves first, before sharing their discoveries and inventions with the public. This required a high degree of personal responsibility and ethical behavior. Two such individuals immediately come to mind: Royal Raymond Rife, who in 1920 identified a virus that causes cancer in humans and later discovered an electromagnetic frequency that would destroy this virus; and John C. Lilly, the physician who invented the isolation/floatation tank in 1954, which he used in combination with LSD and ketamine to explore the mystery of consciousness. Lilly’s tank technology was portrayed in the movie Altered States, which was loosely based on his research. Currently, the practice of performing experiments on oneself is rare, but a few scientists still follow this admirable protocol.

It amuses me that there are people who speak about the subject of consciousness, who—because of their academic degrees, cultural beliefs, or perhaps due to fear or ignorance—hesitate to experiment on themselves using psychoactive compounds. What better way to explore the field of consciousness than by using tools that affect the mind? To attempt to study consciousness without using those tools that can modify its functioning seems a bit like a chef who cooks without using spices, resulting in a bland dish. Our brains are constructed in such a manner that new realms of consciousness can be unlocked using chemical keys. This is because these drugs are structurally similar to neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine. We even naturally produce psychoactive chemicals like morphine, codeine, and DMT, in our own bodies. And yet we still have a lot of so-called “experts” who are hesitant to engage themselves in pharmacologically induced modified states of awareness to experience what lies beyond the five-sense reality that they are, in a manner of speaking, imprisoned in.

Modern cutting-edge researchers are beginning to realize that the study of the mind is still in the dark ages, and they are taking it upon themselves to challenge the scientific status quo. One such investigator is professor Allan Snyder, from the University of Sydney in Australia, who is currently doing research using electromagnetic pulses beamed at the frontal lobes of human subjects through transcranial magnetic stimulation. These experiments have yielded dramatic results in the area of human cognition, brain data processing, and even creativity. The effects produced by this type of experimentation have been described by some as being similar to those produced by mescaline. Snyder is one of my new heroes, as he’s not only involved in this consciousness research, but he has himself undergone his own procedure. Another progressive scientist involved in similar research is Michael Persinger, a Canadian psychologist who is using transcranial magnetic stimulation to induce mystical states, including “communications with God.”

Recently, the journal Scientific American published an article titled Parallel Universes by Max Tegmark (April 14, 2003), which discussed the plausibility of parallel worlds. Some quantum physicists theorize that parallel universes might exist. This idea sounds fantastic to many people. Yet shamans have been not only speaking about these alternate realms of existence for thousands of years, but they have actually been exploring them via the out-ofbody state. Through the use of lucid dreaming and other practices, an individual can visit alternate systems of reality, new universes, and different worlds. Given this, reality appears to be to be relative—perceptually as well as experientially. For those individuals who claim to have had an out-of-body experience or “close encounters” of any kind, that is their truth. While for those who have not had these types of experiences, they can seem fantastic and impossible. And each group may be correct in their beliefs, for who’s to say who’s right and who’s wrong in either instance?

Traversing the outer limits of my mind did something to me. Just what exactly had happened was scary to ponder at times, as some of my experiences bordered on “insanity.” Yet on many levels, it felt as though a profound shift in my awareness had occurred. From reading through my notes, I knew that I wasn’t all “gone.” I had simply tapped into certain psychological spaces and gone through doorways that others probably wouldn’t approach, given their psychological make-ups. Besides, the books I was reading on related topics— some of them by medical doctors and professional scientists—all seemed to be backing up what I was encountering in my inner voyages.

Some of the harrowing experiences narrated in my books seem to be ritesof- passage into terrifying realms. It is said that because of what they do, shamans may risk insanity or death. Given my curiosity, I wanted to know what makes such individuals tick. And perhaps taking my role of investigator to the extreme, I delved into the mind of the shaman by “becoming” one. For me, there was really no other way of writing about the subject. Once I begin to research something of interest, I not only fully embrace it but I become it. This allows me to thoroughly understand whatever it is I set my mind to study. Using a loose analogy, this is similar to when an actor becomes the character he’s portraying.

In hindsight, all that Joey put himself through while delving into his consciousness studies as depicted in Into The Void might have also prepared Joey’s/Zoe’s brain to withstand the awesome, raw power associated with the new experiments that I present in this book. These include the combination of the Amazonian plant brew ayahuasca and the psychoactive Mexican sage Salvia divinorum, together with light- and sound-induced hemispheric synchronization of the brain. The main reasons for me combining the use of these shamanic plants with this technology are twofold: 1) Light and sound stimulation is capable of enabling exotic mind states such as deep meditation, hypnogogia, and lucid dreaming, which can then be combined with the mental effects brought about by psychoactive plants, resulting in new and never-before-experienced states of mind, and 2) This type of visual and auditory stimulation not only brings synchronized hemispheric brain functioning (which influences one’s trip), but I theorize that it specifically “preps” the brain to accept the psychoactive molecules from the plants by stimulating dendrites, neurons, and other neurological structures, such as the neuropeptide system.

The research I have recently been involved with has been influenced in part by Cleve Backster’s biocommunication work with plants. In the mid-1960s, Backster performed polygraph experiments which seemed to show that plants are sentient, capable of sensing intent, making decisions, and even remembering. The methodology used by Backster in his experiments involved what I call “passive communication,” as he was recording the plant’s physiological reactions arising from his and others directed stimuli. [...]

Because of my fascination with science fiction and fantasy, at times during this book I will use popular movies to help convey some of my theories regarding the nature of space-time, communication with non-physical intelligence, and even mind control. A topic new to this book is the arena of “conspiracy theories.” Some of you may be wondering what conspiracies have to do with the field of consciousness studies? Plenty. I have discovered that the manner in which the world is perceived, and the way that Humanity is manipulated by the powers that be, goes hand-in-hand with the field of consciousness studies. The main reason for using sci-fi and fantasy flicks to illustrate my ideas about reality is to point out that our perception of reality may be a bit flawed. What we deem reality, and what we think of as fantasy, may actually be two aspects of the same whole. Hence, the term “fantastic realism” may not so much be describing my style of writing, but rather it might be the framework of the reality we exist in. [...]

 

 



Excerpt from Chapter Three • Weird Science

The method through which plants (and perhaps all life forms) engage in “primary perception” may be beyond the known energy frequency spectrum. It doesn’t seem to operate via gamma-, cosmic-, or X-rays; ultraviolet-, microor radio-waves; electromagnetic frequencies; etc. Perhaps communications via primary perception occur in a different space altogether? According to the World Research Foundation web site (see www.wrf.org/ news/news0003.htm), Harold Saxton Burr, PhD was an Anatomy professor at Yale University School of Medicine who authored or co-authored nearly a hundred scientific papers over the course of his career. Born in 1889, Dr. Burr believed that all living things were shaped by “electro-dynamic fields,” which he called “L-fields” (short for “life fields”). While they are invisible, changes in L-fields apparently can be detected using a voltmeter—an instrument for measuring (in volts) the differences of potential between unique points of an electrical circuit. Dr. Burr considered that L-fields might be useful in determining disease, and this idea was put to the test. And he claimed that a success rate of over ninety percent in 102 cases was obtained (confirmed by surgery) when voltage gradient measurements were used to detect malignant tumors in women. Voltage changes were recorded during the growth of cancer in laboratory mice, while the control group of mice registered nothing significant. In other tests, changes were measurable during the healing of wounds. Some success was had in tracking mental illness via changes in Lfields.

Other experiments, including one where the patient was under hypnosis, suggested that measuring voltage might be a valuable diagnostic tool for psychiatrists. Attempts to detect ovulation cycles in women showed even more potential. A year before his 1973 death, Dr. Burr published his book Blueprint For Immortality: The Electric Patterns Of Life wherein, he remarked: When a cook looks at a jelly mould, she knows the shape of the jelly she will turn out of it. In much the same way, inspection with instruments of an L-field in its initial stage can reveal the future ‘shape’ or arrangement of the materials it will mould. When the L-field in a frog’s egg, for instance, is examined electrically, it is possible to show the future location of the frog’s nervous system because the frog’s Lfield is the matrix which will determine the form which will develop from the egg.

Enter British biologist/author Ruppert Sheldrake. Sheldrake has written several books, such as A New Science of Life and The Rebirth of Nature, which expound on his speculation that all life forms tune in to behavioral and genetic fields of information. In his book The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature he comments: The hypothesis of formative causation…starts from the assumption that morphogenetic fields are physically real, in the sense that gravitational, electromagnetic, and quantum matter fields are physically real. Each kind of cell, tissue, organ, and organism has its own kind of field. These fields shape and organize developing microorganisms, plants, and animals, and stabilize the forms of adult organisms. They
do this on the basis of their own spatio-temporal organization.

According to Sheldrake’s model, in order to grow, develop, and interact, all species are influenced by these fields of information that reside within Nature. For example, this suggests that all plant life is organized by fields which carry the genetic blueprint of a specific species. Such a field would cover entire locations where any specific species of plants grow. And some species wouldn’t inhabit certain regions, because their morphogenetic fields don’t exist there.

Everything in the universe seems to have its own informational blueprint. And if one thinks about it, there must be some degree of innate intelligence that animals and even plants have, in order to tune in to these fields of information and communicate with other members of their species. Burr and Sheldrake are only stating that what turns a seedling into a tree, as well as what makes a cat meow (and not bark like a dog), is a field unique to that species, which houses the appropriate and distinctive traits and behaviors. Let’s take this one step further.

Kirlian photography is a process where high voltage is sent through a metal plate with a sheet of film on it to take a photograph. If one takes a Kirlian photograph of a plant leaf, one sees a field of colorful energy emanating from and surrounding it. An interesting aspect of this type of photography is that even if a piece of the leaf is ripped from it, the field around it remains whole and does not reflect the empty space of the torn piece!

Now consider biophotonic photographs. In 2004, Drs. Katherine Creath and Gary E. Schwartz co-authored the article “Biophoton Images of Plants: revealing the Light Within,” published in Vol. 10, No. 1 of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Their article described the process of capturing biophotonic energy on film. The article briefly points out that all living things put off photonic energy (a type of chemiluminescence). It also shares the discovery that injured tissue, such as a torn leaf, appears to produce more biophotonic energy. The article closes with the suggestion that experiments might be conceived of that try to determine whether or not “energy healing” approaches might have an effect on biophotonic emissions. At the 2004 Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson, Arizona, Creath presented preliminary information relating that three different energy healers trained in three different disciplines were able to reduce the biophotonic emissions on torn leaves by practicing their healing trade. Could this be scientific proof that energy healing—such as that which may be channeled through people like João Teixeira da Faria—is actually effective? Furthermore, additional studies showed that when the healers focused on getting the torn leaves to “glow more” (i.e., become less healthy), they were able to do this as well. Might this in part be evidence of the effects that have been reported by both shamanic healers and powerful brujos (witch doctors) who make people sick through their curses?

But the sense of energetic harmony and order as related to health and happiness might not be contained only within living things. Remember the idea I mentioned in Eastern philosophy that everything in Nature has consciousness? Consider the work of Japanese scientist Masura Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water, among other books. Curious about the patterns in snowflakes, Emoto showed that similar crystalline forms could be generated from frozen water. Water taken from pristine streams showed beautiful forms, but water taken from polluted areas was chaotic. What is surprising about his work is the direction that it took next. Believing that the energy of human consciousness might have an effect on water, Emoto blessed some water with positive thoughts such as “I love you,” “peace,” and “harmony.” These water samples produced incredibly ornate crystalline forms. Whereas water that had been cursed with negative thoughts such as “I hate you” and “I am going to kill you” produced unattractive structures. Emoto took his studies even further. In one experiment, a group of his students prayed by Japan’s polluted Lake Biwa. Within a month after the prayer session, the lake stopped producing the foul smell that it had characteristically emitted. Finally, perhaps connected to the idea that plants seem to prefer certain types of music, Emoto found that Heavy Metal tunes produced ugly disorganized crystals, while Classical music from Bach created breathtaking symmetrical forms. His book shows the photographic evidence to back up his experiments. Catholic priests have blessed water for hundreds of years. Might there actually be something to the power of positive (and negative) intention, that Emoto’s water experiments are now showing us?

What I was uncovering during this phase of my consciousness research, including what I’d learned about Cleve Backster’s investigations, helped me to view plants and their world in a completely different light. His research seems to imply that plants (and all other life forms) have a consciousness that can not only react to incoming stimuli, but also transmit data. Consider that millions of years’ worth of information is contained within the genetic code. It includes instructions programmed by Nature to elicit certain biochemical and neurochemical reactions, which then lead the human mind into various modified states of awareness. At least this is the case with all psychoactive plants.

Perhaps the particular neurochemical reactions produced by Salvia divinorum create an antennae-like mental environment that picks up information within a particular frequency range. The plant’s molecules allow one to “tune into” the Salvia state, which is then decoded and processed by the brain/mind of the individual. This is what produces the “Salvia experience.” Through a neurochemical modification, shamanic plants enable humans to access information beyond what their everyday senses process. In the case of truly transcendent experiences, human consciousness appears to tune into the person’s soul aspect—his or her higher self. Let me expand on this idea a little bit more. Human beings have a biological body, as do all other physical species, including plants. However, I am of the belief that there’s also a metaphysical component to the body: the spirit or soul. Humans (and other animals, of course) can affect their neurochemistry through what they choose to eat. By consuming a shamanic plant and having its psychoactive molecules bind to specific neuroreceptors, the human mind tunes in to a non-physical field of information. Within this field, there seems to be a network of “shamanic plant
intelligence.” In other words, once the plant material is consumed, its “spirit” is released. And it is this spirit that’s “embedded” in these plants (just as our spirit is “embedded” in our body) which in some instances communicates with the users who intake the ayahuasca brew, for instance. Although the type of communication and information received depends on the state of psycho-spiritual development of the user.

Whereas Cleve Backster’s research led him to interact with the intelligence embedded in the living house plants’ biological form, my own experiments with the psychoactive species, hemispheric synchronization, and altered states of consciousness, led me to interact with the plant’s non-physical counterpart: its spirit. At least that’s my working hypothesis.

It is quite obvious to me that Creation is not the result of mindless chaos, as has been promoted by mainstream science. Our bodies and our minds are composed of the same quantum particles that make up the stars and even the “empty” space in which they are suspended. The mathematical precision with which planetary bodies in our galaxy and the entire univer se interrelate can hardly be accidental. Consider the following comments by anthropologist Jeremy Narby, from his excellent book about ayahuasca and shamanism titled The Cosmic Serpent:


"When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for anything unusual, as my investigation had led me to consider that DNA and its cellular machinery truly were an extremely sophisticated technology of cosmic origin. But as I pored over thousands of pages of biological texts, I discovered a world of science fiction… Proteins and enzymes were described as ‘miniature robots,’ ribosomes were ‘molecular computers,’ cells were ‘factories,’ DNA itself was a ‘text,’ a ‘program,’ a ‘language,’ or ‘data.’ One only had to do a literal reading of contemporary biology to reach shattering conclusions; yet most authors display a total lack of astonishment and seem to consider that life is merely ‘a normal physicochemical phenomenon.’ One of the facts that troubled me the most was the astronomical length of the DNA contained in the human body: 125 billion miles. There, I thought, is the Ashaninca’s sky-rope: It is inside us and is certainly long enough to connect earth and heaven. What did biologists make of this cosmic number? Most of them did not even mention it, and those who did talked of a ‘useless but amusing fact.’ I was also troubled by the certitude exhibited by most biologists in the face of the profoundly mysterious reality they were describing.…Yet few biological texts discuss the unknown."

Creation is teeming with intelligence. How could it not? Reality as we know it, is of an intelligent design. That is very easy to see. At least, it is so for those that have a “beginners mind.” And that’s only talking about the physical realm. The invisible landscape is a whole different thing. In my own experiences with shamanic plants, I have discovered a realm inhabited by disembodied intelligences or “spirits.” This brings to mind a recent experience I had in Brazil; these days, I return there a few times a year. At one point during a plant ceremony, my consciousness “tuned into something” that was attempting to communicate with me. I engaged it for a few moments by feeling its essence. I was not prejudging whether this “thing” was either “good” or “evil;” I only wanted to “catch its vibe.” After a while, I felt an energy emanating from this mysterious thing, and I received a communication in the form of a “packet of data” or ROTE.

The thing was asking me for permission to enter into the ceremonial circle. Which seemed odd. I mean, why didn’t it just come in without asking permission? If the thing or entity or whatever it was hadn’t tried to engage me in communication, I would have never even noticed it. And then it could have come in without any problem. While I was receiving this information, I was sitting up and appeared to be talking to myself. Silvia interrupted me. She said that she did not want me
to speak too loud, as it might disturb the seminar participants.

“Zoe what’s going on?” she asked. “You’re getting a bit loud.”

“I am communicating with a presence, Silvia. An entity,” I countered. Then I continued, “Hmm… I am getting that. No, wait a moment. That, nope… Oh, it’s a shaman! His name is Don Navarro,” I responded in an excited state.

“Don Navarro?” Silvia asked bewildered, “How do you know this Zoe?” I replied, “What do you mean how do I know this? He told me. How else would I know?” I shrugged. But I had been wrong. As I continued to get impressions from this invisible source, I realized that what was actually taking place is that I was not communicating with “Don Navarro” himself, but rather with the healing energy he used to heal with, back when he was incarnated and worked with clients. In other words, this shaman’s “magic” seemingly had a consciousness of its own, and its essence was the embodiment of healing. Hence, it wanted to come into the healing space of the ceremonial circle.

Apparently the energy wanted permission to enter into this space to aid those who had called upon Nature for healing. Although Silvia and I were both facilitating the ceremony, the energy —having been previously used by a male, Don Navarro—was asking permission from me rather than Silvia. I had a particular vibe, a “male resonance polarity,” for lack of a better term. Therefore this energy was attracted to me like a magnet. In hindsight, the energy was obviously both intelligent and ethical, since it requested permission before doing anything. The energy wasn’t going to intrude on the group’s ceremonial circle anymore than I would walk uninvited into a stranger’s home. I respected such an attitude, and acknowledged it as well. But it really should not come as a surprise given the fact that we are talking about a healing energy that is intelligent, are we not? So I let it in, and I guess it proceeded to do its thing: help heal those who had requested such an experience from the ayahuasca. As this was happening [...]

Continues in Back From The Void

 

 

Excerpt from Chapter Zero• Being Zoe Seven
Section: FROM THE INSIDE, OUT


The subject of out-of-body experiences captivated me. The prospect of learning how to “leave one’s body” and travel interdimensionally to other realities seemed like something out of a sci-fi movie. I became enamored by the whole phenomenon. While I previously had an out-of-body experience back when I was a child, it was accidental and involuntary. Eckankar might train me so that I could engage these types of experiences at will. Since Klemp was at the helm when I joined Eckankar, I went on to read his book Soul Travelers of the Far Country, as well as another ten books or so he’d written.

After I became “an initiate” of Eckankar, as part of their study program, I began to receive what they called “monthly discourses.” By doing the exercises that came with these discourses, Freddy and I (as well as other initiates, I suppose) began to interact with Harold Klemp, or rather Wah Z, on an almost nightly basis via the dream state. I should make it clear that in the dream state, Klemp is no longer “human” but rather a spiritual being—the “Dream Master,” Wah Z. In the dream state, he gives instruction to members of Eckankar about many spiritual truths, including the fact that the physical system of reality is illusory in nature.

I studied with Wah Z in the dream state, and read Harold Klemp’s monthly lessons and books, for a period of nearly five years. The program of study takes roughly twenty-five years to complete. Some initiations are given by him, while others are given by higher initiates who have been appointed by him. According to the literature these higher initiates serve as channels for the “ECK,” a term they use for “spirit.”

During these lucid dreams, Wah Z instructed me in spiritual matters. For example in one of these dreams, Wah Z and I were running laps on a race track. When we were just about done, he asked me to run up the stairs of the stands and see if I could make it all the way up without stopping. I accepted his friendly challenge, and began to climb the steps one by one at a steady stride. He jogged right alongside me. By the time I was three steps away from reaching the top, I decided to skip the middle step of the three, so as to beat him. And as soon as I did this, he grabbed my hand and yanked me back to the first step of the three, saying, “You cannot skip any of the steps on the path.

They are necessary and are there for a reason.” I then woke up. I was reminded of Wah Z’s teachings later in my life, when I saw something similar up on the silver screen: Neo’s instruction by Morpheus in The Matrix flick. After a few months of these instructions via the dream state, I began to actually detach from my body right at the onset of sleep with the aid of Wah Z. I was given my first dream initiation roughly six months after I joined Eckankar. I woke up while inside my dream state and began to have a lucid dream. I saw Wah Z in my bedroom staring at me with a knowing look. I went up to him and he stretched his hands toward me. When his fingers touched my temples, I felt two small electrical shocks and noticed a blue shimmer emanating from his fingers. This sent me into a daze that left me floating inside of my bedroom. In the morning when I woke up, the memory of what had occurred immediately came rushing forth to my conscious awareness. I had received my first initiation!

Shortly after this, I was reading one of Klemp’s books in the afternoon. I had just eaten a big lunch and was feeling a little groggy, so I put the book down to take a nap. After having drifted into a light sleep, I was startled to hear a loud rushing sound similar to a jet engine, which made me want to scream. But I couldn’t scream, since my vocal cords wouldn’t respond. I then saw a bright golden star shooting out lights all around my bedroom. I panicked. I didn’t know what to do, nor what to make of it. I was apparently paralyzed, as my muscles weren’t responding. I mentally screamed, “Oh my God, STOP!” At which point the incident came to a complete halt, everything
vanished, and I regained control of my body. I was awake and stunned. A few weeks later at about 6:00 am, the ringing telephone awoke me. But right before I was able to pick it up, my mother answered it on another phone. Since it was still a little dark outside, I decided to try and go back to sleep. I shut my eyes and while I was wondering who had called, I fell into a presleep/hypnagogic state and began to discern some images that were coming through my television set (although it wasn’t turned on at the time). The images were of faces that resembled the ECK masters I had been reading about for all those months in the various books I had purchased. I felt a deep sense of love and concern from those faces. I felt safe and comfortable during the experience.

And since I’d been trying to leave my body for a while, diligently practicing the exercises that came in the monthly discourses, I mentally called out to God. If He truly existed, if the stuff I’d been reading about out-of-body experiences in the ECK books was all real, and if Harold Klemp/Wah Z was one of His agents as claimed in the literature (as well as by the entities Freddy and I contacted through the ouija board), then I was ready to have a full-blown out-of-body experience. Within seconds, I felt a warm touch gently grab my right hand and slowly detach the hand from itself. What I mean is that I felt a non-physical hand—which somehow felt warmer than my own hand—grab my “inner hand” and pull until it came out from my physical hand. This feeling continued, and I felt my other extremities “detaching from themselves” until I was completely out of my body. I felt great! Awesome in fact—it was a truly ecstatic experience. Everything in my bedroom had much more detail, brilliance, and definition
than in everyday reality. Almost as if the hues in the normal “physical realm” are not entirely “correct,” so far as lighting and texture are concerned.

As an aside, based on my out-of-body experiences, I’ve noticed that the matter that makes up normal physicality is a few shades darker, so to speak. It doesn’t have as much detail or brilliance as what I’ve seen in the inner worlds. But let me clarify that this has nothing to do with one’s sense of sight being “enhanced” by the out-of-body experience. When one is out-of-body, the physical eyes are not used. Rather it’s as though a thin piece of “film”—almost like a vibrating magnetic field—is removed from everything physical during the experience. This reminds me of the movie The Thirteenth Floor, in which individuals create a virtual reality that looks like Los Angeles circa 1930, and they are able to go into that computer-generated world via an out-of-body state. The “people” who inhabit the virtual world are unaware of this, however. But
the scientists who go inside the created reality notice that, although it seems just as real as their world, the “coloration” of that reality is slightly “off.” When I saw my surroundings during this first OBE, to give you an idea of what this felt like, recall the way one views one’s surroundings while under the influence of a mild dose of psilocybin or LSD. You know how colors seem more brilliant and one feels a bit euphoric? That’s what I’m talking about. In fact, later on, when I began having experiences with entheogens, I recognized my feelings about these “new” environments based on the similarities that I had previously experienced while being out-of-body.

At any rate, standing next to my bed, looking down at “myself” sleeping was an eerie experience. But I wasn’t at all scared. In fact, I was excited, exhilarated, and my mind was processing the experience fast and clear. This was also similar to how one feels while under the influence of some entheogens in low doses. I felt as if I could effortlessly access any memory I’d ever had with no time-delay at all. My memories are just there, available to me. What’s more, I felt very light—as though I weighed nothing (which was no doubt because I didn’t have to contend with the biological organs, skeletal structure, and muscle tissue that I have in physicality). The communication between Wah Z and myself was telepathic, and operated via entire thought structures. Sort of like when characters in a comic book “talk” to each other via large chunks of data contained within “speech balloons.” Whole sentences, paragraphs, even entire concepts and images, were effortlessly being exchanged between us. (Robert Monroe, the author of several books on the subject of the out-of-body experience, including the classic Journeys Out of the Body, refers to such communications as “ROTE”—an acronym for Related Organized Thought Energy—which is transmitted telepathically among beings. ROTE is described as “a mental book or recording, complete with emotional and sensory patterns.”)

A couple of odd things occurred. The first was that, since we were out-of-body and I was feeling light as a feather, I wondered if I would be able to walk through walls like Patrick Swayze’s character Sam did in the film Ghost. So just as Sam first does in the movie, I tried putting my hand through the wall that was next to me. But as soon as my hand reached the wall, instead of going right through, the wall blocked it. The wall felt the same way to my phantom hand that it normally would to my physical hand. With a perplexed look I turned to Wah Z and mentally asked, “Why is my hand touching the wall, instead of going right through it? I thought I was out of my body. Look at my body asleep in bed.” Wah Z responded, “Well, let me ask you this: Why is it that you are not falling through the floor as well?” “Uh, I don’t know. That’s a good question. I guess because of the same reason I can’t get my hand through the wall,” I answered, still confused by the situation.

“You are still connected to your body, and it has a consciousness of its own—biological and chemical. Your spirit is still interfaced with your brain and mind. Or more precisely, with your beliefs about physicality. Beliefs are psychological structures that enable you to function along parameters that have been agreed upon during the sojourn of the Human Experience. Hence you ‘believe’ that matter is solid when it really is not. Now take a look at this.” Wah Z then proceeded to reach for the wall and his hand went right through it. With a look of puzzlement, I asked, “But how can you do that? I don’t get it.”

“It’s easy if you change your belief about the nature of the wall. Go ahead and try, but focus.”

I did as he said and thought to myself, “The wall is not really solid. It is an illusion.” And viola, my hand slid right through the wall like a hot knife through butter. I could actually feel a change in vibration in my hand as well as my awareness. As my hand was going through the wall it felt similar to when one puts one’s hand in water. Even if one is blindfolded and the temperature of the water is the same as one’s own body temperature, one still feels the change of the hand going from the feel of “empty space” to liquid. This was extremely interesting for me to experience, and later it helped me understand the reason why Ad Ams lack their original superhuman abilities.
As I explained in the Prologue, the soul “wears” the physical shell to maneuver in physicality. But I came to understand that it is not only through the brain but also through the genetic blueprint that the soul interfaces with the body. According to some researchers—such as Val Valerian (author of the original Matrix book series) and medium Barbara Marciniak (author of Bringers of the Dawn)—human DNA has been genetically altered by interdimensional beings to impede humans from accessing many latent psychic and biological abilities. Toward this end, these beings mutilated ten of the twelve DNA strands that humans originally had. These mutilated strands often times go by the term “junk DNA,” by the way. And it is my belief that when one is having an out-of-body experience or lucid dream, since the soul is not interfaced with the altered genetic code, Ad Ams have access to their unrestricted abilities: they can fly, time travel, walk through walls, and shape-shift. To use a popular comic book as an analogy, Ad Ams can be like Stan Lee’s X-Men, when in theright environment.

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Excerpt from Chapter Five • Beyond the Human Experience
Section: ARTIFICIAL TIME LINE OVERLAYS


Not only is our reality illusory in nature, but “history” as it is taught in schools is a fabrication—a complete sham. This fact has been made evident, at
least to me, by contemporary conspiracy science researchers. We are living in a fake reality travelling down an artificial time line! The falsehoods I am referring to include such ideas as the Nazis having lost World War II. (This idea is wrong. They actually won the war. As in truth, it is their same philosophy which is running the contemporary world, under a different guise. Today it is called the New World Order. What’s more, the Cassiopaeans™ have remarked in their transmissions that what occurred in Hitler’s Nazi Germany during the holocaust was really a “trial run” for what is unfolding today!) Another falsehood that has been implemented into the collective psyche is that diseases such as cancers and pathogenic viruses are for the most part incurable and fatal. Let me expand a little on this idea.

Royal Raymond Rife was a scientist who discovered an electronic approach to curing bacterial and viral diseases. The basis for the claims made about his treatment technology is quite sound. Harmonics, similar to those that can shatter a wine glass, were developed by Rife and shown to annihilate influenza, herpes, polio, tetanus, meningitis and many other bacteria and viruses. In medical trials, his patients were said to have had a recovery rate of one hundred percent! And because of this, on November 20, 1931, Rife was honored with a banquet billed as “The End To All Diseases,” thrown for him by around forty of the nation’s most respected medical authorities of the time. But by 1939 nearly all of his colleagues were denying ever having met Rife.
He is rarely mentioned in any of the medical journals and the papers that he did publish were purged from the records. Why? Because the pharmaceutical and medical cartels did not want to acknowledge that terminal patients could be cured at a minimal cost, with no drugs and no side effects—basically without them!

If Rife’s healing technology hadn’t been crushed, we may have ended all diseases by now. We’d be living in a completely different reality! We’ve been
told that diseases are for the most part incurable and require expensive (and often ineffective) “treatment” with pharmaceutical drugs—which sometimes
can cause more damage than the illness itself, or even kill us. As you can see, Humanity has been psychologically tricked into believing what the Sat Ans have conditioned them to believe. And hence, the lies have become “reality.” An artificial time line is created by manipulating people’s awareness, withholding facts, and keeping them in the “dark.” This produces an artificial anchor creating the belief that something doesn’t exist, when in fact it really does.

Because of their fake souls, the Sat Ans need a fake reality to exist in and manipulate their prey, such as the fabricated reality they have created for us!
Creating a fake reality is a delicate process that takes a lot of skill. If it is not constructed carefully, the “experiment” can result in total madness for the
denizens of the synthetic reality. Therefore, the staged events created to keep Humanity in the darkness, must be carefully inserted at the proper junctures in the fabric of the space-time continuum it is “superimposed upon.” What occurred on September 11, 2001, is a perfect and “graphic” example
of just exactly how an artificial time line is created and inserted into the unsuspecting collective psyche. As it turns out, in this particular instance, it was
halfway successful. Let me explain this carefully. In the original, true, and real time line, factions within the highest echelons of the United States government were at the very least complicit in carrying out the now infamous massacre.

Whereas in the artificial version of reality, masterminded by the Sat Ans, “Arab terrorists,” who hate Americans for their “freedoms,” undermined billions
of dollars worth of intelligence-gathering technology of the most powerful country in the history of civilization with nothing more than box cutters. (These two almost diametrically opposed versions of events being two distinct psychological “realities,” with one being true and the other a lie.) And something very interesting occurred as a result of this particular event: masses of individuals (most of these people having Ad Am souls, by the way), eventually “caught” the artificial time line as it was attempted to be “hooked” onto their collective psyche. By looking closely at what I am saying, it is easy to see that what I am saying is in fact the case. Just think about this for a few moments and “see” what I mean. And this phenomenon—those that do see through the United States government’s version of 9-11, and those that don’t—is yet another example of the psychological split of reality that I first
described in Into The Void. The subtle manipulation of “history,” as well as the insertion of fabricated events, has indeed created the lie in which we live. But we are slowing coming to realize this. We are waking up from the illusory world Humanity has been made to inhabit. A world where the universe and all life in it is an accident; where famine, war, and disease run rampant; where greed and dishonesty are the status quo. This is the time line we unfortunately exist in: a synthetic reality created by the Sat Ans for the Ad Ams to inhabit, so that they can feed off of us.

And speaking of the illusory world the Sat Ans have trapped us in, consider Bill Gate’s twenty-eight-billion-dollar fortune. Or the monetary holdings of George Soros, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, and every other billionaire out there. Where are the vaults that hold all of this money? Guess what? They don’t exist! The whole thing is a carefully constructed house of cards! It is all smoke and mirrors, man—an illusion. David Icke remarks in his books:
if you, and I, and Bill, Ruppert, Ted, and everyone else in the world withdrew their cash tomorrow, banks would shut down in less than five minutes, as they don’t have that cash. It does not exist. Ha! Which means that over six billion people on this planet have been bamboozled by these creatures’ schemes. And most people walk around oblivious to this fact. [...]

 

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Excerpt from Chapter Three• Weird Science


[...] Eventually Backster received commission as a first lieutenant, Military Intelligence, in the U.S. Army Reserve. His new gig involved working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He was part of a team that specialized in unusual investigation tactics overseas, such as hypno-interrogation and narcointerrogation. In 1965 Backster left the CIA and established the Backster Research Foundation, Inc. It was just after this that Backster had his first encounter with plant intelligence.

It all started on February 2, 1966 in New York City around 7:00 am. After working all night in his polygraph lab, Backster was taking a coffee break. His secretary had brought a couple of potted plants in to “liven up” the office: a rubber plant and a dracaena cane. While watering the dracaena, which has a long trunk, Backster decided on a whim to see if he could measure with his polygraph equipment the speed at which the water rose from the plant’s roots to its leaves.

By way of separate components, a polygraph both monitors and records in human subjects the electrical resistance changes in skin, the relative changes in blood pressure, changes in respiration patterns, and pulse strength and rate. Of relevance to Backster’s plant-watering experiment is the galvanic skin response (GSR) section of the polygraph, which works via two electrode plates. When monitoring a human, these electrodes are attached to the subject’s fingers and then a very small amount of electricity is passed through them, so as to create a resistance, which is then recorded by the device. A GSR device works much the same way as an lectrician’s OHM meter.

Backster anticipated seeing a decrease in the plant leaf’s electrical resistance because of the moisture associated with the electrodes. But instead, he got the opposite result of what he was expecting, which was odd. While Backster was checking out this particularity, the polygraph paper recording showed another reaction pattern—one characteristic of a human subject experiencing the fear of being detected in a lie while being interrogated. Backster paused for a moment. This new reaction displayed by the polygraph was even more odd than the previous one he’d just gotten. Something was up. Backster thought to himself, “Well, if this plant wants to show me some people-like reactions, I’ve got to use some people-like rules on it and see if I can get this to happen again.” Backster called on his own training in the methodology of polygraph interrogation techniques used on humans, which measures the physiological reactions derived when a subject’s sense of well-being or survival is threatened.

Backster performed a series of experiments to see if more reactions could be generated. With the electrodes of the GSR component attached to the plant’s leaves, he dipped the leaves in hot coffee. There was no reaction. Similar experiments to harmlessly “harm” the plant produced only responses similar to those of a human subject who was bored or tired. At this point, Backster was not really intending on harming the plant in his experiments. But maybe he needed to get a little more extreme with his tests? So he paused for a moment and pondered the ultimate threat that a life form can have: death. But how might he accomplish this with the plant? Backster saw in his mind’s eye the image of his hand holding a match and burning the leaf of the plant. Incredibly, just at that moment the polygraph’s recording pen moved to the top of the chart! This time Backster had truly intended to burn the dracaena. And the recording denoted a sudden reaction (comparable to human fear) on part of the plant. In his book Primary Perception, Backster comments:

On February 2, 1966 at 13 minutes, 55 seconds into the chart
recording, my whole consciousness changed. I then thought, “Gee,
it’s as though this plant read my mind!”


In a later experiment, Backster wanted to share his discovery with a colleague. However, this time around he really wasn’t intending to burn the leaf at all—not even in his imagination. He was simply going through the motions. The needle on the graph didn’t move. When he couldn’t get a response, he decided that he actually was going to burn the leaf, at which point the plant reacted by displaying a wild needle jump. Backster hypothesized that perhaps the plant could somehow differentiate between a real threat and a mock threat. Maybe plants could sense not only human thoughts but also human intentions? Might this be the reason why some shamans, like Pablo Amaringo for example, tell those about to ingest a shamanic teacher plant like ayahuasca to put their intent into the cup? Hmm.

Another pioneering experiment that Backster eventually devised was to see if a plant could display memory traits. He gathered six of his students (some of them veteran policemen) and two plants. The first plant was wired to his sensory-recording gear, while the second one wasn’t. These students were made to each randomly pull a piece of paper from a hat, one of which had instructions to terminate the first plant. This student was to follow the instructions on the paper in secret; neither Backster nor the other students knew the identity of the “plant terminator.” The only witness to the crime would be the second plant, which was being electronically monitored. Backster then had all six students, one by one, come near the remaining plant. When each of the five students who had not destroyed the first plant came near the surviving plant, the graph showed no activity. However, as soon as the sixth student —who had destroyed the first plant—entered the room and approached the second plant, the polygraph’s reading went off the chart.In yet another experiment, Backster traveled fifty miles away from his laboratory and recorded his plants’ reactions. Using a stopwatch to track time, he discovered that as soon as he thought of turning around to return to his lab, those plants wired to the polygraph showed signs of activity. Backster interpreted this result to mean that plants can establish a link with their caretakers, and are able to maintain this attunement regardless of space. Backster has not yet been able to unearth what kind of energy wave might be carrying a human’s thoughts and feelings to plants. He theorizes that perhaps this is because such a carrier wave resides beyond our known electromagnetic spectrum.

Another thing I find fascinating about Cleve Backster’s research is the concept of plant territoriality. By way of further experiments, Backster claims to have discovered that plants tend to stake out their territory, just like animals do. After plants are moved from one location to another, for a period of time they apparently need to become attuned to the new life forms that surround them, including animals and humans. Similarly, Backster also discovered another instance of a plant’s sense of attunement to other life forms in its vicinity. One day after Backster had finished using a tea kettle, he poured the remaining scalding water down the sink. The plant he was monitoring at the time seemed to react to this action. Why? Backster’s conclusion was that the reaction was due to the near boiling water killing off the micro-organisms contained in his lab’s drain pipe. The plant was able to sense when other life forms in its territory were being terminated and it displayed an “emotional reaction,” perhaps that of fear or shock.In April 1966, two months after his first encounters with plant intelligence (and coincidently the month and year of my birth), Backster visited C. H. Stoelting Co., the company that manufactured his the polygraph equipment. Why was he able to monitor and record plant reactions using the GSR component of his equipment? He showed his findings to the president of the company and a few other employees. After viewing Backster’s findings, one of the technicians at the manufacturing company, Donald Klipstein, suggested that they use the company’s expensive oscilloscope to perform a similar test. In contrast to passing a small amount of electricity through a subject to measure the GSR, an oscilloscope amplifies the actual electrical activity originating from the skin of a subject.

This time, the “subject” for the test was an orange. Backster and Klipstein dropped an X-Acto® knife, point-down from several feet above the orange. The oscilloscope signaled a spike, when the knife was on its way down to possibly strike the orange! However, if they dropped the knife without actually intending to hit the orange, no reading was registered. Eventually Backster found that merely a leaf removed from its plant (much like an orange or an apple are removed from a tree) still displayed the same characteristics. Eastern philosophy has presented the argument for thousands of years that everything in Nature has consciousness. Perhaps this is because everything actually is consciousness?

Cleve Backster went on to invite psychologists, psychiatrists, physicists, chemists, biologists, and others, to investigate his findings. And according to Backster, many other researchers successfully replicated his experiments. Backster’s presentation at the Tenth Annual Parapsychology Association meeting in New York City on September 7, 1967, was published in an abstract of the Journal of Parapsychology (Vol. 31, No. 4). And a report of the experiment
he conducted at this affair was published under the title of “Evidence of a Primary Perception in Plant Life” in the 1968 issue of the International Journal of Parapsychology (Vol. 10).

Unfortunately, the methodology Backster and his lab assistants used for their experiments was not always followed by those attempting to replicate the experiments. Some researchers thought that they could simply wire up a plant, go into another room, and watch the results from a closed-circuit television. These researchers treated the plants like cold and sterile “things.” When engaging in biocommunication experiments with a very different sort of life form—a plant—it is worth entertaining the possibility that perhaps the other life form has its own manner of relating to the world. Many “scientific” minds didn’t consider that the plants might not respond well when they had been objectified. Backster’s own studies indicated that sincere attention from the experimenter was a prerequisite in most instances. As time went by it was discovered that, under attempts to replicate Backster’s results using tighter scientific protocols, the plants did not perform as expected. That is, they didn’t show the same type of response ten times in a row, simply because a researcher demanded repeatability. Backster’s own research had revealed the importance of spontaneity in obtaining results. Backster’s experiments seemed to suggest that there needed to be an earnest relationship/interaction between a researcher and a plant, and that this relationship could not be forced into the sort of predictable routine that some scientists felt was required in order to run their experiments.

Just as the relationship between a researcher and the experimental plant may have an effect on the results of that experiment, so too the environment could play a part. Plants are creatures that relate to the world primarily through their “setting.” Consider, for example, the work of Dorothy Retallack, author of The Sound of Music and Plants. Retallack ran a series of experiments for her
biology class, including one where she played music for plants and gauged their reactions. Similar research used stop motion photography over several months time to gauge the plants’ reaction. Stereo speakers were placed near the plants and different styles of music were played. When the plants were exposed to Rock ’n’ Roll music for an extended period of time, they tended to lean away from the speakers. When Classical music was played for an extended period of time, the plants leaned towards the speakers. And when Retallack played “devotional” music, the plants leaned so close to the speakers that one might anthropomorphize their action as an “embrace.”

Despite some scientists who disputed the credibility of Backster’s claims, he went on to have favorable mainstream articles published in National Wildlife, McCall’s, Harper’s, and Reader’s Digest, among others. He was also invited to be a television talk show guest on Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, and David Frost. And it was with David Frost, before a live studio audience, that an incident occurred which astonished and amused everyone—both those at the event and those watching it at home. Frost asked Backster whether the philodendron plant he had hooked to his GSR equipment was a male or a female. Backster told the talk show host to lift up one of the plant’s leaves, to take a peak and see. Instantly the GSR meter showed a wild reaction! The audience laughed and applauded.

But Backster was not alone in his findings. Inspired by Backster’s research, in 1972 the Soviet psychologist Veniamin Noevich Pushkin published an article titled “Tzvetok - otzavis!” (“Flower - call back!”) in the November issue of Znanie-sila (“Knowledge is power”), a Russian magazine that deals with popular science issues. Pushkin described using an electroencephalograph (rather than the GSR instrumentation Backster had used) to measure the plants’ response. Interestingly, Pushkin’s research protocol also included using hypnosis as a way to attune the person to the plant. During the experiment, each time the subject was indoctrinated with a hypnotic suggestion, the plant being monitored immediately showed a reaction. Pushkin’s article notes that our current theory of evolution hypothesizes that plant cells evolved before the nerve cells of animals. His speculation is that the “informational behavior” of animals was ultimately built from earlier “informational behavior” created by plants. Which led him to consider the idea that complex human mental functions—including thought, memory, reasoning, perception, etc.—are a specialized form of information processing that began at the level of the vegetable cell. He concludes his article with the remark that: “A psyche exists, it would seem, in living cells devoid of a nervous system. One thing is for sure, research into the contact of plant with man can shed light on some of the most urgent problems in contemporary psychology.” Yet strangely, scientists worldwide have largely avoided commenting on biocommunication experiments performed by Backster, Pushkin, and other researchers.

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