The Universe Within Me

By Georgi Zhekov

TRANSFORMATION. DEATH. RESURRECTION. NEW LIFE. ANGELS.
DEMONS. STRENGTH. COURAGE. LOVE. FAITH. INSPIRATION.

In his last book, Georgi Zhekov shares with us, frankly and intimately, his journey to Awakening and Enlightenment. A journey strewn with events which will push you to cast doubt on everything you know about the nature of the world around you.

The reality which we know has many forms and faces. Whether or not you open your eyes to see beyond its physical contours is entirely up to you.

Think it over properly, though, because in the place you’ll end up everything is just as it IS and nothing is quite as it seems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Georgi Zhekov
• Release date: Jan 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370524952

Georgi Zhekov

Hello, My name is Georgi. Almost ten years ago, I was a truck driver cruising around the 50 states with my big rig. After leading spiritual workshops in my home country Bulgaria, writing books, managing two websites, giving speeches and lectures, I am currently on my way of publishing my eight book. An amazing change in directions, don’t you think? Especially knowing that there was a point in my life in between, when I was in a hospital not having a clue who I am, having a full amnesia and not able to move much... It was quite amazing for me as well while seeing it happening... In 2006, I’ve had a few near death experiences that changed the way I see the world around me. Almost 2 years later, at the end of 2008 I went through a series of spontaneous spiritual transformations which end with a heavy car accident. I was hit by a fast moving car... Back then I had no idea what the meaning of the words “spirituality” and “self development” was. In the next four years I realized a lot about them... As I was lying in the ambulance on the way to Springfield, Illinois with almost half of my forehead missing, I honestly wasn’t thinking much about that I will be writing those words now. And that’s perfectly normal as I had that full amnesia I already mentioned. I was even admitted in the hospital under a different name and date of birth... It took four hours for the surgeon to put a titanium peace in my head. Chances for me to survive were very little. Doctors told my parents and my friends that I won’t make it. But I knew I was going to... There was a deeper meaning for me to be still here. To share all the experience I gained and keep gaining. Three weeks after the surgery I was riding my bike for more than 20 miles per day, doing hundreds of push ups and pull ups afterwards. My head healed for less than a month and I was climbing, swimming and kept riding my bike almost every day short after. I spent more than four years on concentration, meditation, reading self development books, visiting different workshops and traveling around Europe to find an explanation of what exactly happened to me. My first book called “Another reality” was published at the end of 2012. I wrote it down after three years of constant self development and self exploration. Short after, I was leading first of my workshops with small group of people in different cities around my home country. I did that in order to share my deepest insights about Life, Universe, Consciousness, Love and Harmony. I think that keeping the body in a good physical condition through exercising and good diet is important part of connecting to that universal energy field. That’s why I became vegetarian and I keep experimenting with different kinds of food diets to find out what works best for me so I can keep my body in perfect shape. I love rock climbing, bicycling, mountain running, swimming, cuddling, communicating on all levels of existence with all the people in my life, travelling around the world and enjoying the freedom of choice. With time I realized that there is no shortcut to success, self development and the so called enlightenment. You have to work hard for it and to be persistent. I also understood that evolving is simply equal to constant change. It may be a change in you habits or replacing one of your negative beliefs. And don’t think I am so far ahead in that process. I am on my way as everybody else is. There always will be someone ahead of me that I can learn from. And that is actually what makes this life so beautiful- the opportunity to be constantly learning new things, to gain new experience and to evolve as consciousness. To share all that with others is my ultimate satisfaction. Especially when some of the things I share help other people find their own truth. As life we live is meant to be shared. See you on the way...

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THE UNIVERSE WITHIN ME

Published by Georgi Zhekov at Smashwords

Copyright 2017 Georgi Zhekov

Contents

Part Оne: The Universe Within Me

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter One- The beginning

Chapter Two- Glimpses

Chapter Three- The Awakening of the Heart

Chapter Four- The Blossoming of the Thousand-leafed Lotus

Chapter Five- Cleansing

Chapter Six- Hell and Heaven

Chapter Seven- The Psychiatric Ward

Chapter Eight- Angels and Demons

Chapter Nine- New Day

Chapter Ten- Healing

Chapter Eleven- The Flight

Chapter Twelve- Preparation

Chapter Thirteen- To Return Home

Part Two: Divine Revelations

Foreword

Chapter One- Pitfalls on the Journey

Chapter Two- The Three Questions of the Universe

Chapter Three- The Mind: A Tool for Creating Reality

Chapter Four- Sex: Two Universes in One

Chapter Five- The Power of Intention

Chapter Six- The Art of Loving

Chapter Seven- The Nature of Fear

Chapter Eight- Darkness and Light

Chapter Nine- The Knowable and the Unknowable

Chapter Ten- In Unity with God

Conclusion

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Part One

The Universe Within Me

FOREWORD

Hi!

I put off writing this book for seven long years. One of the reasons was that I wasn’t sure how many people would be ready to read and accept what I had to share with them. In other words, I was afraid. I’m still a little afraid now. But I already know that it doesn’t matter. I’ve come to accept that fear is an opportunity to surpass yourself. I’m sure that everyone will extract from these lines just what he needs at just this moment in order to proceed with his own development in a better way.

Everything that you’ll read in this book is the truth, just as I experienced it. In it there are no fictional characters and incidents but only that which life has brought me. Some of the facts may strike you as fantastic or at least outlandish. That’s normal, since they were just like that for me too in those moments when they were actually happening to me. You’ll grasp what I have in mind when you come to them.

I’ll bring you face to face with many and various topics: about Life and Death, about Happiness and Joy, about Knowledge and Ignorance, Wisdom and Stupidity, Strength and Weakness, about Mediocrity and Self-Respect, about Delusion and Spirituality.

I’ve deliberately divided the book into two main parts: the first is a frank and highly personal description of the transformation I underwent in order to reach the moment when I left my physical body, to then return to Earth with no memory whatsoever but with a radically different understanding and awareness of myself and everything which surrounds us, not only in the material world but also in the Universe not visible to our senses.

In the second part I will reveal a great number of the insights I acquired during the seven years after that. Years full of intense experience and development in each and every sphere of existence, which in part enabled me at least to some extent to describe in words processes which otherwise remain unfathomable to the mind. The choice of where to begin is entirely up to you.

The only thing I know for certain is that everything which you’ll come across in this book is that which you’re meant to experience along with me right here right now.

I’m not going to ask you if you’re ready for this journey, since the mere fact that you’re reading these lines is proof enough.

Welcome to the Place where everything is just as it IS and nothing is quite as it seems. And it’s all the result of one single Power, which most of us call God.

Part One:

The Universe Within Me

INTRODUCTION

The car was moving fast along the motorway plunged in darkness. The only thing I could see was the dark future that awaited me. My mind couldn’t grasp any more of what was happening. My friends were right by me on the back seat. The voices in my head had subsided and I could hear only one of them: ‘Die in the light! ‘

I opened the door I was sitting by and jumped outside even before the car had stopped. I rolled over several times and started to run against the direction of the traffic. In the distance I saw a light rapidly approaching. This was my chance. I knew there was no way I could die. Death had lost its dominion over me.

I took a run-up and dived headfirst to meet the front windscreen of the car bearing down on me.

I heard an ominous crunch…and found myself looking on from the side.

The next moment I realized that I was there somewhere- everywhere and nowhere. I was the observer. As my body gradually fell to the ground I watched it and at the same time I could still feel it. Some kind of invisible force placed my body gently on the asphalt and I was simultaneously far above it.

I heard the shouts of my friends who had gathered around my body. And I set off… leaving the world behind... Just after that I had reached my final destination. I was drifting in the midst of timelessness and I was in Eternity. I was breathing on my own, taking into my non-existent lungs the whole Universe and everything which IS. Divine Reason and I were one and the same: an infinite Whole.

After that I felt a slight breath of air. They were calling to me. I felt a powerful force sucking me into and through a tunnel whose walls were lined with myriad moments from my existence up to now ...and then it sent me back to Earth. I opened my eyes and called out. I instantly felt an acute pain, but it didn’t matter. I knew who I really was.

THE BEGINNING

Sliven, Bulgaria: Around 28 year earlier

The 31st of December 1980. The day of my birth. Unusually warm and pleasant. My mother was walking along arm in arm with my father and wearing her spring dress. The temperature was over 18 degrees Celsius. At 12 noon the first little cry with which I met the world was to be heard.

I remember it. I saw it again around 28 years later. The little body bathed in its mother’s blood and the enraptured smile on her face. The city clock was playing its tune to mark the middle of the day. Some of the children who had been born in recent days did not manage to survive. The terrible snowstorm which had blown up after my discharge from the maternity hospital had cut off the power and the temperatures had fallen sharply and rapidly below zero. The oil stove in my family’s flat and the intervention of those invisible angels who always watch over us saved my life.

GLIMPSES

Las Vegas, 2008

The days passed quickly and it was as if a lot was happening but at the same time not enough was happening for me to ascribe it any significance.

Climbing and being in contact with the rocks and the powerful force of Nature were awakening in me the dormant feeling of something more tangible, more real than the reality that surrounded me. The sense of a true life in the present – which at the time meant coming into contact with the countless routes on the vertical cliff faces, conversations around the camp-fire and the quiet of the stars above which wanted to reveal their secrets to us – this inner sense slowly but surely crept up on me.

I gazed at the world surrounding me, seeing that I had everything I had ever dreamed of. But then why did I feel so dissatisfied? Why did I constantly have the sensation that something was missing from the equation? Why was I driven to constantly seek out new experiences on the edge of the familiar and beyond? The questions came and went. Sometimes I ascribed them significance, pondering over them more deeply, but I often just brushed aside their appearance with the latest bottle of beer or the mind-numbing influence of marijuana.

The days came and went but the feeling of a change to come not only did not disappear but actually made its presence felt more intensely.

The kind of people started to appear in my life in whom I saw the appeal of a particular kind of knowledge and the personal freedom I thirsted for so strongly, without actually being fully aware that that’s what it was. My spirit was transmitting signals I could not resist.

Another Sunday. The end of the week for some, while for others it’s the beginning.

A light house with a medium-sized garden and greenery which brightened up barren reality a bit. Smiling faces and sparkling eyes. The sense of an indeterminate electrification in the air which I vaguely remembered from before.

‘Do you want to be initiated into the Energy of Life?’ was the question whose answer would transform my present and my future, without me even knowing it. The question was put by a slim and beautiful woman of an indeterminate age with an upright posture and a warm smile.

‘Yes! Of course! ‘I replied without even thinking about what that meant. We were led into a room and knelt on the floor for the woman to carry out the sacred rituals required. I felt nothing until the moment when they put the question to me: ‘Do you agree to receive the Divine Energy inside you?’

‘Yes!’ I answered and something strong stirred within me.

After that we gathered in a circle and chanted ‘Auuuum‘. Our voices merged and it was if they were awakening an utterly forgotten knowledge of Unity .

I had no idea what I was doing in that place. It was time to get myself away from there.

But that ‘Yes!‘, had unlocked the door to an inner dimension of the Spirit which had been waiting patiently to be invited onto the stage to take up its role in the exceptional play called Life.

New and ever-more interesting aspects of existence started to occupy me. Music and art started to attract me as well as the power of crystals and semi-precious stones, who seemed to speak directly to my soul, whispering to me of what it needed.

I came across books which were to give me a clearer understanding of my own existence.

I was changing.

THE AWAKENING OF THE HEART

8th December 2008

Somewhere in the State of Indiana.

The night was warm and pleasant and the air: fresh, filling my lungs with energy.

The place where I’d parked my lorry for a rest was nice and tidy as if someone had prepared it especially for what was about to happen. I crossed my legs in front of me on the bed and propped up my back on the wall behind me. I started to breathe slowly and calmly and began to visualize. The buildings and the people that surrounded me. Smiles, and a full-bodied sensation of acceptance, exuberance and the pure energy of Love. My lorry, moving through the desert and reaching a remote village of naked, hungry children and men and women ready to receive the food and water I was transporting. Opening the main body of the truck and giving out everything in it along with the gratitude in their eyes and the clear awareness that for them this is a true miracle.

After that I lay down and almost instantly fell asleep.

The dream was more real than ever. First came the monstrous figures of demonic beings who frightened me to such an extent that I woke up with a shout, my body drenched in sweat. Then I fell asleep again. I was moving forward along the Way with an inner feeling of coming change when my grandfather appeared with his usual smile and benevolent presence. He would always come to me during my astral journeys when something important was about to happen. We communicated via soundless transmission of thoughts. The Way in question was a small and black carter’s path as if at the end of a village unknown to anyone, with blurred outlines beyond the actual tracks we were moving along. Often the paths which lead us towards our highest level of insight appear quite ordinary. And it’s just this that makes our journey along them so cleansing.

Thoughts turned into bright feelings and the Way became more narrow but still possible to pass along, at least at first glance. My grandfather said, however, that