We Are More: A Roadmap to Mastery

By John Bigelow

For much of my life, I searched for my own Holy Grail, my direct, intimate connection with Consciousness. Without any clear direction, knowledge, or even a map, I did what most people do when seeking enlightenment; I wandered here and there trying different disciplines and paths. My mantra became Who am I? resounding in my heart and head. I want

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Bigelow
• Release date: Nov 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9781734254112

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2: Where Did This Information Come From?

What would cause someone to write a book about consciousness, or more precisely, the expansion of consciousness? Or, maybe the question is more like, "Why would someone write another book about consciousness?"

Also, what are the benefits to the expansion of consciousness? Are the benefits (assuming there are some) available to everyone or just a select group? Are there prerequisites as in some type of degree or specific education necessary to the expansion of consciousness? Are there costs associated with the expansion of consciousness? And perhaps most importantly, is the expansion of consciousness really worth attaining?

As to these latter questions, for now I’ll just say: Astounding benefits! Yes, available to everyone. No degrees required. No financial costs—some costs in focus, awareness, and commitment. The attainment of higher consciousness is priceless! More definitive answers are coming in the Benefits section of this chapter.

The answer as to what moved me to write a book on consciousness is four-fold.

The first reason is simple. This is my legacy.

Not necessarily for the world, but most specifically for my children, my grandchildren, my great grandchildren, and as far as my ripple in spacetime may reach.

I simply want to leave something behind so they will know, Oh, this is how dad/granddad/great granddad saw the world. This is what he came to in his quest to understand the great mysteries of life. This is who he was.

And so, I leave this for you, my beloved children—regardless of how far removed in spacetime you are from me—with the hope you may find guidance, courage, comfort, wisdom and a clear path to your own awakening within these pages.

I will be here waiting for you in the light.

Secondly, I want to add my voice and my energy to the rising tide of spiritual awakening occurring on our planet at this time. I believe each of us who feels or senses this oncoming change needs to add our weight to this great endeavor in whatever way we can. This is my way.

The third reason comes from my realization, after my many years of study, reflection, and consideration, the only real and lasting solution to the problems we face as a species is the expansion of consciousness. There are no problems named which cannot be altered, alleviated, eradicated, overcome, or healed through a shift in consciousness.

This dimension of reality we exist in is simply a reflection of the majority of its inhabitants’ consciousness. We change our consciousness, and we shift the dimension we live in.

Or if you prefer a more learned and lettered source, here’s how Dr. Albert Einstein said it:

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

He then went on to say it would only take 10% of the population changing its thinking to create this change.

Now, I’m not a mathematician and have no idea how he came to that figure, but regardless of whether it’s 10% or 30%, the more voices there are in the world speaking and teaching about a more enlightened way of thinking and living, the faster we will reach that dynamic.

The fourth reason is that consciousness is the subject I have spent the majority of my life learning about, endeavoring to understand, attempting to reach, and speaking and teaching about.

While many of my peers were building businesses and careers, I was, in my own way, on a quest to find my holy grail. Not the fabled cup of Christ that is the subject of history as well as many a myth and legend. No.

The holy grail I sought, for me, symbolized achieving a direct, personal connection with Spirit or God, which I knew and clearly understood could only be accessed as a result of the expansion of my own consciousness.

As a result of my personal journey, I have grown, shifted, and evolved in my own consciousness such that I have come to a deep understanding of the subject which I believe to be unique, practical, easy to follow, and universally applicable.

Given all of this, I thought there might be others in the world following a similar path and would find what I have to offer both useful and beneficial.

Very briefly, my quest began when I was just three years old with my first visitations from beings of light along with many visions in which I was given information through both verbal (more like telepathically verbal), and sensorially, as in a wide variety and configuration of three-dimensional mandala-like shapes. The information encompassed a wide array of subjects pertaining to the human experience and the spiritual journey. These experiences left me with a knowing of something I couldn’t quite seem to remember and a hunger for something for which I had no name.

At 16, I found my first spiritual teacher and walked that path for some 12 years. I attended many seminars and workshops on personal and spiritual growth. I read lots of books on a wide variety of subjects, always looking for those kernels of truth which might assist me in my quest or lead me to the next question.

I facilitated personal/spiritual workshops for adults and teens, always with the full disclaimer that I was simply teaching what I wanted to learn. I questioned everything; I meditated; I went into retreat. I would live with various questions, sometimes for years on end, as I moved ever closer to unlocking what I knew was already within.

One such question was:

How would the world appear if I could see it through the eyes of a Master?

The awareness and importance of the seven distinct levels of consciousness, which is part of what this book is about—those levels being Innocence, Child, Adolescent, Adult, Wizard, Mystic, and Master—came to me in my own noetic moment, a revelation, or maybe a beam of light that filled my head, one day, a number of years ago, as my wife Susie and I were driving to San Diego for the weekend.

This flash of insight was prompted from my meditation. For quite some time, I pondered the idea or the question of Mastery. On this particular drive, I was holding the aforementioned question in my mind, how would the world appear, if I could see it through the eyes of a Master? All of a sudden, it was like the doors were thrown open and much of the information shared in this book just started pouring into, or maybe out of my consciousness.

Thank God (and I mean that sincerely), my wife Susie was in the car with me because I asked her to grab a notebook and a pencil, and I started dictating what I was seeing, hearing, sensing, and knowing.

The dictation lasted well over three hours.

In that initial burst of clarity, I came to see there were seven distinct levels to consciousness that can be traversed at this earthly level of existence, and it’s a pattern that comes full circle to end where it began. I wasn’t given particular names for each level but simply saw them as levels one through seven.

The names I later chose for the various levels were simply a way to make each level easier to speak about as well as identify with and relate to.

What is interesting about these kinds of noetic moments or revelations is how there seems to be information coming forward on a number of different levels all at the same time.

For as I was seeing and dictating to Susie about the particulars of each level, I also had a very clear knowing of the fact that WE ARE MORE!

I could clearly see that we are so much more than:

Our pasts

Our cultures

Our beliefs

Our bodies

Our feelings

Our thoughts

Our identities

Our disappointments

Our failures

Our shortcomings

Our successes

Our sufferings

Our joys

Our titles

Our genetic coding

Our generational imprinting

Our ANYTHING!

I somehow knew as in that kind of knowing we have without knowing how we know that We Are More! It was as if I had been in some kind of coma or perhaps had been suffering with amnesia when I suddenly woke up and remembered. I remembered not only who I am but who we—the collective we—are.

After that initial awakening, more and more clarity and information about the different levels came to me with each passing day.

My awareness of what our relationship is with the world at each level came into play as did the following: there is a cycle of the same seven levels of consciousness within each primary level of consciousness, like wheels within wheels; how our emotional and mental responses to stimuli correlate to each particular level; how the conscious awareness of each level can be used to accelerate the process of awakening; and how perfectly each level relates to the various phases of our physical and emotional development.

I began to see very clearly how and why, as we progress through the different levels of consciousness, the changes to our identity and our intellect (the logical/rational/thinking mind) take shape. I was able to recognize both the positive and negative aspects inherent within those changes, and how we either embody and use the positive aspects or get trapped and used by the negative aspects. I was also able to see how people express themselves based on the level from which they operate.

To sum it all up, the information being offered in this book has both been given to me by way of my own noetic moments and through a plethora of visions and visitations from beings of light. The practical side, the how-to portion has been born out of the journey I have taken in search of my own holy grail, that direct, personal connection with the Divine. It has been a journey of observation, consideration, meditation, reflection, and practice.

As we come to the end of this chapter, I think it’s important I take just a moment and acknowledge my awareness of the fact that we currently live in a very empirical, scientific based society. A society which is always asking or even demanding quantifiable proof and documentation before any claim can be made on just about any subject.

At the same time, there are a number of scientific fields of study such as quantum physics, epigenetics, and transpersonal psychology, to name a few, which are beginning to overlap into mysticism and spirituality and are finding it more and more difficult to come up with solid, quantifiable answers.

John Hogan, in his book, The End of Science, has looked into this newer phenomenon taking place in science, and he concludes it’s occurring because the most enlightened mystics and the most enlightened scientists are all ending up in the same place. It is their attempt to uncover and understand the mysteries and depths of the universe, that is bringing about this overlap of science and spirituality.

So, while the information, practices, and suggestions offered throughout this book are not the results of experiments conducted in an empirical, scientific, double-blind structure, there is ample evidence from those hundreds of participants I worked with over thousands of hours, and the expansion of consciousness they experienced, which stands as compelling evidence the information is accurate and the techniques work.

3: The Benefits of Higher Consciousness

Recently, I was sharing with a woman I just met about this book which I was still in the process of writing when she asked, "Who would benefit from your book?

I thought for a moment and then responded.

You’re asking who I think would benefit from reading a book that details the steps necessary to the expansion of consciousness, leading to the full realization of the truth of who we are. Is this correct?

"Yes, that’s accurate,’’ she replied.

Here was my response.

"The person who:

is dissatisfied with the status quo, with the way things are, and seem to have always been, and believes in their heart we as a species are capable of something greater than what we currently express.

has recently found themselves attracted to a spiritual path or the path of self-realization or even the person who has been on a spiritual path for years.

feels or senses there is something more for them —a new way to express and a more authentic way to live. They are likely to be looking for a new or clearer direction and greater purpose in their life.

is asking questions for which they never seem to get sufficient answers.

wonders if there is a way they can finally realize happiness, true love, and intimate connection.

is tired of suffering and struggling and hungers for inner peace but doesn’t know how to break the ties to their past and find serenity.

has always somehow known without knowing how they knew they were here to be a part of something innovative, something revolutionary, something that would change everything, yet, they haven’t discovered how to express it or maybe even where to begin."

The answers and the information leading a person to the full realization and understanding of all the above questions and quandaries can only be found through the expansion of consciousness.

And here’s another, perhaps even bigger answer. It’s from the book, The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, by Ernest Spalding. In Book 3, page 184, the first paragraph, we hear from the Master who is speaking with a group in the mountains of Tibet, and he says to them:

If you would realize, as I did, that it is far easier to work out your own problems in one earthly experience than it is to go on and on and accumulate a race consciousness of good and evil, that soon becomes an encrusted shell; that has been added to, layer by layer upon an encrustation by each succeeding experience, until it takes superhuman force and sledge-hammer blows to break the shell and release your true self.

Doing the work necessary to the expansion of consciousness is the path to true freedom, not only for the individual but in the largest sense for the world as well. It is the only way to finding the true, lasting, and solid solutions to all of life’s problems, both big and small, over which we gain complete authority. A kind of authority that can never be taken from us regardless of economic, social, political, or any other pressures or upheavals.

The morning after the conversation with the woman who asked me who could benefit from this book, I was in that twilight state just waking from sleep. A part of the 1970 song Melancholy Man, written by Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues played in my head. Here is the part of the song I heard:

". . . When all the stars are falling down

Into the sea and on the ground,

And angry voices carry on the wind,

A beam of light will fill your head

And you’ll remember what’s been said

By all the good men this world’s ever known . . ."

As we begin to expand our consciousness, this is how it starts to work.

The expansion of consciousness is a different undertaking than going to college to earn a degree in a particular field, or learning to fly an airplane, or becoming proficient at a sport. It’s an endeavor requiring a different approach along with a diverse set of skills which are not always the same ones we would employ in the pursuit of a degree or in learning to fly an airplane.

There is a learning that begins to take place within our hearts and minds which may not have anything to do with the prevailing worldview, the current scientific understanding of a thing, or even long-held religious or philosophical beliefs.

The word that describes this way of learning is noetic.

Noetic is a word that comes up in the field of philosophy and refers to the action of perceiving or uncovering a greater level of truth about something that was not immediately visible or evident. This usually occurs through the process of thinking about and reflecting upon some thought or idea.

People who have experienced this type of learning will often say, "I know that I know, but I don’t know how I know."

Let’s take some time now to really answer those questions asked earlier, which were:

Are the benefits (of higher consciousness) available to everyone, or just a select group? Are there prerequisites, as in some type of degree or specific education, necessary to the expansion of consciousness? What are the costs associated with the expansion of consciousness?

Someone in marketing once told me that in order to get people to move out of their comfort zones and buy or even try something new, I would first need to sell them on the benefits of having or attaining the new thing. It’s especially true when that something is somewhat mysterious and perhaps even intangible, like exploring the next level of consciousness.

This kind of strategy seems pretty straightforward if I were trying to sell one car over another car, but it can be difficult with an intangible such as consciousness or the awakening of consciousness.

The benefits of higher consciousness are not as clear or as tangible as things such as cars that are a part of our everyday life. It’s much more elusive and difficult to describe than every day, familiar items.

One of the biggest differences between say a new automobile and higher consciousness is we can run down to our nearest dealership and take whichever model we’re considering out for a test drive and gain an instant awareness and an immediate understanding of how it feels.

Not so with higher consciousness. There is no place to go to give consciousness a test drive, because it basically exists within us. We are the vehicle. And test driving higher consciousness from our current level of consciousness is like trying to understand the luxury, comfort, and power of say a Tesla Model S from the seat of a Smart Car.

The difficulty in clearly defining the benefits of higher consciousness shows up when we realize that, while we have lots of examples of stuff like makes and models of cars, there are scant few models or examples of just exactly what the benefits of higher consciousness looks like.

Certainly, Jesus and Buddha are examples as are other mystics and sages, such as Krishnamurti, Yogananda, Emerson, or Rumi. Although their lives and words are inspirational and exemplary, their messages may still be somewhat elusive and perhaps even a bit confusing in trying to appreciate the advantages and benefits.

I mean, consider Jesus, who is said to walk on water, raise the dead, and feed the multitudes with a couple of pitas and a few sardines. Yet like his fellow Masters, rather than manifesting more material goods, riches, fame, or comforts for themselves, life appeared to go in the opposite direction, and they seemed to be happy with less and less.

What then are the benefits to higher consciousness? Is it worth leaving behind what we already know and are comfortable with and once again striking out into the unknown?

The ideas being offered in this book can help an individual to know and understand the distinct attributes of consciousness and the recognizable ways in which it shows up in our daily lives—how it impacts our success, or our lack thereof; how it can enrich, enliven, and re-create the relationships we have with ourselves, our spouses, family members, friends, and business associates; how it can alleviate all manner of physical and emotional maladies; how it can lift us above any and all limiting beliefs, thoughts, or past experiences to a place of empowerment, self-worth, and self-love; how it literally changes the way in which we experience life.

These insights, this growth in consciousness, give every person interested in self-improvement, self-awareness, self-realization—or with just a better life—the means to recognize, understand, and adjust their actions to reach their desired goals.

Let’s put all of what was just said in a more tangible light.

A few years ago, I had the distinct honor and privilege of being the Mental Conditioning Coach for the USA Men’s Senior National Field Hockey team. This is the team who would have represented our country in the Olympics had they qualified. I was with them for a period of two years.

How I came to be in this position would take some time to tell. I’ll just say it was one of those synchronized, seemingly choreographed moments when someone had a need, and I supplied what was missing.

After working with the team for a few weeks, the team’s head coach, Coach Shiv noted, You come from more of a spiritual perspective when working with the boys, don’t you?

Yes, I do!

(Where else would I come from? Better yet, where else is there to come from?)

Did coming from a more spiritual perspective with a sports’ team work? Was there improvement? Was there expansion?

After just three months working with the team, we traveled to Scotland for a World Cup qualifying tournament against other teams from Europe. Having held the distinction of being one of the lowest ranked teams in the world, coupled with the rather infamous record of receiving the most red cards against as well as the most points scored against, up to that point in time, we surprised them all.

Not only did we not receive any red cards, but we held our own in all of our matches, winning one in the process with our worst loss being 3-1 instead of the heretofore normal kind of lopsided losses of 15-0 and such. What’s more, based on our performance at that one tournament we moved up from the bottom of the table to about 24th in the world standings. Not bad after only three months working from a spiritual perspective.

Coaches from other teams came over to our bench after our matches and congratulated us on our performance, inquiring as to what caused such a dramatic turnaround in the team.

I would never imply that the team’s success was my doing. I was only a part of what was an amazing and talented group of coaches as well as young athletes who were open and willing to try something new and then do the work asked of them.

By the way, when Coach Shiv asked me about my approach to mental conditioning being spiritual, what I didn’t say, simply due to time and circumstances was:

The belief that spirituality, athletic and team performance, growing a business, governing a country, or raising amazing children are somehow unique from one another is just another part of the lie of separation. Everything is connected, related, and relatable. What’s more, all of it—everything—comes down to consciousness.

So, yes, the benefits are applicable to sports teams, corporations, organizations, bureaucracies, and governments. Spirituality, as Coach Shiv called it, is the perspective and the secret to every phase and structure of life, so long as we’re open and willing to do the work required.

As we expand our consciousness, we take on new levels of aliveness and our energy levels soar. We live in a space of incredible peace, matched by a joyful sense of satisfaction. We come into a greater awareness of the impact consciousness has on our entire well-being and recognize we have the capacity within us to live a healthy, vibrant life.

Expanding our consciousness opens up the world to us. We begin to recognize opportunities, relationships, resources, and ideas that might have been right in front of us but remained hidden beneath our limited beliefs or narrow-mindedness.

Our ability to interact with others and gain their agreement becomes so much easier when we operate from a higher place in consciousness. Inherent within higher consciousness are the real and heartfelt qualities of cooperation, inclusion, acceptance, understanding, appreciation, empathy, and many other energetic tendrils of connection.

In the presence of a conscious person, we feel at ease and want to be a part of and share in the essence of their being. We may not even know why we feel the way we do in their energy field, but higher consciousness is a measurable field reaching out to enfold all those within its reach.

And, the more expanded we become in consciousness, the greater our reach. We can extend our consciousness to the people around us, to the people who live next door, to the people who live across town, and to the people who live on the other side of the planet.

At the higher levels of consciousness, all limitations that once bound us in spacetime begin to melt away.

We begin to manifest, create, and express in ways which would have at one time seemed miraculous. Our good starts to exist for us as simply the way it should be or the way it was intended to be.

There is an easy, synchronistic manner to the flow of our life, to our finances, and to our expression. This is the natural outcome of aligning our consciousness with Conscious Energy, which has no limitations and is limitless in its depth and breadth.

Being able to discern the level of consciousness a person is operating from and to understand the language and belief system for each particular state of consciousness can be invaluable for leaders. CEOs, managers, and human resource personnel in understanding their co-workers and friends; thereby becoming incredibly accurate and effective in their interactions. This kind of effectiveness can’t help but benefit the bottom line.

Recognizing the power and potential of each distinct level of consciousness is a powerful tool for ministers, therapists, healers, facilitators, and all those working with or involved with people to bring about their growth, healing, or awakening.

As we understand the progression of consciousness and how it can be affected by external influences, we learn how to offset and heal the negative impact of events, how to speak and what to model to help expand and excite the positive attributes of consciousness. These are all extremely important tools for parents, teachers, counselors, and anyone else coming into daily contact with children, desiring to assist them in becoming whole, productive, and conscious human beings.

While there may be many other benefits, perhaps the biggest impact to having a Roadmap to higher consciousness would be the positive impact it would have on the planet as a whole.

Every act of war, prejudice, deceit, corruption, greed, dishonesty, abuse, and murder are all committed at the lower levels of consciousness.

Now, imagine what the world would look like if people began operating from just one or two higher levels of consciousness.

I believe most people would like to live in a world where the systems of government, business, and finance all reflected values like equality, respect, human dignity, fairness, cooperation, transparency, and openness.

It’s interesting to note that many of these values were incorporated in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights of the United States and have found their way into many other forms of government around the world.

Yet, I believe it is fair to say that while they are the noblest of ideals, we do not currently live in a world that demonstrates those ideals. Regardless of how noble they may be, these values are difficult to legislate, and if legislated, they become challenging to enforce. As such, governments will never change the world. Only people can. Change is up to you and me—the collective we.

The path to higher consciousness is open and available to everyone. There are no degrees, levels of education, or prerequisites required. The only requirement is that a person recognizes they want something more, something greater out of their life. Perhaps in reading about the benefits of higher consciousness, something resonates deeply within us, and we find ourselves thinking, Yes, I want to experience life in that way.

That’s enough. Nothing more is required to set us on the path.

And, the only costs associated with changing our life, enhancing our relationships, raising healthy and aware children, or living abundantly, which are all the natural out-picturing of the expanded consciousness, are honesty, focus, tenacity, and practice.

What’s more, the process is really not that difficult. Especially given we now have a Roadmap we can follow.

If we take the time to study and work with the ideas, principles, and practices offered in this book we will discover there are no aspects of life, work, or the relationships involved in those endeavors, that can’t be transformed and expanded through their implementation.

Using this book, you will learn to:

1. Identify where you currently are in consciousness

2. Understand why you’re there

3. Learn what’s attractive about where you are

4. Become aware of what the possible traps can be to where you are

5. Discover what’s required in order to move to the next level

From this new level, we discover a sweetness to life we’ve yet to experience. Through the expansion or the freeing of our consciousness, we can truly begin to experience heaven on earth—right here, right now.

Clarifiers

We have all had experiences in our lives so amazingly beautiful, perhaps even life changing, they remain vibrant and alive in our mind even years later.

We may also know the frustration of trying to convey to another person our experience only to see in the other person’s eyes we’ve fallen short of truly expressing the magnificence, the beauty, the clarity of the moment.

Even standing right in front of the other person with all three aspects of communication available to us (words, vocal inflection, and body language), we were unable to effectively share the depth of the moment with them.

Now, imagine trying to convey this same life-changing moment with someone, only take away vocal inflection and body language, and with only words, make that same attempt.

Even more difficult.

Add to that difficulty the fact that any words we might choose to use to describe any emotion, feeling, or thought will also be subjective.

For instance, when one person uses the word intimacy, the person hearing or reading the word won’t have the exact same interpretation of the word. For some people, the word elicits sexual thoughts; for others, it conveys the idea of closeness and nurturing.

Whatever words we choose to use to give voice to any thought or feeling can only point at the idea. They cannot truly express the thing itself.

So, it is with a book.

The more subtle an idea, or the more feelings an experience evokes, the more limited and limiting language becomes.

Writing about the various levels of consciousness and the thought processes, emotion, feeling, and attitudes associated with each level can become very challenging.

Certainly, it is easier to articulate levels of consciousness such as the Child or Adolescent, which we’ve all experienced.

Anyone witnessing a child who is yelling and screaming because things didn’t go just the way they had wanted them to or the child who is laughing and giggling as they’re caught up in some imaginary game understands where they are coming from.

It’s not much of a challenge to recognize the thoughts and feelings of those kinds of expressions, as they are feelings most of us can recall.

To write about the jealousies, the dramas, one’s first love, or the heartache of the first breakup, doesn’t require much skill to evoke those memories and the feelings associated with them because most of us remember these emotional experiences from our own adolescence.

But, consider the consciousness of the Mystic, which is the consciousness we come to at the sixth level.

How does one effectively convey the intimacy of universal connection, the awareness of divine timing, or the seamless flow to all of life? What words exist to clearly define and illuminate those aspects? Which descriptors does one use to authentically evoke the depth of feelings and the exquisite beauty of that state-of-being?

And so, I apologize up front, for failing to fully express the truth of the more subtle and mysterious levels of the Wizard, Mystic, and Master—but with the same breath, I promise to do my utmost to get as close to it as I can.

Not for my benefit. Not so someone will say, Oh, he’s such a good writer, but because I want to impart as clearly as I can to the reader the extraordinary wonder, beauty, and joy of the next level, and that whichever one it is for them is so worth the energy, commitment, and conscious surrender necessary to achieve it.

As to the levels of consciousness themselves, there is nothing static in the universe or creation itself. And, there really aren’t levels per se, especially if we think about them like floors in a building.

In full disclosure, these levels that we speak about are more like states-of-being or tendrils of consciousness itself. However, states-of-being, and tendrils of consciousness become incredibly difficult, if not downright impossible, to speak clearly about. Therefore, the word levels is just a simplified, more accessible metaphor to use.

Meanwhile, thinking and learning about consciousness as levels will in no way impede, hamper, or negatively impact us either now or at any point in the future.

Trust me when I say that about the time we reach the Mystic level, we’ll begin to recognize consciousness for what it is, and we’ll probably say, Yeah, there’s no way anyone could possibly describe what this really looks and feels like. Levels are close enough.

Requests for You to Consider

Throughout the book, I will relate stories, some very personal, and others with which I was intimately connected as a way to illustrate and relate ideas, and hopefully to describe the feeling nature of various levels of consciousness. I do so with the belief that sharing these stories serves as a more accurate example or explanation of what has occurred for me and for others like myself at these levels. It is how information and insight were shared and what it felt like.

I will also refer to ideas from books, scenes and overviews of movies, and lyrics from various songs for the same reasons. They often capture the feelings and emotional tones of the thoughts and ideas being offered. There is also the hope, and often the suggestion that people take the time to read those books, really watch those movies, and listen deeply to the songs.

There is no doubt in my mind that wisdom and truth from the highest levels of consciousness is often brought forward through the minds of poets, songwriters, screenplay writers, authors, directors, actors, and singers.

The truth has never been hidden. It’s been out in plain sight for centuries for those with eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to feel.

Also, I want to let you know, up front, that from time-to-time I may use the word God, or refer to some of the teachings of Jesus.

The God I will be speaking about is not an old guy in the sky with a long, white beard