From Bourbon Street to the Twelfth Dimension: Finding Divine Love

By Rachel Otto

We are all true divine love—an unlimited energy that comprises our bodies, our mind, our souls, and our universe. Divine love is the purest form of self-love, devoid of ego.

Rachel Otto, a seasoned healer and teacher, shares an in-depth look at her expedition of life and spirituality through the understanding of dimensions powered by divine love. Her narrative includes insight into her first experience with meditation in sixth grade, her journey to becoming an energy healer, and why letting go of the past and choosing divine love over fear will change not only our lives, but also the world. Through her personal story, wisdom, tools, and perspectives, Otto encourages others to experience and create their own beliefs and interpret each dimension in their own way. Included are channeled messages from her and others that remind us that we are truly divine beings, each with special gifts, that are connected to the world.

From Bourbon Street to the Twelfth Dimension offers an inspiring glimpse into a healer’s spiritual journey while inviting others to accept the guidance of divine consciousness and love while living in future joy now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9798765248133

Rachel Otto

Rachel Otto is a dreamer, an initiator, and a lover of life. She is a First Dan Rainbow Reiki Master, a licensed angelic healer, and is certified in other energy healing modalities. Rachel has conducted over eight thousand individual healing sessions, lectured across the nation, and led numerous group meditations and sound baths.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 01/18/2024

CONTENTS

Preface

In The Beginning

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Glossary

About The Author

PREFACE

S parkles, star dust, my soul being is the lint of the Universe. After years of investing in myself with spiritual retreats, classes, workshops, and daily meditation this is the answer given to my personal question- who am I? I am a sparkle of love. Now that I know I am divine love, I wanted to let you know that you are divine love too. Not the love we have been taught. We are true divine love; an unlimited energy that makes up our bodies, our mind, our souls, our universe. I think you are the most perfect you. I am already in love with you.

The Universe laughed with me as confirmations soon came from other sources. All of them confirmed that we are just sparkles of love in the cosmos. Not as glamorous as being Cleopatra, Anastasia, or a reincarnated god. The deeper I went into the core of who I am, I knew if I understood myself, I could understand love. I thought this insight would teach me how to live a happy life. If I could find a happy life, so could you. I was right. I found how connected everything is and that love is the power of life. I found out that you really are the perfect you.

My quest for a happier me and a happier world began one drunken afternoon in New Orleans. Like a typical Friday we were meeting for drinks after work. Unlike most Fridays, this Friday was Mardi Gras weekend, which explained why we were wearing costumes. For fourteen days we have filmed all things Mardi Gras. The filming crew included: the VP of company, Myron, a fantastic cameraman; Marvin with his lovely wife; toss in three more of my friends and the mayor of Bourbon Street, Ernie Fruge.

We worked hard capturing the spirit of Mardi Gras on film. We met royalty of the krewes, painted with the artist of float making to riding in a parade. At six in the morning, we made king cakes at Swiss Bakery on St. Charles Avenue. That evening we filmed a parade from the bakery’s balcony. We experienced every nook and cranny of this beloved holiday.

As we crowded around an old wooden table on the edge of the sidewalk, Ernie led the drunken ruckus. Ernie started in on his normal buzzed lecture. He was dressed in all white as if he was ready for All Saint’s Day at the bayou instead of Mardi Gras. In his drunken clarity, he said loudly, I love Rachel! Everyone cheered.

Rachel has taught me stuff about love I never understood. I don’t want to have sex with her. She’s my best friend. Yet, he said with a Cheshire cat grin, she is freaking hot, and I tell all the NOPD officers I am doing her.

The crowd cheered louder as Ernie continued, Rachel has brought us all together, so let’s drink to her and get us all some Rachel love.

The group of friends went wild cheering for me. Three cheers for Rachel! With that, everyone poured out into the street with excitement hugging and dancing around.

I giggled and sent love back to them all. My happiness came when I made others happy, and they knew that. My happiness is your happiness. We were all in a feeling of love. It was an amazing feeling that was different, different than other drunken Fridays.

I want to live in this state, I proclaimed to all. We became a crazy, heart-throbbing, giggling group of love.

We all hugged each other. Ernie started hugging other people on the street and in the bar. Soon others caught on to our happiness. They were calling it Rachel love. People would ask what we were cheering about. Instead of telling them, we would ask their name and then called it their love and all cheered. The cheers kept going on for the next person. The rest of the evening was joyful as we cheered all night, not for me but for everyone we met. We wanted to spread our group love. For the rest of Mardi Gras, we found ourselves on a quest to spread love and cheer.

In that moment, I was in my element. I lived for the hospitality of New Orleans. I was at the top of my game. I loved the French Quarter and I lived on Bourbon Street. I rode my bike up and down its cracked streets for two decades. I was a true French Quarter character as awarded by Wyndham Hotel. Life was fun in New Orleans. It was a lot of work and took a lot of energy. I was friends with chefs, cooks, dishwashers, bellmen, burlesque performers, artisans, and the owners of many fine establishments. I had my own waiter at Antoine’s. I have eaten at the chef’s table with all the different Brennan’s family owners. I loved New Orleans, and she loved me. Yet, I didn’t know what love was.

The question is how to keep this joyful life going at the proper pace. How to feel complete and not have to go to every event. How could I live with joy and without drama in a healthy, safe place? What was this feeling I had when Ernie professed our love for each other, but in a way, we could not understand? It was a love not defined in movies or books or in songs. This unconditional feeling of love was toward a man I was not married to. I had no lustful feeling for him. He was not of my kin and he was much older than me. Was this balanced joy I felt when he was around, when I would do projects for him, or when I would just think of him? He couldn’t explain it either, yet we had deep feelings for each other.

The more I thought about this love, the more I realized it was how I felt about the whole crew of people I sat with. I did not want to have sex with any of them. I did not want to hurt myself to make them happy. I totally and unconditionally loved them. Then I wondered if it was just the alcohol I was drinking.

This strange fleeting feeling of love came over me when I was working on an event or function. I was conscious of what I was doing. I wanted this feeling all the time. I did not feel this way at my house in the Marigny neighborhood. It was only a feeling I had with Ernie or with the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints. It really bothered me that I couldn’t feel this at home. I had horrible anxiety when I was at my house. I lived in fear of things I could not explain. I was depressed and became an alcoholic. I was at my breaking point. Finding my happiness was the only thing that mattered.

I decided to start a spiritual journey. Before I knew it, I was bombarded with wonderment intending to excite me into buying a program, a sacred trip, eat new super foods, or learn new ways to stand on my head. I was overwhelmed and wanted to do it all.

What I’ve come to find is that the average person does not care about sacred geometry or how creation works, only about religion, political affiliation, or what church one goes to. Spirituality typically shows up when people are knee-deep in flood waters, or the fires are coming near them as their lungs are tightening within their chests. For some reason, most of us only pray to a higher source when we are desperate. We pray when we are afraid or in need, or if our life is in danger, or those we love may be suffering. Learning how to keep a balance in life with love and gratitude means we don’t need to go to the extreme praying, begging, or negotiating to stay happy on this planet.

I was just looking for divine love. Divine love and divine consciousness answered all my questions about energy, angels, guides, healing, community, and the future. I found all of this and more in divine love. The best part was that I always had the answers. Divine Love powers everything in the universe. It is what we are made of. Divine love is the purest form of self-love, without an ego.

These are the stories of my life from this and from other lifetimes. I’ve changed the names and details of the events. I have come to an understanding of my own personal life. The desire to understand life did start earlier for me. This was the calling I needed to change my life. As a child I was taught to pay attention to life’s lessons but forgot as an adult living the party lifestyle.

I invite you to join me on an expedition of life and spirituality through the understanding of dimensions powered by divine love. I will keep it simple. Dimensions are sacred geometry at work, constantly creating life. They exist within you. Let’s learn how to take an astral flight and find our own understanding of spirituality. We will look at twelve dimensions in each chapter. There are meditations to help you explore each dimension. Other meditations teach you how to connect to nature, your personal guides, beings of light, and otherworldly beings. Basically, it’s a book about understanding how to live a happy life on planet Earth.

While reading this book you may experience a light feeling, happiness, joy, freedom, expansion, and other healing responses. There is no right or wrong way of living on Earth. It’s your personal journey, your Earth walk is just the way you chose it to be.

There is plenty of room for your own interpretation of each dimension. At the end of each chapter will be a channeled message from myself and others. I would like to open the doors for all beings to be able to find their special gift. To know that we all are truly divine beings that are connected to the world.

This book was conceived thinking about you and your happiness, also called Unity Consciousness. I want you to have everything that makes you happy and brings you joy. After you’ve done a meditation or read a passage that stirs an emotion, I recommend writing down or expressing the thoughts and feelings as they come up. Doodle on the side of the book. Keep a journal, maybe even dance about your day.

The idea is for you to experience and create your own beliefs. Your Earth walk is a very personal experience living on Earth. The tricky part is we didn’t get the rules or all the information. It has been hidden in caves and monasteries, out of reach for the average person for centuries. We have forgotten who we were. We have forgotten the lives we have lived. We have lost our meaning of life and turned it, instead, into clichés or the latest social media post.

Choosing divine love over fear will change your life and the planet forever. By knowing equality with all things, we can understand the bigger picture of life in terms of dimensions. Experience the most joy every morning when you wake up. The meaning of life is not found in church, a temple or resort; it is embedded in your heart. We are to live in love! We are to experience life, not be hurt by or scared of it. When you let go of the past it will change your perspective. When choosing divine love to guide us, we become conscious. It will change your world. You are worthy of unconditional love. It is possible to change. It’s all up to you. It’s worth the effort to change to love.

I would like you to feel your divinity as the most perfect creation you are. You are enough, as they say in pop culture. We are here for each other. These are my thoughts on how we can understand love and energy in a different way and how to live a peaceful life. And yes, I do have my own desires for the world. I want to live in a free society, and I do believe this is how we can start it.

My desire for you is to find your own meaning of life, your own silvery golden cord that weaves your tapestry of life. I believe we are all equal, and that we all have the same capabilities to grow and expand. It is only by choice of love over fear that we can do this. It’s your life, your free will. I want to help you find your truths through meditation.

IN THE BEGINNING

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I t was during an orgasm while pleasuring myself that I began to remember the beginning of the universe. It was the existence of one conscious love. It was a vibration of energy of pure, in an orgasmic space. This memory took me back to the beginning of ALL , to the first formation of the OM sound. OM is a feeling of prismatic infinite oneness, an expansion of all the senses, a perfect single atom vibration of ALL .

This was not my normal daily release, instead it was my exploration of self. I thought to myself I have just experienced perfect oneness. I did not have to have do any more research on understanding my soul being. After taking one course on how to work with angels I thought I knew everything. I understood the entire universe, I thought to myself. Boy was I wrong, it was only the first door of the universe opening.

My first interest in understanding what a soul is came around when I was eleven years old. Ms. Vee first taught our sixth-grade class how to leave our bodies when we were in pain or preparing to go to the dentist. She taught us how to calm ourselves down and let go of physical pain. She gave examples of being at the dentist’s office and being nervous about dental work. She would leave the office because she was scared. To help her not be afraid, she learned how to meditate and mentally leave her body.

Ms. Vee was an awesome teacher and was one of the foundations of the path laid in front of me. Two years later, in an acting class taught by local college students in Iowa, I first learned of the hara. I was taught life skills in all my extra activities.

Oh, what’s hara? The hara is a physical spiritual center point inside the body at the lower part of your belly. You may have heard of hara meditations or hara breathing when you breathe through your belly. The hara is where you store and build energy, your core of energy. This core of energy, your hara, is part of your connection to ALL, God, Source, Creator of Everything, called your Godspark.

In that eighth grade acting class, I did my first guided meditation based on Shirley MacLaine’s book Out on a Limb. One of the college-age teachers was reading it, and he was really getting into it. He wanted to make us understand how to flow together naturally, and how we could come together in a scene with a specific feeling of unity. The musical we were doing was called Peace Child. It made sense because we were exploring new ways of thinking.

One of the meditations he taught us from MacLaine’s book, was us projecting ourselves outside our bodies. You would imagine you were held to Earth by a silver cord of life. It was an amazing feeling, an experience I would repeat at home every night for years. It was an awesome way to spend my evening until boys came into my reality.

I tried meditation again in college but couldn’t sit still. I almost flunked Tai Chi class because my attention span was dwindling. I could not focus; I could not sit down. I was so hyper that the only peace I could find was in cannabis or sex. I don’t know if I started using cannabis because it really did calm me down or if it was because of the boys or if simply for my love of plants. The bad boys I fell in love with were all major cannabis smokers. I was in Nebraska, the state whose tagline is Nebraska, it’s not for everyone.

As bad as the motorcycle-riding, pot-smoking men, they all graduated with various master’s degrees. Not to mention, cannabis is now legal in most of the states. As even as you read these words, federal regulations are changing. Funny how a change of perspective can change the way you see your own life.

I traveled away from Nebraska to find a new life. Living judgment free, I see these times differently than I used to. It was just the time for exploration and experiencing joy.

New Orleans answered the call of my imagination for twenty-two years. New Orleans is a true extreme lifestyle of whatever you are into. If you love food, it’s not just award-winning cuisine that’s available. There are also festivals for just one fruit or vegetable. There is a major event every month. No matter what your interest is, at some point, New Orleans will have a huge event or conference to celebrate it. I made no less than six original costumes per year most of the time I lived there. New Orleans is not like the rest of America.

While living in New Orleans, I lived on Bourbon Street for eight years. For those years, 1134 Bourbon Street or hell spelled upside on a calculator, was our home. Not a bar or an antique shop, as many visitors thought as they wandered into my apartment when I did spring cleaning. It was a lifestyle I am so grateful to have experienced. I came to understand more about the world and that I was just a bright light in a dark vortex of human misery.

I meditated. Well, let’s be truthful, I was only actually meditating the last two years I lived there. I had only tried meditation because my lovely girlfriend Ariel knew it would help me. I just could not do it. I could not let go of all the thoughts running through my head. Thoughts of planning for the next Mardi Gras party, hurricane worries, making budgets at work, politics and what was for dinner. I would be so wrapped up in anxiety that I could not see up from down. All I knew was go! Go! Go!

Go where? You may ask. Go to work, go to the bar, go to the meeting, go to the store. Go to bed, go to work, go to the bar, go to the store. Go to see friends, go to a meeting, go to bed, go to the store. Go to the Saints game, go to work, go to a party, go to a parade, go to a meeting, go to the bar, go to the store, go to bed. Go, go, go!

Do you know that feeling? For more than twenty years I could not sit down or calm down. For half of my life, I was running as fast as I could to get nowhere. Something had to give. I was running against a mythical clock in my mind. I was working toward goals I’d set as a child. I was running up debt and making a lot of trash. It was not much of a spiritual journey.

It took almost twenty-five years for me to go back to the techniques I had learned from my sixth-grade teacher. Now, I was initiated into several different ways by other gurus, teachers, and shamans. Each had their own way of getting to the same places or doing healing. My intention was to understand life. But instead, it was a place to hide from reality and the stark reality my marriage was not right for me.

In 2011, I officially began my studies of Reiki or energy healing, after the same girlfriend threatened to end our friendship if I didn’t find my personal path. It was the wake-up call I needed. I very much wanted to study spirituality, healing, and the mysteries of the world. It was time for me to step into my joy and understand more than what was on the surface. It was a dream of mine to be a healer. I’d loved the X-Men comic books and cartoons as a child. I always wanted a special power, something to make me special.

Energy work uses some form of healing modalities to help with physical, emotional, and spiritual issues, called integrated medicine. Integrated medicine is a broad term that includes healing modalities like Reiki, laying on of hands, pranic healing, reflexology, acupuncture, vibrational healing, crystal healing, sound baths, and much more. Depending on modalities, energy will flow through the body’s subtle energy systems.

Energy systems can be found within your body as well as surrounding your body. They have names like meridians, auric bodies, and chakras. These invisible energy structures are where many believe disease can be found. It could be said that you are physically or emotionally not well, your body is at dis-ease with yourself. Meaning that your body is not in line with yourself, your community, or your life. By clearing out what no longer serves you, removing the toxins in your body, you can find balance and good health.

Energy healing of any kind can help you heal yourself both physically and mentally. Energy healing works with modern allopathic medicine. It is not to be used in replacement of going to the doctor.

Reiki practitioners and energy healers can feel where your body has pain. They should not replace medical doctors but, instead, should work with Western medicine. Or better yet, find yourself a holistic doctor, work with a certified naturopath, use functional medicine or a holistic nutritionist.

When I attended a conference with the Dalai Lama, he told us healers were needed and that the art of healing could no longer hide in secrecy and mystery. He gave me courage to step into my desires, my passion, myself. First, I had to learn to live my life in balance and to find peace and understand my body. A healthy mind and healthy body would be the first step.

At the time, the movie The Secret was big in spiritual communities. I was able to manifest my dreams into reality at the