Jan 12
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The 4th Dimension, Practical Steps or Lunacy? (Chapter Thirty-Three)
Do we really get to choose where we occupy?
Okay, here’s the paragraph from the last chapter (32) and from which I’m keying-off and asking for the next step …since I have no clue:
“We’ll come back to some subsequent practical steps to help us understand our true identity. That is, we are spirits and have been from the very beginning and were with our SPIRIT-PARENT as co-creators of everything. We chose to occupy these body bags. We are NOT these body-bags with a spirit – a contrivance of religion which simply is not true.”
The first thing I heard this morning upon awakening were the words: “Consider your fall-back position.” I interpreted “fall-back position” to mean “retreat.”
Didn't we resolve this issue already?
With the foregoing paragraph seeming, to me at least, to be a rather bold forward step (especially according to some e-mail responses I’m getting from those to whom I sent the original draft) one, in particular, wanted to know how I arrived at this conclusion, that is, being a spirit from the beginning as opposed to being the name my earthly parents attached to this body-bag I occupy, with a spirit, renewed or otherwise?
I answered that e-mail with a rather terse, “By personal revelation.” I’ve referred to the incident in at least two previous books and was reluctant to repeat it here, but this is forming in me as the “fall-back” position and I’m supposed to share it again.
Ah hah! What I’m being shown is that in the 4th Dimension (and here we go again), which I’m equating with the “kingdom of heaven” and “that parallel existence which is ongoing right now, this moment” …the words “retreat” and “forward movement” are identical.
The 4th Dimension is that place where we are in two places at the same time and thus “retreat” and “forward march,” as commands, are not useful …because they BOTH mean the same thing.
Without referring to when and where I’ve written about the above referenced incident previously, I feel definitively led to simply process the memory as I recall it right now:
I was in the middle (about ten days) into an elongated fast; meaning ingesting nothing but water. No food, supplements or any kind of beverages including tea or coffee and no supplements of any kind.
I was on the floor, face down, praying intently about an upcoming meeting to which I’d been invited to share with several (about a dozen) people gathering in a home about a hundred miles away.
The hosts were a couple in their seventies who had been recently healed; him of being almost blind …to the point it was impossible for him to drive and barely able to read even with a powerful magnifying device; her of a life-threatening heart disease. His eyesight was restored to no longer needing any kind of sight aids and passed his driving test without any requirement for glasses; and she said she felt as energetic as she had when in her thirties – in other words, her heart was restored to as good as she ever remembered.
When they had invited me they mentioned the primary purpose for the gathering was a woman friend of theirs who was dying of leukemia and was encouraged, because of their rather dramatic healings, to ask if they thought it was possible for her.
I was praying simply and intently to be overtaken by the presence and power of our SPIRIT-PARENT to the point of extreme faith for the woman’s healing.
I heard what sounded to me like an audible voice say, “Would you like to know who you really are?”
Startled, I got to my feet and started going through a process of “testing the spirits” …something I had gotten out of stumbling onto I John 4: Then pursuing a revelation of what I was supposed to do with it:
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
Having gone without any food for about ten days I was aware of the possibility that the voice could be a bit of hallucinating …particularly because, as it developed, the words seemed so disconnected with what I was praying about.
Further, having experienced the presence of other-world “entities” by whatever other title or name, in others in many different situations, I was aware that, even if we don’t like to acknowledge the existence of such, that there can be a rather strange “alien” influence on human thoughts as also acknowledged by the psychiatrist with whom I had worked and have also referenced many times.
To me, it is also worth mentioning that, according to two Gospel accounts, Jesus certainly experienced being “messed with” while on a long fast.
At any rate, I’m comfortable with the need, again, for me, on occasion, to “test” and this time, once it was completed to my satisfaction, I simply asked something to the effect of how was this related to the scheduled gathering.
I heard the voice again, asking me if I wanted to know my “real identity.” I admit I was nervous, but I did say “yes.” Above my desk was a bookshelf with several books on it – and I noticed a copy of the translation of the Bible by Kenneth Taylor called the “Living Bible” …it stood out as if there was a spotlight focused on it.
I knew I was supposed to look up the first three verses of the 6th chapter of Genesis. Between Taylor’s translational notes and a couple of Hebrew reference books, I was satisfied that what the original language was saying was that “spirit beings” or “angels” were attracted to the female descendants of Adam and, in order to vicariously experience sex with them these spirit beings entered into the male descendants of Adam.
Further research indicated that the Hebrew word translated as “man” in the 27th verse of Genesis 1 (in most English versions, “and God created man in his own image” was referring to these same spirit beings NOT Adam or any other human being.
To say I was startled is an understatement. I exclaimed, “But what does this have to do with the upcoming ‘healing’ meeting?” (With the woman who had been pronounced soon to die from leukemia by her doctors).
The same voice said simply, “nothing, this is just who you are.”
So, that’s my answer to the question in the minds of several of you who are wondering how I came to the conclusion that I am a spirit who chose to occupy this body-bag …as opposed to being a human being WITH a spirit.
So what are the practical steps for you to take to discover for yourselves whether this revelation also applies to you?
“Practical” is a word for the physical, 3rd Dimensional realm – what I have to say probably won’t seem practical to very many – and to underscore the challenge, I feel led to share an e-mail exchange with a woman in Tennessee who gave me permission to both share her name and the exchange.
Where does this website fit in the diagram?
Karen Langford is an ordained “Interfaith Minister;” a speaker, writer, and who also serves as a hospital chaplain …and who has overwhelmed me with her spiritual insights …plus (ahem) she’s read three of “my” books and says good things about them.
o, coming up (Chapter 34) will be devoted entirely to the referenced e-mail exchange.
I’m supposed to end this chapter with something about which I have just been given clarity (for me). That is, what is the difference between religion and spirituality?
“Religion” is the result of knowledge/ego — “Spiritual” is the result of dependence upon “divine guidance” (period) …and as you’ll see in the next chapter – Karen was shown, (my paraphrase) – don’t turn what our SPIRIT-PARENT gives you into a religion.