Initially, this designation led me to believe that God actually was the Ocean of Love
and Mercy -- a vast, luminous celestial sea brimming with love, goodwill, forgiveness,
and kindness. I assumed my spiritual goal was to reach it and dwell there forever in a
state of blissful God awareness. However, as almost always seems to happen with
anything in the higher worlds, my mental assumption was partially accurate and at the
same time widely off the mark.
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What began to broaden my outlook was an early experience I had in pursuit of my goal to reach the God plane. The master and I were traveling through the inner worlds, rising as sparks of consciousness through subtle realms of light, power, and sound. We arrived at a plane made up of trillions and trillions of other sparks, all moving in harmony and exuding the sound of the HU. Seen together this mass of bright souls indeed looked like an ocean in dazzling sunlight, yet at that point I realized the image was meant to represent not God but a particular state of |
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| One day in my spiritual exercise, after asking again to be taken to the God plane, my third eye opened a crack to give me a view into space. It was black and filled with stars and moons. I exited through the opening and crossed the field of stars until it turned into a liquid that bubbled with white and red spheres like blood cells in circulation. After drifting upward through the liquid for quite some time, I thrust through the surface and found myself floating in a vast ocean with the master at my side. At first it looked somewhat overcast, but then I saw a strong light in the sky above. It grew larger as I focused on it; however, when I tried to lift off towards it, I couldn't. Stop resisting, the master told me. Obediently I |
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The light above me grew into an enormous disk filling most of the sky from horizon to horizon. It was a warm, hazy yellow and orange. While I gazed at it, rapt, it unexpectedly spoke to me -- not in words but in a communication of direct knowingness. "My son . . . " it said. With this communication a wave of love swept over me such as I'd never known. It was like |
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| The sun isn't the only visual symbol I've encountered on the God plane. One time I was flying over a landscape of plains and white-capped mountains in the higher worlds, when suddenly I entered a golden realm where three mountains reared high into a golden sky. The entire realm was pervaded by a glacial serenity yet at the same time contained a roiling, dynamic power that struck me with awe. Through it all it was as if I was there as an observer, insulated from its true power. |
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last only a couple of minutes, but when I checked my watch afterward, a whole hour
had gone by. What immediately came to me was that the three mountains were the
symbol for the divine trinity. In Christianity the trinity is more humanized by calling it
the (male) Father, the (male) Son, and the Holy Ghost. Above the worlds of duality
there is no male or female, so here the trinity would be termed as the Supreme Being
or Creator, the God-Conscious Soul, and Divine Spirit. In contrast to Christian belief it
is my opinion that there isn't just one son but each of us can, and will, become the
second part of the trinity, the God-Conscious Soul.
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Speaking of God-Consciousness, one insight I came back with from the above experience was the distinct impression that God-Consciousness is immediate, permeating all existence. It isn't far away in an ocean or in a golden land that I have to travel to. It only seemed that way to me because I am so far removed from it in my spiritual unfoldment. What I was apparently taught during the hour I didn't remember was that God-Consciousness was right here with me as I sat in my chair. I could actually feel it not an inch away from my skin, separated from me only by a thin sheath of my own making. All I had to do was make this veil of illusion porous or dissolve it and I'd be in the God-Realized state. |
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myself and other people. We're all walking around, I realized, living life an inch away
from God-Consciousness.
| Several months later I was practicing a technique where I visualized a golden stream of Spirit flowing down upon me from above. I felt myself sucked out of the body by it and shot up into the sky, drenched with the golden current. Earth dwindled below me and I flew upwards through a field of clouds until I emerged on the astral plane. Looking down I could see houses and people, and when I looked up I saw golden raindrops falling toward me and through me. I was a golden figure with my face sticking out of the rain as I was pulled upward in the current like on a celestial elevator. Onward I moved, through the lower worlds and then into formless worlds inhabited only by souls who casually glanced up at me as I rose past them. Eventually I surfaced in an ocean of |
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Closer and closer I came until I entered the golden sphere which enveloped me like a loving mist. After a while, a voice spoke to me from the mist all around. It was muffled and I couldn't understand what it was saying, at first, as if my spiritual hearing were too undeveloped to make out the words. Then after a while I heard what sounded like, "A vast responsibility is coming toward you -- faster than you think!" |
responsibility. More words were spoken that I didn't catch.
| Just as I was beginning to panic because I was missing the message, a handsome young man appeared some distance away surrounded by brilliant light. (I saw him more clearly than the shape seen here, but I couldn't find a better picture.) He spoke in a high, clear voice that I had no trouble understanding, as if the mocked-up form allowed me to make a better connection. What was said between us I will not repeat, save to mention that there was more about responsibility and about how all living |
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would receive their divine love in return. What I was being told, of course, is that
achieving a higher consciousness isn't an end in itself; it comes with a responsibility.
The Creator wants all Its creations to rise to the level of mature souls aware of their
true relationship to It. As any of them rise, it becomes their responsibility to assist
other souls in their journey as well.
Having said that, I wish to state here that I do not claim to be a spiritual master or
guide, or an accomplished spiritual traveler, or to be God-Realized, or to speak the
absolute truth, or anything like that by any stretch of the imagination. I'm simply a
spiritual student who often struggles with his spiritual exercises. Many days I sit there
and nothing seems to be happening, it's black, and I'm going nowhere at all.
The truth is that I was allowed to have the experiences I describe as gifts from the
Inner Master and from several of the true masters who serve under him. Without their
kindness and help I'd have nothing to say and nothing to write about. My
accomplishment was finding the spiritual path of light and sound I'm on and
surrendering to Spirit and to the Inner Master who grants experiences as they're
needed.
The experiences I describe on this site are sufficiently far in the past that I can share
them without adverse effects on the spiritual growth and lessons I was to derive from
them. Still, some might say I should keep them to myself and stay silent about them --
that it looks like I'm trying to set myself up as a pseudo-master or something. If I were
more risk-averse and concerned about putting myself in the line of fire, I might even
agree with them. But I'm a writer; that's what I do, for better or for worse. My hope isn't
that readers will accept my experiences as the truth for themselves; only to perhaps
be inspired to try some spiritual techniques and to be creative and to endeavor to
have the experiences that will lead them to their own truth.
To read about my experiences on the other spiritual planes besides the God Plane,
please scroll down and click on the navigation buttons at the bottom of this page,
starting with the "Other Planes" button.
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