Chapter 12

Enlightenment

 

A lot had happened in the short time between being assumed dead on Tora, and appearing at the crossover debate on Suvious. When I left Silva’s moon Uralis, with Rama, Nilu, and Zorath, I began a journey that I can only characterize as being utterly and completely transformational. Today, in many ways I am still the same Earth born backpacker Physicist that I was the day I met Ian. The difference is, not only have I been incredibly enlightened, academically, emotionally, and spiritually, I have received this enlightenment from existential beings that were directly created by God. As it turns out God created many types of existential beings for different purposes. All of them were created as fully mature, complete spirit life forms. Each category was created with a specific purpose, complete with the skills and abilities to carry out that purpose. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

I reappeared on Uralis in my physical body somewhat disoriented only seconds after leaving. I Asked Lodi and Shelay if we could return to their home on Silva and wait until Alia was present before I shared the details of my experience. I assured them that my journey was a fruitful one and that I would explain later. Alia met us on the rooftop garden area by the pool. I had been having a difficult time adjusting to a feeling of ‘rebirth’ after being away for what seemed like untold decades in the spiritual realm. Seeing Alia brought me back to Silva’s timeframe almost immediately. “Hello Robert”, she said. “I just got home a few minutes ago. How did your day with father go?” I didn’t know how to begin. Lodi saved me the trouble. “Alia, Robert has had a very full day. Let’s have dinner, and then Robert will share the day’s events. We had a fabulous meal and Lodi told Alia about our meeting on Uralis, and how I had left with the spirit beings. He then asked me to fill them in on my experience.

“Alright Lodi, but first I want to tell you that I have been instructed to only share certain portions of this experience with you at the present time. As you know, humans are not usually translated into their spirit form while still alive, and then returned to the same body with a complete memory of their time spent on spiritual worlds. This is an unusual situation, and I was only allowed to do this because of the very serious task at hand, dealing with the Federation. Much of my training was in what might be considered highly classified information that can not be shared with even a highly spiritually advanced planet like Silva, so please try to understand that there is a limit to how much of my experience I can tell you about.

Let me start at the beginning. When leaving Uralis, as I looked down and saw my physical human body being replaced by a luminous egg, somehow this egg seemed very familiar, and I felt neither fear, nor panic. As we four eggs left Uralis, there was no feeling of movement; we just magically appeared in a different place on a different world, a spiritual world. There are no earthly concepts, words, or visual representations which even come close to adequately describing this spiritual world, or other ones I visited on this journey. In general I will tell the story as if it took place on a normal physical world that you can relate to. Also, all communications, including feelings and emotions were conveyed visually and telepathically. Our light show luminous eggs, and the consciousness within them, were able to express completely formed thoughts, complex concepts, and feelings, instantly, and in far greater detail than you could ever imagine. Without actual eyes, I could see much more clearly than with human eyes. The best way I can explain that would be to use a vivid dream in full color as an example of seeing without using eyes. By far the most difficult thing to explain about this adventure is the apparent absence of time in spiritual dimensions. Let me use this analogy. Imagine going to see a two hour long movie. The movie takes two hours to watch, but the storyline can be a few minutes long, many years, or even generations. Also, the time and number of people it took to write the screenplay, and produce the movie can be enormous, regardless of the length of the story line timeframe. There are three timelines in this example; the playing time of the movie, the storyline time, and the time required creating the movie. Now let’s compare these three timeframes to our own life’s experiences. Consider a two hour synopsis, of a person’s eighty year lifetime. These are two of our time frames. Now consider the third one as being the screenwriting and production time. What would you guess this time is roughly? How about INFINITE! I will explain in a minute. Now, what about size of the behind the scenes support crew, set designers, extras, plants, animals, etc. You are familiar with how long the list of credits is at the end of a typical movie, what about the list at the end of an actual human lifetime? Again INFINITE!

Now let me explain. If the universe is infinitely large, old, and complex and we are a part of it, then the entire universe has to be included in any accurate complete documentation of our lifetime. It has to be included in the production time, size of the supporting cast, crew, and setting of our life’s story, all of which are INFINITE! Think about it. Whether watching a movie or the real world around us, we see only an infinitesimal part of the total picture. If our lives are analogous to a movie, activity on the spiritual planes of existence can be thought of as the infinite production time, and the infinitely large production support recourses, for not only a human life, but for a lifetime as short as a microbe or as long as an entire galaxy. Just as all of a movie’s production time and size of behind the scenes resources are transparent to the viewer, so are the time and size of the universe’s spiritual resources transparent to us when living our lives. The big difference between a movie and our lives however, is that our lives are interactively connected to an infinite, behind the scenes support system.

The bottom line with respect to my story is that my entire spiritual training and journey toward enlightenment took place on a plane where an infinite amount of time and resources were available, and yet Alia, it seemed instantaneous to your mother and father, as I returned to Uralis almost immediately, in their time frame. They were surprised that I came back so suddenly, and thought perhaps something had gone wrong. I assured them that I was well, and my training was completed. I explained that I had absorbed the equivalent of many lifetimes of spiritual training, as well as retaining the memory of all of my prior lifetimes [which is a whole other story]. This hasn’t made me super human, as all humans have this potential for learning; it is just usually spread out over many physical lifetimes, and usually, only when we are between physical bodies, and in our natural spirit form, are we able to access the memories of all of our prior physical lives. There are good reasons for this, the main one being that there are enough challenges to handle in our present life’s situations, with out being distracted by previous ones. We are here to learn lessons, and our current life’s lessons complement and reinforce those learned in different ways in other lifetimes. This process is usually more effective if each lesson is fresh and new, without the bias and mitigating effects present when you are able to remember prior lifetimes. Normally the integration of these multiple lifetime lessons and experiences take place when in spirit form between lifetimes. Your spirit’s total experiences and the wisdom gained by them, then influence your successive life’s lessons.

I’m rambling, so let me move on to the story at hand and I will get back to some of these things later in more detail. When I arrived on Rama’s and his associates’ world, I was greeted by a team of spirit beings who were to be my teachers and guides. There were representatives of a number of major categories of beings, each category having an entirely different function. For example, Rama, Nilu, and Zorath, are members of the Life Form Design Group. There are Life Force Management Groups, Galaxy Creation and Energy Management groups, Guardian Angels, Planetary Advisors, etc. These names are only labels I have given them using familiar words that best describe their function.

I realize that these revelations would be a considerable turn off to atheists, but consider the fact that while believing in a thing doesn’t make it true, neither does not believing make it untrue. A popular belief on Earth right now is that given two possible explanations for an unknown phenomenon, the simpler one is more likely to be true. This seems to be Earth’s current basis for Atheism. The conundrum that, ‘if something as wonderful and complex as life must have a creator, how much more wonderful and complex must the creator be, so who created the creator?’, is flawed. The simple explanation is that it all just happened randomly due to eons of evolution. But that doesn’t answer the question of where the universe and the life friendly worlds come from that foster the evolutionary process. In reality, science has uncovered hundreds of new questions for every one answered, and the perceived complexity of the universe, and life in it, is growing exponentially with mankind’s increased knowledge. Simple explanations are increasingly being replaced with more and more complex ones.

By far the simplest position regarding both the existence of God, and all other spiritual phenomenon, is that they don’t exist. As you know, even on very advanced Federation worlds, human technology and science have yet to prove their existence, and atheism is common. Why has this proof been so elusive? The explanation given during my training was that while we are learning life’s lessons on material worlds, we are given primarily material tools and experiences to learn these lessons. As we evolve through successive lifetimes we become more and more aware of the invisible spiritual influences in our lives, and eventually we graduate to an existence in spirit form only. This spiritual awareness will be given to us when we are ready, and earnestly seeking it, not before. If knowledge of our basic spiritual nature was provable to entire world populations, the effect would be worldwide focus on primarily spiritual matters, when most people need to concentrate on learning from their own daily life experiences. When we are ready, we will have all the proof we need, in the meantime you should follow your heart. Here is an analogy that might help people understand why premature spiritual enlightenment can be harmful. Consider the well know fact that sudden financial wealth such as a huge inheritance can be harmful. To be productive and beneficial, great wealth requires maturity, wisdom, honesty, and integrity in order to prevent the wealth from being squandered, or used in ways that can be very destructive. On Earth for example a study of lottery winners shows that most of them were far happier before they won the money. They expected money to solve all of their problems, when it actually created more problems, due to their inability to use this windfall in a productive manner. Sudden advanced spiritual enlightenment without the wisdom and other necessary qualities can be far more dangerous. Humans can create terrible misery and destruction with only the knowledge and power available to material beings. The knowledge, abilities, and powers available to those in the spiritual realm are vastly more advanced, and if they were made available to people not sufficiently evolved to use them wisely, there could be repercussions throughout the universe. An example of this on Earth is attempts by various world powers’ military organizations to use psychic’s abilities to gain tactical advantage over other nations. Fortunately, this has been prevented by constant monitoring of our physical dimensions, and blocking psychic energy when it is being used inappropriately.

I have been given access to much of this knowledge and power by the spiritual beings who tutored me, but only after enough training and enlightenment that they were satisfied I would be an asset rather than a threat to their cause. I discovered that this is to be my last material lifetime anyway, and that my spirit was already quite advanced, which is one of the reasons I was chosen for this task. I want the three of you to know that I have been told all of you, Ian, Dr. Roolian and most of the people on Silva are also living your last physical lives. Rama has complete confidence in our combined abilities to guide the federation in the direction of positive change. This will be a challenge however, because the changes must be made with nearly unanimous consent of all Federation members in order to be able to stand the test of time as well as the current rules have. Any coercion will only cause resentment and civil unrest.

Our first task is to help Ian win the debate with Dr. Roolian. I have developed a plan, and Lodi, I need to use Baylor and his team for some between dimension support and surveillance. I will be happy to share more about my spiritual adventure later, but it is getting late and we need to start implementing my plan tomorrow.”

Lodi was the first to speak when I was finished. “Robert, you have certainly come a long way since yesterday. As you know, this planet is more focused on spirituality than technology, so we have also learned many of these basic concepts; however it is apparent that your training has far exceeded ours. We have never been made aware of any human being who while alive has been translated to the spiritual realm and then come back into the same physical body, in the same lifetime. I would also like you to know that we could tell you were very special person even before today’s events. You can be assured we will help you in any way we can.” I thanked Lodi for his vote of confidence and we agreed to gather the troops in the morning to discuss my plan. Shelay said she would be available to contact Rama on a moment’s notice if I needed his advice or help.

It was getting late, and I really wanted to be alone with Alia for a while, only I wasn’t sure how to switch gears from such a serious subject. Alia came to the rescue and said that I must be exhausted after all that had happened to me, and would I like to go up to the pool area and relax for a while before retiring. Trying to not sound too eager, I said I would like that, and we excused ourselves. Lodi and Shelay said they would se us in the morning. We sat on one of the couches facing the pool and Alia said, “Robert, I’m not sure how to act around you now. Until today I felt so confident around you, knowing that you were new to all the wonders of our world. I really enjoyed showing you around, and introducing you to our advanced technology, and beautiful planet. I was so looking forward to spending more time with you, only now I can’t help feeling intimidated by your transformation. Our roles have been reversed, and now you probably know far more about everything than I ever will. I’m afraid my companionship will be boring to you now.” “Alia, that is absolutely not true. My training was primarily spiritual, and if anything, it has made me appreciate you even more, because I am able to see your spirituality more clearly now. For you, it has only been only one day since you saw me last, but to me it has been many lifetimes, and I have missed you and thought about you the whole time. I am still a man Alia, and you are the most beautiful, desirable, and exciting, woman I have ever known, and you could never be boring to me.” “Oh, Robert, I am so happy to hear you say that. I feel the same way about you.” We embraced, and even though I had an incredible physical attraction to her it paled by comparison to the overwhelming spiritual connection I felt. This was my first huge benefit of the day’s enlightenment.

 

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