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HAD BEEN A CALM DAY. THERE WAS NO REASON TO SUSPECT that it would
not be a calm night. I pulled the covers up to protect against the night
chill and instantly felt the Presence of God. All systems on alert,
I waited.
“Consider this,” His Presence said. “What if, since you
“died” in 1974, you have been a coma? What if you have not
awakened and all that you have experienced since that moment has been
a “dream?”
The concept enthralled me. I have an unusual mind, dancing with my thoughts
along possibilities that are, from what I am told by some people, beyond
the wildest of imaginations. But my thoughts have given me boundless
gifts and so I was more than willing to play with the possibility that
I had been “dreaming” for twenty-nine years. If it was true,
I thought, then it allowed me the full opportunity to “wake up.”
What a concept! The thought of what could be waiting in “a real
world” were tantalizing, to say the least.
I asked for Divine Assistance in the “waking up process,”
and continued to allow my thoughts to savor the possibilities.
The next morning I awoke with a spirit that was alive. Like a hummingbird
darting from flower to flower, tasting every possibility and bit of
life, flitting from one joy to the next, my spirit flowed easily over
all of the ways that my life could change in an instant. My Life Counselor
stood beside me, smiling, waiting to guide me.
“Consider this, my friend,” he said. “Consider that every
thought, wish, desire, and hope is nothing more than a boundary, a limitation
that you set for yourself.”
Images instantly crowded into my mind. The things that I thought I wanted
and the process that I went through to hold onto these things with my
heart and with my mind. I have spent an enormous amount of time through
the years thinking about how I want my life to play out. I image events,
conversations, life styles, and happenings constantly, playing everything
out before the actuality, following what I have always thought was the
“prescribed” method of manifestation. See it. Taste it. Feel
it. Become it through your emotions and you will manifest it.
But what my Life Counselor was suggesting through his mental communication
with me felt like freedom. And I wanted it.
In a matter of minutes he gave me the gift of freedom. He helped me
let go of all of my preconceived notions of what life should be. I was
as free as a butterfly, dancing through life without a care in the world.
I followed his guidance and the guidance of my spirit, wanting to capture
and hold onto the feeling of freedom forever but also wanting to gain
the words and the power to pass what I was feeling along to others.
There was a key to life in what I was experiencing. It felt like the
key to freedom.
The Soul is not an ignorant thing. Soul is manifesting “life”
outside of itself for many reasons. And so it was not possible for me
to believe that I (Soul) had created, in a matter of days, the loss
of everything I “owned” and caused me to be alone and homeless
when only days before I had been married and living in a three bedroom,
two bath home on acreage. There was obviously a very good reason for
all that occurred and I had been searching within myself for years to
uncover what exactly I was trying to teach myself.
Through the years I “planned” and imagined myself re-achieving
a home and a life. (It did not feel like a life as I wandered with no
base and no possessions. I am not a material person but the comfort
of something as simple as a private bathroom and a bathrobe seemed like
nirvana to me.) I imagined this town and that town, this type of home
and that, these types of friendships and those. But here is what Solomon,
my Life Counselor, told me about the everyday thought processes that
I, that we all, entertain on a daily basis.
When we “lay out” our lives, when we plan and “dream,”
we create boundaries. Our thoughts and hearts “lock on” to
a concept, an image, a future reality, and we follow that image religiously,
with our subconscious thoughts. When we “image” (dream) a
certain scenario, such as being with a specific person or living in
a certain home or place, we “interrupt” the flow of life.
Without a doubt, each Soul is attempting to create “reality”
through this physical incarnation. When we “lock on” to a
certain way that we feel things should be, or want things to be, we
are doing so out of fear.
Fear of a limited Universe, a limited God-reality, so to speak. Fear
that what we think we want is the very best we can achieve and that
nothing else will be provided for us if we do not accomplish/manifest
exactly as we have “dreamed” it. Fear that, if we do not dream
and manifest, we do not receive anything at all.
However, the exact opposite is true, as I was coming to find out. My
thoughts, guided by Solomon, raced through possibilities and opportunities
like a box of kittens suddenly freed in a room full of curtains to climb,
yarn to play with, and nooks and crannies to explore. He urged me to
let go of my “plans” and allow my spirit to roam freely. He
showed me the “colors” of the Universe and what might be mine.
“You were not,” he said, “made homeless and alone for
no reason at all. It was a gift. You were given freedom. You have nothing
to tie you down except your own thoughts and dreams, and wishes and
fears. When you let go of all of this, and allow yourself to explore
the “colors of God,” you will be shown things you never imagined.”
What if, He then suggested, Soul has an entirely different idea of what,
how, and where you should be living? Suddenly, in visions similar to
those in the movie, “What Dreams May Come,” my “world”
split apart and begin to spin colors and images in front of me so fast
that I couldn’t capture a single one. My spirit was in Oregon,
in Hawaii, in Idaho, in Arizona, in Ireland. I sped through a ranch-style
house, a cottage, a castle, a three-story overlooking an ocean. This
face and that, friends across the globe that I hadn’t yet met,
flashed across my vision.
What if, Solomon suggested, you kept your spirit captured and your dreams
small? What if you never tasted the freedom of living in the expansive
Universe without fear and without dreams that lock you into one reality
without allowing the possibility of others? What if you manifest what
you have been dreaming, make it so solid around you that you find comfort
and ease and never take flight again? What would you be missing?
I write from the perspective of my own experiences because they are
personal and can be easily related and identified with by readers. A
name can be substituted to fit each reader’s personal circumstances.
A dream can be altered to fit a reader’s dream. All of the parts
are interchangeable, making us all one … gifting each other with
what we are learning as we walk through this life-journey.
What Solomon is saying to each of us, through me, is that a universe
of possibility is lying just beyond the boundaries of our own minds.
The grids of energy that have encapsulated Earth-reality for centuries
have been in the process of healing and transmuting. They are breaking
down and are being inundated with higher dimensional energies and vibrations.
As the old grids fall away, leaving new grids that vibrate with a higher
frequency, the opportunities of higher dimensional wisdom, knowledge,
and freedom are more readily available to each of us. There are no boundaries
except those that we create.
I, being alone without material possessions of any kind, perhaps have
a unique opportunity to fly freely, exploring all of the limitless possibilities.
But I am not unique really. People have an opportunity in every minute
to let go of fear and take flight, allowing the energy of the universe
to support their flight and exploration. It is only a matter of trusting
that you will not be abandoned by your Soul and left to perish. But
if you did perish, what would you find? Life on the other side of life.
© Lauren
Zimmerman , 2003
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Following
a life-after-death experience in 1974, Lauren
Zimmerman, author/artist/metaphysician, realized that,
in order to fulfill her life's mission, she had to drop all limitations
between this world and others in order to share the joy of the reality
beyond Earth that she had been shown. With this goal in mind, she
has created OTHER WORLDS: The Series, a fictional (based on fact)
series of books about worlds beyond Earth. She also has a second series
of books entitled Moments of Mastery that share the wisdom
she receives daily from the higher dimensions.