Ambient drops of harmonically spectacular sounds have the power to take oneself on a journey beyond space and time. The ambient and downtempo musical expressions calm the body and awaken imagination. The artists using the name Carbon Based Lifeforms are able to take the listener on an emotional journey into the most surreal states of consciousness like few other artists can. Their three full albums each exist in such a way that each one must be listened to in their entirety. There is a story being told, and one cannot glance at a part in the beginning, middle, and end and expect to understand the whole of the story. From Hydroponic Garden to World of Sleepers to Interloper, Carbon Based Lifeforms delivers incredible musical stories that enliven passionate thoughts of an interstellar nature, or transport consciousness down streams of realizations, serenity, and expanded awareness.
Each one of this artist’s albums is a wonderfully unique and special creation in itself. Carbon Based Lifeforms seems to have a progressively more intricate sound, as time goes on. The music is evolving into resonance with higher and higher dimensions of reality. They are not afraid to make full use of reverb in order to capture that etheric sound of wonder. The occasional female vocal is also present, and definitely adds to the richness of the sound and the story as well. I highly recommend Carbon Based Lifeforms if you love ambient and downtempo harmonics but even if you have never listened to such music or are unsure if you will like it. I’ve gotten several people into the sounds of Carbon Based Lifeforms and am very hopeful you will enjoy these musical journeys as well.
When one looks to the present-day scientific community, he or she sees an almost maniacal desire for objective answers to its questions. Scientists want absolutely no bias in their results and therefore will act as if they are completely detached from any matter at hand, in order to gain the most objective answers. What they do not realize, is that by this very sort of action on their part, they are having subjective perceptions unconsciously. They are deducing that their intentions, beliefs, and state of consciousness have no effect on whatever aspect of reality they are studying. Their very belief in their own consciousness not having an effect on the matter at hand has an effect on the matter at hand. Results and answers will be skewed in a particular direction. In fact, entire new aspects of reality will arise that provide answers, but such answers are on a lower level of truth and reality than in actuality.
As a friend had recently mused, “I think it was Francis Bacon who said Nature is to be tortured so she will yield her secrets. However, my understanding is that torture does not produce reliable information”. This is indeed true and demonstrates that although present-day scientists may find an answer to a question/problem/situation, it may not reflect the highest level of truth to the answer. Consider the discovery of the particle and the wave. It is a phenomenal discovery, considering its implications. However, the discovery that matter can exist either as a particle or wave is like receiving two contradictory answers to the question at hand. With such ultra-violent experiments today such as those occurring within the particle collider at CERN, it comes to question whether the manner in which these answers are being received has any effect on the answer received. We are such a young species within this vast universe and so it would be highly irrational to create within ourselves such pride as to think that we have certainty in anything concerning the existence, the nature of reality, and other things–even if we do receive some sort of results.
We are modifying reality unconsciously through our subjective perceptions that we mistakingly believe to be objective. It is a mystery of existence as to whether we are able, or ever will be able, to ever experience the objective primary reality within the dimensions of space and time and beyond. All that cannot be quantified cannot be understood with attempted quantification. Science is a road to knowledge, but it is not the highest road. There are roads that hold less bias and that are more Whole-oriented rather than part-focused. These paths towards truth will be traversed soon enough, and humanity should not be shamed that it is unable to get answers to questions that have been tormenting it for ages. We will learn that which we wonder about as soon as we evolve and shift our consciousness to levels where the doors to those mysteries are open for questions to go through and receive their companion answers. By understanding our unconscious influence of reality through what we believe to be unbiased objectivity, we can realize that having an open mind concerning possibilities in reality is a necessary component of who we are. We cannot let our pride get the best of us, or else the answers will keep their distance until we are ready to minimize those egoistic expressions.
There is a profound shift in consciousness occurring. This shift is part of the intentional evolution of human consciousness by members of the human race far and wide across this planet we call Earth. By being mindful of our thoughts, we are able to shape our reality in a number of different ways. The Buddha said that “we are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” Such statements reflect the reality of focused and intentional thoughts shaping the reality in which we find ourselves in on a daily basis. They display the power of one’s consciousness in the assisting of the overall evolution of the transpersonal consciousness of humanity. When the Buddha also stated that everything that we are is the result of the thought-forms we have created and projected, one thing he showed us was that we have the ability to continue our evolution, both personal and transpersonal, until we become fully enlightened and Self-realized. By being mindful of what thought-forms we create, we are able to become an integral part of the evolution of the interconnected transpersonal consciousness of humanity.
Every manifestation of the infinite Consciousness that comprises the totality of reality goes through its evolutionary process. In the domain of human consciousness, there is an evolution that can be seen as well. One must only compare the human being from 10,000 years ago (from limited archeological records) with the human being today and see that the higher levels of consciousness, which became accessible after basic physiological and psychological needs were satisfied, were being experienced more and more as the human race moved into the future. Higher states of consciousness that had interconnectedness and oneness as their base are being experienced by more people, more frequently, and more intensely than in times past. With the consciousness revolution of the 1960s being a sort of quantum leap in this evolution of human consciousness, we have been able to make incredible strides towards the fulfilling of a supramental transformation of humanity. By experiencing more of the higher states of consciousness with more frequency and with more intensity, we are able to make personal progress in our shifting of consciousness, which in turn helps in the shifting of the global consciousness. This shift is part of the evolutionary process of consciousness transformation.
The heart feelings of happiness, empathy, and compassion are enhanced in many ways. One of these is through the spiritual practices such as meditation that connect us to something greater than ourselves. Another is the heart connection with others, close friendships within and outside the family. Yet another is the gathering with others with relative frequency for uplifting purposes such as social causes. Living a heart-centered life helps with the shift in consciousness necessary for the conscious and intentional evolution of human consciousness, as a whole. As the shift continues and people experience greater stress, over-stimulation, overload, stress-induced physical and mental health problems, the importance of a shift toward heart-based living increases. One could say that given the brilliance of Reality, the framework mechanisms for the evolution of the various manifestations of Consciousness created themselves in such a way that the aspects of reality known as interconnectedness and oneness were stressed as being of the utmost importance, for the good of the Supermind as a whole. With high importance placed on these elements of Reality, it was as if a direction was installed into the evolutionary processes towards expressions of consciousness that underlined and stressed the importance of them. This direction is the heart-centered approach to life.
The heart-based way of living takes into account that all is One and that subsequently we are One. This interconnected aspect of consciousness increases the feelings of empathy, compassion, and love among humans part of this consciousness matrix. It was mentioned earlier that it seems as if the process of evolution itself, initiated and formulated by whatever mechanisms of Reality began it all, are focused and directed towards strengthening and intensifying the aspects of reality we have come to know as interconnectedness and oneness. Evidence of this can be seen in many places. One such place is in the sphere of incoherence and coherence.
Incoherence, such as when a person feels stress, overwhelm, anxiety, uncertainty and fear, generates chaotic and incoherent signals in the heart that go to the brain/mind and trigger stressful responses. The heart and brain fall out of alignment and as a result the solutions to personal or world problems are not readily found. In the dense dimensions, these negative emotions are registered in the heart and brain’s electromagnetic fields and generate a global stress and incoherence wave that radiates outward into those around us and to those all over the world. Stress and incoherence are intensified by catalysts such as instant mass media reports of negative situations such as natural disasters, social upheaval, economic turmoil, etc. Incoherence brings about negative results and because of this, demonstrates that the opposite, that being coherence, is what the process of consciousness evolution prefers, and indeed this is seen to be so.
When a person feels genuine hope, care and compassion, his or her heart sends out harmonious and coherent signals to the brain/mind, replacing feelings of separateness and solitude with a sense of connectedness and oneness. The heart and brain are aligned and in sync. There is harmony. The higher cortical functions are enhanced, facilitating objective, sober assessment and intuitive perception. A person is able to perceive more wholeness, and solutions to problems become more apparent. On a collective level, positive emotions such as hope, will, care, compassion and appreciation generate a global coherence wave whose electromagnetic field goes out into those around us and all over the world. The intentional increasing of the heart-mind alignment and the focusing on a heart-centered way of life have the potential to create a global coherence wave to facilitate new solutions for the problems and issues that the world as a whole faces today.
There is an evolution of the global consciousness of humanity occurring as this is being written. Those things that bring us closer to realizing the intrinsically deep connection between all manifestations of Consciousness within reality are consequently the same things that nudge us forward, as a collective consciousness, towards a supramental transformation unlike any ever seen in human history. A heart-based life with the projection and expression of positive emotions such as compassion, love, and empathy is a way of life that not only brings about more coherence within one’s life, but also one that brings humanity as a whole that farther down the road of a positively progressive evolution of consciousness. With the conscious and intentional evolution of human consciousness that comes about with a shift towards such a way of life, everybody wins. All benefit. We are in this together and whatever one of us does, affects the other. It is in each one of our own best interests that everyone else makes the shift to such an approach to life. Do we wish to see a bright future or a kind of dystopia? The choice is ours. Life a heart-based life and see the vectors of human becoming flower into spectacular wonders.
Hidden within the city of Bridgeport, CT right on the Long Island Sound is a festival that comes around once a year that is filled with positive energy and merrymaking. This festival is Gathering of the Vibes. For four days, it is a coming together of 15,000-25,000 people with the intent of pursuing happiness, spreading good vibes, and enjoying music. Since 1996, Vibes has been paying homage to the Grateful Dead by having artists and bands that reflect similar musical styles and harmonic expressions, as well as the Dead themselves. Keeping a focus on grassroots, the festival has vendors that sell their hand-made wares and crafts (among other things), which helps give it a very non-commercial flavor. As at the Rainbow Family Gathering, there is a meditation on peace at the main stage led by Woodstock icon Wavy Gravy, which is a beautiful demonstration that a music and arts festival can not only be a place where people can come to enjoy music, but also be a tool and catalyst for world peace.
This year’s Gathering of the Vibes was held in Seaside Park, which is situated right on the Long Island Sound in the city of Bridgeport, CT. Upon driving into the city, I wondered where could there be a peaceful music festival in such a big city. It turned out that there is a park right by the ocean and this location was quite a beautiful place for a gathering of this kind.The weather was all sunshine and a small cloud here and there, adding to the wonderful feeling of serenity I felt in my being when entering the festival. There was relaxing music by Galactic playing and reverie was something I saw everywhere. Hula-hoops, bubbles, and tie die were everywhere I looked. A higher state of consciousness permeated this gathering…feelings and expressions of peace, love, and happiness. Meeting new people and making friends was an effortless and enjoyable process. There were so many incredible individuals at the festival. Some drove down from nearby Woodstock while others came all the way from California, where the festival was originally located. So many people from so many places converged in harmonic resonance with each other because of the focus being on the unifying states of consciousness. Being in such an elevated group consciousness has the ability to lift you up and enhance your sense of connectedness with others. It is a beautiful experience that everyone should have at least one time in their lives.
Since this festival is centered around the Grateful Dead, there is a sort of intimate connection with the 1960s consciousness revolution in that the Dead had started giving the gift of music to others back in 1964 in California when they called themselves the Warlocks. The Dead have an incredibly close-knit community that feels very unified to the point that they will travel great distances or even travel wherever the group goes to perform. Since the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, who was essentially the leader of the band, the group known as Phish kept the strong unified community sense alive and includes many of those who adored the Grateful Dead. You will perhaps see more tie-dye at this festival than at any other event. It is a surreal explosion of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet that makes one feel an exhilarated sensation of visual pleasure. Here, it feels as if the 1960s had never ended. All the main elements that existed then are apparent now at this gathering of vibes, as the festival is so aptly named. For those who are gravitated towards the consciousness revolution aspect of the 1960s, this festival is certainly a place that you will want to experience sometime in the future.
Elements of the ego-based levels of consciousness were hardly anywhere to be found. There was plenty of unity-centered acts of conscious expression that I saw, which was quite a comforting element within the people at the festival. People gave both tangibles and intangibles freely and with love. The level of respect was something that is seldom seen. Everyone seemed to be in the same domain of consciousness, since harmony was a pervasive feeling I experienced all throughout the festival. Human beings acted as human beings…with empathy, compassion, and sincerity. Serenity and tranquility guided people in the way in which they presented themselves. There seemed to be no rush to get anywhere by anyone. Time ran as slow as molasses and what an enjoyable experience that was…to have one of the major elements of control loosen its grip on us.
Although it is a 4 day festival, I was only able to stay for two of the days and so I did not get a chance to experience all that this festival has to offer. However, the elements that I did experience were very pleasing and have persuaded me into going once again next year. Such gatherings of people being connected through the love of music and positivity are something that we should cherish, because they are models which demonstrate that a society based on peace and love is indeed possible, if we truly will it to be. Because of the universal reality of interconnectedness and oneness, we are already halfway to accomplishing such a seemingly-utopic society. All that is missing is the will and determination that such a reality is possible. Fueled by hope, we can make this happen, we can make this dream come true. The next time you are at a festival such as Gathering of the Vibes, become aware of the level of consciousness of all those around you collectively. Imagine this consciousness as being the one that permeates the global consciousness of humanity. The world is our mirror…let us see a reflection of peace, love, and unity so that in the future, this is the reflection all see.
Reality is multifaceted with many different dimensions encompassing its totality. These dimensions range from the densest manifestations of Consciousness to the most subtle planes of existence. The most familiar to us is the 3rd dimension of space followed by the fourth dimension of time. After that, the less known, although just as real, plane of reality is the 5th dimension, otherwise known as the astral plane, given its subtle state of existence. The astral plane in particular is the dimension of Reality that enjoys quite a bit of awareness concerning its existence, aspects, and purpose, as far as the nonphysical planes are concerned. However, this is not the only non-physical dimension of Reality that exists. Beyond the astral, there are planes of existence that are so incredibly incomprehensible by the human brain that words simply fail to accurately describe their existence. However, just as we are able to see the shadows of the 4th dimension but not be able to see the actual structures of the fourth dimension while in the third dimension, so too, can we experience existence within the higher dimensions of reality, but be unable to describe them in all their splendor.
What is meant by higher dimensions is that there are planes and levels of Reality that exist above the four-dimensional space-time and the fifth dimensional astral plane. These are called by many names, which include the “spirit realm”, “summerland”, “astral plane”, and so on. They are the dimensions that are invisible to human sight (minus the atrophied “third eye”) and are not quantifiable, as of present, by scientists (and perhaps they will never be because of a universal impossibility). It should be noted that certain theories in quantum physics, such as string theory, support the reality of a multidimensional universe.
No reality is as important to realize than the ultimate reality. Therefore, this article will explain, as best as is possible in English words, the higher dimensions and vibrational levels and higher levels of consciousness. The information put forward has been amassed from experiences within the higher dimensions of Reality via deep meditative trance states. Entering the astral plane is quite simple and easy compared to entering the higher dimensions, and the astral plane may perhaps be the farthest that many will be able to travel, in reference to experiential existence. However, the potential exists within all, to be able to finally have enough clarity and exist at a high enough level of consciousness, to where it is possible to experience the ultimate transcendental bliss.
Higher dimensions are similar to the astral dimension, but exist at much higher levels of consciousness and vibration. Each level is a completely separate area, but occupies the same space; this is how dimensions exist in Reality. Between each level is a sort of “buffer zone”, a transition area, if you will. The buffer zones separating different planes in the astral dimension are much easier to traverse and get through than the ones separating the higher dimensional levels. It can be said that each level of consciousness has its own dimension. The higher we get in this dimensional consciousness sequence, the more subtle our energy body is. The higher the level, the more abstract, metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic it becomes. It can be said that we are existing within all dimensions all the time. However, depending on how progressed our energetic development is (our) spiritual growth of consciousness), the reflections of our subtle energy bodies will be either stronger or weaker.
Higher dimensions require higher awareness. This is why it is very difficult for most people to go beyond the astral dimension, either through the dream state or through willful astral projections or OBEs (out of body experiences). You must be calibrating at a higher energetic frequency with respect to consciousness in order to get to these highest dimensions, or levels of consciousness. If you become the state of love, or become the state of joy, for example, you will be able to traverse these indescribable levels of ultimate reality. It appears that this is a sort of safeguard so that beings/localized fields of consciousness with a lower state of consciousness can not enter into these higher dimensions.
Since every human being should have the chance to be able to experience the highest levels of Reality, a simple tutorial of sorts is provided below for the purpose of assisting you with taking an adventure into the higher dimensions of Reality. The easiest way to shift your consciousness to these levels is through consciousness-raising meditation.
Use a deep relaxation technique, then attain a full trance state
Stimulate all primary energy centers (chakras in Sanskrit)
Use extra brow and crown energy center stimulation exercises
Raise energy through your entire body, through all your primary energy centers in one smooth action to the crown center while breathing inward
Hold awareness in the crown center and feel energy flowing into there all through the inward breath and all through the following outward breath.
Flick awareness back to your feet and repeat at the start of the next inward breath.
Continue this for about ten minutes or until you start seeing colors or a tinting in your third eye vision behind your closed eyelids. Purple is the best color to see for this, but any primary color is a good sign. If you see nothing, continue anyway.
Using your body awareness, generate a continual “Ommm” sound in your heart energy center. Then, slowly move your awareness of this sound into your throat energy center, and then to the third eye center, and ultimately, to the crown center. Let it spread and fill your entire head. Try your best to maintain this sound for a few minutes.
From behind your closed eyes, look for a distant point of light or a small pattern of light that is brighter than anything else you can see. Gently lock onto this and hold it firmly in your mind’s eye.
Shift your position of awareness towards this and feel yourself moving towards it. Feel yourself inside of it. Realize and feel a strong connection of spiritual love with it. Love it with your whole being and wish to be there.
What you will experience once in these highest dimensions of reality will be attempted to be put into words below. However, there are no words to express what you will experience. I would ultimately fail at describing them and I have attempted to use words in the past, only to find that I am unable to do this and still fully express the experience of being in the highest dimensions of all reality. If I were able to telepathically send you the emotions and feelings that I had experienced while uniting with the Source, I would. However, below will be my best attempt to describe and explain the most awe-filled planes of existence. There are several levels above the astral plane and so I will briefly attempt to describe what you will experience, and indeed have experienced in every experience you had inbetween lives.
You never want to go back
This feeling is universal in the highest dimensions of reality. You never want to go back to the lowest levels of experience, which are the physical levels of the observable universe. It is impossible to wish to want to go back and you will only come back by your physical body pulling you kicking and screaming back.
Colors are surreal
The colors you see are so much more then they ever could b in the physical reality. To get an understanding of this, I suggest watching the film What Dreams May Come to see this played out on the screen.
Thoughts are expressed in true manifestations
Thoughts appear and disappear as solid kaleidoscopic crystalline patterns of living light and sound.
Time is non-real
Depending on which one of the higher dimensions you are in, you feel as if time either is stopped, or does not exist at all and never has there.
Reality is opposite of the physical dimension’s constants
Reality is fluid, kaleidoscopic, and abstract to the extreme.
Consciousness manifested into creations
The highest energetic frequencies are manifested into observable creations that are able to be interpreted by the mind’s eye as angels, fairies, and other wonderful/phantasmagoric beings.
Communication impossible
Meaningful communication with thought-words is not possible and not how it exists in the highest levels. Feelings of love, happiness, understanding, and empathy are how communication is done.
Peace and Love
The highest levels are filled to the brim with infinite and unconditional love and universal peace, since these are the levels of consciousness that had manifested these dimensions in infinity in the first place.
Individuality is nonexistent
You lose all feelings of being separated from everything and everyone and individuality is lose. Oneness with the Source and all that there is in reality is your new true nature of understanding.
The Light of Divine Love
In the spirit dimension where all loved ones from the same soul groups reunite, there is an indescribable brightness of light that is not able to be described in physical appearance, but in the energetic vibrations of soothing, healing, pure, and divine love.
Reality is more real than physical reality
You experience the ultimate reality and therefore, you will see that the reality being experienced in these highest levels of consciousness is even more real than the physical reality you can touch, taste, see, smell, and hear. You will be forever convinced after this that the physical reality you are living in and experiencing at this very waking moment is not as real as these highest levels and even perhaps, a bit fake and created for a certain purpose.
Adventures into the highest dimensions of Reality are experiences that are completely awe-inspiring and leave the traveler at a loss for words in order to describe what he or she has experienced. Nevertheless, the energetic signatures of the experiences stay with the person for as long as they live. These are not experiences that can be forgotten easily, for they transcend any sort of experience that is possible within the physical planes of reality. Go out and elevate your state of consciousness so that you, too, will be able to experience these life-changing moments of infinity for yourself. There is absolutely nothing to lose and so so much to gain.
