I believe it is lazy habits and dislike of the unknown which may condemn us to follow old beliefs rather than walk through doors within our minds to enter wondrous new worlds offering untold powers, treasures and adventures.



The greatest challenge Out-Of-Body investigators face is to ascertain whether what they encounter is in fact real and not just a figment of the imagination. We tend to judge what is real by a completely subjective impression of what enters our senses. Generally we consider being fully awake and aware of our identity and being able to share the world we experience with other people as proof that we experience reality. Rather than diverting into big philosophical arguments, most people will probably come to an arrangement with this interpretation. It becomes more complicated when being fully awake and aware when out of the body. The sheer multiplicity of phenomena we are often faced with when out of the body makes it tempting to dismiss the whole experience as an illusion, a dream or fantasy and to regard our experiences as cognitive abnormalities, dreams in which our consciousness has been tricked into waking awareness, rather than to explain its reality and the laws that make it so. Having had OBEs for almost 40 years I have become aware of distinct patterns and consistencies, which leave me without doubt that OBE experiences are actually taking place in parallel universes which follow their own laws. This is only confusing because of the incredible complexities and astonishing laws and phenomena we are faced with.



I have found it helpful to break my experiences down into categories and then try to understand what lies at the root of their phenomena. Lucid dreamers I have talked to often question whether their experience, however vivid, have the same reality as our physical experience and can be verified by consensus and scientific cross-referencing. Until we are able to conduct dream sharing or joint OBEs on a scientific basis, however, I feel/believe we will be unable to deliver proof of the reality of other dimensions.



Another way to do this, I have found, is by repeated subjective observation, ideally carried out by a large number of OBEers, noting, revisiting and observing the same phenomena time after time. However, this will require a concerted research effort. At present there is no way I can prove the observations, theories and conclusions I have put forward as true, but I hope to be able to encourage other OBEers to watch out for certain phenomena next time they have an Out-Of-Body Experience (work in progress). This could serve as a kind of statistical basis. As previously stated I am open to having my own findings questioned and disproved. After all, it is reality that we are searching for. So I will simply report what I have discovered so far about the nature of parallel dimensions.



We are at a new frontier of consciousness and about to penetrate and understand the next dimension. For society the benefits will be more revolutionary than anything we have so far achieved as a species.



I will start by outlining broad categories which I have encountered during my Out-Of-Body visits into this fascinating parallel universe. The majority of OBEers and I share a conviction that the environments we travel though are the same as we will inhabit after our physical death.



In order to begin to gain clarity about the next dimension it is important to accept how the different phenomena we encounter are generated. Below I have singled out six types of environments which make up the territory, each one brought about via a different genesis. To make it clear I will illustrate each one of them with one of my own experiences. All of them have in common that they have been observed on more than one occasion:



Consensus Environments:



These environments are created by the more permanent inhabitants of the dimension (dead people) as well as the habitual and creative thoughts of people still leading physical lives, all of which creates a super-dimensional counterpart, which is very similar to our physical world, with cities, shops and shopping centers, even cars. Everything has a copy, which is more or less like anything on earth. There are also super-dimensional counterparts of everything that exists in the physical universe, expressed in different energy configurations from dimension to dimension. Though when visiting the counter part of an earthly city, there is a certain “alienness” brought about by a altered mindset of the permanent inhabitants



So the traveller will discover that the lower-dimensional level is more or less a replica of this physical world, plus the idiosyncratic changes of the permanent inhabitants, which is frequently reported by explorers when they first visits these regions, starting with them noticing slight alterations in their immediate environment, furniture has changed, been moved or added to, the layout of the house may be different, carpets have been added or acquired a new texture etc. They may also be surprised that they cannot see their physical body lying in their beds as they might have expected when realizing that they OBEed, simply because their awareness has now transferred into the dimensional counterpart of their physical body whilst transcending the physical dimension.



Voids:



On some occasions other travellers, and I myself, have experienced traveling through voids or blackness. Whether these are actual environments or a product of our inability to tune into the new super-dimensional environment is not clear. Some people may argue that we create all the experience on the hoof so to speak and there could simply be an inability of our brains to generate the information quickly enough, (because of the unusual state it is in) to do so. I, personally, have experienced environments which were no more than empty spaces, with, for example, lights floating by or bands of colour until, when deepening my awareness or wakefulness, I have found some kind of environment emerging.



Fantasy:



The most enjoyable aspect, at least for me as an artist, is having the ability to employ fantasy and creative abilities to shape the environment. This is not as easy as it may sound, especially on the lower levels or dimensions which are more earth-like and a lower frequency, making it difficult to be creative, such as conjuring up objects which can almost be automatic on the higher levels.