TRICKS OF THE LIGHT & OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

If one has ever studied optical illusions, then you can see how easily the
eye can be tricked. There are blind spots in our vision and the brain fills
in the gaps with complementary colors. For instance, are the vertical lines
in the first image straight or wavy? Use a straight edge to find out. The
second image looks like an intimate couple. However, show this image to
children and they will see the smaller dolphins in the image since they
have no concept of lovemaking. The third image up close looks like Albert
Einstein, but when viewed from a few feet further back, it looks like
Marilyn Monroe. Is the fourth image a pair of faces looking inward or is it
a white vase? The next image looks like a man with glasses on, or is it the
word, "Liar"? Is the dancer spinning clockwise to right or
counterclockwise to the left? 2/3 of people will see her dancing clockwise.
The other third will see her rotating to the left. There are all kinds of
illusions: depth perception, afterimages, psychological blind spots, filling
in phenomena, illusory contours, hybrid images, and many others. There
are also mirages that people see in the desert. And what about
hallucinations that people see while on drugs or otherwise. There are
even touchable holograms that have been developed and mind control
technology which can insert thoughts into our brains. There are vivid
dreams that seem so real when we are having them. Can we really truly
trust our perception anymore about what is reality? In the Matrix
Morpheus said, "What is real? How do you define real? If you're
talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see,
then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted
by your brain."

Stage magicians rely on tricks of the light and sleight of hand. They rely
on our brain making illogical assumptions based on prior experience and
expectation. Their tactics include distraction and diversion tactics and
lots of smoke and mirrors.
THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE &
FRACTAL WORLDS

In his breakthrough book, The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot

explained in detail how the universe is holographic which means that
every part contains the whole. We first saw the hologram in the epic
debut Star Wars as Princess Leia delivered a message. Star Trek had a
holodeck which was a simulated holographic reality deck in which you
could interact. The movie The Matrix seemed to further the idea by
presenting the world we live in as a matrix. Today scientists have
holograms that can be touched. And a hologram of deceased rapper
Tupac made a performance at a concert.

To produce a hologram you need a light source such as a laser, a beam

splitter, a couple of mirrors, a couple lenses for diffusing and a
holographic plate containing diffraction lines in a scattered pattern of
rings.
 NDEs with HOLOGRAMS
I was in the middle of some kind of hologram. I noticed all my feelings,
emotions, personality and knowledge were still with me and that I carried a
large amount of anger toward certain people, especially my parents and the
religion they used against me. I'd been an agnostic for years. Then once having
this experience during surgery in an out of my body state, I suddenly observed
a Being of Light instantly entering this holographic space and when he came, I
was washed with a flood of love and forgiveness for everyone and everything. I
even loved the earth and all its beauty and the animals on the earth and "felt"
the spiritual process we are all in, and how we are literally tied together as
brothers and sisters needing to be unified in love and care.....Everything in a
hologram. The ability to see and know everything at once. Seeing through
walls. Knowing the past, present and future of people in surgery and seeing
family members and what they were doing. Great peace and comfort after
turbulent life..... All was in some kind of a hologram and not necessarily face
to face. In other words, I could understand how God might project into
everyone's life at the same time, like some Skype computer image or TV, but
all was far more personal as if we are all connected as one...Everything in a
hologram. I watched everything happening within the surgical arena. I could
"see" and "hear" everything in my world and it blended easily within the
sidereal universe as if past, present and future are all at once. -- Chamisa H

All of a sudden, I looked over to the ceiling corner of my curtained cubicle,

there appeared in 3d color my beloved Dad and brother Joe - both deceased.
They were in the form of a HOLOGRAM - transparent but vivid and pretty
much life size (maybe a bit smaller). -- Ellen A

He said, "Look to your right." I looked to my right and saw a holographic

figure. It was my own mother. It was a view of her in the future, and she
seemed tired and in need of help. I will not go into detail here, because I want
to respect her privacy, but I felt myself lean toward this futuristic hologram
with the desire to touch or help it somehow, even though it wasn't presently
occurring. It felt alive to me, and I noted that it seemed as I leaned toward her
that I was a Gardener, wanting to prune some foliage.
The hologram faded out and my Guide said, "You see? It is time. You want to
go." -- Amy C

I also remember that I was shown a holographic image of upcoming events in

my life. I was told that these were golden moments and life was full of
experiences that I should not miss. Another light Being was telling me about
the value of this life. -- Nancy L

This near-death experience (or what I prefer to call an Eternal Life

Experience) left me feeling such a profound sense of triumph and awe.
Something else I learned, too, is that fear is an acquired state, not a natural
one. It is something that you learn…but having no connection with the soul
self. Love is the prevailing force at all times…no matter how things may appear
in this world of duality and illusion. It’s merely a hologram—created by the
collective consciousness—for the sake of growth and evolution. Therefore,
what occurred on the Other Side, for me, was a special opportunity to
experience…and know—with total certainty—that everything was evolving
exactly the way it should…and that the ultimate destiny for every living being
is to return to the Source, The Light…Pure Love.

ultimately we as one verse

 ascend into our light bodies, which I have seen are just like
holograms of light and color, depending, for to achieve the rainbow
body is slightly different to the body of clear light..anyway that is the
personal future of beings but as for the planet..there is a lot of work
and we have to do it.-- Yazmine S

I tested myself, my body was like a hologram. My whole life replayed itself.
Then I got to the end of the channel and was greeted by big group of beings
( human ). I knew them all, but only on that other side. When I came back, I
realized, I didn't know any of them. I was given a choice to stay or go back. I
was shown the place, a very very beautiful place that will always be there. I
chose to come back. I didn't want my family and friends to mourn me. I was
conscious of time, i.e.; life here is just a speck of time, compare to eternity. --
MAttie K

The other side is the world of the quantum, where thoughts are things, and
where consciousness creates reality. It is also totally holographic in nature.
That's why many NDEs say that they went into a "hall of learning" or "place of
knowledge" and it seemed like to them the building was "made of knowledge."
-- Patricia D

The knowledge was a holographic experience, which I don't

remember. The nature of this realm defies logic and violates our
sense of reality. -- Beverly B

I am seeing that illusions only seem real. The flat world does not exist. The
farther science goes, the more illusions of space and time are discovered. We
are not flesh and blood, but more like holograms. We live in the spirit - not in
the flesh. And the spirit is Love.

I could see how we are all connected. I was connected to every body in a multi
faceted light web, a DNA –like hologram, that was in perfect order. Everything
connected to everything with delicate threads of light that were the gaps
between each moment. It showed my connection to other people, other souls,
other incidents, moments past future and present. There was complete order
and complete acceptance of everything. Than, there were no more pictures,
but a strong sense of motion forwards. -- Romy

Time as I had known it came to a halt; past, present and future were somehow
fused together for me in the timeless unity of
 some point, I underwent what has been called the "life-review
process," for I saw my life from beginning to end all at once. I
participated in the real life dramas of my life, almost like a
holographic image of my life going on before me - no sense of past,
present or future, just now and the reality of my life. -- George R

Boom, I was just there! I saw a sparkling light at the end of the corridor. I
deliberately didn't initiated the feeling of wanting to be there, at the end of the
corridor, because, honestly, I wanted to stay right where I was. And I knew if I
had that thought, then I would be there, and at the end of it, immediately. This
—whatever it was (maybe not best described as a "corridor") was luminous, all
by itself. I was definitely within something. And I could tell that it was see-
through (translucent,) as well. I guess the best way to describe it would be as a
"hologram."

And there, to my left on a screen, was my life. I could see it! Me! I
saw and felt all of my choices in this lifetime. There was absolutely
NO judgment attached to it. None. I wasn't judging my life, I was
simply seeing it....I wanted to go behind the veil. I thought of it, and
half expected to be sucked into it, but I wasn't. I was told I couldn't
enter that realm just yet, as I was needed back in my body and that
what was behind the curtain is reserved for when my life expired on
earth. -- Lori E

The edges of the walls we there...but it was like a hologram...solid walls...but

not...I couldn't see anything beyond the walls from my vantage point, but
whenever I tried, it was all soft creamy white...cloudy...like I didn't have a
need to know what was past that boundry of the walls, ceiling and floor. --
Denise N

But, I was taken to a computer room, which I really found hard to relate. We
will never catch up to that one. The being with me was literally showing me
around, including technology we did not have then. He (note, I identified the
being as he, and there is both a male and female side to our Creator), showed
me how this computer worked. We communicated by telepathy. I guess I was
curious about the Civil War, so he took out a CD (at the time I described it as a
tiny metallic record) the size of a quarter. He placed it into the table top
surface of the computer base, and suddenly the entire wall disappeared and
below I was viewing a battle scene from the Civil War. Only I was not looking
down any more, but actually standing on the field during the battle. So, it was
like virtual reality and a hologram all at once. And I must have sent a message
that I didn't like being there, as I was suddenly back with the being and it all
disappeared back to just the wall. -- Diane

Experience was definitely real It was like a computer program running in the
background. A great feeling of reality and comfort. -- Jack C.

There is one account which was labeled as an STE, a spiritually transformative

experience. But it had most the same elements of an advanced NDE: the light,
love and telepatchic communicaton with beings:What emotions did you feel
during the experience?....Immense Love ...I saw a beam of white. It came out
of the sky and touched me on the shoulder...One responding to my unasked
question who are you? "God of Abraham." -- Mary D

This is a guy who says that an Angel named Lamdiel explained to him the
evolution of our planet. That this wonderful evolution means all humans are
going to be bound within some super being. To top it off guess who this being
is, yep Nergal. I was excited. "Who is that giant spirit? I felt as if my heart were
racing although I was in my astral body. The angel smiled, then slowly
answered my question. "It is going to be a strong, huge, high intensity spirit
from the third level of existence, from the forces level. That spirit is going to
bond Himself with all of humanity on the planet Earth. "It will create a huge
new entity--one that will improve your lives tremendously and forever. This
huge spirit is quite well known to humanity on Earth. Many people,
unknowingly, already are craving to bond with Him. They consciously pray for
His help, and love Him. In some part of their subconscious minds all people
on Earth already know it. And whether they believe in any established religion
or not, in times of great need most humans recognize His existence. They call
him: God, Elohim, Yahave, Allah, the Heavenly Father, and many other
names." -- Israel

These two accounts that mention the god of the NDE light being the same as
the god of Abraham or Yahave is very telling in my opinion. The god of the Old
Testament was full of hate and destruction. The fact that the beings in the light
show or identify themselves as Yahweh, archangels, Mary and other Old
Testament characters shows that they are still up to their old tricks,
manipulating and controlling souls.

I saw and felt THE LIGHT, am I dead? Then gentle laughter, no Nick you can't
die you were never born. Is your shell going to die? not yet. Are you Jesus? I
AM THE GREAT I AM. I COME TO YOU THE WAY YOU WANT TO SEE ME
THERE IS A GOLDEN THREAD IN ALL RELIGIONS AND PRACTICES. --
Nicholas P

WHAT IS LIGHT? THE NATURE OF

LIGHT

Considering the nature of light and the limitations and inherent flaws
with which our souls and bodies have been made how can we ever be sure
that what we perceive is the truth? Is not knowingness still susceptible to
deception? Here on Earth we base trustworthiness on years and years of
data and yet we still are deceived by our spouses. But it requires an initial
leap of faith which in the case of the afterlife could result in a soul getting
trapped in a gravity well or hellish existence. If we have total free will,
then why can we not leave this planet or solar system? We are bound by
gravity.

The following is from the beginning of the book Catching The Light by
Arthur Zajonc and shows just how tenuous our understanding of light
might be: "As part of what I call "Project Eureka", a friend and I have
designed and constructed a science exhibit in which one views a region of
space filled with light. It is a simple but startling demonstration that uses
only a carefully fabricated box and a projector whose light shines directly
into it. We have taken special care to ensure that light does not illuminate
any interior objects or surfaces in the box. Within the box, there is only
pure light and lots of it. The question is: What does one see? How does
light look when left entirely to itself?
Approaching the exhibit, I turn on the projector, whose bulb and lenses
can be seen through a Plexiglas panel. The projector sends a brilliant light
through optical elements into the box beside it. Moving over to a view
port, I look into the box and at the light within. What do I see? Absolute
darkness! I see nothing but the blackness of empty space.

On the outside of the box is a handle connected to a wand that can move
into and out of the box's interior. When I pull the handle, the wand
flashes through the dark space before me, and I see it brilliantly lit on one
side. The space clearly is not empty but filled with light. Without an
object on which the light can fall, one sees only darkness. Light itself is
always invisible. We see only things, only objects, not light." -- From
"Catching The Light" by Arthur Zajonc

Perhaps this experiment can be explained away by saying that the

pertinent observation is tainted by the observer a la the split photon beam
experiment, but it is interesting nonetheless.

Light and how it interacts with the eye and brain is still a mystery to us.
Did you know that the image that comes into the eye is actually upside
down on the back of the retina and the brain reinterprets it to be upright
for us? Albert Einstein said, "All the fifty years of conscious brooding
have brought me no closer to answer the question, 'What are light
quanta?' Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he
is deluding himself." He also said, "For the rest of my life I will reflect on
what light is."

Divided and Undivided Light

Walter Russell was a contemporary of Nikola Tesla and exchanged
letters with him for years. I consider his idea about the universe very
intriguing. This is what he had to say about Light. The Undivided
and Divided Light kind of reminds me of the Gnostic beliefs about a
pure light in the Eternal Realms and an impure light in the universe
that the Demiurge created. This is from his book "New Concept of
the Universe":

THE UNDIVIDED LIGHT

The basis of Creation is the Light of the Mind which created it. God is
the Light of Mind. God's thinking Mind is all there is. Mind is
universal. Mind of God and Mind of man are ONE. This eternally-
creating universe, which is God's eternally-renewing body, is the
product of Mind-knowing expressed through Mindthinking. In the
Light of God's Mind is all knowledge. All knowledge means full
knowing of The Creator's ONE IDEA which is manifested in His
Creation. The undivided and unconditioned Light of Mind is an
eternal state of rest. That invisible Light of the Spirit is the
equilibrium of absolute balance and absolute stillness, which is the
foundation of the divided and pressure-conditioned universe of
motion. In that Light there is no change, no variance of condition, no
form and no motion. It is the zero universe of REALITY. In it are all
of the Mind qualities of knowledge, inspiration, power. love, truth,
balance and law, which are never created, but are simulated in
moving quantities in the divided universe of moving waves which we
call matter. The Light of Mind is the zero fulcrum of the wave lever
from which motion is projected. Its zero condition is eternal. The
unfortunate error of science lies in assuming that the power which
belongs solely to the fulcrum of Light-at-rest is in the motion of the
lever which simulates that power.

THE DIVIDED LIGHT

In the Light of The Creator's Mind is DESIRE to dramatize His ONE
IDEA by dividing its one unconditioned, unchanging unity of balance
and rest into pairs of oppositely-conditioned units, which must
forever interchange with each other to seek balance and rest.
DESIRE then multiplies those pairs of units into an infinity of
eternal repetitions to give formed bodies to The Creator's
imaginings. All formed bodies are created In His Image". Through
the expression of DESIRE in Light, this universal drama of CAUSE
and EFFECT is created as the product of Mind-knowing divided by
Mind-thinking. CAUSE is eternally at rest in the balanced unity of
the undivided Light. CAUSE IS ONE. EFFECT is eternally in motion
to seek balance and rest in the centering equilibrium of the two
opposed lights of this divided universe, which it finds only to lose.
EFFECT IS TWO The Light of CAUSE, divided into the two opposed
lights of EFFECT, is the one sole occupation of Mind which we call
THINKING.
Mind thinking sets divided idea into two-way opposed motion to
produce the effect of simulating idea by giving form to it. Formed
bodies are but pressure-conditioned motion, however. They are not
the IDEA which they simulate.
The Light of Oneness
This is an excerpt from a very interesting Sufi book on Light and
Darkness called "The Light of Oneness". It is published by the
Golden Sufi Center and its assertions cause one to pause and
think.

RADIANT AND REFLECTED LIGHT

In the dimension of pure consciousness, on the plane of the Self,
things are known by their light.1 Here, everything radiates a
quantity and quality of light unique to its essential nature. On
this plane human beings are like suns, their light shining as
stars in space.
But this dimension of light is hidden from ordinary
consciousness. In the physical realm of the senses we live in a
world of shadows. The pure light of our true existence is veiled.
This realm is a place of reflection, in which we see objects not
through their own light, but through the light that is reflected
off them. With no external source of light, physical objects are
in the dark, invisible. And the colors
that we perceive in this world are not the actual colors of the
objects but the colors that are reflected off them.
Grass absorbs light except for the frequency equivalent to the
color green, which is reflected back. Black absorbs all colors;
white reflects all colors. In this world we rarely perceive things
according to their true nature. Our interaction with this world is
governed by
the laws of reflection. Reflections are full of distortions and
ambiguity, full of shadows. In this world it is difficult to perceive
or experience things directly. In human interaction we are also
confronted by the reflection of our own self, much more than we
would like to admit. We perceive and interact with others
according to our own psychological patterns and conditioning.
In the realm
of pure consciousness it is very different: there we relate essence
to essence. There is no reflection, but an interaction
of light upon light, a meeting, merging, and dynamic interplay
of light.
On the inner planes there are also places of shadows and
darkness, places where there is little light. There are forces of
darkness, forces that deny the light. There are entities that
absorb rather than radiate light, creating darkness. These
entities are like black holes whose density is so great that no
light escapes. Human beings rarely interact or are present in
these places, although these loci can influence us. The true
nature of human beings is light, and our light protects us from
darkness. In our world misunderstandings
and discord usually arise from the distortions caused by the
Reflections of light. The more we have access to the realm
of pure consciousness, the more clearly we can see. The work of
the masters of love and their helpers is to give us
as much light as we can absorb without being blinded or
unbalanced.
On the plane of pure consciousness light flows directly: there is
no distortion or reflection. Light radiates from each source and
communicates through this radiance. In this realm things are
known by their similarities rather than defined by their
differences. Similar frequencies of light resonate together and
attract each other. There is no space or time, but there are loci,
or different realms, in this dimension. Just as light has different
frequencies, so too are there different levels within the
dimension of light.....

DIMENSIONS OF DARKNESS
The realms of existence and nonexistence include different
dimensions of darkness. In the realm of nonexistence is the
darkness of the uncreated, which is actually pure,
undifferentiated light. Analogous to the darkness of outer space,
the uncreated only seems dark because of the absence of matter;
there is nothing to reflect the light that is present.
This dazzling darkness of nonbeing is the home of the mystic,
the one who has passed from presence to absence, who has
experienced the unknowable emptiness. This is the luminous
black light of the deus absconditus, the divine self-in-itself.1
The darkness with which we are most familiar is the darkness of
shadows caused by matter, which hides us from light. Our night
is caused by the physical mass of our planet being turned away
from the sun, but even in daylight matter hides us from the
bright clarity of sunlight. Ours is a world of half-light, shadows,
and darkness. We rarely see with the clarity of direct perception.
This is as true in the dimension of consciousness as it is in the
outer physical world. We do not recognize the true meaning of
things, and we do not know our own essence.

WORKING WITH DARKNESS

Darkness is a constellation of energy that absorbs light, so it
appears to be the opposite of light. But in order to work with
darkness we must begin to understand that its nature is
absolute. Pure darkness exists beyond the realm of duality and
the dimension of ordinary consciousness. Mystical
consciousness has long known of the existence of this darkness.
As mystics “keep watch on the world and for the world,” they
know the influence it has on the world. Their work of witnessing
is a detached awareness, combined with compassion for the
effects of darkness. But although the darkness causes so much
suffering, once one has seen its real nature one has a deep
respect and awe, recognizing in it the imprint of the Absolute.
Pure darkness requires respect; otherwise we will remain its
victim. We have realized this in our interaction with the
unconscious, whose demons require respect if we are not to be
dominated by them—it is dangerous to dismiss the monsters of
the deep, the dragons of the inner world. Accepting the divinity
of darkness, we do not need to turn away from its power,
because we stay within the protection of the One who is all. The
power of consciously aligning with the divine protects us with
His energy.
As the One reveals Itself through creation, the energy of
darkness has a role to play. And as the process of revelation
changes, so too does the role of darkness. At the beginning of
this new era the patterns of revelation are changing.3
An essential part of this change is the increase in humanity’s
conscious participation in the process of revelation. This means
that the darkness will be present in a new way, one that
demands our greater participation. The powers of darkness are
to be revealed not just as a reflection in humanity, personified
as evil, but closer to their real nature.
Throughout time, individuals have worked with darkness for the
sake of our evolution. These masters of darkness are hidden
from us, just as the masters of light are veiled. The masters of
darkness are working for the evolution of the whole, even
though darkness would appear to be a force contrary to
evolution.
The masters of darkness have a power that cannot be found in
the light. Real power is always an expression of an aspect of the
divine, of that which is beyond our understanding. As human
beings evolve, we have access to qualities of power that before
would have been understood as evil.
Only the mystic who is not frightened of nonexistence can
approach the darkness without fear of destruction. One who has
been absorbed in love can encounter forces that would damage
anything created. Free from the opposition of good and evil, the
mystic has passed through the ring of fire that keeps humanity
within the sphere of cause and effect. Protected by both the
darkness and the light of love, the mystic recognizes that
everything belongs to the One.
We may have fear or awe before this aspect of the Absolute, but
we are surrendered to That which is beyond light and darkness.
And there is work to be done with the powers of darkness. There
is an energy that is needed to help humanity, an energy that
belongs to the dark side of God.
Darkness is one of the poles of His revelation. Just as in the
totality of light, in the totality of darkness there is no
recognition; nothing is reflected. Light cannot escape this vortex
of darkness. This can be understood as His denial of Himself,
divine consciousness hidden
from itself. And yet the absolute nature of this darkness is a
reflection of His absolute nature. Anything that is absolute can
only be a direct expression of Him who is Absolute.
That which is absolute belongs only to God. In our relative
world we have created a concept of God that belongs to duality.
We are caught in the relativity of light and dark, good and bad,
pleasure and pain. We naturally project this dualism onto the
divine,
whom we regard as good in opposition to that which is bad or
evil. As we struggle towards the light, we deny His totality.
But the divine is not an expression of our relative
consciousness. We can see this in our constant dilemma about
the nature of suffering. How can a God who is good allow
suffering? The mystic knows that the absolute nature of the
divine is far beyond such seeming contradictions. In the journey
towards wholeness we begin to break this conditioning, and this
enables us to make the transition towards the reality of oneness,
of pure consciousness. The mystic who seeks neither....
Our ordinary consciousness is so conditioned by duality that it
can hardly grasp the simplicity of that which is absolute. We
look for shadows and reflections, while the dimensions of pure
light and pure darkness have neither. Pure light and pure
darkness are not opposites. This would imply duality, and they
do not belong to a realm of duality. When they interact with this
world, they are experienced as the primal duality, but this is not
their essential nature. From the perspective of the ego, the
power of light and the power of darkness appear to be primal
opposites. But the mystic has experienced how the depth of
unknowing is also a quality of knowing, how the absence of light
and the presence of light can coexist. Pure darkness is terrifying
because it is absolute. Does this mean that we need to embrace
evil? No. Spiritual maturity requires that we acknowledge and
accept that there are different
levels of reality with different laws, which require different
kinds of attitudes and actions.

Astronomy has discovered that at the center of our galaxy there

may be a black hole. Is it this which holds the galaxy in place,
countering the expansive energy of creation? In its essential
nature, pure darkness is not an absence of light, but a
constellation of energy that absorbs light and so appears to be
the opposite to light only from the perspective of duality. On the
plane of pure darkness there is no duality; light and darkness
are just different aspects of the oneness, different potencies of
His power. In the words of a
Mandean text, “Light and darkness are brothers, emanating
from the one Mystery.”4 Pure darkness, like pure light, has a
purpose beyond our ordinary knowing. All is One. In darkness
the One is also present. Absorbing rather than radiating light,
darkness draws everything back to darkness, like a black hole
that draws matter and light into a point of unimaginably intense
density. The density of darkness is as important as the
expansiveness of light in the process of evolution. Without this
density life would lose its balance. Divine revelation could then
not take place. A light-source naturally radiates its light in all
directions. The ability of pure darkness to attract light enables
the light to be focused in a particular direction or directions.
The focusing of light is similar to the focusing of consciousness
that happens through our attention.
 The dazzling darkness is full of light. The pure darkness has a
different substance, an intense density that is also part of God’s
hidden purpose. It contains the mystery of how He sacrifices
something in order to reveal Himself. Traditionally the darkness
belongs to the demiurge, the cosmic force behind the world of
matter, which in Christianity became associated with the devil.5
Our soul’s immersion in the world of matter seems to hide us
from the pure light of the Self, but without the density of matter
there can be no knowing; light would have nothing to reflect off
of. Without reflection, all the colors of creation would remain
hidden.

The light needs the darkness. Through the darkness His mystery
becomes visible. The powers of darkness express themselves in
the world of creation, in the substance of matter, but they do not
originate in this dimension. The alchemists understood the
demiurge as being present in matter and also holding a magical
key that could unlock the closed doors of matter.6 The
unlocking of matter can be associated with freeing, or
awakening, the world soul, the anima mundi. In our individual
journey of awakening we come to experience how the physical
world is no longer a place of imprisonment for the soul, but a
place for us to realize and enact our true nature. The awakening
of the soul of the world can allow humanity as a whole to begin
to realize and enact its larger destiny."

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85-95 percent of the universe is "dark matter" Dark matter often is detected in
rings around planets (heavens?) All the galaxies follow strings of dark matter
and then there are places where there are clumps of it. Dark Matter has to be
the light realms or at least above Sophia's veil. The veil could be a frequency
barrier between the "Light Realms" and the "Astral Realms"/abyss.
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ANALYSIS:
Would you allow something else to take your light by merging with it? I
will not that is for sure.
I am not sure if they are making people see this so that they think they are
merging with God, which only reiterates the false idea that God is in the
heavens above us. It could just be that moving into a higher frequency
feels like euphoria and fullness to us compared to where we just came
from, often times old and frail and with eyesight, hearing and mobility
problems. There is a huge amount of euphoria in realizing that we go on
and on living. It sometimes seems that that could be the reason they are
so relieved.

Plus I am confused that the Light is "white"... white is not a higher

vibration or frequency than say violet is... White light is a mixture of the
colors of the visible spectrum. I think violet would be a higher frequency
as white is all colors combined. But white being all combined sure does
make it sound like it is a collective merging of all souls.
I guess maybe the combined wattage or power of the sheer mass of the
numbers of souls makes it seem more powerful maybe as well?
Brightness is a function of the density of the photons or Light so the
translucent Light would increase the Being of Light's brightness since the
definition of merging is mixing together or "plunging into".

They are using technology to increase the vibration or frequency. Maybe

this is done in the tunnel as well. And the Devil has a "pitch" fork or
tuning fork. That is the meaning of the Piper who plays the Pan pipes and
wants you to join the band... the band of white light frequency. The Near
Death Experiencer describes going through a pipe or a tunnel. They are
making what seems like real light mechanically. Since it is better then the
body, the experiencer thinks it is the real thing.

Here's how I think this trick works:

Pan, the Devil, plays a tune on his pan pipes. The Pied Piper is a many-
colored Piper... that's what pied means, many colors, and leads the
children (of god) with his pipe (NDE tunnel) into the rock / mountain
(moon is a rock). And why the name "Peter Pan"? Petr means rock
(moon?), also fuel (energy source) and Pan mean "all" which would be
"all" frequencies combined: white. The Devil is known to use a "pitch"
fork to goad souls to Hell. And Enki as Nep-TUNE has the trident or
pitchfork too. A pitch fork is a tuning fork. So you have a tune or
note/frequency and you have a fork which is a many pronged instrument.
Think of a fork with three or seven rays of light or seven prongs and like a
fork they all funnel into one like the handle on the fork we eat with. So all
the different colors of souls funnel through the tunnel or tune-l into the
band of white light which is all frequencies combined. Since it's all
combined it would resonate with every single color or frequency of
souls... the light is electromagnetic so there could be magnetic resonance
like in an MRI.

But the NDErs are definitely describing the Light and the tunnel as
vibrating. Obviously everything vibrates but this vibration is pronounced
or very noticeable. It may be that the soul starts naturally increasing in
frequency as the ties or bonds with the body are loosened, but they may
be augmenting that or maybe just convincing the soul that it is due to
their loving white light, I don't know.

Is the humongous white light the result of luring a bunch of souls

collectively and now it is white light which keeps feeding on more and
more souls....getting bigger and bigger, fatter and fatter, I guess. but yes,
it could be done mechanically like a frequency generator can do...I
wonder if the euphoric feeling of love has a frequency. There are ancient
tribes which speak of a Love-Plant which can generate or induce feelings
of euphoria.

Maybe everything is the opposite of what we think like Alice in

Wonderland. Up is down, black is white. We think LIGHT and our eyes
that enable us to see is good yet our eyes show us images upside down
and in reverse. We think we can "see" but we are blind... we think our
LANGUAGE lets us communicate effectively with each other yet maybe
without language we would develop Telepathy and Empathy which would
be far greater than Language which is rife with double meanings and
impreciseness. We think LOVE or feeling emotion is the greatest thing
there is yet the word Love seems to be an umbrella term for so many
different emotions and understandings. We think Love is great yet it
keeps us from understanding that Empathy is the "positive" attribute and
the feelings associated with Love are negative. We think THINKING
allows us to reason and understand things with Logic when logic is so
faulty and rife with fallacies. Perhaps GNOSIS is better than what we call
knowledge.

The things that are emphasized here as the most important things (Light,
Love, Language, Knowledge, etc) contain the biggest lies of all and hinder
us from real growth and understanding.

This may be done on the astral plane or perhaps it is done by magnetic

portals between the earth and moon.
What happens when a magnetic field of a low frequency comes into
contact with a higher frequency field? I am willing to bet that the lower
frequency field vibrates until it becomes similar to the higher frequency
field it comes into contact with. This means if they have even a slightly
higher frequency field it will not only make you vibrate but also make you
feel euphoria if you have not felt that frequency in a while. They pull our
vibration higher and we feel euphoria / love and attribute that to some
godlike being when it is just science or what seems like advanced
technology to us. It is very much like the Stargate SG-1 Ori false gods who
pretend to be ascended masters. The SG-1 television series or Star trek
episodes often show beings with more advanced knowledge or
understanding of science exploiting more primitive cultures or less
advanced beings for their benefit.

In electricity, electrons flow from positive to negative... low potential to

high potential. They are probably taking power from us at that point.
Just like a leech you never feel it.

RELATIVE vs ABSOLUTE
Hence all meanings (commercial, spiritual or secular) attributed to
these two words ‘Light’ and ‘Darkness’ is relative rather than
absolute. More importantly, who is to decide which one of these
meanings is real? The various meanings just add spice to the
manifestation. The meanings are there just to tickle the ego’s fancy,
generate discussions, form theories, build philosophies and
construct dogmas that keep man in bondage rather than freedom.
Freedom is freedom from words and their meaning for, as yet, no
word or meaning has ever liberated man from the shackles of
misery or sadness. How could they, for their very presence is the
cause of discontent? Discontent, for words project incomplete
meaning but the mind believes it to be complete!

Therefore, in this exposition, a deeper understanding of these two

words ‘Light’ and ‘Darkness’ would be shared rather than
contributing more meaningless meanings to them. It is important
to realize that all meanings to these two words are necessary only to
understand that they are not necessary to relieve man from the grip
of duality. So, what could light be? Has man ever seen light that he
could either talk or write ‘about’ it? Could light be seen? What man
is able to see is just reflected light and not pure light! If the mind
has a thought of pure light, only then would it be in a position to
expound it. If the mind has a thought of pure light, would it be
pure, for pure light, realistically, would be the absence of total
darkness? Total darkness is not only the absence of light, but also
the absence of the presence of absence of light. So if the mind talks
about pure light it only means that it has recognized and
acknowledged, non-verbally, the presence of darkness! And if
darkness has been admitted, would the description of light be
independent of darkness? Certainly not would be the obvious
conclusion. Hence, it is not possible for the mind to talk about pure
light or write about it. More importantly, since the mind is absent
in the ‘present’, it could never ever experience pure light, for pure
light is in the ‘NOW’ and not in the past!

Next, if light is all there is in life, how could darkness exist at all? If
darkness is absence of light, how could it be possible for anyone to
see it, for man would need light to see? If light is required to see
darkness, where could the cut-off point be between light and
darkness? Has man been able to determine where exactly the two
are separate from each other? If they are not separate, then it would
only mean that light and darkness are one and not two.

Darkness is nothing but intense light that the eyes cannot catch.
Man’s visual faculty is limited as are the rest of his mental concepts
of senses. The mind is able to appreciate only the absence of
different wave-lengths of light and is unable to recognize wave-
lengths of light beyond a certain spectrum. The inability to
appreciate light is experienced by man as darkness. Light that man
experiences is therefore darkness that the eyes can catch and
darkness is intense light that the eyes cannot catch. This is
paradoxical - and so is life! If darkness were real then even animals
would not be able to see. But it is well known that certain species of
the animal kingdom roam around in utter darkness in total
freedom. It is important to realize that life begins in darkness
rather than light! The seed sprouts from the darkness within the
seed under the ground. The sperm fertilizes the ova in the darkness
 of the reproductive system. Eggs hatch within the darkness of the
eggshell. Life begins in darkness, for darkness is light!

Hence man must understand that there is nothing called darkness

as an absolute entity or anything called light as an absolute entity
that the mind could experience. Life is jointly light and darkness
with all their meanings stuck to it. Freedom from these labels is
pure light: light that cannot be seen, thought of, or written ‘about’;
darkness that cannot be seen, thought of, or written ‘about’!

© Copyright V.S. Shankar, 2004

The following is from the book "Light of Oneness", a Sufi book by

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee:

"RADIANT AND REFLECTED LIGHT

In the dimension of pure consciousness, on the plane of

the Self, things are known by their light.1 Here, everything
radiates a quantity and quality of light unique to its essential
nature. On this plane human beings are like suns, their
light shining as stars in space.
But this dimension of light is hidden from ordinary
consciousness. In the physical realm of the senses we live
in a world of shadows. The pure light of our true existence
is veiled. This realm is a place of reflection, in which we see
objects not through their own light, but through the light
that is reflected off them. With no external source of light,
physical objects are in the dark, invisible. And the colors
that we perceive in this world are not the actual colors
of the objects but the colors that are reflected off them.
Grass absorbs light except for the frequency equivalent
to the color green, which is reflected back. Black absorbs
all colors; white reflects all colors. In this world we rarely
perceive things according to their true nature.
Our interaction with this world is governed by
the laws of reflection. Reflections are full of distortions
and ambiguity, full of shadows. In this world it is difficult
to perceive or experience things directly. In human
interaction we are also confronted by the reflection of our
own self, much more than we would like to admit. We
perceive and interact with others according to our own
psychological patterns and conditioning. In the realm
of pure consciousness it is very different: there we relate
essence to essence. There is no reflection, but an interaction
of light upon light, a meeting, merging, and dynamic
interplay of light.
On the inner planes there are also places of shadows
and darkness, places where there is little light. There are
forces of darkness, forces that deny the light. There are entities
that absorb rather than radiate light, creating darkness.
These entities are like black holes whose density is so great
that no light escapes. Human beings rarely interact or are
present in these places, although these loci can influence
us. The true nature of human beings is light, and our light
protects us from darkness. In our world misunderstandings
and discord usually arise from the distortions caused by the
reflections of light. The more we have access to the realm
of pure consciousness, the more clearly we can see. The
work of the masters of love and their helpers is to give us
as much light as we can absorb without being blinded or
unbalanced.
On the plane of pure consciousness light flows
directly: there is no distortion or reflection. Light radiates
from each source and communicates through this radiance.
In this realm things are known by their similarities
rather than defined by their differences. Similar frequencies
of light resonate together and attract each other. There is
no space or time, but there are loci, or different realms, in
this dimension. Just as light has different frequencies, so
too are there different levels within the dimension of light.....
DIMENSIONS OF DARKNESS
The realms of existence and nonexistence include different
dimensions of darkness. In the realm of nonexistence
is the darkness of the uncreated, which is actually pure,
undifferentiated light. Analogous to the darkness of outer
space, the uncreated only seems dark because of the absence
of matter; there is nothing to reflect the light that is present.
This dazzling darkness of nonbeing is the home of the
mystic, the one who has passed from presence to absence,
who has experienced the unknowable emptiness. This is
the luminous black light of the deus absconditus, the divine
self-in-itself.1
The darkness with which we are most familiar is
the darkness of shadows caused by matter, which hides
us from light. Our night is caused by the physical mass
of our planet being turned away from the sun, but even
in daylight matter hides us from the bright clarity of
sunlight. Ours is a world of half-light, shadows, and
darkness. We rarely see with the clarity of direct perception.
This is as true in the dimension of consciousness
as it is in the outer physical world. We do not recognize
the true meaning of things, and we do not know our
own essence.

WORKING WITH DARKNESS

Darkness is a constellation of energy that absorbs light, so
it appears to be the opposite of light. But in order to work
with darkness we must begin to understand that its nature
is absolute. Pure darkness exists beyond the realm of duality
and the dimension of ordinary consciousness.
Mystical consciousness has long known of the existence
of this darkness. As mystics “keep watch on the
world and for the world,” they know the influence it has
on the world. Their work of witnessing is a detached
awareness, combined with compassion for the effects
of darkness. But although the darkness causes so much
suffering, once one has seen its real nature one has a
deep respect and awe, recognizing in it the imprint of
the Absolute.
Pure darkness requires respect; otherwise we will remain
its victim. We have realized this in our interaction with
the unconscious, whose demons require respect if we are
not to be dominated by them—it is dangerous to dismiss
the monsters of the deep, the dragons of the inner world.
Accepting the divinity of darkness, we do not need to turn
away from its power, because we stay within the protection
of the One who is all. The power of consciously aligning
with the divine protects us with His energy.
As the One reveals Itself through creation, the energy of
darkness has a role to play. And as the process of revelation
changes, so too does the role of darkness. At the beginning
of this new era the patterns of revelation are changing.3 An
essential part of this change is the increase in humanity’s
conscious participation in the process of revelation. This
means that the darkness will be present in a new way, one
that demands our greater participation. The powers of darkness
are to be revealed not just as a reflection in humanity,
personified as evil, but closer to their real nature.
Throughout time, individuals have worked with darkness
for the sake of our evolution. These masters of darkness
are hidden from us, just as the masters of light are veiled.
The masters of darkness are working for the evolution of
the whole, even though darkness would appear to be a force
contrary to evolution.
The masters of darkness have a power that cannot be
found in the light. Real power is always an expression of an
aspect of the divine, of that which is beyond our understanding.
As human beings evolve, we have access to qualities of
power that before would have been understood as evil.
Only the mystic who is not frightened of nonexistence
can approach the darkness without fear of destruction. One
who has been absorbed in love can encounter forces that
would damage anything created. Free from the opposition
of good and evil, the mystic has passed through the ring
of fire that keeps humanity within the sphere of cause and
effect. Protected by both the darkness and the light of love,
the mystic recognizes that everything belongs to the One.
We may have fear or awe before this aspect of the Absolute,
but we are surrendered to That which is beyond light and
darkness. And there is work to be done with the powers of
darkness. There is an energy that is needed to help humanity,
an energy that belongs to the dark side of God.
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Darkness is one of the poles of His revelation. Just
as in the totality of light, in the totality of darkness there
is no recognition; nothing is reflected. Light cannot
escape this vortex of darkness. This can be understood
as His denial of Himself, divine consciousness hidden
from itself. And yet the absolute nature of this darkness is a
reflection of His absolute nature. Anything that is absolute
can only be a direct expression of Him who is Absolute.
That which is absolute belongs only to God.
In our relative world we have created a concept
of God that belongs to duality. We are caught in the
relativity of light and dark, good and bad, pleasure and
pain. We naturally project this dualism onto the divine,
whom we regard as good in opposition to that which is
bad or evil. As we struggle towards the light, we deny His
totality.
But the divine is not an expression of our relative consciousness.
We can see this in our constant dilemma about the
nature of suffering. How can a God who is good allow suffering?
The mystic knows that the absolute nature of the divine
is far beyond such seeming contradictions. In the journey
towards wholeness we begin to break this conditioning, and
this enables us to make the transition towards the reality of
oneness, of pure consciousness. The mystic who seeks neither....
Our ordinary consciousness is so conditioned by duality
that it can hardly grasp the simplicity of that which is
absolute. We look for shadows and reflections, while the
dimensions of pure light and pure darkness have neither.
Pure light and pure darkness are not opposites. This would
imply duality, and they do not belong to a realm of duality.
When they interact with this world, they are experienced as
the primal duality, but this is not their essential nature.
From the perspective of the ego, the power of light
and the power of darkness appear to be primal opposites.
But the mystic has experienced how the depth of unknowing
is also a quality of knowing, how the absence
of light and the presence of light can coexist. Pure darkness
is terrifying because it is absolute. Does this mean that
we need to embrace evil? No. Spiritual maturity requires
that we acknowledge and accept that there are different
levels of reality with different laws, which require different
kinds of attitudes and actions.
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Astronomy
has discovered that at the center of our galaxy there may
be a black hole. Is it this which holds the galaxy in place,
countering the expansive energy of creation?
In its essential nature, pure darkness is not an absence
of light, but a constellation of energy that absorbs light and
so appears to be the opposite to light only from the perspective
of duality. On the plane of pure darkness there is no
duality; light and darkness are just different aspects of the
oneness, different potencies of His power. In the words of a
Mandean text, “Light and darkness are brothers, emanating
from the one Mystery.”4 Pure darkness, like pure light, has
a purpose beyond our ordinary knowing.
All is One. In darkness the One is also present.
Absorbing rather than radiating light, darkness draws everything
back to darkness, like a black hole that draws matter
and light into a point of unimaginably intense density. The
density of darkness is as important as the expansiveness of
light in the process of evolution. Without this density life
would lose its balance. Divine revelation could then not
take place.
A light-source naturally radiates its light in all directions.
The ability of pure darkness to attract light enables
the light to be focused in a particular direction or directions.
The focusing of light is similar to the focusing of consciousness
that happens through our attention.
The dazzling darkness is full of light. The pure darkness
has a different substance, an intense density that
is also part of God’s hidden purpose. It contains the
mystery of how He sacrifices something in order to reveal
Himself. Traditionally the darkness belongs to the demiurge,
the cosmic force behind the world of matter, which in
Christianity became associated with the devil.5 Our soul’s
immersion in the world of matter seems to hide us from
the pure light of the Self, but without the density of matter
there can be no knowing; light would have nothing to
reflect off of. Without reflection, all the colors of creation
would remain hidden.

The light needs the darkness. Through the darkness

His mystery becomes visible. The powers of darkness
express themselves in the world of creation, in the
substance of matter, but they do not originate in this dimension.
The alchemists understood the demiurge as being
present in matter and also holding a magical key that could
unlock the closed doors of matter.6 The unlocking of matter
can be associated with freeing, or awakening, the world soul,
the anima mundi. In our individual journey of awakening
we come to experience how the physical world is no longer
a place of imprisonment for the soul, but a place for us to
realize and enact our true nature. The awakening of the
soul of the world can allow humanity as a whole to begin
to realize and enact its larger destiny."

Some interesting quotes on light, darkness, reflection and shadow:

 "In the emptiness of space, light (from the Sun) may be present but,
with the absence of objects to reflect it to our eyes, we see
darkness."

"Outdoors, the daytime sky is not dark because impurities in the atmosphere
scatter light. This makes it difficult to understand why, for example, the Moon
glows so brightly in the nighttime sky, when it appears to be just a rocky ball
in the daytime sky."

"Objects that reflect most of the light falling on them appear bright; objects
that absorb most of the light and reflect little appear dark. An object that
reflects no light at all would appear pitch black."

"An object that absorbs or reflects light can hide another object from our view
if placed in such a way that any straight line from our eyes to the target object
is broken by the hiding object."

"An object that absorbs most of the light hitting it will appear dark."