Diane and I left Sunday night for home from Hilo, HI on the 10 PM red eye flight back to Los Angeles (LAX) along with 17 other navigators.  I am pretty sure that everyone was buzzing and totally exhausted from the week of meditation, classes, observing Eric, group therapy and one-on-ones.  The plane’s captain promised us a “smooth as glass” flight but we had some unexpected and crazy big turbulence for a short time.  I think some navigators may have used their skills to smooth things out after that.  I only got about 2 hours of sleep on the 6+ hour flight.

When we got into LAX everyone said goodbye and went many different ways to the terminals for their connecting flights.  Diane and I had 5 hours to kill so we went in search of espresso.  I was feeling withdrawal after a week of health food.

Part of the training Eric gave us during the week was how to really amp up our senses.  And Eric put himself in the state of mind where it happens to him so we could study him.  I got a bit of the feels-like for that place and I had been practicing.  One memorable afternoon in Hawaii we went snorkeling in tidal pools made by lava tubes.  I used to live in Hawaii and was there for four years.  I was an avid Scuba diver when I was there and logged hundreds of dives and numerous snorkeling trips.  This was a very unique place with the fresh water and salt-water mixing creating an environment unlike one I had been in before.  But I found when I was practicing I saw so much that had eluded me before.  The underwater environment seemed completely new and different to my previous time there.

We saw a nearby coffee shop and grabbed all of bags and headed in.  It was going to be a long day.  We still had to fly to Seattle, survive a 4 hour layover and then fly home.

The instant we crossed the threshold into the store we were both overwhelmed by an incredibly bad smell.  I don’t even know how to describe it.  It was like a mixture of coffee, rotting plants and death.  It hit me so suddenly and so intensely I almost feel over.   I have never in my life smelled something so bad; even from my dogs or working on the farm.

Sometimes when assimilating an animal it can get way more intense than human smell.

I knew instantly something strange was going on here.  The place was completely full.  No restaurant could survive 10 minutes of actually smelling like that.  But I immediately pivoted on one foot and left as fast as I could.  Diane was walking next to me and did the exact same thing, unspoken but completely in synch.

We compared notes after leaving and we experienced almost exactly same thing but she described the smell slightly different that I did.  Then I immediately started thinking up the possibilities as we now started to look for a Starbucks.  I did come up with more than 3 possibilities but we never did go back to investigate.  We were just too tired and had too much traveling still ahead of us.  And yes, the Starbucks did smell completely normal.  I did get a small whiff of the same smell but not so intense while walking through the underground tunnel from one terminal to the next.

I intend to write more about the wonderful training and experience with Eric and Matthew in Hawaii.  I just have to figure out how to not violate any confidentiality agreement.

June 12, 2008. 3:30 PM. I was at a spiritual retreat with 6 other people taught by Eric Pepin. Eric had called the week “boot camp” because it’s raw and unfiltered. There weren’t any handlers or schedules. Nothing between us and Eric. We had just finished lunch after checking in to the Grand Lodge hotel in Forest Grove. The place was full of interesting art and intriguing energy.

The Grand Lodge at night.

After lunch Eric gave us a break for a few hours. It was the third day of the retreat and I was already having a hard time digesting and retaining all the information. So I went to my room to lie down (in the Lavender Lady room). The weather was perfect and the sun was out. The wind was blowing cool air in from the Pacific Ocean. The temperature was just right for pants or shorts. I opened the window to my room to let in the fresh air and laid down.

A sample room.

Eric mentioned at lunch he planned to go to the soaking pool during our break. It turned out the window of my room was just above the soaking pool. Several students followed Eric to the pool. I heard their voices as I closed my eyes. I didn’t follow their conversation until Eric asked, “Did anyone see that?”

The soaking pool.

My psychic sensory kicked into full scan mode. I didn’t immediately notice anything until I started tuning into the students in the pool. An anomaly had moved across the pool, something potentially from another dimension. My brain started digesting the answers while Eric quizzed each person about what they saw from their perspective. In my minds eye, a 3D view appeared; blue vertical lines with some small horizontal crosses at the middle surrounded by light clear aura moving above the water from one end of the pool to the other. I think I perceived an amalgamation of what the others saw.

6 PM. Later that evening we gathered on the front steps of the Grand Lodge for more training. We discussed anomalies, ghosts, entities, and energy beings. Eric told us we should use a term like anomaly for things when we first encounter something. We shouldn’t use the other terms until later when we have had a change to review and dissect the experience. (Remember: always come up with 3 possibilities before beginning to analyze.) We don’t want to tag something with a suggestive name before we know what it actually is.

Eric also revealed that entities from another dimension need a power source to stay in this dimension. And we are that power source, the people in close proximity to the energy being when it appears. The more energy (prana) we have, the longer the entity can stay. Our energy gives them metaphorical “clothes” here. But not in the same way someone “vampires” your energy. It’s more like a light on a fish hook. If we are the bait on the hook, the brighter we illuminate, the more reflected light there will be off any “fish” in the area.

11 PM. Dinner and teaching finished around 11 PM. Then I started my 2 hours of scanning homework. At one point I walked through a completely dark room in the lodge scanning for any interesting energy. Daryl was sitting in the dark and I didn’t notice. He even kicked the table so it slid across the floor but it didn’t actually make any noise so I didn’t notice. The next morning at breakfast everyone teased me for not noticing and being psychically dull. When Eric showed up and heard what happened, he explained that after 3 days of being around Daryl all hours of the day, my energy accepted his energy as part of the normal environment… and I was looking for unusual energies; things not normally part of the environment.

4 AM. McMenamins hints that the Lavender Lady room is haunted in the description of the artwork associated with the room from the McMenamins Grand Lodge walking tour.

The Lavender Lady, as painted in life-size scale by Myrna Yoder, fits the description a construction worker gave of the elderly woman he saw cross this hallway during McMenamins’ 1999-2000 renovation of the property. Months earlier, all of the Home’s residents had been moved to a new facility. She should not have been here. And maybe her earthly body had passed on. Upon further investigation, the woman could not be found, but her lavender perfume lingered.

At 4 AM, I awoke suddenly and watched a bright blue orb slowly drift across my room from the outside wall to the hallway. After it disappeared through the wall I fell back asleep. Just one more interesting thing to be thankful for.

I knew as soon as I started, there was the potential for a special experience. My body was amped up with energy and my cells were vibrating more than usual. I started on my lower chakra. The physcial sensations of my body, of my cells were pretty intense. I had to fight to ignore the sensory data… to move from the physical to the energetic… the dimensional.

I started to download a memory, something I knew I experienced, but I didn’t have a memory of in my brain.

A few weeks ago, as I was going through a crisis of doubt, EJP asked me something. He said to me during a meditation, you made a personal commitment to me, do you remember that. At the time, I wished that I had, but I didn’t. Now the memory started to solidify. I don’t think it was exact, more like the “feels like” of the memory. I was serf, bowing… on my hands and knees, swearing fealty to my king… the One’s personal representative on Earth. And he rewarded me by knighting me, I felt the sword touch my back… and I was raised from a serf to a knight. At the time, I wasn’t to sure how real the memory was, but I didn’t analyze it.

I focused on my lower chakra… I waited… I observed… Suddenly I was in two places at once. I maintained awareness of here, my bedroom and I focused on there… I waited… I observed… awareness of there began to sharpen. It was some place without frequency… waiting to be written to. It felt like Neo’s training room from the movie the matrix. A place that wanted to be programmed, but didn’t yet have any programming. It was waiting for me to input the coding.

I envisioned my High Guard sword for cutting the webbing… a light saber. It appeared. But it was real beyond the way it appears here. I could hear the sound it created; a hum… a vibration. I examined the handle. It was solid. It had incredible detail. I could see and feel the buttons and knobs for changing the settings. I began to assimilate the interior. I could see and feel the interior… as a hologram… the power source… the circuitry. It was amazing detail. But I couldn’t help but think I was designing it myself as I was looking at it.

I moved my blue flamed light saber around. It was similar to moving my body in this dimension; but I had to send the normally body based commands to a different place. And I found that I could speed up my reactions… just like Neo in the matrix. And the kinesthetic feedback from moving was amazing… more detailed than my human body provides.

Then I remembered EJP telling us about gauntlets in Mexico. I needed some armored gauntlets. I thought about them and they appeared. As I had different thoughts about how they should look, they changed.

Then I began to doubt… to think that perhaps this all was only my imagination… and it began to fade… like fog in the morning before the sun. This might be my imagination… but it also might be the first hyper-dimension. I pushed the thought away… time to analyze is later… and everything began to re-materialize.

I continued to build my armor. Next a chest plate. Every piece was hand-crafted by my consciousness. I didn’t want to look like a Storm Trooper… a clone. I added etchings and modifications to each piece. I added some modifications that Batman would be proud of.

I didn’t really have trouble until I got to the helmet. I found that when I started to design the helmet, it would restrict my vision from 360 degrees to human binocular vision. Eventually I was able to overcome this and see 360 degrees with a helmet on. I eventually settled on something that Spiderman might wear, if Spiderman wore armor; in white with blue detailing.

Then I remembered from Eyes Wide Shut that I needed a shield. I built about 40 different shields… big shields, small shields, straight shields, curved shields, metal shields, energy shields. I eventually settled on two light sabers, one in each hand… and a spherical energy shield that covered me entirely… that I could turn on and off with my thoughts.

The more I practiced and moved, the better I got. I began to think about tactics. I remembered Nightcrawler from X-men and the movie Jumper. I started to move around the space by jumping. Appear… strike with the light sabers… and disappear.

I started to see the aura on my armor. I programmed it to feel like a tornado instead of a vortex… by causing the energy to spin the other way. It would now repel energy instead of drawing it in.

Then the emotion of what I was experiencing… of where I was, started to affect my body. I was again purging emotion… surrendering… like I had in Mexico. My nose began to run… I could no longer breathe through my nose… eventually the mucus started to run down my throat and I began to cough. I let go of that place… opened my eyes and came back so I could find a tissue. I blew my nose. And I looked at the digital time projected on the ceiling. On 24 minutes had passed here. It felt like 2 hours had passed there.

I bowed in gratitude to the universe.

July 12, 2007. Higher Balance had just opened their cabin near Mt. Hood for week long spiritual training retreats. My wife and I elected to attend retreats different weeks so we didn’t have to leave our daughter with someone. She got to go first.

While my wife was there, she called me during the week and told me that Eric was coming to the cabin that night. She said they were going to do a group meditation. After putting our daughter to bed, I decided to try to tune in.

First I turned down the lights in my living room. Then I sat on my couch, half-lotus style and followed the same steps I follow during a meditation, but without the music; deep breaths to blow out stress, think about my body, envision the prana in the room. Finally I was ready to start.

I hadn’t been to the HBI cabin yet, so I had to use my wife’s frequency to locate it. While in non-thought, I invoked the feeling of my wife in my chest center and had the intention to find her. I was relatively quickly able to tune into my wife and shortly I began to recognize the frequencies of many of the other people present. Then I turned my focus to taking in the feeling of the cabin and what was going on. I was able to tune in for about 25 minutes. It felt like I was gathering information like attending a class but without being able to hear any words and without being able to vocalize what exactly I had learned.

It turned out that Eric was teaching a class at the cabin that became “Eyes Wide Shut”. Here is the description from the HBI website:

With the release of The Black Box Series Module, ‘Navigation’, Eric gives some of the most revealing and ground breaking insights with regard to the purpose of white cells in our world.

Now Eric kicks it up yet another notch with the release of Black Box 2: Eyes Wide Shut.

In this DVD module Eric gets up close and personal as he conducts an open forum discussion revealing one of the most profound techniques for stepping outside of normal every-day perception.

This thought provoking module interlinks past techniques bringing them all full circle while exposing limitations imposed upon your psychology since birth. Take a profound journey to a precise understanding of hyper-consciousness by experiencing this module which has earned its place in history as part of Higher Balance Institute’s Black Box series.

Take the skills that you have learned from ‘Feels Like’ and ‘High Guard’ modules to a completely new dimension. Learn psychic maneuvers that allow you to create a bridge between time and space and explore a landscape so grandiose you can’t possibly imagine it.

Afraid that you don’t have what it takes to get there? No need to worry, just follow the walkthrough as Eric guides you, to develop the skill and transcend to a stage beyond the boundaries of imagination.

Previously, Eric alluded to a new level of mastery that would increase your effectiveness with the techniques in ‘High Guard’ ten fold. Now is the time to challenge yourself to push the envelope once again. Bring forth the master you are and prepare yourself. Empower yourself with this super charged knowledge and become a serious force to be reckoned with.

Prerequisites Mandatory – Call HBI for details

It was an interesting experience, but what took it to the next level was the validation I later recieved. When my wife got home, she later told me that one of the coaches looked over at her on the couch during the class and it looked like I saw sitting next to her. That surprised me but not as much as when I got the DVD. On Disc 3 while answering a question about astral travel, Eric says,

“It would take probablyy an hour to break it all down. We’ll do it. It’s just… I’m sure Steve will yell at me to get it done sooner or later, so… anyhow (laugh). He ought to be happy now. He wanted me to do a whole thing on “feels like”. Now he got it. We were planning on doing it now. And right on cue he knows what we’re up to, he’s tunning in.

That was phenominal validation of my experience, to have it recorded on DVD from Eric in his own words.

This new member didn’t want to talk about it at first. It took a while before she opened up about what she saw and felt. I think it was the first time she had ever tried meditation. She described beautiful colors and emotions, different ones for each chakra. She said, “I didn’t know that was supposed to happen. You didn’t tell me that would happen.”

Of course experiences during meditation are different for everyone. They can be visual, auditory, and even taste oriented. They can be feelings or emotions. In fact, most meditations don’t lead to any experiences.

By me not telling this person something could happen, she had no expectation that something would happen. And by not having an expectation, the experience happened. Expecting something to happen during mediation is a sure way to prevent the experience from happening. Some people take months or years to reach the point where they start have experiences. For a lucky few, things happen right away. Some people actually have such strong expectations they literally have to give up, even though they continue to meditation, and come to expect that nothing will ever happen before they have a breakthrough and experience something.

The group was small and my wife was there as well, so the energy was flowing and very upbeat. Our new meditator later confided to my wife that she cried the whole time. She didn’t know why, because she wasn’t sad, but she did. I think on some level, she knew she had found something she was meant to do. During our discussion she asked, “What books can I read to learn more about this?” And “What will happen to me when I have to go back to school in the fall and can’t be part of this group?”

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More information about the meditation method I teach can be found at www.dimensional-meditation.com

After reading about negative space, I went to Las Vegas for work. It was race week so all of the less expensive hotels were full and my colleague and I had to stay downtown on the strip.

One night we had dinner at Paris, Las Vegas. Earlier we had viewed some impressionist art on display. While waiting for dinner to arrive, my friend was enjoying a glass of wine and soaking up the atmosphere. We weren’t talking, just relaxing and observing. The place was decorated in a very impressionistic style of color and lighting, very soft and warm, and a little blurry.

As I focused on the colors and vastness of the indoor restaurants and shopping areas, my consciousness began to shift. I thought of negative space. I focused on the space between my eyes and the objects I was observing. The air began to get thick. It took on a weight, a feeling of its own… a feeling of space, a frequency. Time began to pass differently… to slow. When my friend finally talked, it felt like each sentence took minutes for him to utter aloud.

I think the mix of people, impressionism, space, negative space, and soft lighting caused me to shift to state of mind called the In-Between. I don’t know why this state is called the In-Between. Perhaps because you are in between being human and being connected to God. I have never found any other spiritual teachers that talk about this state of mind. I only know about it because of the class “The In-Between”. Eventually the meal arrived and eating caused me to ground back down. But this was one of the first times I began to delve into the spiritual meaning of frequency.

It was also on this trip that I began to appreciate impressionism for the first time. I realized that the Gaia mind was using the artists to partially convey on canvas what the world looked like from an In-Between state.

Picture 1.

Picture 2.

Picture 3.

Here is an email from my friend about the sequence of photos:

When I look at those pictures, I feel your heart chakra energy in my chest center quite strongly in the second picture but very little to no at all in the first and third pictures.  I think that it was what you were broadcasting that opened the door for those orbs.  Nice job!  (Maybe something to experiment with sometime…)

I was only smiling in the second photo.  Like my friend said, I believe my smile led to changes in the state of my consciousness that caused me to broadcast love from my heart chakra.

If you plan on trying this at home, be sure to use the flash on your camera.

See the orb zone website for more iformation.  While most orbs are dust and pollen, I don’t believe that ALL orbs are caused by dust in the “orb zone” of the 35 mm or digital camera.  The time stamps on Photos 1, 2 and 3 are 4:26:52 PM, 4:27:02 PM and 4:27:23 PM respectively, taken from my digital cameras time stamp.  It is possible that dust would not be in the zone, then 10 seconds later be present, and finally gone in the next 21 seconds.

I do believe that orbs are sometimes present when spiritual people are around.  The stronger the energy and the more the person is projecting that energy, the more likely the orbs.  My wife has around 200 images from here week at the Mt. Hood cabin.  Eric Pepin was present for parts of two days and the only photos with orbs are the photos taken when Eric was present.

Here is a closeup of the orbs in picture 2 from above, cropped but un-edited:

Close-up

A final fascinating thing that seems to hold true in all of the pictures I have with orbs is that there is almost always two distinct sizes.  A larger size that would be approximately the same size as a grapefruit and a smaller size about the size of a tangerine.  There doesn’t seem to be sizes in between, larger, or smaller.  Another argument against the dust theory.

Oct 10, 2008. My eyes closed with orbs

In my mind I replaced the word experience in the above description with the words level of consciousness…

In the past, some part of me has always thought or felt that if I had only been closer to Eric Pepin/Higher Balance/Portland that my life would have been better. That I would have reached a higher level of consciousness at this point in my life. Now I have now reached a level of completeness in my life… my own supreme meme. I have sufficiently expanded my own consciousness enough to have a level of satisfaction. I would no longer go back and change my life if I could… because the smallest change in my life up to now might not lead to this exact same spot… Eric Pepin and I might pass by each other… like two ships in the fog… never seeing each other.

One of the keys to my own progress and development has been the amount of time I have got to spend around Eric. I have been lucky enough to see Eric at three previous Higher Balance retreats and twice have had one-on-one time with Eric. I have been truly blessed. It hasn’t been a lot in terms of total number of hours, but it has been enough. I no longer wish that things had been different in my life and I had been one of Eric’s personal students. What I have had has been enough for me…

This has been a very interesting summer at my house. I will try to keep the narrative in order as much as possible. It all started about four months ago. My wife went to a Higher Balance Mt. Hood retreat while I stayed home with our daughter. Eric Pepin came to the cabin and recorded the Higher Balance class Eyes Wide Shut. My wife called me an hour before the event started to tell me Eric was on the way to the cabin, but she didn’t that Eric planned to teach a class.

About two hours later, after putting my daughter to bed, I sat down in my meditation spot with the lights turned down and no headphones or music. I started by thinking about my wife and Mt. Hood the cabin even though I hadn’t yet ever been to the Mt. Hood cabin. Then I let myself go to a place of non-thought. After about 15 minutes, it felt like I was at a cabin, the cabin. I couldn’t hear the words or see the people, but I tuned in and recognized the frequency of most of the people who were there.

My wife said during the class that the new baby was really excited and kept punching and kicking her during the entire class. A Higher Balance coach told my wife after the class was over that the new baby was being programmed on a cellular level. My wife later realized that the new baby learned and began to recognize Eric Pepin’s voice before she was born. The new baby would have the same reaction whenever my listen to a class from HB.

Briefly skipping ahead, I had a strange sense of deja vu many times while listening to the class Eyes Wide Shut. Like I had already received this training but had forgotten. A Higher Balance coach told me on the phone a few weeks after the class was recorded that when he looked at my wife, at one point he saw my frequency right next to her. This last week I finally got to the last 2 DVDs of Eyes Wide Shut. And on DVD, much to my surprise, Eric says, “and right on queue, Steve is tuning in.” Further confirmation of my experience. Having confirmation always help break down the governor, the mechanism in the brain that tells us what is possible and what is not.

The next day after recording Eyes Wide Shut my wife had a one-on-one with Eric and he told her some interesting things including the new baby would be “special”, he wanted to meet her when she arrived, and most of the child care duties would fall to my wife.

Then just before the current Eric Pepin trek across America I was asked to arrange an event at my house and an event out in town. This led to me spending several hours at the local Unity Church and attending a Sunday service there. The speaker that weekend was Shirley Scott, an animal communicator (pet psychic).

After the service Shirley stayed and continued to do readings for pets and I stayed to make contacts with people from the church. I singed up to have a booth at the upcoming holistic fair to attempt to sell HB products. Shirley and my wife and I were the last ones there. Diane and I then decided to go home and get our problem Golden Retriever and get a reading from Shirley. Shirley said the dog didn’t have to be present for the reading, but I wanted to watch her work in person.

Eric talks on Mind Touch about how a powerful psychic could “fix” someone’s future by overwriting their energy. And that Eric doesn’t do psychic readings anymore for that reason. I normally wouldn’t go to a psychic for this reason. But I didn’t think it would hurt to have a reading on my dog. Shirley said my dog wasn’t happy at our house and wanted to live in on a farm in a home with a teenage boy. Making a long story short, our dog ended up a week later being very, very happy living on a farm as a working dog with a teenage boy.

For the next few weeks, I worked nights and weekends to prepare HB materials to hand out at the holistic fair. When the holistic fair day arrived, it was bitter cold day and I had booth outside right next to Shirley. There wasn’t interest from very many people in HB stuff that day but the people who were interested often stayed for an hour or more and also came back several times. I handed out free HB material that day and I also got to watch Shirley work during the slow times. She always had people and animals waiting in line for readings.

At one point I ended up in a group of psychics talking shop. One of my realizations was that with my training and skill, I could work with a psychic and make them better. At the end of the day I was so impressed with the work Shirley did with people and animals that my wife and I both sat for short readings.

Shirley told me some interesting things that paralleled things Eric Pepin had told me at a Mt. Hood one-on-one the month before. Shirley said I have an opportunity right now to start a business and to become a coach. That right now I give too much, and I need to create limits and balance between work/family/training of others. Also when I don’t charge for my work, it allows people undervalue the knowledge I have to offer.

Shirley told my wife that the baby would be born in one week (she was), wouldn’t speak until she was three or four but would communicate telepathically, and we might have to home school her because she would be ready for first grade at age four. She also told my wife that the baby would be a very powerful healer and the soul was already following my wife around. And the final thing she told my wife was that for a few years, it would largely be her job to keep me grounded and be the business manager for me, making sure I charged people, and raising our children to fulfill their destiny.

I should have realized something was up when I woke up this last Saturday morning. My wife smelled different and I told her so. I also told her I didn’t think it was a real smell but a chemical change in her blood that presented itself to me through my sense of smell. It reminded me strongly of previously assimilating a coyote and paying attention to mix between a coyote’s sense of taste and smell. I had a feeling then that animals knew when they were going to give birth through this same mechanism.

That day I had to drive two hours away to help a friend move. When I returned home 12 hours later, tired and sore, my wife informed me that she had been in labor for 3 hours already. A few hours later the contractions got very close together and we had to go the hospital.

I wasn’t really able to work on spiritual or psychic level in the hospital. I was just too tired and my back hurt too badly. A couple of times, I closed my eyes and saw the white flashes of energy moving through the room, maybe souls or entities, I don’t know. One time I lay down on the couch and closed my eyes. I was able to reach a very light level of sleep and monitor the events in the room at the same time for about an hour. That was a cool experience that was new to me.

My wife said later she did use her HB training a couple of times to handle the pain and to make physical changes to her body. I tried to watch for the energy or the aura when the baby crowned, but after 24 hours on my feet, I wasn’t able to see or tune into the soul entering the body.

Seeing auras is often one of the first things taught to new spiritual students. You can learn to see auras on your own by reading “How to See the Aura in Five Minutes”.

It is one of the best ways to show someone something they can perceive that is outside of normal reality. Most people can learn to do it very quickly. And the more you practice the better you get. I know someone who worked on seeing auras everyday for three hours for three months.

I have on occasion seen auras on trees, fence posts and the planet but I have never been able to see them at will. Just when random chance causes me to hit the perfect state of mind. But today I had a feeling that I now I could see them at will. A new key had been added to my spiritual key chain.

While I was conversing with my wife, I found a tree truck nearby that had a bright white wall in the distance behind it. The sun was reflecting off the white wall creating great contrast with the bark. I now know that the eyes are not used for seeing auras, but that sixth sense data is overlaid with the visual data from the eye creating a composite. So focusing harder with your eyes doesn’t bring the aura more into view. In fact it is almost the reverse process, relaxing your eyes so that the data can come through.

Remaining in a state of non-thought is also required. While my eyes were watching the space around the tree, I had to move my awareness into the space around tree. It’s almost like my energy field reached out to experience the energy field around the tree. And since I was also looking with my eyes, BANG, the aura appeared. To me it felt like assimilating the energy field around the tree.

And as I moved inside the aura, data began to flow from the tree’s energy field to my consciousness. The data was causing my consciousness to shift to a higher state, a meditative like state. Eventually I had to bring my consciousness back down so I could continue to talk with my wife, but now I know I can recreate this experience anytime I want. The universe has given me another profound gift to be forever grateful for.