Kay Shinol – November 20, 2001
Celebrating 30 years of the Peter Dialogs
Since our early sessions with him, Peter has told us that we are here to experience. The challenge has been to define what is meant by experience. John Mack, MD, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and co-founded of the Center for Psychology & Social Change, alien abduction/ encounter researcher, in an interview in Miracle Journeys Magazine (November/December 2001 issue), spoke about the nature and importance of experience.
“People consistently misunderstand what I mean when I speak about the alien encounters having a central spiritual dimension. They think if the aliens aren’t nice to us, or ask our permission, then it can’t be spiritual, since spiritual has been watered down to angelic. The abduction experience entails confronting pain, terror, and the feeling of possible annihilation and death. Even after one has been returned to their familiar surroundings, apparently with few traces of physical injury, one is holding enormous energies in their body, so much so that people may literally vibrate through the intensity, and weep or scream when they are recalling the experience. It is not dissimilar to a shamanic initiation or a ‘dark night of the soul’seen in other initiatory experiences in other spiritual traditions.
“The abduction encounters appear to bring about an expansion of consciousness or identity. The expanded consciousness involves a number of things. The experiencers open to a new whole-Earth consciousness; they become sensitive to what’s occurring on the planet, the environmental crisis and the interconnectedness of all life. The deeper anguish is no longer about these little beings doing things; it becomes an awareness of the divine and the sensation of connection. It can be quite painful for them to observe the ways in which our society keeps people separate from each other and how we are destroying the planet.”
Abduction events as described by Dr. Mack qualify as experience in my book. Perhaps one of the “benefits” of experience, then, is a deeper awareness, an expanded consciousness, but is that what experience is?
Recent Dialogues have addressed (and are continuing to address) this concept. When Peter first mentioned it 30 years ago, we thought of experience as the process of moving through life events. Now we are discovering that:
Experience involves our creations AND, perhaps more importantly, our perceptions of those creations;
Body is involved with the “NOW,” Mind is fascinated with the “NOT-NOW,” and both align in Spirit;
Mind spins energy into MYTHS, METAPHORS AND MAGIC to feedback through “sensory perceptors” to “make sense” of ourselves and our world;”
Body projects “holographic representations” using a crystalline fractal located in the pineal gland that feedback through the endocrine system and “Chakras,” and through connector points* which Peter calls Stargates or Vortexes. The connector points manifest as MASS SYMBOLS, e.g. written (glyphs) and oral traditions, sacred geometry, etc. The projection/feedback system generates platforms for shaping ARCHETYPES and matrices for unfolding MASS EVENTS.
*NOTE: The importance of these “connectors” cannot be over-stated. According to Peter, our DNA is NOT confined to inside our skins, but is infinite. These strands of DNA are “resonating” and are MUSIC. We are not merely connected to ALL, but are in fact ALL THAT IS!
Perhaps experience really is a tool and/or toy in the alchemy of “Doing and Being.” Whether it is an experience of Near-Death, alien abduction, the hug of a grandchild, or your own heart-felt laughter, we each use whatever works to AWAKEN. The study of experience continues…..
- Whatever Metaphors I use in my BECOMING, the events of my life form the fabric of Is-ness!
- Whatever Myths I use in my FEELING, the stories of my life provide the threads of TIME itself!
- Whatever Magic I use in my IMAGINING, the desires of my soul give rhythm to Life’s Dance!