Levels & Levels & Levels...

[Guest guest]

Jan & Friends,

 

Jan says: The mention of levels (states) denotes their

transitoriness and pictures the narrator believing, and judging the

states like "lower", "higher", "highest".

 

Thus the yearning show goes on and on.

:-)

 

Jan, the same point is implied but not stated in Robert Monroe's "Far

Journeys", the follow up to the runaway success of "Journeys Out of

the Body". When the 1st book came out in 1985 it created quite a

stir. Monroe wasn't a wide eyed hippy trance-endentalist, but rather

a millionaire businessman, very successful in his field,

sophisticated and accomplished.

 

He claimed to have discovered and practiced a technique for

seperating from the body and exploring other levels of reality.

Apparently, he had some notable successes in helping others to do the

same thing, and he still runs a successful "dream search" business in

Virginia.

 

The 1st book chronicles a number of Journeys to areas he labeled

Level 1 and Level 2, etc.

 

Skipping over a lot of fascinating material (Monroe makes as good a

case for OBE's as you are likely to come across)by the time you are

reading the 2nd book, you realize that these OBE beings who may be

helping M in his explorations are simultaneously showing him that

these levels are just more of the same tiresome and confusing

melodrama as here below.

 

Monroe might not agree with me, as he clearly has a mission(if you

can believe in "missions" at all)to spread knowledge about OBE's and

the subtle realms and other rooms available to some of us in "God's

mansion". But the realms available to him make it quite clear that

though exploring them for us may be part of his karmic assignment,

(and a lot of fun, until it grows tiresome), real mystical

achievement lies elsewhere.

 

According to what you can accept, the same argument is certainly

dramatically incorporated into the last few Castaneda books as well.

 

yours in the bonds,

eric