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EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK:
I Peer Through The Door To The Kingdom Of Heaven
My boredom and frustration with my sentence at Cherry Point was
intense and overwhelming. My knees were now giving me additional
problems. At anytime I could suffer an attack of sharp pain in
my knees. It didn’t matter whether I was sitting, standing,
walking, or even lying down.
Since my
injury, I had gone back to engage in the intensive practice of
meditation, yoga, lifting weights for my upper body and
practicing self-hypnosis.
Once, I was
lying in my rack (bed) and stretched out in the dead man
position, still wearing my utilities and boots. It was a bright
sunny day and the only other Marine assigned to the room was
Lance Corporal John Jacinto.
John was an
affable guy from Boston. He was from a first-generation
Portuguese-American family and during his time off, he loved
making model cars and planes to alleviate his boredom. On this
particular day, Jacinto, his back turned towards me, wearing
only his skivvies while making models.
I had been
lying in the dead man position, meditating and nurturing the
intent to have an OBE (Out of the Body Experience). After
several attempts, I came close to the usual symptoms I have
often experienced: vibrations, the hum of higher frequencies and
the paralysis.
However, each
time the sound of fighting or yelling in the barracks jolted me
back before I was able to achieve my goal.
Finally, I slid
out of my body. Instead of coming out of my head or rising
directly through the top of my body, I felt myself falling
through my bed and ZIP—
I was standing
in the center of the room looking at my physical body, which was
still lying prone on the bed. I was instantly struck by how
powerful I felt, how perfect my vision had become, after a
lifetime of feeling like Mr. Magoo
I could now see
with a level of clarity I had never dreamed possible. The colors
of everything around me were a thousand-fold more rich and
vibrant than ordinary experience. Things that normally looked
merely red… now seemed to possess infinitudes of variations of
shades of red. The same was also true of other colors. Things
that normally appeared simply material, confined and fixed
seemed to possess energy fields alive with colors.
Light extended
out a distance from all of the objects in the room, even the
walls. The world was now scintillating and my new body felt
energized and very powerful. Looking down at my new body, it
appeared to be a duplicate of my body on the bed. I was even
clothed in the same utilities.
My new body
appeared the same superficially. However, I could see my energy
body possessed energy fields alive with colors and light much
more colorful and intense than any object in the room. I sensed
my new body was free of all constraints. I felt perfect; I knew
this was how God intended human beings to be. Normally, I am
aware of my body’s limitations.
In this body I
felt I could leap up onto the roof of the barracks, lift a
cement truck over head, fly and even transcend time and space.
At the very
least, I felt I could operate at one hundred percent of the
level scientists thought the human body capable of performing
at: an eight second hundred meter dash, benching five times my
bodyweight, all sorts of things considered superhuman but
possible.
If I compared
what I felt to the best lovemaking and orgasm of my entire life,
there is not much comparison. Perhaps if you compare the meager
light of a candle to the nuclear energy of our sun, that would
be the discrepancy that I felt now compared to ordinary reality.
I had become like the sun!
The freedom and
energy of leaving my ordinary body for this new energy body was
an intense spiritual orgasm. I turned to look at Jacinto. His
back was still towards me. Moving energy fields extended out
from him, also more vibrant than any object in the room. Yet, by
comparison, only one percent of what my new body was displaying.
I turned and
saw my ordinary body lying prone on the bed was dim as Jacinto’s
when compared to my new body. Noting how dim the energy in my
prone body was compared to that of my roommate, I wondered if it
was an indication that I was close to death or had died. I
speculated that perhaps, if I had died, the energy I was
seeing was from the cells of my body, generating energy for a
limited time after my life force had departed.
Instead of
feeling fear at the prospect, I now felt free, infinitely
superior compared to how I normally felt. My mental process
seemed to be free of the mechanism that kept me from functioning
fully.
I have always
been painfully aware of how my mind struggles with certain
intellectual tasks, such as math problems.
In this state,
I felt I could solve any math equation at the speed of light,
without any of the encumbrances of my normal sluggish processes.
Looking back at my prone body, I was struck by how different I
looked from the figure I saw in the mirror or in pictures. I had
never been satisfied with how I looked.
I sometimes
thought of myself as homely or, at best, presentable or
approachable. My physical body looked better than I had thought,
not handsome by any stretch, but I looked all right, the way God
intended me to look. My body appeared a curious combination of
stiff and relaxed.
My muscles
appeared slack, my face relaxed and tranquil. A look of joy
played out on the relaxed countenance of my face. While my
muscles looked as relaxed as molten wax, my spine looked a bit
arched and stiff.
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(GENESIS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(EXODUS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(REVELATIONS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(JUDGMENT DAY)
THE MARINES: GOD'S CHOSEN
WARRIORS
VINCE'S GYM
CONVERSATIONS WITH NEO
NEO TEACHES ME THE ART OF WAR
& PEACE;
His Version of The Matrix
MEMORIES OF MY FATHERS
ZEN & THE ART OF RESISTANCE
TRAINING:
A Yogic & Scientific Approach To Weight
Lifting
ZEN & THE BIOLOGY OF
TRANSCENDENCE:
The First Matrix of Psychic
Phenomena
ZEN & THE ART OF KINESIOLOGY:
The Yogic & Scientific
Approach To Movement
ZEN & YOUR ENERGY SYSTEMS
ZEN & VARIOUS ASPECTS OF
TRAINING
HOMEPAGE TO ADVENTURES IN MARINE BIOLOGY
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