It has been ten years since the events written of in this narrative, and the perspective and effects of the opening have changed in the time; yet, it is accurate to say that the events opened up in January 2001 revolutionized my life and continue to have effects to this day. I am not the same person I was prior to January of 2001.

For the first two to three years afterwards, the effects of the opening remained strong and in the foreground of my being. I was not walking the same planet as my peers. Vivid and symbolic dreams continued on an almost nightly basis. Symbolic vision permeated the apprehension of the world around me, and the strange otherworldly effects of spiritual overtaking continued to be perceived and felt on a regular basis.  I would awake in the morning in my residence and hear mourning doves outside in the quiet morning, only the outside was not outside – it was inside me – I was hearing them in a clear space that was a universal stratum of being, a part of myself and their selves, and I was monitoring their calls from a core of deep stillness in much the same way and feeling the same connection as if I was monitoring an itch on my leg. I don’t know quite how to express it, only to say that as real and distinct and separate as we feel our selves to be in inner perception relative to the world, the same sense of certainty – “Of course!” – inhered in the new perceptions. My consciousness, though still anchored within my body, was not restricted to the limits demarcated by my skin. Instead, it waxed and waned like a tide, first radiating out from me to share with and imbibe of the space around me and those who came within it; other times it retreated and approached something more like the day-to-day reality we each inhabit. By far, the more preferable state was the expanded one – the nature of the spirit is freedom, and our rightful home is not one confined to these tiny, dark, and sorely-limited bodies, but one that allows free play in the limitless ether. We do not need to enter an afterlife to experience this.

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