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The higher self is not limited to (or dependent upon) taking the 18th breath to travel to the fourth or higher dimension. At this point, I would like to share a personal story as an illustration. In 1994, I was at a Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong with a friend. We had just come from doing the merkaba meditation. We had just been seated and given our water and menus. As we sat waiting for the waitperson, all of a sudden I started feeling a quickening in my spirit. As it went on, I had a feeling to look up. When I looked up at the rather high ceiling, I was startled to see the ceiling become somewhat foggy while opening up to reveal the night sky. In a moment, what was once the ceiling was now fully replaced by the night sky. At that same moment I felt as though part of me was being lifted from my chair and drawn to the sky. This was so unusual that I began to gasp. My friend sitting next to me also began to gasp. I heard her gasp and asked her, "Are you seeing what I am seeing?" She replied, "Are you going into the sky?" I said yes! Both of our mouths were wide open as the waiter came to our table. We tried to regain composure and make our order. I know our waiter must have thought we were on drugs! When we finished our order we immediately looked back to the ceiling which was surprisingly still open. We allowed the part of ourselves that felt like it was beckoned to continue toward the night sky. We both came upon a galaxy similar to the Milky Way. We felt so whole and complete inside ourselves, so happy, that we were now giggling and sighing in amazement.

Whatever was happening felt wonderful. At the same time, we both noticed what looked like a blue-white galaxy further away and it was starting to change to gold with details becoming clearer. What happened next was stunning as we both witnessed the galaxy turning into an uncountable multitude of beings dressed in golden outfits. What was most surprising was that the moment we realized that the beings were staring at us, they all began to clap. (I knew by my feelings that they were responding to our ability to see them). It was strange and perplexing how my feelings were talking to me. The feelings I had were telling me that those beings wanted me to relax and open my heart and mind further. I didn't think it was possible, but I decided to try.

In the same moment that I intended to try, I was startled again by the new feeling of billions of eyes all looking through my eyes at the same time. I have a hard time explaining this feeling but I could feel and see what their eyes were looking at and I was gasping in astonishment. The top of my head of was blowing a gasket wondering how this was possible. At that moment. my feeling voice told me to open further. This seemed the only logical choice for someone in my deep quandary so I intended it and in the next instant I was back to dropping my jaw. I now could see through all of their eyes looking at me as I approached them. I could see and feel everything each one of them felt or saw and at the same time they all could see and feel everything about me.

At this point I thought I was about to die but it felt so good! They told me that there are no secrets and that this happens to us all. We are all infinitely living fully inside each other. They said that my name (as well as all names and individuals) is fully known throughout the entire cosmos of creation.

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