The Fingerprints of God

DMT, one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to man, is present in many plants and also within our own bodies. DMT is released during REM sleep, along with several other chemicals. Dreams are induced by DMT. It's possible that DMT is released in large quantities upon dying.

It has been surmised that DMT is produced by the pineal gland, which is responsible for melatonin, another sleep chemical. All of the constituents for its production are available to the pineal, so it's a logical deduction.

Children usually have healthy, properly functioning pineal glands, but as we age, beginning with puberty, the pineal begins to accumulate particles called brain sand and its functioning is reduced. Children remember their dreams, and often have very vivid ones, adults generally do not.

So why is the pineal so interesting? The pineal gland is also called the Third Eye. While DMT is most commonly released during REM sleep, it can also be released in deep states of meditation, particularly meditation focused on the third eye.

DMT has been called the Spirit Molecule. It has been ingested and given as medicine by many a shaman throughout history, because of the effect it has on he human mind.

It enables men to see god.

Taken as a drug it will teach you deep, profound truths. It will help you see the world and yourself without negative imprinting, if for only a fleeting few minutes. Then it wipes your memory nearly completely of the experience, leaving little more than an aftertaste behind.

In meditation, with the third eye open men can also see god, know truths not revealed to them through their physical senses, and experience freedom from negative imprinting. The meditative method however, stays with you much longer.

Why is DMT, this spirit molecule, present in so many plants, and even in our own bodies? Are these the fingerprints of god reminding us that there is more to existence than what we see?

Why must we sleep and release this chemical regularly? What are we recharging? It's not our bodies, unconsciousness and DMT release wouldn't be required for that.

If this third eye can be opened with practice, why was it ever closed?

With the third eye closed we wander around like blind men, chasing spirit at the direction of other men who claim to see and know where it hides. In truth the priests and clerics are just as blind as anyone else, if not more so. Spirit does not hide, it is ever-present. Maybe it's the sand in our third eye that prevents us from seeing this.

Many of us are more than willing to kill and die to perpetuate a tyranny of words, the grammar of duality, the very words that separate us from spirit, ironically, in the name of god. We spill blood to hold fast the chains of this partisan faith. Blind faith they call it.

Who made these chains?

If we're not chasing spirit, we're caught in the muddle of materialism, reaching for the next big thing just outside our grasp, as if it will fill the space where spirit should be. The rat race is a blood sport in which we compete for things freely given to all of us by the creative force in the first place.

Who made this race?

I can't answer these questions with absolute certainty. My far memory is clouded with visions of people and places I've found more important to keep than the knowledge of life before the fall, but I have suspicions.

It's a story that began about 3,000 years ago.

Planetary Movement and Demise

Magnetic Moon day 25
Year of the Red Cosmic Moon

I Dissolve in order to Explore
Releasing Wakefullness
I seal the Output of Space
With the Spectral tone of Liberation
I am guided by my own power doubled

So I went back to the borderlands cave to find Whispering Crow, hoping he'd tell me again what he was trying to say yesterday. He was happy to oblige, and took no offense at my disappearance, but his explanation was still rather opaque to my apparently thick mind.

He explained that our brother planet will be visible once again through this aperture in the cave. The brother planet is a vitally important thing to understand. There are nine intertwined planets held together by some unseen cosmic force.

If one goes wrong, falls out of it's proper orbit, his closest brother will suffer the same fate, and in turn the others will also degrade and die. Their orbits within our galaxy are aligned and dependent upon each other.

As I've tried to illustrate here, the similarly colored planets would be the brothers. At first glance they don't look to be related at all.

The red orb that stands alone is the root, and in the center of the cluster lies what I can only surmise is a black hole, or similar. He orbits close to the black hole, but is held steady by the two purple planets. The purple are held on course by the green planets, one of which is earth. The green are held by the yellow, and the yellow by the blue.

The blue are quite far out on the rim of the cluster and I didn't get the impression of loving kindness when he spoke of them. Not enmity, but he seemed to express a kind of cold indifference.

There is some fact to the notion that planetary changes can cause changes in the speed of its rotation, but no evidence that distant planets could be interdependent in this way.

There is also quite a bit of ancient astronaut lore out there, many artifacts could be taken to represent space flight. I'd bring my saltshaker just to maintain reasonable skepticism when viewing these things.

I've never been particularly interested in outer space, or aliens, other than as a passing curiosity and source of amusement. I've always been more fascinated with the spaces between, with what lies beyond the corner of my eyes. What am I supposed to learn from this?

The odd nature of our conversations is starting to make me feel a bit off my game. Additionally, I had a past life regression a while back that keeps me far from any kind of space and alien exploration. It's not a pleasant memory.

"It has been 3000 years since my brothers last came here, 3000 years since we've seen this event. I'm very excited."

He said something to this effect. So I looked up the period around 1000 BC. The only thing I can find that might match his statement are references to the Olmec Civilization.

I will continue to look, both elsewhere and digging a bit deeper into the Olmec, and in a related way the Maya.

Interestingly, the Olmec people had a fascination with jaguars and were-jaguars. December 21st, 2012, depending on who you talk to, marks the end of the Age of the Jaguar and the beginning of the third age of water, second age of water, or first Piscean age. Everyone seems to have their own take on this stuff.

A lot of people also expect some rarified cosmic event to occur on that day. We are certainly approaching alignment with the dark rift, even the scientists agree there is potential for interesting times.

Like many other people, I wonder what will happen when we align with the dark rift. I don't expect anything bad. Personally, I reject the notion of any kind of doomsday, or doomsday prophesy under any circumstances. That said, I don't think his statements, and the end of the long count are truly related.

I am curious, however, about the potential of planetary inter-dependencies. You see it everywhere else in nature, if one thing goes awry, everything around it does also, even things you don't expect.

Photo from the National Museum
of Anthropology and History
New Mexico
If these things are true it follows the macrocosm/microcosm structure that seems ever-present in this world.

Maybe his statements are meant in more of a figurative nature, but he did sound quite literal.

Following his rather bizarre explanation of the brothers, Whispering Crow warned me of a couple of things to look out for in the fairly near future, which I found even more strange, given the shadow beast event.

In 100 days I would understand. In 100 days, precisely, June 21, which begins summer solstice, interestingly enough. He seemed quite worried over this, but didn't offer much in the way of detail.

The following warnings were not things he specifically said would happen on or before that day, just things to watch for in general:

He described debris falling from the sky. Like the moon has taken on the guise of a snake, shed her skin and cast it down to the earth.

He talked to me about three waves. A wave of water, one of fire, and one of power, which sounded like a description for magnetism or electricity, perhaps some sort of naturally occurring EMP. I'm unclear if they will happen all at once, or one following the other with time for recovery in-between.

He said there will be many "precursors," for which I assume I'll get details at some other time. Precursors to precisely what he didn't mention, though I think I'm supposed to know by inference.

Personally, I'd prefer it if he'd teach me to be more fluent in the language of trees and animals, and tell me stories from his own life than give me warnings about an uncertain future and mysterious statements about planetary movement and demise, but that's not my choice to make.

An Observatory In the Borderlands

I finally found Whispering Crow a fair distance away, in another part of the valley, I'm uncertain of its exact placement, but it was on the flesh world side of the borderlands. I feel compelled to find it, another "place of power" to go visit, and absorb its high energy.

He wanted me to follow him, but was oddly silent. We entered a cave on the mountainside, which first went down into the mountain, through a long black, almost hidden tunnel, then turned upwards again. I felt as if I was traveling an ancient path, I could see the energy left behind by others, much weaker than the energy of Whispering Crow himself, but strong enough that I could not ignore it.

I will return, if for no other reason than to see what they were doing. It seemed like a sacred procession had taken place there many times before. I got the impression he wanted me to just ignore the other energies, and follow him, though he said nothing at all.

He was moving fast through the narrow passages, as if we needed to act quickly before the thing we were after would be gone. As we continued on our way it became more and more difficult to determine whether we were on the flesh side of the borderlands, or on the astral side. I'm still not quite sure which it was, perhaps it's both.

We finally arrived at our destination, he stopped and directed me to look up. There was a hole in the top of the cave where we stood, a very odd thing to find. It looked like a natural observatory, designed for watching planetary movement, either an amazing feat of nature, or a truly remarkable work of man.


There are several places in the world, where the sun, or a planet falls precisely upon a designated spot once per year, or other cycle of time. Chaco Canyon is one you should check out, it's amazingly cool stuff. I imagine this might be one of those sorts of things.

Whispering Crow began to talk about the purpose of this place, and I imagine would have explained how it related to the Nine Brothers, at least that's what I was hoping for, but at that precise moment I was disturbed, repeatedly and roughly shaken back to the flesh world, by a family member with an urgent matter.

I can't seem to remember what little he did say, though I recall trying to commit it to memory. I guess I'll have to apologize for my sudden departure and ask him to tell me again.

Gatorboy

Hoping to get more clarity on the meaning of the Nine Brothers tale, I traveled to the Way Point to look for Whispering Crow. I stopped for a moment there, beside a large boulder, and tried to sense which direction he might be in. A sharp-clawed hand, with nails like long gray knives grazed my arm and broke through my focus.

I turned to see what this was, half-nervous, half-excited, I thought maybe I was finally going to encounter one of these negative entities I've heard so much about. Expecting the worst, I looked and saw a greenish scaly creature. He looked like a raptor, or maybe the child of a raptor who had mated with Edward Scissorhands

He stroked me with his claws again, and I wasn't sure if this was a threat or just curiosity. So I tuned into the creature more closely, to try and discover what it might be thinking.

The creature's emotions were like water, very human, even timid. They felt like the perspective of a small boy, still forming, as young as four and no more than six years of age, to my mind. It was not at all what I was expecting.

Thinking it might put him at ease, I inspected his skin in much the same way he appeared to be inspecting me. While it looked very coarse, even jagged and sharp in spots, it was almost supple in texture, yet strong, tough and thick like an alligator.

He showed off his impressively sharp and pointed teeth as I commented on the quality his skin. The expression could have been mistaken for a smile, if it weren't for the threatening look of those fangs.

Giving me a final poke with his knife-claws he went on his way, and I continued my search for Whispering Crow.

Getting to the Threshold

This is a process of initiating a projection, with a fair amount of detail but without getting into the dogmatic, occultist mess that swirls around the astral projection phenomenon.

Before you begin, stating affirmations of what you intend to do helps some people. Remind yourself that you are an eternal being, consciousness exists with or without the physical body and you are about to allow your consciousness to travel away and experience things it cannot while attached to the physical.

Lie down, and relax, of course, then practice your pranayama. You have to allow your physical body to "go to sleep," while keeping your consciousness aware. Don't allow yourself to get caught up in random thoughts.

Allow your focus to shift to the notion of eternal consciousness, the energy that makes up your being apart from the physical self. Draw your attention up and away from the body, and let the body get heavier, and heavier, until you feel it may slip away from you, or like you might drop it..

Then focus outward, releasing control and awareness of the physical self. This is actually the most difficult part. You can kind of practice this letting go process with a small, light object. Many people recommend using a pen for this.

Sit at a table and hold the object tightly, then let go and let it fall on the table. As you do this visualize consciousness holding onto the body, and letting go. Letting go of the physical body is very, very much like letting go of an object with your hand.

As your body falls asleep you will begin to experience hypnagogic imagery. Nearly everyone reports this sort of thing, it's like your mind/brain is sweeping away the clutter of information it gathered and didn't need during the day.

You may see things behind your eyes, bursts of light, streets, people, forests, stars, planets and such, just let them pass and hold your focus on eternal consciousness, lifting it up and away from the mundane.

You may hear voices, like snippets of people's conversations, this is very common. They will usually make no sense whatsoever in your own context, and if you pay attention to them you are likely to fall asleep rather than project. So again, keep your focus on consciousness.

You will likely feel a buzz or a hum that begins shortly after the hypnagogic imagery. As the buzz begins your mind, if you haven't maintained your awareness, will start to drift away into the dream state. When it feels as if there is a subtle electricity permeating your being and the universe, you are ready to project.

Apparently not everyone feels this buzz. For those who do not, when you can no longer feel your body, and sense an expansion of consciousness, as if your mind has been stretched out and made aware of things beyond your physical sphere of existence (outside your room/house), you are ready to project.

Astral Projection: Floating Method

This is my method, and I think it's the easiest. Of course, I use it so I'm highly biased.

As you approach release state, fully relaxed, mind awake body asleep, focus on your eternal consciousness. Let it float, feel as if your consciousness is a cloud, or a balloon floating in the air, and slowly release the body which is heavy with sleep.

Consciousness is independent. It already exists apart from, and far beyond the physical constraints of the brain. You only need to allow it to lift up and expand outwards. Releasing your grip is the vital aspect, allow and encourage the mundane mind to let go of the physical.

The mundane mind perceives, incorrectly, that the body is required for survival, so it can be hesitant to let go if you're in good health. It will let go spontaneously, if you have a serious health issue. People with fevers, or with heart troubles, like myself as a child, have been known to float out of themselves.

You can encourage it with relaxation techniques, and the object release method described in Getting to the Threshold.

Repeatedly release and allow yourself to float up. You let go once and feel somewhat less attached, then let go again and the attachment decreases further, and continue doing this until you've fully detached from the physical.

To my mind this is a nice gentle method of projection that is less likely to cause any shock to your system.

Astral Projection: Releasing Breath Method

This one works a little differently than the other methods, because you need to maintain at least some awareness of your physical body when doing it. For this reason it may be harder for some people to do, and easier for others.

On the other hand, people who have a hard time just letting their body fall fully asleep while maintaining their mind in wakefulness should try this method.

As you are approaching the release state, breathe deeply and slowly. Pull your attention and focus, or consciousness, into your lungs as you inhale. As you exhale slowly release your consciousness to the ceiling.

Let go of your grip on the physical body gradually, getting more and more loose with each breath you take.

You can go through the various areas of the body, starting with the feet and working your way up the legs, hips, torso, hands, arms, and so on until you reach the crown of your head. Once you've released from the crown you should be floating on the ceiling.

Again, the important thing is to take your time, so as not to shock yourself and cause your mundane conscious mind to cling tightly to its precious body.

Astral Projection: Roll Over or Sit Up Method

Once you've prepared yourself for the projection allow yourself, your consciousness, not your physical body, sitting up, just as you would when you first wake up in the morning. Stay up for a second, then lay back down, to let yourself get used to the feeling.

When you can do this easily and repeatedly, use your consciousness to sense the room around you. You should still only see blackness, with occasional lights associated with hypnagogic imagery.

You want to "sense" your surroundings before looking at them. When you're comfortable with this, focus the eyes of consciousness as best you can, and look around the room. It will probably look different than it does to your physical eyes.

Once you can do this with ease, you can then stand up with confidence and move away from your physical body.

The roll over method is exactly the same, except that instead of sitting up you roll over onto your side.

Rolling over is probably better for most people, because it completely separates you from your physical self.

Conversely, the sit up method might be better for those who are more comfortable just dipping a toe in the water, rather than their whole foot.

Astral Projection: Visualization Method

Once you've relaxed into the mind awake body asleep state begin to visualize yourself, your consciousness, standing across the room from you, looking back. Make this visualization as real as you possibly can, feel the floor or carpet underneath your feet, run your hand along the wall, furniture, and the doorknob.

Let this continue until you are more there than you are here, more on the other side of the room than where you are physically located. The trick to success with this method is to be that piece of your consciousness.

Release from the physical body, and allow your consciousness to flow over to the area you are visualizing. Continue to release, like you would release a pen from your hand, until you are looking back at yourself.

Another visualization method is to "jump into" an image that you've been focusing on as you approach release state. You develop a rich environment in your mind, in fine detail and then release into it.

To me this sounds more like 'dream control,' which is a completely different subject of study. It's a worthwhile exercise, but has little to do with astral projection.

Astral Projection: The Rope Method

Once you've achieved the release state you can simply imagine a rope hanging over you. Grab this rope with imaginary hands, feel the rope, the coarseness of strands, the shape of the braid or twist. Make the existence of the rope as real as you possibly can.

Then slowly pull up, lift out your consciousness, like lifting up your body when climbing a rope in the physical world. I'd recommend pulling up and then slowing letting yourself back down a few times, so you get accustomed to it.

Oftentimes, if you suddenly project/disconnect from the physical the physical will pull you right back in. More accurately, your mundane mind will reassert and strengthen its hold on the physical self.

When you feel really comfortable with this pull up completely, and release your hold on the body. You should then find yourself hovering over, or standing in front of your physical self.

I May Be the Ghost That Haunts Your House

A funny thing happens when I get depressed and project, I find myself almost instantly transported to this hill in the flesh world. It's a paved road, but not well paved. It has a fairly steep drop-off on one side, and no streetlights.

I climb this hill to the house that sits atop it, as far as I know there are no other homes close by. If I don't project, almost without fail, I dream I'm climbing this hill to this house. So it's not as if I really have that much of a choice. It just happens, like sneezing.


I have no idea where this place is. I've never seen it in the flesh.

There is a woman that lives in this house, and she must be the person I come to see, or rather replenish my energy from. I have no idea who she is, or what she really looks like, beyond a murky general impression. My eyesight in when projecting into the flesh world is horrible.

I don't think I would know her if I met her on the street, but I'm certain it's her that I come here to see, because she's not always there. When she's not it does no good for me to go there. I can walk around the house for hours and feel just as drained and empty as I did when I arrived.

The whole idea brings to mind thoughts of energy vampires, but it's really not like that. At least I hope it's not like that. I don't intentionally sap energy, and I certainly don't intend to do harm, but I wonder am I a ghost there?

Do the residents sense some potentially malignant spirit when I come around? Do I make inexplicable cold spots?

I've had the experience of bi-location before, projecting and going to see someone, then having them actually see you and interact with you as if you were there in flesh. The opposite also happened occasionally when I was a teenager, I'd try to hold conversations with my family only to realize I was actually laying in my bedroom and if I wanted to talk I had to get up.

No one there seems to see me, or sense my presence, which I'm grateful for, but I still have the questions. Am I a ghost in that house? Does this person feel drained when I leave?

A Strange Ceremony

I came to the usual meeting place. Whispering Crow looked much younger than usual, which was actually pleasing to me for some reason. He seemed in particularly good spirits.

On this occasion there was a woman accompanying Whispering Crow. She seemed incredibly familiar, though I've never seen her before. She gave me a warm hug and then said, "it's good to see you again," and that was all. Apparently the feeling of familiarity was mutual.

"I want to tell you about the Nine Brothers" Whispering Crow said mysteriously, and escorted me to the ledge where we look out over the city. "There will be a half sun," he stated, pointing up to the sky. His description was like that of a half moon rather than an eclipse.

The earth will tremble, and men's hearts will quake in fear. The trembling will crack the earth in many places and the water will rush out.

Then the Nine Brothers will come to meet on the mountain, as before.

Some will watch in fear, others in hope, neither will be right.

The brothers will stand shoulder to shoulder before the world as a singular force, then retreat into the mountain, and gather underground in darkness. There they will try to determine how to quell the fiery winds."

I still don't quite understand whether these statements were literal or figurative, and was given no further explanation.

I was told to put my hands upon a large stone, watch and listen. I did so, and saw fire, darkness, fear, violence and a mortifying lack of faith, hope and trust in humankind. These were all matters of memory, not something of the future or even the present, but over a long passage of time.

The memories came to me like watching a time-lapsed film. I was confused and disturbed by this, but was not given any time to ask questions.

As I lifted up my head Whispering Crow immediately put a small turtle into the palm of my hand and said, "Don't drop it." I asked if it was a tortoise or turtle and got no response. So I checked to see if it had flippers or feet. It was a lovely little baby tortoise, and I inquired if I could place it down and let it return to it's mother. "Not yet," the reply was accompanied by a laugh.

Then several people came in a progression and sprinkled cool water and dust over my head, as I held the turtle. I was then escorted to meet a group of men, the Nine Brothers, Whispering Crow said.


Each brother looked remarkably different. Some frighteningly different, almost otherworldly, but it's unwise to judge by looks alone so I remained open. None spoke in a language I knew, but intuitively I understood them. There was a sense of peacemaking and purpose, that each individual's survival depended on the survival of all.

I held the turtle cupped in one hand, with the other covering it for protection, as I was introduced to each of them. I was being extra careful, assuming the "don't drop it" meant something would happen that might cause me to injure the little creature.

While the turtle did try to crawl away, his tiny feet tickling my palm, nothing untoward took place at all. I simply met an unusual group of individuals. It was much like going to a assembly of diplomats.

Afterwards Whispering Crow promised me he would tell me more about the Nine Brothers at some other time. Apparently here was some sort of a celebration happening, which I didn't stay for.

I don't understand the meaning of this bizarre event, but I'm hoping it will become more clear soon.

Raising Your Consciousness

So what's the point of all this astral travel stuff? Raising your consciousness, of course.

What's the point in traveling the world? Having new and different experiences, getting perspective, and seeing the interconnectedness of things.

To experience is the whole point in existing in the first place. You are here to experience as much as possible, without doing harm.

I dare say a lot of people would disagree with that statement and probably call me a godless, hedonist heathen or worse. Apparently they're enjoying the experience of self-denial, like starving in the midst of a feast. I fast once in a while, so I kind of understand.

I wonder if they threw a party with great food, an open bar, and a kicking band, would they want their guests to not eat, not drink, not dance, not talk and enjoy each others' company?

I made it all for you, and it's ALL EVIL, stay away!

Would they want their guests to come over just to deny themselves enjoyment, and be miserable, wishing they could try this and that. I hope not.

I'm convinced that the point of creation is to enjoy creation, but I digress.

In order to project you must first raise your consciousness on this plane. Some will try to tell you this can be done with meditation, and to a degree that's true. You can become more aware, more compassionate, and realize you are more connected -- while meditating.

When you're done meditating do you go back to the old way of thinking and seeing?

Do you periodically realize you are one with infinite energy and want to flow with it?

Do you see people and situations differently, more compassionately and act accordingly?

Do you view negative events through the eyes of both the victim and the victor?

Are you ever struck by the shocking beauty of living this particular moment, all of the nuance, texture, color, shape, scent, just the experience of breathing?

Meditation is great at raising consciousness, IF you take it with you all the time.

Otherwise, you're just sitting on your butt for 20 minutes, or an hour, or whatever. If you don't take it with you that 20 minutes would be better spent jogging, or reading a book, or something.

Focusing on the fact that you ARE infinite consciousness will raise you faster, and higher.

You are one with the infinite consciousness, when you smite another you smite yourself, when you judge another you judge yourself, when you lift another up you also lift yourself up.

That is not to say that there's isn't some degree of individuality and separateness, at least on this plane, but like a web if you pull on one thread and all threads are pulled.

Your consciousness is not your brain, or your mundane mind. It is manifold, conscious, subconscious and super-conscious from the humanist viewpoint, and limitless. If you allow yourself to see, and contemplate this fact periodically, your perspective will change. You will more easily separate.

We can know consciousness doesn't depend on the brain, because people have had near death experiences in which they described what was going on in another room. There's the famous story of Maria, and her social worker Kimberly Clark (link to PDF).

Maria died in a hospital in Seattle, floated out the window and saw a shoe on the windowsill. It was later verified that there was, in fact, a shoe there and she could not have known about it. There are many others, some of which you can find at The Survival Top 40.


Consciousness does not depend on the brain or body. The body, including the brain, is a tool you are using to communicate and interact on this plane. You use it like you use the telephone to make a call, or a piece of paper and pen to leave a note.

Realize this and begin to try to expand your consciousness regularly, reach beyond your physical space even when you're washing dishes and doing other chores in the mundane world. Enjoy the wonders of everyday life.

Be aware of what energy you're putting out there into the universal energy field and make it good energy, because you want to have good energy. You can't throw mud in the pool if you want to drink clear water. It just doesn't work that way.

In this way you can achieve better results in less time, and not just in projecting, but in most if not all areas of your life. You raise your energy to a higher, more positive state, and your focus will be clearer, your actions will be more attuned to that positive vibe (you won't be self-sabotaging), so your results will be better.

It's the ultimate 80/20 rule.