Out really means In

Out of the mind and into the body

A phrase commonly found in a vast range of both ancient and modern spiritual, esoteric and metaphysical literature is that which refers to 'out of body experience'. Although descriptions of this phenomena vary quite widely according to the framework within which it is experienced [i.e. religious, shamanic, scientific etc] a common thread running through all the variations of description promotes the belief that it involves some form of soul or spirit journey out of the physical body into a more mystical or spiritual dimension of our nature.

 Laying aside any so called religious or spiritual connotations to this experience, evidence collected from many people who have had near death experiences through accidents or severe trauma, supports the idea that some kind of journey is made out of the body into a quite different and typically unknown aspect of our existence.

There exists, however, a very different approach to the whole subject which challenges the very roots of the ordinarily accepted explanation, whatever the context or framework it is given in. 

On a recent journey to northern Scotland, I was walking along a beach in the company of a friend. After some minutes, we entered a very playful state, inspiring each other to align with an ecstatic frequency that had indicated its availability for connection. Our walk and talk became pure gibberish, free of the fear of concern regarding members of the public walking near us. The uncontrollable laughter that ensued was merely a gateway into a location of silence and great stillness. 

As I walked inside this quiet state, a rolling bank of clouds, spectacularly alive in their luminosity, attracted my attention. As I gazed into them, I suddenly realised that 'out of body experience' is actually the constant everyday experience of the mass majority of humans physically inhabiting planet Earth. What is considered to be ordinary reality is in fact a constant out of body experience, which continues for most people until the moment of death. It is a state in which any awareness of the energetic matrix from which All pours forth is continually snuffed out like a spluttering candle.

The more I breathed into this information, the more I could see that what is normally described as being an out of body experience is really a journey into the original body, into the void that is our true authentic nature and reality. Out really means in and soul journeys are more accurately understood as the retrieval of memories of an awareness of a infinitely multidimensional body. Our eyes do not look out, they look in, wide open and shining with the full force of remembrance.