Exploring Our Multidimensional Selves: a Shamanic Perspective C

Exploring Our Multidimensional Selves: A Shamanic Perspective C. Allie Knowlton, LCSW Exploring Our Multidimensional Selves: A Shamanic Perspective ©2013 C. Allie Knowlton, MSW, LCSW, DCSW & Spirit Passages ISBN: 978-1-4675-8286-5 Cover image ©2013 Evelyn Rysdyk with special thanks to Sven Geier at www.sgeier.net for his Kappa Space fractal. Dreaming Bear Publishing A division of Spirit Passages PO Box 426, Yarmouth, Maine 04096 www.spiritpassages.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form without written permission from the publisher. Foreword We typically define what we see, hear and touch as reality. However, what we see with our eyes is only a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that we call visible light. Raptors, like hawks and eagles, and some other animals see below red into the infrared part of the spectrum and so can see the heat trails left behind by their prey. Many fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and even some mammals like rats and mice can see the higher frequency of ultraviolet light. Our hearing has similar limitations as it only picks up a small range of audible sound. Ele- phants and whales can hear infrasounds, such as the movement of underground water or the shifting of tectonic plates, while your family dog, bats and other creatures can hear ultrasonic vibrations that are completely inaudible to us. While we may define the reality that lies beyond our five senses as intangible, it is as real as anything we can perceive. The dimension of reality that hawks perceive which includes infrared light is alien to our experience and yet very real. In a way, the hawk’s reality exists in a parallel dimension to our own. Indeed, every being participates in creating an individual dimension of reality. My perceptions define my world, your perceptions define your reality and the hawk defines her own. And when we look beyond the definitions that limit our ability to grasp the marvelous phenomenon of All That Is, we find even more possibilities. Physicists now suggest that there are multiple parallel planes of existence, each with their own Universe. This means that All That Is—our cosmos—is just one part of a Multiverse comprised of many universes and dimensions of existence.1 For millennia, shamans have chosen to reach beyond their ordinary senses into other dimensions of reality. Using the shamanic journey, they have explored the shamanic realities of Upper, Lower and Middle worlds and have stepped outside of our linear time stream. Shamans have done this to receive the information, guidance and insight that contributed to their personal and tribal survival. They were able to achieve these feats because our spirits are not limited by our definitions of time or space. In the process of their explorations, the shamans perceptions of what was possible were altered. To accommodate their new perceptions, their reality shifted into something new. This shift may have been the catalyst that brought upon the great leap forward taken by our Upper Paleolithic ancestors. At this time, there was an explosion of new art and technology that included images of the numinous worlds beyond the senses. In a shaman’s eyes, it is clear that they were inspired by other worlds to change this one. Today, we are confronted by new threats to our survival. Our species and our biosphere are in grave peril. It is clear that Allie Knowlton and others like her believe that the solutions to this catastrophe may lie in our ability to step beyond the limitations of our consensual reality. In so doing, we can learn new strategies and experience transformation. This change can help us to dream a new, healthy possibility into being. Over the two decades that I have witnessed Allie’s work, she has never wavered in her belief that human beings can reach beyond their previous experience of Self to become the “ones that we have been waiting for.” For even longer than that, she has supported her clients to heal from terrible trauma and reclaim joy. The multidimensional explorations she shares in these pages are the next natural step in her desire to support a larger shift to health and balance for all beings. It is a passion that I also share. Like our ancient shaman ancestors, today’s intrepid spirit walkers want to make sure that future generations have a healthy world in which to flourish and grow. They are willing to accept that there are worlds beyond this one, and willing to look there for the inspiration and wisdom required to make new possibilities manifest. Like the sailors of the fifteenth century, today’s explorers need to be willing to travel beyond the map. To do this we need to gather our metaphoric compasses and sextants then develop our skills, faith and courage to take us the rest of the way. It is clear that Allie stands ready to support her fellow explorers as we redraw the maps of our reality. What lies ahead is the possibility of a new and glorious version of our world. I’m on board, how about you? Evelyn C. Rysdyk 2013 Evelyn is the author of: - Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power - The Spirit Walker’s Guide to Shamanic Tools: How to Make and Use Rattles, Drums, Masks, Flutes, Wands and Other Shamanic Implements - Modern Shamanic Living: New Explorations of an Ancient Path Introduction This book is about making a paradigm shift. While the intention is to support all of us to define ourselves and our reality differently it began as a personal spiritual journey. The non-physical spirit teachers I work with reminded me that, before coming into my present lifetime, I had made a soul agreement to participate in an exploration.This exploration has evolved over seventy years of my life, allowing me to develop relationships with beings in other dimensions who I choose to call “our multidimensional neighbors.” During more than twenty of those years, my partner Evelyn and I have supported the spiritual journeys of thousands of people. Over that time and through our personal explorations, we realized the importance of this paradigm shift for all of us. In working with others, my partner and I have repeatedly seen individuals who have had experiences “outside the box.” As these people have had opportunities to share and be affirmed about the more unusual events in their life, they have gained more confidence, clearer direction and inner peace. Their transformations have confirmed for me the importance of making my personal experiences of multidimensionality available to a wider audience. To begin, it is important to state that shifting into other dimensions does not require a change in position in time/space. Instead, it is a shift in vibration that allows us to perceive our existence as multifaceted and unlimited. In my explorations, I came to understand that these “other dimensions” are right here. They are a perceptual breath away from our current experience. It is our perceptions that need to change and this happens as a part of raising our vibration. As we change a new expanded awareness of reality supplants the old. As we raise our vibrations, we physically experience states of being outside of our ordinary definitions of reality. This transformation can expand us beyond our present perceptual experiences of disease, traumas, as well as our constraining definitions of what it means to be human. Furthermore, in transforming ourselves, we also change the nature of the physical plane. The New Physics suggests that physical matter is created by human consciousness.2 In essence, each of us participates in the reality of the material world. As we shift our understanding of reality, we participate in a metamorphosis of all that we now know as real. This shift does not lessen the deliciousness of our sensory human experience. Instead, it creates a reality where extraordinary human experiences become a natural feature of the ordinary world. In addition, this shifting process is dynamic in that each new baseline we reach continues to evolve even further. My goal is to support you to expand into and integrate your multidimensional capacities and to access wisdom, guidance insight and healing from beyond our ordinary experience of reality. Even though our culture has been dominated primarily by the rational mind, we are starting to see a balance occur. The New Physics has accumulated vast amounts of data revealing the existence of a non- local field. The non-local field is a feature of reality that exists beyond ordinary time and space.3 In this realm, all activity and possibility exists. Additionally, we human beings have a non-local aspect of ourselves. By tapping into this non-local realm, we can access power and energy to benefit our physical experience. Shamans call this realm beyond the senses, the spirit world and throughout the ages shamans have crossed the boundary between the reality of our ordinary, daily life reality and that “other place.” They have traveled from the physical to the non-physical realm and back again, earning them the name “those who walk between the worlds.” Until more recently, little serious attention has been given to the potential of the world outside of our ordinary experience. Perhaps, it has been our explorations beyond our planet by the space program that has opened our eyes to worlds beyond the known. The search for intelligent life beyond this planet has mentally prepared us to explore beyond the three-dimensional, concrete reality. Many of us are ready to know the part of our selves and the others that exist beyond what we can see, hear, taste and touch.

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