The most profound experience I have had in this life was a visionary experience of being a soul in a dimension of souls, a soul world if you like. This happened in 1989 - I was at an emotional low point in my life after a love affair that had gone very wrong. At the same time I had been working on myself spiritually for over a year, following intuition I had become vegetarian and was striving to be very temperate in all habits, and (I now know) was meditating regularly, though I thought I wasn't 'doing it right'. So I was struggling towards 'purity' and seeking help from 'beyond'. I was also living in a remote place with a spiritual history (15th century Celtic/Christian monastery).
I received over a few months a number of experiences, the last two of which were very powerful and changed my life, forming the basis of my spiritual understandings and beliefs ever since. Both happened when I was asleep, but were very real and very vivid and detailed.
In the first vision, I went to a subtle dimension of white light and met an angelic being (no wings!), and was shown a vision of the future of the world, which also appeared to be the history of the world, as if time is a loop. I was also given a taste of judgement day (or purgatory), and finally a brief experience of being in earthly paradise, which I afterwards assumed was the garden of Eden, or the Golden Age referred to by many traditions.
In the second vision I was an egg shaped being of light in a region of orange light, interacting with several other egg shaped beings of light. The eggs were translucent orange with golden light emanating from the centre. The experience was of absolute bliss and comfort, warm, velvety, the best I have ever felt. One of the most interesting aspects to me now, is that I did FEEL, and I did SEE the other souls - we all floated around and had control over our movement, and there was a telepathic awareness shared between us: this may have been from me being in a trance state whereby I was experiencing the Soul World from a non-soul-world perspective, I don't know, but my perception was that I WAS that egg shaped being, and my consciousness was within the egg looking out. The golden light emanating from each of us seemed to merge into the element we were floating in: we were floating in golden light. When I came out of the experience, I was high as a kite and radiantly happy, the opposite of what I had been before it. I knew I had experienced something divine. I believed then that the golden light was pure spiritual love (and still think so).
It may be that we all experience different realities, I don't know, but I have never read or heard of a similar experience from anyone else, and I have looked extensively, devouring vast tracts of philosophical, religious, and occult writings.
Twelve years later, I got caught up in a cult, the Brahma Kumaris when I found that their logo was a radiating red/orange egg of light, and I do believe that my visionary experiences were connected with this organisation in some way. At the time I joined them I thought I had found my spiritual "home". They claimed to be Spiritual University, and I , who had always avoided joining any religious groupings, took the bait, and in no time found myself inside a religious cult soaking up their intense doctrines. Fortunately, after 5 years of a fascinating journey, involving many psychic and mystical experiences, I saw through their dogma and walked away, into the clear bright light of freedom and personal responsibility. They did teach me to meditate properly, and I grew greatly in psychological, spiritual, and philosophical terms, as a result of my experiences with the Brahma Kumaris. They also filled my head with confused and twisted philosophy, a simplistic elitist dogma based on Hinduism - I had to make a lot of effort to unravel this programming afterwards.
And, fundamentally (for me), the Brahma Kumaris were unable to shed a light on my earlier mystical experiences. Nobody I met there had experienced anything similar, and it was quite clear that most of them did not believe a world I was saying.
Anyway, there is no substitute for experience. The intellect and words can only take you so far, but please, if anybody else out there has had experiences similar to mine, perhaps they would like to share them?
Re: on orange eggs and angels.
by magda 27 Oct 07
Very interesting to read about your orange egg experience. I have had a similar experience of the egg type although my eggs were more like "Kinder surprise"with lightbeings inside. There were single & double (twins) in the eggs. They were not bright orange but glowing like the light of an electric fire. They /we landed on this earth to transmit a frequency to the collective humanity. This frequency would register to us as a thought wave as a reminder that it is time to wake up.
I see this myself as an experience of contact with my own higher consciousness in a conscious state, not a dream. I think the beautiful beings of light are accessible on a daily basis & once we think of them they are attracted to us by our thoughts, mostly we are not in the right state of consciousness to be aware of this fact.
I see this myself as an experience of contact with my own higher consciousness in a conscious state, not a dream. I think the beautiful beings of light are accessible on a daily basis & once we think of them they are attracted to us by our thoughts, mostly we are not in the right state of consciousness to be aware of this fact.
To me the orange is the fifth dimensional aspect of ourselves
re:on orange eggs and angels
by howiemac 29 Oct 07
Magda - I am very intrigued by the twins in the eggs. Presumably twin souls?
I agree with you that
The orange egg experience affected me so deeply that I spent a lot of time over many years trying to find some third party corroboration for this experience - I felt I was experiencing a reality, and not just an aillusion of my own making - consequently others must have had similar experiences. Your dream is actually the closest thing I have heard to what I experienced. However, I did find a passage in a Hindu book, Vishnu Purana (as translated by H.H Wilson), which describes a "Mundane Egg" which encapsulates the "seven spheres" of our universe:
So, this "mundane" egg (sometimes referred to elsewhere as a "universal egg"), is akin to the eggs I experienced. I remember the feeling that my entire conception of the universe was within the egg. So I am seeing each of us souls as manifesting our own universe within our own egg. As such we each create our own reality, and we are each the creator or God of our own universe. The intriguing bit is how all these personal universes interact with each other (which they clearly do) to create the shared experiences we all have.
I agree with you that
the beautiful beings of light are accessible on a daily basisand that
mostly we are not in the right state of consciousness to be aware of this.
The orange egg experience affected me so deeply that I spent a lot of time over many years trying to find some third party corroboration for this experience - I felt I was experiencing a reality, and not just an aillusion of my own making - consequently others must have had similar experiences. Your dream is actually the closest thing I have heard to what I experienced. However, I did find a passage in a Hindu book, Vishnu Purana (as translated by H.H Wilson), which describes a "Mundane Egg" which encapsulates the "seven spheres" of our universe:
2:7 "..The world is encompassed on every side and above and below by the shell of the egg of the Brahma... around the outer surface of the shell flows water.., the waters are encompassed by fire.. fire by air, and air by Mind, Mind by the origin of the elements (Ahamkara) and that by the intellect, and the last is encircled by the chief Principle, Pradhana, which is infinate and.. is called the boundless and illimitable cause of all existing things, supreme nature, or prakriti; the cause of all mundane eggs of which there are.. thousands of millions... Within pradhana resides soul, diffusive, conscious, and self-irradiating, as fire is inherent in flint, or sesamum oil in its seed. Nature (Pradhana) and soul (Puman) are both of the character of dependants, and are encompassed by the energy of Vishnu, which is one with the soul of the world, and which is the cause of the separation of those two (soul and nature) at the period of dissolution; of their aggregation in the continuance of things; and of their combination at the season of creation".
So, this "mundane" egg (sometimes referred to elsewhere as a "universal egg"), is akin to the eggs I experienced. I remember the feeling that my entire conception of the universe was within the egg. So I am seeing each of us souls as manifesting our own universe within our own egg. As such we each create our own reality, and we are each the creator or God of our own universe. The intriguing bit is how all these personal universes interact with each other (which they clearly do) to create the shared experiences we all have.