The Twelfth Insight - James Redfield [73]
I jumped to my feet and looked all around, realizing that everything was in the same hyperfocus all around me, which created an enhanced, three-dimensional effect. Everything stood out with incredible clarity of color, form, beauty, and existence—all at the same time. And more, it seemed to stretch my consciousness, so that I felt as though I could reach out and touch the farthest cloud or rocky peak.
And then I remembered my experience on Secret Mountain, when I broke through to an apprehension of cosmic space. I was regaining that same consciousness now.
Tommy noticed and said, “It’s the consciousness that has begun to become accessible as the next step of creation approaches.”
Coleman was now walking around, looking in all directions as well. The thought came to me that we were seeing in expanded 3-D, like in the movies. I wondered if the development and growing popularity of 3-D movies was coming from an unconscious intuition that we were nearing the ability to see that way ourselves. Was another pathway popping open in the human brain?
The remarkable aspect of this way of seeing was that it seemed so easy and natural at this point. Coleman grabbed my arm and looked at me, beaming.
“This is the way it was on Secret Mountain,” he said, “only it seems more normal now.”
That was the word: normal. On Secret Mountain, the effect still carried a slight mind-blowing or adrenaline feeling. But now it was calming, if anything, and felt perfectly real, as if we were already integrating it as a way of perception we could sustain in daily life.
Besides the three-dimensionality, another enhancement was that my eyes now seemed to have an advanced acuity in which everything was more clear and lit up, as though I’d suddenly entered an inner-lit wonderland of some kind. And that included our bodies. They literally had taken on a sheen that was more radiant and beautiful. Yet again, it all still felt normal.
Tommy was looking at me with a huge smile, his face also beaming and glistening slightly. We were all in a state of pure love, Agape—with one another and with the beauty and majesty of everything around us.
Suddenly, I thought to check for a text. When I saw one from Wil, I laughed with delight. He said he could feel us reaching the Ninth Integration and had reached it himself. He added that while many other traditions spoke of this kind of perception, the Native traditions by far emphasized this ability to see nature as it really is. He ended by saying he was in contact with someone who knew where the Twelfth part of the Document had been released, and he would be heading to Sinai as soon as he talked to him.
I put the phone away and turned to Tommy. “So have you been seeing this way the whole time?”
“Mostly,” he said. “But Agape with Mother Earth has to be maintained and treasured. And one has to eat clean food to remain at this level of perception.”
We looked at one another.
“This is the Ninth Integration, isn’t it?” Coleman asked.
“Yes,” Tommy replied. “To maintain a heightened perception of the world, one needs only to intend to tune in, in Agape, to a new level of beauty, and to practice seeing everything with a single focus. The mountains will light up.”
He looked at Coleman. “As you have said, it can be proven to oneself!”
Just then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move in the desert, and I jerked around. Nothing was there. Coleman gave me an expression that told me he had seen it, too.
“What was that?” I asked Tommy.
He walked closer to us. “At this level of perception we are much closer to the other side.”
“You mean the Afterlife?” Coleman asked. “Heaven?”
“Yes.”
Colman glanced at Tommy again. “You think what we glimpsed was a spirit?”
“Yes,” Tommy replied, giggling. “But spirits are people, too. And they have something to tell us.”
WHAT HEAVEN KNOWS
As much as I wanted to stay in the mountains, it was almost completely dark now, and Tommy said