The Addiction to Being Human

Out-of-body experiencers understand that the ability to travel in the non-physical realms, and where we can travel to, is affected by the way we think.

In the non-physical realms we operate solely using the mind, which has nothing to do with the human brain or the human body. The non-physical realms are thought-responsive realms. We are a ‘no body’ in those realms, so we cannot be harmed, except through our own negative thought processes.  

When Robert Munroe was discussing his out-of-body experiences in his classic book Ultimate Journey, he said that above all things we have to cease to be “addicted to being human” if we wish to experience the true delights of non-physicality.

“Being human” involves, for almost every human, thoughts related to one or more of the six negative emotions that the Tibetan masters discuss: pride (hubris), jealousy, desire, ignorance (the celebration of ego and image so loved by today’s society), greed, and anger.

How many of us can say we have completely mastered these emotions and the negative thought forms they produce? Most of us are still drawn to one or more of these negative emotions from time to time across the course of our lives.

In Munroe’s book, he provides us with a ‘map’ of the astral plane, and how to traverse it, how to go beyond the astral to reach higher realms. In out-of-body travels, (and at death), we move down a road he calls the Inter-State Highway leading to the higher realms. This Highway has many exit ramps to leave the Highway if this corresponds with our state of mind. The Tibetan Book of the Dead called these exit ramps ‘colours’, which relate to the desires and addictions which we are drawn to.

These exit ramps lead to what Munroe called the Belief System Territories, where a particular belief or addiction will (for a temporary period of time, until the urge/emotion/addiction/programming is broken and the soul has the mind power to move on) inhibit you from reaching further into the non-physical plane.

We can be attached to many things in life: house, car, loved one, location, image, lifestyle, food, certain physical sensations, negativity, particular emotions, and so on, and these addictions will cause us to limit our travels to that which corresponds to the limitations and barriers in our mind. Only a few intrepid travellers wish (or are able) to traverse the non-physical realms beyond what they were attached to in their physical life. The physical life is addictive.

Like Munroe, the author RJ Spina also advises us to “stop being human”, in other words, being driven by our body-ego. Spina wrote the excellent book Supercharged Self-Healing: A Revolutionary Guide to Access High-Frequency States of Consciousness that Rejuvenate and Repair. What he says is that the further we can travel in the non-physical realms, the higher the frequency, and the greater the healing that we can receive.

Our thoughts must be free of negative emotions to cross the frequency barriers in the non-physical realms. No thought pollution is allowed in the higher realms. This is where our states of mind in life and death are linked. What we think in our physical form will follow on death.

Spina says: “don’t hold on to anything, and nothing holds on to you”. That is good advice for both life and death. Then we can travel far.

29 May 2022

[Book review: Robert Munroe – “Ultimate Journey”]