Last Updated on February 5, 2025 by The Unbounded Thinker
‘Something happens with the shedding of the physical body and a whole new dimension of knowledge opens up.’ – Dolores Cannon
‘Throughout his life, a human being assumes that he is living in a world which is external to his body. However, everything referred to as the world is only our brain’s interpretation of the signals which reach the sense centers.’- Harun Yahya, Matter: The Other Name For Illusion:
Physical reality, as you know it, only exists because you have a body. It appears differently or disappears entirely when you leave the body or if the body’s sensory input reduces.
I discovered this through my out-of-body experiences (OBEs). During these experiences, I saw that walls became transparent and sometimes elastic, rooms expanded or shrunk, and sometimes, my surroundings transformed entirely. On one occasion, instead of grass in my compound, I saw tiled flooring, and on another one, the house I live in transformed into a tall building, and below it, was a school.
Beyond these environmental distortions, strange phenomena occur as well. Animals, for instance, sometimes become human-like. In my most recent OBE, my female dog appeared as a slender, dark-skinned girl dressed in pink—and she could speak. We talked and she eventually told me goodbye, and I was pulled back into my body.
Dreaming also made me realize that physical reality does not exist. When you sleep, your body’s sensory input significantly reduces. Your reality then appears dream-like because the body is not functioning at its full capacity. In other words, you stop experiencing physical reality because the senses are mostly tuned out during sleep, and the brain and the body slow down.
When you wake up, you shift from dream reality to what we call physical reality because sensory input increases. What you call physical reality, is, therefore, your brain interpreting sensory information.
People with brain injury report experiencing a very different reality. Some report seeing trees moving, others feel as though time is slowing down, others feel as if they are watching events unfold in a movie, and to others, things appear surreal or dreamy.
Therefore, your current experience of physical reality is as it is because your brain is functioning properly. If it were damaged, you would be experiencing a different reality.
Anyway, people in shock also report experiencing a different reality. They claim that things start moving in slow motion and some even experience a vivid replay of significant events from their entire lifetime. These individuals experience a different reality because shock highly affects the body’s functioning by preventing organs from getting enough blood or oxygen.
People who have had near-death experiences also report experiencing a different reality. Many report the ability to see events unfolding in multiple locations at once. They also describe a dissolution of linear time, where the past, present, and future exist simultaneously. Others find themselves in a beautiful meadow with soothing music. Basically, these reports reveal that the physical reality we usually experience stops existing when the body stops functioning.
The aforementioned experiences clearly reveal that physical reality, as we know it, changes when the body functions differently. They show that what we call physical reality is fluid and dependent on the body’s ability to process it. The moment sensory input diminishes or the body functions differently, this so-called reality dissolves.
Ancient shamanic tribes knew this, and they used chants, sleep deprivation, and meditation to diminish sensory intake and affect how the body works so that they access other realities. They knew that physical reality would stop existing to them if they reduced sensory intake and ensured the bodily processes and the brain slowed down through occult techniques. This impact of their techniques on the body enabled them to access a reality that involved talking animals, strange spirits, and a very different sense of time.
Physical reality is an illusion that only exists because the body exists. In other words, it is a projection of the body. The body gathers information through the senses, and the brain interprets this data to create what we perceive as reality. If the body’s functioning changes, physical reality also changes, and sometimes it completely disappears as it is replaced by another reality.
Consciousness is the only reality, everything else is an illusion.
