Monday, August 25, 2025

When the Otherworld is too Present

 Responding to this social media question:

"What would you consider your most surprising moment or have you ever had a random experience of spontaneous gnosis? Like ever just doing an everyday mundane task that just put you in the mindset to download" - JP

So, this seems like a simple question but for me its pretty complicated, not because I have trouble thinking of examples but because there are too many. I have always been someone who trances very, very easily. Too easily. Where a lot of people I talk to mention needing to learn effective ways to trance I had the opposite problem - I needed to learn how NOT to trance, especially when doing repetitive or routine activities, which can be very trance inducing (not just for me). In fact many people wanting to learn to do trance work are encouraged to pick up hobbies that involve repetitive action, like spinning wool, because it can help induce an altered state. I exist in a perpetual partial altered state, basically, and had to learn how to ground out of it to function. 

A lot of what I repeat here in this blog comes from what JP refers to as 'downloads' in his question and most of that comes from spontaneous trancework. I might be walking around my neighbourhood, or driving*, something like that where my mind is wandering and its like things suddenly take a step sideways and just like that I'll be tapped into something Other. I have even had this happen in mid conversation, in person or online, when I'm open enough, which I try not to do. 

Because of this most of my trancework is actually more properly anti-trancework, focused on staying present and not wandering off in spirit. I wish I could say after all this time I have better control of it but its still a work in progress. I have developed a method of 'grounding' using starlight that works better for me than the traditional into the earth approaches and I've learned that things which engage the physical sense fully can also help if I make sure I'm paying attention to those senses. But I'm almost always partially There even with those things. Its not a state of being that I recommend. 

The plus side is that I am very good at oracle work, channeling, and as I share in this blog connecting to and relaying things from the Other. One foot here one foot There, all the time, makes me a very good conduit. 

As to the other part of the question, what was my most surprising moment, I'm not entirely sure. Possibly the time in September of 2019 then again in November of 2019 while I was driving I was suddenly shown the area around me completely devoid of humans, and warned about death coming**. At the time I didn't really understand what was being said and didn't worry too much about it as my Folk can sometimes talk of possibilities and distant futures. In January of 2020 again while driving the message was repeated and I was told that 'illness will take many'; at that point the news was just starting to talk about covid in China and it made me more concerned than it had 4 or 2 months prior, but still seemed like something I wouldn't directly need to worry about. Obviously I was wrong about that. When they were insistent on showing this to me in January I finally responded with "if a huge plague wipes out the humans here this person (me) is basically screwed" and they stopped talking about it.


meme by me, art by Arthur Rackham (public domain); to be fair though I wasn't ever 'normal'


*please do not try to trance while driving or doing anything else where an altered state can be dangerous. 

**I am aware that this claim now will sound manufactured, but I discussed it with a friend when these messages happened in 2019 and 2020 so can verify I'm not making this up after the fact

When the Otherworld is too Present

  Responding to this social media question: " What would you consider your most surprising moment or have you ever had a random experie...