I really shouldn’t be surprised that Asher can pull this off. He proved to me when he was a very small child that he could act the part of a polite, well-behaved and hard-working pupil in my class, whilst secretly sabotaging most of my lessons, in order to get me to look beneath the surface.
Now, all these years later, he acts the part of a taciturn, autistic adult, going about his daily work efficiently and fairly reclusively, cloaking that side of himself from me almost entirely, whilst secretly expanding into multidimensional realms and sending me messages and ideas through the aether, in order to get me to look still further beneath the surface.
I usually call it telepathy, but only because that’s the closest word I can find to what happens. It lies somewhere between telepathy and channelling, in that he sends me the inspirations from his expanded more-than-human state, yet he is still very much a walking, breathing human who intentionally communicates with me mentally.
The extended analogy I am sharing here was delivered to me by Asher over two hour-long sessions on consecutive evenings. I would write a comment or question in my notebook, and as I did so, I’d feel his response ‘flowering’ in my mind. I’d liken it to those speeded-up videos of flower buds unfurling and blooming. I get words, pictures, temperature changes, emotional responses and something like an interactive dreamscape I can explore at will, to gain the fullest understanding of what he is showing me. While that is happening, I’m striving to ‘wordise’ it — turn the whole multisensory experience into a connected narrative and record it on paper.
I wish I were gifted enough to create an artistic impression of the scenes Ash showed me, but I have no talent in that direction, so you will have to content yourselves with the following written account of what I was shown.
My initial enquiry: Remind me why living in 3D is no longer enough.
Asher: It’s like inhabiting a huge mansion, but finding the one small room you’re in so comfortable and familiar that you don’t move beyond it. There are doors that lead from it to a banqueting hall, set for a feast, a concert room with musicians ready to play for you, an observatory with a telescope trained on the stars, a conservatory where exotic flowers and fruits are growing, a library filled with every book you could wish to read, and all this set in acres of beautiful grounds, with woodlands, water gardens, parkland and flowerbeds. Meanwhile, you sit in your cosy little living room in your armchair, watching TV and scrolling on your phone, oblivious to all that surrounds you.
Those are just earthly comparisons. What really lies on the other side of those doors is beyond description and infinitely more exciting and expansive than anything I’ve described. All this analogy can offer is some small sense of the contrast between the 3D world and the vastness of The Realms.
People like myself are proof that it is possible to live a human life while grasping the greater reality.
After that download, I agreed that it certainly feels better to move beyond the confines of the familiar ‘living room’ and explore beyond the material world. I had one more question, though.
My second enquiry: Why, after thousands of years staying firmly in 3D, are we now trying to reach beyond, while still embodied on Earth?
Asher took me back to his initial image, the cosy little living room with many doors leading from it, which were firmly closed. He added new detail to that picture.
Asher: Imagine that for all those thousands of years, we’d worked hard to cover the doors with wall hangings — big, heavy tapestries covered in symbols, icons and images. We’d become so busy embroidering those tapestries that we often forgot there were doors behind them.
I was shown richly embroidered scenes from every conceivable religion and tradition — stunning Arabian geometric patterns, angels, gods and goddesses, Sanskrit symbols, the Buddha, the tree of life, the crucifix, mandalas and mythical heroes and creatures. That’s far from an exhaustive list.
Asher: It was our tapestries — our images and ideas of what was hidden behind the doors — that mattered to us. They became so important to us, that to move them was often taboo. Eventually we told ourselves they should be left in place and that it would be sacrilegious to change them.
Now imagine a window opening in your room. There’s a fresh breeze blowing in. It starts to shake the tapestries, blowing them aside.
You notice what is happening and say, “Oh yes! I remember. There are doors behind the hangings. I wonder what’s through those doors.”
That’s when you begin to explore. That’s when you find the rest of your mansion.
That breeze comes from many directions. It comes from technology — virtual reality and space exploration, from science and maths, from epigenetics and quantum theories, from channelled guides, psychics and mediums, from non-speakers and what we have called the ‘cracked vessels’ — those who think and know differently and let in the light.
You see the light shining through keyholes, under the doors and from gaps in their frames. You wonder how your life, you little ‘living room’, would be expanded if you opened one or two of those doors and took a look at what lay beyond.
Some will tear down the tapestries and throw them out. Others will keep them, recognising their beauty, but move them aside just enough to see what is behind them. Each person has their own living room and can choose how to expand their experience.
I love Asher’s way of explaining the place of our material world within the vastness of Consciousness, his grasp of how we have become obsessed with the iconography and doctrines that conceal the greater reality, and his way of describing the shift/change/new age we currently find ourselves entering.
This Medium article will explain the ‘cracked vessels’ image alluded to above, in case you are interested.