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I have been intensely interested in expanding and altered states of consciousness for many years. I attended Ohio State University as a student of modern psychology in the 1960s, studying the states of consciousness as related to personality theory. I was especially interested in Abraham Maslow’s personality theories and his groundbreaking concepts of higher states of consciousness, expressed in his terminology as “peak experiences.”

In his book Motivation and Personality , Maslow presented the idea that people can experience expanded or higher states of consciousness as “peak” periods in their lives. Maslow defined peak experiences as “moments of highest happiness and fulfillment,” 1 times when you have feelings of well-being and even ecstasy. During these periods, you have a general feeling of satisfaction with everything that allows you to see the beauty of nature and of life. For example, after you have been able to satisfy the basic needs, such as food, shelter, and security, then you can begin to open up your mind and consciousness to experience higher perception.

What did Maslow mean when he used the term “higher perception”? Higher perception involves the ability to see reality more clearly. Higher perception includes the ability to see the connections and unity that exist in all reality. In heightened states of consciousness, people have reported seeing objects with sharper colors and hearing sounds with greater clarity. Sometimes people have even reported experiences called synesthesia. Synesthesia is the ability to experience two sensations, or two sensory experiences, simultaneously. For example, you can hear a musical note and see a visual image of it at the same time. Maslow said these periods of heightened perception occurred during peak experiences in a person’s life.

I posit that peak experiences involve the expansion of our consciousness resulting in what can be considered an altered state of consciousness. During these periods of expanded experiences, people can see the third dimension through a new perceptual lens. Thus, concepts that are difficult to understand, such as unified energy, unified field theory, or luminous strands of light theory, can suddenly make more sense. People can solve problems that previously might have seemed impossible.

Higher perception can also occur on the third dimension through the state of consciousness called channeling. Channeling occurs during an altered state of consciousness known as a trance state. Sometimes a trance is also referred to as a hypnotic episode or experience. During a trance state, your normal perceptions are expanded. You have abilities in a trance state that do not seem to exist in a normal state of consciousness. Because channeling occurs in an altered state of consciousness, you can understand that the trance experience helps you to access higher perceptions much like a peak experience. Many artists report that they are able to experience more intense periods of creativity when they can achieve a deepened state of trance. Thus, there is a positive relationship between the trance state and art and creativity.

I believe that entering a trance state during channeling has many similarities to peak experiences. One main similarity has to do with the heightened perceptual state. Your ability to see and hear is sharper during both the trance and channeling states. Also, the ability to access information from higher beings is increased, and even greater perceptual abilities can occur. In a normal state of consciousness, you might not be able to access energy and information from higher beings, yet in a trance or channel state, you can.

During the channeling experience, you can experience increased insight in yourself and others. This includes an ability to expand your emotional responses to others. For example, during the channeling, or trance, state, you have a greater ability to experience compassion, understanding, and empathy for others. You might also be able to have greater insight into your soul history or that of others.

This book, Expand Your Consciousness , presents information and ideas that I have obtained during channeling from my connection to the fifth dimension, which I consider a higher state of consciousness now transcending our current space-time continuum. I’ve attempted to expand my mental capacity and have tried to delve into subjects I would not normally be able to write about or even think about in my usual state of consciousness. To do this, I connected with spirit guides I’ve communicated with for the past twenty years, in particular two Arcturian guides named Juliano and Helio-ah.

There are a variety of fifth-dimensional subjects, such as quantum healing and ideas about how higher states of consciousness are connected to the soul. There is a review of the concepts of universal consciousness and its relationship to the noosphere, which is considered the collective unconscious, or subconscious, energy field of humanity around Earth.

Within this text, there is an attempt to connect the idea of unified field energy with planetary healing, including a section that deals with the relationship of thoughts to the fabric of the universe. There is also a description of a new energy in the thought field called the omega-time-particle dimension, along with a segment related to the intersection of the third and fifth dimensions. You will encounter the special subject of thought projection — shimmering — and how to accelerate the folding of the space-time continuum. You will also learn some techniques for personal healing using higher consciousness.

I am happy to include an interesting article from my wife, Gudrun R. Miller, about using expanded consciousness and regression therapy for accessing the higher self. Gudrun offers the reader a valuable tool in finding ways to go into the expanded self.

The chapters in this book are part of a series of lectures provided for a project called the Group of Forty, which is a planetary healing organization I founded. The group focuses on using expanding thoughts toward planetary healing, evolution, and rebalancing planet Earth. Humanity must take a new step in evolution in order to survive, and that new step is expanded consciousness. I hope that the ideas herein will help contribute to the awakening of your ability to access altered states of consciousness to bring forth new ideas and healing for accelerating the human evolutionary process.

1 . Abraham Maslow, Religions, Values and Peak Experiences toward a Psychology of Being (Penguin Books: New York, 1970), Reviewed by Tim Knepper, 2001 (http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/relexp/reviews/review_maslow01.htm ).