“Let’s begin by examining the challenges of interstellar travel just within our own galaxy. The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 to 180,000 light years in diameter — a light year being the distance a beam of light will travel in one year at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. If an extraterrestrial life form comes from a star system say, a thousand light years away — a distance considered within our own galactic neighborhood — then it would take one thousand years for the life form just to get to Earth traveling at light speed and another thousand years to get home again. That’s two thousand years. While these travelers could technically be cryogenically put to sleep for the trip, everyone they knew on their home world would have long since died, rendering this method of travel unlikely. Further, using the methods of communication available to humans — radio, microwaves, TV or any other electromagnetic signal — it would again take a thousand years for a transmission traveling at the speed of light to communicate with an ET’s home world once they arrived on Earth, and another thousand years for the ET’s planet to answer back. In either case, it’s safe to assume that any star-faring civilization must have developed technologies that allow them to skirt beyond the boundaries of linear space-time — a term we refer to as interdimensional or multidimensional shifting. That we have yet to discover the means to detect these other-worldly dimensions does not mean they do not exist. Gamma rays have always existed; yet it took a scientific breakthrough to discover them.
“What lies beyond the crossing point of light? What does one experience when you exceed the speed of light? What exists beyond this third dimensional barrier?
“It may surprise you to learn that humans are quite capable of accessing these higher plains of existence. As a teen, I studied Sanskrit and read the Vedas, the ancient sacred literature of India. I learned about meditation and the concept of transcendence, which fit quite comfortably into my psyche. When I could find free time, I’d take long bike trips out into the countryside. Seeking a connection with nature, I’d lie in a field and practice meditation. At times I’d find my consciousness leaving my body to observe other parts of Charlotte, or to visit other areas of the world. During several out-of-body experiences, I even ventured into space.”
Adam choked on a laugh, following it up with a cough.
“When I was seventeen I injured my left thigh. A horrible infection developed in my leg and spread throughout my body. I became septic, which means my bloodstream was infected, and I broke out in a very high fever. I was spiraling toward death, not fully understanding the severity of my condition. It brought me to a near-death experience where I found myself suddenly released from my body. I was carried out into the depths of space — a place where I already felt at home. Then I experienced what I now understand to be God consciousness, where my individuality became faint as it merged with the unbounded pure infinite Mind… there was no duality. This lasted for what seemed to be an eternity because a normal sense of time disappears in that state of being. I could see all of creation, the vastness of the cosmos, and it was beautiful beyond words. From our limited third-dimensional perspective I had died, and yet there was nothing frightening about it — only infinite awareness, joy, and the perception of an endless perfect creation.
“Eventually, two brilliant and scintillating lights approached out of the stars. I now understand them to have been Avatars — manifestations of God. They appeared as brilliant points of light… pure, conscious energy. As the Avatars came near, I entered a state of oneness with them. It was incredibly beautiful. Communication existed, only non-verbally. Imagine instead of saying the word ‘apple,’ the actual image of the apple is received. And within that conscious image is the pure idea form of the apple itself — its essence. That is how information was being transmitted to me, and I am convinced it is how ET civilizations communicate instantaneously over great distances.
“I have no sense of how long this union lasted. I was affected by the beauty of it all, yet felt very overwhelmed at the same time. Eventually the episode moved into more of a linear style of communication. One of the Avatars said, ‘You may come with us or return to Earth.’ I had the presence of mind to ask, ‘Well, what is your will?’ And the being replied, ‘It is our desire that you go back to Earth to do other things.’ I became depressed, having no interest at that point in coming back to the physical world. But I somehow knew the highest response of human will is acceptance of the Divine will, and I agreed to return. I lost consciousness and fell back into my body with a sort of whoosh.
“I was back in my body, but I must have been out long enough to lose conscious connection with all of my neural centers. My sensory input was working; I remember seeing the maple tree outside the little apartment, its branches moving in the wind against a street light. But I couldn’t move. I thought I had been so damaged from this severe infection that I’d been paralyzed from a stroke. Fortunately, that turned out to be a temporary phenomenon; we now know that in the case of prolonged near-death experiences, it takes time for the person to be reconnected to their physical body.
“Then I felt a being in the room with me; it was sent there to test my will to live. It was a frightening but perhaps a necessary, experience which forced me to use my willpower to remain here. This force was trying to pull my soul back out of my body. I had to exercise volition to remain in the physical and keep my astral body of light and my consciousness integrated with it. And after about half a dozen tries, I nailed it and remained here. It was only then that I regained full use of my motor skills.
“This near-death experience not only altered my life, it prepared me for the challenges still to come. I now know from direct experience that God does exist, as do His messengers. I learned that death is not to be feared, that in fact, there is no death — only an interdimensional transformation from one state into another… a state that is accessible to our extraterrestrial visitors.
“This was confirmed to me many years later by a gentleman who had worked in the Air Force and also with Kelly Johnson at Lockheed Skunkworks. His excuse for contacting me was to offer to be one of the CSETI military witnesses to UFO events, but what he really wanted was to get my feedback on an experience which he’d had in the mid-1960s. At that time he was studying a tradition which helped people to experience out-of-body or astral projections. One day his teacher told him that he was ready to have such an experience fairly soon, and in fact that evening, he indeed had his first OBE. But what happened shocked him. As soon as he left his physical body, he shot straight up through the ceiling and out of his house into space — only to slam into the side of an extraterrestrial spacecraft hovering over Earth in a higher dimension. His spirit literally rocked the spacecraft and he popped inside the vessel whereupon he saw some ETs at a console. He said, ‘Steven, they looked over, saw me, and their expression seemed to say, ‘My God, man, why don’t you watch where you are going!’ ”
Dr. Greer paused as members of the audience laughed and applauded.
“I have no doubt that this man was telling me the absolute truth about what he experienced — that the form of energy of his astral projection or lucid dream matched that of an extraterrestrial craft hovering in interdimensional space. This makes perfect sense, for it is within this state of consciousness that human to ET communication takes place.