A bit of a mini thread. As many may have heard me say before, I feel like I have trouble having "undeniable spirit contact". For me, things seem to remain always *just* this side of being a mental trick. But I find myself caring about that less and less. A huge emphasis /1

for me lately has been ancestor work. My most prolific contact has been in journey work, all completely in the imaginal. In journey, I spoke to Death and asked him how one talks to the dead. His answer was to ask me "How difficult is it for you to manifest the imaginable /2

into the physical? The dead do not possess a body. But they share consciousness with you. They share feeling. This is the bridge between you." And, such it is for me. The rest of you likely have something different. However, sitting in front of my ancestor altar this week, /3

I had the distinct feeling of timelessness. Neville Goddard speaks of us being "4th-dimensional beings". That 4th dimension is time. But we don't see ourselves as such. We bisect that 4th-dimensional being we are, failing to see we are all at once. Our past, our future all /4

wrapped up in the one thing. I felt my awareness separate from ego, and join with a much wider perspective. I felt the ancestors before me, and the descendants after. I was both. I am the past, my ancestors live in my bones and blood. I am the future, for it lives there too. /5

These practices of ancestor veneration and astrology and all the rest taught me how much all of this is about perception. It's all there, but you have to willingly engage and work on developing the perception. Seeing really is believing. But that phrase means something /6

very different than what I thought. If you wish to see, you must first believe. You must develop the sight, the perception, by belief. This has turned into a long meandering rant, but I thought I would share my experience with all this if it helps anyone. All I know is that /7

the world has become so much more wonderful and magical by choosing to expand my perception. By having faith in something I have no hard evidence for. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Breaking down the "Cartesian head trauma", /8

ceasing to ask for things to be physical to be real, has made all the difference. The things that happen in my head, in imaginal, are just as real, merely different. It's all the one thing. An experience is real, whether it is the body or the spirit that has it. We are both. /9