Metaphysics
An Adventure in Self-discovery

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This book starts with the premise that we are spiritual beings existing in a physical universe, each with a specific purpose. It explains the nature of creation and our role in it, and it sheds considerable light on many of life’s “Bigger Questions,” e.g. Who are we? What is our purpose? Who or what created everything? What is the Creator’s purpose?

As well, this book provides clear explanations for many of the concepts that are important to understanding our own spiritual nature, e.g. the densification of energy, past life regression, channeling, laws of the universe, extraterrestrials, meditation, creating the future and a whole host of others. As we learn more about these concepts, we understand better where we fit in, we become more the architect of our destiny and less the victim of chance. As well, we can glimpse the beauty, order and magnificence of the divine plan. Indeed, developing these insights and understandings is a great adventure, and importantly, one of self-discovery.  

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Reviews

"I have been an avid reader of the metaphysical for years and have to say this book is one I have enjoyed the most. It’s clear, well-organized and a “good read.” The logical way in which the concepts are interpreted clarified many of my opinions and thoughts, and put them right in front of me in easy-to-understand language. I felt the words were written right to me, the reader, as if Peter was right there and we were having a conversation."  Elaine Charal

"This book is dynamite! It explains many complex, spiritual ideas in down-to-earth, easy to understand terms and it is especially effective in explaining how to meditate and how to conduct past life regressions." Steph Lekosky

"Have you ever asked a question on a complex topic and been pleasantly surprised when given a common sense answer? Author and past college professor, Peter Dennis, does that in his book, 'Metaphysics - An Adventure in Self-discovery' where he explains metaphysical and spiritual concepts using a direct approach. 
For the most part, this is a quick read. Referring to extensive research and experience, he offers his opinions on various topics such as intuition, reincarnation, channeling, spirit guides, karma, predicting the future, how to meditate, how to deal with stress and so on. Check out the sub-chapter titled 'There Really Are No Past Lives.' I find the book to be a handy tool because it also walks the reader through easy to follow steps to learn interesting activities, such as seeing auras, meditating, conducting past life regressions. This is a little gem of a book that will be sure to become doggy eared in no time." Jill Ledden, review for Tone, July/August, 2004, Volume 19, Number 11.

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Excerpts from the Table of Contents

Chapter One: The Universe
        What Is God?
        God is All That Is
        God Is Not A Person
         God Is Pure Consciousness That Includes Everything
        God’s Purpose Is To Experience And Create
        God Fragments Into Powerful Parts To Experience Limitation And Separation
        Summary
        We Are Multi-Dimensional And Holographic
        Summary
        We Densify Energy To Create The Illusion Of A Physical Universe
        The Seven Densities
        Summary

Chapter Two: Some Other Pieces to the Puzzle
        Belief
        Reincarnation
        Laws of the Universe
        Channeling
        Spirit Guides
        Angels
        Judgment
        Gratitude
        Injury, Dis-ease and Aging
        Sleep
        Extraterrestrials
        Karma
        Predicting The Future
        Emotion

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Excerpt From Chapter One

God:

Likely, our first concept of God was something along the lines of an older, bearded gentleman who was wise, powerful and who somehow pulled the strings that orchestrated human affairs.

Over time, our concepts evolved and matured. We probably began to understand that God really didn’t have a body, a gender or human limitations. Then, it began to get complicated. As our concepts matured, so did our questions. Where is God? What is His involvement with humans? How powerful is He? Where do we fit in? What are we supposed to be doing? Is He really pulling all the strings or is He allowing us the use of free will? What is the grand plan? Why did He create us, or anything for that matter? Is He perfect? Why does He allow evil? Did He actually create it? Does He change? Etc., etc.

Of course, organized religions provide some answers, as do mystics, gurus, scientists, preachers and others. Some tell us that they have the answers or their books do, or it is within each of us. Some say God is a being. Some say a force. Some say a spark of consciousness. It seems that the more answers we have, the more questions we develop. But, our concepts do evolve and we do edge closer, not likely to a final answer, but closer.

You will notice too, that God goes by many different names: God, Allah, Jehovah, Infinite Creator, etc. The one that I like best is: “All That Is.” It is a term that you see frequently in the metaphysical literature and it is one that I believe captures the essence of what God is. Many spiritual leaders, mystics, church managers, etc. tell us that God is omnipotent and universal. From this, I conclude that God is all – everything, everyone, everywhere, everywhen. God includes everything and everyone. There is nothing outside of God, including you and me. We are all included. We are aspects or expressions of God. We are a part of God and God is not separate from us.

As well, God is neither a person nor a being. It is too simplistic to personify God. We did this when times were simpler and we still do it today with children. God does not have a location, a body or a gender.

Another point: We often refer to God as He or Him but God includes both genders and is not limited by either. It would be more accurate, I believe, to refer to God as “It” but to many of us who use the English language, this is the pronoun we apply to inanimate objects or things that we value as less than human. That aside, I am going to use “It” when referring to God and I will intend at least as much respect as implied in personal pronouns.

I also believe that God does not suffer the human weaknesses of anger and ego. There are references in the Bible to God getting angry. As God includes everything and everyone, does it make any sense that God, in all of Its perfection, would be angry at Itself, or at any part of Itself? Isn’t anger really unresolved frustration? Do we really think that God would be frustrated or incapable of resolving it? I don’t believe for a moment that God is susceptible to anger.

As to ego, wouldn’t it be a little like egomania to insist that One’s creations engage in worshipping their creator? What possible need would God have for the worship of humans, again, which are a part of Itself? Isn’t it more likely that the idea of worship is a human construct, perhaps the product of an organization engaged in the enterprise of leading large populations of worshippers?

So, if God isn’t a person or a personality with human weaknesses, what is It?

Well, I believe that God’s essence is consciousness and everything that exists, exists within that consciousness. I believe that that consciousness manifests as a force that includes and permeates everything and everyone, and holds everything together. There is no thing and no one that isn’t included in God. Nothing can exist outside of God. There is no “outside of God.” And, there is no separation from God, except by illusion  --  more about that later.

God’s Purpose:

To get at this, let’s go to the beginning. Of course, for God, there really was no beginning but there was for the physical universe. So, before the creation of the physical universe, God existed and God reflected on everything and, God being everything, God reflected on Itself. In this reflecting, God knew that it knew everything. That is, It had all knowledge of everything, actual and potential. It realized, however, that intellectual or cognitive knowledge was not as rich a knowledge as the knowledge that comes from experience. So, simply, God set out to experience all that It knew about cognitively.

As well, by nature, God is a creator, the infinite creator, and It could do nothing other than create. And, It did it from a twofold basis: One, unconditional love for Itself (meaning everything and everyone) and two, from a sense of fun. So, with this drive to experience all, with this natural creative urge, and with a sense of fun, God set out on a creating mission and It created a “playground” in which to experience all that It knew about cognitively.

Now, being God, we would expect that It would not want to miss anything, so to cover all the bases, God fragmented Itself into powerful, parts or aspects. These aspects divided and the divisions subdivided and the subdivisions divided further and so on until we got to ourselves. Sub, sub, sub, etc., divisions or expressions of God. In this way, all of these subdivisions, aspects or expressions of God, could spread out, so to speak, to create, to explore and to experience every thing and every idea that actually or potentially exists.

As the subdividing went on, it eventually got down to us. It unfolded something like this: Imagine a group of powerful entities deciding what they would choose to create, explore and experience. Remember, these are powerful, creative, spiritual entities with no limits. What would be interesting for them? Well, they hit upon something that was very novel and different for them. They decided to pursue the idea of “Limitation.”

Now, imagine if you were all-powerful, had no limits and wanted to experience limitation. How would you go about it? Well, one way would be to create an arena or a universe containing limiting elements, things like time, space and matter. In order to make it work, you would have to introduce one other key element. That is, if one was truly unlimited and was going to experience limitation, one would have to somehow put aside or “forget” one’s true unlimited nature. So, this forgetting process was invented for all of those who incarnate into this universe. That is, everyone born into this universe “forgets” his/her true nature in order to experience limitation and “play the game.” We have to. Otherwise, how could we truly experience limitation if, all along, we knew that this was really just an illusion that we had created and the real us actually had no limits? We couldn’t play the game fairly, could we?

Now, in addition to being unlimited, God was also unified, meaning, all was one and one was all. In deciding to experience limitation, God also decided to experience the opposite to unification, namely, separation. To pursue this idea, God/we have created the illusion that all isn’t one or that you and I and God are all separate from one another. Just to intensify the impact of this illusion, we created a universe of polarities, e.g. black and white, up and down, hot and cold, positive and negative, male and female, etc.

So, here we are, aspects of God, creating, playing and experiencing in a realm or universe of limitation and separation. And, we are doing this while other aspects of God are busy experiencing other universes with other conditions and circumstances that they have created for the purpose of experiencing other ideas that God knows cognitively but not experientially.

Humans:

Now, given that we are essentially powerful, unlimited aspects of God creating this physical universe in order to experience all that we can in a universe of limitation and separation, how could we do this fully? Remember there are only limits once we incarnate but there’s an incredible, unlimited intelligence behind the creation of this experience that makes it all work and enables us to get the most from it.

To get the most from it, it was decided to make the beings experiencing it, namely us, multi-dimensional. Why restrict experience to only one dimension when the possibilities are so much greater? We are multi-dimensional in at least two ways. First, we live many lives simultaneously but, in our “limited” human minds, we separate them in time so that they appear to be past, present and future lives. That is to say, at a level “higher” than ourselves, we create many personalities. That is, our higher self fragments into many aspects, each of which takes on its own personality and is born into a different time period. Some are male some female, some are rich, some poor, some are nice, some rotten, etc. until that entity has enough aspects to engage in all of the experiences that it wishes.

Here’s where the plot thickens. The second way we are multi-dimensional is that, each time we come to a decision point, we fragment further to explore all of the alternatives. For example, if we decide to get married, we do and we don’t -- we experience both. One aspect of us goes one way and another goes another. Further, if we do decide to marry, we could marry any of a number of potential partners and, so, we do. Each of our personalities, of course, is not aware of this or the others because our consciousness is limited and focused only in one personality at a time. From the perspective of our higher self, it is all happening simultaneously and the higher self is experiencing all of the possible experiences and variations that it has set out to experience.

Bashar provides an analogy that has helped me to understand some of this. He speaks of a projectionist and a filmstrip. The filmstrip has a number of frames and, from the perspective of any one frame, there are frames that come before it and others that come after. Each frame can represent a lifetime, with the frames on one side representing past lives and the frames on the other side representing future lives. From the perspective of the projectionist, however, the frames can all be viewed at once. Similarly, from the prospective of the oversoul or higher self, the lifetimes are all happening simultaneously.

Additionally, we are holographic, which means that each one of us contains all the information of the whole. That is, we have all knowledge but, of course, have chosen to forget it or put it aside while we are exploring limitation and physicality.

In Summary:

We are unlimited, multi-dimensional, holographic fragments of God (souls) creating the illusion of a physical universe in order to explore the concepts of limitation and separation, with the purpose of learning experientially what we know cognitively and, to accomplish this with integrity, we have chosen to temporarily forget that the real reality is one that is spiritual, unified and unlimited.

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