Out of This World

Payseetahs

Introduction

Two years, ago my friend John Heney had just gone to bed when something made him open his eyes. There, standing around his bed as though it were the most normal thing in the world, was a group of eight-foot tall beings dressed in white robes with cowls like monks. Now some people might have leapt out of their skins, but John is a healer and psychic and used to unusual events, so he took his unexpected visitors in stride.

His guests seemed to be having some sort of diagnostic conversation about him and as he suffers from chronic health issues, he thought it best to leave them to it. After a few minutes they decided on a course of action and told him, telepathically, that they were going to perform a medical procedure. As they worked he felt powerful energies coursing through his body and he had a sense that the treatment would be beneficial - which in fact turned out to be the case. After the process had come to an end they told him that they would return in a couple of months to help him further.

I should mention here that John and I share common interests and have phone chats a couple of times a week. John is clairvoyant - which means that he can see things that most of us can’t. He is clairaudient as well for that matter, which means that he hears things telepathically which means that he can receive messages from non-physical sources, sources that might include your late Aunt Mabel or, as in this case, travellers from other realities.

Subsequently, during my twice-weekly chats with John these very tall visitors continued to appear to him from time to time.

I share the clairaudience gift although some prefer the old-fashioned term touched in the head. Luckily I have developed a very thick skin over the years.

I should clarify here that where clairaudience is concerned, John’s and my abilities are slightly different. The hearing part of his gift is more akin to receiving tweets while for me the experience is like reading a blog.

And soon these visitors began to talk to me independently as well. At first I would feel a strong energy and then telepathic messages would start. So if it appears that our guests want to have a real sit-down I take care of the communication duties.

After those first contacts, even when I was by myself, the travellers began giving me pokes from time to time though I couldn’t see them as John does. They told me that they would like us to write a book together that might help human beings to live more harmoniously with each other and with nature. I felt quite excited by the idea. So each day I would sit down at the computer and a few hundred words would simply pour into my mind. It was more like taking dictation than writing in a conventional manner as their words required little or no editing.

They told me that they call themselves the Payseetahs, or Lamplighters. For those who can see them - quite a number of people as it turns out - they appear to be about eight feet tall, dressed in white robes, rather like those of monks, much as they appeared to John. The visitors radiate a feeling of loving compassion which makes their communications feel like conversations over tea in front of the fire. It is this impression that led me to call the chapters chats.

If you’re of the imaginary friends point of view, you are perfectly free to treat what follows as fiction. The visitors’ messages on a variety of subjects are in italics, while my own additions are in this regular font. I think their ideas are extremely interesting and I hope that you will come to agree.

I would suggest reading each paragraph twice - once for meaning, and the second time for the energetic message, that you will also feel if you pay close attention. To remind you of the energetic aspect of their communications, I have put three asterisks at the end of each of the visitors’ sections to remind you to read the words a second time, paying attention to the energy:

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Periodically, the Payseetahs also suggest helpful exercises for the mind, body and spirit, and these I have framed within the text, to make them easier to find if you want to refer back to them. There is also an appendix of all these exercises at the end of the book.

Over time you may begin to sense that you are developing a relationship with these entities, as reading this book will establish a bond between you. And if you have any health issues you may even feel a healing energy working in you from time to time. They have astonishing healing abilities which have frequently been employed for the benefit of a number of my friends and family members with often-miraculous effects.

I should also point out that just because they’re rather serious-looking (should you see them) don’t assume that they don’t have a sense of humour. A friend who has had this healing energy experience a number of times, says that on one occasion she could hear them giggling. I myself have always found them to be a joyful and inspiring presence.

Laird Orr

Toronto, 2015

The First Chat

Getting to Know You

When it seemed like the right time for our first writing session, I made myself comfortable in front of the computer. The weather outside was bleak, as is normal for November in Canada, so there were no distractions as I recorded messages from these benevolent visitors:

The universe can be thought of as a vast house, but one that is characterized by very strange architecture. It is designed in such a way that each room can be used to reach every other room. Many realities happily co-exist but the fact is that there is no real separation between them except the barriers created by human minds.

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The next day I would have preferred greater separation as I was on the streetcar at rush hour and people were being particularly unpleasant. The ten idiots texting opposite the rear doors ignored the driver’s pleas to move back and a lot of people were unable to get on as a result. Once I got home, I was about to pour myself a stiff drink to put man’s inhumanity to man out of my mind when I had a feeling that I should go to my computer instead. There was, so to speak, another message waiting:

In certain situations human beings can be convinced to treat larger groups as family members. Such groups might be team members, soldiers in a regiment, co-religionists or any other organized entity. And there are also certain special human beings who identify with the whole of humanity.

Unfortunately, such individuals are quite rare, so the history of your species can be mainly described as the development of increasingly greater and more complex forms of personal aggrandizement. The fact that all of life on the planet is under threat seems to be having little or no impact on the essentially primitive manner in which human beings regard each other and the wider world.

This manner of thinking can be seen more clearly when it is contrasted with the cognitive processes of the very ancient civilizations that are our cosmic neighbours. We will examine the thinking processes of three other civilizations. But to do so it will be necessary to understand that their forms of consciousness embrace infinitely larger structures than those of human beings. Their thinking is not limited by space and time nor even the demands of physicality. If human beings functioned mainly outside their bodies - in their astral bodies say, and only used their physical bodies for very specific purposes they might have some approximate idea of what these higher forms of consciousness are like.

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Now the idea of structures not rooted in space-time is difficult for a human mind to grasp in the best of circumstances, but sometimes we are given a glimpse of what that might be like. The poet T.S. Eliot describes such an experience in his Four Quartets.

In the first of the four poems, Burnt Norton, he recounts being in a country garden looking into a long-dried-up ornamental pool. Suddenly he finds himself perceiving in such a way that, …all time is eternally present… As he looks at the pool, his sense of reality shifts and he is able to experience the pool as it once was, and in some mysterious way, still is:

"Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged

and the pool was filled with water out of sunlight"

He goes on to describe the reflections of figures standing behind him and hearing the laughter of children. Then as suddenly as the vision appeared it is gone again and he is back in normal time. Eliot concludes the passage by speculating that such experiences are rare because, …human kind cannot bear very much reality.

And maybe that’s exactly right. Perhaps time and space form a kind of security blanket that lets us feel a bit more in control of our experience. The Payseetahs went on to describe the thought processes of civilizations that don’t need to impose a linear order on experience as we do.

Time?

The first mode of consciousness we will call Existing in Fullness or Living Stars. This kind of thought process characterizes civilizations that are more than four million years old. They are associated with particular planetary formations in particular galaxies, but as these beings think of the whole universe as their home, the precise location of such civilizations is largely immaterial. They are aware, at least to some degree, of all things at all times. Past, present and future are all one as far as these beings are concerned. Seeing all time as one makes the setting of goals an absurdity. Belief in time is a characteristic of primitive civilizations.

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As I report this, the new year and the atavistic belief in the transformative power of time has just been celebrated and the media have been full of the usual suggestions about New Year’s resolutions that will help us to become thinner, richer and so forth. These news items are always followed a week or two later by ones informing us that resolutions are usually broken before January is over. Maybe that’s because we form goals without really understanding what we want or need. (As a man of a certain age and ordinary appearance, trying to become a romantic lead in movies would not be a recipe for happiness.)

The desire for thinness - if you come from a family heritage with gentler shapes being the norm - might actually make you miserable. A night with good friends, and excellent food and drink might actually be a better idea - within reason of course. In short, I can easily accept the idea that not setting arbitrary goals might be a very good thing. And while we’re thinking about time as an arbitrary construct, why not have a go at space and form as well?

Space?

The bodies of these beings are capable of a great variety of forms. They can even, when they so desire, be indistinguishable from human beings. So when they choose to walk among you, they will, for the most part, go completely undetected. Their desire is to appreciate as many different modes of being as they can. There is no desire to be judgemental; experiences are simply seen as ends in themselves. These civilizations are almost infinitely creative as they are literally open to everything that is.

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A reasonable question to ask here would be, "Why do such beings need bodies at all? After all, much of the above paragraph might just as well be about the operations of pure spirit. We may be getting a taste of their reality in the dream state when barriers of time and space are pretty much non-existent. We emerge from that limitlessly malleable state when we wake up. Maybe they too enter into a more stable state to recharge from time to time.

My late Aunt Miriam, an inspiration to me when I was growing up, had the gift of being able to dream of events that had occurred in places she visited on her travels. It was, as you might expect, very much a mixed blessing. But her ability was not all that different from those of the entities we have just been describing.

The next group is a little different, a bit more like researchers as we might understand the term:

Forms of Research

The second distinctive form of consciousness that we would like to describe is that of civilizations that are in human terms, relatively younger - perhaps two million years old or so. Their form of consciousness creates social structures that are characterized by extremely complex intellectual processes. Increasingly intricate theories are continuously created in order to build models of existence that operate on the basis of endlessly generated novel premises. We might call them Evolution Researchers.

These civilizations are almost like vast universities; inquiry and intellectual modelling are the dominant activities. These entities are the ones most intimately involved with the peoples of the earth. They are fascinated by the fact that humans are at once the creators of quite astonishing art and beauty, but at one and the same time, capable of limitless savagery.

They want to understand what is wrong, to see how it can be fixed. They are proposing a path to a new mode of human consciousness, one that will be explored throughout this book.

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It might seem on the surface, that our own civilization might also be defined by the phrase …endlessly generated novel premises, and that is of course true - to a point. But our culture mostly operates within a material framework. Despite the fact that scientists, artists, and sages have long told us that the three dimensions given to us by our physical senses are only a small part of a potentially much richer human experience in an infinitely complex universe, the mainstream continues to operate on the basis of a very primitive continuous-acquisition model - a more technologically sophisticated version of the hunting and gathering practised by our ancestors.

We are like diners who go to one of the great Parisian restaurants, examine the wonders on the huge menu, and then try to order hamburgers. Our civilization is not much different from the one seen in the next communication. They were also once at the hamburger stage but they were wise enough to learn from their mistakes.

Caution and the Lack Thereof

The third type of consciousness is one found in civilizations that, in your terms, are still unimaginably old - in the order of half a million years or so - but in terms of the universe still very young. These civilizations value the things that you do not. They have little use for the transitory, treasuring only that which lasts for millennia. Profound thought is given to every situation, and the potential impacts of every decision are endlessly researched and debated. We will call them the Fully Aware.

Compared to your planet, theirs are paradises. They live in harmony with nature and do not know disease, hunger or want. However they do lack your creativity and passion as they are characterized by great caution. Because they are relatively young societies, memories of earlier folly are still vivid. All of them went through periods much like yours. Some did not survive their time of folly, and their planets became lifeless wastelands. So at this stage in your development, they probably have the most to teach you, but you will not encounter them in the normal course of events as they are extremely inward-looking, very insular. They are afraid that if they don’t keep paying close attention to every detail of life on their planets, that the time of peril could return.

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We, on the other hand show absolutely no embarrassment about our ignorance. We are like the lactose-intolerant man who always has cheese before going to a party. No longer content to foul our own planet, we are striving to project our presence out into the rest of the galaxy. We’re the relatives who accidentally get left off the invitation list. But do not despair, help is at hand.

We will teach you much through the pages of this book. Here is an example: A very long time ago one planet that was in a situation virtually identical to yours pulled itself back from the brink through a series of remarkable events. Like you, they had had several centuries of wars large and small. They too had come close to destroying the natural environment. But then they started to pay attention. As sometimes happens in history a sea change began to take place - not unlike that which is happening on earth right now. Values began to shift, and what scientists had long said also became reflected in other academic disciplines, journalism and popular culture.

Of course wealthy elites fought these changes tooth and nail, but it seemed as though the whole planet had had the same nightmare and suddenly seen that the end of their world was not only possible but inevitable. So a hunger developed for a more harmonious way of life, one that allowed for a future that would be more just and sustainable than the past. Suddenly the members of this species were able to put aside their petty concerns, their dreams of power and wealth, and