January 2002

When was the last time you looked at a map? Was it a current one or an old one? Was it relevant to travels you have made or intend to make or did it originally belong to someone else and simply found its way to you? Now create a map in your mind's eye. What does it look like? Is it crisp and new or old and tattered? Examine it for a moment. What does the topography look like? Is it familiar and local or distant and strange? Is it marked with unique observations, highlights and detours or does it indicate the quickest and most direct path to the various locations? Is it a flat folding map, a three dimensional globe or something else altogether? Was your map created in this world or another, in this time or another? Is it your personal map or is it meant to be shared with another? Now place your map nearby so it will be accessible to you while we continue or discussion. Prior to this lifetime, you carefully planned and then created a most unique map. Of course no two were alike, some were plain, direct and to the point while others were elaborately laid out, detailed in every way. Each map had a legend and here too, the differences were vast. Some legends contained only the most rudimentary essentials, leaving much to chance and conjecture, at best one could only find coordinating and converging points of reference. Again others were splendidly arranged with color, texture and symbols at every turn.

Each of you received as much assistance in mapmaking as you could want. You aligned yourselves with what can best be called Incarnation Cartographers, light beings and guides who specialize in matching, designing and maximizing each potential physical being with their desired physical life experiences. Many discussions and meetings were held between you and your personal cartographers before your map was actually created. Nothing was left to chance (unless you chose to do so) and nothing was hidden from view (unless it was your choice). Discussions included whether you would keep your map on your person, an easily accessible form of reference in times of need, or instead, perhaps at a predetermined time and place where you would discover your map and recognize it as your own. Some of you chose to have a physical representation of your map made available to you at some point during your incarnation while others were content to have their map ingrained upon one of the subtler levels of the reality they would most participate in. A few, feeling that they would be unable to manage or keep track of their maps throughout an entire lifetime placed the responsibility upon a guide or Keeper. These guides play an important role in your life and carry a sacred responsibility, not the least of which is to see you safely back home again. For this reason, your relationship with this guide has always been special and unique. Although your life's experience ultimately rests with you, your guides, keepers, teachers and loved ones wish to share in your success.

Your maps were designed on several levels of dimension and density. Each level was examined and approved by you prior to adding the next level. First, an overall plan was determined. This included your goals, desires and aspirations for this lifetime. From your current perspective you may believe that this is where you failed to ask for kingdoms of wealth and unimaginable riches, but you are all ancient and timeless beings, as such your wisdom reminded you that should this become your truest wish it would simply find its way onto your path of desires. Instead, you concentrated upon what we will call life experience or opportunities for soul growth. Ideally, a being chooses to grow dimensionally, incorporating creativity, universal and physical laws of expression, soul patterning (following the pattern, advice, or footsteps of another person or soul), grace, connectivity (to other realms and kingdoms) and right use of will. In this way a rough outline of your life was created and agreed upon by you and your teachers, associate beings, and loved ones. Although the decision ultimately rested with each individual, all received adequate and abundant assistance in arriving at an equation that matched your desired outcome with a time and date, geographic location, spiritual and physical family and friends, as well as other significant and minor requirements deemed important to your success. This was accomplished by a technique not unlike your own ability to envision a goal and then see it played out (as we shall see later) but perhaps in all fairness to you it would be fair to say that the non-physical, finer dimensions afford a few more "perks" into the visioning and creating process.

Now then, once the basic map was laid out and stamped with your own approval, true spiritual magic, ingenuity, creativity, and synchronicity was put to work. Sacred geometry and the science of astrology was employed to align you with the necessary and mundane aspects of human existence as well as the more subliminally subtle turning points that would guide your choices accordingly. In this way the next level began to emerge and your personal map began to take on color, frequency and vibration. The colors were formed by the dictates of your timeless and original frequency codes, by the light that emanates from your being and resounds within your presence. The science of astrology began to determine what your birth chart would be although this was further aligned and fine tuned later on as well. Certain colors and frequencies were associated with caution and these were well marked on your map. Other colors and frequencies called for a pause here and there until the next symbol or code was revealed and this also was carefully labeled so it would not be missed. You now had a real working map of what you could expect to experience in your physical incarnation. There were dates, times and places of specific importance as well as signs of encouragement (GO) and posted cautionaries (STOP or WAIT). This alone was enough to guide you sufficiently, especially if you were already adept at physical life on Earth. Some of you chose this alone, determining that it would be more interesting and exciting to decode and unveil your life's purpose as you went along. You felt that adding more details would only slow or impede your progress. For the most part, your guides strongly cautioned against this, reminding you that being physically present upon the Earth in the latter twentieth century and early twenty-first century held challenges and initiations unlike others past. Some heeded this warning while others did not, can you tell now which category you fall into, or have you fallen in too far to tell?

Each level was carefully planned, adjusted and aligned with the previous one and then sealed onto the map. The sealing process involved encoding certain recognizable symbols from one layer onto the next. These symbols or pathways allowed you (and you alone) to recognize not only your true path, but how to travel or jump dimensions when necessary in order to further understand or delve into an aspect of your unique expression upon Earth. These pivotal or intersecting points of light were emblazoned upon your subtle conscious so that your conscious mind would not struggle in a memorization process; this would have been useless as these symbols or seals do not correspond or to linear time. The seals of each level were designed to relate to one another in an orderly but non-specific manner so that you could use your map from any frame of reference. You could jump dimensions or densities as long as the keys or seals fit together. Each seal was set into the map in a locked position so that divine timing would determine when and how you came upon each succeeding level, threshold or initiation. Do you begin to remember specific moments when you unlocked or opened certain seals? Do you remember certain initiations or thresholds that led to the next level of experience? These moments of navigational success were celebrated by your guides, keepers and cartographers alike. Likewise, when you failed to notice or purposefully ignored one or more of the encoded keys your guides have done their best to redirect your energies or reconstruct the map, making it more useful for you as necessary.

Maps carry very specific energy and no two are alike just as no two beings of any type are alike (not even clones) because the universe is not designed to accommodate sameness, rather, it celebrates individuality and that which is unique. Your cartographer worked very closely with you to design and create a unique and recognizable pattern of expression. Each subsequent level became more intricate, beautiful and specific. In the next level we find symbols and representations of people, places, animals, and experiences relative to this lifetime. These symbols were tailored from the fabric of time, silken threads woven into patterns of energy recognizable only by you. Here we find sensory images of loved ones, business associates, cities, townships and countries of importance. Here is where free will meets destiny as you made specific decisions prior to your birth which you may or may not have honored in your physical path. At times you have recognized a specific pattern of energy and engaged in a relationship or made a decision you knew would ultimately conclude unpleasantly, yet you also knew that you must participate in it based upon a prior agreement or promise made to yourself or to another. Sometimes you recognized the pattern but chose not to participate in it, choosing instead to sidestep it and create an alternate path. If your guides felt that it was of substantial enough importance they would find another place and time to provide you with another opportunity to choose. This is why you sometimes say, "Oh no, not again. I thought I've already been here." Again, ultimately the decision is your own.

Pets and other loved ones who have made promises to one another relative to this lifetime can also be found on this level. You will recognize your loved ones regardless of physical appearance because it was their energy that was encoded, not their physical appearance. Likewise, the specific energy of a city or other location is recognizable by its energetic sensory imprint upon you such as a scent or color. That is why you sometimes say, "It smells like home." The mineral and plant kingdom do not figure as prominently upon this level unless there is a specific path to discovery or knowledge directly relating to your life's purpose such as when a being's past life in these areas carries significance. Perhaps an example of an archaeologist who returns to continue a specific line of work would be appropriate. In this case, all that the mineral kingdom could offer would be relevant, do you see? This level carries the most specific information and yet it is by far the level that many have ignored or glossed over more than any other. Here is where the earth human, the 'automatic pilot' says, "don't worry, I like surprises," while the spiritual human has you crying out for a grander adventure or level of understanding because you are tired of going around in circles saying "been there, done that." It takes a great deal of care to work through this level. It contains more clues, places to seek counsel and rest areas than any other level but herein is the trap. It becomes as comfortable as an old chair and there is a reluctance to leave it. The rest areas say to you, "What's the hurry? Where is there to go anyway?" Many of your family and friends are stuck here and you are helpless to move them beyond here because you cannot read their map, it is written in their own hand just as yours is written in your own. To move beyond this level and onto the next you must decode and then align all of the symbols. Each carries a unique piece of information which when aligned in proper sequence will spell out a wisdom uniquely your own. This wisdom is your key to the next level (of understanding). It assures your success in this life and opens doors and windows to possibilities you had not yet considered.

The next level of the map is the most unique and magical of them all. It does not look or feel like any other level and can be a bit disconcerting at first. Rather than many keys and symbols there are relatively few or none at all. This is the spiritual plane of understanding and although there is something quite familiar about it, you cannot quite place what it is. Your guides and teachers spent extensive time with you going over this particular level so you would not lose your way and need to retrace your steps. They said to go back from here would be difficult because you could not erase or unlearn what you had already discovered; they said this experience would prove painful and some of you know this to be true. Each key or symbol acquired along the way was incorporated into your beingness and it became a part of your truth and your awareness. Your guides and teachers told you to remember to call upon them when you arrived here so you would not feel lost or fearful. My sentience exists upon this level. When you hear my words or feel my vibration you are accessing what some call Gaia Mind or the Heart of Gaia. My sentience is able to guide you into understanding the truth of your being and the importance of the path you have chosen. The kingdoms of Earth and Heaven exist at this level and are available to you. Even if you feel more comfortable at other levels this one will call to you because it contains the ultimate keys. Here you will find who you are and why you came. You will rediscover your unique beauty and truth and understand that you are whole, complete and one with All That Is.

Most of you are becoming accustomed to this level now. At first you found yourselves scurrying here and there looking for answers you already know and rereading books long ago committed to memory. This has allowed you firm footing while taking the time to evaluate your new surroundings. Your concerns about life have become different. Tests of courage have come less frequently and have served to confirm rather than to agitate. Faith, intuition and trust in self and others has increased. Peace has become your walk rather than your talk. You have discovered the importance of this time period and its historic significance along with the unique positioning that calls for an evolutionary leap. There are yet more levels to discover in your unique map and this level will afford you the opportunity to once again meet with your guides and teachers. You will have the opportunity to recall your cartographer or to become your own cartographer as you will soon discover. Remember that you are the architect of your life and that all choices ultimately rest with you. Where do you wish to go from here? What will bring you joy? What do you wish to revisit, what do you wish to know? What do you wish to be, where do you wish to walk?

This level is unique in that it can be said to swivel or toggle. It can best be described as a portal to all other levels. In your time there is a child's board game called Chutes and Ladders, do you know of what I speak? This level is a bit like that, it can go forward or backward in experience or time, up or down in dimension or density. It can manifest physical reality or non-physical experience. It can delight or astound, expand or contract, surround or surrender. You must therefore employ all that you have learned so that the keys that this plane has to offer will be available to you at all times.

I have outlined the soul/lifetime mapmaking process and described many levels of experience in great detail, but as always there is more and here you will have to discover for yourselves what that might be. Maps are sometimes described as guides and this terminology is appropriate given our current discussion. Your map is one of your guides and is certainly as valuable as any spirit guide or spiritual tool known to you. Your map has been a good source of information and inspiration, it has led you to where you find yourself today. Where is that? Where are you on your path? Are you on track and where you want to be? Do you see yourself near the beginning or the end? Are you comfortable and secure with the keys and symbols you have discovered or have you found yourself retracing many steps in order to have a more clear understanding? Have you discovered the importance of your choice to be incarnate upon the earth at this time or do you still harbor the desire to flee for parts unknown? Your map was designed to assist you in getting you to where you are today, wherever that might be. Although it was not designed as a directional map, many have interpreted it as such. In other words, it has been used to discern the quickest path from Point A to Point B. That is well and good but as has been said, there is more.

Long ago the ancient Egyptian cultures took the time to describe and inscribe their lives in rich stories upon papyrus, stone and other media. They understood the importance of maps and charts and they took great care in creating and detailing maps of both Earth and Heaven. Many of these have been decoded and many still exist as great mysteries to minds that cannot yet comprehend the advanced concepts offered by this race. Detailed maps and pictures were begun at birth and continued throughout the life of the individual. These maps existed on many levels, even as the ones we have described here. They related to the individual's physical life and their personal interests, as well as their unique relationships with family and friends. They detailed specific accounts of merit and outlined paths of interest and fascination. When their physical life appeared to be near the end, great care was taken to record all that the individual had achieved including accolades bestowed upon them by one or more gods, initiations past, and desires for a pleasant journey into the next reality. The stories and maps did not conclude with the death of the individual, but with an invitation to rediscover the individual in their new form upon their return. Some of the interpretations offered by modern day archaeologists are incorrect, and many of the items enshrined within the tombs were purposely placed where they would be discovered. They were not meant to accompany these beings to their next experience because they knew that the next reality would afford them all they would need. The carefully place items were symbols and keys; they were part of the map and they were placed where others who might benefit from these keys would discover them.

The same is true of the grand culture called the Maya. They also understood the importance of maps, keys and symbols. They also left much of their treasure behind so that it could be discovered and provide assistance to those who could decode the truths of Earth and Heaven. Their stories and maps also did not end with the death of the individual but with his rebirth into the next reality which would hold its own treasure. They understood and describe the importance of the journey and made little reference to the destination, which at best was a stopping point prior to embarking on the next journey. Few current cultures place much importance upon the journey, preferring instead to rush ever onward toward a future that is uncertain and rarely arrives as promised. Tomorrow is more important than today, and yesterday of little or no value at all. Most maps are linear and directional, they represent geographic coordinates and point to specific locations with few if any other details offered.

My messages are sometimes thought of as keys to higher understanding and deeper awareness. As such, I now offer you another key as well as a symbol to accompany it. This key will allow you to step off the linear platform of physical awareness and onto the level of multi-dimensional creativity. It is the next level of your map and one which you will soon create.

Experiential Imagery

What is Experiential Imagery? It is what exists beyond meditation. Meditation allows your mind and your heart to become one and in so doing, exist in a peaceful state of grace. Here you contemplate oneness as you merge with it. In meditation you become whole and centered. Your body aligns its meridians and your chakras likewise respond as divinity inspires your beingness. You are carried into realms beyond your own and inspired to seek these again and again. Integration is at hand and enlightenment within your grasp. You and Source are one and separation becomes a thing of the past. Experiential Imagery begins where meditation leaves off. It assumes you are already one with Source because you arrived in this manner. Your illumined status brings you into accord with aspects and concepts experienced but not understood. Experiential Imagery takes the mind beyond logic and thinking. It merges the hemispheres of the brain engaging the endocrine system and its corresponding glands to release hormones in advanced combinations. The physical body is therefore able to produce sensory images beyond those available in normal waking time or in meditative stance. Experiential Imagery takes one beyond linear time and into multidimensional awareness. Here, space and time relate to one another differently affording the participant a grander avenue of expression; one in which the past, the present and the future are both viewed and experienced as one. Experiential Imagery provides an opportunity to participate with unseen realms (Guides, Angels, Teachers, etc.,) in a manner beyond third dimensional awareness. Experiential Imagery is best described as a cosmic hyper-link to other dimensions.

In the following exercise, you will have an opportunity to experience Experiential Imagery. You will be receive the key to the next level described earlier as well as a symbol that will link this level to all previous ones. Your beingness and your life upon the earth is still your ultimate responsibility. Where you go and what you do with your life rests primarily with your interpretation of free will and creativity. The following experience with Experiential Imagery will assist you in unlocking potential that exists beyond the third dimension. As this experience is not governed by space, time or dimension, you will have the opportunity to participate with it from a perspective beyond you current one. Subsequent experiences will include creative resources and transformative responses that can be incorporated into your daily life.

Experiential Imagery Exercise

Sit upright in a chair or cushion that will allow the vertebrae of the back to remain comfortably aligned. Close your eyes and place your awareness within the center of your being. Breathe normally, inhaling and exhaling until your breath becomes regular. When the breath becomes of little interest to the mind or the body rotate your awareness so that breathing appears to be taking place within rather than without. In other words, it becomes a concept rather than a physical experience. Now do the same with your eyes. Rotate your awareness so that your eyes see only inward. Call upon your pituitary gland to merge both hemispheres of the brain and allow your inward facing eyes to watch the process take place. When the two hemispheres of the brain become one your reality will begin to shift and your awareness will expand. Let your awareness (not your attention) be carried purposefully to an area of your brain where you detect a surge of energy being created. As your awareness enters this area there will be a further shift in reality as measured by space and time. Corridors of space, time and light will begin to emerge and your awareness will be drawn to one or more of these. Each will be represented by a color, vibration, and symbol. Allow your awareness to follow the one that seems most obvious or natural. As you enter the corridor you have chosen you may feel disoriented and dizzy for a moment. Physical sensation may feel as if it is falling away as non-physical sensation engages and takes over. As you surrender your physical awareness your beingness will feel itself move beyond the confines of the physical body.

At this point color may intensify and become more brilliant or it may fade into blackness. Either experience will further expand your awareness and you will find yourself moving onto another plane of consciousness, a more subtle one. Time and space will be relative but not relevant to your experience. Release your linear mind from its obligation and invite it to expand into realms beyond the current one. As conceptual imagery begins to fall away separation will yield to unity. Your expanding awareness will now include universal potential as a possibility for it is no longer separate from it.

Your expanding awareness will eventually include an orientation that exists beyond time and space. All movement and expansion will appear to come to a halt as you are momentarily "lifted" from this plane onto another. Here you will find many keys and symbols. You will recognize and be drawn to five keys and seven symbols. As you recognize them they will immediately merge with you, positioning themselves strategically within your beingness. As the many other keys and symbols fade from view you will begin to recognize one or more familiar energies as having influence upon your being. Allow these energies to nurture and welcome you. Among these guiding energies you will discover your Keeper and your Cartographer who will greet you warmly. They will have what appear to be transparent dimensional layers that you recognize as your own map. They will show you in great detail the path you have taken and outline for you where and how it has differed from what was originally created. They will assist you in retracing any path that feels incomplete or inconsistent with your experience. They will help you to realign the overlays or transparencies into another order if you feel that is important.

When you feel complete and at one with your map the transparencies will begin to change shape, perhaps more than once. The keys and symbols you discovered and chose on this plane will coincide with the shape and scale of your map. Geometries will attune your keys and symbols as the universe appears to bend and flex until an original alchemical formula uniquely your own emerges.

Your cartographer will present this new map to you for your approval. Evaluate it and make any added suggestions you deem necessary. Look carefully at where the new keys and symbols are located so that you will recognize them regardless of what plane of awareness they appear on. Have other guiding energies assist you to balance and enliven any polarities or gaps in your awareness. Remove any boundaries or limitations that may remain. Lastly, locate all dimensional doorways to physical and non-physical realities and expressions.

Upon completing this, allow the new map and its corresponding geometry to merge with your awareness. Position and align it where you will have access to it regardless of where you find yourself. Place your awareness in one or more areas of the map at the same time so that you will become comfortable with its/your purpose. Beyond this experiential moment you will encounter the map as if for the first time. Your conscious mind will not make the associations you now make because it has not traveled here with you. You feel as though you are blind and yet this is impossible for even a blind man can see within whether he faces north or south, toward heaven or earth.

From afar now comes a light, familiar in its warmth yet blinding in its brilliance. As the light nears you instinctively move to receive it. It is the light of All That Is and your vibration rises and welcomes it. Your map, newly empowered with intention, sacred geometry, and the blessing of those who honor you now receives the light of the thousand suns finally imprinting and emblazoning your map (your path) upon your being.

Your current expanded awareness has new offerings from which to choose. One of these is to return to your body by incorporating the laws of physics, time, space and place or instead, with your awareness still turned inward toward All That Is to traverse the map of time and space by locating the appropriate keys and symbols and activating them. Matching one to another will unlock the corridors of time and the paths of creation. Move one level or corridor at a time or all at once, your beingness knows how to do this and your awareness will guide you appropriately. I (my sentience as well as the physical planet) will be present to receive you. I await you with love, support, guidance and respect. Your initiation is now complete.

Copyright © 2002 Pepper Lewis, The Peaceful Planet