“Experience is the essence of existence.”

— Inspired by Alan Watts and Zen philosophy

Introduction

Humanity is a paradoxical species.

We have undergone many scientific and technological advancements. We now have AI, robotics, automation, and other digital technologies that make life far easier.

Yet, many of us are entrapped in a nine-to-five corporate rat race. We work paycheck to paycheck just to cover our rent, mortgages, utility bills, and basic groceries.

Many of us simply work and then return home to watch TikTok, Netflix, or YouTube, or to scroll on our phones. We may go golfing or travel the world at most once per year.

Yet, deep down, many of us feel that something is wrong with the system. It is as if we are mere wage slaves, whose only purpose is to serve the economy.

We think that life is simply all about getting married, having children, going to church weekly, working, consuming, and that is all.

Life feels empty from within, almost devoid of higher meaning and purpose. And in some countries, like Japan or South Korea, which are more competitive, people may feel suffocated because they have no time to enjoy life.

Then, when physical death nears, we feel the fears and grip of mortality approaching and slipping. On our deathbeds, we ponder what we could have done instead. Then, imminent death comes, and we think that is the end of consciousness.

What if I told you that there is something far more within and beyond? Is there a far greater cosmic and spiritual purpose for why we are all here?

It turns out that there is! An entire system describes and explains the cosmic spiritual architecture. We can use this to manifest purpose and meaning in our lives to cure the malaise of modern life!

We are now on the verge of a transition from an ego-driven, fear-based Earth to a new Earth grounded in universal love, peace, acceptance, tolerance, freedom, and creative manifestation.

I have written this free book to accelerate the social revolution that will define humanity’s future.

The Broader Spiritual Reality

What You Are Not

Modern science has benefitted humanity in unimaginable ways. Some countries, like China, are now developing robotic flying cars and robot servants to attend to people’s needs.

However, modern science is also a paradox. It seeks to expand, but it also contracts. Many domains in science have become strictly materialistic.

Many believe that if the physical body dies, then consciousness perishes permanently alongside it. The world of matter is all there is to the cosmos.

Hence, many materialistic philosophers have arisen to pay homage to this belief. Many economic theories ignore people’s spiritual fulfillment in favor of maximizing consumption and growth. Some philosophies, like Ayn Rand’s, champion the idea that people should be selfish.

The result is a world that has become fragmented and materially driven, yet spiritually vacant within.

However, here is the greatest secret that I now reveal to you, through my knowledge, spiritual pursuit, and mystical experiences:

You are not matter.

You are not your thoughts.

You are not your feelings.

You are not your beliefs.

You are not your job.

You are not your title.

You are not your salary.

You are not your nationality.

You are not your ethnicity.

You are not your religion.

And many more.

Instead, you are the awareness behind the veil of matter. You are the infinite spiritual consciousness that observes and beholds the experience of being a finite, physical, human being.

Human beings have forgotten this because they have over-identified with and become over-attached to material, bodily consciousness.

What Consciousness Is

In the philosophy of mind, great minds have always pondered the origins of consciousness. Some philosophers reduce it to matter, extinguishing the inner world of feelings entirely.

However, nothing can ever fully explain consciousness. This is because it is pure experience, and you must become it to grasp it fully. It cannot be reduced to equations, theories, or dissertations.

It is the same thing as being a bat. You can describe and predict a bat’s behavior through equations. However, you can never know what it is like to be the bat unless you are the bat, experiencing its consciousness as a bat.

Likewise, you can describe or explain away consciousness in numbers, words, equations, or theories. However, you can never know it unless you are the experience of consciousness itself.

This is like a person pointing at the moon and saying, “It’s the moon.” The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon, but the theory that describes it.

However, modern science is like this person. It points at the moon and looks at its own finger, thinking the finger is the moon. It fails to look ahead to gaze at the splendor of the moon as it is, the thing-in-itself.

Consciousness simply is. It is like the moon in the analogy. It is a fundamental aspect of the cosmos.

This inherent spiritual consciousness within us is not material. You embody it. You experience it. And you are it.

Your Immortal Soul

From where and when does this consciousness arise? Not in time or space.

Upon physical death, your consciousness does not get permanently extinguished. It rises out of the body and journeys to the afterlife, a realm powered by thought and emotion.

Anything you think or believe instantly manifests on the other side of the mortal veil. There is no scarcity in the afterlife.

Many afterlife researchers have confirmed this. You can read more about this in the works of Michael Newton, Walter Semkiw, Brian Weiss, Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring, Kevin Williams, Dolores Cannon, Victor Zammit, and many more.

Many of them are based on veridical near-death experiences. This happens when an unconscious person may have surgery performed on them. However, their souls leave their bodies, and they witness who is there and what is happening. After returning, they verify accurately what they could not have known otherwise.

Your soul incarnates across dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of human lifetimes. No one forces the soul to reincarnate. You chose it because you want to be here.

Your soul is immortal. It can never perish — only be transformed from one state to another, such as a more evolved one.

Does this scare or surprise you, knowing that you are an immortal being?

Perhaps it is even more astonishing that I now reveal to you that most of you on Earth have not just had past human lives.

You could have thousands of past incarnations in different physical, mental, spiritual, or half-physical, half-spiritual realms as other sentient species.

This does not even include non-incarnating lives, where you may have other roles, “jobs,” or experiences in non-physical realms.

Dr. Michael Newton and the Michael Teachings, as presented by Shepherd Hoodwin, have explored and described this.

That is how powerful and ancient you are. That is why you must never see yourself as any less.

You are here, a greater consciousness, temporarily assuming human form, to explore and express free will.

What You Are

And so, what are you? Who are you?

To ask this question is to do so from a limited human perspective. You can never truly grasp absolute reality from this finite form.

The human brain has evolved its limited faculties to function optimally in its physical environment. It was not meant to capture the essence of the infinite.

It is like how a being in a two-dimensional world (a Flatlander) can only perceive light falling on their one-dimensional retinas. They see just a line, and their limited brains infer two-dimensionality.

You are the same, a three-dimensional being trying to grasp the infinitely complex and approach absolute reality.

No equations, numbers, or theories, no matter how complex, can capture the infinite.

However, in human, finite terms, it means:

You are a finite fragment of the all-that-there-is; call it the Tao, God, or the One, if you will.

And you are this finite expression and manifestation of this unitary cosmic consciousness that is the I Am.

Everything in the cosmos is one — a part of this eternal, undying, timeless, and infinite consciousness.

In this book, I will refer to this all-that-there-is as far as possible as the One or Tao, as “God” has become a highly patriarchal, masculine, and human-centric concept.

Hence, it was not madness when saints such as Jesus Christ attained the realization of ‘I am’ — a recognition that they were one with the all-that-there-is.

You are the I am in the eternal cosmos since all things are truly one.

You have merely forgotten it.

Why You Are Here on Earth

Why did you come here to this physical school you call “Earth?” Did someone punish you and force you to reincarnate here?

No. Not at all.

You came here because you are a brave cosmic explorer — a part of the eternal and timeless I am, the One, who wants to know itself more fully.

I present the following cosmology, which may resonate with many readers of Eastern spirituality.

For other readers, this may seem far-fetched, but later in the book, I will heavily support the framework with evidence from many disciplines (such as insights from near-death experiences).

The One was forged in unity. In unity, there was infinite knowledge and presence. The One manifests all possibilities at once.

In spirit form, you can create anything you want on the other side, even entire galaxies or universes.

However, the One realized that this omniscience and omnipresence led to a paradox: it cannot choose.

Choice can only occur when it has finiteness, linear time, ignorance, challenges, negativity, and darkness to rise above.

Infinity is unstable. Hence, from the One came the many, and you are an infinitesimal spark of the infinite One.

You came here because the One wanted to experience limitation through its physical creations, including its infinite physical, mental, and spiritual universes, many of which have different laws of physics, psychology, morality, cognition, and spirituality.

As the One descends into the physical realms, Maya, or illusion, veils it, and it no longer perceives the cosmos as unitary.

It experiences duality and polarity, such as light and darkness, joy and sorrow, fear and courage, wisdom and ignorance, yin and yang, and countless others.

The One and you both forget their original divinity to express, manifest, and experience limited forms.

This resolves the One’s greatest existential angst: having no choices. Only in finite forms can one truly play the game of free will.

An infinite number of realities exist across the cosmos. Free will is a game that we play in physical universes with only one dimension of time. As you will see later in this book, having this trait allows us to experience free will and spiritual evolution.

Perhaps some other universes involve playing “games” (realities) with concepts unimaginable to human minds, being beyond time, space, matter, energy, or consciousness.

Various sources from near-death experiences, afterlife studies, past-life regression studies, Theosophy, and many Eastern perspectives have provided evidence to support this cosmology.

Likewise, many people who have had near-death experiences came back, astonished by their visions of infinite love and knowledge beyond the veil of mortality, confirming this. I have also experienced six to seven out-of-body experiences (OBEs) to confirm this.

And that is why you are here, brave cosmic soul — to forget your original Oneness and rediscover divinity.

You came here to experience darkness, pain, and suffering. From them, you can rise above and truly appreciate universal love, peace, and harmony.

You volunteered to enter the harsh, crass, and dense physical planes to explore and play the “game” of finite, human life.

Therefore, you have chosen this life, committing to this mortal identity.

You came here to learn, grow through many lives, and return to the source enriched by newfound experience.

This helps the cosmos realize itself and the One to complete itself.

Therefore, you being here is an invitation by the One and yourself to experience human finite form and grow from it.

Hence, enjoy the game of life!

The Divine Secret

The most incredible secret?

Divinity is not something to be sought.

It is already inside of you. You are that divinity.

This book’s purpose is to help you remember it — to help you see past the veil of matter and Maya and apply the laws of spirit to your life.

The laws in this book govern spirit.

Just as the law of gravity pulls everything down to the center of the Earth, the spiritual law of cause and effect, for instance, governs the moral consequences of our actions.

However, just as we can use the laws of physics to create vast technological systems, we can use the laws of the spirit to benefit our lives and others’.

I invite you now to open your mind and see the spiritual laws of reality. In doing so, I hope your life improves and that you can help others spread the universal love that binds all things and returns us to the One.

Please do not accept anything in this book mindlessly. Please verify and validate everything independently. Nothing should be dogma. Accept only what you resonate with. Discard the rest.

With Love,

Aquila Goh (Galactoid)