Instant Enlightenment:

Metaphysical Fast Food

A guide to understanding psychic phenomena
through rational explanations and personal psychic experience

© Koda 2003

Introduction

We are all God.

Understand that and you will be instantly enlightened.

Chances are that even with the "big answer" you don't feel all that enlightened right now. That's because knowledge is merely information until it is perceived as a reality in your own experience.

Over the course of the last few decades I have left my body, "read minds" and performed telekinesis (mind moving matter). I have been fully "awake" while dreaming, experienced déjà vu, transported my consciousness to another time and place, and more. But I am not "enlightened" in the way most people think of that term. I am just some guy who has spent more than thirty years trying to figure out how "God, Life, the Universe and all that psychic stuff" really operates. I have learned a lot, from reading and experimenting, observing and pondering. But simply reading the information is not going to make you enlightened. One needs to experience information as truth. This book is full of exercises and experiments designed to provide you with personal experience which can lead you to discover many previously unrecognized truths about life.

Anyone with an open mind can experience visual telepathy in just minutes, regardless of your belief or disbelief in "things psychic," and the experience will blow you away. Some of the other exercises in the "Psychic Party Games" section can produce results almost as quickly, regardless of your natural level of psychic ability. The results happen because this stuff is real. It is just a matter of learning how to tune into the perceptions.

In my opinion, there is a rational explanation for everything, regardless of whether or not that explanation is known. Metaphysical phenomena has been mixed up with irrational religious dogma on the one hand, and plagued with fraud on the other. Religion asks us to accept explanations on faith alone, while so called "scientific" debunkers invalidate all evidence by demonstrating that some of it could be fraudulent. In spite of this, any objective truth is subject to the same principles of reason we use every day. There is no need to accept anything on faith alone. Psychic phenomena is as real as your arm, and equally subject to the critical analysis of science.

My efforts have been profoundly influenced by the Seth books by Jane Roberts (1929--1984). Seth is a "multi-dimensional personality energy essence no longer focused within physical reality" who spoke through Jane, while her husband, Robert Butts, wrote down Seth¹s dictation. About half a dozen books were written in this way, my favorites being the first two, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (1972) and The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book (1974). Seth is often referred to in this present work.

The series of nine books by Carlos Castaneda (1925?--1998) have also been a significant influence on my way of thinking. The series begins with The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaki Way of Knowledge (1968). Carlos was an anthropology student at UCLA in 1960 when he encountered don Juan Matus, a Yaki Indian sorcerer. Don Juan spent the next ten years teaching Carlos a complex system of metaphysical thinking said to be handed down over thousands of years from the ancient Toltec civilization of Central America. In recent years some controversy has been generated by the possibility that Castaneda may have fraudulently produced his work, but I find the material consistent with my own experience as well as with Seth¹s concept that we create our own reality.

I am also deeply indebted to The Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 4th Edition (1994) edited by J. Gordon Melton, as a much valued source of historical reference.

I would also like to thank my good friend, Kristen Risbeck, for proofreading the manuscript, and the other people who always believed in me despite my unconventional ideas. These include my departed mother, who introduced me to astrology, and from the time I was young continually told me I was her "special" child who would accomplish great things. I am also grateful for the sincere support of Annalisa Sand, Belinda Ray, Darren and Christina Weight, Greg Blackett, and above all, my father, who made it possible for me to become the person I wanted to be.

Writing this book has taken more than four years, largely because I sometimes questioned my qualifications for writing it. There are times when I am fully aware of the spiritual nature of the Universe and feel completely in tune with the flow of my experience. At other times I have found myself stumbling through life feeling like the light at the end of the tunnel may turn out to be an oncoming train. I continually refine my understanding and wanted to include every new insight, but eventually realized I couldn't do that or this book would never be finished - because my knowledge will constantly expand, which is true for all of us.

In the long run each individual must discover the truth on one's own. The source of your knowledge must be your own experience. This book is designed to lead you to your own conclusions.

If you have a willing partner around, you are just minutes away from personally experiencing a form of psychic perception.