November 23, 2012
This was an astounding OBE (out-of-body-experience) but only the first part is applicable here. I was dreaming and became lucid. I immediately deepened my awareness using a palpation technique until I was 100% conscious. I was in a place that looked like Chinatown in San Francisco, that was filled with people. I rose up into the air to get my bearings and recalled my first plan of action. I usually have at least three projects to carry out during an OBE. I flew up fairly high and knew what I was going to do but as I looked in the distance I saw an ominous mountain perhaps only a few miles away. It was like I was viewing it in the morning, just before the break of dawn, and it looked dark and bluish and had what looked like grey snow on the peak. It seemed to grow larger as I looked at it. The main thing about the mountain was the feeling I got as I looked at it. It was a feeling of power and deep meaning and it seemed that if I kept my attention on it it would pull me in. It wasn’t frightening but more like ominous and overwhelming. It seemed to represent something important but mysterious – it was the unknown. I pulled back from it and turned around and continued with my plan to find Ana (the spirit name of my soul partner), not knowing she had recently passed away. But that’s another story for another time.
The encounter with the mountain was brief but powerful. I thought it represented God or oblivion or even possibly Ana, who I intended to contact. It was over a year later that I was looking at a picture of Mt. Arunachala, Ramana Maharshi’s home, that I made the connection. I had seen pictures of it before but ruled it out as the one in the OBE because it never has snow on it. But I found a view where it looked similar. Curious, I used Google Earth and found the right angle, and it was the same as what I saw! It’s just like the picture on Wikipedia. The grey snow was really trails and rock formations on one side as it might be seen in moonlight. I guess the Truth was pulling at me.