Out of the Body during the Aurora Borealis
Our star the Sun had belched out two massive Class X solar flares followed by two Class M’s. The solar storm was powerful and spectacular, and ignited a planet-wide geomagnetic storm down here upon the Earth. Magnificent displays of the Auroras were predicted around the world halfway to the equator. The Aurora Borealis were the Northern Lights, and the Aurora Australis the Southern Lights. They proved impressive. Certainly they were the most impressive I’ve ever witnessed.
The Aurora Borealis from top of the bluffs at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park in Shoreline, WA, looking south along Puget Sound of the Salish into Seattle. About 20 minutes after midnight on Saturday 11 May 2024. New smartfone camera technology picked up so much more data. My new Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max proved superlative.
Ignored all this at first. Too often there’ve been past disappointments when spectacular auroras were announced but either didn’t show, or were too faint, or hidden by cloudy skies. Then friends from all over including ex-wives began texting me fotos and videos of gloriously incandescent displays of the Northern Lights. WOW! Ran into the bedroom and attempted to wake up my wife, Faithlyn, as I knew she would love to see it. Besides, she was off work tomorrow and could sleep in.
Became clear to me Faithlyn wasn’t gonna make it. She was exhausted. She sat up on the edge of the bed, then toppled over sound asleep. Faithlyn was out of it. I shook her again, gently. No go. OK, that’s life, y’know. Let her sleep. She earned it.
Saw the Aurora Borealis amid a swarm of humans and dogs. Even, unbeknown to me at the time, captured images of what appear to be UFOs/UAPs zipping about over the shoreline further south. Seattle and many of its satellite cities went right up to the edge of the Salish Sea, the island-dotted inland waters of the Pacific Ocean, and water is often associated with transmedium UAP phenomena. It was close to 1:00 in the morning before I got back home.
The Big Dipper in Ursa Major, the Big Bear. Polaris, the North Star, is beyond the edge of the foto, where it forms the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper, or Ursa Minor, Little Bear.
The following morning we were discussed the amazing Aurora Borealis and joking about Faithlyn’s difficulty waking up. Then my wife, who is Deaf while I am Hard-of-Hearing, shared the following:
“When you woke me up, it’s like an out of body experience. I saw myself sleeping but at the same time I was awake when you woke me up. It was hard to wake up,” she texted me and laughed as I read it. Faithlyn’s consciousness was out of her body, watching her body sleep, then fell back into her body as she fell back into the pillows and blankets. Her out-of-body-experience, or OOBE, was brief yet memorable, as if a small window opened into a big mystery.
“Wow, that seems a fascinating experience in itself,” I texted back. “Consciousness is not limited to the body. Sorry to wake you up, & it was a very rare experience. Didn’t get home till 1am. Went to Richmond Beach – swarms of people out. Kristina was in a mob of looky-loos at Matthews Beach, & Edan was up on Whidbey Island.”
“Even if I went, I wouldn’t be able to stay awake,” Faithlyn texted back. “I was in a deep sleep. It’s like my body demands it. I’m glad you had a great time. 😀”
“Missed you there, & yes, you needed your sleep. Do you remember the deep dream itself?”
“No, but i remember the weird dream this morning.”
“Well, should be able to see the auroras tonight” I wrote. “After picking you up from Syd’s we can go to Volunteer Park to watch. Darker the better. This solar storm exceeded all expectations worldwide but so far our electricity systems are holding up well. Wonder if your parents stayed awake to behold this rare event. I almost did not go myself last night as didn’t expect much.”
“I don’t think my parents stayed up,” she responded. “Rachel is feeble. Daddy worries about her.”
“Maybe they saw thru the windows,” I wrote, feeling hopeful. “Also got a card in the mail yesterday from Rachel. Waiting to open with you.”
“I think it’s the birthday card. 😀”
“Si,” I texted back. “Now gonna go make coffee.”
Apple, however, likes to get in the last word regardless with, “Sent from my iPhone.”
Consciousness remains the eternal mystery in this life. For now. Consciousness extends beyond the physical matter of the body, even after the death of the body, and seems to lack mass, adding to its mystery. But is consciousness truly infinite and eternal? How long does it endure after the death of the body? Is reincarnation necessary for its longevity if consciousness isn’t eternal? Or is individual consciousness subsumed into the collective consciousness? Does our individual consciousness join any group collective willingly? Does it bring with itself the sum totality of life experience and knowledge of the life most recently lived? Or does it float around like a ghost, out of time as we know it, only to evaporate into oblivion in the same way a black hole may ultimately evaporate into nothingness? There is so much our remote ancestors knew, there is so much we know today, and there is much more we have yet to learn. Yes, consciousness remains the eternal mystery in this life.
William Dudley Bass
Saturday 11 May 2024
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Shoreline/Seattle, WA
USA
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