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I believe that most authors write their introduction after they have completed the work, adding comments to help explain what you are about to read in the following pages. I guess the reason for this is that they don't know until their work is finished what it is that they are going to say. Even though I have written some of what you are about to read, it is at this point a work in progress and as such this introduction is as much to help me get my bearings as it is to tell you where we are going.

This is not a channeled work, yet it does come through me. The difference is that I have to understand and make the information mine before I pass it on. In this process I sometimes represent the information as being received from characters, personalities with names. In the end, they are all me and I, therefore, claim ownership of, and responsibility for, the processed information.

We all live our lives as a journey, one in which we get to act out our dreams, an agreement that perhaps we wrote prior to entering this go-around. This is known in some circles as a life contract. If anything is sacred then this contract must fall into that category. My contract is apparently, at least up to this point, one of remembering who I am. There seems to be a whole lot of forgetfulness surrounding our memory as to who we are, where we came from and, most important of all in this life, where we are going and what we are to do in that knowing. I once heard a very wise person being asked by someone who wanted to know what it was that they were supposed to do in this life. She replied that when you are in your final moments you will look back on your life and realize that, "Oh, so that was what I was here to do". To me the message was not to concern ourselves with where we are going but to just live our lives in the now.

I want to say that the process of remembering my life agreement started at some particular time so that at least there will be a beginning but for the life of me (my life) I just can't seem to remember when that point in my journey occurred. Recapitulation is the process I use for accessing those often forgotten memories and the healing that is possible with that recollection. This process was facilitated for me by some alter ego (some would say alternate personality) that calls itself David, but I am getting ahead of the story here in telling you of him. Let's just say that I talk with myself a lot these days and have for most of my life. In my childhood the conversation with self was by way of imaginary friends, or so I thought. I now realize that they were not so imaginary after all. But who can say what is imaginary and what is real?

Through my conversations with David he has helped me to find myself, for when I was pressured to say goodbye to my earlier friends of imagination I started the process of losing myself in my dream. What I later realized was that I had said goodbye to a part of myself, for in order to fit into the adult world I felt the need to let go of the portion of self who believed that deams were real. I remained lost in that dream until I awakened to that shocking realization. It was at that point the journey took a sudden turn. If there was a time of beginning then it must have been then. Although, there was a time fairly early in my life when I had to make a decision as to whether or not I was going to continue with my agreement or just push the eject button. Fortunately, I chose to stay and challenge those inner demons that pushed me towards a premature departure.

What I have remembered, with David's help, has shown me that what I had forgotten prior to the awakening was all part of the process. It really wasn't a beginning as much as a remembering of the dream that I had been having up until then. And, more importantly, I realized that I am still in a dream, albeit a lucid one. So, I was having a dream within a dream. The awakening was not some all-knowing enlightenment but more of a realization that everything I thought I knew was now in question, for it had all been a self-created delusion that I somehow believed was quite real.

The Hopi Indian elders of the American Southwest speak of us soon emerging from a dream into a new world. When asked what the metaphor of the dream meant, they replied that it is not a metaphor at all; for we are truly to awaken and realize that all that had gone before was a dream. This two hundred year old prophesy says that what will precede this awakening will be white men wearing beads and the eagle landing on the moon.

Michelangelo was once asked how he carved such a beautiful figure from a lump of stone. His response was that he did no such thing. He claimed that the figure was already in there; all he did was to liberate it by removing the excess. I believe that inside each of us is this beautiful enlightened spiritual being unaware that we are dreaming and being held captive by an excess called the mind. We, especially here in western society, are slaves to our minds. Our minds are so conditioned to the idea of rationality that being irrational is considered a sin, or worse, a form of mental illness.

This left-brain conditioning begins early in childhood and is reinforced throughout our lives. Dr. Charles Tart calls this the "consensus trace" and warns us to beware of its powers. The mind, as it is conditioned, has to pass judgment on all that we perceive before it is sent on into our awareness and we are allowed to "know" it as true, to say "yes, it does exist" and therefore accept it as part of our reality.

The idea that there is more than what we are conditioned to believe is real is rejected by the rational mind out-of-hand. This high degree of filtering offers us a very limited view of what is possible, yet it becomes our view and as such we create the world we know. Fortunately, there is this little voice that is constantly and eternally speaking and telling us that there is more than we are allowing into our conscious awareness and it often slips by the eagle eyed mind to become what we call direct knowing. Knowing is just that, knowing, and it cannot be explained to the mind; for how could one explain knowing to a mind?

I am reminded of the first American version of the television program called Big Brother. I watched it intently, not only on TV but also during the day on the Internet. It was a microcosm of our world. There were these people living in this house with no contact with the outside world other than what the show's producers wanted them to know. The limited information was all that they had so they took it and used their rational minds to fill in the blanks. They came up with very logical conclusions based on the information they had at the time. The only problem was that it was not what was happening given the greater picture of which they had only limited knowledge.

Instead of the little voice or a UFO flying overhead to tell them that there was more to the story, a lone banner tow pilot decided to send them a message from his airplane. At one point, however, there was a faint voice coming over the wall from someone using a bull horn at some distance giving them information that the show's producers would rather they not have.

In the macrocosm of society you can allow that little voice to be heard loud and clear and thereby become attuned to the alternative view, if you so chose. In doing so you run the risk of being an outsider, one who will find new friends coming and old ones creating some distance from your new found self and the knowledge contained therein.

The history of science and our understanding of the world around us is another such scenario. The world was flat and then it was round. All the lights in the sky were stars and they moved around Earth every day except for a few which seemed to lose their way from time to time. Then the telescope was invented and the idea that perhaps the sun was more the center than Earth came to be the accepted view after much pain and suffering.

So, this book is about one person's journey of allowing that voice to be heard amid all the noise and a process that I believe is essential in western culture to allow this to happen, a process to become lucid in our dream. The main thrust of this process is to pay off the left-brain and get it out of the way so that true knowing can come directly into conscious awareness. To do this I had to first find my own unified field theory as to how reality is constructed from our perspective, form an explanation that would make the payment and thereby have my rational mind allow direct knowledge through the gate that it keeps so well.

Much like Quantum String Theory, I have had to add dimensions (many mansions) to my reality in order to make it acceptable to the mind. With the understanding that anything is possible, the world as we know it is no longer on sacred ground. The old guard of high priest scientists has been replaced by the new Quantum physicists who bring in a greater view allowing for more possibilities. We now have permission to move laterally into parallel worlds and assemble any joyous place we so desire. We will do so with complete confidence that not only is it as real as anything that preceded it in our dream but one in which we can sustain that assemblage.

In addition to our rational mind being the gatekeeper of perception it is also the anchor for our sanity. By giving it greater latitude in which to operate we can move into areas of thought and awareness which would have been considered insane by the mind's previous filters. Understand that those around you may not be on board with these changes and you will need to release them to find their own destiny.

As you move into this alternate universe you will find others, whom you thought you knew, changing as well. The change you see in them may appear as a veil lifting from your eyes as to who they really are. This, of course, is an illusion. What you are witnessing is them as they have always been in that universe; it is just that you have moved into a world where that personality exists.

By choosing your world carefully you can create a place that has wonderful loving people, some of whom may be familiar. A key to creating such a world is forgiveness. You must open your heart and forgive all of those who you believe have transgressed against you, but more importantly, you must forgive yourself for having dreamt the dream. Only then will you be free to travel the spiritual outback and enjoy the magic that it brings into your life.

I now see a great wave of change coming over the horizon, tsunami sized events that we can either learn to surf or be washed away.

Welcome to my world. Welcome to the ride.

Your eternal scout, L. Oliver Duffy, Coyote Man