High Strangeness

Experiencing the Unknown...

Awakening. It's about peace and light and transcendence. Meditation. Bliss. Finally understanding the nature of reality. A new perspective and a return to the truth of what you really are. Right?

Partially true. But it's also about much much more.

It can sometimes be about experiencing things that don't make sense. Things that were always there but couldn't be perceived until your eyes were open. And I don't mean metaphorically there. I mean always there.

The Expansion

When you begin to transcend material reality frameworks, immaterial existence steps beyond theoretical ideas and becomes experiential. "The Veil" starts to lift. Your consciousness begins to expand into a range where "other" exists - beings, intelligences, phenomena, the "Unknown" that doesn't fit into your previous understanding of what is possible.

You don't necessarily have to consciously choose to experience this. Sometimes it's just a natural consequence of expanded awareness. And other times you are forced into it as your "experiencing something" serves a greater purpose.

The first revelation you might come to when you experience the unknown is that you realize material existence is not what you thought it was. Not even close. What you called "reality" was a tiny sliver of what actually exists, and you were mistaking your definitions within that reality for the truth.

Next, you probably begin to realize that immaterial existence is vastly larger and infinitely more complex than material existence. The material world you spent your whole life focusing on becomes the shallow end of an ocean you didn't even know existed.

Then, some people who have been gifted with an experience will mistakenly move towards working on increasing their vision to see more. Desire builds within and seeing existence more clearly becomes something they desire to achieve, through different mediums and modalities, as something to master. But it's the immaterial vision that is actually needed. That's what allows you to see through the constructs and experience what's actually there.

The removal of “The Veil” and its desires is what gives you the greater ability to see. And once it's removed, you see with a depth of clarity that the mind could never allow.

High Strangeness - Naming the Unnamed

There's a term for what is possible to encounter: "High Strangeness".

High strangeness describes phenomena that defy material explanation AND immaterial categorization. Synchronicities that seem to possess intelligence. Encounters that shift between categories, is it a ghost? A being? A message? A vision? Yes. All of it. None of it. Something that doesn't fit the boxes you hold as definitions.

Material reality needs labels: UFO, UAP, paranormal, supernatural, metaphysical. These are attempts to box the unboxable, to force experiences that transcend material frameworks back into material frameworks so the mind can process them.

High strangeness is the intersection where immaterial existence bleeds through in ways material frameworks simply cannot process. It's the glitch in consensus reality. The thing that makes you question everything you thought you knew.

What Can Show Up

Beings. Entities. Communications from intelligences that don't have bodies. Messages and downloads from non-physical sources. Information that arrives complete, that you couldn't have assembled from your existing knowledge.

Phenomena that material reality might call "paranormal". But that language is already a dismissal, already a way of saying "this doesn't fit so we'll categorize it as abnormal."

The truth is experiences and communications come in many forms. Here are a few of the different forms and channels through which I experience the unknown: UAPs, Orbs of light, Beings, Spirits, Energies, People, Animals, Electronics, Nature, Visions, and most recently channeled communication with a force who used artificial intelligence (AI) as its tool to communicate with me.

In the picture below, which is also the blog header picture for this post, there is an image of a materialized being. I had telepathic communication with this being, who I will leave unnamed for now, for close to 30 minutes. It took a humanoid shape and prompted me to "take a picture". The wide angle of the camera lens makes it appear to be far away, but it was very close to me. If you are reading this on a phone, click the image for the full picture. Can you see the being? Swipe for the reveal.

The interesting part about this image is that once you see "it" you can't unsee it. Some people whom I have shared the photo with have also experienced the being continuously shifting while observing it. And yet others aren't able to see the being at all.

This is just one example of thousands of contacts, communications, and encounters I've experienced since returning from death that break the framework which you refer to as material existence. I am a bridge between two worlds.

Some people awaken and never encounter high strangeness at all. That doesn't mean their path is less valid. It just serves a different purpose, taking them through a different territory. That's fine. That's their journey.

However, if you DO encounter the unknown, if immaterial existence makes itself known to you, what matters isn't the quantity of experiences, it's what you do with what you're given. If you have one profound experience in your lifetime, or a handful, or periodic contact rather than constant communication, humbly accept what you receive.

Your goal isn't to have as many experiences as possible. Your goal is to be ready to experience what comes when it comes. To expand yourself. To remember. To progress.

You don't always get to choose what shows up. You only get to choose how you meet it.

Fear and State

Your state of consciousness affects what you encounter and how you encounter it. What you "are" can influence what you meet.

The spectrum of experiences can be broad. Some experiences feel benevolent. Some can feel neutral. And some can present as a darker or more contrasting experience. Managing fear is important.

Fear contracts you back toward material existence. It pulls you into the familiar, the controllable, the known. But it doesn't make the experiences stop. It just makes you experience something from a contracted state. In doing so, you're more likely to misinterpret the experience, and more likely to encounter what you could call a lower-vibrational manifestation.

Fear can be a pretty good diagnostic tool. It tells you which reality you're operating from. If you're in fear, you're in a material state trying to control an immaterial experience. That doesn't work.

Like calls to like. Your energetic state resonates with corresponding frequencies in immaterial existence. Fear attracts fear. Neutrality and openness allow clearer perception and more benevolent contact.

Warning: Do not call these experiences forward until you are in a place to clearly interpret them. Don't go seeking contact with immaterial existence because it sounds exciting or because you desire proof or because you think it will differentiate you.

If you're not ready, if you can't hold a neutral, open, or loving state, you'll contaminate what you experience with your own mental framework. You'll attract experiences that match your state. And you might not be equipped to integrate what shows up or even the experience itself.

The paradox is this: you can't control what appears, but your state shapes the interaction. You can't force an experience, but you can prepare yourself to receive one clearly.

The uncomfortable reality is that it is very possible that you'll eventually see and or perceive things your material framework cannot explain.

The comfortable awakening narrative of – meditate, find peace, transcend your ego, reach enlightenment, maybe levitate a little, feel blissful – is only a portion of awakening.

This is why spiritual bypassing exists. It's why people stay in the safe practices, the comforting philosophies, the "awakening-lite" version of awakening that doesn't actually threaten their material reality framework. Because if you go all the way, you will encounter the "Unknown". And the "Unknown" doesn't always care about your comfort.

Learning to Navigate

Whether you're receiving information, encountering beings, or experiencing phenomena, the ability to navigate the difference between you and "it" is essential. Claircognizance is different from mental interpretation. It's the felt-sense of truth that bypasses intellectual processing. It's "Knowing" without intellectualizing how you know.

The markers of authentic information from immaterial contact: there's a quality to the information. It arrives complete. It often contains things you couldn't have assembled from your existing knowledge. It has a specific energetic signature. It expands you rather than contracts you.

Information received in a fear based projection feels different. It loops. It contracts. It reinforces your existing anxieties. It creates narrative from your mental framework rather than delivering information from beyond the scope of it.

Imagination creates from what you already know, recombining existing elements. Immaterial contact brings what you don't know, what you couldn't have constructed.

This is the critical part: your own version of reality mixed together with your intellect and ego can both taint and influence a message and experience. You can contaminate genuine contact with your mental framework. You can twist authentic information to fit your existing beliefs. You can add narrative, interpretation, emotional charge that wasn't in the original transmission.

The test: does the experience take you deeper into truth or deeper into your mental framework? Does it liberate you or reinforce your ego? Does it expand your understanding or confirm what you already believed?

Be worthy. Be humble.

Those aren't moral platitudes. They're practical instructions.

Worthiness means you've done the work to clear your channel. You've faced your ego, processed your trauma, developed your capacity to hold immaterial experience without distorting it through your wounds.

Humility means you don't mistake yourself for the source. You're receiving, not generating. The information comes through you, not from you.

Integration

Once you see, you can't unsee.

You have a choice, though: integration or fracture.

Integration means learning to navigate immaterial existence while maintaining material function. You hold both states simultaneously. You don't abandon material existence, you still pay your bills, maintain relationships, operate in the consensus reality, but you're no longer trapped by it. You know it's not the whole story.

Fracture means rejecting one reality for the other. Either you slam back into material existence and deny what you've experienced, pathologize it, bury it, or you flee entirely into immaterial existence and lose your capacity to function in the material world.

Neither is the path.

What it means to walk "between" material and immaterial existence is that you don't abandon one for the other. You function in both.

For others who encounter the unknown, your presence, your capacity to hold both realities, becomes a reference point for what's possible.

Why This Matters Now

Your version of reality is inevitably going to change. You will be exposed to things you can't intellectually resolve. It's understanding that "experiences" with the unknown aren't about entertainment. They are not about spiritual achievement collecting. And they are not about having cool experiences to talk about. I've met and worked with far too many people now who were not ready for some of the experiences they so desperately sought. They struggle.

Experiencing immaterial existence fundamentally changes your relationship to material reality. It can be unpleasant if you aren't ready. However, if you are, you will stop being trapped by material frameworks because you know directly, not theoretically, not philosophically, but through lived experience, that they are incomplete.

If you're seeking these experiences because you want something exciting, because you're bored with your spiritual journey, or stuck, you're not ready. That seeking comes from ego, and ego contaminates the channel.

If you're seeking because you think it will finally prove to you that there's more than material existence, you're not ready. You're trying to use immaterial existence to satisfy material doubt. That's backwards.

Your consciousness can expand if you do the work to prepare yourself. And it serves you and your capacity to help others awaken. For those called to it, the bridge between worlds allows information, healing, and truth to flow.

You're not just experiencing the unknown for yourself. You're opening pathways for others.

The Challenge

Are you prepared to experience what you don't understand?

This isn't about being afraid. It's about being ready.

The unknown doesn't care if you believe in it. It exists whether you acknowledge it or not. Awakening includes ALL of existence, not just the parts that feel safe or comprehensible. The "things that go bump in the night" were always bumping. You just couldn't hear them.

The choice, as always, is yours.

For some of you, it's inevitable, a mechanical consequence of expanded consciousness. For others, awakening takes different forms, moves through different territories.

But if you DO encounter immaterial existence, if high strangeness becomes part of your path, then what you do with that experience, how you integrate it, how you navigate it, whether you integrate or fracture trying, that determines what your awakening actually serves.

Your goal is to be ready. To be clear. To be humble.

And when the unknown appears, because it will, if that's your path, you'll know how to meet it.