Edward Jones, in 1979, had the experience of death ending in what he calls self-transformation. In modern terms, it has been suggested that it was a psychological death. But if your ability to walk, talk, or think ends; and you return to consciousness, you will have had an expe
rience of death. You will ultimately see that a psychological death would be experienced in the same manner as a physical death.
Edward died, and like the Phoenix he arose from the ashes of his old life to bring forth something new onto this planet. He discovered that is was a consciousness void of violence. It is our violence that is bringing us closer to the brink of destruction. Will we transform our lives, or will we self-destruct is the question that we need to ask of ourselves. Edward has devoted the last thirty years of his life bringing reaching out to people who are seriously considering the options before us.
In his new book, Edward points to a manner in which we can transform our lives and manifest this new consciousness on Earth.
Austin R. Rust, Author of Changes, wrote:
I see this as a possible example of what Dr. Richard Bucke called entering into “cosmic consciousness” and leaving “self-consciousness” behind. In his book Cosmic Consciousness, Bucke wrote: “. . . the man having reached the age necessary to bring him to the top of the self conscious mental stratum, some day he enters Cosmic Consciousness. What is his experience? Details must be given with diffidence, as they are only known to the writer in a few cases, and doubtless the phenomena are varied and diverse.”
Bucke discovered in his case histories, that in all cases of entrance into “cosmic consciousness” it happened all at once. There is a sudden transition.
Interactions between people in cosmic consciousness and people in self-consciousness have been occurring for many thousands of years. If you have picked up this book looking for such an interaction, read it and you may discover that you have had one. I did.
Suddenly, everything is transforming.
Transformation has become one of the hottest words in town: transform your wardrobe, your kitchen, your bathroom, or even your dog. Those things are changes. Transformation is not a change, for anything that changes can change back.
As with the butterfly, transformation is a total evolutionary event; it is an irrevocable mutation.. The butterfly cannot change back into a caterpillar, nor can a transformed human change back to what he or she was before.
Before transformation, we are just automated robots that our conditioning has trained us to be. We are born into already existing words, beliefs, and concepts with which our parents guide and teach us. These concepts and beliefs are the way in which we become robotic. Our buttons are pushed; we react according to what we have been taught.
Our true self is born free of the illusion of thought which leads to the insanity of belief. Once the concept of belief is accepted, it is not far from there to strapping a bomb to yourself and blowing yourself and everything around you to bits.
By the time we are three or four years of age, our view of the world is set. We realize that words have a certain meaning, and it is our duty to do as those words tell us to do. This is the old consciousness, and the old consciousness cannot solve the problems it invented. It can only make the problems worse.
The happening of self transformation will erase the illusion and allow being as newborn, free of the insanity, yet able to function in a world of insanity. A new consciousness is born.