Multidimensional Man

I’ve known about this book for for a while but only got it now because of a glowing review I recently read on Bob Peterson’s OBE blog. I must say, I wasn’t quite as impressed by it as Mr. Peterson was. While the cover says “an authentic eyewitness account of the world that awaits us after death,” I really wasn’t sure why one person’s OBE experiences would be more authentic than another’s? Or more authentic than people who’ve had NDEs? The author dismisses NDEs in one of his comments on one of the reviews here as simply the result of “dopamine” released by the brain, while he wants us to believe his OBEs are more authentic? Why, because his experiences came as a result of meditation rather than clinical death? As a person who’s had OBEs and lucid dreams, I find that kind of thinking hard to understand. Yes, while out of body or in a lucid dream, the other reality can feel more real than the one we currently inhabit, but that doesn’t really “prove” anything to me. Those who’ve had OBEs usually come back and say that they no longer fear death because they have proof that we can exist independent of our physical bodies. But what if we can only have that experience because of our brains? While I have been conscious and out of body while my physical body was sleeping, I don’t really see that as proof of life after death. Maybe it’s because I don’t really fear the possibility of utter oblivion? Many people have a fear of not existing, but to me the idea of an eternal dreamless sleep or blackout after death is more comforting than the idea of reincarnation or some boring heavenly existence. I like the idea of some of the realms the author describes (where we can create anything we can imagine) but I don’t need that to be true in order for me to be okay with death.I find many of the ideas in this book just strange. Are you clinically depressed? Don’t worry, you’ll go to a drab place after you die that’s even worse than Earth. Sorry! I guess you should have been happier! The genetic lottery wasn’t on your side, and even though your physical body is dead, your spirit will remain depressed. What if you’re a victim of some heinous crime? Not to worry, there’s an awful place waiting for you as well! I don’t know, but I find this kind of thinking pretty sick. Do you dream of winning the lottery? Don’t bother buying a ticket, you’ll win the lottery after you’re dead (as long as you’re super positive of course). Does this kind of thinking seem familiar to anyone else? The author rages against belief systems but this kind of thinking reminds me of a certain religion that promises an eternal place in heaven as long as you believe in their lord and savior. Basically: don’t try to improve your life now, just wait for your reward when you’re dead! Oh, and to make you feel better about being poor, you should know that those greedy rich people are going to be poor after they die! What?!The author thinks that as long as he’s fully aware in an OBE or lucid dream, then everything in that OBE/LD is The Truth. To me, reading his diary entries, it seemed more likely that his subconscious mind created many of the worlds he visited. The author often says that he thinks something must be true (about the lower realms) and then he has experiences that correspond with his thinking. So much for shedding those beliefs and relying on experience alone! Some of the hellish realms he visited (where cold is colder than on Earth for example) reminded me of some of the infinite hells in certain forms of Buddhism. I wonder if the author read about them before his experiences? I mean, he did meditate for hours upon hours every day and practice yoga as well for years before his first OBE. He also used the mantra “Om” frequently. Mantras and yoga and certain forms of meditation are parts of belief systems, which the author seems keen on not engaging in, but obviously does.Another thing that makes me think that the author is dealing with his subconscious mind is the fact he frequently runs into girls and young women in his experiences. He often sends them love or even kisses them on the forehead (all very innocent of course!). Though there was one time when he visited an Earth-like afterlife realm, where he ran into a girl in her late teens. Don’t worry folks, she was actually 85 when she died! In this afterlife, she has a friend (whom the author refers to as a boyfriend later even though she only introduced him as a friend) who looks to be in his early forties and “a little full around the waist.” Whose afterlife/heaven is this supposed to be?! Then the author shares a few heavenly realm experiences he thinks he’s had. They weren’t very interesting (but what heavens are?). The author basically finds himself in a beautiful country side. Then he runs into a supernaturally beautiful young woman with flowing blonde hair, and that convinces him that this is one of those “heavenly” realms. Well, okay then. As long as there’s a beautiful blonde around...I don’t know. I think the author is having genuine OBEs (the going through glass windows instead of walls/doors thing reminded me of my own experiences in the astral) but I’m not convinced that he’s accessing Universal Truths. In one experience, he goes out of body in his bedroom, goes through the window, finds himself in a neighborhood that looks different than his own, and when he sees people, he assumes that they’re all dead and that this neighborhood is their afterlife (he did see a few kids getting teased, and he hoped they were just dreamers for their sake). Why? He tries to tell the people this, but naturally they don’t take him seriously. Only one guy seems to take him seriously. The author concludes, of course, that this one guy must be more enlightened than the rest because he agrees with him. I’ve had plenty of OBEs and have seen plenty of people around, but I never thought that they could all be dead and that I was in some kind of afterlife. The author seems to think all his vivid OBEs where he’s fully conscious are taking place in someone’s afterlife. I guess that’s the “expectation” he goes in with every experience he has in the astral? Why not just have the experience instead of telling people he meets that they must be dead? What happened to abandoning belief systems and letting experience dictate one’s truth?Towards the end, the author talks about the need to let go of fear and find the joy in physical existence. I think that’s a nice sentiment, but a very privileged one. There are people in this world that aren’t born to such luxury. Their lives (often short) are filled with the worst humankind has to offer. I kept thinking about all of this when the author would share his experiences of Divine Intelligence and Pure Joy and Perfect Creation. Where is the perfection for the people who experience the worst this planet has to offer? People that are born into literal hells and then literally tortured to death? Is there a Divine Intelligence that would like to answer for this? Is there a God that will take responsibility for this? It’s easy to say that all things of Love and Light are of this Divine Intelligence that permeates everything. But if it’s everyone and in everything, then it also must take responsibility for things like hatred and depravity. That’s why I find the idea of worshipping any god a foolish one. Why would you worship something that is either responsible for or turns a blind eye to such suffering? Sadly, none of these questions were addressed in this book. For all his years of experience, the author provides no answers to these questions that have haunted any thinking, feeling human being. To be fair to the author, these thoughts are something that come to me anytime I read any spiritual book, whether it be about the afterlife, reincarnation, NDEs, or what have you. I haven’t read one that adequately addresses these concerns.In Appendix D, the author says something I agree with: “It is better to meditate 20 minutes twice a day than for hours at a time, which can lead to imbalance.” But the author himself has meditated for hours a day for decades... He also says something that I disagree with: that there’s no magic in this world, only in the non-physical dimensions. I speak from experience (not blind faith or belief) when I say that there is magic in this world. It’s not as flashy as it is in dreams or OBEs, but it works if you work it.Bob Peterson said in his review that Jurgen Ziewe has a “take it or leave it” attitude when it comes to whether people believe his experiences or not. Sadly, I did not find this to be the case, especially when it comes to the comments he’s written under some of the negative reviews. He mocks other people’s beliefs as illusions, while expecting us to take him at his word that what he’s found is The Truth. It might be his truth, but that doesn’t mean that it’s anybody else’s. It comes across as very ego-centered thinking to me when you’re convinced that you’ve found The Truth and that everyone else is delusional unless they agree with you.So, after all that, why three stars? Well, while there were some boring parts, there were also some really interesting ones as well. I might not agree with the author’s conclusions about his experiences, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy reading about them. Before I finished this book, I ordered his other book, Vistas of Infinity. I wonder if it answers some of the questions I had while reading this one? Either way, while reading Multidimensional Man, I’ve come pretty close to having another OBE. It’s been quite a while since my last one, so if reading books like this breaks that dry spell, I’m all for it!Overall, I recommend reading this book with more than a few grains of salt handy. But that’s true of anything we come across in life. I wish that the author, instead of belittling people that disagree with him, would instead encourage people to find the truth for themselves. Encourage people to meditate, to go out of body, to have their own non-physical experiences. Instead, the author seems more interested in having blind followers that believe everything he says or writes.

Please know that I do not claim to have all the answers and do not dub myself a spiritual expert. I am only sharing books that I am looking into as part of my spiritual journey. Multidimensional Man: An Authentic Eyewitness Account of the World that Awaits Us After Death by Jurgen Ziewe contains some exciting information from many of the spiritual travels that his soul undertook such as:Pages 129-135: his journeys to the “third dimension” helped him see that the power of creative thought is more powerful on certain planes. From his perspective, an attitude of generosity and positivity will help a soul become a vibrational match for this plan. Additionally, the amount of leisure and happiness available from what he saw inspired him to describe it as a place that souls are “living the dream” and especially blissful for those who dream of living a life in luxury.Birds of Paradise (pages 173-176): During one of his journeys he noticed a colorful garden and a parrot that had a wingspan of at least four feet. He stretched out his hand to bid farewell to one of the birds and before he woke up he noticed a gift of a dark square object attached to his arm. I remember hearing a song called Birds of Paradise by Sally Oldfield from the cd collection Mystic Spirits: Chants of Paradise and even reviewed it back in November 2011. I wonder if this song is inspired by spiritual stories pertaining to the Birds of Paradise stories (hence the realm that Ziewe found himself on).Pages 202-203: There are countless numbers of heavens that spring from the thought forms of various people that pass over (I interpreted this to be over a billion heavens, however I’m aware that it could also be something different from what my human mind is conceiving of).He also includes a heartfelt meeting with his mother in one of the paradise realms and includes a reference in the back of his recommended books. His online website also includes some fascinating information and drawings. His colorful illustrations remind me of the drawings from the Tomorrowland 2012 and Tomorrowland 2013 electronic/trance music dance series. However, I acknowledge that both this author and the artists of the music series probably drew their inspiration in different positive/happy ways. Either way, I also enjoy his website and plan to come back to it to see more drawings and the information he gathers and shares. I understand that he only means well, but my only caveat is that he implies that reduces the cause of depression to a single cause by implying that depression is solely caused by refusing to accept reality. I agree that one must accept reality towards creating a happier life. However, I respectfully disagree that depression is caused by just that one reason and the causes of depression in a person are as varied as the men or women suffering from them. Additionally, depression is often inherited and for this reason alone this I would dare to say that individuals with various forms of depression are as worth of entering the heavenly realms as those who are frequently happy (if an afterlife exists these spirits would just probably end up in different “heavens”.) Additionally, I have been lucky in getting to see for myself what a heavenly realm looks like through one of my dreams and intuitively know that one can still be trying to work on their happiness and yet still enter one of the blissful realms. Aside from that caveat, Multidimensional Man by Jurgen Ziewe is an original and interesting book.

I came to know Jurgen Ziewe on YouTube and so, bought his first book. I am impressed (on YouTube, as well as in print) with his excellent command of English, which is not his first language. His artwork (also on YouTube) is incredible as well. He is obviously a very intelligent and resourceful man. I am about half way through the book. It is clearly written and very interesting. I will probably buy another of his. The actual book itself is bigger than the average paperback book and 230 pages of text. The print is a reasonable size. The overall quality is good. I'm pleased with my purchase.

This is a really fascinating account of adventures in other dimensions.At first it seems a little less structured than Robert Monroe's classic "Journeys Out Of The Body" - as the action gets going so early on in the book. However, it soon follows a similar pattern, with the various tales not following in chronological order, a style that works well as the overall picture builds.The main difference between Ziewe's story and Monroe's, is that the former soon found he was able to access his states from sleep / via dreaming, rather than only through "out-of-body" detachment. He was also able to reach his various destinations via meditation. The interesting thing here is the grouping together of lucid dreaming with out-of-body excursions. My own feeling is that a "locale 1" OBE (as Monroe called it) - where you visit our current earth in an ethereal body, is indeed the traditional OBE, whereas "locale 2" and above are "astral" travellings, as are fully lucid dreams - different dimensions where space-time isn't the same as here.Ziewe's work is fascinating; like Monroe he is very down-to-earth, so however incredible his adventures (and they ARE incredible!), you can always sense that he really experienced these other worlds, not some deep, hallucinatory dream.Another intriguing aspect is that when you reach later chapters, it becomes very clear that Ziewe has experienced (in as far as we can define it) enlightenment. His descriptions of this are remarkably similar to those of Eckhart Tolle's opening chapter of The Power Of Now, and this raises interesting comparisons. Tolle himself describes lucid dreams as "fascinating but not liberating", whereas Ziewe's experiences end up at the same point as Tolle's but via such dreams. Having experienced numerous strange experiences (but not enlightenment) myself, I suggest that it IS possible to reach enlightenment via OBE and lucid dreaming, but only if one is so fully awake that they encounter the higher dimensions, and with the same wakefulness as when awake in the earthly sense.The only fault in this book is the appalling proof-reading (or lack of!) - but that doesn't diminish a thoroughly inspiring and utterly absorbing read.

Very insightfull in the opening & the closing too, but way too much meaningless fantasy dream diary nonsense thats identical to Monroes second book.He needs to be aware that there are people like myself who hav'nt had what he's experiencing, aka 0-60 instantly, no progession at all, no techneques, no believeable slow progession & reflecting on it, just emotionally dead unbelievable 0-60 as if its fiction not writen wellShame as theres some great nuggets at the beginning & end

This author is not trying to prove anything, just an honest reporting of the authors experiences, and what he has understood from these, during his many years of out of body travels in what has been called parallel universes. Certainly worth the read if you are interested in the extrapolations possible from the developing science of consciousness.

A very interesting work but I actually prefer the just published follow up, Vistas Of Infinity as it expands more about where the deceased go to, the nature of their worlds etc. Still this is very interesting and probably laid the groundwork for me to enjoy the more recent book and I shall delve back into this. Its an incredible account of incredible realities for sure. To be honest I would really recommend buying both together as they so closely connect.Is it all real, all these dimensions?? well I think the answer is definitely maybe and even hard nosed, materialist science is having to begrudgingly alter its position on these ideas.