About this episode
Jurgen Ziewe has been following a strict regime of meditation since 1969. In 1973, after a six-month stint of intensive meditation for up to five hours a day, he decided to abandon the practice completely, being disappointed with the lack of progress and some negative side effects. Then one day out of the blue, at breakfast, he spontaneously experienced a total dissociation from his body and entered a state of what he described as one of absolute clarity. After this he continued his meditation practice, but now paying homage to the experience with more humility than before. He directly attributes the spontaneous Out-of-body experiences that followed for the next forty years, to this powerful experience of consciousness singularity. Jurgen has spent hundreds of hours, mostly in a super waking awareness in these out-of-body states, which frequently lasted several hours at a time. He soon mapped out what he considered to be the multidimensional reality man inhabits after physical death. On one of these non-physical excursions he was met by a Chinese Master who put him through an intensive training process in order for him to reach much higher states of consciousness. In 1980, on one of these OBE journeys, he was taken once more into a state of absolute clarity. This and other significant experiences were chronicled in his diaries and later published in his books, "Multidimensional Man" in 2008 and "Vistas of Infinity" in 2015, by which time he had experienced another singularity event on a solitary mountain retreat, later published in his book, “The Ten Minute Moment”. Jurgen sees himself as a reporter, not as a teacher. His down-to-earth narrative has attracted the attention from the science community and he has recently contributed a chapter to a science publication entitled, “Consciousness Beyond the Body: Evidence and Reflections” by Alexander de Foe, where he explores the nature of nonphysical consciousness, in collaboration with other experiencers. In his working life Jurgen Ziewe is a sought after commercial illustrator with a global clientele. Using the latest CG technology of the film industry has allowed him to document his experiences in alternate realities in a very visual format. His graphic testimonies have been likened to those of Swedenborg and his accounts of the higher spiritual realms give a vivid insight into the infinite strata of human consciousness which is rarely reported in such depth and detail. Websites: multidimensionalman.com Some of Jurgen's "multidimensional" artwork Virtual reality videos Celestial-Song - Angel of the Earth - A new virtual reality project between Jurgen and composer Craig Pruess Jurgen's commercial art Other Books: Explorations in Consciousness: A New Approach to Out-of-Body Experiences The Phase: Shattering the Illusion of Reality New Territories Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Transcript of this interview. Interview conducted 6/11/2016 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview June 17, 2016 00:04:05 - An Unexpected Experience in Meditation 00:08:59 - Waves of Ecstasy and Out-of-Body Experiences 00:14:13 - Starting the Journey of Out-of-Body Experiences 00:18:56 - A Recall Experience and the Abyss of Reality 00:24:04 - Conquering Fear and Finding Freedom 00:29:45 - The Shift in Identification 00:33:45 - Out-of-Body Experiences and Higher Consciousness 00:37:40 - Breaking through the Ceilings 00:42:31 - The Fascination of the Inner Worlds 00:47:19 - Accessing the Universal Mind through Out-of-Body Experiences 00:51:43 - The Importance of Vedanta and the Multi-Dimensionality of Life 00:56:08 - Living in the Whole Spectrum of Consciousness 01:00:48 - Moving from Individuality to Service 01:05:24 - The Continuation of Reality After Death 01:09:27 - Mapping the Realities of the Universe 01:13:33 - Thought Forms and Collective Consciousness 01:17:45 - Consensus Reality in Out-of-Body States 01:22:02 - A New Experience of Higher Realms 01:26:37 - A Multidimensional Universe with Populated Planets 01:30:36 - Traveling Through Time 01:34:35 - Transported Back in Time 01:39:07 - The Evolved State of Creation 01:43:47 - The Universe as the Center of Perception 01:48:32 - Familiar Ground and Fresh Experiences 01:52:51 - The Essence of Bliss in This Dimension 01:57:11 - Addiction to Reality and the Attraction Fading 02:01:32 - Dealing with Fixations and Bodily Identification 02:05:52 - Embracing Reality and Finding Inner Aspect 02:10:43 - A Glimpse of a Positive Future 02:15:15 - Being vigilant and nurturing growth