Aside from "once upon a time", no segue into a story might be as intriguing as "what if". Today's 7th Moon feature invites us to question what it means to be human. It certainly means finding ourselves in a human body whose nervous system and brain limit our perception's bandwidth unless conscious work expands it. Just so, is a two-legged and two-armed human body without wings the only form our consciousness can inhabit? And whilst that's certainly our case right now, does it imply that we have always incarnated in human bodies and identified as humans; and will do so again in future lives? Could we have been dolphins or birds, trees or clouds, denizens of other planets or moons?
"Tanis Helliwell has seen higher realms and spoken with Masters, angels and elementals since childhood. Walking in many worlds, she led tours to sacred sites for two decades, was a management consultant for our 30 years and founded the International Institute for Transformation in 2000."
In her book Hybrids – so you think you are human, she challenges our conventional self identification by covering 22 conscious races which co-inhabit this planet with us humans; or have in the past. She suggests that many of us have had lives amongst these races which still inform our present human incarnation. Her 2024 book The Dragon's Tale goes farther still. Asked to do so by Babaji, a central figure in the lineage of Masters of Paramahansa Yogananda and Kriya Yoga, Tanis visits a different planet inhabited by dragons. As we discover with the author, her affinity for this race goes rather deeper than just being an interdimensional visitor or 'astral traveller' hence abstract observer. The timing of her book launch doesn't seem coincidental when in recent years the Game of Thrones franchise and the state of AI-assisted special effects has made our collective fascination with—and perhaps memories of?—dragons most visible indeed.
Are these Tanis books just colourful yarns spun by vivid imagination like the Harry Potter novels? Could there be rather more to them? If you feel so inclined, read The Dragon's Tale and see what it does for your current notions on being human; and what it could mean if the veil which Tanis peels back in fact looks at a different reality that's parallel to ours, just vibrating much faster to exceed our present capacity to perceive. Be it the winged serpent Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs and Mayans, the nagas of North/Eastern India, China's veneration of dragons as wisdom bearers and the European myths of angelic or heroic dragon slayers – dragons have certainly occupied the annals of human stories for a long time. Whether we think it all fable and myth or more isn't today's point. Today's point is simply to ask: what if? If that question and a subsequent exploration of the Helliwell books and others like them creates a few cracks in our fixed identification of what it means to currently experience ourselves as human, we might well be on our way to identify ourselves as more cosmic and multidimensional than our present more limited perception accounts for. As it happens, our communal love of audio is well familiar with the concepts of standing waves, harmonics, higher and lower frequencies beyond human hearing (and seeing), sympathetic resonance and more. What if those same concepts and observations also apply to matter and consciousness?
