I ran into Jim again at a party about four years ago. We were having a friendly chat when I mentioned the time we were next-door neighbors. A blank look came over his face. He said he’d never lived in that house. In fact, he said, he didn’t even know me back then. I was stunned and speechless.

Seth, as channelled by Jane Roberts, talks about our multidimensional selves. That is, we live in parallel realities, not just the one we’re currently aware of. Seth even encourages us to play with switching our awareness, focusing among our various selves and realities.

That doesn’t fully explain to me what happened at that party four years ago. Obviously I’d experienced two parallel realities—two realities that were virtually identical except for one difference. In one reality Jim and I lived next door to each other, and in the other we did not.

I’m not sure how or why that happened. But it doesn’t really matter to me now. As my spirit guides often say, just be in the present moment. Just experience all the joy, peace, and power of this now-moment. It’s all we have.

Related article: Can We Travel to Other Dimensions? Published on June 17, 2011

In our last blog post we spoke of Jane Roberts and her spirit guide, Seth.

To me, one of the most intriguing Seth concepts is we are multidimensional beings. Our past, present, and future selves exist in the present moment, in “simultaneous time.” And they communicate with each other, each from their own dimension. Most of us call these our reincarnational selves.

Many years ago, my wife, son, and I had an experience I can only describe as multidimensional. Here’s what happened:

We were visiting the US Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on our way to New York one cold, grey autumn day. On the way back to our car, my son and I stopped at the men’s restroom. My wife waited for us just outside the entrance. When we came out a few minutes later, she was nowhere to be seen.

We were puzzled and thought she might have gone back to our car. But we didn’t find her there either. We wandered around looking for her, not knowing what to do. So we decided to go back to the men’s restroom.

There was my wife waiting patiently at the entrance. We asked her where she’d been, and she asked us the same question. She had not moved from that spot, she said. If she had been there, there’s no way my son and I could not have seen her. Neither did she see us when we came out. There was no possible way she could have missed us. Or so we thought.

Here’s what Spirit said about this:

“As strange as this little episode seems, such events are not extraordinary. In fact, they’re quite common. But you often do not recognize them, as John and his family did.

“When most of these events happen, you are traveling through time and space, traveling inter-dimensionally. Sometimes you don’t come back to the dimension you started from. Our ‘three musketeers,’ however, did return.

“The non-returnees, if you will, you often call ‘missing persons.’ They have not simply disappeared into some part of your ‘normal’ dimension, nor have they necessarily physically died. They sometimes remain missing forever from your dimension, even from your planet.

“This is such a common thing among you humans, but you rarely recognize it.”