Messages from Across the Veil
Signals From the Hidden Ecology of Consciousness
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Messages from Intermediaries
In classical antiquity, intermediary intelligences between gods and humans were referred to by various names, including the Greek daimones; singular Daimon. I capitalise Daimon as I use it as a formalised metaphysical or archetypal principle within my own framework in Book 2.
A quick etymological note regarding the term Daimon:
Unfortunately, prejudiced and simple-minded early Christians bastardized the Daimon/daemon into the negative polarity of “demon” to serve their own agenda and ideological conquest in the name of “Jesus Christ,” ironically often behaving utterly “demonically,” particularly towards Gnostics and pagans in general (let’s not forget the poor Gnostic Cathars, specifically, who they burned alive).
Comparable intermediary beings appear in many traditions: the fravashi of Zoroastrianism, guardian angels in Abrahamic theology, and ancestral spirits in indigenous cosmologies.
While, more broadly, the Greek Daimons were not always helpful beings, Socrates’ Daimon certainly was, accompanying him to his dying day:
In his Apology for Socrates, Xenophon attributes to him these words: “This prophetic voice has been heard by me throughout my life…I call it a God or daemon. I have told my friends the warnings I have received, and up to now the voice has never been wrong.”
Anomalous input from mysterious intelligences into human life continues to this day, sometimes occurring in the least expected situations. In 1994 when a Perth-based newsagent punched out a lottery ticket by mistake and offered it to the next guy to walk into the newsagent, the man who entered initially refused it, having only left the house to pick up the morning paper. As he turned to leave, however, he heard a disembodied voice telling him to try his luck.
He did, and several days later was seven million dollars richer.
Sometimes instead of nudging people in a profitable financial direction, Daimons offer crucial life-saving input, such as in this case: An English woman went to her local doctor and told him she was hearing voices that were telling her she was seriously ill and needed help. Her doctor put it down to hallucination (shock, specifically). She agreed to accept counselling and the medication the doctor prescribed. As a result the voices ceased and she went on holiday with her husband. While she was away, however, the voices returned.
Some reports say they came back because she stopped taking the medication, others that she continued with it and they came back anyway.
The voices told her once again that she was seriously ill and must return to England—also helpfully providing an address to go to. Her husband, who had sided with her doctor, thought if he took her to the address given it would show her that she was indeed suffering from delusions; the problem was “all in her mind.”
But the address turned out to be a hospital that dealt with brain tumours, so she returned to her doctor and demanded a brain scan. He reluctantly agreed and the results showed she had a brain tumour after all, despite what the professionals had thought. She had surgery and the tumour was successfully removed. On regaining consciousness, she heard the voices for the last time, saying, “We are pleased to have helped you, goodbye.”
This woman wasn’t schizophrenic, unless by schizophrenic we mean that she was having a legitimate (and life-saving) psychic contact with non-physical intelligences—even if an aspect of her own self—via the quantum field (esoterically speaking, via the stimulated astral senses). One of the many problems with mainstream materialist medicine is the frequent unnecessary medicalisation of people who actually have nothing medically wrong with them. The enabling arrogance of reductionist materialism must be challenged and exposed for the fraud it is (but I digress).
There are numerous accounts of life-saving clairaudient events, such as hearing a voice urgently issue an instruction.
In 1980, following a conversation with his wife, Judy, Bill Guggenheim rose to leave their living room when he heard from out of nowhere, “Go outside and check the swimming pool.” Following these odd instructions, Bill was horrified to find his young son, under two years of age, floating face-up and motionless in the deep end of the pool. Bill dove immediately to his aide, and with Judy’s help, took him out. Thanks to the mysterious warning, their son was saved from drowning.
Likewise, Debbie, a 36-year-old Floridian was able to save her six-month-old baby’s life thanks to a clear auditory admonition from her mother—who had died just a week earlier—to go and check the baby. The Guggenheims provide a plethora of such case studies in their book Hello From Heaven.
Psychical researcher Charles Richet preceded these cases from the modern era with some similar cases from the late 1800s to early 1900s in his seminal Thirty Years of Psychical Research (1923).
Other “Daimonic” interventions are even less subtle. Marsha found herself staring at certain death at a train crossing when she found herself stationary in her car in the middle of the tracks, with a train bearing down on her, just meters away. Frozen and unable to move, she heard the voice of her friend Josh, who had died five years prior, screaming at her: “Drive this car!” Frozen in fear, Marsha couldn’t respond.
“Then physically I felt a foot stomp over mine on the gas pedal…and the gas pedal went right to the floor! I heard the tires squeal and my truck shot forward…The next day I had a big bruise on my right foot!”
A “paranormal” contact event saved Marsha’s life.
I have met people who have related virtually identical experiences of their own to me. Not all interventions must come from our personal guides; sometimes an old friend or family member with an interest in our welfare will drop in to lend a hand (or foot)—reportedly as long as it is in accordance with our chosen life’s path (assuming a path has indeed been chosen in detail and the intervention does not negate an important event pre-selected by the soul before incarnating).
It is widely and increasingly considered that our Daimons or guides do indeed play active roles in our lives and function in an interventionist capacity when they perceive it to be necessary and appropriate. For example, a “guide” may attempt to prevent a premature death by influencing the subconscious—or conscious—mind of an individual in the hope of altering their decision-making process. Other times visions are reportedly experienced out of nowhere which, when acted upon, turn out to possess life-saving prescience.
One case from the Journal for the Society for Psychical Research (1897) mirrors the Guggenheim’s and Debbie the Floridian’s: A clergyman’s wife sent her little daughter to play in the “railway garden,” a walled garden near the rail embankment. The woman reported that a few minutes after her child’s departure she distinctly heard a voice within her say, “Send for her back or something dreadful will happen to her.”
The woman reported being “seized with violent trembling and great terror took possession of me.”
The child was brought back, safe and well, and later that afternoon, an engine and tender jumped the rails and killed three people in the railway garden.
Other reported cases of intervention are far more “drastic,” for instance, physical matter is dematerialised or made to do “impossible” things; a disembodied being manifests in full physicality to prevent disaster, and so forth.
I spoke to a local woman in Ajijic (Mexico) in 2023 and she described an overseas skiing accident on snowy mountains which led her to find herself battered and bruised amid rocks after a long tumble down a ravine. Injured, in shock, barely able to speak, and not sure how to get out of her new locale, she was suddenly confronted with a man in full ski gear—how he got there, let alone at that precise moment seems anomalous to say the least.
Oddly for someone assisting an injured and disoriented woman in the frosty wilderness, without saying a single word, he motioned for her to follow him. With her babbling incessantly from shock and him still in total silence, he led her out of the ravine and to safety, at which point he simply motioned goodbye and went on his way without fuss, never to be seen again.
Needless to say, this lady was very fortunate this weirdly silent character showed up to help at that unlikely moment, and she felt it must have been someone on her “team” in the spirit world lending a hand.
In Robert Monroe’s out-of-body (OB) research at The Monroe Institute, a female member of Explorer Team 1, identified as SS/JCA, a social services executive, spoke of encountering her guide in the technologically induced OBE state (which we will look at in greater detail yet). She explained that this being wanted to help her overcome her fear and become more comfortable with entering and leaving the OBE state, adding that he had apparently been through many lifetimes and was currently her “overseer” and partly responsible for her growth and development.
The woman recognised the feeling of the OBE state and felt like the realm she was in was where she belonged.
Another of Monroe’s Explorer Team was an electronics engineer who encountered a being who appeared to have a similar sort of “overseer” role—earth was his designated territory. The engineer sensed these beings were meant to help us get the most out of our time on earth. Monroe’s Explorer Team members also demonstrated what is referred to in psychic circles as channelling; they allowed an invisible entity to speak through them coherently. Sometimes these beings would arrive in small groups and together, help lift the Explorer’s non-physical body or consciousness out of their physical body. Typically, they were very genial, warm and grateful for the opportunity to communicate with Monroe and his colleagues.
In another event reported by Monroe in Far Journeys, one of the team’s OBE explorers (“ROMC”) had regular Wednesday sessions at 5 pm in the same booth, but on one occasion unexpectedly could not make it. A spontaneous visit that day by a sceptical psychologist led to the psychologist using the same booth at the usual designated hour, at Monroe’s invitation. After just five minutes the sceptic reported over the intercom that there were four beings in the booth with her, whom she could perceive “very clearly”—two at her feet and two at her head: they were trying to lift her out of her body, as they normally did with ROMC (though she had no idea of any of this).
Amusingly, the four discarnates realised something was wrong, stopped trying to lift the sceptic out, and started arguing. Soon a fifth arrived and instructed the other four to leave the (baffled) woman, which they did, apparently recognising there was some kind of mix-up—she was not their usual quarry. After Monroe revealed to her what normally happened with explorer ROMC at that exact hour of the day, the sceptical psychologist left with a lot to think about.
In William Buhlman’s huge OBE survey, 33% of the 16,000 respondents had experienced the perception of being touched or lifted out of their bodies. Additionally, many people report hearing a group of voices just before separating from the body, with the subject of discussion often centering around the subject’s openness to having a conscious OBE.
If there is no objective reality to these experiences, how do we explain accounts such as that involving the sceptical psychologist? Or the thousands of firsthand experiences documented by Buhlman?
Interestingly, the event involving the psychologist suggests that discarnate guides and allies arriving to assist a dying individual into the hereafter may become confused and befuddled if the individual is only temporarily crossing over, perhaps because they are about to be resuscitated.
What becomes difficult to ignore is not any single case, but the pattern that emerges across centuries, cultures, and contexts. Spontaneous warnings. Coordinated and collaborative intervention. Structured roles. Jurisdictional boundaries. These do not resemble chaotic hallucination or random psychic noise. What they DO resemble is architecture and ecology.
If even a fraction of these accounts are valid, then we are not dealing with isolated anomalies but with a layered ecology of consciousness operating alongside embodied life—in a reciprocal system. The question is no longer whether intervention occurs, but according to what architecture it operates.
According to seer Cyndie Dale, every newly incarnated soul has at least two spiritual guides: at least one is a one-time human, and the other can come from any other category. This includes animal guides, who might otherwise be referred to as totem animals, or power allies. Medium James Van Praagh states there are three categories of guides: personal (human souls); specialized, or, mastery helpers, which assist with particular activities; spirit or mastery teachers.
Note that the living can also act as guides at times as well; some people act as psychopomps who assist the dying across the veil into the spirit world, as Monroe revealed in his work. My friend Nancy Lucina is one example.
The mass of popular literature indicates a “spirit guide” has agreed to assist/guide us from “the other side” for some portion of, or even the entire duration of, our earth lives. Your guide or guides are in contact with other-dimensional aspects of you which you might call your “higher self,” and they know your purpose for incarnating on earth, working with you subtly to move in that direction.
The cases above are fragments—glimpses through the veil. Taken alone, they are compelling, but taken together, they suggest design.
Across psychical research, near-death accounts, out-of-body exploration, mediumistic testimony, and cross-cultural metaphysics, a consistent structure begins to reveal itself: tiered identity, intermediary intelligences, pre-incarnational planning, and an overseeing strata of consciousness that interfaces with physical life in lawful, not arbitrary, ways.
Book 2 of The Grand Illusion does not merely catalogue such phenomena, it maps them. It situates Daimonic intervention within a broader stratified model of consciousness—one that integrates Oversoul dynamics, Causal identity, intermediary agencies, and the mechanics of incarnation itself.
Without such a framework, these events remain curiosities. With it, they become intelligible.
If we are to understand who or what walks beside us—and under what conditions intervention is permitted—we require not simply belief or dismissal, but structure.
That structure is what Book 2 sets out to provide. (Jump on the wait list.)
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Brendan D. Murphy researches consciousness, post-mortem models, non-physical perception, and the origins of modern metaphysical narratives. His work synthesises contemporary data with classical esoteric frameworks, most notably in The Grand Illusion Book 2—a cutting-edge study into the afterlife (coming soon!). Grab your copy of the first volume “The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality — Book 1”
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