How to Jump to a Parallel Reality (Step by Step Explained)

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Somewhere, a version of you is already living the life you want. For Frederick Dodson, author of parallel universes of self, that isn't a poetic image. Desire itself would be the sign of that other reality. You can't want anything that doesn't already belong to you. But if that life already exists, why does yours keep repeating with the same problems wearing different faces? And why, as Dodson points out, are the people most desperate for something the least likely to get it? His answer is that you don't change your reality by changing the world. You change it by becoming the person who already lives there. Next, you'll see what keeps you stuck in the same life. The moment the way out appears, and why needing something too much keeps it away. And, step by step, how to stop chasing that other reality and start living it from the person you are there. We tend to think of the future as something under construction. What we do today is a brick for tomorrow. And the life we want sits on the far side of a distance that only effort can cross one day at a time. In that way of seeing things, there is a single reality. And it changes slowly. In exact proportion to the work we put into it. Frederick Dodson, a writer and teacher who has devoted his work to teaching how people change their own reality, starts from a different premise. In his book, "Parallel Universes of Self," he takes the idea of parallel worlds, long familiar to physics and science fiction, and brings it into personal, everyday life. You don't exist in a single reality. Many exist at the same time, and each one is lived by a different version of you, shaped by other choices and other experiences. Think of a decision that split your life into two paths. Maybe you turned down an offer to move to another city or stayed at a job when you almost quit. For Dodson, the path you didn't take didn't vanish the moment you chose. Another version of you took it and is living that life right now. There's the version who started a business, the one who stayed and got promoted, the one who crossed an ocean to begin again. None of them is a daydream about what might have been. All of them are possible now, and none is less real than the life you recognize as yours. To make this premise usable in daily life, Dodson offers a simple image, a network of highways. Each highway is a version of you, with its own scenery, its own encounters, and its own destination. Every time you make a decision or change one you've already made, you also change direction. You can move forward, go back, veer to one side or switch to another highway altogether. You are always on one of them. Dodson distinguishes two ways of being you. One is the everyday self, the person with a name, a history, and an address that you recognize in the mirror. The other is what he calls the infinite self, the part of you that is one with everything that exists. That infinite self travels every highway at once. The everyday self perceives only one, and Dodson explains why. If you perceived all the highways at the same time, you couldn't focus on any of them, learn from it, or enjoy it. Notice what this image does to a desire. In the way of seeing we started with, wanting a different life means measuring the distance between what you have and what you want, and picturing an effort just as large to cross it. In Dodson's view, the life you want already has a highway, and a version of you is already traveling it. Your work is no longer to build a road out of nothing. It is to arrive at the one that's already there. With that, the question that matters moves. You stop asking whether other realities exist and start asking what puts you on this highway and not that one. Dodson answers in a single line. You can only experience what you are. He calls this the law of correspondence and explains it with the image of a television set. The TV doesn't have to create the program it wants to show because the program is already being broadcast. All it has to do is tune in to the right channel. In the same way, the reality you want already exists and what decides which one you receive is your tuning made up of what you believe yourself to be and what you feel. That's why the highway you're on isn't chosen by the world around you or by luck or by how hard you wish for something else. It corresponds to who you are. Jumping to another reality before any technique means becoming the version of you who already lives there. Every highway has its own scenery. There's the highway where everything takes effort and the money never lasts until the end of the month. The highway where every week brings a new fight. The highway where doors open without you having to force them. A single day is just one point on that highway with its setting, its people and its events. Your life is the whole stretch, the day's linked to one another and that's why it takes on a theme. You recognize the theme when your problems change faces but not subjects. On a highway of conflict, today the argument is with a neighbor next month it's with a business partner. After that, with someone in the family. On a highway of lack, the bill you just paid is quickly replaced by another one nobody saw coming. Dodson observes that similar events across different areas of life reveal the deepest convictions of the person living them. So the repetition has a meaning. It shows something about the one traveling that highway. Why do you stay on the same one? Dodson's answer lies in identity, meaning who you believe you are. For him, there is no reality without someone living it and no one living without the reality that corresponds to them. Every version of you comes with its own highway. That's why Dodson says identity and reality are the same thing and that you see the world not as it is but as you are. Identity uses attributes to create your experience, intention, imagination, belief, attention, emotion, communication, and action. You don't need to control each one separately because all of them follow identity. In the book, Dodson lays out this relationship in levels like a ladder. At the top is identity. Just below come your models of reality which he also calls core beliefs. Your basic convictions about how life works which serve as a map for understanding everything else and usually formed early. Below them, your everyday beliefs and thoughts, then your emotions and on the bottom run, action. Identity forms your models of reality. Those models form your beliefs. Your beliefs form your emotions and your emotions form your behavior. Look at how this works in someone who sees themselves as a person who always struggles to pay the bills. Their intention on waking up is to survive the month. Their imagination rehearses what could go wrong like a rent increase or the car that could break down any day. Their belief confirms that money is hard and that the easy life always goes to someone else. Their attention scans the day for the next bill and finds it. Their emotion is a tightness in the chest that's already there before any news arrives. Their communication turns into complaint in conversations and even in their thoughts. An action on the bottom run comes down to putting out fires. None of these attributes acts on its own. All of them take direction from the same identity and the result is a day very much like yesterday. Identity rarely feels like a choice. It presents itself as a description in sentences like that's just how I am. Things are always hard for me. I'm unlucky in love. Dodson compares core beliefs to glasses you wear and see everything through but never see. Because they seem to simply describe what already exists, you rarely think to examine them and identity stays at the top, steering everything else without being seen. That's how the highway holds. Dodson asks why every day looks like the one before and why the same thoughts keep coming back. And he answers that, "You use your attention the same way every day because the same identity keeps leading it to the same places." The repetition isn't punishment or bad luck. The highway repeats because the one travelling it stays the same and that self-producers, rung by rung, the same scenery. As long as nothing changes at the top, each day inherits the direction of the day before. That leads to a consequence many people discover the hard way. Changing cities, jobs or partners, without changing who you are, usually swaps only the scenery. Before long, the people are different, but the problems are back to the same subject. 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Redeem your points online or in the app. Kroger, fresh for everyone, restrictions apply, seaside or store for details. If life moves by continuity, how does anyone leave the highway thereon? For Dodson, every time you make a decision or change one you've already made, you change direction. And he shows that the most fertile moment for that change is found precisely in the events you'd rather avoid. He starts from an observation about the way you live your day. The everyday self believes the world is the cause and it is the effect, so it lives in reaction. It believes when the facts allow and feels good when circumstances permit. Dodson notes that reacting and creating are, in a sense, opposites, because either you react to the world or you create it. But much of what you react to is something you created yourself. To show this, he describes a woman who is already carrying anger inside her. An appointment gets cancelled, or she scorches a shirt while ironing, and she gets angry, convinced that the cancellation or the shirt caused her anger. The anger was already there, the event simply gave it an address. If your reaction reveals what you are creating, then the moment of reaction is where you can change what you are creating. For Dodson, the deepest changes can be made while an unwanted event is actually happening. A setback in this view is no longer just an obstacle. In front of it, there's the response you would give on any other day, and there's a response that doesn't belong to your life yet. The usual response comes ready made. The familiar anger rises, the familiar fear shows up, and the sentence you know by heart comes out before you notice. The one answering, in that case, is the old self, and the whole ladder works to keep it at the top. Emotion fires, communication follows the usual script, and action confirms the highway you were already on. The exit falls behind you, and you keep going in the same direction, toward more situations with the same theme. The other response begins with a pause. You notice the heat rising, wait a few seconds, and ask the questions Dodson suggests. The first is, which version of me is reacting like this? The second, which he considers the more important, is, how do I want to react? In other words, how would the version of me who lives on the highway I want react to this? That question isn't an exercise in pretending, or a polite way of swallowing what you feel. For Dodson, identity and viewpoint are the same thing, and answering from that version's point of view means taking on its identity in that instant. That's why the question works at the top of the ladder. For that moment, the identity responding is no longer the old one. And since every attribute follows identity, your intention, your emotion, your words, and your action begin to follow a different direction. The case he chooses is one of the most ordinary. Someone checks their balance at an ATM, sees the account in the red, and feels fear, the way they always do. That reaction reveals an identity built on need, and it's right there, in front of the ATM screen, that the switch can happen. How would someone who believes in their own abundance react? Reacting with joy to a full account Dodson observes, takes no skill at all. Reacting calmly to an empty one is the mark of a master. When your reaction to the unwanted event shifts towards something calmer, reality begins to shift with it, because that reaction is already the new identity in action. That day's balance stays the same, because changing identity doesn't undo what has already happened. What changes is who walks through the event, and it's that self who takes the exit. This rarely works on the first try, and Dodson describes the process the way it usually unfolds. Imagine that every time the person you live with says a certain thing, you get irritated, you decide to react differently next time. Weeks later, the remark comes back on a tired day, catches you off guard, and you react the old way. This time though, you see more clearly what happened. You renew your intention, and even start looking forward to that remark, because it has become a chance to show who you are now. When it comes again, you remember, and you answer with understanding, maybe even with humour. The other person is puzzled by the unexpected response, and since no one is fighting the remark anymore, it stops being said the same way. Dodson observes that people repeat things until they are acknowledged, and he sums up the principle, as long as you react to events the same way, they will keep happening in many variations. There's also a quieter kind of exit. For Dodson, the highways next to yours tend to spill over into it. A rare event, a strange coincidence, something that doesn't belong to your routine may come from a nearby parallel reality. If, instead of hurrying back to your usual path, you gave that event your attention and followed it, you would begin moving toward the other highway. Dodson reminds us that the same meeting scheduled for the evening could end in an argument, a deal, an awkward silence, or falling in love, and that all of those versions exist. For him, an event is only unmovable when you yourself are unmovable, meaning when you walk into it, with the usual expectation, and react to it in the usual way. That's why the jump rarely happens on some big day of decision. It happens in a small instant, between the event and your response, and it happens again every time you respond from who you want to be, instead of from who you were. If every highway exists, why do so many people seem stuck on the ones marked by stress, conflict, and lack? Part of the answer lies in one of identity's attributes that the whole world competes for. Attention. Dodson describes the path attention takes. Whatever you give attention to, you come to know better, give it more attention, and you start to trust it, give it more still, and it gains weight and solidity until it becomes, for you, a fact of life. Emotion goes where attention goes, and it is identity that decides where attention flows out of habit. For Dodson, the traits of who you believe you are, determine which parts of reality your attention turns to every day. On the highway you're travelling, attention is the steering wheel. The problem is that you rarely choose where that wheel is pointing. Dodson observes that most people's attention isn't directed by them at all, but by the outside world, by advertising, by pressure, by authority, by the media, by circumstances, and by their own cravings and resistances, pulling it left and right. He compares that attention to a ping pong ball, knocked back and forth by the rush of life, and he invites you to stop being the ball, and become the player. Today, many of those voices reach you through your phone, with news and messages all day long, and there's also the relative who calls to remind you who you are. you've always been. Each of these voices offers you more than information, it offers you an identity. You're the one who's afraid of the crisis, the one who's outraged by everything, the one who'll never change. When you accept the offer, someone else takes the top of your ladder, and every rung below starts working for a highway. Other people chose for you. The most common reaction is to fight, to argue with the news, to try to prove the relative wrong. Dodson reminds us that by fighting something you make it part of your world, and the fight keeps handing the wheel to whoever provoked you. He gives a direct example, the fact that everyone watches the evening news to follow the day's tragedies doesn't oblige you to do the same, and the people watching atrocities on a screen aren't helping anyone by giving them their attention. Dodson offers another way, which he calls the Joker card, because you can play it at any moment and in any situation. It's three questions. Where is my attention now? Where could it be? Where do I want it to be? The first pulls you out of habit, because you start paying attention to your attention instead of being immersed in it, and it's enough to recognise where it was without condemning yourself for it. The second shows you how rigid and fixed your attention usually is when it could be on millions of other things, and with that, your previous focus loses its weight. The third hands the decision back to you. What do you want to give your attention to now? Dodson notes that you recognise the better choice, because it feels lighter when your attention lands on it, and every time someone offers you an identity along with a piece of information, you can take the information and decline the identity. That's the first step to jumping to another reality. Take your attention back from those who want to define you. As long as the wheel is in other people's hands, any change at the top of the ladder lasts only until the next piece of news. Gatorade zero powders have been scientifically designed to help improve hydration balance in the body, with a clinically proven electrolyte plant and no artificial colours or flavours. Great tasting hydration, no matter where you're going, shop now online or at retailers nationwide. Gatorade hydrates better than water. Is it in you? When you shop Croger Delivery, you can expect the savings you love and fresh groceries delivered right to your door. Our refrigerated trucks keep your items fresh while our associates are committed to getting every detail right, carefully selecting and packing your order with care, because bringing you fresh, quality groceries is what we do best. Croger, fresh for everyone. You may have noticed this pattern in your own life. The more you need something to happen, the more it seems to slip away. The job you wanted more than anything goes to someone else. The message you wait for all day arrives only when you finally forget about it. It looks like a cruel irony, as if life answered the force of your desire with equal force in the opposite direction. Dodson explains this irony without appealing to bad luck, and he begins with good news. For him, what we call desire is a spillover from a version of you who is already living that reality. Desire tells you two things at once, that you are separate from that version, and that it isn't far away. If the possibility of living it weren't already in you, you couldn't even think of it. So the problem isn't desiring. It's staying stuck in the desire without becoming the one who already has it. Dodson goes as far as saying, with an irony that has something tragic in it, that the people most desperate for certain things are the least likely to get them, because lack produces more lack. Look at who is doing the wanting when desire turns desperate. It's the self who doesn't have. Every time you feel you need it, you confirm at the top of the ladder the identity of someone who still goes without, and every rung below works for that identity. Belief repeats that something is missing, attention measures the distance to what you want. Emotion turns into anxiety, and action turns into hurry. You can only experience what you are, and the self who wants desperately is, by definition, someone who doesn't have. That's why intense desire on its own doesn't take you to the other highway. The more weight you put on the outcome, the more firmly the top of the ladder is held by the self who lives on the highway, where it hasn't arrived yet, and the more that highway confirms itself as yours. That raises a more uncomfortable question. Is that desire yours? Dodson describes what he calls the approval identity. A set of traits you take on to win other people's approval and avoid their disapproval, while sensing, deep down, that it isn't really you. He also teaches that core beliefs were often adopted before you could think for yourself, driven by the need to protect yourself, and that they need to be brought into the light so you can choose others. A desire can be the visible tip of a core belief like, "I'm only worth something if I'm admired," or, "security means having more than everyone else." When that's the case, getting what you want doesn't change the highway because the belief stays in place and soon produces the next desire of the same kind, with the same lack underneath. Examining a desire then means asking which belief it comes from and who you would need to be for it to already be true. Dodson suggests writing down next to each desire what you truly believe about it. The gap between the two is what creates the most tension and the sign that they've come into alignment is relief. Some desires don't survive that question and fall away because they were never yours. The ones that remain usually become simpler and clearer because they no longer carry a borrowed lack. Taking the lack out of what you want is the second step and it doesn't ask you to stop wanting. It asks you to want from the self who already has, not from the self who still goes without, and to set aside the desires that were born from beliefs that aren't yours. There's a way of going after what you want that almost everyone knows. Willpower, tight discipline, control over every detail, a fight against circumstances. On Dodson's ladder that approach works on the bottom rung. You try to change your actions, do more, push harder, get up earlier while everything above stays the same. The old identity stays at the top, belief keeps saying it's hard, emotion stays on alert, and the new action has to row against every rung above it. That's why effort is so exhausting and lasts so briefly. In the first hard week, action goes back to obeying the top. Dodson proposes the opposite route. For him, a single shift in what you recognize as "I am" makes every level below it change automatically and naturally. You don't need to rebuild each rung separately because each rung follows the one above. When the top changes, the direction flowing down the ladder changes too. Dodson notes that most people believe it works the other way around. First I do, then I feel, then I believe, and finally I am. This is the third step and it's where the jump actually happens. Change at the top of the ladder in your identity and not just on the bottom rung in your actions. Think again of the person who struggled to pay the bills and follow the same ladder, this time flowing down from a different identity. Suppose they begin to see themselves as someone prosperous, someone to whom resources come and through whom they flow. Their intention on waking is no longer to survive the month but to build something. Their imagination stops rehearsing disasters and starts rehearsing possibilities. Their belief reorganizes itself around this new person. Their attention finds opportunities that used to go unnoticed because now there's someone looking for them. Their emotion settles, their communication drops the complaint and changes tone and action happens without having to be forced. This order also explains a conflict almost everyone has lived through. Dodson describes it as an ambivalent identity with the example of someone who says in the morning that they love their job and says at night that they hate it because the two statements cancel each other out neither reality fully forms. The same thing happens when someone repeats positive statements and a voice underneath answers that they aren't true. Those are rungs at odds with each other. Imagination has received [BLANK_AUDIO] new idea, but the identity at the top is still the old one, an emotion which follows the top contradicts what the mind is trying to affirm. As long as the top doesn't change, that conflict continues and you may wrongly conclude that the problem is a lack of effort. When identity changes, the rung stop disagreeing and what you want stops being a struggle and becomes a consequence. This doesn't make you passive, you keep acting, working and making decisions. The difference is that action stops being the lever that tries to move your whole life and becomes a reflection of who you already are. It weighs less because it no longer has to overcome the rungs above it. Now it's working with them. Dodson says that when an identity becomes as ordinary as breathing, you correspond to the reality you wanted, the same way no one needs to announce to themselves that they're breathing. Changing your identity isn't repeating a sentence in the mirror until you believe it. Dodson observes that someone who says I am rich a hundred times a day in front of the mirror actually believes the opposite. What he proposes is the practice the whole book revolves around which he calls the pure technique. The acronym describes what it does. It reproduces in you, here, the reality. A version of you is already living in a parallel universe. The practice begins with a definition. You choose a reality you'd like to experience. Something you feel is within your reach and that you're willing to live up to. If you don't know what you want, you define what you no longer want to experience and take its opposite as your desire. Then comes silence. You sit or lie down, close your eyes and set aside the problems of the world and all the evidence of what you don't want. Little by little, you let your wants, needs and obligations dissolve and let your judgments, labels and expectations loosen. They may keep showing up, but you watch them the way you'd watch clouds passing across the sky. Dodson explains why this stage comes before any other. Before receiving something new, you return to a state in which you're not identified with anything because you can't identify with a new reality while you're still identified with the old one. And he adds that well-being isn't the goal of this practice. It's the starting point. In that calm, you allow an image to appear of the version of you who is already living the reality you want. Dodson insists that this isn't visualizing with effort or concentration. It's a relaxed receiving of something that already exists because you aren't merely imagining you're perceiving someone who is already there. Then comes the decisive stage. You stop looking at that person, like someone's still wanting it from the outside and start looking as that person from inside the scene. How does this version of you wake up? How do they speak to the people they love? How do they react to an unexpected bill? You feel that reality not only as an image, but in your body, in touch, in emotion, and you don't do it so that it will happen later, but to enjoy it now. Gatorade zero powders have been scientifically designed to help improve hydration balance in the body, with a clinically proven electrolyte plant and no artificial colors or flavors. Is it in you? Now at Groger, your points set up to more ways to save every trip. Same points, more choices, and with low prices on fresh quality food, plus digital and personalized offers tailored to how you shop, your dollar goes further. Groger, fresh for everyone, restrictions apply, seaside or store for details. The last stage stretches across the days that follow. Dodson calls it "resting in fulfillment". You don't keep repeating, visualizing or waiting, and you don't ask when, how, or where the change will show up. You do what the day offers, the ordinary things, without neediness. You don't have to pretend everything has already manifested. You simply stop behaving in ways that assume it isn't true yet. The days that follow are where many people stumble. The first stumble is pushing the new life into the future. Dodson observes that the habit of projecting the reality you want into the future only postpones the result. Whoever thinks someday I'll be that person confirms at the top of the ladder someone who isn't yet. The version of you who lives on the other highway isn't waiting for it. It's already there now. For Dodson, creating reality isn't an expectation about the future, but the memory of something that has already happened. You relate to the life you've chosen, like someone remembering it, not like someone waiting for it. The second stumble comes right after. You change on the inside, open your eyes, and may find the same overdue bill, the same empty house, the same silent phone. Dodson answers that disappointment by saying it may look like the same place, but it isn't. You've already entered another highway, and what surrounds you will begin to correspond to it, even if it looks the same at first. He explains that in the physical dimension, there is a buffer of time between what you are on the inside and what appears on the outside. That buffer exists so that not every passing thought materializes immediately, which would plunge life into chaos, and so that you have time to notice and correct the beliefs that still contradict what you've chosen. What you see now is the feedback from what you believed before. Dodson gives the example of someone who has taken on the identity of a prosperous person, and a few days later gets a bank statement showing the account overdrawn. If he says, "Maybe I'm not that prosperous after all, here's the proof." He lets a circumstance decide who he is and falls back into the old identity. The other possibility is to treat the statement as an echo of the previous highway and a chance to react the way the new person would, or simply to observe it without reacting, like a cloud in the sky. Things are this way for the moment, but this is no longer the way you are. For Dodson, how you react to the old reality determines how long it takes for the new identity to be reflected on the outside. Persistence, in this sense, doesn't require discipline or effort. It means making a decision within and staying there. That's the fourth step. Live now as the self who has already arrived. Jumping to another reality, step by step, comes down to four moves. Take your attention back from those who want to define you, so the wheel returns to your hands. Take the lack out of what you want, and set aside the desire that was born from someone else's beliefs. Change at the top of the ladder, in your identity, and not just on the bottom run, and live now as the self who has already arrived, even while the scenery still shows the old highway. None of these moves requires traveling to another world. The highway you want already exists, and a version of you is already traveling it. Jumping to another reality is becoming that person. Becoming that person begins in the calm where the old self falls quiet, and the new identity can be felt from within. 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