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So we have scientific/materialist ideas that everything about consciousness is in the body somewhere, the opposite of the view that we are a soul first and foremost having a physical experience.

So then if we carry that over to the ET question, I suppose we should give ETs the benefit of the doubt that they are conscious and have souls too.  So if they're conscious and are ultimately just souls too, then if they have physical experiences then they simply incarnate into a physical body the same way we would.  If they're smart then they would have even realized this already and capitalized on its implications, and got "straight to the point" instead of messing around with strictly physical technologies.  It's comprehensible that they could even reach some level of technology and/or spiritual development that they could do this at will, or even materialize/dematerialize as is actually often reported in UFO/ET experiences.

Proof is ultimately something that is subjective, something that has to be strictly interpreted in its own context, and is not always necessary in the first place.  For example e=mc^2 is not proof of anything, it's just a theory to explain theoretical data, which basically means it's nothing but a useful idea to try to make sense of things that we really don't understand.  Really unless we are conducting science here, then it becomes pretty irrelevant to bring science into this.  With the guy posting the OP that he has, I think we could take this whole thread in a different direction and just explore ideas of these kinds of experiences and the kind of consciousness associated with them, instead of making it about scientific studies.  Even without proof of what is happening in this subject, the fact remains that there is an immense and constantly growing body of case studies, regression sessions, police reports, enough stuff to fill volumes and volumes, but to sift through all of that it takes a little bit of interest.  There are lots of proposed explanations but the most interesting stuff is when people pursue it on its own level, for whatever it's worth.  And there is definitely a heavy element of states of consciousness playing a role.

There are a lot of people who draw parallels between modern ET experiences and ancient stories of fairies, angels, demons, etc.  All these parallels that can be drawn seem to point out that we may just be finding new ways to think about and try to explain otherwise incomprehensible experiences that have been happening to people for a long time.  I have some notes taken out of a book about Native American myths and legends that was written in the 1910's, and it gives a classic abduction story, except using natural objects that Native Americans were familiar with to explain everything.

As far as I'm concerned, Soki has it mostly right.

All this talk about Grey this and Reptilian that... all these years, and absolutely NO physical proof exists.  It all smells of unrealized non-physical experiences to me.

One could say the same about OBEs, all these years and no physical proof exists.  It's all just hallucinations inside of your brain, no different than a dream, you don't go anywhere, etc. etc.  When people focus too much on what they consider rational, this is generally where it leads.  Rationality and more specifically science have hard limits, and the areas we're talking about are classic examples of those limits.

There's the obvious response of, "I don't need proof because I've experienced them myself."  This doesn't always seem to be a good answer (rationality speaking here) but there are lots of cases where I believe people genuinely experience things, and they report their experiences genuinely and something may really be going on.

As far as what the OP is saying, it's actually pretty common to hear. I like reading up on ETs and trying to figure out where all this stuff is coming from, and the idea of small grays as "slaves" or "droids" or some other variation on the idea of an obedient servant is very common.  We could say that somebody came up with this idea, and for whatever reason, it "stuck" in this subculture, and now everyone runs around repeating it. That's one possibility, and only the OP would be able to really ponder on whether or not he heard these ideas somewhere else or experienced them firsthand.  I know of at least two fairly well-known self-proclaimed ET contactees who say the same thing based on their personal experiences, who I personally think are genuinely telling what they believe to be true.

Physicality in itself is more or less an illusion, as even science is pointing out with more clarity all the time.  If something exists "in another dimension" it could probably just as easily be said that it exists in some other form of physicality, because physicality itself is mostly nothing but tiny "particles" (more like theoretical ideas of particles) having some kind of energetic interaction on some level, according to science.  I'm sure you guys have seen the comparisons of, "if this egg in the middle of this football field is a nucleus, then the electrons would be flying around in the grand stands," etc.  There really does not seem to be much to physicality but some kind of idea that we attach to the experience.

I watched a pretty long interview with the author of the book in the OP and he seems like a very sincere person to me.  Also I find it credible that bigfoot is a "spiritual" animal, in that it is not completely physical and is a "skin-walker" like some natives say.  There are actually many Native American stories about the bigfoot people.

I tend to think that if something is not real, there is no way to experience or even conceive of it.  Everything anyone or anything can experience is real.

If you're supposed to meet her again then you will, otherwise you won't.

Darker energies are more potent for what, finding peace and happiness in one's life?

Darth Vader liked the dark side of things too, but even as mean as he was he still had a change of heart when the even darker emperor started torturing his own son in front of him.   

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I think a lot of books have been written and philosophers' brains racked, and the best answers seem to be,

1)  Nothing is real.
2)  Everything is real.
3)  It's a meaningless question.

I personally believe it's all of the above.



Also as far as merging with others and spiritual progress.  Imagine someone plays some video games, like Mario, some Zelda game, and whatever else.  Mario may miraculously realize "I have a higher self guiding me and I'm one with the universe."  Then you play your Zelda game and Link may have the same revelation.  In this case these characters may have preprogrammed destinies but you the player are their "higher self" that guides them through their "lives" and you know what connections they may or may not have with other game characters, and you can appreciate their unique qualities and experiences and personalities, because you've been them.  Really they're all just a bunch of electronics and their existences are just an illusion.  Same for us.  We belong to larger game, and we play through the motions as we're guided by our true selves, but really our existence as independent beings is an illusion.  Everything is just part of 1 thing.  Being separate is an illusion or mechanism created specifically for us to be able to have these kinds of experiences.

I read what I thought was a pretty powerful perspective a few weeks ago, that pointed out that if everything is an illusion, then it wouldn't just apply to the physical dimensions.  Everything we imagine to be in the "spiritual dimensions" are just illusions too. 

Hat man experience?  Ja, das ist so! Man hat experience!   Couldn't resist, sorry. 


Anyway this is a really bizarre story and if I were you I bet I would be having second thoughts about whether or not I saw two people.  But just from how specific your experience was, I'm pretty confident on your behalf that you really must have seen two people.

So either your boyfriend didn't see the second one, and it was simply a normal human being.  Or he didn't see the second one because there was nothing there for him to see, and you had the privilege of seeing something paranormal.

There are a lot of strange stories of this sort and I don't know what to make of them.  It's not simply a matter of personal psychology I think, because there really are non-human entities out there that can come across our path just as any human being can, except in stranger ways.  There are weird stories from "men in black" to "black eyed children" to bizarre sets of stories without obvious commonalities, like even my dad has recounted to me.  All I can say, is it's something like X-file.  "The truth is out there." 

To me this sounds like "How can I make friends with Hitler's dead spirit?"

Maybe the definition of "dark" which is intended here is throwing me off.  I'm not sure I understand the point, lol....

I agree with Xanth, that it seems more immediately useful to hold on to what you find beyond the ego and just let it kind of integrate and remain as a kind of presence "behind the mask" so to speak.

On the other hand I've seen some of these apparently naive people you're talking about.  I've probably seemed the same way to people before in certain situations (-- with secret help from secret allies).  To someone else they may seem naive while "being taken advantage of" or etc., but they might be having a completely different experience, be seeing the entire external reality as 1 being and the act of "being taken advantage of" as some sort of communion and communication with the divine.  Then say they get "cheated" out of a few dollars or something by some street scam artist, for example, and they're sitting there afterward just as wide-eyed as before, and people may be cracking jokes about them while their mind was just blown from seeing some intimate part of God through the life of the scam artist.  Could easily be worth a couple of bucks.  

Hey, I'm my own energy vampire.  If I spend my time replying to threads like this it's nobody's fault but mine. 

But I get what you're saying.  The worst cases of this are when you know the person in real life and you care enough about them to not abandon or ignore them, but they like to find ways to keep you right on that edge of just saying "screw it" and keep you stressed and confused, lol.  But these situations can turn around too, for more positive experiences. 

I feel disappointed that Google was consulted.  When he said he just wanted to know what kind of monsters had tentacles in the mouth I immediately thought of Cthulhu!  And it has wings and claws and is slimy, locked in a strange tomb until the stars align in the right (or wrong) way....

Everyone has a dark side.  It's good to be in touch with it or else people tend to not be able to cope with negative things they perceive outside of themselves, since they can't identify.  For example some people can't handle discussions of war but they're issues that must be addressed in society, one way or another.

At the same time obviously there's a harmony to life in order to live here, since if you were dark to the extreme I don't think you'd live very long, considering all the terrible things that are always options to you and which tend to bring consequences.  You can't do certain terrible things without ultimately bringing your own physical existence to an end or else severely limiting its expression, and maybe there's a reason for you to be here in the first place so that this would be undesirable.

Anyway it's good to realize a balance of forces I think.  The universe itself seems inherently neutral but then again (as Bashar pointed out ), the universe seems to allow the possibility of free will too, and so is ultimately slightly positive if for only that reason.

If you're talking about going to Amsterdam just for a weekend then I take it that you live in Europe.  In Amsterdam these things are legal to sell and I'm sure the government requires some measure of quality control.  They're sold in coffee shops in some kind of cake form, "spacecakes" or something like that.

What you're suggesting may be possible but it would also be very easy to be distracted.  Anyway even if you don't achieve AP the experience itself may be worth something.

I eventually had a lighbulb go on in my brain and I replied, "I know why they are floating! Because of Aliens! This must be some sort of trick that Aliens are playing on us right now"

lmao...

That may not have been such an unreasonable guess, if you'd ruled out the possibility of dreaming first. 

Either that or the instant ascension of humanity that lots of people talk about finally occurred and you or your wife gained instant telekinetic abilities. 

I think I've used these kinds of things before and I slept right through them.  I would just wake up if I rolled over so that the earbud was uncomfortable against my face.

Another thing you can do is constantly ask yourself throughout the day if you're dreaming, but you can't go through the motions with this either.  You have to actually, in a very paranoid way, question whether or not what you are experiencing right now is a dream.  Do it every time you remember throughout the day.  If you think you're doing it too much, then you're probably doing it enough.  This worked wonderfully for me but I've since stopped doing it so it doesn't work for me anymore obviously.

Once I was in a dream where a school bus ran into a hole and tipped over sideways onto the road.  I saw this happen and thought, "Woah, that's not something you see every day.  Wait -- AM I DREAMING?"  And I "thought" about it.  And concluded, "Nah, I'm not dreaming this time."  Then I woke up a few minutes later and of course I had been dreaming.  So then I was sure to more seriously consider the question every time I asked myself. 

[human intelligences may NOT be the only thing which is conscious here and influencing our more physically spatious, shared reality]

Either that or I finally Lost it

I would sooner believe that you found it.  Also it sounds like your Winamp player has began to have some conscious activity of its own swirling around somewhere.  Maybe you've inherited an astral helper.

So what you guys have said has made me think about this a little more clearly.  Maybe we can start to feel around for some rules as to when and why we are able to directly influence the way reality around us operates, and when we are not so much able to do so.

Well, I see this reality as a collective consciousness environment being created on a constant and consistent basis by those consciousness whom experience it.
With that said... the rules that govern this reality aren't set in stone.  They're set by the majority of the collective.

So what you've said has led me to clarify some ideas for some general rules that maybe we can expound upon or refine, based upon what we're talking about...


1)  Reality, in general, is not self-determined by set rules, but by the collective consciousness involved in it.

2)  Here on the physical Earth plane, there seem to be "rules" in place which even the collective consciousness of humanity can't overcome at this time.  Maybe they were established beyond human consciousness, by a "higher authority" as part of the rules for having a human experience at this time on Earth, and everyone who incarnates here generally agrees to these rules?


Now I have a third idea to add to these based on various experiences I've had as well as things I've read of other cultures:

3)  The more a part of reality is shielded from the consciousness of the masses, the more malleable it is, because the less subject it is to the beliefs of others.

For example,

A)  In the dream state (where supposedly the dreamer is the only conscious entity, though I'm not so sure of this), reality is malleable to the extent of your own ability and imagination.  (1 person experiences unrestricted creation; the "space-time" locale of this creation is not even perceptible to physical observation)

B)  A small group of people in a foreign country may accomplish something that is widely considered impossible in the "civilized world" of technology, and the civilized world will disbelieve it and demand proof, so it is not true for them, and only the people who have accomplished it.  For example, things that happen during ayahuasca ceremonies in the Amazon Jungle.  (Small group of people experience creation;  some limitations but still malleability; the "space-time" locale of creation is relatively small)

C)  All of humanity may theoretically agree that something is possible (ie that the world is flat), but something still causes complications.  (Large group of people "attempt" creation;  there seems as though maybe there's a "hard limit," and the space-time locale is relatively large)



If we can try to define some general rules like this, we may discover more clearly exactly how, when, where and why we can manipulate reality more easily, and how, when where and why we can't.  When we introduce more people into our experience of creation, the more the consciousness of these people differs from our own, the more limitations seem to appear as to what we can actually create.

(My guess as to why the collective consciousness of humanity couldn't make the world flat is because either there was always a subconscious knowledge that the Earth is another round celestial body like the Sun and Moon, or else that in the larger reality locale that the Earth consists in, human intelligences may NOT be the only thing which is conscious here and influencing our more physically spatious, shared reality.  But in smaller space-time locales such as dreams or campfires in the Amazon, we have closer to 100% human influence.)

It's like the quantum physics experiment where the photon appears to be a wave, until someone looks at it with an instrument, and suddenly the wave collapses into a single particle.  Simply observing reality condenses it and reduces its possibilities, presumably because "too many eyes" upon the event places automatic limitations on the individual's ability to create unrestrainedly, since the event has now become more collective and there are more "creators" involved, even if they are unconscious of their own abilities.  To not believe in something is a form of belief too, after all!


So maybe to recap how I'm trying to condense these ideas into general rules,

1)  Reality appears to be created by the consciousness that perceives it.

2)  Introducing more individuals' consciousnesses to reality seems to cause more limitations to appear in relation to the malleability of creation.  Possibly the unconsciousness of certain individuals causes the shared reality to become more "dense" and unflexible.

3)  If a group of relatively consciousness individuals shields itself from unconsciousness perception, they can more flexibly create reality.



Remember the placebo effect?  Someone believes a sugar pill works for them, and so it appears to do so.  But not for those who don't believe in the sugar pill.  And Jesus did not tell the woman that he had healed her by his own miraculous ability, but that her own faith had healed her.  Jesus simply shared in that faith with her and shared her experience of being able to heal.  And yet outside of the immediately personal experiences of such individuals, the doubts and limitations begin immediately.  

[U.S. sends 'Ironhorse' tanks to NATO's nervous Baltic front line]

Should you see Russian tank tread marks... kindly walk the other way for me.

We might sooner be seeing American tank treads in Ukraine.  

U.S. sends 'Ironhorse' tanks to NATO's nervous Baltic front line

(Reuters) - U.S. troops and tanks will deploy across the three Baltic states and Poland in the next two weeks on a mission designed to deliver an unmistakeable message of NATO resolve to Moscow.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/01/us-ukraine-crisis-baltic-usa-idUSKCN0HQ33720141001

NATO, of course, was originally set up to oppose the Soviet Union's influence in Europe when the USSR still occupied much of Eastern Europe after WW2.  Since the USSR has disbanded, NATO has began to gobble up more countries in Eastern Europe and move closer to Russia's border, while Russia has apparently assumed the target status that USSR once had.  Poland joined NATO in 1999, and the Baltic States in 2004.  Ukraine itself is NOT a NATO member.

NATO (American) generals state that they feel threatened by Russia moving its forces close to the border of Ukraine (a country which has just had a coup d'etat which was obviously sponsored by the American government -- just go back to the US diplomat who got into the news for saying "f__ the EU" earlier this year and look at the context of her conversation:  she was discussing manipulating Ukranian political candidacies).  I find it ironic that NATO feels threatened by Russia moving its forces, within its own borders, towards the border of a neighboring country which is experiencing internal violence and has already fired artillery across the border into Russia, supposedly by accident.  NATO has moved into the Baltic States and Poland, where the US is now sending tanks and jet fighters, and yet Russia is portrayed as the aggressor.




Just playing Devil's Advocate here.  And if Putin is the devil then I could make a pretty good advocate on his behalf, I believe.  

I had just finished a job a week or two ago and was sitting in the guy's driveway in my car, waiting for him to go get the money to pay me.  It was a beautiful autumn day, not too cold, just a little breezy, with some dark clouds coming over the mountain in the distance, getting ready to bring me a light shower.


I was sitting in my car watching the wind blow the leaves in the trees, thinking how surreal this looked, and I compared this to the dream or astral environment.  I like to question if I'm really awake or just dreaming without being aware of it.  Then I began to think of lucid dreams where I experimenting with changing the environment, for example melting a yard full of snow just by "thinking" about it (but it's not really "thinking" -- we'll get back to this).  As I was thinking about how this ability might be applied to the physical realm, the wind suddenly picked up very strongly and began blowing and twisting the trees around rather violently, but I still thought this was a beautiful play of nature.  And I also thought that this must be related in some way to what I just began to think about, and this was nature's way of responding to my inquiry...


So I believe that the physical realm, moreso than non-physical realms, has some restraints upon it that we have collectively agreed upon when we incarnated here.  Maybe.  Or maybe the question is really, exactly what are these restraints?  There are lots of stories in the East that are taken very seriously, of holy men with unusual and impressive abilities, from being able to survive in cold and snow virtually naked, to living for hundreds of years, to even passing through walls (from which the real US military projects referenced in the "Men Who Stare at Goats" got their ideas) or just disappear.  I think Hinduism calls such abilities siddhis, and there are actually ancient instructional books about them.


So then I had the idea to ask the community here to reflect on what they are doing when they manipulate astral or dream realms.  You don't just "think."  There is more to it than that, which is the trick.  To simply think to do something in a dream, the exact opposite might actually happen and you become frustrated.  Instead you have to develop some kind of relationship to what you are trying to change, unite energetically with it in some way, and then not so much think but feel and understand that it's changing because you have willed it.  This activity is hard to explain in words but it's definitely something that can be learned in the non-physical state.  When I was reflecting on this and trying to get such a feel for my local environment that beautiful Autumn day, is exactly when the wind picked up violently as if in response to me trying to disturb the status quo.  I've had similar experiences before and I think we really do have the ability to effect such things, and the "matrix" we live in is intelligent enough to be aware when we are trying to exercise such abilities.


This community is a good one for entertaining such things.

Lend me some help here if you please, people!  We can make this into a field of study and further research.

The OP probably isn't still around but I'll throw in my two cents anyway.

All serious esoteric systems or mystery schools ultimately teach the same thing:  what you have "inside" you determines what you experience "outside" of you.  So, as within, so without, or more commonly expressed as "as above, so below."  This is what Hinduism gets to, esoteric sects of Buddhism, various European schools of esotericism, Kabbalah, Hawaiian Huna, etc.  They all have different ways of talking about and take different amounts of time to zoom in on this idea, but it's what they all get at.

This is the basis of all real "magic," though I've read books like Kraig's "Modern Magick" that dance all around this basic truth without ever coming to fully grasp it.  So these people will teach you things like rituals and spells.  Rituals and spells will only work to the extent that they change your own experience of reality, and they really aren't necessary if you can change your consciousness without needing rituals or ceremonies or spells.  For some people though they're good for doing this and that's fine, what difference does it make?


Everyone is a "magician" and most people don't even realize it.  The contents of your consciousness determine what appears to be "outside" of you.  "In reality" nothing is inside or outside of you.  They are two sides of the same coin, or more accurately they are both one side and all sides of the same coin simultaneously: the only side this "coin" actually has.  Inside and outisde are united.  They only seem to be separate, and this is part of the big illusion of living in a physical body.  But when you realize that they are united then you can generally see how people create positive lives for themselves, create misery for themselves, or grasp more firmly the mystery that they live in.

If you want to move in a positive direction, fill your consciousness with things that seem positive to you, however you define positive to be.  If you worry all the time you'll only find more things to worry about, because that's all that will be on your mind and will be all that you look for.  If you want to bring a spiritual mystery into your life, find things that seem mysterious to you, and fill your consciousness with those and incorporate them into the way you live.  When you do these things, first it changes how you see things and what it's like "inside" of you.  Then the "outside" universe sees this coming out of you and responds to reflect it accordingly.  It's a lot like a feedback loop.

Welcome back.    I'm not from Ukraine but I have a friend who is from Kharkov and now is studying in Moscow.

I hear it's very beautiful over that way.

Is it just me or is there a lot of synchronicity for our Bulgarian brothers and sisters to find each other posting here?

It's got me studying Bulgaria a little.  I didn't know you guys spoke a Slavic language.  If I learn Russian do you think I'll be able to decipher some Bulgarian?

I've been noticing more and more lately that questions like these reflect the person who is asking the question or making the statement more than the subject at hand.

So, "Why doesn't everybody know about this?" really means something kind of like, "I've never seen or heard much about this myself."


We're more plugged in to things that interest us or that we think about a lot.  Something may interest other people greatly, even millions or billions of people, that we may know relatively little about.  It just happens this way.

Another example of this is along the lines of, you see a strange word for the first time and learn what it means, and now you've seen it like 5 times in a row.  Or you begin to learn about a foreign culture and suddenly you see references to it all over the place.  Or you buy a new green Jeep, and now when you ride around you seem to see green Jeeps everywhere, and you never remember seeing any before.  This says more about what's going on in the consciousness of the individual than the "exterior world" I think.


So welcome to the reality of out of body experiences!  XD

Bashar actually gets brought up a good amount here.  We were just discussing his work in another thread and I think there's already a topic around here.

I enjoy the videos too. 

Good day to you sir!

Morn Jul 25th [2004] (21)

In halls similar to LB's except with doors located in different places and each door contained an Adult Swim character.  I entered a room with Captain Murphy in it and he seemed a bit confused.  Somehow I exited the room with $1 million in two (?) bags.  I started down the hallway with Kim.  Next we [were] traveling through the South, about to enter or exist Virginia at the border.  We switched vehicles & left the Explorer, which had the money in it and ended up shopping at Wal-Mart realizing we left it behind.  Kim wasn't concerned and didn't want to go back to get it.

I woke up and then went back to sleep and dreamed that I was in a class in a computer lab (similar to seminar classes at RM).  I was flirting with one girl while another was either trying to flirt with me or interrupt me by jabbing a plastic green pen at me which I deflected, etc.  The girl I was flirting with seemed like J____ G____ only with dark tan skin, shorter, and with different facial features.  She was dressed warmly.  I was rubbing her cheek with the back of my fingers with her hair pushed aside.  Eventually a guy behind me put on 'Might as well be Walking on the Sun' and started reading the lyrics along with it, sounding mechanical and by the time he was made to stop he was yelling loudly.  While he was doing that, at first I and then the girl I was flirting with started sliding pens across a mouse pad, which acted as a musical instrument and produced sound similar to the way a slide across guitar strings would produce sound.

Morn. Jul 26th [2004] (22)

Running through LB barefoot, I become aware of things lodged in my foot. [A] girl helps me get them out but we find staples also in my foot[;] she tells me she'll brb to help me get them out.  In the meantime I run out into the front lawn at LB, which has become overgrown with weeds and large flowers.  I ask Joe whether any of the big bulby blue or orange flowers are edible and he tells me they're pepper plants.  I ask if pepper comes from the plant and he says only during a certain part of the year; you have to grind a certain part at a particular time.  Soon the girl returns with a group of tall "hillbillies" with overalls and missing teeth, dirty.  She instructs them to 'get' us.

In a hotel room similar to the one at Myrtle Beach, only inverted horizontally, on vacation, I'm at a computer telling Kim about a weird fish caught on tape that may be a species that has survived since the dinosaur era and showing her the clip.  Then I'm in the LB front lawn again, still overgrown but now swampy as well, looking to catch the 'fish.'  When I eventually find what I think is the same fish, I'm in the basement at Giles and starting heading back upstairs.  I stop on the stairs and take my 'fish' and compare it to the body of the 'fish' caught on the video to realize they have different aspects, like closely related but different species.

There may or may not be more after this; my memory is clouded.  The dream ends with me riding a bike back from the park at Narrows.  I stop by the Head Start building on the side of the road that branches off there.  It has a bicycle rack and there are two girls sitting on top of the building that I start to communicate with.

December [2004]

With a group of people in a small shop in France (Paris).  It was during the day, but it would go pitch black outside every so often, which was attributed to electrical storms on a massive scale somehow blocking out the sun.  The storms had something to do with exploding hot air balloons/weather balloons, and were accompanied by low rumblings that were violently loud.  Later bus rides that were at first like normal field trip bus rides but eventually were more like something from Maximum Overdrive, with buses competing for the road, etc.  Made many stops to gas stations for snacks, etc., sometimes stopping at the same ones more than once.

It seems like somebody mentioned WoW on another thread.  I think WoW (World of Warcraft), or any MMORPG is a good example of the kinds of things modern physics says.

Want parallel universes?  You got them.... Multiple servers with the exact same terrains, cities, general occurrences... but the people and their interactions are totally different on each one, even if you "incarnate" onto each of them with a different character.  So you have the same world existing in many different "parallel realities" at the same time.

All these universes not really taking up much, if any, higher-dimensional space?  Just look at how much room all of these digital worlds take up on physical hard drives.  You're walking around on what seems like a huge planet to you, but outside of the game you're pretending to play, it all fits on a little chip that fits between the thumb and forefinger of its creator.