Wright is an OBE practitioner, though sleep paralysis starting at 16. He spent 3 years testing the OBEs to see if it was reality or fantasy.
He seems to gathered an extremely richly informed view of the larger reality.
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There's an interesting bit in this interview, starting at around 19 minutes, when Darius is about religious/philosophical ideas of "dissolving the ego", and he goes into how the personality never dissolves. It's you.
At the same time the soul having these different lifetimes (egos, personalities) is also you, from I understand. I haven't yet heard him explain that however. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMjQJmqvhhM
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My guess is I pass over and stay myself, but then I remember all these other people I was too, or experiences, and there must be a core that stays the same and it's attitudes and other changeable aspects of myself that undergo change, through the accrued accumulation of those experiences.
Going from some of what he says here too, I guess it means: in past lifetimes I was A, B, C and D*. In my current incarnation I'm not a separate E, I'm a person that combines A, B, C and D that I underwent, except I just don't remember those experiences. *So actually in the first lifetime I was A, then A plus, then A plus plus, then A plus plus plus, etc.
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After watching both of those videos (I watched the first one twice, taking notes the second time), I am not quite sure what to think.
Darius's depth of experience with OBEs is impressive, and he offers a lot of positive moral advice, such as the importance of unconditional love, and that loveless acts are what we most regret on the other side. He also offers such hopeful counsel as that nothing can touch, control, or entrap your soul unless you believe it to be so, and I say "hopeful" because although I don't know that it's true, I sure hope that it is. He also makes a lot of empirical claims in the first video that are very heterodox, and that, if true, would be revolutionary. Mostly, he doesn't provide any source for his claims, nor any way to verify them, which is problematic given how heterodox they are, and, to me, it seems likely that at least some of them are false. These will be the focus of the remainder of my post. Here's a bit of a survey of them. He claims that we live in a "construct", and that it and everything in it has been intelligently designed by a Creator, who is not a singular being (but he doesn't want to explain God further). So far, not too controversial, at least to a Psience Quest audience, given our discussions of theism, simulations, and virtual realities, etc. He then claims that our construct has twelve heavens or realms. This is one of those unsourced claims with no means of verification. Twelve is a very specific number. How did he arrive at it? Has he personally been to these realms in OBEs? If so, how did he determine that they were separate from this one, how did he identify each one, and how did he determine that there are no more than twelve? He also claims that before the Fall, Flood, and War in Heaven (all one, real event, he says), this realm (the first heaven) was open to all - angels, gods, etc. After the Fall, some of those beings remained, but most returned to their own realms (heavens), he claims. Again, he provides no source for these claims, and their relation to his OBEs is unclear. "They" don't want us to know our true history (in this realm), and who we truly are (as eternal souls), he claims. We have been lied to and deceived, he claims. In my experience, there clearly are malevolent actors in this reality, with a degree of control in it, but Darius seems to be alluding to an almost totalitarian degree of control (as will become clear next). This is problematic given that he doesn't go into specifics as to who "they" are, how "they" gained and maintain control, and how he came to know this. Did he come to know it through his OBEs, through real-world research, or through a mixture? It's not clear. He claims that Earth is not a sphere but fixed and immovable (there's an image of what he thinks it really looks like at 28:51 in the first video). This claim, at least, is based on what he's seen in his OBEs. He claims that even NDErs see this as well. Others, too, he claims, have seen exactly what he's seen. All of this is problematic for several reasons. Firstly, of course, because of all of the evidence we have that the Earth really is a sphere. We can see its curvature for ourselves when we look out of the window of a plane, or even just out at the horizon on the ocean. Secondly, because if there are any NDErs who do affirm this too, I have not yet encountered their stories. Has anybody else? Finally, it's problematic because it implies that totalitarian degree of control that I mentioned earlier, so as to manufacture and successfully promote all of the evidence for the "lie" that the Earth is spherical. For example, NASA would have to be a giant factory of deceit, and the trip to the moon would have to have been faked - and, indeed, he claims that you can't pierce the firmament (but the soul can), citing Operation Fishbowl, and that space travel is anyway impossible because there can be no propulsion in a vacuum; NASA images of, e.g., the Earth or other planets are "composite" images (and/or CGI), he claims. What we know as the laws of physics, too, then, would have to be a lie, and Isaac Newton must have been in on it way back when he affirmed the three laws of motion, which apply as much in a vacuum as anywhere else. He goes on to claim that there are lands beyond the poles, a claim that couldn't make sense if the Earth is a sphere, but which doesn't even seem to make sense given the image he shared of what he thinks our construct really looks like. He claims that every religion teaches about the firmament. I'm skeptical of this. Uluru is the remains of giant tree, he claims. Really? I've been there and walked around it. I didn't get any sense that this could be true, although I certainly sensed it as a very spiritual place. There are, he claims, other constructs with their own firmaments, "sitting on God's shelf". I have no problem with multiple created realities, so this isn't particularly problematic to me, and, apparently, it is based on what he's seen during his OBEs. He affirms that a soul is infinite and infinitely capable of manifesting its will and desire - again, a hopeful affirmation. We have forgotten that, he claims, and the lies and deception have led us to manifest accordingly. The vagueness as to who's lying and how they gained the power to promote those lies to us all remains problematic. The original purpose of this construct, he claims, was to experience the lack of unconditional love so as to appreciate and be able to manifest unconditional love thereafter. It hasn't gone as planned, but that purpose will still be achieved, he says. Well, maybe, but, again, this is simply presented as fact, without any explanation as to how he purportedly came to know it. A few other claims I jotted down are that:
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