The Energetics of the Fifth Dimension: Light Body Evolution
Mandy: Let’s start with your personal journey. Was there a specific moment of spiritual awakening or opening up to the world of energy? Where did it all start?
Heather: There were many moments. My childhood was filled with what could be described as mystical experiences – times when I became aware of other realities. I always had a sense of the invisible world and other dimensions. In that sense, it was a gradual awakening. But there was one pivotal moment which woke me up to my soul mission and changed the trajectory I was on.
When I was 21, I was involved in a serious car accident and had an out of body experience. It was a very traumatic experience at the time but looking back I understand that it was an initiatory experience.
After the impact, I found myself floating above the car, which had flipped over. I remember thinking: Is this what it is like to be dead? Not so bad! I felt weightless and very expansive – as if ‘I’ was suddenly much larger. The thing I remember most was how quiet it was – and incredibly peaceful. The only word that comes close to describing what I felt is bliss. And I didn’t want to come back!
At some point, I heard a very clear voice telling me that I had a choice; that I could stay in this time-space and travel further into the light or go back into my body and carry on with my life. All I had to do was ‘think the choice’ and it would happen.
I literally had to choose life or death! I was torn – but then I had the thought: “I haven’t finished what I came to do. I must go back.” Almost instantly, I felt a kind of spiralling backwards and then a jolt as I regained consciousness in my body. And all the chaos and noise of the accident scene rushed at me. It was a shock!
Going through this experience as a young adult was very challenging. Despite the ‘bliss experience’, It took me years to recover from physical trauma and to deal with an explosive opening of psychic senses that I wasn’t ready for. Remember, this was back in the late Eighties – no Google, or Internet and South Africa during the Apartheid years was very isolated. I didn’t have access to much information about what I was experiencing psychically.
The guide who was present with me on the other side helped me through this period of my life and guided me towards many spiritual teachers so I could learn how to work with energy and eventually become a healer myself.
I’ve been through many Initiations since then, but this experience was the start of my journey as a healer.
Mandy: Is there a link between that early experience and creating the Summit now: What led you to create the Summit – and on this particular topic?
Heather: There is definitely a thread! The ‘bliss experience’ left a deep imprint. After that, I knew beyond any doubt that there was much more beyond the physical plane, that there were other dimensions of existence, with a higher frequency field. I’d experienced a vibrational state of feeling expansive and light and completely at peace. And I knew there were loving, sentient beings guiding us. I wanted to learn how to access that, without going through a crisis or death.
Initially, it was a personal exploration to learn how to access this higher dimensional space (and it happened a few times) but I started to realise that my personal experience was showing me something much bigger – that humanity, as a collective, could achieve higher vibrational states through conscious choice. I always felt this potential – and the support from the invisible world, and higher dimensions, for humanity to have a more expansive awareness.
Towards the end of 2020, I was told by my guides that I has to be a “wayshower into the Fifth Dimension”. At the time, I had no idea what this meant or how I would do this. As you well know Mandy, the guides can be quite opaque at times! But gradually I was shown options, and was filled with a sense of urgency to reach a larger audience to talk about the extraordinary choice point that humanity is facing at the moment.
At that time, we’d gone through the first year of the Covid pandemic and several lockdowns, and I was seeing how my clients were really struggling. People’s lives have been shaken in so many fundamental ways.
I wanted to offer a higher perspective about what we are going through, of what is possible. There is the potential for a mass awakening on the planet. There is a quickening of awakening, if you like. And I think lightworkers everywhere are stepping up to assist with this shift-point. It is why we are here now! From a spiritual – or even energetic – point of view, we are in the process of reweaving the very fabric of the world.
My deepest wish and intention for the Summit, is that everyone who attends, will receive something that will change their perspective, their lives and raise their frequency, and help them to move through this transitional time with more ease – and with tools and resources to support them.
Mandy: What is your understanding of the Fifth Dimension?
Heather: The first thing to understand is that the Fifth Dimension is not a place – it’s a vibrational state. We can think of it as a vibrational range; it’s not a static state.
This vibrational range is higher than the range that’s been dominant on the planet for the last few thousand years, at least. We can call the lower range of vibration - and perception - the Third Dimension. In 3D, we are concerned with the material world and surviving physically and materially. It’s the realm of the ego, and this goes with fight, flight and survival.
The Fifth Dimension can be seen as the realm of the soul, and the heart. We start moving into greater spiritual awareness. We begin to understand that there is more than the material world of matter. We become less bound by the concerns of the ego and the rational mind, and more interested in our soul purpose and why we are here on the Earth plane.
Mandy: How will moving into the Fifth Dimension change how we operate?
Heather: First of all, our understanding of the nature of reality will change. There is a lot I could say here, but essentially, we’ll begin to understand Oneness or Unity consciousness in a more visceral way; we’ll start to feel that we really are all connected. We’ll experience ourselves and others as Source energy and this will automatically create more respect, love and compassion between people.
We won’t have to strive for love and compassion: the experience of ourselves and each other as Source energy, will alter perception and therefore attitude.
How we operate as 5D beings is going to change too. For example, we’ll start to value intuition as a valid means of knowing. We’ll become trans-rational, using more than the rational mind to perceive and interpret reality. As we evolve, our sensory perception will expand to include a far broader range of senses. We’ll become multi-sensory beings. In 5D, being intuitive and psychic will become a normal way of being, rather than something unusual or weird.
We’ll also begin to grasp the power of thought in creating our reality, minute by minute. For example, what I experienced when I left my body after the car crash: I only had to ‘think my choice’, and the manifestation of that was instant. As we move into 5D, manifestation is speeding up. It might not be instant, but it is becoming much faster.
When we really get how powerful thought is, then we can take responsibility for ourselves as souls and our soul role as creators through this human experience.
This is another important attribute of the Fifth Dimension: we become Conscious Creators as opposed to Unconscious Victims.
Mandy: Are we in the Fifth Dimension already or do we still have a long way to go?
Heather: That’s a good question – and there are differing opinions about this. One opinion is that we are already in the Fifth Dimension. That’s only partially true.
My view is that we’re in a transition phase: part of humanity is still very attached to the Third Dimension, for many reasons. Some people are fearful of change, while others are actively resisting change and seeking to control. Another group is consciously moving into the Fifth Dimension. And this is the fork in the road, where – as a collective – there is the potential for a split; or for one pathway to become dominant and define our future on planet Earth.
I think it’s correct to say that Fifth Dimensional consciousness is already here, but it’s not stable or firmly anchored yet. Even for people who are living from a place of 5D consciousness, they might only intermittently access it. It’s not consistent, or solid. As a result, we are not yet holding a stable 5D frequency.
As a collective, humanity is currently going back and forth between 3D and 5D, through 4D. This is why we are experiencing so much turbulence at the moment: it’s unstable, confusing and often disorienting. This is why people are struggling. There is a lot of instability in the matrix. But as we know, instability also precedes change and offers the opportunity for quantum leaps. This is the evolutionary impulse in action.
When more people move into 5D consciousness, the Field will become more stable. As we evolve, we will learn how to stay in the Fifth Dimension – and to hold a higher frequency more consistently – and this will create stability in the collective matrix.
We must remember that this is an evolutionary process and that this may take years, or even decades. What is true, is that evolution is speeding up.
Mandy: How does this relate to Ascension?
Heather: The evolutionary phase we’re in at the moment is often called Ascension. It’s essentially a period of accelerated evolution. This time has been predicted by many ancient prophecies. We’ve been on an accelerated Ascension pathway since the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 and the Cosmic Moment in December 2012. There is so much support from higher dimensions – and more advanced worlds – for humanity to evolve and a lot of light coming into our planet in order to increase our light quotient and help us evolve. But ultimately, the rate of our evolution is about the individual and collective choices we make along the way.
Right now, we are at a 5D threshold, a major choice point. And there are important questions to be asking ourselves: What will move us away from fear and towards love? How can we stay centred in the higher frequencies of love and peace?
We have been gifted with free will and choice is key. The higher dimensions are all about choice and our power to exercise choice, but at far subtler levels than we have learnt in the Third Dimension. Choice in the Fifth Dimension is much more about how we think and what we believe – and what we put out into the Field.
Mandy: Can anyone access the Fifth Dimension and how do we do this?
Heather: Yes, 5D is available to anyone who chooses it. We are all evolving, but it is up to each one of us how fast we want to evolve. It really is a choice. A high-frequency pathway is available to everyone.
There are many things we can do to contribute to forging a higher frequency pathway. One of the most important is to focus on raising your vibrational frequency and increasing your light quotient. Remember: energy is consciousness, so when we focus on raising vibration, consciousness automatically shifts too.
Vibrational frequency is a composite of thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and emotions, and what we bring as souls from other lifetimes – all of this is contained in our energetic field. We can think of it as our signature tune: we are like walking transmitters in that respect.
It’s so important to be aware of what we are putting out into the Field vibrationally. Thought and emotion, for example, are powerful energies and they magnetise our experience within a particular vibrational range.
If we want to up this vibrational range we have to do the deep work of clearing denser emotions (which might be stuck), so we can more often experience elevated emotions. It’s not about being happy all the time, but it is about not being stuck in the denser, lower frequency emotions. By clearing dense energies, we can move our frequency range to a higher level, much like going up an octave on the piano keyboard.
We also have to become more aware of our thought patterns and beliefs – in other words move from being unconscious to conscious – so that we can become more directed in the thought energy we are putting into the Field, rather than being unconscious about what we are emitting.
It’s all about taking greater responsibility for what we are co-creating in every moment.
Mandy: Let’s look at the role of light body evolution in this shift. What do you mean by this?
Heather: There are many terms to describe the subtle energy system, but I like to use light body – because ultimately we are made of light. The light body is our sacred energetic template. It’s the structure of our energy systems. Until recently, we have been working with the seven major chakras, and the aura, which most people are familiar with. As we evolve, our light bodies are expanding and evolving too. This is so we can hold more light!
As we move into the Fifth Dimension, the 5D chakra system has become visible and accessible. We are ready to activate the energetic structures that will underpin 5D consciousness. This will be the energetic foundation of a higher frequency pathway for humanity.
Many people are already working with their 5D chakras. As more people activate and work with the 5D energetic structures, the more our vibrational frequency – as a collective – will automatically increase.
By activating and working with your 5D chakras, you effectively move your consciousness to a higher level. And as consciousness evolves, so our energetic structures expand. It’s two sides of the same coin.
Mandy: Does this mean that our light bodies are naturally evolving, or do we have to work at it?
Heather: Both!
In my work with clients, I’ve been observing changes in energetic structures over the last five years or so. Around 2016, I first started noticing differences in some of the children I was working with. The biggest change was in the heart chakra. Many children – especially very young children and babies – have enlarged heart chakras. And then I started noticing that the Heart chakra and the High Heart chakra (sometimes called the 8th chakra) were merged in some of these ‘New Children’. It has become one chakra. This is a very visible structural change in the energy template – and it represents an expansion of heart energy.
We can think of the merged heart as the 5D heart. This is the vibrational bridge to 5D consciousness.
I think this is where we are headed. As we evolve, our Hearts and High Hearts will merge. Essentially, this is the expansion of heart energy which will underpin the expansion of heart-based consciousness in the Fifth Dimension – and beyond.
Eventually we will only have one large Heart chakra – an expanded heart centre – and the other chakras will fall away. But we are not there yet.
As adults we can work energetically to activate the 5D Heart chakra. But there is an important first step: to open our 3D heart chakras. This is the preparation.
Mandy: Can you elaborate on the role of the Heart chakra?
Heather: Yes, this is a very important question. Opening our Heart chakras and moving into the Heart space is the single-most important shift that we can make in our personal lives.
I believe strongly that the pathway to the Fifth Dimension is through the Heart. It’s like a portal.
5D consciousness is heart-based consciousness. The shift from 3D to 5D is a movement from the head to the heart. We have been in a patriarchal system where rational thought is prioritized over other ways of knowing, so we have become very used to operating from our heads, and leaving our hearts out of the equation. This is changing. It has to change in order to move into 5D consciousness.
We’ll move into 5D from the heart, not the mind. Our minds can’t fathom the evolutionary shifts that are happening right now.
Mandy: Is there anything that can help us to open the Heart?
Heather: As we prepare for the shift into 5D, many of us are busy with heart-opening work at the moment. If I think about my work with clients, the phrase that I’ve repeated the most often in the last 10 years is: “You’re on a journey to open the heart”. This wasn’t an instruction, but a reflection of what they were busy with, a higher perspective of the challenges they were going through.
In the 3D structures and belief systems, we have been conditioned to close our hearts to protect ourselves. We’ve got layers of energetic armour covering the heart chakra. It’s so important now to dismantle that armour and open our hearts again. And this means the front and back of the heart chakra.
The back of the heart is more difficult, and it’s often forgotten. Energetically, the back of the heart is where we hold old resentment, unprocessed attachments, even ancestral issues. So often the front of the heart is open, but the back of the heart is blocked. I see this pattern so often. It just means there is old, unfinished emotional business that we need to process and release.
There is no shortcut; we just have to do the emotional work of being human and then reach for forgiveness.
When we have an open heart, we can more easily experience love and forgiveness and a higher vibrational range of feeling. Elevated feeling is one of the pathways to the Fifth Dimension.
Once the 3D heart is open, we can do the work of opening the High Heart and then activating the 5D heart.
Mandy: What else can we do to raise vibration?
Heather: There is so much we can do. Here are a few things that I’ve found to have the most impact:
· Meditation - Meditation in some form is the foundational practice of most spiritual traditions. Stilling the mind on a daily basis allows you to open up to your inner being and soul world.
· Light body work – If this is new to you, start with the seven major chakras and opening the heart chakra; if you’ve already been working with your light body for a while, activate and strengthen the 5D chakras.
· Emotional processing - Do the inner work of releasing trauma and processing old hurts and grief.
· Mental mastery – Become mindful about what you put into your personal field – the news, the movies you watch, the books you read – and what you put out into the collective field: thoughts, emotions and actions.
· People and places – Spend time in places and with people who raise your vibrational frequency: for example, nature and sacred sites hold a higher frequency and will amplify our own frequency.
· Ask to receive more light into your system. There is so much support from the unseen world right now.
Integrating these things into your daily life is an evolutionary choice that is available to everyone!
