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Bruce Moen of Safety Harbor has written five books exploring the afterlife and altered states of reality. He will speak at Oak Trail Books, in Palm Harbor, Saturday, Aug. 23.

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By Cheryl  Bentley | The Suncoast News

Published: August 16, 2008

Bruce Moen has chalked up his share of travels in this country, Europe and Asia giving workshops on altered states of consciousness. But his greatest journeys have been to inner realms.

There, Moen says, he has met beings who have left their bodies, but whose spirits still live. He has also encountered formerly unknown parts of himself that, he says, have given him an increasingly loving and gentle connection to life in all its forms.

Moen, 60, a Safety Harbor resident, will share his experiences at a Meetup group, Metaphysical Meetup, at Oak Trail Books, in Palm Harbor, next Saturday, Aug. 23.

The former mechanical engineer at Coors Beer, Moen has 17 patents under his belt and a self-described scientific mind. So at first he was skeptical of anything that could not be scientifically proven.

But unexplained out-of-body experiences during his Minnesota childhood and later as an adult inspired him to explore altered states of consciousness.

He studied at the Monroe Institute, a nonprofit organization in Faber, Va., dedicated to the study of human consciousness. He also began to experiment on his own by talking to nonphysical beings he met while in an altered state of consciousness and later verifying the information they gave him with their earthly friends and relatives.

At first, he was skeptical of his inner experiences, Moen noted. "For three and a half years, I was absolutely certain every encounter was part of self-deluded information."

But it was an other-worldly meeting with the recently deceased Joe that made Moen finally trade his skeptic's hat for that of a believer. His daughter asked Moen, who knew nothing about the family, to contact him.

In the other worldly encounter, Joe was propped up in bed. Moen asked to see Joe's deceased mom. A 30-something woman appeared. Moen asked the pet name for his daughter. "Punkin," Joe responded.

In checking with Joe's daughter, Moen found Joe's position in bed propped up by pillows was the position in which he had died. When Moen saw the mother in her 30s, he thought he had made a mistake because he assumed Joe's mother would be an elderly woman. He later learned the mother had died at 31.

As for the pet name, he discovered her father didn't have a pet name for his daughter, but he had a pet dog. In one of the overriding concerns before his death, Joe repeatedly made his daughter promise to care for the animal after he had passed away. The pet's name? Punkie.

Punkie wasn't Punkin, the word Moen had heard, and it wasn't the father's pet name for his daughter, the question Moen had asked, but a pet's name. But for Moen, those and other details of a person about whom he knew nothing were close enough to convince him both of the afterlife and of his ability to contact other realms.

Moen's explorations into consciousness have prompted him to author five books, all published by Hampton Roads Publishing Company in Charlottesville, Va.

With Moen's growing awareness of himself as part of a vaster being, his work has increasingly taken on deeper levels. "In the physical world, we tend to think of existence beginning at birth and ending at death. I began to sense I am a being who exists far beyond those boundaries. It was like coming home."

His exploration has come to center on love, which abounds in non-physical realms, Moen said. He described coming upon an altered-state choir. Its message penetrated him in ways an earthly one would not. "What they were singing over and over was, 'We love you,'" he recalled, eyes filling with tears, and added. "You don't feel love energy at that level without being affected by it."

For more information on Moen's work, go to www.afterlifeknowledge.com>. The next Metaphysical Meetup will be 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at Oak Trail Books, 1219 Florida Ave., Palm Harbor. Call 727-785-1960 for more information.

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