Back in January of 2024 I was at one Fiorella Giordano’s second GenNow conference and had the opportunity to hear Justin Paul Abraham share with a small group of us a method he uses to help people step into spiritual encounters and to engage with the Cloud of Witnesses. The method itself is fairly simple. You envision a door—and that door can look however want it to. It can be floating in space, it can be a door at the end of a hallway in your house or the one that goes outside. It can be a physical door you have seen before or one you completely imagine. It can be any shape, color, or size, but ultimately it’s a door that *you* envision and that you like. That door represents your access to the spiritual realms through Jesus, who Himself declared in John 10 that He is the door for His sheep. When we step through that door we are engaging the heavens through the person of Jesus Christ, and then we see what happens in the encounter that unfolds. Justin shared this with us and then took us through a short activation exercise to practice this method with our spiritual door. I forget exactly what I saw at the time, but it was a good practice opportunity using that method.
Later that evening I was back in my hotel room and I decided I was going to engage in the heavens and see what else God wanted to do, so I went back to that same door I had designed earlier, stepped through the door, and was on the top of a grassy hill with this zebra-looking animal standing in front of me. The sky was filled with dark grey-black clouds and had lightning streaking across it. I wasn’t sure what to make of it at first because we don’t typically associate darkness with God, so I was trying to discern what I was encountering. However, we have to remember that the Bible does have a verse that says God is surrounded by thick darkness and another one where I believe it says he wraps himself in lightning—so while uncommon, this wasn’t necessarily ungodly, just unexpected.
I approached this zebra-like creature and it wanted me to climb on its back so it could take me somewhere. I still wasn’t sure what was happening, but I decided to risk it and see what transpired. I climbed on his back and he began to take off. And by “take off” I mean he began running into the air. As we did so, this circular black space opened up in front of us, like a wormhole or black hole, he ran into it, and then weird stuff happened. It’s hard to describe because the sensation was not something that I think a three-dimensional physical body can sustain, but its like there was this strong sense of compression and we basically shrank to a subatomic level. There wasn’t light where I was, but it still didn’t feel evil, just lacking light. It felt like I was in the space between things—like the empty space between electrons and protons in an atom. I became acutely aware of this being who was present around me. Not around me as in “I was surrounded”, but I kind of was surrounded by it, just not in a threatening way. But more it felt like the focus of its self-ness was in front of me, and without words being used I got this sense that I was encountering the Electromagnetic Force.
For a small bit of background before going further, the body of knowledge we call “Science” has discovered four forces that govern interactions at a subatomic level, and those four forces are called the Strong force, Weak force, Electromagnetism, and Gravity. Once I realized I was dealing with the Electromagnetic Force, it made much more sense that the sky was filled with lightning when I first arrived. On a scientific level, electromagnetism deals with the interactions of charged particles, such as the electrical charge created between protons and electrons, or between charged molecules in ionic reactions. Lightning occurs when an electrical charge builds up in the clouds and when it reaches a certain point, that charge discharges in the bolt of energy we can see to neutralize the buildup of opposing positive and negative energies.
Now that I was “face to face” with this force, I wasn’t honestly sure what to do, as to be honest I wasn’t expecting anything in particular to begin with. This had all been a result of me deciding to further activate spiritual encounters and see what happened, and now I was having a meeting of sorts with a subatomic Force of Creation. Having not had regular meetings with Forces in the past, I wasn’t sure if there is some type of spiritual “etiquette” one should follow when meeting them, if they even care about that kind of thing, and what level of sentience a Force has. I can assume that if I was brought to it to meet that it was indeed sentient, although clearly it doesn’t have a physical body like we do. But I was encountering it in the spirit, so it would make perfect sense if it was a sentient spirit without a body, and its primary job is to govern over the electromagnetic force in all creation.
And that was pretty much the end of the encounter. I didn’t know what to do, and the zebra-creature brought me back to the hill top. I got the sense that what had happened was an introduction and that we would have further encounters later, or at the very least that I was invited to have further encounters with it later. I also think that sometimes when we step out in faith with something new, God meets us there with new things that bring expansion to us—expansion to our understanding, to our idea of what limitations we have as He brings us ever toward limitlessness, etc. I still don’t entirely understand a year and a half later what the point of that was. But it did get me thinking—if there is a sentient Electromagnetic Force in creation, couldn’t the same be said of the other three? (I later spoke to a friend who has encountered the Force of Gravity, so it turns out that yes, indeed, they are all sentient spirits)
Now I made one major mistake, or maybe I should call it a miscalculation, in all of this. I did this after a conference session—the last session of the day. So it was evening. And I did this after I got back to my room, which was after I went out for a late dinner with friends. In other words, it was like eleven o’clock at night when I stepped into this encounter, and after coming out of it, I was wired. Wide awake. Full of energy. Absolutely not going to be able to fall asleep. And if I think about it, it kind of makes sense that my body might be full of energy considering I had encountered a being who basically governs electricity, which is something the nervous system runs on. . . So. I went down to the hotel gym, ran two miles, and went to bed around 2 am.
I’ll be honest, I usually like to close with some kind of profound thought or meaningful takeaway, but the main thing I’ll suggest is that if you decide to engage spiritual stuff late at night, be well-aware that you might be laying in bed wide awake for hours, so plan accordingly. Other than that, I don’t actually quite know what to do with this encounter I had, and although I have gone back to visit since, there was really nothing meaningful that I could understand to share that came out of it, so I’m still a bit clueless at this point. But. It was a cool encounter and if nothing else it opened me up to the idea that there is a lot more out there that God has for us to experience. I share this partly because I hope it does the same for you—that we would not box ourselves in with rigid limitations when it comes to spiritual encounters and be open to everything that God has for us.
