Now I know to some, that may sound like a crazy thing to sign up for, but for me it is and has often been par for the course, and so when I sit in deep meditation, I know exactly what I might be getting myself into.

But more about that in a moment; first I need to provide you with the back story, the back story of my wedding ring.

In 2017 my husband and I spent three weeks in Iceland. I'd always wanted to visit this remote northern island, not just for the Northern Lights, the salt springs, volcanoes, and puffins, but for the isolation and beauty of the land.

However, one of the best parts of the trip for me was interacting with the Icelandic sheep. I cannot express enough how clean and pretty these beautiful creatures were. As a northern English girl, I'm more familiar with seeing sheep in the fields of the rainy Yorkshire Dales totally covered in mud and appearing very drab and grey. But these hardy Icelandic sheep were so pristine that their wool sparkled in the sunlight. And they were very friendly!

So enamored by the sheep was I, that one day whilst browsing a craft shop in a remote town I became very excited at finding a black ring that had been crafted from the horn of a ram. I've never been one for fancy jewelry and have always preferred to wear natural products and whilst my original wedding band was comprised of gold and diamonds, I was much happier wearing a basic wooden or crystal ring.

My husband saw my enthusiasm for the Icelandic culture of not wasting any part of an animal once culled and so he gifted me this simple piece of art. It fit my ring finger perfectly and became my substitute wedding band.

Fast forward a few years and there I was sitting on my meditation cushion totally relaxed in conscious contentment when the call to battle began. Opening my third eye I found myself in deep space and in the midst of an impressive scene of explosive star bolts and firebombs. As I looked around, I intuited that I had been fighting for a while and that my role was to protect one particular area from the opposition who were intent on gaining space. It was an epic battle, one that had been ongoing for centuries, however, I could feel and sense that my perspective, the perspective I was fighting for, was very important.

Suddenly distracted, I realized I was holding something in my right hand and, wanting to see what it was, I raised my arm. As I glanced down an amazement swept through me, my arm was unrecognizable. It consisted of many bright colors, some familiar, some never seen before, it sparkled and seemed to move in and out of reality, one moment brightly shining the next translucent and barely visible. I was mesmerized by its beauty and its strangeness.

At that very moment, as if out of nowhere, I saw a huge bolt of light flying toward me. Adrenaline pumping, I instinctively raised my left hand to block the death-bolt that was about to strike. As the projectile violently connected with my hand an enormous vibration of energy shot down my arm and throughout my body.

In shock my eyes flew open. I found myself back on Earth sitting silently on my Zafu feeling stunned and excited at what had just transpired. It had been quite an experience and one that I wanted to share but I doubted that anyone would believe me, I wasn't even sure myself that I hadn't made the whole adventure up!

It was then that something moved on my left hand and as I raised my arm to look, my black Icelandic rams-horn ring fell to the floor in multiple pieces.

Sheep horn consists of a cancellous bone, which is covered with a germinative epithelium and surrounded by a sheath of alpha-keratin. In other words, it is very strong, designed by nature to be a defensive weapon to protect against predators.

How had my ring been smashed into pieces whilst I sat in the stillness of meditation? My only conclusion is that one can experience the effects of alternate dimensional experiences here in the physical. I can see no other explanation. And that is my story for why I truly believe in the reality of alternate dimensions.

As an end note you may be interested to know that Icelandic sheep weigh between 150 and 160 lbs, the rams weigh between 200 and 220 lbs. Both males and females have horns. They are one of the purest breeds of sheep in the world and there are around 800,000 of them in Iceland compared to the country's population of 323,000 people.

Oh, and they are very clean!