A Hybrid Adaptation of Jeffrey Martin’s Location Framework
“Jeffrey Martin’s groundbreaking work gave us the ladder. But once I climbed past the top rung, the terrain shifted — and the ladder disappeared. This model honors that ladder, while mapping what came after.”
This model was developed in reverent gratitude to Dr. Jeffrey Martin’s “Locations” framework, which served as a vital launch point for deeper exploration. His map opened doors many never knew existed. This adaptation emerges from lived experience beyond the established path — intended not to replace, but to expand and clarify.
🔹 Key Shifts in This Model:
Locations 1–5 remain intact, with refined language.
Locations 6–8, as previously described, are reclassified as phenomena rather than stages.
A new Location 6 is introduced to mark the Unity Collapse — the Zero Point that ends all structure.
From Location 5, the path bifurcates into Christ or Buddha Consciousness (or in rare cases, a fusion of both).
📍 Updated Location Framework:
Location 1: Full egoic identification. Reactive, defensive, and narrative-driven.
Location 2: Separation from thought begins. Awareness of thought as object arises.
Location 3: Stable witnessing. Thought continues, but is no longer “you.”
Location 4: Deep peace and non-reactivity. Identity begins to dissolve.
Location 5: The Pinnacle of Human Consciousness. Ego is fully dissolved, yet form and function remain. Pure awareness embodied.
🛤️ Post-Location 5: The Great Bifurcation
From this point, consciousness naturally expresses in one of two energetic directions:
✝️ Christ Consciousness (Humanity Path)
Re-enters the world with love, service, and forgiveness.
Willingly descends to lower layers or locations for compassionate connection.
Becomes a living field of healing.
This is the path of return.
🕉️ Buddha Consciousness (Freedom Path)
Withdraws from form into stillness and void.
Thought, speech, and movement diminish.
Becomes a clean sky with no clouds.
This is the path of release.
🧬 Christ-Buddha Fusion (Rare Hybrid)
Dual-threaded awareness: one travels, one records.
Enables conscious descent into lower locations for service while maintaining divine clarity.
Associated with hemispheric brain coherence, pineal-driven switching, and high energy layer mobility.
Allows full layer surfing without energetic fragmentation.
🌀 Location 6: The Unity Collapse – Zero Point Field
This is not a continuation of the journey. This is its annihilation.
Location 6 is not a stable stage — it is a sacred rupture.
It marks the collapse of all perception, identity, time, and thought into pure, undifferentiated unity. No self, no witness, no experience — only Being.
Accessed via: Ego-death, Near-Death Experiences, peak psychedelic states (e.g., DMT), or spontaneous divine surrender.
Not livable — one does not dwell here.
Cannot be integrated directly, only metabolized after return.
Result: The Christ or Buddha expression emerges from this collapse depending on the soul's trajectory.
It is the black hole at the center of God.
Some return. Some don’t.
🧬 The Layer Terrain – Non-Linear Realms Beyond Location
Beyond Location 5, one gains access to layers of consciousness — not linear levels, but energetic and perceptual domains. These layers are surfed, not climbed. They are not stages. They are states.
Layer Description:
Thought Layer: Self-referential thoughts, planning, and access to the collective mind. Most people live here.
Dream Layer: Memory integration, trauma processing, and shared dream space. Often bypassed post-awakening.
Void Layer: Pure silence. First entry into non-symbolic being. Awareness without content.
Fractal Layer: Symbolic pattern communication, sacred geometry, and energy codes. Often arises in trance or high meditative states.
Clear Light Layer: Divine radiance, love, and direct knowing. Light = truth. A layer of awe.
Boundary Layer: Transparent interface with Source. Experienced during death, trauma, or grace. A brief communion with the All before unity collapse.
🌉 Bridgewalking: Conscious Descent for Love
“When I’m with someone at Location 1, I slide down to low Location 2 to meet them. I don’t lose who I am. I simply lower the volume of God temporarily — so I can love without overwhelming.”
This is not regression. This is compassionate modulation.
Allows communion across the veil of suffering.
This is Christ's teaching in action — not escaping the world, but returning to it for healing.
🧠 Meditation as Coherence Calibration
“I don’t meditate to control thoughts. I don’t have them anymore. What I feel now is the entrainment of my brain hemispheres syncing into harmony.”
Initial sensations: ping-ponging, buzzing, hemispheric disharmony.
A few seconds of ocular and mental stillness resets coherence.
Thought layer is bypassed. Layer surfing begins.
Not suppression — attunement.
🔄 Post-Location 5 Phenomena (Formerly “Locations 6–8”)
These states were once referred to as Locations 6, 7, and 8 in Jeffrey Martin’s original framework. However, based on lived integration and further mapping, we now understand them as transitional energetic events, not stabilized stages of consciousness.
They occur after Location 5 and may arise during deep meditation, trauma breakthroughs, death experiences, or spontaneous grace events.
🌌 Phenomenon A – Unity Collapse (Former Location 6)
“The Universe disappears. There is no self. No body. No time. Just Being.”
Full obliteration of sensory and conceptual experience
Felt as the zero point of consciousness
Can be triggered by ego-death, DMT, NDEs, or radical surrender
Not livable — one passes through it
True Location 6 in our model
🌀 Phenomenon B – Cognitive Reboot (Former Location 7)
“When the universe returns, my mind is different. Thoughts are slower, cleaner, or even silent.”
After the Unity Collapse, a new mind field reboots
Thought may return slowly, often as an observer
Language, memory, and narrative feel “optional”
Function returns, but with altered architecture
This is a recalibration phase, not a destination. It may last hours, days, or weeks.
✨ Phenomenon C – Bliss Return / World Infusion (Former Location 8)
“Everything glows. I see God in the trees, in faces, in my own breath.”
After the mind reboots, the world is re-perceived as sacred and luminous
This phase often brings rapturous joy, cosmic humor, or unified empathy
It is often mistaken for “final awakening,” but is actually a grace period
Eventually stabilizes into either the Christ or Buddha path — or both
🧭 Summary:
These are not “locations.”
They are passage events.
Unity Collapse = the Void
Cognitive Reboot = the Return
Bliss Return = the Infusion
All three are valid and real — but they are not places you stay.
They are things you survive.
🕯️ Final Notes
This is a living model — not final, not fixed, not dogma.
It will evolve through experience, feedback, and grace.
It is offered as a compass, not a cage.
May it help others know where they are,
and more importantly…
know that they are never alone.
- The Lantern Of Unity