I would really like to say "the different layers of this reality", but when we talk about these layers, there is no reality tha we recognize. Our life is just a single frame on a larger film reel. The world we live on is just one channel of many we could view.
The Fay live on this Earth too. (fay, what Tolkien called elves. Tall, slender, human like, very nature oriented, beings, and elves are the wee folk you hear about in Celtish folklore.) The Fay have cities all over the planet, and usually in the same place we do. You could say that we share the same planet, but are on different layers. It is like the TV channels. Channel 3 exists and Channel 5 exists, but the really do not interact much. It is very similar with the Fay and the humans.
The Fay are very close. If we cut down a forest (on the human side), the forest in that area on the Fay side, withers and dies. The Fay have helped with some of our wars. Fairy rings are in many mythical stories. And, they are sorta true.
So, to speak about reality, we must speak about many of the layers, the frequencies, your focus (It is done by your subconscious) and the range of frequencies you can take in at once.
Shambala… Where is it?
Shambala is a city up in the Himalayas, somewhere. A mythical city that disappeared. But, it is still there.
One of the recent stories goes like this: There was a group hiking up in the mountains of Tibet. And they were resting at a spot, when the lead of our story sees a beautiful woman. Which he talks to. The rest of his crew couldn't see her. And, the more he talked with her, the more he disappeared from the rest of his hiking crew. Each day they talked, until he went to visit her village. The story ends with him completely disappearing from his crew, and supposedly he stayed and lived in Shambala.
This Shamala is at a higher frequency than most of the world. And if a person vibrates at too disparate of a frequency, they first cannot see, and then, cannot interact.
There are people, shaman, mediators who work on raising their vibration, who can basically turn invisible to others.
We basically have two "numbers": the frequency we are vibrating at, and the frequency range we can perceive. They are indeed separate numbers, but they usually go hand in hand. Raising your vibration allows you to perceive more…
And if your vibration is too dissimilar the two people cannot interact. Like Channel 2 and Channel 4. They both exist in the same location, but they do not interact with each other. When two people do not have any overlapping frequency ranges, the two people might as well be in two different "realities", although they are on the same earth, in the same place.
(yes, this can be the ultimate defense. Like Shambala, the army cannot get to you. Cannot bomb you. Cannot effect you.)
The realm, Gaia
Planet (= wandering star) is a poor description of the place we call home.
There are sooo many layers to Gaia. Some are designed to interact with each other, some are designed to separate. Like the aforementioned Fay realm, and the human realm.
As an aside, it is very funny how science fiction writers talk about conquering a planet. It is really not that simple, and in many cases, that world could just ignore the attackers, as if they do not exist. If the people there choose to not believe in aliens, there is a way for the aliens to talk, negotiate or attack them. (the "disbelief has to be on the unconscious level for this to work)
On Gaia, we have many pockets of aliens living here. Many alien bases, many of those underwater or on the moon. We have a fish like people living in the deep oceans (when one of these washes up on shore, the police call the military and they immediately go out and clean up things). We have Yetis/Sasquatch living all over the place, especially in national parks. (do not dig into missing children in national parks, unless you really want to know) There are very strange beings who live underground. (The Hopi talk about the ant-people who saved them by allowing them to live underground with them for a while.
Each of these is an important and vital part of our shared reality. Gaia would be so much less with any of the puzzle pieces gone.
Aliens visiting
Imagine being an alien visiting a planet which didn't even know all of its own parts. Didn't know where it came from. Didn't know its history. Didn't know its neighbors. Couldn't see or comprehend life…
Further, you can just drop in and say hi. AND!!!!! You could stop existing. (that is, the alien would stop existing in this reality, and find themselves pushed back into higher realms.)
All kinds of Sci-fi stories have the aliens, with their much more powerful weapons, just destroying Earth. But, if that planet weren't open to interacting, the aliens would find themselves uselessly dropping bombs. And maybe they would find themselves in a different reality. Like a bubble, another layer, another channel. Imagine being shuffled off to UHF, when you were in VHF (VHF - Very High Frequencies. The upper knob on an old TV. Channels 1-13. UHF Ultra-high Frequencies. The lower knob on the TV. Channels 14-83) The alien would end up existing in a world without people, maybe even a completely barren world, with no vegetable or animal life. But, usually, they will just be pushed out the realms of that planet. Very treacherous for first contact specialists.
So, you have to hang around the planet until they accept your existence, and then start working on slowly inching your way into their lives. Not like you are just an outcast, but that many people just do not see you. They look right through you.
What's worse is the next level usually has the natives shooting at you. The natives are scared, often xenophobic, and they need time to become accustomed to you. It is a long journey just to get to the point where you can talk to some people. (not all of the people)
So many of the terms i have used are denied by Modern Materialistic Science. Imagine really trying to understand this realm, and the science is so backwards that you have to go out and start your own scientific studies. Become a heretic to the ivory towers.
Fortunately, people can get outside of themselves, go on shamanic journeys. Many psychedelics open the path to seeing more of our reality. Even meditation alone can open the door. There is so much out there/in there.
The Earth is not some simple ball of dirt floating in a void of space. There are so many layers, all functioning together. So much energy that keeps this planet going. So many people all trained to lock into certain frequency bands, so that we can see and interact with each other.
Further, you are not stuck to any one timeline. You can shift to other timelines, in fact, you shift all the time. That is the way we are able to perceive time. We jump from frame to frame to frame, and so we perceive time. Like a movie being projected.
When we actually start talking to aliens, it will not be our technology that has us feeling so inferior, it will be them talking about beings who live here, on GAIA, with us, that we have no clue about. It is similar to how we haven't explored much of our oceans. Many places in our world haven't seen a human footprint in years, if ever.
We have so much more to experience.