11 Days in May: The Conversation That Will Change Your Life - Hardcover

As a child, JD was fascinated with chemistry, electricity, and mechanics, often dismantling household appliances to decipher their operational secrets. He began his adult life as a fireman and moved on to be the former CEO of Ernst & Young Consulting, Singapore, one of 37 Distinguished Graduates from the United States Naval Academy class of 1981, a former nuclear submarine officer, and the Exxon executive who helped supervise the Valdez Oil spill cleanup.
JD has a dynamic presence in the media as the creator and host of both a television show and CNN radio show. In the business world he has been an advisor to Fortune 100 clients, governments, and members of parliament on five continents.
JD was the IT person of the week for Channel News Asia and nominated for CEO of the year by CNBC Asia. Later in life, he became a Knight of Honor in the Order of St. John and received numerous corporate presidential and national awards. An international speaker, JD has been interviewed on dozens of television shows as a featured expert on innovation, crisis response, and the future of energy.
Dignitaries and executives around the world have praised his position papers, which have been distributed to numerous Presidential candidates, members of parliament, prime ministers, and royal family members in both the United States and abroad. JD has been married to Marianne for thirty years, and they are blessed with three children. The family is currently living in Texas. He is conversational in Mandarin Chinese, and in his free time Messinger enjoys all things adventurous such as fencing, boxing, scuba diving, hiking, and hosting talk radio.

11 Days in May is the story of a “submariner who opened the hatch” to the World of Light. After breaking his neck, leaving his body, and returning, JD Messinger experienced prophetic visions and insights. Over the course of eleven days, he takes us on a journey with a mysterious friend. The two bicker like brothers but converse like sages as they investigate the answers to thirty-six of life’s most important questions. Messinger delves deep into the inner sanctum of his mind and soul to unveil knowledge long submerged. 11 Days explains that we live in the World of Form, a box that has clouded our minds with faulty and outdated programs. Inside this box, man believes he exists to conquer, but the World of Form is not the true nature of reality. It exists within the World of Light, where matter is not solid, death is not the end, and time is an illusion. While the World of Light draws us together, the World of Form tears us apart. 11 Days reveals how scientists are people of faith, we are all agents of God, and the sixth sense is more than a movie.

11 Days in May is the story of a “submariner who opened the hatch” to the World of Light. After breaking his neck, leaving his body, and returning, JD Messinger experienced prophetic visions and insights. Over the course of eleven days, he takes us on a journey with a mysterious friend. The two bicker like brothers but converse like sages as they investigate the answers to thirty-six of life’s most important questions. Messinger delves deep into the inner sanctum of his mind and soul to unveil knowledge long submerged. 11 Days explains that we live in the World of Form, a box that has clouded our minds with faulty and outdated programs. Inside this box, man believes he exists to conquer, but the World of Form is not the true nature of reality. It exists within the World of Light, where matter is not solid, death is not the end, and time is an illusion. While the World of Light draws us together, the World of Form tears us apart. 11 Days reveals how scientists are people of faith, we are all agents of God, and the sixth sense is more than a movie.

Day One—
Inspiration, Thoughts and Intentions


Who Makes Things?


I would like to know who makes things. What I mean is, does God make all the trees, cars, and inventions or does man make them?
What prompts such a deep thought?
I know this may sound unbelievable, but I keep having these dreams and visions where I see things. Then, months later, in real life, I make them, and they turn out close to what I envisioned in my dream.
Would you mind sharing one?
In one dream, I saw blue sheets running through a large printing press. It stretched for perhaps a hundred feet. The blue sheets had a circular design on it, and the design had three wings. The press kept going ka chunk, ka chunk, ka chunk, ka chunk, ka chunk, ka, ka chunk, ka chunk, ka chunk! The dream repeated every night for nearly seven days … and it drove me crazy!
Did you ever determine what it was?
Of course, that’s why I want to know who makes things. It was a game, and the design was the logo of my company. I never even thought about the company until months after the dream.
That’s not so odd, people often dream about work.
That might be true, if this was work. It was the dream that inspired me to make these things and it had nothing to do with my job at the time!
Many of the most famous inventors, creators, and writers have experienced these kinds of insights. Nicolai Tesla had visions of the alternating current motor for a decade, and Walt Disney saw the vision of EPCOT in his ceiling.
That’s exactly what I mean! When I had my radio show, I interviewed many creative people who said the same thing. During one interview, a renowned artist told me that he had no idea what he was painting, it was unfolding before him as he had the brush in his hands. Once, just like Walt Disney, he said he saw it in his ceiling. So, back to the question: Who makes things?
That depends.
What does it depend on?
It depends upon what you believe God is.
Does God have arms and legs? Does he walk and talk amongst us? If not, then clearly it is man that makes things.
If God has arms and legs, must they not be the largest arms and legs, and if so, might these extremities take up the entire domain of the planet itself?
Clearly to be God, He must have very large arms and legs. How else could He make the planet?
Yet, God made more than just the planet. Did God not make the universe as well?
I see your point. Clearly, God must not have arms and legs for they would certainly have to be larger than the universe.
So then, you believe that man makes all the physical things on the planet.
It must be so; we just agreed that God couldn’t possibly have arms and legs.
Really? Is that what we agreed or is that what you assumed?
Again, you are correct. I wrongfully assumed that you agreed with my logic.
Is this not the essence of what we are discussing, assumptions?
Excellent point. This is of course the purpose of me asking you these questions, to understand the essence of what it all means. I make so many assumptions everyday I fail to see them. Can you help me see what assumption I made?
You first assumed, correctly, I might add, that we agreed that the arms and legs of God would indeed have to be larger than the universe itself.
Oh, good. I’m glad you agree with me, otherwise, I would be very confused.
You then assumed, wrongly so, that because his arms must be so large, that I agreed with you that He must not have arms and legs.
I did make this assumption.
You then assumed your initial conclusion must be true, that man makes things.
Absolutely, what other possible explanation could there be?
Yes, clearly this must be so, for it is the hand of man that swings the hammer, the ingenuity of man that forges the nail, the creativity of man that designs the blueprints.
When you put it this way, you make me pause.
What makes you reconsider?
Now I wonder what it means to be the maker.
Is another assumption revealing itself?
It may very well be the hand that pounds the nail belongs to man, for this is physical, but these thoughts and ideas, what you spoke of as designs and blueprints, these did not require hands.
Did it not require hands to lay onto paper the concepts that created the blueprints?
Paper? You show your age and make me laugh; who uses such crude instruments today? It is all bits and bytes, digital; nothing is on paper now. But you seem to miss my point entirely.
Please explain.
I questioned what it was to make, the essence of making, if you will. It may have been the hands that drove the nail, but this is only the end of the making process. The process of making these things began long before.
It was the idea that first gave birth to every creation. Is this what you mean?
Precisely! At last, we agree.
Moreover, these ideas did not require arms and legs.
Hallelujah! By golly, we are finally getting somewhere.
Are we now back to God being the source of all things made?
Yes, I do believe we have resolved this. God is the maker of all.
Does the final stage of making still require the hammer?
It must.
Which only man can yield since God has no extremities?
Oh my. Must we bring this back up again?
Did you or did you not ask me to help you answer the question?
Yes, I did.
Do you wish to resolve it today?
I couldn’t stand verbal gymnastics on this one more day. Let’s finish it now. Who holds the hammer?
Why man of course. Who brought forth the idea?
God! It must be God! I will not debate this again!
What then is the maker of things?
You and your ways; if this weren’t so important to me I would have ended this conversation long ago. Fine, have it your way. Besides, I’m in a hurry you know. Clearly, it must be both man and God.
You speak as if they are separate and distinct.
Of course they are separate. How preposterous! To propose otherwise would be blasphemy.
Are you making another assumption?
No, this is not an assumption. Of this, I am certain. If it were an assumption that would mean that my parents, teachers, and pastor are all wrong.
Then how did the idea from God, get into the hands of man?
I don’t know the answer to that. Only God knows that.
Did God use one of those old letters and a stamp?
That is not funny.
Perhaps He sent an email or a text message?
No hands and arms means no fingers as well. Honestly, you can be irritating.
How then did God share the idea?
A thought? Yes, it must have been a thought since thoughts do not require hands. There. Are you satisfied?
If God sends man a thought, and man executes the plans, which then is the maker?
Oh, well, as much as my ego hates to admit it, you might have a point. Let me think for a moment.
Take your time.
If the idea comes from God but requires the hands of man, then reluctantly I must admit that the maker of things must be a combination of the will of God and the execution of man.
This brings us back to your very first question.
My brain is so confused I can’t remember. What was my initial question?
You asked me if God made things or if man made things.
Oh yes, I remember now.
You made another assumption.
I seem to be doing that a lot lately. Let me see, an assumption...Aha, I have it! I thought that man and God were separate and distinct beings.
Not just separate and distinct beings. What else did you assume?
Another assumption? Such a simple question and I made what, five assumptions?
Actually, it was closer to seven.
Seven assumptions, what were they?
You made two assumptions about what we agreed upon, another one or two about God’s extremities, another on what it meant to make things, then you assumed God was the maker, reversed your assumption and said it was man, and then this last one about them...