Pete
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« Reply #27 on: February 05, 2004, 07:28:44 » |
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When I do "phasing", I find that the most important factor is my intention going into it. I get into a meditative state where my mind is quiet and more or less empty, and then I watch and listen in my mind's eye very intently and patiently. I don't concern myself with what level it may or may not be (I have the Monroe Gateway cds and use them sometimes so I am familiar with them. It is not at all necessary to use them to do phasing.) I then have an intention to do something, such as to meet with someone who can answer a question or show me around or to be in a certain place. This can be very general or very specific. The point is it has to be something so that you cause something to happen, cause yourself to go somewhere. You don't want to have the intention to have the buddhist type of "empty mind" as that is what you will get (though you certainly need to have a more or less quieted mind). I find that if I focus too much on Monroe's levels, this or that level, it distracts me from just being out there.
Then if you wait, watch and listen (in your mind's eye), very intently, without talking in your head, something will start to happen, you'll get a flash of an image, a face, a place, it could be a lot of things. If you focus in on one of these, having the intention to experience more of it, you will. The more you can just "feel" your intention, know it, without saying it, the more likely you are to have a fluid, less interrupted flow. Too much thinking or analyzing or talking during this can throw you out of it, though you can do these things and snap right back in. There are varying depths you can go to, from surface impressions to very real being there experiences.
For me, I don't actually need to go through "phases" at all but can boom just be there. Now, I am not talking about the traditional obe. In fact, for me at least, I think that trying to do a traditional obe and trying to do phasing can interfere with each other. I have to decide which I am going to do in any one session. By that I mean, I can get too deep in meditation where I begin to have the OBE symptoms, shaking, feeling myself lift out of the top of my head, or some state just before that, a very deep meditation, and this can be so deep that I start to have some of the problems that OBE can cause, such as not being able to remember what you just experienced. I think that is the main virtue of phasing, that you remain fully conscious and can remember everything. It seems to me that what I am doing is projecting a portion of my consciousness out into the nonphysical realms. With OBE you take more or all of your consciousness out there and so this causes problems with retaining the memory of your experiences when you return.
In my experience, I also find that this "phasing" can after awhile be experienced very easily, so easily that we dismiss it is happening at all. The thinking goes that we want to go through a long hard meditation process before we can do it or it can't be real. Often, these beginning surface phasing impressions can come when you just close your eyes and are aware of what is happening inside your head.
Now this starts to resemble what other people have called channeling or being a medium or psychonavigation or focused attention, or what shamans do. I think there is only a fine line between these things if any at all. I think the differences are more a matter of what depth you go to, what portion of your consciousness you send out there.
Though I and most people crave the drama of the full classic OBE experience, I think that this "phasing" method may actually be the better one for a number of reasons. The first being the memory issue I mentioned, another being that you avoid the shock of your ego/mind watching you leave your body which is what is holding most of us back. I also think that with phasing, because you are sending a portion of your consciousness out there, it is very difficult, (I haven't been able to yet) project into the RTZ, as if your physical world awareness keeps you vibrating at a higher level which makes dropping down a notch to the lower astral RTZ more difficult. I don't know. I'm still thinking about that one.
Okay, so once you've got your consciousness partially projected out there, I find that I can then have all sorts of experiences while being fully conscious, meet people, go places, find answers to questions. I experience a variety of levels of "real-ness". I'm still working on what determines that. I think it has a lot to do with, again, intention. I have a lot of questions about what I am experiencing sometimes, doubts, and I think that they keep me more here than there and so make the experience less real than more real.
Oh and I wanted to mention imagination. Another way, in addition to intention, of phasing is to use your imagination. Imagine where it is you want to go, who you want to meet, in great detail. At first, it will seem as if you are just making it all up and will be so simple you will think nothing is actually happening. However, if you stay with it, have the intention of making it more real, listen and watch very careful and patiently, the thing you are imagining will start to take on its own life and will become very real. It may take off from what you've imagined to something entirely different, or it may deepen what you've made up. But, you will just find yourself there, easily, no effort. The more you travel around, talk with people, deepen the experience as much as you can, the more you practice it, the more validation you will pick up as to its reality. But at first, you have to suspend your doubts and allow your imagination to work for you. I think that that may actually be the imagination's purpose, to act as a mechanism to ease you in, to phase you into awareness of the nonphsical realms. And again, it can be so easy as to make us think it isn't happening at all.
that's all I've got for now
Pete
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