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« Reply #45 on: March 24, 2005, 00:45:31 » |
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Thanks Tom You know there is just something about your posts that feel .............different, familiar.......hey what do I know
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« Reply #46 on: March 27, 2005, 16:21:53 » |
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"This afternoon I was attempting a exit, or phasing as you also prefer to call it"
There is no such thing as an "exit" with the Phasing approach.
Traditional obe constructs rest on the notion that "consciousness" somehow "leaves the body" and enters what is commonly called an "astral body". The whole process of which the traditionalists term "the exit".
I would argue the whole process of all that is the engagement of a belief construct and bears little relation the facts of the wider reality. Phasing is based on the notion that consciousness is never "in" the body in the first place; and that what we term to be the Physical is merely a particular Focus of Attention that we choose to adopt for the purposes of creating a physical experience, in the place we call here.
Phasing entertains the reality of there being 4 primary focuses of attention, or areas of consciousness, all of which we already occupy. This is the primary reason why there cannot possibly be any kind of "exit". Exit implies separation, the placing of a boundary between here and there. One of the foundation principles of Phasing is there is no separation or boundaries within consciousness (something which your god-friend I'm sure will be happy to confirm).
I could go on to explain much more, but I feel I have given sufficient to present an understanding that Phasing is not merely the adoption of different terminology that essentially describes the same actions in consciousness. Phasing is an entirely different model of consciousness that bears no relation whatsoever to the traditional mystical models.
In fact, it was my dissatisfaction with the traditional mystical models that caused me to define what I would say is an approach that is aligned to the reality of what actually exists in consciousness, but in a wider sense. So the Phasing model was born.
If you'd like to find out more regarding the wider reality then perhaps you might ask your god-friend. The person in question, from the sounds of it, is resident within the area I would describe (in accordance with the Phasing model) as Focus-4 of consciousness. In which case they should be able to tell you all about it. :)
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« Reply #47 on: March 27, 2005, 17:49:59 » |
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Thank you Frank. Ha that is a very interesting idea, and I will ask the question at the earliest time possible. What I meant was merely to describe that I was attempting to Phase at the time, but to some would be called exit, only terminology. How does Robert see this theory by the way. After all he is the one who I personally first heard use the expression "exit", and he also writes extensively about it using this terminology?
I am starting to understand better the phasing concept, and so far it has been a very interesting ride. Fits very well with his attempt to explain Reincarnation, in his essay on the subject.
Don't know why I never thought of asking "my God friend" as you call it , sometimes the simplest solutions escape our attention. I wonder if we as humans are somehow conditioned by the mind to lay aside simple solutions in favor of the more complex ones. Ha
In any case my question remains. I have on several occasions been able to access or being accessed by my wife, though we are an ocean apart. Could this be telepathy, if so what focus would it be. I suppose I am looking for a down to earth "use" of the whole experience. The personal growth that it brings with it is obvious, but is there areas of this life, this awareness, in which the experience can be useful. I read Edgar Cayce and am very interested in healing etc. Where do you think this occur.
Another question is that I have on maybe a dozen times been approached by people I know in this life, who have told me their innermost secrets almost as if in therapy, maybe in focus 21, what Robert calls Astral sight. Very chocking experiences. Is it possible to help someone else while in this focus level, who is present in only the first focus levels, sort of a retrieval but with people who are all ready alive and active here.
Thanks for taking the time, its very much appreciated
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« Reply #48 on: March 27, 2005, 22:41:11 » |
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Ha ha ha, you have the "main man" on tap and you are asking ME questions! LOL. Perhaps I should take that as an incredibly kind compliment. :)
Notions such as "exit" and "separation" are mystical constructs that people engage as an action in consciousness. Bob Bruce openly describes himself as a mystic, so it comes as no surprise that he incorporates these models in his thinking.
These actions are all very well, but the models of consciousness they represent do have particular limitations when it comes to incorporating the entirety of our system. These mystical models were formed based on people's understanding as existed at the times the models were formed. Bob Bruce openly admits to leaning heavily on the more Eastern mystical traditions when it comes to his presentation of a more general overview. Which again is not surprising as his speciality is more real-time zone and astral exploration in the traditional sense. Plus his healing work, of course.
But my background is strictly Monroe School, which is how it all began for me. Plus, I have absolutely no inherent religious bias, as my family did not engage any kind of religion at all and neither did I (I still don’t in fact). I’ve since moved on from the Monroe model and developed the Phasing model. In doing so I have attempted to formulate a model of consciousness that fits as closely as possible to the actual structure of our system. In other words, I wanted to "fill in the blanks" so to speak, of the Monroe multi-focus model.
The traditional models have core differences to the Monroe and the Phasing models. As such, very little can be compared between them. F21 is not "astral sight" as you say. The two are radically different constructs. Astral sight is a construct that is related to the notion of a "third eye". I suppose to the early explorers, that is how it looked in an objective sense. But we don't actually have a "third eye". It's just a construct that came about from people forming a conclusion based on their objective viewing of a particular phenomenon. Like when people objectively viewed the sun moving around Earth. It was obvious to them that the sun revolved around us. After all, anyone could view the phenomenon for himself or herself… so it must be right!
Unfortunately, the traditional mystical models are riddled with these kinds of inherent mistakes in perception, caused by people having objectified the various phenomena; thinking that it must be right, because that’s how it looked.
Regarding reincarnation, I have not read Bob Bruce's essay on the matter so it would not be right for me to comment. But I can say the Phasing model incorporates the notion of both Simultaneous-Time and Linear-Time frameworks. My stance is that from people's misunderstanding of the interaction between these two basic time frameworks, the religious notions of reincarnation came about (as I've looked at it all ways and can see no other reason).
All of which your god-friend should be able to clarify for you (along with the other bits and bobs you mention).
Yours, Frank
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« Reply #49 on: March 28, 2005, 09:12:14 » |
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Hi Frank
Well I asked him and ....well you can read what he had to say. Besides being cryptic as usual he did seem to admit to something......maybe it makes sense to you, more than me. Ha. He also asked me to ask you about the bits and bobs as you call it. I guess you can read it yourself.
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« Reply #50 on: March 30, 2005, 22:23:06 » |
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Still Frank,all things considered and my own inability or whatever, I did have an experience that I still struggle with, what do you think happened, as per my last post.
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« Reply #51 on: May 28, 2005, 05:09:44 » |
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Dear Frank and all For a while I have been mulling things over and have a few questions, to ask. The answers seem to elude me and the whole issue seems to be a bit of a catch 22 so bear with me. If we assume that the constructs people have been putting on the OBE/Phazing experience, be it a mystic or more traditional religious one are only constructs, to make the experience fathomable to the mind, what makes the phasing model "better" "correcter" or more accurate, as a tool to describe what actually happens. If they are all tools (constructs) to describe an experience that seem to have no real definition or explanation, using the parameters of the known universe we all inhabit, would it not stand to reason that the phasing idea is just another construct? I confuse myself so if you do not understand the above its OK.Ha So far I must admit the phasing works at some level with me, yet the exit experience seems so real that my mind battle with just seeing this as a elevation of awareness. In this I mean that moving from one place to another as in a conscious exit, tricks my brain, and makes it difficult for me to cope with the idea of phasing. It seems so abstract, and the exit so "down to earth" If we see all these experiences for what they are without getting tangled up in what and how they happen, the mechanics of it all if you will, it seems to become easier to focus on why they are happening. This may be a springing point for some as here the belief seem to have an effect. A religious person may look for "the path" and a non religious person may just wander around thinking or trusting it all to be a fiction, however real it may appear, none of them KNOW. What is the deeper meaning to you guys, why are we having these experiences? Does the Phasing model have something on this? it seems the Mystic and religious people do but what say ye...... Regards Mustardseed
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« Reply #52 on: June 16, 2005, 22:55:16 » |
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I guess what is important is why do you think you are having these experiences.
It is the old analogy of the snake and the rope. If I walk into a dark barn and see a snake I am going to be scared, because in the past I have encountered snakes or heard about people encountering snakes and their description of the snake and all the terrible things that it can do to you. But then someone turns on the light and I see that the snake is actually a rope.
I know it is a rope, because I have used this braided length of twine before to do many tasks like tying my horse to a post or stringing it up to hang my laundry up to dry.
Of course, what happens if I have never seen or heard of a snake before? I go into my dark barn looking for a rope only to pick up what I thought was a rope and have it bite me.
We find it convenient to trust in our beliefs, but we must get to a point where we are always aware.
A rope is not a snake and a snake is not a rope no matter how similar they might appear to be in the dark. We must know a thing for what it is and not what it appears to be based upon false belief.
But I must give the mystics of old credit. They were scientests to a certain extent. They did a lot of work for us and helped to widdle away much of our false beliefs. However, they made the mistake of widdling away a layer of false belief just to accept the next layer as fact.
And of course they are going to warn you of demons and all the lot, because they don't want to see you get hurt. Thus all the love and light stuff. If your thoughts are pure and you are full of love then when you go within yourself, you are going to experience nice things. But if you are full of fear and angxiety when you enter focus 2 then you are going to encounter all sorts of terrible things.
For the mystics, it made more sense to say that they were traveling to some place outside of themselves where all these crazy beings existed.
For Frank, it makes more sense to say that you are going within yourself and encountering aspects of your mind, which tells me that these mystics were pretty fearful people. But you would be too if every day you had to worry about having enough to eat or worry about being killed for the food that you did have.
Heh, it kind of makes sense now that the mystics of all people would be the ones to seek power and security. Heh, they are so high and mighty yet the only reason they are high and mighty is because they are so scared to be brawling over scraps of food. No wonder they saw demons and hellspawns everywhere they turned in focus 2. And of course, they had to spread the good news of their own consciousnesses and make everyone else as scared as they were. Thanks guys! We owe you one.
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« Reply #53 on: June 22, 2005, 18:25:03 » |
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ha let me guess, you are a city boy.......ehhh maybe around 20 
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« Reply #54 on: June 22, 2005, 20:59:09 » |
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« Reply #55 on: June 23, 2005, 15:36:36 » |
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Glad you take my little poke in good humor. In my experience those who speak as do you have built their "Faith" on the notion that fear by definition in un-real a bluf and does not "really" exist. This might be very well and work in certain circumstances but in others maybe not. You just wait till you happen to come face to face with "Old Red" the meanest bull west of............ well whatever  one day down on the farm. When that 800 kg of muscle and horns come charging down the side of your old barn because you forgot to close the fence.....you turn mystic mighty fast, and I tell you it will do you no good telling that bull he don't exist. Trust me. I bet you get my point Regards Mustardseed
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« Reply #56 on: June 23, 2005, 20:09:23 » |
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Mustardseed,
I love the analogy! Our bull was "Beau" -- a red Beefmaster. And yes, he could be mighty crabby! Do I take it that you are a country boy?
On the subject of fear and fearful things, that would be a major reason to know whether the astral is inside or outside of "us."
If we do not actually exit during an OBE, then all the things we see, whether good or bad, are aspects of our own nature. That being the case, nothing can harm us during an OBE.
On the other hand, if we do actually "exit," then the astral is outside of ourselves, and so are the spooky things. If that is so, then there could be harmful things/beings "out there."
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« Reply #57 on: June 24, 2005, 05:21:40 » |
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« Reply #58 on: June 24, 2005, 05:40:14 » |
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very funny you should say that Ben I actually do. I am presently in a cellar room with 102 fever and needs some headache pills and electrolytes. Ha what are the chances of that.
Actually I spent a good deal of time in the country side but born and bread city. My experience are with spiritual things. You assumption that only things on the outside are harmful is also an assumption.
In the astral there appears to be no outside/inside each apparition, experience and manifestation has to be tested on its own.
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« Reply #59 on: June 24, 2005, 08:42:58 » |
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Hrm, I guess I need to clarify myself a bit. My analogy about the snake and the rope was not suppossed to prove that something does not exist. Rather, I was using it to show how someone can place their own personal views ontop of reality and thus distort what reality really is. i.e. a person who has no idea what a snake is would have a worldview that did not include snakes. So when they encounter something in their dark barn that has a shape that resembles a rope they will most likely think it is a rope. It will not even occur to them that it could be a snake, because due to their limited knowledge about the world, they do not even know what a snake is. Of course, they will soon find out when that rope decides to bite them. We are always in the dark, so-to-speak, in that we never know everything. There is always the chance that when I encounter something new I am going to mistake it for something else that I do know. For all I know, someone could of soaked a roap in some sort of poison that can be absorbed throught the skin. I, never being paranoid enough to think that someone would do something like that, come across this wet rope and believe that it is a roap that has been soaked in water. So, I pick it up and next thing I know I'm dead. If we do not actually exit during an OBE, then all the things we see, whether good or bad, are aspects of our own nature. That being the case, nothing can harm us during an OBE.
I am willing to say that we harm ourselves all the time due to aspects of our self. I am sure there are things about yourself that you would like to change because of their adverse affect upon you or you know people that harm theirselves just because of their personality or bad habits etc.
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