Census on abilities and disabilities

[Nay]

Are you ready? This is gonna be a long one my friend.[^] the red is the me now speaking..

1. I am a OBE'er

2. I started meditating and trying for Astral Projection 15yrs ago.   The book I read was really hokey, and wanted me to stand naked in front of a mirror..eww..[] so I took the breathing techniques and ran with them, and forgot about the projection.  But things started happening on their own.[^] thus bringing me to your next question.

3. I am going to paste straight from my journal, and I believe now, (after finding this wonderful site, that they were OOBE) but back then I thought they were great dreams.

12/18/01

I have no idea where I was in this dream, but I notice some horoscope signs on this....thing... it was drawn in gold and looked like old drawing style. There was a guy there whom I didn't know and didn't have any kind of feeling towards him one way or the other.  I notice my horoscope sign (pisces) and I reached out to touch it,or push it.  The guy to my right said, "I don't think you should read that"  I just totally ignored him, I don't think I even looked at him.

When I pushed this sign a scroll opened, but the weird thing was it seemed like it was on a computer screen, it's hard to explain.  The writing once again was old style and it was soooo small I couldn't make it out.  I was having a hard time focusing on the words and staying asleep.. I kept feeling like I was going to wake up and I didn't want to. *I had no idea that this was just a natural pull one would feel from their physical, I called it waking up.

Some how I got the words enlarged and I could make them out, but that was only after the second try.  I still wasn't at the top of the scroll but I wanted to read anything.  The first thing I saw was a date of 210. and next to that I know there was a paragraph or two.. and I knew it was describing what happened in my life in 210.  I also know that I did read some of that but I was still struggling to read the words and not wake up, so I don't remember what I read.  

The next thing was the date 1478, and I do remember reading about me being a woman who would sleep with kings or something and then steal from them.  I think I said something to the guy who was still standing to my right, about 'I wouldn't do that'
I started to have the focusing problem again and I do believe that I woke up, well not woke up but sorta went some where else for a second.. felt like kinda waking up but I got right back there.  I think I missed some things while I was drifting in and out.  The last thing I saw was that I had 17 lives to live and I have already lived 11 of them.  At least that is how I interpreted it.  Then I woke up.  It was an incredible.

I have no idea if those were the records you speak of, but sounds kinda like it..[^]

4.  Sorry bout this but another paste from my journals, because this is one of the first times I think I came across a higher being. I have to include the dream that was before the meeting with the "higher being"

10/5/99

I was a, I think...Roman soldier or some kind of soldier
I was standing infront of a large group of men who where in line...in ranks I guess it's what you call it.  I was standing next to another man and I knew he was the one in charge and I was under him.  I was looking straight ahead and very still,  I can't remember too much about the clothing, I know I had some kinda of cloak on because it was yucky outside  (yucky being the technical term...hehehe)

Next thing I know the man next to me hands be something, a small leather bag.  I knew not to look at it yet I grabbed it in my hand and kept looking straight ahead.  Then everyone broke up and I was walking alone, I opened my hand and looked down at the small bag, it had one of those strings that you pull to make it close tight.  

I opened it and poured the contents into my hand, and there were some coins and a small silver container. The coins where not perfectly round and there was some kind of markings on them.  I opened the silver container and when I twisted the lid off it sounded just like I was opening a salt shaker, because of the sound of the salt crunching in the lid.  To my astonishment it was full of salt.  Well I wasn't astonished in my dream I really don't remember what feeling I had, I just closed it back up.

Later when I told Bill *my hubby about my dream he told me that back in Roman times soldiers where sometimes paid with salt.. I had NO idea, I found that very cool.

Now at the time I had this dream I had been thinking alot about past-lives, (still am) and was very interested in the fact that maybe this was a past life.  So, I kept asking myself if it was true..Weeks went by and then one night I had another dream

I was in this village walking with a very tall man whom was dressed in a cloak that hid his face but I felt nothing but love and trust for this person.  I asked him if my dream was true, was I a soldier? and he said "yes." I was quite happy with that.... then all of a sudden there was this portal like thing it was wavy I can't remember exactly what happened here but the man said something like "it is always there, always in your reach"  I don't remember any more.
I do know that it was an answer to the question about me being a soldier.

I was never interested in stuff like that before I had the dreams
(Roman Soldiers and all) So there is no way I could have known about the salt thing.  And in this dream, I was myself..girl and all.

Hehehehe..I am enjoying reading all of this again!!

5. I have nothing else to say. I have had many, many experiences and just hope that I keep on having them.[] oh..wait..I have at least 20 conscious OOB's after finding this site!! whoo hoo, AP rocks!

Sorry about the long post, I know people don't read long ones..but  for myself, I needed to say it.[]

Thanks for the thread nezabaleta!~Nay

[Boris]

Speaking of not being able to read.. Recently I have begun
sometimes seeing, with my eyes open, a typed page on the ceiling
when I wake up in the mooring. It seems clear and sharp, with neat
even rows, except that it seems to jump around, so that I can not
have it be still while I move my eyes across it try to read it. I
can only get a few words here and there. It lasts about a minute or
less.

This sometimes happens after I have attempted a meditation the day
before, to get some information. It would be so nice if I could
just plain read it, ready for me in the morning, like the morning
paper.

It is really neat that you got the verification on the salt. That
was at least something. Maybe if you do a lot of focussing ahead of
time, you could get some more.

[Nagual]

1 - OBEer

2 - 10 years ago

3 - I found 2 definitions of the Akashic records...  For some people, it's a place/location.  For others, it is a state of mind.  Anyway, I don't think I ever reached any.

4 - I met "things"...  Not sure what label I should put on them.  They seemed more advanced in energy/psychology manipulation; but not really more "intelligent"/wise.  So that might be a no.  I guess the Higher Beings are not interested in me... []

5 - I have no "special" abilities.  Not a channeler; not a psychic; no TK; no talking to God...  Just a poor little frustrated beginner travelling blindly into the Unknown... [|)]

[__--nezabaleta--__]

Oh..! Well..!
About myself I want to post following testimonials:

1-I'm not OBEer. I'm trying for it, seriously after reading the Robert Bruce's works about the subject. I say "seriously" because only when I read its superb essays and treatises, I really catch, I really perceive the true nature of the subject. Actually, when I'm trying for it, my feelings are a powerfull sensation of to be at the threshold. A feeling, I think, compatible with mind split comes over me. I'm concious that I'm on the bed... and... another site away. I feel how happyness flood into me and then... as if a switch is turned to "off" position... I wake into another new day.

2-Significant results I have since two weeks to date. My first order fear (to death and the loss of such event shall signify for my loved ones) I can overcome simply by thinking: "Well... death will come too early or too late, and in a uncertain time... perhaps when during I go to pay my taxes a car breaks my life... then, why not to death now trying to OBE..?"

3-Obviously, I don't gather info from such a Register. I'm a scientist (physics) in formative stage, then you can get an idea of my ultimate purposes. One of my first order interest is to access to Mental Dimension.

4-I don't.

5-Possibly related to my answer in fourth item... sometimes I feel how my thoughts wander without control giving me ideas and new insights on problems. That's intuition, I think. Or access of my Higher MySelf to my field of intellectual perception of things. By other hand, since my childhood, I can see in the day heavens, tiny sparks, weakly differentiated from light blue background, like night's fireflys, but without colour, translucid and equally mayflies. Even more, I can see ocassional high intensity sparks like points of green, violet, red light and fluxes like oil on water but without its colourfull and kaleidoskopic appearance. I don't catch auras (of things or lifeforms) but following the contour of buildings I can see a blue contour. A specially strong experience I've when I was 17 years old: "I was at high school, in a rest period and watching through the window of classroom over the other wing of school I see something like a furious and bright yellow bee's swarm." That vision takes my breath away.

And, that's all, folks...

[Vicky]

Hi everyone []
These are my answers
1. I am an OBEer.(not all the time but sometimes not on purpose. I cannot induce it. I have only had one completely induced OBE)
2.I started having OBEs 2 years ago. I have had about 25 OBEs only though.
3.I don't think I have accessed the Askashic Register, Only once I had an OBE in which I was pulled out of my body while I was sleeping in my apartment and was shown a symbolic event that happened later.
4. I have met my guides twice and I have met other entities some of which not very friendly.
5. One strange ability that I gained after started having OBEs is that I can watch through my closed eyelids any time I want just by concentrating any time during the day. It is only a bit blurry but I think it is very extraordinary. I don't do it only when meditating but even when I am up and awake.

[Haematite]

hey[]
1. I've had OBEs (the most strong one was during an operation - my astral body just took a walk around until my physical one was lying hard like stone on the surgeon table[]), but unfortunately I still can't controle them. But I'm trying to[]
2. I've been trying to reach other worlds during all my life, since I was a child. It just always seemed to me like something natural and interesting.
3. I think I can do that, but again unwillingly - sometimes it just happens to see or know somethings by chance.
4. Contacts - no, but sometimes I have the sensation of them...hmmm it's not important for me to see them - still covers are just material states[]
5. Well, I'm trying to improve all my skills... sometimes I manage to see my aura, to "sense" some might energy and some "events" I've never took part in... heh, most of time it's messy - like I'm somekind of radio with several frequencies in the same time[]
Be safe

[findtruth]

1. trying to OBE, got half-way out by accident once and pulled out once by a ghost
2. 10 months
3. havn't tried
4. i have, i think, it made me unconscious and in a dream at least once i recieved a message
5. I have the natural ability to sense other peoples' emotions via telepathy but I have no control over it, also since I started doing major energy work i've gotten random telepathic receptions as in actual thoughts from people i'm close to (also no control over that) remember my dreams every night and they're becoming slightly lucid

[innerpilot]

1.) Yes, I am an OBEer

2.) For 44 years.

3.) Sometimes, but I do not control it. I happen to access it sporadically, or I am allowed to. (Akashic Records)

4.) Yes, but it has been made very clear to me that they do not want to be called "higher" beings, just because they may have accumulated more knowledge or have expanded abilities. They only want to be referred to as the "Helpers". I am very grateful to them. "We are not angels, we have no wings, we do not fly.", although they seem mobile by being able to manipulate energies that quantum physicists are just beginning to develop on earth. They are clear about not fitting into romanticized concepts perpetuated by religions and the new age la-las. Hierarchies are human constructs, created by kings and priests to defend their lofty positions to continue lording it over the masses. Humans have become brain-trained with hierarchical concepts reinforced by political, academic, and ecclesiastical systems and project those concepts beyond the human muscular/skeltal planetary arena, because they "think" it must be so, usually fitting nicely into some plan that massages the emotions,(or brings about some other contrived reward). A lot of the new-age stuff is actually age-old propaganda, some of it in new packaging. But relax. No need to get bent out of shape by any of this. Just try to liberate, if liberation is desirable to you.

5.) As years go by, the newer and more open I become. I like this site because it reinforces my feelings of celebrating diversity rather than defending academic or religious generalities. When we start defending, whoa, there's the window for trouble. This planet alone,right now, 6 billion live bodies with 6 billion different DNA strings. Just might be 6 billion different paths to wherever. We might just all be attending the Earth College, of  Diversity University. But don't take that as a general universal truth.

   So this is what I do and hope to secure a building someday with a library open 24/7 called GATHER AND EVOLVE. With live chat rooms (as well as on-line) to assist one another on this incredible journey of evolution of consciousness. I also do a lot of healing work.

[Makaveli]

1.   OBEer,
2.   I've been projecting for a little over a year.  
3.   Not yet.  
4.   No, I can't control my projections well enough yet to do that.  I've seen others when out but I've never bothered to start a conversation with them.  
5.   I've kept track and so far I've had 56 full separations, just this month I separated 16 times already. AP seems to be coming on naturally for me now without using a technique as long as I intend on doing it and get enough sleep.  I also did pretty well with remote viewing when I experimented with it.  

[sain]

1. i can't oobe yet, but i am trying.
2. i have been trying for a little over 2 months.
3. i haven't.
4. i haven't.
5. i hav attempted to make energy balls from moonlight float around my room and am having a moderate degree of success.

[des Jardins]

1 - Not yet, trying by the moment.
2 - About 1 month, first I gather the most relevant info about subject.
3 - See 1
4 - See 1
5 - I've flashes of intuition, perhaps done I heard Contemplation CD from Monroe Products. I'm more and more able of to see sutil energetic counterpart of things.

[__--nezabaleta--__]

Dear Co-Forist:

This is a census what have by object to gather information leading to an statistical study. Please answer here (no make reference to your bio or hobby data quoted at your profile) that help to correlate data in a more secure way.

I (and other persons interested) will be gratefully indebted if you quotes about:

1-Are you an OBEer or a non-OBEer (or trying to be an OBEer).

2-How much time ago what you are an OBEer (or trying to be an OBEer).

3-You can (or cannot) access Askashic Register

4-You have (or haven`t) contacted with Higher Beings.

5-Other complementary data that you want to post about your abilities.

Thank you very much.
Sincerely
NEZabaleta

[aslegnat]

1- I'm trying to be an OBEer. I master trance state.
   
2- I'm trying to be an OBEer since my youth, when I was 16 years old (about 20 years ago), after reading Tuesday Lobsang Rampa books, specially "You Forever". Allways I got some unconfortable bodily feeling and I stop my attemps, until about year 2002, I find the Robert Bruce's "Treatise on OBE", and understand my prior feelings as trance symptoms. Many times in my youth (I remember) I thought: "Is a mistake from me. I must to stop paying attention to body symptoms and concentrate at exit will". But once and again I failed. Eventually, I lost my interest.

3- By now, I cannot.

4- Don't.

5- I've some degree of subtle energy perception sequel (I think) of an increased brow chakra activity.

That's all folks..!
Sincerely
ASLEGNAT

[kmD]

1. I prefer the term "projector" or "astral traveler" but thats neither here nor there. Yes, I am an OBE'er.

2. Ive been consciously projecting for 4 years, but my first experience was sleep paralysis 15 years ago.

3. I have had access to them but chose not to look, I didnt feel I had advanced far enough in this life to start to ponder my past lives.

4. I have had contact with "other" beings. "Higher" is a word I frown upon as it detracts from the notion of self. Some of the beings I have had contact with were definitely more powerful than I, in the sense you seek. But i believe you must see yourself as first and foremost in order to achieve your goals. This doesnt mean to condescend to others, but inversely that. If you value self above all else, you have the ability to value all others equal to self. After all, we are all one, are we not?

5. My abilities manifested during puberty. It started with sleep paralysis and a few lucid dreams here and there. It confused and scared me, and instead of embracing it, i pushed it away. Until I became no longer scared of the unknown. At the time, any escape from reality was good for me, and it was during my early 20's i had my first OBE. I researched, found out about astral dynamics, and havent looked back.
I think my abilites are growing toward retrieval of lost souls, showing them path to move on.
Of note as well, my grandfather and father both had sleep paralysis well into their 40's. They too were scared and pushed it away for 20 odd years until it finally ceased. I think if they embraced it the way I did, they too would be natural astral travelers.

[Legend]

Oh..! Well..!
About myself I want to post following testimonials:

2-Significant results I have since two weeks to date. My first order fear (to death and the loss of such event shall signify for my loved ones) I can overcome simply by thinking: "<font color="red">Well... death will come too early or too late, and in a uncertain time... perhaps when during I go to pay my taxes a car breaks my life... then, why not to death now trying to OBE..?</font id="red">"

I'm writing this because I believe it can help people and I would tend to believe that it inhibits OBEs.  The fear of death is like a child's fear of the dark.  The question you really have to ask yourself is "What exactly are you afraid of?".  The answer is probably the unknown in which case you can about it.  A child is typically afraid of the dark because he is afraid of "monsters"  or if you prefer, the "unknown" under their bed, inside their closets, etc....  I'd suggest to read more on the subject and I bet your fears will dissipate.  I'm guessing is will also simplify the process once you reach it.

[aslegnat]

UPDATE #1 - 10/31/2004 (Updates are in bold )

1- I'm trying to be an OBEer. I master trance state.
Actually besides trance symptoms I feel an upper torso localized dizziness very strong and distracting. I need to be successfull figthing against this factor. Sometimes I gather the feeling what I cease in breathing, but I verified that breath don't stop. This certitude was reached with the aid of a sensitive microphone linked to a digital recorder. A posteriori analysis of recording feeds the hypotesis that the impression of breathing stop is linked to a migration of conciousness from physical body to projected body. From the fact that projected body don't breath, then that's credible a conciousness shift has ocurred.

2- I'm trying to be an OBEer since my youth, when I was 16 years old (about 20 years ago), after reading Tuesday Lobsang Rampa books, specially "You Forever". Allways I got some unconfortable bodily feeling and I stop my attemps, until about year 2002, I find the Robert Bruce's "Treatise on OBE", and understand my prior feelings as trance symptoms. Many times in my youth (I remember) I thought: "Is a mistake from me. I must to stop paying attention to body symptoms and concentrate at exit will". But once and again I failed. Eventually, I lost my interest.
TLR's and RB's method has certain points in common. Both leads to give attention to breath (slow and deep) and relaxation.

3- By now, I cannot.

4- Don't.

5- I've some degree of subtle energy perception sequel (I think) of an increased brow chakra activity.
I've some degree of aura seeing. It manifest as a colorless tremor around me like if I inside of a bag of cellophane exposed to the wind.

That's all folks..!
Sincerely
ASLEGNAT

[aleshah]

1-both

2-time is irrelevant,

3-I can access Akashic Register
(not the whole register, that would be to much for me)

The are some guys there who do it a whole life, i don't think it is woth for me to put my whole life in this.For me energy has a quality of information,
not only the quality of eat something.
There are a lot levels of akashah, i think you mean the simple air-earth akashah or the universal one...

4-.... i tend much more to ingore them, don't take em to serious.
i don't think there is a high, it is a matter how much they envolved in a sort of knowledge.

we are one? I don't think so. Are you a slave of the one mind?

5-irrelevant..


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