Easy Separation (Real-time astral) Updated

[eeb]

Nice job Darryl!

Your suggestion of changing positions during relaxing I'm going to take into acount. During my projection attempts, I am always laying on my back. Sometimes it starts to be uncomfortable to lie on my back al the time. My repression to change my position inhibits my chances for projection I think, by creating some tension.

Interesting that you didn't realize at all at first, that you were separated: no signs of electrical sensations, vibrations or paralysis. You must have slided directly past them, during a glimp of unconsciousness.

Funny that you mention that you noted how easy it is to project. Me too I am more or less in this stage. During my last attempts I have been so close to projecting.. The last time however a short feeling of anxiety ended up my practice session, when I was experiencing pre-projection symptoms. The emotion brought me back to full body awareness.

But I know for sure that I am only 1 or 2 steps away fom a conscious projection. I am trying to get used to the idea that projecting is not some far away ideal, but something right in front of me!


Best regards,
Ebele

[sweet_celestial_sounds]

Hey Ebele!

Thanks for replying...

quote:Originally posted by eeb

Nice job Darryl!

And thanks for the acknowledgement and support. I can use it. []

quote:
Interesting that you didn't realize at all at first, that you were separated: no signs of electrical sensations, vibrations or paralysis. You must have slided directly past them, during a glimp of unconsciousness.

Actually, this is one of the misconeptions about projection I am working to eradicate. There is no need for any projection 'symptoms, though they are of course a reality. But I didn't loose awareness at all. I was fully aware the entire time. And this is not the first time that I went from waking to separation with no separation sensations. Another time I just felt the 'change,' and the entry into paraysis, and relaxed/relased and moved into real-time.


"Focusing on [experiencing] pre-projecton symptoms may inhibit the experience."

That's a little something from my guide.

You can just separate and that's that. The 'symptoms' are a good way to go too, if that works for you. I guess it depends upon the mood you're in, as to whether you like them or not. And it also depends on what technique you do. Different techniques cause different 'symptoms,' and some techniques cause none at all; you just separate.

Take care, and thank for the reply and the question.

Darryl

[clandestino]

Hi Darryl !

Please can you continue posting your experiences and afterthoughts...

They make great detailed reading and I'm sure everyone else agrees.

Keep up the good work !

Mark

[sweet_celestial_sounds]

Thank you Clandestino/Mark! []

Thank you for sharing and showing your appreication and thanks for my posts, and thank you for the encouragement in my practices. You can look forward to seeing more of my jaunts. []

Take care.

Sincerely,

Darryl Berry
Celestial Sounds

[sweet_celestial_sounds]

Week 7, Day 46, Session 89- Casual Session
Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 10:28 AM

I just separated.

I had a nice casual session today. I practiced last night and fell asleep, and woke up naturally at about 3:30 AM. I got up and cleaned my room a bit, and searched the web for stuff, and then I started to get sleepy- and I still am sleepy.
   Before practice I wanted to update my practice routines, so I did that- notating all of the exercises I am focusing on right now, and noting the scope and duration of them. After setting up the exercises and being comfortable that I have the minimum parameters of my exercise routines and practical overview set, I set about a casual practice session. The time was about 9:38 AM, and I set the alarm for 11 AM.
   Both of my blankets were in the dryer so I set my little square pillow down on the floor and laid face down upon it, on the side of my face. I started relaxing into the visions, for the visions started coming rather instantly. I saw so many things. Objects going by, I saw a man walk up to his car... so many things. They were all as if partially submerged in the tar-like darkness of my internal field of vision (IFOV). I continued to relax and focus on my IFOV- focusing more on the aspect of focusing on my IFOV and going into it. Then I noticed that I couldn't relax too well in that position for my neck and head were at an angle that it would have been uncomfortable to let my relaxation get to slouch level, for the position I would have ended up in.
   I decided to turn on my side, with my head on the pillow, lying on my left side. I also got a shirt to up on myself for cover. There was another interruption- the phone or the door- where I had to leave to room to let mom know the phone was ringing and get the door and then I came back. I moved around a bit, relaxing and moving, until I found a good position to where my rib cage was acting as a good side balance point. Earlier I was thinking of how getting up to write what is happening throughout the practice session right after they occurred could work really well by keeping the awareness intact and ready to move throughout the entire session. This would make for a better chance of real-time separation rather than just lying there mentally and physically inert. Thinking of the benefit it added to last night's practice and of the potential for it when actively applied showed that it was/is good. I inadvertently applied that technique here- and if any guides or my Source Self or Sibling Selves helped any, thank you!
I was in the habit by this point in practice of moving and looking at the time as I moved to a different position. I got into a position just like what had worked several times before, lying on my side with my arms folded. I was still on my left side with my arms folded across my chest, and my head resting on my pillow so that my neck was comfortable. From this position I got the urge to look at the time, and I quickly sat up and looked at the time and it said about 10 or 11:15. I lay back down just as quickly as I sat up, and then I noticed something strange. I realized that I didn't really look at the time. I sort of dreamed that I did. I recalled how it looked when I sat up, and it was an entirely mental affair. I did sit up, but it was like a mental fabrication of me sitting up, or like I actively dreamed sitting up. It was brighter in this room than it really is. In the image it was like the ceiling fan's light was on, and it is off, and with the overcast there is less light form the window also. And it was so fast of a movement, with basically no inertia whatsoever. I'd 'mentated' the movement.
Realizing this I knew I was separate. I focused on my astral/real-time body and went to move and realized I was sure enough in paralysis. I knew what to do. I relaxed/let-go a bit and sure enough I was free to move. I started rolling to the side but I felt a lassitude or heaviness to my movement, as if I was moving in thick molasses. I rolled to the right partially onto my back and rose up into a sitting position slightly. I wanted to mark my separation state, and hopefully hold it, so I spoke to myself, saying, "I can do it." I felt my mouth open and heard myself say this just as I would have had I done it physically. I said this really low and mumbled, working on keeping the state, so that is how I heard it.
After saying this I started rolling again to the right and ended up right back with my physical body. I think I tense up at separation, wanting to not interrupt the state so badly that I cause nervousness and tension that does it. It was like I may have been holding myself at bay, causing an internal tension that made me feel like I was rolling through molasses.
I may have been able to separate again straightaway but out of habit I completely reintegrated and looked at the time. It was 10:21 AM. I lay back down thinking to repeat my success, but my mind was racing with questions and thoughts on it so I decided to end there, at 10:24 AM.
Total time from C1 to separation: About 43 minutes. All I did was relax and move and relax and move, and continue to move as I relaxed- meaning that after a bit of relaxation I'd move into another position or look at the time, and then relax again.
I take it that since at separation I was in paralysis, and I was in the habit of moving, I moved in the second astral body, in the mental/thought-from type fashion, and my noticing the ephemeral characteristics of the movement alerted me, and from there I went on.

Afterthoughts:

·   It is very beneficial to get into the habit of noting what happens during projection as they happen. Observe experience for a little while, and then make a note in a notebook or pad you have beside you for that purpose. Start with very short increments of activity, and then increase the length of time you observe before noting very gradually. That way the habit of holding awareness is set, the memory is charged and developed to remember the experiences by gradually building, and one might find oneself in the out-of-body or astral state while going to make notes.

·   It is also beneficial to constantly move through practice. Move to different positions and continue practice from where you left off. This does several things. One, it arouses the awareness. Two it prevents getting uncomfortable. And three you might find yourself projected as you go to move... and this may be a projection technique in itself. I go to work on this more.

·   I must make it a point to mentated to myself to move as normal, and let go and know that I am separate, and I don't have to fear losing the experience. The more normal I make it, the more normal it will be. Hence I have no fear of inadvertently causing an end. I'm OK.

I am beginning to see how easy it is to project, and consequently how easy it is to go to sleep. I was actually sleep... well... my body was. It is pretty easy to put it to sleep. With the right mindset you remain aware and can project. I am also noticing that I am not making a clear intent to move. I am almost expecting it to move by itself. I need to make a clear intent to move... say to sit up. My goal was too far. I set the goal to the den, but I get to the point of moving and don't know what to do. Next time I sit up. I set my intent now to sit up out-of-the body. Then I move. Placing my intent during should lighten up my body.

·   Ideas for moving from William Buhlman: I can demand lightness, or the ability to move.

Celestial
Darryl E. Berry Jr.