Astral Loose Cannon

[Nagual]

I think that, as long as you are doing your best to be nice, you should not have any regret.  Regrets/Excuses are useless.  What has been done has been done.  Just continue to work on your lucidity/control... [|)]

[Jeff_Mash]

I agree with Nagual.  Taking two steps backwards is not that big of a deal once you take three steps forwards.

Just make sure that you continue to work on things (mentally & spiritually speaking) so that you don't recreate past mistakes.  It's one thing to "accidentally" do something.  It's quite another to purposely harm someone and do it repeatedly.

So as long as you pick up the pieces and move forward in your development, you don't have anything to worry about.

[Dark Knight]

If you have any religous faith, there is always prayer and always forgiveness...but yeah, you need to take personal responsibility too, which it sounds like your doing.

Would sending out healing energy be of help (sorry, I don't dream, never mind project).

[garomes]

Thanks,

I think you're all right about regret in general.  I don't usually hang on to it too long, but it's nice to have around long enough to remind you you're still human and have obligations outside of yourself.  Of course, I also like to hear others say it sometimes.

Dark, I'm not sure how sending out healing energy would work over a distance.  It's a great idea I think, and I'll try it, hopefully I'll give a fair amount back.  I've already prayed and am willing to accept every speck of karma I deserve.

Maybe this should go in another thread or forum, but what exactly happens if you "hit" someone while projecting?  I read the stuff on energy bolts and swords in AD, but maybe I missed this.  Does the damage translate to the physical or etheric body if it's a human?  Or do bolts only work on disincarnate things because their natural baseline of consciousness is astral or something?

Thanks again for all the info. and consolations.

[garomes]

Hi everyone,

I'm brand new to Astral Pulse, and rather new to projection, too.  I've successfully consciously projected once (long enough to sit up and pop right into my body again, I was worried about forgetting).

What I'm worried about, however, deals with a couple spontaneous projections I had, lately.

I have a tendency to get real jumpy when I realize I'm out of my body after waking from a dream and I fling a lot of energy around.  

So far, I've realized this was sort a bad idea in retrospect.  I'm downplaying it, actually.  I feel really terrible.

This is gonna sound a lot like I'm asking you to enable my denial, which may be true.  But I'm wondering how much damage I could have done to perfectly innocent astral life (not necessarily "wildlife" but anything that "seems" like a lifeform on the astral.)  If I have done something is there a way I could make it up to the above lifeforms?

This has happened twice and I think I have it in my head to control myself from now on, but I guess I'm still worried about the past.

Thanks in advance for any advice and helping to turn around a potentially bad start to something good.