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Copyright laws are based on the Word of God

never knew god made the american copyright law

sorry, no offense^^

this sounds like a typical falling dream. this kind of dreams is usually associated with reentry but movement sensations can also be exit symptoms. i guess that you are having an obe while you are dreaming and what you remember is from the dream self perspective.

i suppose this are ebergetic effects. conscious obes demand a lot from the energy body and i dont suppose that you did a lot of energy work before you started experimenting with obes. it will go away when your energy body has accustomed itself to this.

hmm, i didnt exprience such a thing. the only special athing about the days i have obes are the obes

why should someone want to be impotent?

i can understand if you want to lower you sexual desire since it can be very disturbing in some situations but completely destroying it? you say you dont want to have children, but its just that you dont want to have children at the moment. maybe you think its impossible that you cahnge your mind but you cant know.

i dont think you should be that radical

didnt you have blind projections? for me its like this: i dont see anything, but still i know perfectly where i am and what is around me. i guess its something similar for people who are blind but this knowledge has to be much more detailed and profound than that, that you experience during the blind seconds or maximum minutes during a blind projection. the other physical senses are more developed in blind people, so why shouldnt the same aply for the other astral senses? the description of the book named above seems to underline this.

i do taekwon do and kung fu for about 9 years now and i observed a very positive effect of martial arts. in all cases it is like this: if a person takes martial arts seriously then this person is after years of training more kind, respectful and so on. even if this person starts off as a 'negative person' serious martial arts training will have the same effects. there are people who do martial arts since 10 years for example but are a**holes. i noticed that these people dont take it serious: they dont do the exercises with full power and dont train regularly.

you say that its brutal so it has have to do with negative energy (you didnt say it literally but im sure you meant it like that ). fighting in real martial arts has nothing to do with negativity. it is about perfection of the body and the mind, reflexes, strength and so on. a true martial artist would never just start a fight because he doesnt fight to hurt his opponent. i think the important thing here is the intention. the intention to hurt someone is negative, but not martial arts.

so the only thing you have to ask yourself: what effect will it have on you? are you going to take it seriously or is it just somethig you wanna do against boredom? why do you want to do martial arts? is it because you wanna know you own boundaries or is it because you wanna to pay off the old bully in aýour neighbourhood?

MIKE HALL has taught himself to stretch time. He uses his powers to make him a better squash player. "It's hard to describe, but it's a feeling of stillness, like I'm not trapped in sequential time any more," he says. "The ball still darts around, but it moves around the court at different speeds depending on the circumstances. It's like I've stepped out of linear time."

Hall, a sports coach from Edinburgh, UK, is talking about a state of mind known as "the zone". He puts his abilities down to 12 years of studying the martial art t'ai chi, and now makes a living teaching other sportspeople how to "go faster by going slower".

For most people, getting into "the zone" at work or home isn't a realistic option. But the idea of stretching time - or at least having more control over its frantic pace - is an attractive one (see "Slow living"). And there may be things we can do. There is a growing understanding of how our brains measure the passage of time, and it turns out we have more conscious control over it than previously thought.

Biologists traditionally divide our timekeeping abilities into three domains. At one end are circadian rhythms, which control things such as sleep and wakefulness over the 24-hour period. At the other end is millisecond timing, which is involved in fine motor tasks. The middle ground - the seconds-to-minutes range - is known as "interval timing". This is the system through which we consciously perceive the passage of time.

Until recently, interval timing was something of a psychological backwater, says John Wearden of Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. While the biological basis of the circadian and millisecond clocks were fairly well understood, no one could find the biological stopwatch we use for interval timing. As a result, many thought that perception of time was little more than a side effect of general cognition and refused to see it as a discipline in its own right. But now, parts of the brain have been singled out as being specialised for timekeeping, and we are getting tantalising glimpses of what it is that makes us tick.

Research into the biological basis of interval timing usually starts from what is known as the "pacemaker-accumulator" model. This proposes that the brain has an internal pacemaker of some kind, which emits regular pulses that are temporarily stored in an accumulator. When we need an estimate of how much time has passed - how long we've been waiting for a bus, say, or whether that pot of tea is likely to be ready - we simply access the contents of the accumulator.

The pacemaker-accumulator model is good at predicting and explaining how people perform in behavioural experiments in which they are asked, for example, to judge the duration of a tone or a flashing light. But as brain research has progressed, the model has been criticised as too simplistic. In particular, it says nothing about the identity of the pacemaker, nor which parts of the brain are involved in interval timing.

Over the past few years, neuroscientists have started probing the brain's timing mechanisms using measurements of electrical activity and imaging techniques such as fMRI. They have also looked at people whose time perception has been disturbed by disease or brain damage. The result is a more complex model of interval timing called "coincidence detection".

Last year, Warren Meck and Catalin Buhusi of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, brought the results together (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol 6, p 755). They suggest that the hub of the interval-timing system is a region of the brain called the striatum, part of the basal ganglia. But it is not as simple as saying that the striatum is the brain's pacemaker. Instead, they say, it monitors activity in other areas of the brain including the frontal cortex. As neurons in these brain regions go about their business, coordinating movement, attention, memory and so on, they produce waves of electrical excitation that are detected by the striatum and integrated into an estimate of how much time has passed.

The coincidence-detection model is still work in progress, but one thing that is becoming clear is just how much flexibility there is in the way we perceive the passage of time. That should probably come as no surprise - it's common knowledge that time perception can be altered by drugs and different mental states such as depression, arousal and meditation. And as everyone knows, time flies when you're absorbed in a task and drags when you're bored. But now researchers are beginning to understand the reasons for these subjective distortions of time. Some even think it will one day be possible to manipulate our perception of time whenever we feel like it.

So how might we alter our experience of time? The first option might be to manipulate brain chemistry, in particular the dopamine system. Patients with disorders of this system, such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's or schizophrenia, also suffer disturbances in their perception of time. It turns out this is because their neurochemistry - specifically their dopamine system - somehow alters the speed of their subjective internal clock. "Schizophrenics have too much dopamine activity in the brain so their clock is so fast that it feels like the whole world is crazy," says Meck. "If you block dopamine receptors with drugs you can bring the speed of their internal clock back to an acceptable level."

Recreational drugs that affect the dopamine system can also alter our perception of time. Stimulants such as cocaine, caffeine and nicotine make time pass faster, while sedatives such as Valium and cannabis slow it down.

So would the dopamine system be a place to start the hunt for designer drugs that alter our perception of time? Perhaps. The pharmacological knowledge is certainly there, says Meck. "I think it would be possible to develop a boutique drug that did the same but without the addictive properties. I'm sure it could be done if the market was there." But while we wait for the arrival of the ultimate "chill pill", what about more natural ways of controlling our internal clock?

When it comes to using the power of the mind to control time perception, one of the most important factors is the attention we pay to the passage of time. According to Meck, although we are rarely conscious of time passing, we keep a subconscious check on our interval-timing system and every now and again consciously access the information. This sporadic attention keeps our perception of the passage of time chugging along nicely.

But if for some reason we disengage attention from the clock, our sense of time can go astray. This accounts for the old adage that "time flies when you're having fun", or more accurately, "time flies when you are focusing on something other than the passage of time". It is equally possible to push the clock in the other direction. At last year's meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC, the Dalai Lama gave a talk to the assembled neuroscientists on how time seems to slow down during meditation, as you focus away from the internal clock. Yet when you surface from meditation, he said, you think more time has passed than actually has. This is uncannily like being in the zone.

Though these effects seem paradoxical, a number of experiments show how the attention we pay - or don't pay - to the passage of time affects our perception of it. As it turns out, the answer depends on whether you are thinking about time "in the moment" or after the event.

The standard way of measuring the subjective passage of time, prospective timing, is to make you aware that time is important before you do a task. So, for example, you're told: "I'm going to play a tone, tell me how long it lasts." This is typical of lab experiments on interval timing, but is somewhat artificial. After all, it's not often that you consciously time something in the real world. And so some psychologists, including Wearden, have started experimenting with two other measurements of the subjective passage of time.

The first of these is "retrospective timing", in which you make a post-hoc estimate of how long something lasted without being primed beforehand. So, for example, how long have you been reading this magazine? In the second, which Wearden calls "passage-of-time judgements", you assess how quickly time seems to have gone by after spending some time on an activity, compared with normal.

For the past year or so, Wearden has been experimenting with these two measures of the passage of time. In the "Armageddon experiments", he divided volunteers into two groups. One group watched 9 minutes of the movie Armageddon while the other sat in a waiting room for the same length of time. As expected, when they were asked to make a passage-of-time judgement, the Armageddon group reported that time seemed to have gone more quickly than usual, while the group who sat in the waiting room thought that time had dragged. But when he asked the two groups to make a retrospective judgement of how long they thought the task had lasted, the results were the opposite. Despite feeling that time had flown, the Armageddon group judged the time period as about 10 per cent longer than the waiting group. Surprisingly, both groups estimated that the time was less than the actual 9 minutes.
"Recreational drugs can do weird things to the passage of time"

The explanation, says Wearden, is that the subjects made their second estimate based on how much information they had processed - or their memory of the number of events that happened - during the experiment. "In the waiting room there was not much happening and time passed slowly," he says. "But looking back at it, the period was quicker because it didn't contain any events. The Armageddon period went quickly when you were in it but retrospectively you use the amount of things you remember as a judgement of time and so it seemed long. It's a kind of paradox."

It is early days, and very few experiments like this have been done, but these kinds of studies could help unravel some of the mysteries of time perception, such as why some elderly people feel that the days seem to drag, but that the years flash by. It could be that these people have less to do and so spend more of the day paying attention to the passage of time. But when they look back, their brains haven't processed much information, and so they judge that time passed quickly.

Wearden points out that these experiments haven't been done in elderly people, and there may be other explanations for their distorted perception of time. Memory and IQ are known to decline with age, for example, which could have an impact on perception of time. "In a way we're kind of theorising in a vacuum," says Wearden. "We think we know what the problems are, but there is no study that explains what old people complain about."

Meanwhile, for anyone looking to adjust their pace of life, the results of Wearden's Armageddon experiments raise something of a dilemma. You can stretch your perception of time, but only if you're prepared to spend it in the equivalent of a waiting room. Perhaps the best option is to just accept the hectic pace of modern life, but make a serious effort to spend at least some of your time doing nothing much.

That might sound like common sense. But according to social psychologist Robert Levine of California State University in Fresno, it is common sense that's well worth remembering. "Time is our most valuable possession," he says. "Until the biomedical people can make us live forever, the closest thing we have is to stretch the moment."

So taking a decade to learn how to get into the zone could be a great investment. But let's face it, most of us simply don't have the time.

by Caroline Williams

From issue 2537 of New Scientist magazine, 04 February 2006, page 34

i always start in my body and then have to roll out or fly out or whatever to get away from it.

From the website:

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Steorn is a word translating as 'to guide, direct and manage'.

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what a sarcasm would it be if this corporation was responsible for a fraud...

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this is an amazing article. big thanks to you for posting it!

 

yeah i also have this all the time. it started to get confusing since i started meditating and energy work. before i did this my dreams were not lucid or vivid and i could diferentiate quite good but now...
i think this isnt a problem with dreams that you actively recall in the morning because for this memories you know that they are dreams, so i would suggest developing a better dream recall.

here is my first short phasing experience or at least i think it is.

i woke up this morning and still was very slepy, so i tryed to OBE. i calmed my mind but tried to hold the intention to have an OBE, then all of a sudden and without any exit sensations i am standing in the bathroom. i was so surprised that i immediately woke up completely...

i experienced also something similar. i dont know how this happened and there are a lot of theories spinning around in my head, but i think there may be more to image burns and/or to the things you see during SP.

i veryfied my experiences only once but thats enough for me. i voted for the second option that they are like reality itself. but i must admit that there is a downward trend during the projections for me: it starts very real and the longer im out the more it becomes like a dream. quite constant at a good level was only the latest projection...

finally after 3 months without an OBE i got out again.

first i did some energy work to wake up completely and to prepare myself for the exit. then i just calmed my mind and waited for the vibrations to come. during this time i fell asleep a few times but in the end i partly awoke in the perfect state. i say partly because i was aware of the dream mind thinking. i induced vibrations and they were remarkably strong especcially in the throat area. when they reached theyr peak i stood up and encountered an old problem: it felt so real that i didnt know if i was out of body or not. i looked around and everything looked normal. i tryed to walk through the door but without succes. then i saw that the door had a relief that wasnt on my door so i knew i was out. i opened it and wolked into the living room to look for validations. since this was my first OBE after 3 months i just wanted to walk a bit arround and go back to my body to have a clean reentry. i saw my grandmother and my mother and walked back to my body and lay down to reenter. but i couldnt! i just felt some parts of my physical body vibrating. then i realized that what i saw wasnt the physical rality because my grandmother doesnt live in our house so i stood up and walked around again. i saw a figure from a dream i had before the projection in my parents sleeping room. there was also a very spectacular sunbeam shining on her , the scene was really beautiful so i came closer. i talked with her a bit and then felt that my consciousness shifted back into my physical body and i woke up.

all together 1:15 hours passed. although i dont know how long the projection itself lasted i think that it was the longest projection i ever had. that is surprising and i think its due to energy work. i hope that this is the end of my OBE-less time.

i became lucid in a dream when i was chased by something. i was in a house and thought that this is a film when i looked around and thought that i cant do this in films and became lucid. i wanted to get somewhere that cant be part of the dream so i walked through a few room until i got to windows. i jumped out and dived into the pavement trying to expect nothing. first everything became black. then kinda galaxy appeared of at least a LOT of stars and i thought: this are my afterlifes! i focused on one of them and i got sucked in a new 'film' started that was supposedly my afterlife but i forgot it...

i recently was in a house with four baby cats (i have cats too but i close the door to do energy work). before sleep when all four of them were around i did energy work and i noticed an interesting effect: the cats were there where i did energy work! if i worked on my feet the were lying at my feet, when working with the hands they were at the hands and so on. did anyone of you experience the same?

Thats a grat thing! some aspects in both exercises were remarkably right. interesting (but not really surprising ) is that people from this forum do better that others. im waiting for more exercises to come.

that resembles pretty much the existentialistic point of view. it based on the human being being a free being lol. in fact the human freedom (or autonomy) is the only thing that a human has by default. it is not only his possiblility but his duty to express himself by the means of free will!  so the only thing that is morraly forbidden is to hinder another human from using his freedom. i really like this aproach.

these are clearly exit sensations. there are amny theories what these symptoms actually are. heres my view: the roaring sound is your blood rushing through the ears. it is very loud becouse you are in trance. the voices and sounds are hypnogogic halluzination. they are normal in the borderline state between awake and asleep because the mind starts to dream. the gigantic feeling is considered the energy body expanding wich also is a trance sensation. the feeling of being flung around is propably the most obvious exit sensation. i think you should try to focus on this feeling since it oculd lead to you being catapulted out of body. good luck

do i understand you right that this attempt was the first conscious attempt since a year? if this is like that then you shouldnt worry at all. you cant expect to project on your first try and nearly beeing out is more then most other people ever achieve. you just shouldnt give up and keep on trying.

enrgy techniques are tought for thousands of years and there are MANY of them. you can do yoga, qui gong, visualization techniques and so on. so if you have trouble doing NEW then there are enough alternatives (although i consider NEW the most effective).