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Rome-based director Abel Ferrara has been trying to get a new movie based on Jung's Red Book and starring William Dafoe made. Recent crowd funding attempts to raise $500 failed disastrously so it may be a dead duck in the water now but just fyi

Ferrara said that the story dwells in the subconscious and is informed by Carl Jung's The Red Book and Dafoe's own dreams, by way of a Jack London sensibility. "When I say it's about dreams, I'm talking about nightmares."

I understand Jungs 'Active Imagination' methods and the personal Odyssey he underwent chronicled in the book has lots of similarities to phasing & an AP's journey.
Anyone here actually read the book & know if it justifies the horrendous price tag?

The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, formerly known as the Museum of Witchcraft, is a museum dedicated to European witchcraft and magic located in the village of Boscastle in Cornwall, south-west England. It houses exhibits devoted to folk magic, ceremonial magic, Freemasonry, and Wicca, with its collection of such objects having been described as the largest in the world.
I got dragged to this place a few weeks ago whilst on holiday in Cornwall (UK) by m y fiancée.  (She mostly tolerates my interest in all things metaphysical with the way you would an eccentric Uncle.) who saw a flyer and thought I'd like it.

This museum is based in apart of the UK that lives of the summer holiday trade and has many odd little tourist attractions like Cider Farms, old castles too explore and I was expecting this place to be a PG 13 theme attraction. I was very wrong.

Boscastle is coastal village in a narrow, windswept valley with cliffs on either side. There's a narrow walk down the harbour on this path is the museum. Sitting on top of the entrance it staring down is a massive, horned wicker man with holding pipes.  It's eerie and a taste of things to come...

Inside the exhibitions start the fairly routine with art work and wall plaques about the witch trials and it is very well done.  Further in and I was like a kid in sweet shop because up stairs there are displays with Aleister Crowley's Wands, A O Spares favourite scrying crystal, Alex Sands ceremonial sword and way too many black mirrors, blasting rods, fetishes too mention.

The museum was founded by Cecil Williamson (18 September 1909 – 9 December 1999) who was an influential English Neo pagan Witch. He was the founder of both the Witchcraft Research Center which was a part of MI6's war against Nazi Germany, and a friend of both Gerald Gardner, the founder of Wicca, and also of the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley.

Whether you believe in Magic or not it's a fascinating place and also a Trip Adviser Certificate of excellence winner 2015.

Any of you guys ever been here?

37... I'm in my prime

There's a popular one floating around the internet which involves rolling eggs over your body which suck in your curse or problems. It's rooted in voudon but the version I read involved reciting certain psalms in a bath filled with hyssop and bath salts so i'd guess its merged with hermeticism or been adapted at some point for a christian audience. The eggs are then buried at a cross roads or thrown into a fast moving stream.

I'll admit to trying this a few years back during a period a bad health and luck. At the time i suspected i was 'crossed' - a sort of self inflicted curse/self fulfilling prophecy. Looking back i was in a slump and it was easier to blame bad luck than my own poor choices/limiting beliefs but while I believed it I couldn't catch break if you handed me the winning lottery numbers.

Belief is key - I needed to change mine at the time. But it sure felt good hurling those eggs into the water and watching those l'll suckers float away downstream

Hi Dark horizon, sorry to hear about your Dad.  Negative mental associations can be tough. I personally get little hinky around Xmas which triggers a lot of memories and emotions up for me re a departed friend so i can in some way relate.

The biblical stuff, symbolism and histporical suicide attempt make me think you're absolutely on the right track thinking about speaking to a qualified psychologist/counsellor. I know that sounds like a cop out and isn't really engaging with your question.

Good luck with it

About 2 years for me. It doesn't help/hinder projection which is mainly sporadic wilds but it fascinates me that as Paul72 pointed out on another thread so many of us here have it

My understanding is that you can program it to vibrate softly on hitting a certain sleep threshold like REM sleep etc but yes it's likely that would serve to catapult you back to full consciousness. Wrong kind of vibrations I guess

When it comes to toys and tech. I've come to lurve binaurals but I'm going to cut back as I wonder if I'm getting too attached to them. Like a kid afraid to ride without stabilizers who thinks they're helping when they're slowing him down.

I've not had the chance to play with the Kasina yet which seems to get a lot of love on AP. I do agree that these are things that can assist and that the shamanic experience can't be replicated by tech toys. Maybe they can be used to give it a nudge... I don't know. I'd actually question if tech could be used to trigger AP whether it should be - Whether it's use might bypass inbuilt, natural safeguard's in the way that for example hallucinogenics could. (Of course the TMI boys pretty much invented binaurals so big argument against)   

I'm all for projecting it au-natural just don't seem to be very good it (yet) and although I've hit that mid morning sweet spot before where it seems effortless and had a couple of mind blowing experiences but struggle to replicate it. Intent and Practice, practice I know.

I'll report back on the Jaw Bone when I get one if it has any AP application   

I was thinking of getting a fitness bracelet for Xmas and looking at the specs was interested to note that in addition to being basically tarted up pedometers some them like the jawbone 24 claim to monitor sleep cycles and are able not only to track rem, light and deep sleep and can be programmed to bwake you up at an optimal time.

There are a few out there, most very similar and not much science backing up their claims re sleep monitoring but i'm curious. Has anyone used one in connection with AP or think (if they do what they claim) that they could be used to help novice AP'ers like me hit the sweet spot in their sleep cycle?

A year or so back I ended up in hospital with a life threatening illness and on making it out was prescribed Oxycontin, aka hillbilly heroin. I took way too much one night and ended up on a metaphorical another planet. My fiance woke up to find me bug eyed and wired - she was seriously unimpressed we fought and for a second I had the terrible thought she might leave me.

That's when I saw what looked to be a white spider crawling towards me.  The damn thing stalked
Me from room to room. Even took a run at my face.  The more scared i got the bigger, faster and more aggressive it got.  Eventually she put me to bed and all was fine. for months afterwards i was plagued by bizarre illness's and anxiety and felt what I can only describe as a malign presence around me.

Waiting it out didn't work so I ended up googling things like 'psychic protection' and came up with a whole bunch of hermetic stuff like the LBRP.  It seemed to work but the fear would always return, usually stronger. I beefed up my rituals, burned the right incense, evoked powerful protectors. Still I
Felt the insidious presence, I was a regular doc bothered with some outright weird illnesses which
My doc filled away under stress.

Thanks to the advice I was given and posts I read on this site my thinking changed and for the first time the idea began to take root that  the predator who's presance i constantly felt and had actually seen that night might just be an embodiment of my own fears (fear of rejection is my biggest fear + spiders) Being in an altered state where thought = reality my fears took on shape and form & stuck around for months afterwards.

It didn't happen overnight but as my thinking shifted I became empowered, felt the presence less and less and thought of it less until eventually it just faded away. The strange illnesses and anxiety stopped.  The advice others have given you is golden & whether you believe the cause of your woes is a thought form, demonic entity, neurotic thought pattern what you believe will(I suspect) in define it.

Self knowledge + knowledge from senior posters on here + a decision to try and focus on compassion, love , gratitude did more for me than any mystical banishments. Not that those things don't have their place its just that my problems were closer to home.

Welcome to Astral Pulse

Not a how to guide but I couldn't think of a better place to put it

Written by Jack London,  hard drinking, Klondike gold rush wild man and celebrity author of 'White fang' and 'Call of the Wild'  the Star Rover is an astral projection prison story based on London's friend Ed Morrell who spent 14 years in Californian prisona, 4 of those in solitary.

The Star gazer is about a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a brutal torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, causing sickening pain.  On the verge of mental and physical collapse standing is Standing is taught by another inmate the secret to withstanding the torture by entering a kind of trance state, where his consciousness is free to roam free of the body. Standing  walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives. He visits re-incarnations including French aristocracy and an Englishman in medieval Korea.

They made a dodgy 2005 movie called 'The Jacket' based on this with Adrian Brody & Keira Knightly but the novel shows a take on AP from a time before the internet. It reads like a collection of loosely connected short stories, think 'The Cloud Atlas' meets Astral Projection with London's re-occurring themes of struggle, defiance and strength of spirit mixed in.

 

Ta Xanth, Let me know when you get them out there. You can definitely write. I know (I've read most of your posts and the primer about half a dozen times

Haven't read his comments but let it go, life's too short to argue with idiots.

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To be fair that was a year back at the beginning and a better descripion might be intermittent feeling of pressure that caused slight discomfort and it quickly did progrsss into the warm, pleasent (if odd) strobing type effect which I don't get so much nowadays.

Ta Szaxx & Soarin,

I feel somehwere near the bottom of that mountain right now looking up but even these low resolution infrequent experiences blow me away so I'm looking forwards to the HD version. I will try to remember to ground and state intent for clarity now.

Interesting what you both say about the positive outlook and belief/intent - By default I'm that guy who wants to believe but has trouble taking it on faith. I always want to draw back the curtain and check for wires.  I'm ready to believe...I just want a fully conscious, hi-res, technicolour, all singing, dancing experience to prove I'm not just just doign a snow job on myself.  This attitude's got to go hasn't it. If I'm reading you guys right I need to ditch this half skeptic-half beliver attitude and have faith. 

I was going to ask another question about WBTB and whether or not my experiences were a typical Phase, WILD,DILD etc then realised I'm over analysing and looking needlessly for labels to define a subjective personal experience - Im just happy it's working (some of the time

Thanks guys

wow thank's Szaxx.... I hadn't thought of it that way at all. That is a scary, beautiful concept and a complete 180 of how I've been interpreting the figure and thinking. Your response has actually blown me away. Just reading that does make me think differently and I will try that the first. next chance I get. Thanks so much. 

Just wanted to compare notes.

I'm a novice AP'er - couple of WBTB LD type experiences but this question is more related to Chakra's.

When I first started looking into AP and the like about 1 year ago and focusing on my 3rd eye area there being a feeling of significant pressure, it was uncomfortable and mildly painful.  this lasted on and off depending on how deep I went in meditation for probably a couple of months.

After 2/3 motnhs this pressure seemed to one day just dissapear - around this time I felt the 3rd eye spot pulsing like crazy, not unpleasent but almost like a warm, gentle but very fast pulsation. I'd have it during the day, at work, riding the bus - It was the weirdest feeling.  It peaked at around 3 -4am which is my WBTB sweet spot for AP and would go into hyperdrive always accompanied by what intially I thought was an incredibly fast heartbeat and similar pulsing from my heart.  Thanks to this forum I of course found lots of stories about people who had similar experiences and I have to agree that this did seem to be another chakra working in sync.

I don't feel either that much anymore - I'm not sure if I've backslid or simply warmed up my muscles, so to speak to the point where what used to tax me is now the equivelant of a gentle stroll round the park. Just wondering if any of you guys had a similar progression re chakras/energy centre/call them what you will interms of:

discomfort (opening) - pulsing (active) - back to normal (seemingly non active) OR (active but warmed up)

??

 

Not often but just now and again in lucid dreams I will get a feeling like something is searching for me - It's something big and bad, immensley powerful which I can feel drawing closer and closer. Unlike the rest of the people, landscape in my dream I have no control over whasoever and when it finds me I find myself frozen and powerless as the the dream I'm in seems to fragment and splinter until and I wake (perfectly safe and unharmed of course) in my own bed.

The experience used to be terrifying but in all honesty now it's more  awwww....shucks, you got me.  It's usually a dark figure, often a black man with some kind of link to authority, one time it was a security guard in shopping mall, another time a cop with a badge etc. This got me thinking about Jungs archetypes.

My pet theory - Some aspect of my conciousness is tasked to ensure that when I go to sleep I dream like a good little boy and don't explore, challenge the norm, do see or learn things that may challenge or distrub my safe little world. I've always seen the dark man / shadow man as a spectre, the boogeyman as an embodiement of fear but since mooching around AP I'm trying to be more analytical and I wonder if this could represent some aspect of my psyche who's job it is to enforce the rules.

Just for discussion - whaddya think?

   

I've had maybe three solid AP experiences which all share the same characteristics.

Wake-back-to-bed - They all take place in early hours, best guess about 3- 4am after waking from sleep.
Lying in bed I'll feel very heavy with sleep paralysis, right on the verge of sleep.
I feel a very fast strobbing, pulsing sensation from my forehead and solarplexus will like crazy in traditional chakra locations and I feel like I'm shaking (oddly this hasn't happened in months and wonder if I'm doing something wrong)

I am at this stage fully coscious but right at the edge of sleep then I seperate - It's something I instinctively seem to know how to do at 4am whilst in that state but cannot for the life of me explain properly when not. Reading other posts I'd say 2 x roll out and 1x brain squeeze exit techniques.

Now I'm out - I swear I haven't lost consciousness at any point but I'm in what appears to be a lucid dream. Somehow I fell asleep without falling asleep.

last exp:  I exited at 4amish walked downstairs, marvelling at how real it all felt. Walking out our front door I saw a gang of scallies (thugish looking youths for anyone not UK waiting at the gates - They seemed vaguely malign but I resolved to walk towards them with a smile and no fear and they drifted off (Quite early on in these experiences I get tested by a scenario and any primal outbursts of anger, fear or lust send me right back to fulll consciouss with rapped knuckles.) The house was a different house to the one we live in and the neighbourhood was a nice, quiet suburban street. I flew around for a bit exploring then decided to find the youths.  I asked people on the street where if they'd seen anyone and they said no but then I heard music coming from a party somewhere and knew that was where I should go. It's been months since my last experience and I decided to return to body so I'd remeber rather than explore further.

It's maybe 70% vivd around wherever my conciousness is focused and more like 30% where not.
It doesn't feel like descriptions of a WILD I've read. There does seem to be an unbroken stream of consciousness and I don't gain lucidity from a dream but rather seem to exit into one but there's no control and it's very low res.

Help me out guys, I don't suppose the label I put on this experience matters too much but out of curiosity would you class this as a DILD or phasing or just a dream?

Also when you guys exit from WBTB what quality of audio, visual, kinesthetic of the environment? (if low & fuzzy initially,and did it get more realistic with practice?)

Mine too, the ones with Ace Rimmer in coming a close second 'Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!'

Yeah the music couldn't creepier if they'd used the score from the Halloween movies. Very, very unsettling for the first 15 minutes or so.

I did my internet due diligence and stumbled across one post on a different forum claiming it opened inappropriate portals or some such (A warning you feel inclined to believe when the music kicks in.) but there were vastly more posts from people who'd had amazing, positive experiences.

I took a second run at quantum K last night and I got to say that I think I'm turning into a fan boy - The feeling I get is that of an antivirus program running on a pc (inventors words not mine).  I feel fantastic this morning, like I could run a marathon and generally much less stressed out. Before I turn into a fan boy I will say that although I feel great now last night I was slightly on edge after using the program, more 'open' maybe due to biochemical or neurological changes or  something more esoteric I don't know but so far the benefits far out weight the negatives (which may not even be negatives just a normal part of cleaning process.) for me so far.

I stumbled across the Quantum K free healing video today - it seems to have generated a lot of interest and mixed reviews on other sites.

It's free, plays over PC and this is from the site

'Quantum K' is a ground breaking new system. It draws from the latest thinking in quantum physics to offer healing to the mind, body and soul.

"It is well established that the body can absorb information from sensory stimulation – you only need to look at the success of hypnotherapy to see how effective it can be. This system extends this principle by stimulating our healing potential through the written word, numbers, fractal equations, sound, colour, and symbols. By giving direct instructions to our body's intelligence, we stimulate its natural healing powers.

Throughout the experience, you will be asked to make a constructive change, for example "I release all toxins in my body". While you are consciously focusing on this intent, your unconscious will be busy absorbing the colours, harmonics, symbols and equations that appear underneath and provide the mechanisms to help this instruction take effect."

I tried it and I must admit that I had an almost immediate physical reaction - muscle spasm in left arm and a fluttering heart beat and several involuntary twitches. 

What's you're guys take on it.

The video that follows is the original Quantum K healing experience that was launched in 2008. It works with fractal geometry, harmonics and focused intent to offer deep healing to your mind/body/soul."

http://www.quantumk.co.uk/quantumk_video.htm

Thanks Szaxx, actually that guide's one of my favourites.

I also read Franks posts where he talks about 'locking the eyes out of the equation' and shifting the consciousness upwards towards the centre of the brow pineal gland area. Like Frank every time I get a mental impression my eyes instantly try to view what ever it is I'm sensing.

For example I can, in a good hypnagogic state get impressions e.g a face or person, it's usually an image that carries a feeling or level of intent with it. Sometimes curious, amused, mothering or vaguely malign etc. I get a flash of something that I might relate to that feeling like, laughing man, horse, witch face of the like and instantly try to get a better view with my physical eyes and I lose it.

So I 'see' something, it appears in my field of view just like if I was using my physical eyes but I'm not.  It seems hard to tell where my physical vision stops and imagination begins.  Hypnagogic imagery seems to present at random, often accompanied by this gut reaction to the unconscious content but my current feeling is that it's not something I'm viewing physically - I'm seeing and sensing it
without a doubt but just not physically.

I'm such a novice at this I think my confusion is stemming from not wanting to let go of the physical senses and trying to interpret non physical data with the physical senses.  I struggle trying to process the fact I can 'see' things without my eyes and hear things with ears when in this border hypnagogic line state and is still trying to process this data the good old fashioned way. 

From what I read I need to be passive and simply allow the hypnagogic imagery to come and go before kicking into gear.  Am I right in thinking that the crux is drifting to the border of sleep whilst detaching from the physical (along with other senses) visual process of seeing before engaging with the hypnagogic imagery?

Hope I made sense, sorry if bit long winded, 



   

UK cult Sci-Fi series Red Dwarf - The team discover a Virtual Reality game called 'Better than Life'.
where anything and everything they imagine can become real.

Lister becomes  a rock God and the Cat's dating Marilyn Monroe and a mermaid but Rimmer finds  dreams turn to nightmares and he ends up buried in sand, being eaten by ants with being screamed at by a heavily pregnant wife and seven bratty dream kids screaming sat him.

I used to luurve this show - It went off the boil eventually but when it was good, man it was good.

Check out the 25.40 mark.. sorry I couldn't find a better clip  https://myspace.com/gamefreak666/video/better-than-life-red-dwarf/1507654

Looks very interesting, I'll have to try that. Ta Holy blood