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I'm a writer, and I've had forums in the past, but lately I'm all on Facebook. Coming back to a forum, this one, reminds me just how different the experience is. You can do so much more with a forum, and members can do so much more in them. I'm overwhelmed. I really like forums, but they move slower than Facebook, and yet they are more permanent and useful than Facebook. I feel like someone who's eaten McDonald's for six months and now I'm addicted to fast food.

I'm not complaining. I love it in here. I hate Facebook. I just have to re-adjust. I'm overwhelmed, but in a good way.

I think the void is probably astral sight not really opening up. It's a projection I'm pretty sure but one where you cannot see. I agree with the state ment about God being there. My experience is that the music is shadow and coming from you but wow it is very beautiful. Not all things coming from you are scary things. sometimes very beautiful things are there too.

I really like that last statement, Bluefirephoenix. I mean, I know that my consciousness is a modality of the One consciousness that exists. And I know when I dream I see things at times that are beautiful, and that gives me hope for an afterlife in the astral realm that may be a lot freer and more fun than this one.

Yup!  Exactly.  Sometimes, the most enlightened thing we can say is simply:  I do not know.

Also, from what you've said above... you've got a great base from which to work from. 

Thank you for saying. I've had some very strange OBEs (probably quite common, but strange to me). I'm looking forward to learning more about  how to induce them. I need to take some time to really peruse this forum.

Pseudo-knowledge... we all THINK we know what gravity is, but as with "dreams"... science really doesn't know what's going on under the hood.

People really need to learn to discern what is KNOWLEDGE (what is TRULY known) and what is PSEUDO-KNOWLEDGE (what we THINK we know).

I think that is so true. And I guess as I get ready to turn 50 next week, I've come to a really big place in my life: I'm okay with saying I don't understand something.

I no longer feel like I have to know the truth about things that no one understands. I mean like when it comes to God for me, I'm okay with saying I think He exists, but I don't think I am capable of comprehending what He is.

When it comes to consciousness, I'm okay with saying I think everything is a monistic whole with the illusion of duality. I don't have to understand how that paradox works.

And when it comes to whether I will exist after I die, I'm okay with it going either way. After all, we are constantly changing and so what we are is constantly dying. That little unchanging observer in my head that watches the rest of me think, that thing I consider to be the "self" that I'm pretty sure isn't dependent on my living body, I don't know what it is or understand it any better than I do God or consciousness--or gravity or dark energy for that matter.

I just don't have all the answers, and I can't go around fooling myself or trying to fool others that I do, and that's a big personal growth step for me.

Then I see this big translucent wall forming up with formulas starting to be written on it in a yellow glow.
He shows me like billions of formulas and the more I try to look at it the smaller the formulas get and the more there is.
I think it was a way to tell me that a man shouldn't seek the meaning of life in formulas but just to trust his instincts.
I think one of the best thing in our world is Logic itself.
Logic doesn't require math formulas.
Yet it can go very very deep with just simple words or examples.

That's a very cool dream. I really like that. And if we are supposed to live an eternal life, the life we live here on the earth would seem very constricted in what we can know about things.

We... don't know what gravity is???
Dark matter is detected by looking at the footprints it leaves in space, just like black holes.

Like EscapeVelocity says, we don't know what gravity is. There are many different theories of gravity. It's like consciousness; we don't really know what it is, either. We know it exists, but we don't know what it is or why it is. Same with dark matter: it leaves its footprints, but we don't have a clue what it is.


I wonder if we'll know these things any better from the astral plane. You know, I'm a big believer in God, but I think when I die and enter the astral realm, the proof of God will even be less than it is in the physical world.

Maybe that's because it's like Xanth implies, it is all one monistic whole.

Do you think there is any connection between the dark matter/energy of the universe and the astral plane? No one knows what dark energy and matter is. We know it has a gravitational force, but then we don't know what gravity is. I was wondering what y'alls thoughts on that are?

Welcome Edward!  Great to have you with us! 

Thank you, Soarin. Next time, I'll multi-quote better.

Hi and welcome to the Pulse.

The AUP is at the very top of the page underneath the title logo.

Thank you, I'm glad to be here. I'll read the rules straight away.

Hello,

My name is Edward, and I'm an author. I like to write novels about paranormal things. I live in the New Orleans area, and I'm deeply interested in the subject of astral projection. I've had lots of OBEs in my life, which I remember one of them with absolute clarity. I used to have a lot of lucid dreams, but not so much now. I'm very interested in learning how to make astral projection happen, because it's always happened for me by chance.

I'm also happy to be in a forum. I've had forums in the past, SMF forums actually, and I like to use smileys. You can't use smileys in Facebook groups. So, thank you for having me in your forum.

PS. I can't find the rules anywhere, so I hope I haven't violated anything, especially with my signature. If so, please let me know.