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So wheres your proof Tiny?

And heres me thinking letting go of the ego was part of becoming elightened....

Where do you get this information from? How do you know about blood types? How do you know about food export? How do you get this information?

One thing I have always been curious about ....how do people know what their motives are? Have you talked with them? Why do so many people have such different ideas then? I'm not being cynical, I just want to know

I really enjoyed reading your account of what must have been an amazing experience. It is wonderful to read that you had some time with your unborn son and feel that you have healed. What a gift!

I cant watch the vids as i'm at work (will do from home later though) but just wanted to say I think your bang on....it IS much scarier to think we are completely alone in the universe. For me anyway. Perhaps this is because I am not religious yet I still have that human need to feel that out there, somewhere, is some kind of saviour that will save us from ourselves. They would even need to do anything, just make themselves known. Imagine the change in our view of ourselves as a race if we knew for sure they existed and were here.

Mankind is arrogant and has always placed ourselves at the top of everything, as the bosses of the planet, and now we are exploring space, as the bosses of our solar system. We need someone to bring us down a peg or two and show us that we are accountable for our actions off world as well as on it. To show us that we are one race and should be working together to make a better world for everyone, not just the few privilidged enough to be born in the west.

Hi CFTraveller

I think they are a manifestation of fear. In all of these scenarios, I am the person who comes to aid and save the day. I dont have any hero complex or anything, but perhaps I am trying to mentally prepare myself for situations I am fearful of. It does make sense like that, after reading your post, thank you

Thank you for the reply, i'm glad to hear you say its natural! I guess I have had too much time to think lately lol

Hi all.

Firstly, I dont believe these thoughts come from any external force, or some evil presence, or anything like that. I believe them to be from my own mind.

Often, when I am in bed, I will let my mind wander to wherever it wants to go as this helps me drop off to sleep and enables some very vivid dreaming. I usually visualise upcoming events, picture them having a positive outcome. But always, and for a very long time now, as I start to drop off, these visualisations take a disturbing turn. Usually involving death or abuse of a loved one. I suddenly realise where my thoughts have taken me and shake myself out of it, but it leaves me worried and scared.

Is this normal? Is there something I can do to stop this happening?

I am a huge believer in the power of positive visualisation and have used it to great success many times, so I worry that these negative thoughts could have the same result in coming to be.

Because we need a physical body to experience the physical world. Simple as that I think. The question then, is why experience the physical world atall?

Only in the physical world can we experience all the joys and sorrows of life, the newborn child, the art and literature, the huge range of emotions, fears and desires.

Perhaps nothing atall will happen, and people will realise that there is no end of the world, or conciousness shifting, or anything else that is expected....and they will realise that we are stuck here and have to make the best of it, causing the shift in consciousness we need.

A self fulfilling prophecy on a global scale!

Agree with the above reples

Also to add what I believe will happen....there will be some kind of global upheaval, but not necassarily end of the world stuff. A lot of people believe it will be natural disasters that bring us to the brink of extinction....others that it will be man made disasters such as war, plague and famine. Then there are alien invasions, collisions with a roaming planetary body, etc etc.

The fact is no-one knows for sure...there is just this feeling that Noxangelus so brilliantly describes. The human race has reached a point where we are on the brink of a spiritual and/or intellectual transformation that will bring about a whole new way of life, of being, a whole new world. Our next evolutionary jump perhaps. There is definitely a shift in the frequency that we all vibrate to, and it is felt by many.

I feel hopeful and optimistic for it...honoured and blessed to be a part of it as we all are...everyone will play thier part, and your own role will become clearer as we get closer.

Just dont try and force anything, and dont be afraid. Live your life, enjoy these last few years of your adolescence, and keep an open mind...your path will find you when you are ready

To me, God is the unseen force that created and drives the Universe. An energy that we all are connected to and can all interact with. It connects all of us to eachother and to the Universe.

There is no intelligent, omnipresent mind that is God, only the collective consciousness of every living thing in the Universe. WE are God. Every one of us.

That is good advise, and makes sense. I will work on it and let you know how it goes

Yes I also think it is something we all have the potential for, among other things. Some people just close themselves off to it subconsciously, or are not in tune with the world around them I guess?

Stookie, you mention shields...I have tried a few different shielding techniques, as it only seems to be negative emotions and pain that effect me but haven't found one that works. One thing that really effects me on a daily basis is when I come home from work in a really good mood (I am annoyingly fond of my job lol) and my partner is in a bad mood....which is daily as he suffers from mild depression. I try really hard to cheer him up and let my good mood rub off on him. I open the blinds and let the light in, turn off the TV and put some up-beat music on instead, give him a hug and talk about my day and try to get him laughing, but it seems within minutes I am pulled into his depression. If I could get home with some kind of shield in place, I'm sure it would end up with him picking up on my good mood instead!

Do you have any suggestions?

Are you working on this spell to make you invisible during AP, or in waking life?

If it is for AP, then all you can do is try it and see what happens. If it is for waking life, i'm sorry to tell you that it just wont work. Magic doesnt work that way. You cant make anything invisible with magic.

What are your views on empathy? By empathy I mean not just picking up on others emotions, but feeling them intensely.

Is it something we all do as part of human nature? I mean, we are emotional beings and can all choke up at a really sad tragic news story, we can all feel the pain of our loved ones when they are in pain right?

Or is it something that some can do more than others?

I have always been able to tell immediately when someone is lying. I can walk into a room and feel the emotions that were there before me. I can tell when someone is covering up a pain, putting on a smile. And it is physical too. For example, I came to work the other day and as soon as my colleague arrived my shoulder started to really hurt. She then told me she had disloacted her shoulder over the weekend and it still hurt. An hour before my best friend miscarried, I had been getting strange cramps in my lower abdomen. And I always seem to get a headache at around the same time my partner has a migraine, wether we are in the same room or not.

But the questions is...is this a gift? Something unique? Or merely a talent we all have naturally?

Reminds me of the stuff I used to write down while tripping, many years ago. I never could make any sense out of it while straight 

Thank you

I do love Wales, its got the best landscape, the best culture, and the best people...in my humble opinion anyway 

Wow, thats an impressive goal!

My advice would be to stick with your plan, because you will reach a point where you feel the time meditating is enough for you, and any more is too much, and i'm betting that will be way before you reach the 9 hour mark . I would be interested in seeing at which point you reach that conclusion.

Can I ask what kind of meditation you are going to be using? Will it be just relaxation? Or will you be working with your chakra's? Visualisation and/or pathworking perhaps?

I will be happy to advise you of some techniques, depending on what exactly you want to achieve

Hi from a fellow newbie to the forum

I dont know about the second experience, but the 1st one sounds very familiar to me.

About 10 years ago (in my mid twenties) I was asleep in bed, and had one of those dreams where you think you have woken up...I was completely aware and believed I had woken up proper. I sat up in bed as I had an overwhelming feeling of being watched. I saw in the corner a dark shadowy figure of an old woman and I felt that mortal terror. It is honestly the most scared I have ever been in my life...it felt so evil. As I stared at her, paralysed by fear, she became clearer as my eyes adhusted to the dark and she was just standing there, staring right back at me. I tried to scream to my partner of the time to turn the light on but no sound would come out and I couldnt move. I then woke to the light being turned on, apparantly I had been punching my partner and screaming "turn the f'ing light on!". It still makes me shudder.

I did some research and at first put it down to sleep paralysis, but I was not paralysed physically in the real world as I was screaming and punching, I was paralysed in my dream. Sleep paralysis is similiar, but it is physical paralysys combined with a feeling of terror.

I then discovered something called the "Hag Phenomenen", where countless people have reported seeing a an old woman in similar circumstances, she is sometimes replaced by, or accompanied by an old man.

Here is an article on Sleep Paralysis, and another on the Hag Phenonemen.

You will see that both articles seem to be talking about the exact same thing, but whether either of them relate to your experience is up to you, as you dont mention being unable to move.

Hello, I'm Jax..you can call me Jax 

I am 34 and live with my fiance in Wales UK. I watch the M4 for a living (not quite as boring as it sounds lol) and we have a cat named Sawyer who is a strange creature indeed. Um....never know know to introduce myself and always feel like i'm at an AA meeting or something...hello my name is Jax and I am a wierdo 

I am a spiritual person though not religious, and have been fascinated for years with all things astral. My journey seems to be kick starting again and found this forum while looking for some answers. Wow there is so much to read!

Jax x

Lol, good answer..but in this context I mean real as in a genuine experience, or dreamed as in a hotch potch of images and emotions conjured up purely in my mind as a I sleep.

Having had a chance to browse the forum properly, I love it! It seems there are a lot of like minded people here. I love the idea of spiritual evolution and can feel it just around the corner!

I am no expert, these are just my own thoughts on the impending spiritual evolution..why it is going to happen and what we could expect.

I believe that everything we experience can be put into 2 categories...the explained and the unexplained. The explained are those that can be rationalised by science and logic, the unexplained those things that we currently have no explanation for and are labelled as supernatural, or magic, fate or destiny. Some people put these experiences down to a religious one and it strengthens their faith in their God or Gods, and they have no need to search any further for answers. Some people are not religious and search further, not being satisfied with simple faith, they want more answers. As science moves forward in leaps and bounds we are on the brink of finding these answers, and of realisation of what we are and what we are capable of. There are some that think if science cannot explain something NOW then it is impossible and they convince themselves it didnt happen. That ghost they saw was a trick of the light. That phsychic experience they had was pure coincidence. That too good to be true series of events that brought them to the love of their life, was just a random set of events that were very lucky.

But more and more people are getting turned on to the idea that there is something more...something that we will one day understand and accept as a part of being human. The untapped power of our minds, of our spirits, is slowly being tuned in.

Major physical evolution doesnt occur gradually over many many years...there was no smooth transition from ape to man. It happens in growth spurts, in a mutated gene that suddenly overuns the species population and alters everything within a few generations, then it stops until the next time. Of course, there are still minor changes that happen smoothly and gradually..for example we are much taller on average than we were in tudor times, and our brains are still growing, but I am talking about the BIG changes that radically alter a species.

Major evolutionary jumps occur when the species survival is threatened, for example by a new bigger predator or environmental changes. Humans have no need of physical evolution as we are (rightly or wrongly) the masters of our environment, and we have no natural predators. Physically, we are sound. But our species is threatened.

We are a threat to ourselves. We are destroying the environment that supports us, we are killing eachother in religious wars and wars for power and control, we are our own predator. We are making ourselves infertile with our lifestyles and chemicals, overpopulating countries that cannot support that much human life, we are destroying our own species and will make ourselves extinct.

So what would be the next, logical evolutionary jump? And we are due one.

A spiritual evolution would bring us back to harmony, bring us back in tune with nature and eachother, reconnect us to the source of life.

Our collective intelligence has brought us to the brink of understanding the universe in a way that will change our lives forever. Physicists more and more agree that everything is connected, everything is equal and malleable. Science is bringing us to a level of understanding of ourselves that goes beyond the physical and reaches the spiritual, the metaphysical, the previously impossible conclusions that could soon explain everything that was unexplainable. It is already happening and I am honoured and privileged to be alive in this age.

A spiritual evolution is the next logical step, and it is already evident in the last few generations...children being born with amazing gifts...savants, indigo children, whatever you want to label them are being born more and more frequently. They are labelled as different, but it wont be long until they are the norm. With this new influx of insight and intelligence comes a deeper understanding of our potential.

Wow I waffled there, sorry lol, i'll stop now 

Everybody shares energy with those they interact with, whether thats negative, positive or neutral energy. When you smile at a stranger, you are giving them a little positive energy. When you make love with someone you have a deep connection with, the exchange of energy is intense and mutually beneficial. When you argue with someone, you are both charging the energy around you with negative energy and it feeds the anger in you both....it is only when you take deep breaths and re-centre yourself that you can think more clearly and reasonably without the fog of that energy clouding your thoughts. When you try to cheer up a sad friend you are giving them willingly some good energy to make them feel better. When a depressed and/or negative person constantly needs your attention, affirmation and encouragement, they are taking your energy from you. Unless you are an unending well of good energy then this is draining and can eventually make you mentally, spiritually and physically tired just being in the same room as them.

Energy exchange is not something mysterious, magical, or learned...it is something we all do every second that we are around other people, from entering this world to leaving it.

Pshychic Vampires are those that either knowingly or not, constantly drain the people around them of energy, because their own energy is so negative it sucks in positive energy like a vacuum.

I spent a year sharing a house with someone who was previously one of my best friends. I knew he suffered with severe depression before I moved in, but I had no idea it would make me so sick. I had always left his company feeling drained, lethargic, and mentally violated, but always shook it off as his bad mood rubbing off on me. Once I moved in I tried my best to help him and we spent a lot of late nights just talking, me trying to offer him solutions and advice, him putting obstacles in front of everything I suggested. I soon realised he is one of those unfortunate people who enjoy being depressed. I know about depression as I battled it myself for years, but as cold as it sounds..there are some people who enjoy it. They enjoy the attention it brings them from friends and family (if they are lucky enough to have that support), they enjoy the excuse it gives them for being lazy and self absorbed. They enjoy the energy other people give them to try and help, and that energy becomes like a drug to them. They cant get by without leeching from someone and while it makes them feel happy for a while...even euphoric, the giver of this energy is left feeling depressed themselves, drained. These are what pshychic vampires are.

Those that dont know what they do need to be told, as someone has already pointed out, and be given the tools to make corrections in that behaviour. They need to learn how to draw energy from other sources, most importantly from within themselves. They need to be shown that what they are doing is bad for them in the long run and bad for those around them. Those that know what they do and either dont care or see it as a good thing for them, are just not very nice people and should be avoided. They are spiritual addicts stealing from others to feed their habit.

The OP seems to think it is a pretty cool label to give themselves, but it is not cool in the slightest. It is selfish, in the worst possible sense.

Hi, I am new here, this is my first post *waves*

It looks like a great forum, I found it while looking for an explanation of some kind for my dream experiences.

I'll start from the beginning if I may...

When I was a child, I remember having extremely lucid dreams. The earliest I remember is about aged 5 or 6. I would fall asleep believing that I had absolute power and control over my dreams, and could do anything I wanted. I dont remember when or how I came to that conclusion. But anyway, I would always start off at the top of a flight of outdoor steps or standing on a roof and would begin to fall...at that point I would become aware of the dream and that if I didnt do something quick, I was going to wake up from it. I would concentrate really hard and point my arms up to the sky, almost in a superman type pose, and take off. I vividly remember the feeling of exhiliration and freedom as a flew around above everything, knowing it was cold but not feeling it...always night time....not going anywhere in particular but just enjoying the flight. I always felt like I was alone..not sadly, just solitary..and no-one below could see me. Then it would start to get light and it was like the approaching dawn was my cue to return, and I hated this bit as I was no good at landing! I would tumble through the air, arms and legs flailing, starting to panic slightly as I got closer to the ground and then I would wake up. It always seemed perfectly normal and other kids I talked to said they could fly in thier dreams too.

Then when I was about 11, I was flying along the beach and enjoying the way the moon was shining on the sea, when I noticed a woman staring up at me. I was shocked she could see me, and got a little closer. She screamed and dropped a bag she was carrying, and ran off down the beach. I then began to land and woke up, feeling very confused and sad that I had scared someone. I still remember the look on her face 23 years later. Was it real? Does a woman from my hometown tell a story of how she saw a flying child on the beach one night? Did she think I was a ghost? Or was it just a dream?

It wasnt long after that, I had a dream that saved my life. The flying had begun to fade, it only happened about once every couple of months as opposed to almost every night, and instead my dreams had become more "normal" and less lucid...but still very vivid. I still saw my dreams as a big part of life. I had a dream that I was on the school bus (a red British double decker like in Cliff Richards Summer Holiday lol) and sat in my usual seat on the top deck, front left seat next to the window. I was chatting to my best friend as normal when in slow motion, I turned to see a large bough of a tree hurtling towards us, smashing the window in front of me, and then an intense white light and buzzing noise. I woke up from the dream more scared than I had ever been about anything. I knew I musnt be on the bus that day. I faked sickness and as I was a model pupil my mum had no reason to suspect I was faking, and let me stay off school. That morning, the bus driver was distracted as waving to a friend and the bus mounted the kerb, hitting a bough of a tree overhanging the road. No-one was hurt beyond some bruises and minor cuts from the shattered windows, but the seat where I would have sat...empty as it was "my" seat...was mangled.

After this I took a huge interest in dreams, phsychic abilities, the paranormal and spiritualism. My dreams continued to be predictive, but nothing as major as that again...just small details. Colours, numbers, conversations. For example, when I was a young teenager I dreamt that a boy I liked at school gave me a box of maltesers and all I could think about what his tie being crooked. The next day at school, he gave me a box of maltesers and later that day, was told of in class for his tie being messy and crooked! Nothing major, nothing life changing, but enough to make me a believer in the power of the mind and drreams.

Again, this started to fade and by the time I had left school, gotten married and had children...it was gone. I still had vivid dreams and always interpreted them as best I could..using them as a tool to see what was going on in my subconscious...but I stopped having predictive dreams and it had been years since I had flown. I guess sometimes life takes over and we forget how to listen and how to reach for the sky.

15 years passed, of a hard life. I survived, and I am a strong independant woman for it, but it was tough. I never lost my interest in the spiritual, paranormal and psychic, and stayed on that path...but the dreaming was different. Still vivid, always meaning something and always a big part of my life...just no more magic to it.

And then I found real happiness when I met my fiance 4 years ago, I moved from Kent to Wales and settled into a much more peaceful, content and balanced life.

And I am flying again!!!!

It has only happened a handful of times over the last couple of years, but eachtime I have woken up with an overwhelming sense of freedom and peace...it really can put me on a high for days afterwards. I still launch in the same way from steps or roofs, and still have problems landing lol, but its just how I remember it when I was a child.

Then sunday night just gone something very strange happened, which brings me to this late night trawl of the internet looking for answers.

I went to bed a lot more tired than normal...we had just returned very late in the night from a 4 day break, which had involved a lot of walking and a lot of drinking and I had to be up at 5am for work. I was exhausted and almost as soon as I lay down in bed I was asleep. Next thing I know, I'm running along a long marble corridor, but im running like a big cat using my arms as front legs. I thought to myself, this is odd but I like the feeling, its almost like flying...and then I was aware of dreaming. I realised I wasnt on top of any steps or a roof, and I had never tried launching from the floor before, but it was worth a go. I tried to leap like a cat into the air, and all of a sudden there was something I have never experienced before...this almighty whoosh that seemed to set my whole body buzzing...and then this loud humming, but not humming..its hard to describe. I woke up immediately and sat up in bed, my partner was still awake and asked what was wrong, I just started laughing and said it was a crazy dream. I tried to go back to sleep..I really felt like I had experienced something almost amazing, and if I could just get back to that point I could try again...but it didnt come. I was asleep again in minutes but my dreams were just normal...still vivid...but normal.

I have read about that moment...like a seperation of the spirit from the body...and have always wanted to experience it...but is that what it was? Did I dream it? Its not like a completely unknown to me as I said, I have read about it....so could I have just dreamt about the experience? It felt so real to me and I cant stop thinking about it. I have tried to go to sleep thinking about it and willing it to happen again, but nothing.

So anyway..if you have read all of that I thank you very much...I am sure my experiences are dull to some lol...but any feedback and/or advice would be very much appreciated! I am 34 now and feel it is time I began to really understand all the experiences I have had!