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Cheers.

Thanks for the input.

J

I'm pretty sure it's not the first time, but the first time I've experienced this in a long time.  I was trying to fall asleep, but was well aware that I was still awake and conscious when I heard sounds playing softly.  It sounded to me like really garbled talk radio playing in the distance.  I couldn't specifically make out any distinct words, phrases or speakers.  It was incredibly annoying and it started bothering me as I rose to look for an alarm clock radio that may have somehow been on in another room.  After my brief search there was nothing and as I rose to go looking the sounds stopped.  I didn't really try to interact with the voices, I just got a little ticked and moved to a different location to go to sleep. 

I've been poking around on the net and some people are talking about it's the dead trying to contact you and other are saying it smacks of schizophrenia.  I'm fairly certain that I'm not schizophrenic, although I do occasionally have an overactive internal monologue.  I'm almost 30 and I would assume any clairvoyant abilities would have manifested a long time ago.  So, I'm turning to the collective knowledge of the Astral pulse for some sort of answer or guidance as to how to proceed should this happen again. 

Thanks in advance for whatever wisdom I receive.

J

Interesting stuff in general.  I also constantly have a 'buzzing' noise whenever I try to go to sleep and there isn't any real external sound.  It's not really a buzzing sound, but more like an electrical buzz, like you hear when your television is turned on but muted.  I have that all the time.  What it is I do not know, tinnitus? *big shrug. 

Secondly, I don't know about the gargoyle, but I have had the experience of multiple people facing me and laughing/talking etc all at the same time.  It was really noisy and I don't know what any of them were saying, but as I was trying to meditate and go to sleep and I freaked out a bit and just wanted them gone.  So I asked for the universe to get all of these people and their noise out of my head and something vaguely person shaped and white came down and laced the hell out of me with some white light for maybe a minute tops and then nothing but silence and darkness.  I guess this doesn't really help you, but at least you're not the only person out there with strange things happening.  Any insight here people?

Finally, either alone or in combination 36 hours without sleeping and smoking weed will most assuredly throw you some hallucinations if you're trying to get into a weird space.  So you might not want to do that.  Good luck. 

J

I was sleeping in my bed for no longer than an hour when I was rapidly warned in my dream that danger was lurking very closely.  My initial thoughts and reaction in my dream were, how could I have let myself fall asleep and not have my knife in my hand ready to stop an attack.  This was a strange thought, because quite obviously I do not sleep with a knife in my hand.  However, I did fall asleep with a large quartz crystal in my left hand that is supposed to be a poultice to help with clearing negative thoughts and enhancing relaxation.  I popped out of my r.e.m. sleep and my eyes sprang open but my body felt completely paralyzed.  I heard a noise and felt a presence around me.  The paralysis is one thing, that I understand about OBE's and that whole process, but what I felt writhing up the sides of my bed like a slow moving ivy was an entirely different scenario.

The noise can only be described as a swirling/shuffling, like two pieces of soft cloth moving against each other under a quiet gust of wind, or the quickening absence of sound as though all the noise in the room were being pulled into an invisible whirlwind that muted everything. 

The presence was far more harrowing.  (I don't know why but I sleep with a Himalayan rock salt crystal light in my room.  There are no natural windows and I'm not afraid of the dark but I feel far more comfortable having a low level of light as opposed to complete blackness.  I've also been prompted by my spirit guide on another occasion to go sleep where there is sunshine.)  My eyes opened as I lay facing the ceiling with my body immobilized and not moving as I was desperately trying to force myself to do.  To be ready to punch up, hop to my feet, anything.  I could feel a strange creeping sensation like a chilling vibration or wave lurking around my body and up and over the sides of the bed onto the unoccupied blanket space around me.  Moving closer and probing around me.  In my mind I started chanting 'Ohm mani padme Ohm' instinctively for instantaneous protection against whatever was around me.  I also mentally scrambled and cried out for my spirit guide by name to come and knock the crap out of whatever was in my room with me watching me sleep and creeping up on me.  I also asked G-d to cover me in white light to protect and heal me.  Bam, my voice started working and my 'Ohm mani padme Ohm' came out loud and clear.  As I did these three things I could feel the presence leave, but I was still freaking out and continued to chant my Ohm's until I felt slightly better.  Then I ran to my computer and wrote this down in the hopes that someone out there would be able to offer me some sort of explanation. 

This isn't the first time I've felt weird like this, it's just the most memorable and clear.  Usually I just wake up feeling like garbage after a night of black dreams.  Please, anyone with any insight write me and let me know what in the world or otherwise is going on around me.  I know the difference between good spiritual feelings and stop this isn't cool, it's freaking me out, I don't like this lurking violently vibrating amorphous cloud of acute angst business, because it's not cool.  Help, please.

Be well,
J

I may come off sounding slightly mad, but that's inhereint so it is unavoidable.  Here we go.  In my daily life I have all sorts of thoughts, just as every other person does, but I have an exceptionally difficult time controlling what I think.  Sometimes it is terrible, like a child blurting things out without thinking about what they are saying, the consequences of their actions, the ramifications etc.  I've tried basic meditation which does help, but I was wondering if anyone has found a good way to simply still the mind, quiet the mind, etc.  When I finally get around to attempting to project, first I have to lie down and quiet my mind, which sometimes simply does not work and I pass out before I snuff all the candles upstairs (metaphor).  So 1) I am looking for all of your advice on a good meditation practice, mantra etc that is good for stopping errant thoughts and controlling your mind, I suppose some method of mental discipline.  

Next, if you've stayed with me this far.  Here is where it gets interesting.  The other night I was just lying in bed meditating, when suddenly 9 or so voices starting talking inside my head.  There were men and women, some were stronger than others, some were distinct some were little more than a feeling that they were there and trying to communicate.  These I am sure were not my own thoughts.  They felt foreign and I just tried to keep myself quit and hone in on at least one individual, but I found it too hard to block out all the other voices.  This is one of the very few times in my life that I can recall having an experience like this.  It wasn't really scary, I had no fear of these voices but I found it too complicated or difficult to figure out what they were saying or wanted etc and I eventually passed out solving nothing.  So if you have any answers, suggestions, or thoughts I would love to hear them.  Thanks for trying to be enlightened.

Be well,
J

Ok I have a new one for all of you out there in Ap'er land.

Sometimes, and I don't know how to control it yet, but sometimes when I close my eyes and do somebreathing, try and relax still my mind, I get those pale color flashes behind my eyes, usually some variation of purple, off shade black, or pale white.  The coolest one, is when I get like alternating pulses of white and purple where it seems the entire field of vision comes together and forms a purple circle in the center and then rockets away from me, as if shooting down a pipeline, and the whole field of vision around the purple circle/dot which goes from large to small as it gets further from me, becomes white now, this field forms a circle and shoots off, then the field is purple, and it alternates like this for a long time.  Does anyone have any clue what this is at all?  I feel like I'm sending some sort of beacon or energy out of me, but it just goes in pulses away and away and away.  Any thoughts?  anyone else have this?  significance?  Love to hear what you all think.

Be well,
J

I've been really practicing at trying to project for about 3 or 4 months now.  And I've gotten very close on a nnumber of occasions, I've projected after falling asleep and woken up in the astral briefly, but I always seem to pop back into my body very quickly.  What I am asking is, if there is anyone here who is adept at projecting who could possibly help me get out.  Literally coming to me while I'm trying to project and lending me a hand to pull me out.  I don't know if this is possible.  I've been halfway out many times, a little encouragement would work wonders.  I can surely set up some sort of a white light beacon high in the sky over my house.  Is anyone up to the challenge?  Thanks.

Be well,
J

I was exhausted after not having slept for almost 24 hours, I finally passed out and had this dream where I think I was in the astral, 5th time now unconcsciouslly being there, everything was dark greay and didn't have any good senses, but I was there lying on my side.  Some male figure had some sort of a sword or bat, it looked like a broadsword to me but it was just an outline, and he swung down hard at me, it didn't slice me but collidied with my side, more like a bat or a tuning fork and sent intense reverberations throughout my whole body, I felt like I was shuddering, it is difficult to describe but it felt like I was being pulled out of my body, like shaken out, the way you would lift someone upside down and shake them for their change.  I got scared, because it was a fairly violent awakening from a black sleep.  The first thing that registered in my mind was get into your body get ready to to defend yourself. I instantly woke up on the couch giong what the heck was that.  

On a side note I was talking about the Pleadeans with Mayatnik for a bunch of hours so I was thinking about them alot, I don't know if they had any involvement, but it was scary, prolly cuz I'm a noob, and having dark figures swing swords at you is unnerving.

Please please.  I hope someone can read this and make some sense out of it.  I don't care if you know, but opinions would be helpful from individuals with more experience then myself.  Thanks.

Be well,
J

Sometimes when I get relaxed I see some pretty crazy s***.  I'm not sure if I'm seeing with my third eye or my imagination etc etc, but it usually starts off as dull colors in non specific shapes and the more relaxed I get the more distinct things become.  Anyways I got lost in a good 30 minutes of relaxation then I noticed a white lady lying next to me in my bed.  I had a circle of protection working and an aura around me, to block out distraction other creatures etc.  Anyways she was right there, and I felt kind of uncomfortable, not due to anything she was doing, but because she was lying in my bed next to me.  I was also using the mantra of Bellilin.  Anyone have any ideas?  was this her? is Bellilin a woman?  and why the heck was she in my bed?  lol

Be well,
J

Ok for a really long time, every time I go to sleep I get this high pitched whine in my ears.  Like when the T.V. is turned on but it is black, you can just hear that electrical buzz sound.  Or like after a concert and you have that eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee sound in your ears.  Every time I go to sleep I have this noise, I dislike it immensely it makes me uncomfortable.  Does anyone know anything about it?  does it have some significance?  Is it good?  Is it bad?  Should I stop it, tune it out, or go with it?  Any answers? anyone?

Be well,
J

I'm not going to go into extreme depth of this particular experience because it was very vivid.  The crux of it revolves around a particular spirit which I believe to be a demon that I had banished.  Lately I've been having more and more "double wake ups"  which I think are very brief obe's.  I'll be more concious and aware, but everything is dark and my first instinct is to get back to my body and wake up, although that has changed over time.  But I have yet to project consciously.  Anyways.  I was having a dream that changed into another dream and all of a sudden this man was wrapping a hood over my head, like burlap something rough that I couldn't see through.  The thought entered my head, what the heck was I doing letting someone bind me.  I suddenly recalled like 4 dreams previous that I had just gone through as though I was doing what I do right when I wake up, and remembered I had a mini-torch, like a fierce lighter in my pocket from an earlier dream.  I grabbed it and burnt the mans hand who was binding me.  He freaked a bit, like I wasn't supposed to be able to move or even be aware of anything going on.  I took off the hood and stared him down, he first made a move to fight me, but realized I was aware of what was going on, and tried to run from me.  Somehow I realized I had to take him out, instead of letting him run off to try again. I found a sword, a really strange long sword that was slim with a rounded tip, one sided and when swung with the dull side it became fluidic and almost whiplike.  Anyways I stuck at the man, and sliced his head clean open down the center of his forehead.  A spirit leaked right out of his now cleaved skull, floated through the air and 'possesed' thenext body it could find.  I was so dumbfounded that somethign had popped out of this mans head that I didn't even know what to do.  I started reciting some chinese counter curse, which I don't even know if it's real, to stop the spirit from using it's powers.  It didn't help, he took this new body and tried to run for it, but I followed him and he had found a greek short sword and once again after a fairly intense sword fight I sliced his head open.  the spirit leaked out and went into another body.  I grabbed his sword and went after the third body, eventually fought him as he had stolen another sword from somewhere, and I won, and this time when the spirit popped out, I took the long sword and sliced the escaping spirit in half, it seemed to drop out of the air lifelessly.  I was muttering the counter curse this whole time, I then had the thought that I was finally done, I finally got him.  I woke up and wrote it all down.  I've been having dreams lately with things happening in threes, usually three people that I have to deal with, and usually I just try and escape the situations because they are senseless and I never seem to get anywhere by reasoning it out.  I don't even know where to start.  Does anyone have any thoughts as to what is going on in my mind?  Does this sound like it might be a neg or something of that sort trying to mess with me, or just an over active imagination.  I don't suppose negs can get into your dreams and mess with your mind can they?  I have very little knowledge of negs and the like.  after all it could just be a dream, but it really felt like something more, like a finally had accomplished the destruction of this bastard who had been bothering me for so long.  Not just this dream, but for a long time.  Anyways, any input is greatly appreciated.

Be well,
J

I've heard that in dreams it is not normal to view events in third person.  As in watching yourself do things as though your sight was a camera hovering behind you, or over your shoulder.  Because I get dreams like this all the time, first person as well but third person too.  I like third person more actually the view is more encompassing.  But I told someone this and they were like, WHAT?  They had never had them before or even heard of such a thing.  Also I've heard that in a dream you are not supposed to be able to read or do math.  Something to do with the logic and creative parts of your brain.  I'm not sure, but I've read many things, signs, books etc, not always making sense, but I've been able to read in my dreams.  Numbers however never seem to add up properly, 2 + 2 could equal 4856230472 in one of my dreams, lol.  Well anyways I would really appreciate your own experiences and accumulated knowledge on the subject.  Thanks.

Be well,
J

Hi all,

I've been having strange violent repeating dreams.  I want to become lucid, but I haven't the first clue how to do this.  I'm practising to AP, and my dreams are getting vivid and I'm remembering them all.  However I'd love a way to snap into conciousness during my dreams and alter events.  Can someone help me by giving me the basics of becoming lucid in dreams, exercises, methods, strategies etc. or at least send me to a good link I can read up on it from?  Thanks.

Be well,
J

Sorry if the title was misleading, this is more of a question than an answer.  I've only gotten vibes once and it was far earlier in my practice of AP when I wasn't trying for anythig at all.  So I would like to know from all of you who have them, or can induce them etc.  What is the best way to get vibes.  What leads up to it, any special visualizations? practices? things to focus on? awareness etc etc.  Iwould appreciate some help, so I can start vibing also.  Plus we can all compare our different techniques.  Thanks.

Be well,
J

Ok here's a new one for you all,

Sometimes I get sensations like an acute itch or a pin prick, it's just there for a second and then it is gone.  This could be cast off as though it were nothing at all, but most of the time these are in response to a yes or no question.  Or If I am in a situation where I am trying to decide what to do sometimes these feelings sway me to one side or another.  I know I'm being pretty vague, but it's almost liek a prodding of 'yeah thats it' and then for some reason I feel like thats a valid confirmation.  This doesn't neccesarily have anything to do with being OBE, because it happens when awake just wondering if anyone can tie this to the astral in some way.  Or else I'm just a crazy man who pays attention to his itches...  lol  

Be well,
J

Ahhhhhhhhh hell,

I was dreaming or maybe projecting, I don't know, but I saw this man who looked blue, like the shade of blue from a flame, standing in the wall to my room about four feet away from where my sleeping body was.  It appeared as though maybe he was being viewed through water, deep pale blue, he had black hair almost shoulder length, and was wearing black and blue clothing that looked almost medieval.  I got a totally freaked out vibe from him, like he was up to no good, he just stared at me.  This is the second time I have seen this man in my dreams.  I then tried to wake up, but I felt like my body was below my sleeping body, like I was lying in the couch I was on. maybe a half a foot below my real body.  I tried to move to my body, but it was like trying to push through molasses, or wet concrete, finally I got to my body and apparently had woken up.  I got off of the couch and ran upstairs into the family room.  But it was all very dark, and I was like oh sh--, this isn't real, and then I really woke up, but it was hard and it took alot of effort like I was being blocked or delayed.  I have no clue what this is or what happened, I would love some help or insight if possible.  Thanks.

Be well,
J

Hi,

Ok so here is something that I have been experiencing since I have made a firm and concious decision to acheive astral projection.  I have been attempting to project for almost two months now to no avail.  Despite this, I have been experiencing dreams with far more clarity than normal, the content is no more specific to astral projection than any other dream I've had previously, but here is where it gets interesting.  I will relax and put myself into a mind awake, body asleep state, eventually I will fall asleep, with the intent to astrally project, instead I will wake up exactly 2 hours later.  I will remember my dreams with fierce clarity, I will be fully awake and fully refreshed as though I've slept for a solid 8 hours.  This segmented sleep of two hours lasted for about 2 weeks, I would wake up and try and get back to sleep someitmes I could but more often I was wide awake in the middle of the night with strange images in my mind.  Most of my dreams have to do with conflict of some sort, I am trying to get somewhere (which I think is the astral plane) but people keep trying to distract me.  People keep trying to take me off course.  Most recently I had a dream where I was myself, but I was larger and broader than normal, I was a bigger person, but still myself.  It seemed as though it may have been a time earlier than that in which we live.  I was in some planning room, with a bunch of other people, all were clad in black.  We were all searching for something, that apparently was buried somewhere, I wasn't told what this item or place/thing was, I just had an unstoppable desire to find 'it'.  Not so much desire as duty, I felt I had to.  I was focused on one thing at a time not like my normal state of thought.  I listened to the objective and then everyone rose from their respective tables in this tavern like setting and when I rose two women who were smaller than me rose and followed me, as though they were part of my squad or team.  As I was leaving the room I went up to a dresser and opened a drawer and removed a small segment of a faded red map.  This map showed me exactly where what i was looking for was located.  I left the room and headed out into the streets which were made of dirt, some covered by large wooden boards, there were all sorts of ramshackle structures which were everywhere ranging from large to small.  I started down the street towards where my map indicated.  I was almost there and I saw everyone from the room standing there as though they wouldn't cross a line, which was conveniently a railing, which could be easily jumped or walked around.  Past this there was a man who seemed to be performing he was moving all over an area as if entrancing all those who watched or simply was trying to distract them.  Past the area where the man was performing I could clearly see an exit, it was literally a door marked exit overhead.  I said to myself I don't have time for this, and pressed past the black clad throng of people.  The two women who were following one step behind me stopped at the railing and waited.  I went past and the performing man suddenly turned to glare at me and then came directly at me, I can't recall if he struck me or simply tried to derail my progress through shouting, but he was in my face.  I brushed him off as though he was inconsequntial, all that mattered was reaching this door so I could find the item, more importantly though, simply reaching this exit.  The performing man became instantly hostile and we started to fight.  It was an intense fight where I was clearly the stronger, who had more training and I traded blows with the man.  He only struck me a few times before I had knocked him senseless, I wasn't angry, I was devoid of emotion, I only knew that he was barring my way and he had to be dealt with.  I dodged many of his punches and ended up slamming him in the face a few times and bowled him over forwards when I proceded to lay him face down on the ground by force.  Suddenly as I had him incapacitated two men came from nowhere carrying some sort of non-lethal rifles, they shot me numerous times and I fell down and faded into blackness.  It seemed like they were paintball guns, that shot spheres but I felt nothing, I simply noted that i was being hailed with pellets and went to black.  The next thing I knew I was no longer in that body, but was invisible, without form and was floating near the ceiling, viewing these two men speaking to another in some sort of office.  They told the new man, "He has been incapacitated" I was suddenly drawn to an adjacent room, where an old thin man wearing a blue silk robe was sitting in a plush high backed chair, he proceeded to throw a fist sized silver ball underhanded towards the far wall.  Sailing through the air it seemed like the ball would stop where the wall met the floor, but it bounced off the wall and began moving in the opposite direction.  I immeadiately woke up in real life, looked at my clock and I had slept 4 hours exactly, all of this was clear in my mind, I spent some time trying to sort out what it all meant, but I haven't come to any conclusions, as to whether this has any real significance.  Was the exit the astral?  Who would try to stop me?  I'm unsure as to the whole thing.  Can anyone who has taken the time to read this please give me your take, or extoll some knowledge of the whole thing unto me.  Oh as well I am no longer sleeping in 2 hour blocks, they have become 4 hour blocks.  Answers?  Suggestions?  Please.

Be well,
J

Hi,

Here is my question.  What do you focus on to get out of body?  I'm not being so extremely vague.  More specifically, once you have relaxed your body, gone through all the muscles, mind awake, body asleep, lying there.  I don't know if this is before trance state or during etc.  But what do you find helpful to focus on, is there anything specific, a vision, an image, pure blankness.  I don't know, I'm always shifting from one exit method to another and none seem to work.  Anyone have the answer I seek?  Please let me know.  Thanks.

Be well,
J

Hi Everyone,

I just got the Brain Wave Generator working and I was wondering if any of you have actually found a preset that brings on astral projection?  I tried using Tommis Vibes which did give me a cool vibrating effect but eventually I just fell asleep, I tried a few others but I most definetely didn't AP, I eventualy just fell asleep.  So any effective presets out there?

Interesting question.

I doubt I have the psychology background to answer them adequately.  But that's never stopped me before, so.  

Mental Vomit, pretty loose definition.  Mental Vomit is the seepage of everything supressed and otherwise.  Dreams are sometimes mental vomit, but also elements of other realms entering into your mind/councious/unconscious.  Everyone has mental vomit, while waking and sleeping.

Dreams are mental vomit.

Lucid dreams is the ability to navigate through the mental vomit and change things as you will.  Actually asserting your will to enforce the laws of reality as you see fit to do so.  Saying this isn't right and changing it, or conversly it would be cool if, and making it so.  

OBE's are another topic all together.  OBE's are leaving your own portrait (your dreams) and venturing out into a canvas which many people have painted on.  Being Lucid enough to navigate through, but not being able to fully manipulate your surronding, as they are not exculsively your own.  The laws of so called reality are 'looser' but things will exist as they will.  You do not neccesairly have the power to change a wall to a flower indefinetely.  Unless of course you have created the wall in the first place.

Can all three be seperated cleanly, I doubt it.  Chocolate, Vanilla, and yes even Strawberry are all different flavors, but when it comes down to it, they are all still ice cream.  

The end game scenario is that they are all different levels on which we may act.  They blend together and seperate at different points.  It is easy to say I am awake now, and I am asleep when I am asleep because I believe I know the difference.  But when you attempt to objectify reality, all levels of existence have their own exclusivity.  There is a difference and if you can figure out how to put it all into nice neat little aseptic packages you have just destroyed the beauty of all that is and all that is not.  Questions with answers are for sheep.  Questions that teach you something but in doing so only pose greater questions are for wolves.

I hope this has shed some light.  But if not be happy that you still have the darkness.

Be well,
J

Hmmmm,  

I'm not really sure.  The only thing I can say is that without any one extreme the other does not exist, or if it does exist it does not have any true value.  What good is joy if you've never known pain?  No contrast.  As far as being relaxed, I would tend to agree being relaxed 24/7 would be great.  It's all in your mind, it's how you react to everything in your world.  You can choose to accept stress or not (easier said than done)  I don't think you would be a very well rounded person if you were perma-relaxed, no fun.  Cool and mellow, but that's about it.  

If one could theoretically control all of their emotions, I mean if you could obejectively go back through time and analyze all of the events of your life and see exactly where you started hating vegetables, or that time your dog got run over by a car, your 7th birthday etc.  All of the extreme positive and negative stimuli of your life.  How one event has lead you to have a propensity for alcohol, blondes, science-fiction etc.  Would it make a difference?  Would you be able to change?  If you knew why you were sad everytime it rained, could you mentally unwrite that reaction?  I'm not sure.  If I had the chance to do so I most definetely would try.  I would love to change the way I react to things, the way I am hard wired.  It's probably possible, but it's a long process of constant alteration that would last the rest of your life...  I think I've convinced myself, LOL.  But seriously would it make a difference?  Being in control is an illusion, the only thing we are in control of is ourselves, and the majority of sheep *cough, I mean people aren't in control of themselves at all.  Complete emotional control would be cool, but pretty dry, vulcan-esqe.  People are weird accept it.  But as far as personally being liquified in the sense of everyhting in your reality being smooth, that would be interesting for a time, but it would get boring, unless being in that state opened doors to far more interesting realms, astral realm??  Who knows, I'm rambling.  Oh yeah I'm from Toronto.  Peace.

Be well,
J

Interesting point which I do think carries alot of validity.  However there must be a way to  discipline your entire mind conscious and sub-concious.  We have full control, whether or not that means truly silencing it, I don't know.  It doesn't seem probable, but it would be nice to either silence it completely, somewhat similar to the effect of sound when you are underwater, noise is still there but it is distant and unimportant.  Or perhaps developing such a fierce focus that everyhitng else is nullified by your attention on nothing.  Therefore thorugh intense concentration everything else ceases to exist.  I have no answers, only more questions to lead down paths which are long and winding.  I will try and meditate on this.  I don't ever think telling things to shut up etc is the correct way to deal with them.  I will try to learn more and share my experiences with you.  Peace out.

Be well,
J

You shoudl be careful with what you cut out of your life.  I know exactly what you are saying because I am doing the same thing, through a random coincidence, lol they don't exist.  But anyways hopefully people will wake up and all switch over to the path of least resistance.  This is the path where we help ourselves attain our desires and not get all sorts of things in the way to bar our paths.  T.V., Fear, Lethargy, etc etc the list goes on forever, here is the problem.  

When you start talkign about the astral realm or any other for that matter they don't exactly function on the same underlying pricnciple of this reality.  Where we live everything is bi-polar.  As in there is an up and a down, happy and sad.  One thing cannot exist without the exact opposite.  In our reality.  In other realities bi-polar relationships don't exist.  Cool stuff like time, past, present, future.  Anyways all I am saying is that when yo step into a different realm the rules are different, so if you eliminate your experience of being stressed what value does being relaxed have?  Relaxed doesn't even exist if stressed vanishes.  Then relaxed would be all there is, and it would no longer be called relaxed but that state would be normal.  In the astral from what I've heard (not via experience)  any radical emotions on either side of the scale bounce you out or adversly effect that realm, it's driven on emotion and thought.  So be careful, don't close of avenues that may prove helpful.  But yes hitting the gym is a positive.  Eating helathy etc.  Fuel your corporeal machine and treat it well it will help with everyhting.  Ok I've talked for far too long.  There is always more to say, but who cares.  Have fun.

Be well,
J

Cool trick, I will try it out.

As far as Schizophrenia goes, who knows.  But it's not an everyday occurence, just when I try to still my mind.  I don't think they were talking to each other either, I think they were all trying to get me to listen to them, but they were all over the place, overpowering each other, some were strong, some weak, some male, some female, etc.  And they weren't saying "listen to me" etc.  They were all talking about random stuff, all different.  Can't remember what but it was like being tapped into a bunch of one sided conversations.  

Be well,
J

Is the mirror a globe that surrounds your head?  and Does the mirror face inwards or outwards?

Be well,
J