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Hello Brothers and Sisters of Consciousness

I have a new Thomas Campbell video up on my site if anyone is interested in hearing him speak at the Monroe Institute.

http://www.malleablelight.net/videos/thomas-campbell/ - Thomas Campbell – The Monroe Institute Lecture

I know that most of us strive to both a) achieve altered states of consciousness and then b) once we do we often wonder how it all fits together (the physical and the meta-physical) and what it all means. Thomas Campbell is a nuclear physicist who has created a model of the bigger reality based on his own personal explorations of consciousness which started out in his early 20s at the Monroe Institute back in the 70s. He helped to make the Monroe Institute what it is today.

He now has 30 years experience in out of body explorations and I am certain that many of you will love this new video of his.

Best Regards

David

Hello Folks,

I found the following videos very interesting so I have posted them on my blog for your viewing pleasure. It's refreshing to see a physicist acknowledging the astral planes.

http://www.malleablelight.net/videos/thomas-campbell/

I wish everyone a happy new year and the best of luck with your explorations of consciousness.

I hope this post doesn't make Emmy jealous, but for the sake of consciousness research I must write.

I fell asleep at around 11:30 PM last night and as I fell asleep I tried to clear my mind by observing thoughts without becoming attached to them. Around 5 AM I woke up and ran to the bathroom and then came back to bed and began trying the same techniques in an attempt to astral project. I was tired and my mind was not really coherent so I started trying to push thoughts away. I realized what I was doing and then began allowing my thoughts to drift in without resistance. I was surprised at some of the random thoughts that were entering my mind.  For example a fleeting thought of a specific trip to McDonald's with my Dad when I was a small child entered my head. These thoughts came and went for 10 minutes or so and during this time frame vibrations were felt several times.

Around 5:30 AM I felt the sensation of myself being bouncing around inside my body. I knew what this was because it's happened before so I envisioned myself violently bouncing back and forth and within couple of seconds I felt a release and I floated up into the ceiling and things went completely black. I suspected that I was stuck in the ceiling so I thought about standing in my backyard and as I did I felt movement as I drifted from the roof area of my house down into the backyard.

While I was standing in the yard I had full waking consciousness. I knew my name, address etc. I knew that I was either asleep, in some altered state of consciousness or in another reality. I stood there for a minute and let it all soak in. My quality of perception was very good this time and the quality of vision and my senses was superb, equal to or better than waking life.

I looked around and the first thing that came to mind was that I needed to validate and collect evidence. This is where reality fluctuations came into play. I had the idea of floating over to my neighbors house and looking around inside. The idea was that if I ever go inside her house I might be able to identify something I saw in this state. I probably need to rethink my methods of validation.

I floated over to this window that doesn't really exist in waking life (reality fluctuation) and I pressed my head against the screen in the window (another reality fluctuation, it's too cold for open windows). Inside I could see her getting a small girl ready for school. She glanced over in my direction at one point but she didn't seem to notice me there. I was at the window for about a minute and then things shifted.

I found myself standing on the front porch of a house with her on the street I grew up on as a child. She was tinkling off the front porch in an attempt to put out a cigarette that she had just thrown on the ground. This was all to funny for me so I asked her if she could see me? She nodded and said yes.  I laughed out loud and asked her "You know you are in my dream, right?". She didn't really answer, either she was a dream character or she was just drifting in unconsciousness, it's hard to say.

She took off running towards the house where my dad lives and jumped into this truck that I have never seen before. This is the part Emmy will like. I jumped in behind her and asked her if she wanted to have sex just to see how she would respond. She agreed to this, but as we started undressing darkness faded in and I found myself back in bed. I question my level of lucidity at this point because I know that I would not cheat in waking life.

I lost lucidity because in my mind I really thought I was awake, but I should have known that I wasn't because someone out back was mowing the lawn. It's unlikely that someone would be mowing the lawn at this time of year and at this time of morning. Still this wasn't enough to make me realize that I was sleeping and the dream continued for about another hour before I finally woke up and wrote this.

The conclusion here is that I was either in the RTZ with extreme reality fluctuations or I was having a lucid dream. Either way I had full waking consciousness. Emmy, you have my permission to have dream sex with anyone that you want.

Last night I went to bed at 12:30 AM with a orgone transfer sitting above my head linked to my RAD 5 which was pulsing my orgone field at 63 HZ. I didn't have much trouble falling asleep and was snoring in 10 minutes or less.

I don't remember the dreams I had early into the night however at what seemed about 4 AM I had a very vivid dream of being on a passenger jet plane, sitting in the cockpit while the pilot was flying too low at takeoff. There was a fleeting moment of fear when I noticed that he wasn't going to clear the house in front of us and then I was  suddenly standing out in front of the house with an odd feeling that my body was somewhere else injured leaving my soul standing in front of this house. The rest of the dream was spent looking for my body. I seemed to be half lucid through this entire dream and I ended up meeting this girl that was helping me out in some shelter type place for souls that were temporarily out of body due to violent life threatening injuries. The people running the place seemed to be very rude and cruel and kept speaking in a language I didn't understand.

I was still with this girl later in the dream. We were hanging out at a swimming pool after sneaking out of the shelter when I suddenly woke up in sleep paralysis and sensed a threatening presence beside me. This was odd to me because I knew that nothing should be able to harm me so I turned 90 degrees and realized that presence was my cat.

The room I was in was not my current room. I was in my childhood room, or at least that's what my double was seeing. With a forceful will I demanded myself out out of body. I thought I woke myself up at first but then realized I had transitioned to out of body. I didn't think about where my physical body was at this point.

The first thing I noticed was that some extremely cruel thoughts were flowing through me. I picked up my cat and threw her into the closet and violently closed the door. I then felt my thoughts normalizing and my waking life clarity locked in and I actually felt bad for throwing the cat into the closet so I let her go. I wonder if this really was my cat and if she was perceiving the same thing?

I remembered that in my previous out of body experiences I was unable to travel to different places and that irritated me so I tried a technique that I read in Monroe's first book. He was able travel to a person's location by thinking about their personality and leaning his body in the direction he thought they were relative to where he was.

Well... I tried his technique and it seemed to work very well. The only difference was that I used the send button on my blackberry wireless device instead of leaning . I may not have actually found who I was looking for but I did travel to at least 15 different places this time, of which only about 4 I can actually remember. The other 11 I know happened because I committed to memory during the experience that I had visited 15 places but would most likely not remember them all.

I used to work with a guy who was always poking fun at me for experimenting with astral projection so he was my first target. I thought about him and then hit the send button. I suddenly felt my body moving rapidly into darkness. The feeling of motion in one direction continued and in front of me I could see psychedelic fractal type patterns forming into circles which then morphed into colorful wormholes that my form was sucked into. This continued for 5 minutes and then I found myself walking down the street in front of my childhood home. I found myself thinking about the environment around me as I normally do, questioning the reality of the situation. It's a very odd feeling in that I know I'm not awake but at the same time the trees, the street and everything around me is just as viable as waking life. The only difference is that I know that I am not in waking life.

I proceeded to walk to the house I grew up in and guy I sought was inside on a computer. When I approached he noticed me and looked out the window of my mom and dad's old room and told me that he saw me. This was interesting because it seems unlikely that it was actually him, so I conclude that my mind must have been creating the entire thing. Another possibility might be that it was him but my perception was way off and my mind was filling in the gaps the best it could and perhaps with time my perception will get better. I walked through the wall of the house and stuck my hand through the monitor screen and my hand tingled when I did. I told him I would see him later and focused my attention on travelling to someone else that I currently work with.

I hit the send button again and I felt the movement again just like before. The same colorful patterns appeared and I was travelling for what seemed like about 10 minutes and I ended up in an unfamiliar house at Christmas time. There were several kids opening gifts and they seemed to see me and were talking to me. I don't remember what they were saying but I did tell one of them to remember the moment. I lost interest with this location and decided to try a validation for a member of the astral pulse.

I hit the send button on the blackberry and the movement and color were present. This time I had the sensation that the area around the patterns of color was enormous. I was traveled for several minutes and then faded into a place that seemed to be on the Australian coast line. The only reason I say this is because I appeared in a group of people under this tent like pavilian and they all had Australian accents. They seemed to be filming some sort of recreation of a historical event. I spoke to several of the people and they seemed to be making fun of me somehow, although I forget exactly what they were saying. We moved away from the tent and into a set with a bunch of buildings and this is where I saw the movie cameras and I definitely knew they were filming something. I wish I understood how this event taking place in Australia linked to the person i was seeking to validate for. It really doesn't make much sense to me and I guess I will never know because while there I had this overwhelming urge to travel to an orgy.

I hit the send button again and went through the same patterns as before and ended up in a room of several people having sex. I will not go into details but it was very graphic and I was very tempted. I was there for about a few minutes at most and started willing myself to wake up. Within about 5 seconds I actually felt my self transition into my bed at home in waking life. Once again I chicken out on the orgy scene.

I wish I could remember all of the other places I went but I am grateful recalled at least some of it. Every time I would travel to another location I would be thinking in the back of my mind that the attempt was going to wake me up from the experience like in the past when I tried, but for some reason it worked this time.

There are many aspects of this experience that makes me think that it was just a dream but at the same time I had full waking conscious with all of my waking memories and logic present. I knew my name and the names of the people in waking life that I was attempting to travel to or validate for. I must accept a shattered view of reality if I consider the experience an just a dream because the thoughts and statements of others in the experience were completely random and foriegn to me just as they are in waking life. I can never be sure that anything I experience is not just a creation of my mind. I also knew I was sleeping and was even fearing that I would wake up or lose the experience somehow.

When I woke up it took me 15 minutes to re-associate myself to reality due to the clarity and realness of the experience.

I would be interested in hearing feedback from others on this one.

Hello All,

I am relatively inexperienced when it comes to astral projection however I have have had several projections per the very vague defnition. I am still working on validations and have yet to validate the experience in a way that would connect what I experience to the waking (objective) world that we all experience.

I was talking to my borther in law today and he was telling me about the "One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" by James Randi and it seems odd that out of all of the people who claim to have validated astral projection and remote viewing, nobody has claimed the one million dollars. I would expect that Robert Bruce or one of the big names would have already raked in the cash however according to the website:

All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon success in the preliminary testing process, the "applicant" becomes a "claimant."

To date, no one has passed the preliminary tests.

This leads me to believe that astral projection is not reproducable in a consistent and systematic manner and is rarely taking place in the real timezone.

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

Any thoughts?

Here's my latest progress.

My goal 2 days ago was simple. I was to go to bed at 9 PM and then wake up around 2 - 5 AM and begin listening to the saltcube rhythm napping timer ramp with a 4 minute base. The track is 2 hours and 12 minutes and can be found in the new Vol. 2 saltcude series at lucidology.com. My plan was to use these timers to have a series of OBEs so that I can get used to astral projection and how it feels. The new series builds on the previous series and is very complex and advanced for my level. Having a series of short OBEs might not be profound but I have plently of time for that and I think I should be taking baby steps at this point.

I actually got in bed around 9:30 PM and then automatically woke up at 2 AM after setting the intent. I started the timer and then struggled for what seemed like an hour trying to block out distractions. I then decided to use some of the advanced visualization techniques that I watched in the new series last night and within minutes I felt a wave of energy surge through me really quickly. This energy didn't feel like vibrations at all, it was similar to goose bumps.

I wasn't sure if I was free from the physical so I sat up in bed and looked down at the pillow to see if I was still laying on it and to my delight I was! It was the classic OBE, I was sitting up in bed looking at my sleeping body with my physical body and astral body overlapping at the hip. The most incredible part of this was the fact that I could hear my physical body breathing and I was not controlling it at all. It was the most amazing thing ever. I literally sat and stared at my body sleeping for at least 5 minutes. This kind of goes against the "don't think about your body" scenario that pulls you back in.

I finally decided to move away from the bed and by simply thinking about it I was instantly standing by the door leading out of the room. I started walking down the hall and for the first time I had the urge to look down at my astral arm. It was solid black, like looking off into space. I then reached out and touched the wall and expected my arm to pass through it but it didn't, instead I felt the texture of the wall moving across my hand as I moved.

I continued downstairs and when I got there it was not my current living room, it was the living room of my ex-girlfriend's old rental house from 2001. I got kinda ticked at that point because she was a total grump that hung me out to dry in 2003 when I went into the hospital. I decided that I needed to leave.

I remembered that there are people in waking life who want validations so I tried to focus on their faces one at a time but I was not able to go anywhere. I gave up and started looking for a door out of there and sure enough, the same door that was there in 2001 was right there waiting on me. I could see very bright light bursting through the cracks around the door and I knew that if I opened it, I would be blinded. I started walking towards the door and the room started getting darker. I commanded clarity and awareness but the experience faded out and I woke up.

I remember having several lucid dreams about a year ago, before I was aware of astral projection and the likes. One in particular I found to be very amusing.

I was having a strange dream where I was standing on the side of a huge grassy hill. The section of the hill where I stood was about the size of two football fields, there was trees up the hill from me about 300 feet away and a castle in ruins about 100 feet from me in the opposite direction.

I was with several members of my family and I remember that huge asteroids started raining down from the sky and I thought on several occasions that I was a goner.

My only option was to get the hell out of dodge so I took off running up the hill and around the trees on the left side. As I passed by the trees the sky grew dark and I noticed that thousands of demons were behind me and closing in quick. I continued running and I noticed that they had caught up and were above the trees to my right and were on the grassy hill to my left. There were now millions of these creatures approaching and I was on the brink of panic when something clicked.

I realized that such overwhelming odds could not be real and then knew I WAS DREAMING. I suddenly felt empowered by this knowledge and simply thought to myself "Cast these demons into space!" and within less than a second I witnessed all of them flying off into the sky. I remember laughing to myself out loud in the dream about how pathetic they were and felt a sense of freedom saturating me. My waking thoughts were present and my analytical mind attached.

I took off flying and remember soaring over ancient towns for several minutes and then fell back into a normal dream state.

So what do you think? Was this like the prelude to my current journey for a deeper understanding or just a random event.

Best Regards

David

I posted this to my blog and I figured that it may be inspiring to others on here, so I am posting it here too.

Last night I got into bed around 11:00 PM. I read a chapter of Monroe's book "Journeys out of the Body", laid down and relaxed, put on my head phones and started listening to the Tibetan Chakra Meditation tracks. I started repeating the mantra "I am now out of body" in my head and fell asleep after about five iterations. I woke up at about 6:00 AM and noticed that the headphones had fallen off at some point during the night. I quickly fell back to sleep while running the same mantra through my head.

I woke up at 7:50 AM and noticed that my daughter was in the bed with me and my wife. I was doubtful that I would be able pull off an OBE because she moves around a lot. I decided to give it a try anyway so I closed my eyes and began the same mantra, "I am now out of body" over and over while I tried not to move. Suddenly I began to feel myself spinning at a rapid rate on an axis that ran through my head and out the bottom of my feet. Ten seconds later light vibrations hit me and I instinctively just relaxed more and told myself "enjoy the ride". The vibrations then got more intense and seemed to last about 2 minutes and then faded.

The vibrations completely disappeared and I noticed that I was floating in blackness with partial awareness. I felt like I was in a half dream state. I began running the words "clarity and awareness now" over and over and after about 5 iterations I actually started saying it out loud. I continued to say this and I could hear myself very clearly asking for clarity and awareness and thought I was going to wake up my wife and daughter. Suddenly the blackness slowly started fading and I actually felt my analytical mind attach to my state of consciousness and I am standing in a field and in front of me was a huge bright tree. Everything was so vivid and clear I felt the urge to fly and explore. I flew higher and higher and I began to think about the ocean and the landscape turned into ocean. I was soaring and I remembered that in life I am scared of heights, so I told myself to go higher and higher so that I could face my fear. I arrived at what I perceived as to be 5000 feet over the water and I felt some fear surge though me, but I was able to push it away and climb higher.

While I was flying and enjoying complete freedom I remembered that I told my friend from work that I would visit him next time I was out of body. He is skeptical and I wanted to give him some validation. I started imagining his face but I must not have asked the universe right because I asked to see him over and over and nothing but a very slight change in speed occurred.

I lost interest and reduced altitude and was very close to the surface of the water. The ocean then morphed into a wide river and I continued to skim across it about a foot from the surface. I heard a voice that said I had not experienced everything and then suddenly felt myself begin to go under the water. I wasn't ready and clearly noticed a change in awareness.

I woke, sat up and looked at the alarm clock and noticed that it displayed 9 AM. The first thing that entered my mind was that I needed to write down what had happened. Our bedroom is upstairs and my laptop is downstairs so I got out of bed and headed towards my laptop. I noticed that while walking down the hall that leads to the the stairs that everything was reversed. When I got to the stairs they were not right either. They looked like my stairs, but the distance that each step extended was inconsistent. Some extended about 5 inches out and others one foot. I "walked" down stairs and when I got there I noticed that the TV was gone and everything was packed up in boxes. My wife came down behind me and I felt a sense of fear come over me as if I had forgotten that we had packed and were in the process of moving. I began to panic because the events were so real and I felt as though I was losing my mind. Once again I felt a change in my awareness.

I woke up again. I noticed that the right side of my face was not working. I could not see out of my right eye. The right side of my head was literally inside of the pillow. I got up and looked in the mirror and blood was running down my moustache. The blood was dried to the hairs. I looked at my face in the mirror for about a minute in confusion and tried to understand where this blood had come from. I felt another change in my awareness.

I woke up and looked at the clock and it said 8:01 AM. I immediately got out of bed and headed for my laptop to write this entry. While I was walking down the stairs I was seriously asking myself if waking life was real or if I was out of body.

In conclusion I don't recall exiting my body this time, the move from physical to nonphysical seemed more like a shift of awareness. Perhaps the intense spinning threw me a distance from my body. I have no idea. It seems that I started out in a half conscious out of body state and then became fully conscious. I then moved into a lucid dream state awareness and had a false awakening. I then had another out of body experience and another false awakening. Finally I moved back to an out of body awareness one final time and then woke up for real. I am definitely back on track.

One last thing that's worth noting is that I was using my Performer 2400 chi generator. I had it set at a lucid dream frequency of 0.5 HZ with the trend set to the "The Gateway Affirmation" which goes like:

I am more than my physical body. Because I am more than physical matter, I can perceive that which is greater than the physical world. Therefore, I deeply desire to Expand, to Experience; to Know, to Understand; to Control, to Use such greater energies and energy systems as may be beneficial and constructive to me and to those who follow me. Also, I deeply desire the help and cooperation, the assistance, the understanding of those individuals whose wisdom, development and experience are equal or greater than my own. I ask their guidance and protection from any influence or any source that might provide me with less than my stated desires.

Hi all,

So I was thinking today about how disabled people may be at an advantage when it comes to projecting.  Another thought flowed in parallel to this one wondering why more crippled people and such don't take full advantage of this gift called Astral Projection.

There may be several reasons why "more" don't, the main one being that they most likely just don't know that it's possible or even exists. This to me is sad when I consider that a person in a wheel chair, paralyzed from the neck down, could have lived a fantastic life by simply slipping into the astral planes. The crippled could walk again or better.

Then you take someone like Stephen Hawking and I bet he projects every night. I would not doubt that all of the knowledge that he has came directly from the other side. This leads me to the point of this thread. Does a person with a disability such as blindness or complete paralysis have a natural amplification of other senses or abilities like astral projection?

Take a blind person for instance. It seems to me that they would be more aware of other things going on in their body in comparison to a person who has sight, who would possibly be too distracted to notice.

Just something to think about.

I had a very interesting experience with "Hemi-Sync - Journeys Out of Body - Condition C" last  night. I read about 20 pages of Monroe's - Far Journeys" and then at about 11:30 PM I got sleepy and I started off my night listening to the complete "Hemi-Sync - Gateway Experience - Introduction to Focus 10" track. This track completed and I started listening to "Condition C', but I was too sleepy and I feel asleep.

Before I go any further I want to share with everyone the difference between these tracks in the "Hemi-Sync - Journeys Out of Body" collection. This is straight from the guidance that comes with it.

The Borderland Sleep State, Condition A

"Lie down, preferably when you are tired and sleepy, As you become relaxed and start to drift off into sleep, hold your mental attention on something, anything, with your eyes closed. Once you ca hold the borderland sleep state indefinitely without falling asleep, you have passed the first stage. You will know you are successful when you become bored and expect something more to happen."

Bob, described Condition A as "the ability to hold calmly in the borderland sleep state, indefinitely, with your mind on an exclusive thought." Continue using the Condition A support exercise until you have achieved this state.

The Condition A support exercise consists of Hemi-Sync audio-guidance designed to help you stay awake and alert. At 20-minute intervals, an extended reminder sequence refereed to as the "beacon guidepost" is repeated with additional reinforcing Attention/Concentration frequencies, and a short verbal reminder in Bob's voice, "remember your purpose...."

This exercise and all that follow are one hour in length and can be repeated automatically, if desired, by setting the appropriate controls on your CD player (refer to your owner's manual).

Condition B

Similar to Condition A, but with the concentration eliminated. "Do not think of anything, but remain poised between wakefulness and sleep. Simply look through your closed eyes at the blackness ahead of you. Do nothing more. You have accomplished Condition B when you are able to lie indefinitely after the impressions have faded away, with no nervousness, and seeing nothing but blackness."

The Condition B support exercise is identical to the Condition A exercise, without the repeating reminder sequences. As you begin to acclimate to this borderland sleep state, you will no longer need the reminders and they will simply get in the way.

Condition C

"Condition C is a systematic deepening of consciousness while in the B state. This is approached by carefully letting go of your rigid hold on the borderland sleep edge and drifting deeper, little by little, during each exercise.

"Condition C is characterized by the shutting down of various sensory mechanism inputs, The sense of touch apparently goes first. You seem to have no feeling in any part of your body. Smell and taste soon follow, The auditory signals are next, and the last to fade out is vision."

The Condition C support exercise, as in the previous two exercises, uses Hemi-Sync audio-guidance designed to help you stay awake and alert. At 20-minute intervals, the Attention/Focus/Concentration signals re replaced by Hemi-Sync signals designed to allow you to drift deeper and deeper into the borderland sleep state and reinforcing signals conducive to the out-of-body experience and lucid dreaming.

Condition D

"Condition D is the achievement of C when one is fully rested and refreshed, rather than tired and sleepy, at the beginning of the exercise."

The final exercise in the series switches to Hemi-Sync audio-guidance frequencies designed to help you move from a fully awake and refreshed state, into a state of deep relaxation. At 20-minute intervals, additional reinforcing signals are added conductive to the out-of-body experience and lucid dreaming.

Like clockwork I woke up at 4 AM for my bathroom run. I seriously think I have reprogrammed myself to automatically wake up at 4 AM because it happens every night now. When I woke up the headphones were still on and had been looping "Condition C" for the last 4 hours.

I went back to bed and fell asleep listening to "Condition C" again. I am not sure how much time passed but I ended up in a dream. I was in an unfamiliar room with a bunch of people I seemed to know in this dream, however in waking life, looking back on it, I don't think I know any of them.

The room I was in was like a huge sleeping area with several beds however it also resembled a classroom. I was at the front of the room where the chalkboard would be with someone that I knew in my dream (but not in real life), and I was trying to get some sleep. There were about 40 other men and women in the classroom part of the room partying there heads off. There were several long folding tables lined up and they were running back and forth between them.

This all seemed quite innocent at first and I was getting annoyed by it all because I was trying to sleep. Then for some reason this took a turn for the wild side and people started taking off their clothes. I looked at the person I was with at the front of the room and we both seemed a bit shocked by it all.

I got the idea that I was considered the prudent type by everyone in the class including this person that was with me at the front.

The wild party continued to spiral out of control and people ended up having sex. I then realized that I wasn't going to get any sleep and then for some reason every one's focus turned to me. I remember being picked up by several of the people and thrown right into the midst of this orgy. This is when I realized that the situation I was in was too bizarre to be real and instantly I became lucid in my dream.

I guess I didn't feel worthy or I chickened out, but I willed myself away from this sex party and thought about exiting my body. I was immediately back in my bed in the vibrational state. I think I had already transitioned to by astral body because I could see right through my eyelids and was looking at the wall beside me in my bedroom. I guess I chose the wrong exit strategy because I tried to raise my upper body up with my arms, kind of like a push up, and when I did, I ended up snapping back into my body. I woke up and opened my eyes and was facing the wall. How annoying.

What have I learned from all of this? I have learned that I can transition from a dream to a lucid dream and then from a lucid dream to out of body. I have also learned that I chicken out when thrown into a huge group of naked women in a dream. LOL.

Here's another experience I would like to share.

I woke up at 7:30 AM this morning and noticed that my wife had moved over to my daughters room at some point and laid down with her. My daughter is almost 3 and occasionally will have nightmares or what not and come and get one of us. This was a perfect opportunity for a projection attempt. I went and emptied my bladder and then headed back to bed.

The temperature in the house was about 70 degrees so I snuggled up under the comforter and put my headphones and began listening to "Hemi-Sync Support for Journeys Out of the Body - Condition A". My technique this time was to repeat affirmations over and over while picturing myself sitting or floating in my cubical at work. I have such a nice cubical right by a window in the greenbelt of Austin. My affirmations were: "I'm pure thought", "I now transfer to my higher energy state", "I am not floating in my cubical", "I am out of body", and "It feels great to be free".

It seemed that my focus kept bouncing around from the affirmations and back to the visualization of my cubical. I could see my cubical in my mind with crystal clarity. My attention would also occasionally redirect to what I was seeing in the blackness behind my eyes. I noticed that in the blackness there really wasn't blackness. I don't know if you have ever put a magnet on one of the old school tube TVs, but there is that discoloration, and that's kind of what I was seeing in my vision except the colors were more subtle and would start out covering my complete field of vision and would then move inward to a point and disappear.  This created a pulsating color effect.

I kept doing my visualizations and affirmations and then about 15 minutes into it I noticed that the colors in the blackness ceased and things got quiet. "Condition A" was fading and was barely audible. This is very hard to explain but the blackness felt like it expanded and somehow became 3D. I know that sounds strange, but that's the feeling I got. The very next second the vibrations started, and they were extreme. The blackness started fading away and all the I could see was a white light getting brighter and brighter. This was not a point of light but was my entire field of vision which was fading from darkness to white light.It was so intense that my heart started beating like 150 bpm. I could not sustain this and bailed.

When I woke up, and this is the really strange part, my vision / perspective of the room was all distorted for about 5 minutes. I had no depth perception at all and it was if I could reach out and touch the wall that was 20 feet away.

The good news is that I know the new technique works and I was able to experience some new things. I think I just need to calm myself down like I have done in the past when I reach the vibrational state. This time was just much more intense than I have ever experienced so it caught me off guard.

Any advice or feedback is always appreciated.

Best regards

David

I have been working on this blog for 2 days now. I have always wanted to have a place and something cool to write about so I figured this would be a great time to start.

I learned css, templating and the gimp in a 1 day cram course and I wrote my first template from scratch. I would love to hear what you all think of it.

http://dbmathis.blogspot.com/

Best Regards

David

Last night I was very tired and had the beginning signs of a migraine and witnessed my first failed migraine visual aura right before bed. Normally when the visual aura appears it's a 45 minute process of progressive visual hallucinations. I was not going to risk it coming back so I headed to bed (even though in the past I have seen the aura in my dreams).

I watched TV for about 20 minutes and then at about 11 PM I put on the headphones and started listening to "Hemi-Sync - Wave I - Discovery 3 - Advanced Focus 10". Focus 10 is that state of "Mind Awake, Body Asleep", and is not necessarily an OBE. This state is a very relaxed state in which you don't feel much of your body anymore and you mind is totally alert.

I listened and did the breathing exercises while relaxing every muscle in my body and after about 15 minutes I found myself in Focus 10.

I was in Focus 10 for about 5 more minutes and then things started getting interesting. The first thing that grabbed my attention was that a mans face appeared (flashed) above me. It was as if I was laying on the ground unconscious and people were standing around me waiting for me to come to. I saw a man directly over me and I could briefly hear him say something, maybe "There he is"? I sensed others standing around him. This quickly faded. I am not sure if this was hypnagogic hallucination or what, but I was alert when I saw it.

Next I found that I no longer felt my body. This was good because I was very relaxed, but it was bad at the same time because I was trying to shift my focus away from my body so that I could transition my consciousness to my higher energy body.

I wanted to test the validity of the state that I was in so I immediately shifted my focus away from my body again and I started to instantly feel a swaying feeling and felt very light. I moved my left hand down and it penetrated the bed and went right through it. I could see that I was already separated and just need to will myself away for my body.

I imagined myself floating away from my body and began to feel a slight floating sensation. I was out of my body at this point. This was abruptly ended when the Hemi-Sync track started talking again.

The moral of this story is that the Hemi-Sync technology seems to work great as a training tool. I am not sure if I induced Focus 10 myself or if it was a direct result of the hemispheric synchronization. I fear that if I continue to listen to these tracks I may become handicapped by them. Has anyone else used these before?

Hello All,

My wife works in a daycare and unfortunately my daughter who also stays at the daycare brought home a nasty virus for me to catch .

It may be the antibiotics I am taking, but I have not been able to reach the vibrational state for a week now. Three weeks prior to writing this I had 4 out of body experiences.

Two nights ago I repeated these two affirmations until I fell asleep, "My consciousness will now transition to my nonphysical body" and "The very act of falling asleep will cause my consciousness to transition to my nonphysical body and I will have total control, crystal clarity and awareness". I repeated this as long as I could before drifting off.

I went straight into dreaming with no virbational state that I could remember. I don't remember the exact details but I recieved a signal in my dream on this night. One of my customers at work was calling me on the phone in my dream telling me that they have stopped using the Hemi-Sync technology and had switched to something else. My subconscious was trying to make me realize that I was in a dream and that it was time to transition, however I didn't recognize it.

Hemi-Sync has nothing to do with job recruiting (which is the software that my company creates and sells). I would never receive a call from a customer at work about Hemi-Sync, which is a technology designed to synchonize a person's left and right brain hemispheres so that they can reach an altered state of awareness such as OBEs.

The fact the I recieved this signal in my dream is very promising and I am glad I recognized it afterward. This means that my brain has started reprogramming itself to achieve this new goal and shifting my conscious to my nonphysical forms. Next time I think I might be ready and be able to pull off a dream transition.

I am just not sure why I am not able to reach the vibrational state in the last week, could this be the antibiotics?

Best Regards

David

I find it humorous that I have read on several astral projection sites that thunderstorms don't exist in the astral planes. Although I have never seen a thunderstorm in the astral plane during the last 3 weeks of projecting, I highly doubt their non-existance.

When I think back to 1992 when I living in Tennessee USA, I remember a canoeing trip I was on with my younger brother and one of our mutual friends. We had been out canoeing for several hours and we were about 2 hours of away from being back to where we started when we noticed a thunderstorm quickly appoaching.

We were on a body of water in Hamilton County Tennessee called wolftever creek, which extends for 100s of miles across the state. From our vantage point there was a 5 mile channel we had to paddle across to get back to the dock. There was a group of small islands off to the right of us about a quarter of a mile away that would provide us with shelter while the storm ran it's course. We didn't want to risk crossing the channel with the danger of lightening striking the metal canoe so was elected to dock on one of the islands and wait it out.

We drug the canoe up on shore and then quickly made our way halfway up a small ridge on the island and took shelter under a group of small trees. In front of us was an opening in the trees and we could clearly see out over that 5 mile channel of water. Off in the distance the storm clouds moved across the water with sheets of rain pouring out of them hitting the lake below. We could here the gentle rolls of thunder echoing across the water.

There was something about the sound of the rain hitting the leaves above and then the solitude of the island that instantly put my mind at ease. I felt all of my stress and worries just fade away and a sense of peace and serenity melted though my body. I felt the energy around me penetrate my body and at that moment I felt totally at one with nature. Looking back on this moment I realize that it was one of the most peaceful moments in my entire life.

We waited there under the trees for about an hour and then canoed back.

I sincerely hope that there are indeed thunderstorms in the astral plane as it has to be one of the most relaxing things in nature that I have ever found.

I guess my point is, it just seemed odd that someone would make such a blanket statement as "Thunderstorms don't exist in the astral plane". It continues to be my obsevation that thoughts become reality and imagination is the only limit.

FYI: The images in the links above are actual images of the channel and the island we were on. The view of the island is taken from the channel facing the island and the channel image is from a bridge that crosses the channel. From the bridge view the islands would be about 4 miles off to the left of the photo out of view.

Best regards

David

Hi All,

I have been pondering or should I say re-evaluating what I have learned to date about how the Earth was created.

Science and cosmic evolution theories based on scientific observation and evidence suggests to us that the Earth was likely formed by a ball of gas and then by the bombardment of rocks hitting the earth and massive volcanic eruptions. Then while researching the astral world it seems that everything is created by thought alone.

I was wondering if anyone else has come to any conclusions here? I mean is it possible that the Earth started in the astral world as a ball of gas and then was progressively formed by huge volcanic eruptions that were in some lifeform's thoughts?

I am interested to hear what others on this forum think or know about this.

Best Regards

David

Hi Everyone,

I am going to post my attempt to project this morning. I figure it might help someone and maybe someone here will be able to relate.

This morning after some early morning physical activity in bed my wife wanted to watch some TV in bed, however I asked her if I could attempt to dose back up to sleep and project. She was fine with this and left me to fall back asleep around 7:30 AM.

So I closed my eyes and started focusing on the darkness behind my eyelids between my eyes. It took about 15 minutes and I stated having random thoughts pop into my head at which point I started to demand that my body transition to astral. I have never demanded before, this was a first.

I started picturing myself standing at the foot of my bed and then standing by the window over and over. I kept flipping back and forth between laying in the bed and standing at the foot of my bed. After about 15 minutes of this I started feeling a vibration in my feet but nowhere else. I also felt like I was on a seesaw. My head would sink into the bed and then it would lift back up and my feet would sink into the bed. At this point I was getting irritated so I started demanding that I exit my body again and I could literally feel a body inside my body bouncing around violently. LOL!

This went on for about 5 more minutes until I finally gave up. I am not sure what happened this time and why i could not pull it off, but it was interesting still the same.

Best Regards

David

Hi All,

My daughter has been sick for the last week so I have been very sleep deprived which brought on a migraine last night right before bed.

I woke up about 4:30 AM and had to take my normal bathroom break. I was feeling tired and hazy due to the migraine I suffered right before bed. It's not the migraine that has pain, I just see wild swirling zigzig colors in my sight and seem to feel somewhat dull. Before anyone suggests tumor, I have been to the neurologist and have had MRIs of the brain and EEGs of my thoughts, all is in the normal.

So after my bathroom break I laid back down and drifted off and then about 10 minutes later I woke up in sleep paralysis. This has happened in the past (rarely) and each time I feel panic struck. This time when it started out it wasn't any different, and I could also sense that someone or something was watching me, just like every time before.

When I started researching OBEs last week I noticed people saying that sleep paralysis was right on the edge of an OBE, so I have been telling myself for the last 2 weeks that if this happens to me again, that I would calm down and try to exit my body.

Ok, so I was in the bed fighting to get back to waking state and I realize what's happening and calm myself down. I start trying to will myself out of my body by first trying to float up out of my body. This technique fails. Next I try the roll out technique and BINGO! I roll out of my body and I am standing beside my bed. I never tried to look at my astral body but I do see the outline of my Wife and daughter laying in the bed.

I look at the window next to the bed and for the first time I want to leave the house so I think about floating through the window. Just like magic I float right though it and I am hovering about 12 feet above the yard in the middle of my backyard. I can also feel my subconscious rushing in and trying to take over my thoughts and my sight seems to be somewhat hazy. I literally yell out "Clarity NOW!", "Control NOW"!. My sight improves and I get more control. The funny thing about this is I heard my voice which has never happened in a dream before.

I think to myself about how I told a co-worker that I was going to visit his house if I jump out of my body again so I instantly have the desire to fly to his house. No sooner than the thoughts enter my mind and take off into the sky and I am flying over Austin. Once again I feel my subconscious start taking over again. I stop somewhere over Austin and I think I was about 5000 feet up in the air. I am looking around and for some reason I lose control and just get stuck up in the sky.

My subconscious takes over and I blink out for a second and end up in a strange house with some guy, his wife and his two daughters. I somehow get control of my consciousness again. I tell the guy that I am not dreaming and start arguing with him. The guy seems to be from the past, maybe the late 1800s, and he is getting very upset at me because I keep telling him that he is just a figment of my imagination. I can feel my subconscious taking over. I can feel myself needing to wake up. I wake up and I am not paralyzed anymore.

There are several things that I noticed. I noticed that the backyard had some differences and it's hard to describe, but it was not an exact replica of my backyard. I am not sure if this was because I was constantly battling my subconscious but I would love to hear some good techniques for staying focused and for pushing these dream thoughts away.

I also noticed the the roll out technique seems to work more ofter than the float out of the body technique. I think this is because I am a programmer and I tend to be very logical minded. I think that in my mind the thought of floating out still somehow defys logic and rolling out seems to make more sense. Next time I am going to run the thought "Floating is perfectly logical and normal", and then see what happens.

What do you all think about this? Was this a OBE or a lucid dream?

Best Regards

David

Hi All,

I have another experience to share, something that happened in the past about 29 years ago. This event was buried in my memory and for some reason after attempting OBEs the last tow week I have suddenly remember this.

I lived in a small house that had a pretty big attic of which the entrace to it was right outside my bedroom door at the time. You may or may not have ever seen these type of attic doors, but there is basically a door in the ceiling that is held closed by heavy duty springs, and on the door there is a large string, almost the size of a rope that is attached to it which is used to pull the door down to reveil the latter.

I was about 4 years old at the time and had a very wild imagination. I would think about monsters under the bed and more specifically I would think about what might lurk up in the attic. I would always have my mind focused very intently on this attic door every night while falling asleep, thinking that something may push it open and peek out at me. I would eventually drift off to sleep and my fears of this would disappear.

So I was laying in bed on this particular night and I had just drifted off and then the very next second I was floating above the attic door and there was this enormous buzzing sound the was saturating my body, it was so loud that it was drowning out my thoughts almost. The attic was lit up very bright and I could see everything cystal clear. The attic should have been pitch black, even if the light had been on it would have been very dim. I was actually in the attic!

I was only in the attic for like 1 second and I became so alarmed by the sound of the buzzing and the fact that I was in the attic that I woke up immediately.

I am not sure if this was a childhood OBE, but now that I have been able to recall it happening it sure fits the description.

Fascinating!

Best Regards

David

Hi All,

About 10 years ago when I lived in Georgia, a friend of mine and myself made our way back home from Atlanta. We were headed towards Chattanooga which is a town in Tennessee located 100 miles north of Atlanta. It was a 1.5 hour drive and was during the night, my friend was driving crazy and I had to tell him repeatedly to slow down and drive normal.

I got home in one peice around 11 PM and laid down for sleep. About 30 minutes later I felt myself drift off to sleep. Suddenly I woke to find myself fully conscious and behind the wheel of a car that was traveling at what felt like 100 mph through a field in the pitch black. There was no windshield in the car and I could feel the wind rushing in on me. I could not see anything and I was terrified, I knew in my mind that I had actually been driving and was dreaming that I made it home and now had actually woke up after falling asleep behind the wheel and was in a field about to die. The thing is, I was dreaming and the dream was more real than reality. I was fully aware of myself and had full control of myself.

I woke up about 10 seconds later and was literally kicking the wall because in the dream i was frantically stomping the brake trying to stop.

When considering how real this seemed and the fact that I could feel the wind on my face etc, could this have possibly been an OBE?

Best Regards

David

Hi All,

So I have a question for anyone that may have participated in the program "Lifeline" or any such program like it.

Has anyone encountered a person who has just died who was very evil (or should I say cruel) who killed, raped or tortured innocent children in there physical life? I would like to know if this evil (or should I say cruelty) passes over to the other side?

I am not looking for opinions, I am only looking for information from those who have actually experienced meeting someone like this in the afterlife.

It just seems like if I can bring my good intentions to the afterlife, why would a cruel / ill intent person suddenly lose this part of them when crossing over after death and sudden become a good soul?

After finishing Robert Monroe's last book "Ultimate Journey" this week I didn't see much mention of this.

Best Regards

David

I think I am making some progress.

My first OBE earlier this week was somewhat hazy and lacked the control that I desire, however last night was different.

Like last time, I got up around 4 / 5 ish AM for a bathroom run and then went back to bed and started repeating "I am leaving my body".

This time I felt mild vibrations and then my head just sank into the bed. I knew that I was breaking free and phasing into my astral body. I then just rolled back and forth about 3 times and then eventually just rolled out of my body to the left side and landed in a squatting position on the floor beside the bed.

I could not see very good as was the case last time. This time I was prepared and knew what to do. I simply thought "clarity", "awareness". and instantly the room lit up. I was there only a fraction of a second because I thought about my childhood home 1000 miles to the east. I was instantly standing  in the the front yard of the house I grew up at.

I then realized I was back home and that my grandmothers house was only 1 mile to the east (She is sick and close to dieing) so I just instinctivvely took off flying to the east. While flying over the trees, I noticed how much detial there was to everything, actually seemed more detailed than waking life.

I lost focus at this point and woke up.

Just thought I would share these experiences in hopes that it will inspire others to discover their true self. I will continue to post my progress as I have new experiences.

Best Regards

David

Hi Everyone,

I am happy to see that there are so many people interested in something that is so overlooked and unknown and considered false by a great majority of the population (Especially in the US).

I knew nothing about Astral Projection until about 2 weeks ago when my friend of 11 years mentioned it to me and that she had been doing this for 20 years. I just had to get started immediately to make up for lost time.

I want to share my progress after a week of trying and get some opinions about my experience last night. I think I might have projected however I feel it may have been a lucid dream.

I have been using the same technique for a week now ever night. I start off by listening to "Brain Sync - Deep Meditation - 1 - Music + Theta Waves.mp3" while I fall asleep. I try the following steps while I listen and fall asleep, or any time that I wake up during the night.

a) I close my eyes and focus on the blackness and I run the following words through my mind over and over and over. "I am leaving my body"

b) After a while I start to notice that random thoughts try to enter my mind, I can feel the dream state coming on. When this happens I block out the random thoughts and continue to run the words above through my head and I start imagining myself floating out of my body.

Until last night I have had no success. Last night I still fell asleep at the beginning of the night but I woke up a 5 AM and had a bathroom break. When I went and laid back down I tried the same steps above and saw results.

Five minutes after I laid down and as I was imagining floating I felt a high pitched energy enter my body. It seemed to be centered in my jaw, forehead, arms and legs and my body started vibrating. I ignored this and stayed calm and then I was able to roll out of my body to the left side of the bed. I looked over at the bed but could not see myself as it was dark. I was able to make out my wife in the bed. I then lost it an woke up.

Then ten minutes after this while using the same technique again the same vibrations happened, however this time I floated over my wife and sat down at her side of the bed in the floor and was looking around the room for about 5 seconds. I then for some reason felt like I should open my eyes, even though I could see fine, and I was instantly back in bed.

Was this an ODE or just a lucid dream? I was totally aware of the state I was in and that I invoked it, however it did still seem dreamlike.

Best Regards

David