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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any of you guys ever been here?

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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Hope you'll forgive a shameless plug for a short story? (Mod's hope I'm ok to put the link on here?) It's FREE Today - 7th September.  If you like (or even if not) reviews are very welcome

Buffalo Bill and the Trickster

In the winter of 1887 Sioux war parties scalped women and children on the banks of Manchester's river Irwell when Buffalo Bills Wild West show came to England for Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Every strange and terrible wonder of the new world was there but the strangest was a boy with wrinkled skin, eyes of twilight and bones that clicked when he walked.

Ravaged by smallpox Kinder was cursed to never remember and though he thought himself a boy he was old as the stars, cruel as the sea and deep in the recesses of his broken mind something whispered, something cold and hungry that should never have escaped the old world. The oldest and darkest of the Indian spirits The Trickster...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-Bill-Trickster-Andrew-Ainsworth-ebook/dp/B00N7E4YX0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1409667219&sr=1-1&keywords=buffalo+bill+trickster

Just wanted to compare notes.

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

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

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

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

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

??

 

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

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

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

Just for discussion - whaddya think?

   

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What's you're guys take on it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When inducing a WILD advice seems to be to daydream and allow images to form and perhaps focus on a dot in the field of vision or similar.

When I close my eyes I tend to just see blobs of color like a lava lamp.(I do practice mostly during the day) I sometimes see blurred shapes which mostly tend to reflect my thoughts in a Rorsch inkblot type effect. This is my vision behind closed eyelids.

When my mind goes still and I let it daydream then I see with my imagination, the blobs are still there but I'm less tuned in, I notice them less and am much more focused on the 'visuals' that I am imagining.

Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question but do you actually see imagery with your eyes or is the observing a mental effect?   

About a week back I was trying to induce WILD lying back on bed. I can induce a light trance fairly easy and sit there often in a  state of empty minded peace but the hypnagogic images I get tend to be snapshots, a flash of a person or scenery with no movement.

The blackness in front of my eyes is rarely black, more a mess of colours like an out of focus lava lamp. Anyways I tried to focus on creating images and ran through a list of really simple items, candlestick, ball, strawberry holding each one as long as I could, moving the image and imagining it's kinesthetic, smell and anything to deepen.

I got to strawberry and in my mind I imagined it so vividly I could see it hanging there, then it suddenly turned into a 3d image - simultaneously a giant black widow spider scuttled out from behind it.  The strawberry was the size of a house so well....you can imagine. This did not in any way appear in my room just as a suddenly independently moving 3D image in my closed eye vision. It startled me but I took control and froze the image mentally, playing with it.

I felt happy like I'd passed a small test but then got bored of my images - nothing else seemed to happen when my inner monologue started to speak - This wasn't a hypnagogic voice that I could audibly here, just my own internal self chatter however it seemed suddenly a lot more confident, sure of itself and different, like it knew stuff and was guiding me.

It encouraged me to break a sweat with my images suggesting much more abstract concepts - Smoke, Fire, Earth, Raindrop then Rainbow.  Cycling through the image I felt myself drawn into each and actively imagining what it would be like to actually be that object. I started cycling through these images while my inner monologue played coach going smoke-fire-earth-rainbow-earth-fire and suddenly I started tingling all over. Not like pins and needles, more like a whole body orgasm, incredibly pleasurable yet somehow more mental and, I don't know...pure if that makes sense.

It felt like I was floating, everything felt wonderful. I lost track of the images and just surrendered to the sensation.

So something happened, I felt both tested and rewarded and my inner monologue seemed to have changed, been upgraded, more compassionate, confident and possessed seemingly of knowledge I of which I wasn't. Not sure what this was, anyone experience anything similar?

Hi AP, my first real post so uh.. be gentle with me.

I read a frankly disturbing E-book last night. I won't name it but it involved Astral warriors and Cannibalistic once human Lich's (don't ask) that stalk the astral plains. I should have been more discerning and honestly it's not a slippers and cocoa before bed read.

I believe that intent, emotion and thought creates the AP landscape. Certainly the fuzzy LD type stuff I've experienced so far (I'm not quite there yet).  I'm undecided on the subconscious drives, archetypes etc VS intelligent 3rd party entities issue BUT when even Frank talks about Scamps, Bruce has a bestseller called 'Psychic self defense' I just don't know...

Hell even Uncle Bob Monroe threw down with some shadow beast


I don't want to end up LARP'ing every night with my worst fears equally worry that an attitude of PUL coupled with poor lucid awareness might makes me 'babe in the wood' all you can eat Astral brunch.

As a complete novice projector I'm aiming for mildly curious and non responsive. I try to expect good things - Actually in 'training' myself to focus on positive and PUL in order I came to realize how often I dwell on negatives, follow old, damaging thought patterns etc etc - Kind of a massive not so-side benefit and pre-requisite to the whole AP, for me at least

But my questions:

1) Is PUL alone the right way to go?  While positive expectation, PUL and the like set the astral experience in real life the world has dark places and dangerous people and a good self defense class never hurt anyone.  Can the same be said for the astral or is this precisely the kind of attitude that leads attracts negativity?

2) My critical faculty is zero at present, Gandhi could ride by on Shergar and half the time I wouldn't bat an eyelash. Even if the entities I meet are mental constructs I wouldn't trust my subconscious to order a pizza at 3am when there's a creak on the stairs.  If it's got fangs and claws it's probably bad whilst good might look like an angel but things are not always what they seem. How do you discern the intent of an entity and judge it's advice? 

Interested to know your thoughts - I'll end on another positive . I LOVE the fact this forum has the information and contributors on it to support rational, lucid awareness around AP. from now on I think I'll stick way from E-Books and choose my source material a bit more carefully  

Morning all,

Just wanted to say thank you - I have read and re-read so many of the posts on here I feel like I know some of you personally.

I found this forum after months of dabbling in quasi and outright mysticism - I guess I was and still at the point where I'm just starting to glimpse a wider reality.  I was hearing things that go bump in the night, voices sometimes whispering my name or laughing and loud bangs and sounds like a tray of cutlery being dropped in my hallway. (all at the border of sleep/wake I might add

The wider consciousness for me was a place that I wanted desperately to explore but lacked the courage, I was woefully under prepared and ill informed and felt strongly it was a place populated by demons and nightmares.  In short my imagination was primed to deliver me all the 3D Horror I can handle..and then some. I would have lasted 1 minute flat before being chased out of the wider reality. (think I cribbed that line from TC)

My point is that I am genuinely in awe of some of you on here and of the original pioneers of Bob Monroe's era who did this without the internet, with no resources other than obscure Kabbalistic writings and the such who did this on blind faith and guts alone.  I have twenty odd years of modern writings, scientific studies, the internet and access via AP to veteran AP'ers who  are willing to share their journey and support newbies.....and it still scares the sand out of me at times - How the early guys did it I do not know.

I can see my attitude, beliefs, expectations all needed a complete overhaul. Things still go bump in the night but thanks to you guys and the internet I have a base level of understanding and courage to persevere. Now I don't know what's out there/in there but I'm exciting about trying to find out.

So massive thank to all you who make this place, this place. I'll see you all around the forums and post failed attempts/field reports, questions as soon as have some interesting ones.