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Well, to be honest I didn't bother reading all that.
On the other hand, I did watch that cool episode.  []

Anyway, I think the biggest thing I got out of it was what the binary computer god said (I even wrote it down in my diary!):


If you do too much, people become dependent.
If you don't do enough, people lose faith.
But if you do just enough, people won't be able to know for sure that you don't exist...

Wow, very interesting dream. Sounds comparable to the dream I had when i confronted a creature that I assumed evil and found out it was my spirit guide :-/

In my dream, I had climbed out of a river onto a dock:YOurs had a pool with water.

In my dream, I had a creature that claimed it was there to help:Yours claimed he was a friend

Interesting comparasons?

Sounds like a spirit guide to me.

Terry,

I am not familiar with Alan Guiden. Is his book called the Accidental Traveler? I've read both of Robert Peterson's books, as well as William Buhlman's books. They are all worthwhile reading. I must have overlooked the other person though. Anything you could tell me about Alan Guiden would be appreciated.

Very best,

I wish I was you, with your natural talent. I still haven't gotten out.

But, perhaps the hollowness is caused by your knowing you're in a seperate body? One that's nothing like hte physical, including not having organs.

Robert Bruce describes a wind in his book. Something about every now and that which created all sucks everything in, checks on it, reprograms it, or something. Or, maybe, it was just windy that night. You can still have physical sensations, I hear.

If you concentrate on your physical body, or moving parts of it, it will happen. There's still a link between your consciousness and your body. I guess there needs to be, for people who want to get back, or want to  end there trip.

And the falling sensation? Well, I don't really have an explaination for that one, either, but I know that sometimes when I'm really tired, I'll have spontaneous OBEs, and I feel like I'm falling. Unfortunately it causes my body to jump in response to the falling sensation, so I grab the edges of my bed. I guess if you're not actively thinking about your real-time double or whatever you want to call it, it just starts to obey the laws you're used to, which are physical. So, if'n (I love that word, sorry) ya easily slip into it, and you don't know, since you're so used to gravity, I guess it will start to feel gravity, causing you to fall.

Sorry that this is all speculation, but it might help.

-Kyle of the Squirrel

zx

The term "yoga nidra" will help with your searches. That is the technical term.

If you ever get it to work, please let me know. The claims are interesting, but the methods are not clear. It seems to say that when a person gets it, that is all that is needed and until a person gets it no explanation will help. There are also products to buy which might help. Maybe. If you don't have a clearly defined goal, how can you have a tool to help accomplish it? Really, the idea of pushing forward a structure located in the brain does not make sense. Pieces of a living brain are not switches to push forward or pull back.

The Training Ground, as I used to call it, is basically Monroe's Focus 22 state. People who are lucid-dreaming are in this state also. Only their realisation-capacity is very much reduced.

Looking back, the main reason why I became stuck projecting into this region of conscious awareness for *so* darned long is because there were no desktop computers; hence no Internet and no BBS's to communicate through. So, entirely on my own, it took me just over 5 years of trial and error, projecting around 2 or 3 times per week, to work out I was in some kind of whacky place where Thought = Direct Action.

Having that realisation enabled me to gain a much higher degree of control over my experiences; which stood me in good stead over the years that were to come. So I got to thinking about that place as a kind of training ground which prepared me for all the proper stuff.

Basically, then, what stops you being hampered by this pitfall is the realisation or knowledge this pitfall exists. Once you know, then you have the opportunity of taking preventative action.

A technique I find very effective is, every now and again, I'll come to a complete halt, focus on some detail or other and ask myself a simple question about it. What this serves to prevent is a situation where you begin getting excited. Getting excited has the effect of making you think and move too quickly. So you start flitting here, there and everywhere and your progress is stunted.

This effect is prevalent in accounts of people's early experiences. They tend to follow along the lines of: suddenly I realise I was dreaming; and then I found myself [at some place or other]; and there was this [some kind of event]; and then I saw [some other event]; and then suddenly I was [transported to some other scene]; but before I knew it the thing had changed [to yet another scene]; and then it became [whatever]; and next moment I was awake.

The other pitfall to avoid, is making snap-judgements as to whatever comes about.

This was quite a pitfall for me. Though I've always said I have no particular talent for obe-work, so I'm not sure how valid a yardstick I am. But I do often read posts where people have fallen into this trap without realising it. So I think it must be a common error people make generally.

This error seems to happen more with scary sorts of experiences, where often you read something like: and then I heard a sound behind me; it sounded like [snap judgement about something scary, say a growl or a grunting sound]; and I felt myself getting scared [fear is now released into the 4D environment, instantly placing the person in a scary circumstance]; then the [whatever monster, demon, dragon, et al] revealed itself.

Notice, with this example, the fear was released as a direct result of the person making a snap-judgement about the circumstance of hearing the sound.

Okay, I used the instance of hearing a sound behind you just for the sake of a simple example. Thing is, all manner of circumstances and/or situations can come about within the Astral environment you'd never come across within the Physical. So if a person sets out on the wrong footing of making snap-judgements they will severely stunt their progress, as they'll end up making snap-judgements galore.

A more productive way of dealing with these situations is, rather than making a snap-judgement, take a step back from the situation and ask for more clarity. Always bear in mind the fact that Thought = Direct Action can just as easily work for you as well as against.

Ultimately, the way to experiencing the "real deal" is to work on developing your sense of conscious awareness at least to the same level of acuity, or perception as you have while awake and alert within the Physical. This is the key to making good progress; along with the ability to remain emotionally neutral or emotionally closed, as I call it; and all the while maintaining an air of mild curiosity.

What I always advise if you find yourself slipping from this state immediately take a step back from the situation and ask for more clarity; because it is ever so easy to fall into the trap of making a snap-judgement. Then the emotions begin to flow and you start losing it. Once you lose-it the chances are you will not be able to regain control while within the circumstances of having lost it. So the only option is to nip back to Physical, take a few deep breaths, and project again.

The great thing is, developing the requisite degree of emotional control is something a person can practice while Physical. This is because the sense of conscious awareness we take with us to the Astral, is the same as what we have while Physical. In my estimation, however, it is significantly harder to remain emotionally neutral within the Astral, as it is within the Physical.

So a person who has mild difficulties controlling their emotional-state while Physical, will tend to have serious difficulties within the Astral which could take significant time to overcome. But someone who can easily keep their emotions in check while Physical, chances are, will have only fairly mild difficulties within the Astral, which will be quickly overcome.

Yours,
Frank

This is a really good meditation. It balances energy in the body, raises energy, and yet is also grounding. Mantak Chia describes it to varying degrees in his books. Reiki and NEW combine well with it.

There is a method from hatha yoga which can help with this. It involves putting warm water (with a bit of salt in it) up the nose. There are many variations on the method "neti". It really does help and it is not as uncomfortable as it sounds.

"ma huang" is an herb containing ephedra alkaloids. Ephedrine.HCl is by prescription only where I am from. Either way it is a powerful stimulant used to treat asthma (it stimulates everything but the bronchial tubes, which it relaxes). It is also an effective decongestant. The over the counter decongestant in common use is pseudephedrine. Just because something is herbal it is not necessarily safer than a "drug".