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I was walking through Borders bookstore the other day, and much to my surprise I saw a copy of PPSD sitting on the shelf. What surprised me was the speed with which it reached that shelf. I was a little bit apprehensive at first when I heard more about the content of the book on this forum, but I decided to buy it. I figure if I can accept that there are negatively-oriented ETs, then I can accept that there are negatively oriented spirits -- two sides of the same coin. Therefore, I decided that it would be good to educate myself if this is indeed the reality.

I haven't had a chance to start it, as I've been on vacation and forgot it at home, but I'll comment when I digest it.

All the best...

bitsmart -
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I haven't tried yet, but I've been thinking about that also. And as I'm in love with art I think we could find a lot of artists (painters) who had high abilities. They say Van Gogh had been mad, but in my oppinion he had had wide open 3d eye[]
And I have some of Escher's works if anyone is interested in them - but you should tell me first how to insert them here from my pc[:I]
Be safe[]

Reason is you still have a little way to go. 15 months is not a long time to be practising conscious-exit obe.  

I'm unsure of your terminology as I'm not into doing any kind of meditation or trance energy work. Thus have no idea what you mean. But there is one stage I do very much recognise where you say you see image flashes. That sounds to me you are seeing what I term "stray energy".

At the stage where your collective sense of conscious awareness is plugging into the part of your brain that interfaces with the Astral, you can see flashes of all kinds of shapes and/ior images. Or, with me, sometimes, rather than seeing anything, I can sense a feeling like as if there was someone standing behind me in the Physical; or mabe I just see shadows, or hear pops and bangs, or whatever.

Sometimes I sense very little and just drift through this stage easily and swiftly, and sometimes I might spend a few minutes watching, and/or listening to a combination of any or all of these things.

It can be a frustrating stage to be at because, at first, many times you see a flash of something and the Physical eyes will try to look, or the Physical ears will try to hear. Worst case that will bring you out of it completely, so there is no choice but to begin again. Or it can keep you on the border line thus prevent you from "passing through" and plug into the Astral proper.

I'd say it is 99.9% certain you still have tension at the front of your brain that is preventing your progress. This is something I have been looking into, over the past few months, in order to try and discover what Monroe was going on about when he talks about "phasing in" to the Astral (Ref: Far Journeys and Ultimate Journey).

I discovered that the BIG barrier to allowing your sense of consciousness to plug into the Astral (or "phase in" as Monroe puts it) is physical tension at the front part of the brain. That is to say, around the eye area and up behind the forehead. Well, strictly speaking, it wasn't me who discovered it entirely. I was given the idea by an Astral guide.

It was something I never thought of before. Years ago, I discovered that relaxing from the head downwards was way, way more effective than relaxing from the feet upwards. But it never occured to me to think about think about tension in the structure of the brain itself.

What I have also discovered is that tension in the body (of course, provided you have no injuries or other physical problems) is *directly* caused by tension in the brain. Such that, releasing brain-based tension can cause some amazing and immediate effects in the physical body.

For instance, once I was practising seeking out any brain tension. I'd first gotten to the stage where I was relaxed to the point where normally I'd have around 15 to 20 minutes more work in deepening the relaxation state and I'd be at the point of sensing "stray energy".

I imagine the part of the brain that holds the tension is like a squashy rubber ball that has gone a little hard. I think of these tiny hands gently manipulating and massaging this ball and, as I do so, the ball softens and parts. So, on this occasion, I was allowing my sense of conscious awareness to drift upwards to plug into the Astral, as per usual, and perceived the normal sense of resistance.

What I would normally do, at this stage, is imagine I was "looking out" from a point on my forehead that was situated between and just a little up from my physical eyes. Eventually, I would lose all physical-body feeling and begin seeing stray energy. But instead of doing that, I was practising trying to reach the part of my brain that was "resisting" the drifting upwards movement of my sense of conscious awareness.

This was about my tenth attempt, over about 3 weeks or so, and I was trying to reach a point of my brain that seemed about 2 inches behind and 1 inch below my physical eyes. So there I was, imagining this part of the brain as a squashy rubber ball that was gradually softening to the point where the two halves would part. This would form a pathway in order to allow my sense of conscious awareness to continue drifting upwards.

It was a tricky thing to do. Sometimes it felt like I'd got it spot on, and other times I simply wasn't sure. However, on this occasion, after about 5 minutes of massaging, suddenly all sensation of my physical body simply went away. And instantly, I thought, "Wow!"

It was rather surprising and quite an amazing feeling having the Physical literally switch-off. I mean, it was exactly like when you switch off a light at night, and the room instantly goes from light to dark.

I lay there for about 5 minutes, in this state, chuckling to myself realising I had discovered something significant. Not only that, I had truly (and finally!) discovered what Monroe means by "mind awake, body asleep". My mind was incredibly bright and alert, but I had absolutely no feeling of a physical body whatsoever. Not even an inkling, absolutely zilch.  

In fact, I imagined that if I had gotten into that same state just accidentally, without knowing anything about obe, etc., it would have been very scary to say the least. Because, even when I thought about moving, it was a case of moving what? There was no sensation of anything physical.

So now when I come to project, I found that there is no need for me to even think about relaxing the physical-body at all. I simply lie back and think of forming a pathway through the brain that leads to the part that connects with the Astral.

At the moment, I just have a inkling of where it is, and it's like I have to clear the tension each time. But each time I do, it gets just a fraction easier. In the sense that it feels like any kind of human learning process. For example, learning to play an instrument. Practise regularly and each week you make a little more progress; because the act of repeating the same actions, over and over, forms permanent pathways in the brain that control the precisely timed muscle movements.  

My theory is, the more this pathway to the part of the brain that connects with the Astral is consciously formed and trodden, the more permanent and defined it becomes. And that's what I think Monroe had developed.

All he had to do was to "think" about the Astral and instantly he would connect with it. In exactly the same way as if you have a friend you telephone regularly. All you have to do is think of that friend and their telephone number instantly comes in mind.

Well, that's the theory (for what it's worth).  

Yours,
Frank

Greetings Bitsmart,

Edgar Cayce, interesting chap indeed,such a humble man with awesome talents.Tthere's an interesting book written by a university student (I think) who spent 1or 2 years working with the Cayce family. I think the book was called,    Edgar Cayce,seerer of our times,   or smothing like that, the authors surname was i think  Bro.

Regards  Steve

Greetings bitsmart,
       The cardboard cutout syndrome, I get this alot when doing awareness walks, being in the momment. At times I think Rodger Rabbit is going to peer out from behind a tree. It's strange for me, being in the momment you seem to see things at a base level. I get a feeling it's not so much the visual things, ie :  tree's,birds, buildings ect, it's the nothing ,the void in between,the air.
The nothing changes form, the nothing attains substance.
        It puts me in mind of science looking at the universe and beyond. There trying put it all togeather with all the mathmatical theories according to our earthly derived physics. Theres more nothing than anything else, I think they call it "dark matter", I dunno,  is the nothing the key ?.

Regards  steve

I watched the video a couple of months ago.  I was shocked.  I have always been mildly sceptical.  The idea was interesting but I had no proof.   But I am logical and scientific by nature and was totally taken off guard by the honesty and sinserity (sp?)  of those who were on the video.  That many people can not lie about the same subject and have that many common threads in it.  If it is all a hoax then it is extreamly well orcistraited.

I believe that there is something to all of it.  We need to as a people, as a species, and as a planet to bring these issuse into the light so that the truth can be found, looked at, and verified.


David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com

Gretings Bitsmart!

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I think it would really be cool to see a category called 'Consciousness.' I am a consciousness hacker and have learned a great deal others may be interested in. I guess this could go in General MP or Integral Psych, though. I believe that space is not the final frontier, I believe that mind is, because Hermetic philosophy states that 'All is mind.'

Just my .02.

bitsmart -
information illumination -
bitsmart@bitsmart.org -

I totally agree on the relevance and importance of this topic, but not sure it could carry it's own forum as yet.

Please post on this topic under General Metaphysics for now, and we can see how the subject progresses. We can easily move all the topics to another forum at a later date.

With best regards,

Adrian.

How refreshingly deep after a long afternoon at Woolworths! I agree that the purpose of life is to evolve the soul over as many lifetimes as necessary until it is as refined as and integrates with the source, god whatever you believe. No groundbreaking philosophy there!

But looking to the simplest of things in life there is one obvious repeating pattern, things going full circle. In fact the only thing that does not go full circle in some form would appear to be souls (unless of course once every soul makes it to the top it all starts over, and I choose not to go there). I think that this just has to be somehow related to the meaning of life. The cycles in life are simply everywhere. But on the other hand I guess for nature to function smoothly everything has to go full circle to exist, because it is simply a part of mortality. Hmm maybe I should just go to bead. My two cents that I just disproved for myself, you know here in Australia  two cent coins went out of currency along time ago. Foobar they will say... Foobar!

Well I guess the important thing is that I tried...

Best wishes

Fenris    

Give RB's "Yo-yo" technique a shot.
(http://www.tower.net.au/~rsb/guides/oobe/oobe_8.htm#14)
I haven't projected yet (to my knowledge), but then I'm not really trying to - but I know when I've tried this after doing a little energy-raising (for the heck of it, and with little preparation), I quickly get vibrations and numbness (which I usually shake off, and even then they often return).
Good luck!

Whoa!  Slow down there!  
If your "belief structure" is changing like the wind, it means that you don't have a structure yet...which can be good and/or bad.  I guess if I can say one thing, it's this: take it slow, follow the things that make you feel good, and be still and know God exists.  

Other than that read like a madman, stay open minded and be positive!

(I think I said a lot more than "one thing", didn't I?)

Does your brain hurt yet

They say it's when the end of this world as we know it will take place. Not sure I believe, but I hope to still be here to find out!
Love, Linda

"Grin & Ignore It!!!!!"