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A few words to tell the people who sent me their answers in private message that today is Saturday and Lyne has not been found yet. If some people want to participate and put their answers directly on the forum, it is OK too.

if the experience has a positive meaning for you i don't think it matters if it is an obe or lucid dream.

Power of thought = mind control?, Telekinesis?, and so on?

Then...Yes!

Everyone meditates to some extent wether they know it or not.  I say this because of how I view meditation, which can be sumed up like so.  Meditation is simply gearing the mind for a specific task.  When the mind is focused ANY task can be enhanced to include thought.  Every thing that every body here is talking about is a tought activated response.  And they meditate on that even if briefly to activate the response.

David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com

Some of your questions Inguma and I were dealing with on a different thread, "a voice heard in bed." Is that the correct reference? I'm not sure.  Inguma was using the term "Mental Spark" to refer to the mental energy that accompanies any communication in a dream/astral experience.  That accompanying energy can be felt and analyzed to get a darn good sense of whether the source is your own subconscious or some outside source.  An actual outside communication you can probably feel the mental energy pushing-in to your astral/dream experience.  These are things that you can tell at the time of the experience.  Very vivid communications are likely to have an outside source also.

After returning to regular conciousness, I can sometimes decide whether communications are from within or without by examining the within possibility first.  If there's some useful psychological function that the experience provides then it can often be seen as my subconscious (cleaning up mentally).  If not, and my recall is extra sharp, I tend to lean towards the second explanation.  

Unsurprisingly, sometimes it gets a bit more intertwined than just a case of one source or the other; it's a little of both.  Work on the basic distinctions first, and the more complex experiences will make sense in time.

A common side effect of the vibrations is an itchy face.  I'm afraid all you can do is try your best to ignore it.
I sometimes get the feeling of falling prior to exit, which may be similar to the vertigo sensations you've experienced.

Wish you the best of luck

In my hundreds of true-Astral experiences never once did I come across an entity that bore malice. Quite the opposite in fact.

Please understand that the Astral is merely energy which you perceive with your senses. I firmly believe that your Astral experiences are distorted by the "slant" that we tend to place on our sense of perception.

An example of this, on the physical plane, would be to take a half-full container. Personally, I would always see it as half full. But there are those who would habitually think the opposite, and there are those who would see things either way depending on what was in the container.

That is not to say you will never had a scary experience. Sure, you will have lots of those! But it will only feel scary because you are viewing something that looks SO unfamiliar. Like, for example, the first time I travelled in an underwater region. Convincing my sense of consciousness that it was okay took quite a lot of effort!!!

However, you do need to realise there is a base Astral region that exists somewhere between a Lucid Dream and the Astral proper. It is an area I became fully familiar with due to my having been "trapped" there for about 5 years. I call it the "training ground" or zone. This is the place where Dragons are fought and Demons are slain.

Basically, in the training zone, your thoughts are played back to you on what I call a 360 degree bubble-screen. I posted information on this a couple of weeks ago to another thread. So you should be able to dig that out. In the training zone, whatever you basically believe or think, instant by instant, will be immediately played back to you in glorious technicolour. Myself I spent 5 years slaying dragons, breathing fire, fighting wars, dealing with demonic entities, etc., etc. (I had a rather turbulent upbringing!)

The reason why I called it the training zone is because what this region serves to teach you, ultimately, is that what we human-beings call "thought" is actually a primary energy. So the vibrational purity of your thoughts determines your Astral experiences.

You see, on the Astral, it is impossible to "spoil anyone's party" as you can only perceive regions that strike a harmony with your own vibrational energy.

I have also had experiences, particularly early on in my travels, that I call training-ground buffer experiences. These are where I might have got a little fearful for an instant and you find yourself sort of halfway in the training zone and halfway in the Astral proper. It's like on the one side of you is looming some demonic entity that is set to justify your fear... and on the other side is what remains of the Astral scenery you were experiencing.

Another little pitfall that can catch you out, is you now and again come across what I call "scamps". Scamps are these friendly and often very humourous (but secretly devilish) creatures who can scan your thoughts for trace vibrational impurities (fear, anger, malice, and such like) and latch onto them.

They have the ability to feed off this energy and they use it to fuel what I call their "little party trick"; which is to distort their form (or distort the form of something around you) in order to trick you into perceiving they are something much more sinister than they really are. They often catch you out!

The key to dealing with scamps is to just be calm and neutral. Hence, the trace energy they are feeding off is soon used up. At which point the facade fades away and the creature normally beats a hasty retreat.

Personally, I feel a lot more safe on the Astral than I do on the physical these days.

Yours,
Frank



Edited by - Frank on 07 April 2002  13:07:47

G,day Vallk

I,ve heard this term "The Watcher" used before,but have not got anything in print that tells me about the concept.
From what I could tell there can be so many possibilties as to the
identity of the watcher,I think the word though needs examination in
context with what is being said.Where did you hear this term & do
you have it in print?
It could be a 1)Dream 2)Future aspect of you 3)a guide 4)an observer
who is either conscious or unconscious & interacting in your OBE or
anything.3)some might even say an angel & some may say death.

I just feel it's a bit of a generalization "The Watcher" as we are
all Watchers anyway.Is there a reference to where you got this term
Vallk?

All the best on your journeys

Mobius