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I was just wondering about what it would be like to meditate in a dream and i remembered a dream of mine from 6 or 7 months ago. In the dream i was this colorful band of energy and i merged with the very old, wise tree, and started going throughout its branches. When i reached the tips of all the branches, i experienced something divine. Oneness, cosmic consciousness, universal awareness. It was the most beautiful dream i've ever had. Anyone have experience with meditation in the dream world? Any differences and such? Sorry for the vagueness, but i'm excited at the thought and am not good at describing or labeling things.

Ok, so i have a really cluttered house and 3 people live with me and it's going to stay cluttered for sure. I don't have a room currently, i sleep on the couch. I need a place for meditation where i can sit down on my sitting pad and be still. I've heard and read that your meditation room should be kept tip top, and not cluttered, so i'm in an odd situation. What do you think i should do? Try to clean this cluttered living room (it'd take a whole day)? I think i just found the answer, lol. That sounds like a good bet, but any comments, or questions?

About 4 days ago, i woke up to a memory of the most vivid dream. I've been infatuated/scared with it since. Here is what i wrote down in my dream journal:

Andrew (my best friend) and i had set up over phone that i was going to jack Angelos (a nearby music store that has bongs) for pricey bongs. I was walking down the street at night by myself, pondering the situation. I was thinking that it might all be a dream, and that i might not of called andrew for the getaway. Immediately i was shifted into a hippy van with Jessica (a neighbor friend of mine that i really like) and we were smoking pot. I decided to steal this kids bike who's house we were in front of. I stole the bike, rode around on it for a while, then decided not to take it and to just leave it there. I was shifted into Angelos (the music store) where i was looking at nice bongs with my empty backpack on. I slid open the glass case and rapidly started loading bongs and bubblers into my backpack. I walked to the door, panicked because of the alarm system, set my backpack next to the door, and left. I was shifted into late night in front of Angelos, which appeared to be closed with nobody inside. I thought about how my friend Andrew might trade me a few ounces of salvia for a bong. A young male and female walked by as i opened the door to Angelos (even though it was closed). I picked up my backpack and somehow handed it to the female outside of the theft alarm, then she handed it back to me, she laughed and walked off with the male. I began to run slowly away from the store, being weighted down by all of the glassware. When i was about 150 feet away from the store, a large dark skinned (mexican looking) man with long dred locks yelled "Marcus R****! The police are going to cross paths with you!". For some reason i figured he read my name on the backpack and somehow tried setting me up to get caught. I proceeded to run, very very slowly and the guy was catching up to me. He then stopped and disappeared. I knelt down on the ground and opened up my backpack and removed a little broken red bong and layed it on the street. I was shifted back into my house, in the living room, and i sat on the computer. I heard a knock on my back patio door (which is inaccessible to public), and somehow i knew it was the kid who i stole the bike from's mom. I told my sister to go answer the door and to tell her that i was somebody else and that i wasn't here. The thing was, was that the lady could see me on the computer from where she was, so my sister let her in. She walked towards me with an uneasy face, and sat down next to me. She proceeded to give me really odd looks without saying a word. I woke up.

This was such an odd dream to me. First of all it was way more vivid than most dreams i have, and i could hear my thoughts in the dream exactly. Secondly, i'm not a person to steal like that (yet i do some illegal smoking activity otherwise), and the big man yelled my first and last name "Marcus R****, the police are going to cross paths with you!". Him saying that has had me nervous, like it was a sign or something. I was also thinking about how in the dream i asked myself if it was a dream (and if i would have said yes, i could have gone lucid and taken control), and i denied it because it was too real. I have yet to have a lucid dream, so this is a huge stepping point.

Hehe, another thing worth mentioning, is last night (the 30th) i went to this really good college party and late at night it got busted up by the cops. I was really really drunk and had to walk past the cops to my vehicle. I then had to come back to the house to use a phone, and a lady cop told me no, to leave. So i left :p

This is a one of a kind book by Alan Watts that i picked up a few weeks back. Alan Watts (if you don't already know who he was), was an english Daoist/Buddhist philosopher. His writings word things like no one ever before, and sometimes it sends a chill down my spine. In this book, he unravels the truth about who you really are. I can relate to this book very much, because i myself am buddhist, so it was an easy read. I recommend this book to anybody though, buddhist or not, as it is an eye opener. It unfolds how the ego came to be, and how you been playing hide and seek with yourself (in which you are God if you will) for thousands of years. This book led me to the thought of how close archaic man was to God. Back then, they may not have believed they themselves actually were God, but their egos were nearly unformed, and society hadn't taken ahold yet. I'm not too good with these book reviews, so sorry if this is lame, but you really should pick up this book. It could surely be a life changer.

I'm about halfway through this book, and it is such a phenomenal read if you're into psychedelics, spiritualism, or the 60's. It details Leary's experiences with many wonderful people and psychedelics in the 60's. Each chapter starts with an I Ching reference, in which the chapter kind of binds to on it's own. Each chapter has a different 'trip guide' such as Allen Ginsberg, Krishna, Alan Watts, and many other people, who pretty much lead the chapter. Leary writes of when he first ecountered the mushroom, then making a group near harvard who experimented with them. He writes on LSD, and DMT. What his family went through, what the country went through, his thoughts on society, and many more topics. Definitely worth the cover price.

Hello all, i've been a member here for probably about a year (EDIT: 6 months ), but haven't posted in months. Nice to be back. I've decided to take a break from my astral projection excercises, and work on meditation. To me, meditation is the key to accessing higher planes of consciousness. I'm sure that if i meditate long enough, i too can see the same planes RB does. Anybody in aggreeance that meditation is the key?

If anybody's is interested, i would love to arrange for someone to project and visit me while i am fully awake (or in a trance state). You could possibly tell me what i'm doing at the time, and i will see if i experience anything such as tingling, or partial astral sight, or other phenomena. I can give pics, personal info, address, or anything else needed...interested?

You are, but the fact that the realms which we can see in this manner are so close to the physical precludes their settings from being anything but thought forms created by people viewing and thinking about their phsical environment; hence, they resemble this world so closely, you can't tell the difference.

Thank you,
Stillwater

I honestly don't see too much that's not true in what he's written..

I mean I just know that the things that I can't access, like the full blown astral projections and whatnot, are inaccessible because I'm not as spiritually developed as he may be.

But for the simple stuff, I've gotten vibes before, I've had lucid dreams, I've 'felt' like I came close to leaving the body until fears set in.. but yeah man, there's only one way of knowing:

Try for yourself, it's the only way of really knowing for sure, anyone else's word is just as valuable as nothing.

-DaDestroya

Amazing book![]
It literally changed my life. In fact if it weren't for that book i may not be sitting here reading this message board []
A lot of people say it is all just made up, but it doesn't matter to me. If it is, it doesn't take anything away from it in my opinion.
Good review anarchyhollow! []

Yes, Ram Dass wrote Be Here Now back in 1971. He has had a long and interesting life. Should anyone wish to read a short bio on him, you can at the website below.

http://www.shambhalasun.com/Archives/Features/2000/July00/birk7_00.htm


Very best,

I think anything that stills the mind would be considered a great help-meditation, martial arts, yoga. I had my first 'spontanious' obe's after waking in the night and doing meditation techniques.

I love Terence McKenna's work. So far, I've only heard some of his interviews, seminars and read the Archaic Revival. I look forward to reading Food of The Gods shortly, definatly an interesting read..

I want to try DMT to see what effects I get from it, so I can compare the its effects with the feelings of OBE's

-Como

Hi! I was also inspired by his book.  When I read it , I was really sceptical of his description of approaching the surface of an astral plane and perceiving it as a surface that has gridlines.  It just seemed counter-intuitive.  But since then I have had numerous experiences that he calls R.E.Ps (remote eye projections) often prophetic or psychic in nature, and several times have seen grid-like structures.  But I don't seem to experience consciously the 'penetration' of the grid that he describes when entering an astral plane.

Hey, I like your name.
Anyway, just letting you know that I'm with you (I'm fourteen) and that I've been trying to AP as well (havn't been able to yet) Just keep trying[]