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Hey all!

Just wanted to say HI!  Been a member of this forum for about 4 years now, but the past two or so I've been so busy and off track with other things in life and a lot of distractions that haven't really been involved much here, or doing much of my healing work.

I recently got back in touch with it all and am looking into studying Ayurveda to complement reiki and getting back in touch with my spiritual side!

Hope everyone is well

Hi all!

Just wanted to write and say hello, again, to everyone here.

Things have been a bit crazy in my life, moving back home to sunny, sunny Australia from cold, snowy Montreal - and as such I've not really had much of a chance to explore all-things-astral.

Trying to get back into it bit by bit, but it seriously feels like the progress I made when in Canada is all for naught and I'm back to square one.  I think it has something to do with being in new surroundings (my home city may not be but my apartment is!) and just having to get relaxed, comfortable, find "my space" and start with the astral work once more.  I think doing Yoga 3X a week used to help too, and right now I'm only doing it 1X a week and doing a LOT of exercise.

Anyway.  Just thought I'd say hi

Soooo probably every second weekend I managed to do an OBE (kinda!!).

My previous problem was that I wasn't able to open my eyes when I OBE'd.  I am becoming familiar to the "sinking in" feeling as I transition from awake to the mind awake-body asleep thing.

On this past weekend the first time I got up, walked around a little, then woke up.

Next time I tried instead to stay lying in bed, but opening my eyes.  I managed to a little bit,  but then I couldn't get up, no matter how hard I tried!!  I tried rolling, spinning, rope technique... last time I tried "phasing" I went off into dreamland so wanted to try and remain with a sense of a "body'"

So  it seems I can either lie in bed with my 'eyes' open ( i knew I wasnt awake coz I saw my arm lying next to my bed while i felt myself reaching up' or I can get up and walk around blindly feeling stuff.

I guess I have to just set a goal for myself rather than trying to do everything, yes?  IE set the goal to get up, walk to the kitchen, open my eyes, then wake up and write it down.

Probably the logical step.

Thanks for listening

This is actually directed at James, as I've been reading the thread in the Astral form regarding crystals and AP and James you seem to be really knowledgable on the subject!!!

I became attuned to Reiki for the main purpose of being able to try it on my mother when I get home later this year.  She's had many problems due to arthritis, back problems, spinal fusions, joint replacements (hip knee etc) and the list goes on.  It doesn't seem to stop!  I've been practising Reiki for a little while now.

In any case, I am heading home in November, but her birthday is in August.  After much thinking about what to get her, I thought it might be nice to send her some crystals/gemstones or some such, as a birthday gift.

My reasoning behind it is just as special gift, but to find something that might have some kind of healing properties, or whatever.  Originally I was looking at birthstones and thought of getting one of the birthstones for August.  

James you mentioned in a previous email that your wife will go to buy crystals and just "know" which one to get.  I was wondering, rather than deciding straight up to get a birthstone, should I perhaps go with the intent of finding a gift for her, and hopefully I will know the right one when I see it?

Do you have any other suggestions for picking crystals?

Can someone please help me out here....  I have found that on weekends in the morning after getting a lot of sleep, I have a knack for being able to lie on my right side facing the wall of my room, and rolling myself off the bed out of my body.  (As yet have not been able to leave my body any other way).

This morning I tried it a few times, I was on the floor and felt the floor (it was cold!) but couldn't see anything so felt for the wall, and felt my way down around and out the door and along the hallway.  It was like I was walking with my eyes shut.  It all felt so real I had to double check that I was projecting (pulled  on my finger and it stetched like playdough so confirmed that).

Now every time I tried to "open my eyes" or "see" I couldn't.  I tried to make myself see, and nothing, and if I tried to open my eyes I found myself opening my eyes back in my bed.  I've been able to successfully open  my "minds eye" in my bed once before very briefly while trying to work out how to get out of my body.

Does anyone know why I can't see?  Do I need to try moving further away from my body first?  

So this is the third or so time when I've woken up on a Saturday morning and realised my body is asleep but my mind is not.

I am wondering whether my double has already wondered off to the planes, or not and its just the awareness of my etheric body?

What happened this time was I was lying in bed, and thought to myself that I should try and leave my body.  

I thought i'd give the rope technique a go but what happened when I tried was REALLY bizarre (well, for me anyway).

I would try pulling UP, but instead it felt as thought i was pivoting on my back in a clockwise direction.  So each time I'd pull up, I'd turn clockwise, and again, and again, and eventually I was lying the opposite way (feet facing the head of the bed) and kept turning until I was back facing the normal way.

And what is strange (kind of embarrasing to mention, but this is the second time so I will mention it) is that this time and the last time I decided to give leaving my body a go, what I assume is my sacral chakra (?) started getting all active and excited (like a mini orgasm) and despite trying to calm it down it woke me up.

The last time before this weekend that happened was when I was trying to roll out of my body off the bed, and as I was rolling it happened and woke me up.

I haven't done any major chakra work yet at all.

Anyone know what is going on?

I hope this is the right area for this - my dad got a reading by a clarivoyant who was pretty much spot on with the things she said about him and the family in general.

HOWEVER.

She also mentioned something about "children" with respect to ME in the next 12 months.

I was wondering from anyone here with such abilities - could this specifically mean I might have a child, or are there other ways this could be interpreted???

Over the past few months, I have been learning, researching and seeking answers about Christianity which is what I was brought up with.  Right now I am not prepared to blindly accept what I was taught, but to seek answers for myself.  Naturally this leads me around in circles.  When I think I'm on to something, I get back to square one and doubt what I learned because "Maybe its a deception by Satan".  Satan is the big one here, more so than Christ because everything I learn can be (by most Christians) answered as a deceipt my Satan.

Anyway.  So last night I decided to ask God for myself whether the path I am taking is true and right, or am I leading myself astray.

I had the most petrifying, terrifying, horrid dream that night, and woke up and remembered it as if I was meant to.  Its the kind of dream that sounds REALLY stupid when you relate it to someone afterwards but it was one where the whole feeling of the dream was evil, and scary, and horrifying.

I was at a house, which was my parents house but wasn't, and there were some of us hiding under blankets and it was dark.  We were hiding because there were some people/demons/monsters/SOMETHING going and killing anyone they could see who was not covered by something.  Somehow I got rescued, and then I got in my car and drove away feeling evil things chasing me.  Somehow I ended up at a park and there was this ball - literally a ball, but it was evil, evil energy and it was going to do something horrible to me.  I was calling for my mother and slowly woke myself up by doing this (this is usually what I do when I'm scared in a dream).  The whole atmosphere of the dream was filled with evil and horror.

It kinda freaked me out waking up because of the fact that I had asked God before bed asking for guidance.  I then had the thought that maybe it was telling me I'm not yet ready for things like Astral Projection because I am so easily consumed by fears?  

How does one get over the barrier that the Christian faith so readily puts up?  Is there anyone here who used to be a Christian and is now confident that such things are NOT the work of the devil?  Or is this just all in my mind and i need to chill out a bit

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the correct place for this post, as it does relate to Psychic Self Defense but also Christianity.

Someone I know (not well, but through a Christian forum) has been having demonic attacks since he was about 4 years old.  He has been brought up in an extremely negative environment and always told he was evil as a child (and no wonder he began to belive it at that age) and completely and utterly believes he is evil and will do something dangerous if he doesnt either a) solve this problem or b) end his life.

I believe that these demons have become so attached to him that he doesn't know where he ends and they begin.  He is of Christian faith and has prayed but to him it seems that God is not answering.  The thoughts, dreams and visions he has disturbs him to no end and he does not want to give in to them, but it seems to be an every day battle.

I personally believe that he is in need of some form of exorcism and I have read Nita's page and found it describes the sort of problems he is having.  I don't know if a medical doctor can fully help with this situation, because the kinds of thoughts and visions are so horrible that he is afraid to tell a doctor about all of them in case they think he is crazy.  Its the kind of thing that reminded me of some of the stories I have read here on this board which relate to demonic or negative attacks.

My main problem is that being of a Christian faith, I don't know if it is wrong of me to suggest alternate methods of dealing with this - to ME, ANYTHING is better than suicide and this person needs help.  But being of Christian faith myself I also feel that I could be doing something wrong by introducing them to people or suggestions that are deemed "occultic" or un-Christian (by other christians).  This isn't me personally so much as it is my upbringing and understanding of what Christians may call the work of the "devil" or evil.  (Again, not me, but what other Christians believe)

Does anyone have some suggestions of what I can suggest to this person?  Do I leave it alone and let him get help from other Christians, or do I mention some information that may be un-Christian but may ultimately help him with this situation?  Is there anyone here who might have some sort of advice for this sort of situation?

1.  Does it make sense to do energy raising before a Yoga class?  Would Yoga help when doing NEW?

I have been working on my secondary circuit for a little while now, and sometimes I feel progress, and sometimes I feel frustration at the lack of it.

I KNOW that slow and steady practise will get things working together.  I also do Yoga twice a week.

Now I'm not 100% sure on whats coming from where.  Does NEW interfere in anyway with ones emotions?

I know that in a Yoga class, one can release pent up or hidden emotions that have not yet come to the surface.

I feel like I'm on a constant emotional rollercoaster, and I am not sure whether its a combination of these two things or one or the other.  I have a feeling I have to ride it out and it will soon sort itself out but in the meantime its a little frustrating.

When I feel these emotions (depression) its not at the forefront, more like somewhere hiding inside but I can sense its there.  I will wake up and feel not quite depressed but not exactly happy.  Throughout the day I'll go up and down, happy and indifferent, but again, these emotions are all inside, somewhat out of reach if that makes ANY sense at all.

Should I just continue on, keep up my energy work, Yoga, and meditation (I have also started practising quietening my mind, boy its HARD!) and it should settle down??

Sorry if these are incoherant ramblings.... I'm not quite sure where I am right now!

Heyas,

I've finally got past my toes in the NEW process (damn they were hard to get going) and last night I did some leg work.

I have a question - in the NEW excercises, we are told to feel the awareness up and down the top, bottom, inside, outside of legs.  That's all fine, but then we have to use the sponging action through our legs, up and down.

When i do this, I *really* feel resistance, its literally like I'm dragging my awareness through mud with a sponge.

How is this action different to the "bouncing" of your awareness through your legs?  Should the bouncing be left until you get faster flow through, or do you don't "sponge" it as much when you bounce?  Coz the bouncing says its supposed to take half a second or so each way, and at the rate Im going it certainly isn't that fast!

I assume its normal to have lots of resistance when first starting out?  Can I still raise my energy before going to bed each night at this point? (IE through the legs, thighs, into the sub navel centre)?  Or should I do ALL the exercises before raising energy?

Last night I had a dream - I woke up at about 5:30am and I remember vaguely thinking that "its the morning, if I'm going to try projecting it should be now".  Then I think I fell back asleep, but I do remember (somewhat hazily, as one would remember a dream) that all of a sudden I was standing at the end of my bed, and I jumped up and down a few times and I remember thinking "Cool, I'm out of body!" and so I decided to try running down my hallway when all of a sudden I was snapped back into my body - I didn't wake up but went on to have another different dream after that.

From what I see, people who AP remember it vividly... I only remember it as if it were a dream.  Was it just my brain doing a bit of wishful thinking?  Or might it have been real?  I remember while I was drifting off thinking just don't be afraid, there's nothing to be afraid of.  (When I am awake I'm always worried that I'll try to AP and there will be some strange creature in my room or something).  

What do you all think?

Alright so I've started on this quest to become more self aware, and learn about life outside my own physical one.  And I've felt that I have been getting somewhere, and that I am starting to become aware of more than just my physical self.

Unfortunately I am one of these females who gets extreme PMS and it seems to be blocking my progress.  Perhaps its just that I'm not advanced enough to know how to look past this "depression" (I'm not normally a negative or depressed person) and its frustrating for me.

I am wondering if there are other females out there who also suffer from extreme forms of PMS and how do you deal with it so that it doesn't block your progress, and should I just wait a few days and ride it out and then get back to my "training" so to speak.  What do you think if Yoga - is it a good way to force yourself to relax and be calm if you can't do it in your own home?

These are all proably silly questions with very sensible answers, however I find I have a hard time being sensible or seeing obvious answers when I'm in this sort of frame of mind :/

Ok.  Here it goes.

I am very new to Astral Projection/Lucid Dreaming/etc.  It started with the fact that I have had episodes of sleep paralysis and never much looked into it until recently.  I had just assumed it was a half awake/half dream kind of thing.  Then I saw some posts on other forums I regularly frequent pertaining to the same thing.  This in turn lead me to Lucid Dreaming, which in turn lead me to Astral Projection/OBE.

Up until now I had heard about these things but never had much thought to learn anything more, as it never really served a purpose.  At one point in my life I was going to church regularly, however this always raised more questions than answers.  I was told what was the truth, yet the questions always were how do I *really* know?  I don't believe that we are here, we are born, we live, we die, and serve no higher purpose.  But the "fact" that the only way to "heaven" was by accepting Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour bothers me, despite the fact that I made that decision and was baptized.  That is a whole different topic so I will try and stay on track.

My reasons for posting here, is that after reading many articles and viewing forums such as this one, where real people report all these wonderful experiences, suddenly I started to realise that what you are all experiencing *is real*.  The more I learn, the more I believe.  But the more I learn, the more I also realise the scary part which is if it *is* real, then I, too, one day, can experience it.

I'm not ready to exprience it now, even though I desperately want to.  I know I am not, because never in my life have I witnessed anything that was even remotely non-physical.  No ghosts, no lucid dreams, no spirits, no premonitions.  These things were all things that other people exprienced and wrote about in books or articles.  Nor had any of my friends or family experienced such things (except my grandmother who had an NDE but I dont know much about that).  This being the case, jumping straight into trying to experience AP or OBE would be insane for me, because I know it would be too much to handle.

What I want to know, is how some of you came to the point you were ready to handle OBEs.  Have you been used to this all your life?  Or were you like me, where you developed a fascination of the subject and the more you practiced the more you believed.  I want to start with something small, very base level, to then work myself up to the point where I am ready to face whatever is there when I finally do project.  I have started keeping a dream diary to record my dreams and am currently learning how to induce lucid dreams, but even that for me is a scary prospect.

I hope my post makes sense and I hope there is someone out there who has been in a similar situation (IE started with no proof, no experiences and gradually has worked up to a point where they can enjoy the experience and get used to it and not be afraid).

I hope this is posted in the correct thread, I wasn't sure where else to post.