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Hello dear fellow explorers, I would like to share another recent AP. Again in the morning, with two parts.

It feels to me that I am experienceing small step-by-step incremental learning. For example, I think that this time there is some progress with being more in control of my movements

And it also feels that lots of various testing is occurring for me. This is quite exciting and I am curious what comes next

My notes are in [] brackets.

"Sun 15.9.24
5:30-6:30am meditation:

I prime on my back. I try to focus on the top of the crown while observing the visuals. I perceive I'm lacking focus today. I can see only the central whitish swirl and tunnels. I keep losing it.
After some time, I turn to my right side.
At some point (on my back or possibly side) I fall asleep very briefly(?)
Vibrations come very soon in a slow manner from the front into the full body. I breathe into them and they intensify.
I try to focus on putting thumbs in my eye sockets [based on information received in the last meditation] but it seems it is not happening.
I feel my jaw has relaxed open and my tongue slipped out between my teeth. The teeth are pressing on my tongue painfully and I try to adjust the tongue back inside but I don't want to lose the vibrations state so I settle for the upper half of the teeth closed to keep the tongue half in. I also notice I'm drooling. [Not confirmed - jaw closed, no drooling so I assume this was all my second/etheric body][I think this might have been a test to see if I could persevere through this distraction like the mosquito might have been in the previous meditation]

I refocus and feel the vibrations and try to breathe into them. I control their intensity with breathing.

I follow the visuals and see myself going deeper as if downwards into a white light on the bottom left of my field of view.
It feels as if an older woman's voice is telling me 'good luck, and to focus'.

Part 1
I emerge in blackness zooming fast above a path made of squared white tiles. They're different shades of white and some slightly yellowish. I follow the path while I wonder what to do with this. While I follow the path I see a small bright square tile to the left side of the path and zoom to it with the intent to help it. But I realise it's already bright. I zoom back to the main path, follow it. I zoom above to gain a bigger picture and see two sides of 'continents' with a line connecting them surrounded by blackness. I zoom to the path again and follow it more. I try to slow down and do, and I hover above one tile and think to go through the tile to the other side and do. I see the tiles from the bottom with a different as if shady light as if less light was filtering through the tiles to the bottom side. I go back to the top side again.
[This is a very nice show of control of movement by will. Much better than the senseless zoomings of the past where for example on one occasion I crashed through some stars/lights in the black void as an elephant in a glass store ]

Part 2
I'm back in the original vibrations state. I again aim to adjust the tongue back behind the teeth. [I think this is the same test as described above]

Next I zoom in a narrow space between two high walls of small beautifully rainbow-coloured square tiles in black background. I adjust to fly between the walls so they are vertical.

Very soon I fly from the top into a labyrinth with only one way through it. I hear as if instructions that 'students will be released into it in regular intervals and we cannot help each other or "they" would know'. [again "they" suggesting of teachers and tests]

In the labyrinth in a whitish corridor I'm zooming through and suddenly I see a man standing there who surprises me. It seems a bit like a whitish corridor of locker rooms. He seems to also be surprised. I fly above him to bypass him. As I fly above I wonder that I didn't know this would be allowed in the test because it lets us gain a bigger picture overview of the paths. I zoom down into the labyrinth again and onwards.

I have a flashback to the man cornering me between the lockers or to me engaging with him, in a forced or voluntary manner. [as is becoming noticeable, each thought is instantly created as a scene] [suggesting fear or lust response or thoughts in my flashback, so I think I might have failed the test somehow by not staying in control][possibly this potential test might be connected to my past catalysts of experiencing sexual harassment and also my own lustful behaviours]
I wonder if I failed the test and I quickly imagine the occurrence as a picture in a frame and I imagine hanging the frame on the wall above the locker rooms. [this is either succeeding in the test by showing ability to control environment by will or failing the test by disposing of the evidence]

In the end, I don't know whether I failed the test as my son arrives into the physical bedroom, I nod to his question but I also feel it's the time to end the meditation. I repeat the key words of the experiences to help the recall. I confirm no drool and tongue safely behind the teeth. I take notes."

I would be happy to receive your thoughts

Hello All,

I'd like to share a recent AP experience which appeared to contain information about a spiritual practice.

I include the notes from my diary.

"Sun 31.8.24

1:00-1:25am meditation: Chinese-themed astral travel

I meditate on my back and follow the usual visuals. I observe many visuals, even the seeming black void with lights twice. The visuals seem endless and I don't fall asleep (I am able to keep my awareness because of a jet lag effect) but I also don't progress. Even when I appear to visit the void twice, I don't progress to anything memorable.

I change my tactics and instead of the road of following the visuals, I choose to (still on my back) put the focal point of awareness on the area on the very top of my head (improvement after reading Frank Kepple's post collection). This is my more usual/older approach, in which I would "reach out for the vibrations" Monroe-style (from his first book). So as usual, I "prime" myself in this way for some time.

Toilet break. I know it won't disturb the meditation much at this point.

I lie on my right side to "settle for sleep" (I usually wake up to vibrations this way after the "priming").
I follow the visuals for a bit. I'm feeling a subtle shift, of give/release/submit myself to the flow of the experience (that hard to describe feeling).

With this shift, there's a feeling of not feeling my breathing (because not feeling my body?). I worry that I died (heh) and, as a result, I notice my fast breathing and fast heart beat (fear response).
Simultaneously, I perceive that I'm in a tunnel that's taking me fast. I manage to relax into the flow again. I observe my breathing is slow and all is good to proceed.

I'm aware of blissful vibrations (cannot recall when they started as I had been preoccupied with calming myself  ).

I can hear a mosquito noise and I think that I'll have to let myself get the bites as it'll likely sit on my face soon. I'm not going to risk breaking the meditation for this 

I have a feeling again (like in prior experience! and I have just remembered it!) as if both of my thumbs are pressing into a specific point in my upper inner right eye socket (in the small ridge there) as if it means something (but what could it mean?). At the same time, I know that my physical hands/thumbs are not located near my physical eyes [confirmed true, they were elsewhere besides my pillow].

I'm still zooming via a tunnel feeling the blissful vibrations. Suddenly, I perceive a black and white pattern of square tiles but distorted as if a 3D stereogram that comes to life in a shape of a Chinese-like tiger/dragon.

Mindful of Frank's advice to keep it short, I begin to take notes of the whole experience with a faint thought "visuals f**k that" (whaaat? did I really think that? am I that naughty in the depths of my mind?  ) but realise I'm still in the meditation.

So I come back to take notes for real to not lose the memory of the special experience.

In the morning, I'm curious about the thumbs and eye sockets. I ask the AI: "What spiritual practice involves pressing thumbs into eye sockets in a meditation?"
Answer: "The practice you're referring to is likely Shambhavi Mudra, a yogic technique used in meditation and spiritual practices. In Shambhavi Mudra, practitioners gently press their thumbs into their eye sockets while focusing their gaze at the point between the eyebrows, also known as the third eye or Ajna chakra1. This practice is believed to help direct energy flow, enhance concentration, and deepen meditation."

End of my diary entry

I'm quite mind-blown as, to my knowledge, I had never read or come accross such a practice in my waking life.

Later, when I discussed this experience with my friend, I noticed that in addition to the practice, which has a Chinese feel to it, I also saw the Chinese-tiger/dragon, affirming the theme of the experience.

I imagine I might want to explore this practice and give it a go! Any thoughts?

Hello All,

I'd like to share a recent experience that was unusual for the high number of exits from the body. I am posting edited notes from my diary For initial explanation, the way I tend to experience the vibrations is as blissful, and at times the bliss actually feels what I must describe as orgasmic. It is very puzzling to me and I try to learn more about it My notes are in brackets.

"Sat 24.8.24
5:52-7:21am meditation: OBE #16 (9 exits)
On my back. I feel blissful, even orgasmic vibrations. Because I recognise these vibrations, I realise I could leave the body. So I simply get up and go towards the window [this is unusual for me, usually it takes more effort to leave the body. I think I am too sleepy/unaware so I don't remember or don't realise that I normally find it harder. Also, normally I am on my back and roll out]. I find myself back in the body. I open my [astral] eyes, get up and leave the body again. I repeat this a total of 3 times. Exiting the body is quite easy [unusual for me]. 

I realise [getting less sleepy and more lucid] I am in a different/foreign room, with lots of white space and bright windows and windows to the left of the bed, not in my current physical bedroom.

I very briefly open my physical eyes a bit and confirm that I am now in my real physical bedroom and what I saw before must have been a different dream/astral bedroom. I close my physical eyes again and continue.

Then I continue in that same meditative blissful state from our actual physical bedroom. I have 3 exits towards the window with the intent to fly into the street from our 4th level, 1 exit for my son's bedroom, and 2 exits within our bedroom itself. The exits feel more controlled than usual.

I am mostly blind again, especially when I leave into another room or out of the window. [I think my "brain"/"protective sense of self" is blocking me because it doesn't want to see. It sees only in the room itself.] but overall the vision is better than usual.

All exits are interspersed with orgasmic bliss. I note that breathing into the vibrations increases the root chakra pleasure [experimenting to confirm previous experiences]. I breathe into other chakras and note that breathing into them at this time doesn't in any way activate them [again experimenting to confirm previous experiences]. It was at times hard not to let the vibrations evolve into a full orgasm, as this time almost any breathing would bring me closer to an orgasm [what can I say, I try to report to you accurately, LOL. It is an area of investigation for me] but I was more focused on the exits. [There was also another experiment, which I am not including here now, related to a previous experience].

More notes:
The experience happened as I was coming out of my dreamstate because the meditation was from 6:00-7:20am. I think I fell asleep early on around 6am and came to myself or became lucid in that dream white bright bedroom but with some awareness/memory of the meditation. So it was the perfect little-sleepy state that can help with these experiences.

In Frank Kepple's terminology, I'd understand it as a dream turned a lucid dream with an astral projection overlay. Then confirming the physical room and more OBEs. So it would be various overlays of Frank's F2 (dream, lucid dream, first 3 exits) with Frank's F1 (the physical and the Real-Time Zone)."

End of the diary entry

Hello all,

I am new to the Astral Pulse forums (this is my first post) but not entirely new to the exploration of various states of focus, if I follow Frank's terminology. For a brief intro, I found "spirituality" in 2016 as an atheist neuroscientist. My inner journey started then I came across Monroe one year ago and was immediately taken by his approach and dived right in with immense passion into exploring OBEs. I was introduced to Frank's PDF collection this month. It has been powerfully illuminating and so here I am, wishing to share with you my very recent and quite the first-for-me (in such an extent) personal experience of the energy centres. I am posting from my diary with extra notes in brackets. Pardon my old-school use of the term chakra in the notes

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Wed 21.8.24
5:10-6:15am meditation: vibrations chakra bliss explosions

I am lying on my back as usual. I am placing my focal point of awareness on the top of my brain / top of my mind. In this morning time, this is quite hard for me. I am seeing some usual visuals and bright screens with people (this is my normal swirls-state / focus 2 experience).

I fall asleep and have a short dream that I am going to talk to my boss to ask about job recommendations because I want to leave science to do management or some other form of science. After a small dream segment, I wake up back into the meditative state. (This in-and-out of dreamstate is normal for me.)

Right away, I bring my focus to the top of my mind again as is the usual habit. This brings the sensation of vibrations to this area. Immediately with the first vibrations, I remember Frank's advice to breathe (breathe out slowly and deeply) to bring the vibrations down. This is all happening fast with a vague memory of the advice and semi-automatically and still somewhat sleepily.

So I imagine the focal point of awareness while having the vibrations to travel down along my spine to my root. I do feel some tingling, enlivening, crackling sensations as I move the focus along the spine. Encouraged by the sensation, I bring the focus back up to the top and down to the root (maybe I repeat this a few times?). Suddenly and all at once, the vibrations are in the whole body like my good old vibrations that I know so well! (These vibrations I normally experience as a full-body blissful, almost or fully orgasmic sensation. I have been trying to get an explanation for this state for some time now.)

Then I breathe and slowly bring my focus into each chakra along the spine and have an explosion of bliss there. In the root, it is the blissful/orgasmic feeling that I know so well. I reflect how the root chakra is close to the clitoris and maybe that is why it feels this way.

In the second chakra there is another explosion of bliss. In the yellow and green and blue too. I do each chakra repeatedly. I also gently arch my body (physical or "astral"?) for the orange, yellow and green. I can do green and orange at the same time. This is somehow a natural combination with the arching of my back for the green and the arching of my pelvis for the orange. I do this repeatedly, meaning green, yellow, orange, green+orange - on repeat. The sensation of bliss is almost eye-crossing, passing-out strong. Each explosion lasts maybe 2-3 seconds, I can only last this long either because they are so strong or maybe because that is the natural breath length. Is amazingly wonderfully blissful.

I can actually also see (see and feel at the same time) each explosion as if the energy was shooting upwards from each chakra in powerful columns of swirling white crackling energy. Yellow feels very powerful, full of core power. Green feels very large, wide and expanded. I don't recall blue because I didn't have time to explore it much before running out of power. Blue and orange felt as smaller columns, meaning narrower. The combination of green and orange is beyond describing, as if the two columns join and their combined energy/explosion engulfs me.

At the same time, it is as if I can see the ceiling and some crackling sparks there too. It feels as if I my eyes are open and I am seeing the structure of the ceiling up close. (Was my consciousness "out of the body" and up?).

At the same time, I am also a bit nervous about my work morning (which was reflected in the dream) and I feel these nerves too as running down there (reference to body down there?) through my body along the side of the spine but this sensation is comparably very faint and does not disturb my chakra play.

Then, I think to stop this exercise. Or perhaps I ran out of focus I try to continue the meditation by focusing on the top of the brain/mind again and seeing the usual swirls. But shortly after, I decide to take notes as to not risk falling asleep and not remembering this exquisite experience.

Of note, I'm referring to the energy centres as chakras by their colours but I didn't see colours.

I felt still rather energised while taking the notes right after the experience.

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That's it from the notes. This experience makes me feel convinced beyond doubt that the energy centres are quite "real" as before I had more of a theoretical information/knowledge I would be curious for anyone sharing their experiences. See you around!