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I don't know if any of you have ever heard of Richard Alpert "Ram Dass", an ex harvard psychology professor who became a spiritual teacher. This video is a really great lecture by him, he even mentions the astral somewhere in the end. The video is two hour long but it's really worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMUUBepzHH0

Never hold onto anything that exist in time, for the reason that all things in time will disappear. Time is not something that you should hold onto, time is simply something that you should observe. Observe the flow of time and you'll observe the flow of the universe, remember to let go of all things that exist in time, for in time they will eventually disappear.

Is life just an ego trip that is controlled by your desires? I mean, everything in our life is made up by desire, desire is the thing which is ruling the universe. And the ego, every human being, which have an ego, does everything just for his/her own good, for his/her own ego. You are kind to others because YOU feel good when you are kind to other people. Parents want their children to be successful because THEY will feel good when they're successful.  You get into a relationship because YOU feel good when you're in a realtionship and when someone is giving YOU love. You donate money to charity because YOU feel good when you donate money to charity. You try to make other people happy because YOU feel good when you see that they are happy. You want justice in the world because YOU will feel good if there were justice in the world. See where I'm getting here? Everything you do in your own life, you do for your own good, always. Is this how it all is? Are we just running towards our own desires looking for our own ecstatic life trips, always running towards our next desires? I mean we're always desiring something, want to astral project? - a desire, want to go heaven after you die? - a desire, want to become enlightened being? - a desire, children? - desire, rich? - desire, not living for your own desires? another desire, you always running towards your desires, so when does it all end?

I'm just wondering if there are any Ancient or philosophical writings about the astral worlds and astral travel. There must be something, as I can tell the ancient people were more experimental and aware of their dreams much more than we are today. Would love to read something if it exists.

Hello there everyone, lately I've been meditating staring deep into a candle while lying my bed. I did this for a few times as it is very relaxing and mind claming but then a week ago something strange happend.

I hadn't lighted a candle over a week and one night while I were trying to sleep I could see the candle and the fire behind my closed eyelids. I was amazed and I started to really focus on the image, at first the fire was colored of a green shade but the more I kept my focus the fire turned more into it's real color and it felt like i was looking into a real fire while my eyes were closed. Eventually i fell asleep, I didn't put much thought into what happend the next day and forgot about it.

But then, yesterday something strange happend again.
I lighted up a candle and starting looking into it, clearing my mind and just watching the fire dance. After a while the fire got bigger and bigger in my vision and I felt that the fire was exactly infront of me, but then the fire started changing appearance. First it turned into some kind of ball with tubes connected to it, kinda like this picture:

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But then I kept my focus really hard and the fire started to turn into the appearance of a snake, I could only see the head of the snake and I felt like it were looking back at me, I kept staring at it for like 5minutes and then my brother came and interrupted me and my focus was gone and the fire turned into it's usual apperance again.
I can't understand how the fire turned into a snake in my own mind, I've tried searching around on google but i haven't seen this happend to anyone else so I now ask here, does anybody know's what this means or has this happend to someone else before? Would love some answers

Hello, I've always wondered how your brain is working in your dreams. Let's say that you're lucid dreaming, and all of the sudden start working on a math equation. Would this be harder or easier to solve then in the physical state, would you have a clearer mind about the equation in the dream, or would you just be confused and drift away? Haven't you heard "Got a big decision to make? Sleep on it".

It's like when some people get a hard decision they need to make, and suddenly get their answer after a good night sleep. Is there someone here that are experienced in this matters? Would really like some answers