Hello,
I am a new member to this forum and astral projection in general. I have been studying NEW Energy Ways and training hard, but currently feel rather isolated and alone in my ventures out into the 'Twilight Zone'!
Basically, given my sense of isolation in this venture, and that a previous teacher of mine advised me against such practices due to his own bad experiences, I need a little help and reassurance. I have a couple of questions based on recent experiences over the last year. Below these I have tried to provide a brief summary of my key experiences to date.
Main Question:
1. Am I doing the right things, or should I be nervous?
I honestly feel like I am out there in the ,Twilight Zone, quite isolated with no one else around with comparable experience and knowledge who might help and guide me further. Not even my Reiki teacher with who I have recently started training. He was clearly taken aback by the experiences I have described below. He himself has had a brief experience with OBE, but encountered some kind of entity trying to put bad thoughts in his head, as he put it and has never attempted OBE again. It is very tiring to keep trying to test the boundaries all by myself all the time. I have now started studying the Kabalah, and text books on hermetic orders such as 'The Golden Dawn', though my natural instincts and inclination is to stay with a more rational (less religious or mystical) course of study (support group) such as I found within basic Qi Gong training.
Further questions:
2. Does Reiki really utilise the external energy field and merely channel it? Or is this merely a psychological trick to help achieve the mental states required or even protect their knowledge for profit? I have found one site by claimed experts that sais it comes purely from within, that full attunement can be achieved in one session and even self-performed - no outside help needed. This intuitively sounds correct, but is it?
3. How do I overcome these more recent exit problems of tension and pressure build up - And ensure that I do not continue to miss the boat?
4. How to move to a higher astral dimension directly, targeting a specific level using chakra stimulation?
5. How to get back to real-time AP from a dream pool or other higher astral dimensions.
6. What happens if you enter into your computer, especially whilst it is switched on?
7. Psychic Self-Defense - What about Hugging? Don't Friends get shot by association (contact and proximity)?
8. Can anyone explain to me the full details and techniques of grounding?
9. The Tai Chi 'Three Circle Stance': can anyone explain to me how that works and is performed according to the official system?
10. When performing a balancing type action during Reiki, I have also experimented with placing my hands at the crown of the head and on the lower abdomen area, with very strong sensations experienced. This is not one of the official hand positions, so is this approach (for comfort convenience, to save time as well as target certain areas) efficable and what was the meaning of the sharp stabbing type sensation I experienced through the centre of my hands? I have experienced strong pulsing effects before, especially when bouncing my awareness through the bubbling well points, but never was it painful before!
Hoping there is some kind guide out there, anywhere!
Kr,
Chris
------- Chi Kung Training Background ---------------
My training started with simple rooting exercises for martial arts and self-defence training purposes. I then studied extensively various books by well renowned Japanese and Chinese authors on Aikido such as ' ki in daily lif'e and various Tai Chi and Qi Gong books in general. I started to practice what they taught, in the form of rooted relaxation and basic breathing exercise, particularly rooting and extending of chi through the arms and hands. Later on I started meditation and chi circulation exercise based on the Chinese Qi Gong systems. More recently I have studied NEW Energy Ways.
However, when I started out, I was not fully convinced about chi, other than increased air capacity via controlled hyper-ventilation. This caused me to experiment and pump-up the volume in order to feel something definitive rather than auto-suggestion and that lead the following experience.
------- Small Universe Circulation – hot energy hand paralysis -----------
In my early chi kung training days, I did once badly lose control of the chi, though luckily it went down my arms, the second largest channel in the body. I had crossed my legs to block off this channel for the purpose of the exercise. The result was that my hands became paralysed for about ten minutes. I had an extreme sensation in those areas of burning and that might hands were about to explode. I had to concentrate very hard indeed, whilst redoubling my relaxation effort in an attempt to extend my chi beyond and out of hands to disperse the over-load. It still took over ten minutes for me to regain control.
I have since been very cautious about pumping-up the volume and particularly concerned (nervous of) about any strong sensations around the heart and lung areas. Since this time I have also studied as much as I can about Kundalini Yoga and NEW Energy Ways, the latter of which has appealed strongly to me by intuition as well as general education and training background. Consequently I have had the following key/ milestone experiences:
------ November 2004: Energy massage – cool magnetic energy surge like pale green / white flames -----------
I had recently been studying the NEW ways system devised by Robert Bruce, a natural mystic and medium. . During the night, just before going to sleep, I had been trying a little energy balancing massage on my wife by placing my hands on the main stress storage areas then dissolving my arms and body to allow the free flow of energy as she needed it. I had used a new emptying technique I had learned to open up my body. Not only did my wife report very strong and unusual sensations (apart from heat from my hands), but I also felt a cool and magnetic like energy stream rush up my spine. It was so clear and transparent that it made me nervous and I limited its ascent to the solar-plexus area and then directed it back downwards. Previous chi kung training had been like trying to look through a cloud and mist to sense the energy flows. The ease and speed with which I achieved the trance state also made me nervous, as I could feel myself dropping automatically back into it, whilst trying to get to sleep after the massage session. (I guess I am a bit of a control freak!)
It was the next morning that I experienced my first conscious and deliberate OBE. I kept the process fairly simple and short because I felt the conditions were right. What amazed me was more the ease with which it was achieved and the incredible sensations of a hurricane blowing behind my head / ears and neck once I returned. I also experience a massive energy field around me and a painful cramping sensation in the upper left abdominal area, near where I have a broken rib from and old training injury. The exit methods I used were a simple sitting up aided by the 'Rope Pulling' method when that got stuck at the abdomen area.
------ Early May 2004 ----------
On another occasion I was practicing small universe circulation and had pumped up the volume quite high. I experienced a sudden massive surge of energy from my spine to my forehead. The pressure was very intense indeed and quite painful. I tried to direct it down the front of my body, but found this difficult. Eventually I managed to get it to subside, but only by discontinuing that exercise.
------- Week 21 May, 2005 ----------
Recently I have also been studying more about healing techniques and have been doing some practice of raising the energy, charging up my Heart Chakra and pumping energy down the arms. The main difference between this and previous Chi training is that I was raising up from the legs via the heart Chakra in order to create the required activation and storage effect before pumping the energy down my arms to my hands (Palms). Last week in week 21 of May, 2005, I was again on the sofa trying to practice and improve my meditative trance state, as well as raising a moderate amount of chi. Suddenly I experience powerful strobing flashes of light and the most amazing sound effects. I can no longer remember the whole episode, but the main features I can only describe as the opening or closing of massive cargo bay doors on a space ship!
------ Tuesday 14th June, 2005-06-15 --------
This time I was experimenting again with healing techniques of raising energy upto the heart Chakra to store and amplify it before pumping it down the arms in order to learn if I could enhance the Reiki energy effects. I had also been raising chi into my abdomen quite a lot in preparation as I walked about on my daily activities.I was in a very light trance and semi-relaxed state with eyes closed. I had not done more than a handful of pumping actions when, as I raised the chi to my heart, it slipped past and suddenly snapped up into my head. It was as if someone had turned the lights off! It was suddenly very dark and I felt as if mentally I had suddenly dropped into a much deeper trance state. As I started to concentrate on delivery Reiki again, by directing the chi back down my arms and focusing on the pulse in my palms, the extreme darkness gradually eased off again.
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I am a new member to this forum and astral projection in general. I have been studying NEW Energy Ways and training hard, but currently feel rather isolated and alone in my ventures out into the 'Twilight Zone'!
Basically, given my sense of isolation in this venture, and that a previous teacher of mine advised me against such practices due to his own bad experiences, I need a little help and reassurance. I have a couple of questions based on recent experiences over the last year. Below these I have tried to provide a brief summary of my key experiences to date.
Main Question:
1. Am I doing the right things, or should I be nervous?
I honestly feel like I am out there in the ,Twilight Zone, quite isolated with no one else around with comparable experience and knowledge who might help and guide me further. Not even my Reiki teacher with who I have recently started training. He was clearly taken aback by the experiences I have described below. He himself has had a brief experience with OBE, but encountered some kind of entity trying to put bad thoughts in his head, as he put it and has never attempted OBE again. It is very tiring to keep trying to test the boundaries all by myself all the time. I have now started studying the Kabalah, and text books on hermetic orders such as 'The Golden Dawn', though my natural instincts and inclination is to stay with a more rational (less religious or mystical) course of study (support group) such as I found within basic Qi Gong training.
Further questions:
2. Does Reiki really utilise the external energy field and merely channel it? Or is this merely a psychological trick to help achieve the mental states required or even protect their knowledge for profit? I have found one site by claimed experts that sais it comes purely from within, that full attunement can be achieved in one session and even self-performed - no outside help needed. This intuitively sounds correct, but is it?
3. How do I overcome these more recent exit problems of tension and pressure build up - And ensure that I do not continue to miss the boat?
4. How to move to a higher astral dimension directly, targeting a specific level using chakra stimulation?
5. How to get back to real-time AP from a dream pool or other higher astral dimensions.
6. What happens if you enter into your computer, especially whilst it is switched on?
7. Psychic Self-Defense - What about Hugging? Don't Friends get shot by association (contact and proximity)?
8. Can anyone explain to me the full details and techniques of grounding?
9. The Tai Chi 'Three Circle Stance': can anyone explain to me how that works and is performed according to the official system?
10. When performing a balancing type action during Reiki, I have also experimented with placing my hands at the crown of the head and on the lower abdomen area, with very strong sensations experienced. This is not one of the official hand positions, so is this approach (for comfort convenience, to save time as well as target certain areas) efficable and what was the meaning of the sharp stabbing type sensation I experienced through the centre of my hands? I have experienced strong pulsing effects before, especially when bouncing my awareness through the bubbling well points, but never was it painful before!
Hoping there is some kind guide out there, anywhere!
Kr,
Chris
------- Chi Kung Training Background ---------------
My training started with simple rooting exercises for martial arts and self-defence training purposes. I then studied extensively various books by well renowned Japanese and Chinese authors on Aikido such as ' ki in daily lif'e and various Tai Chi and Qi Gong books in general. I started to practice what they taught, in the form of rooted relaxation and basic breathing exercise, particularly rooting and extending of chi through the arms and hands. Later on I started meditation and chi circulation exercise based on the Chinese Qi Gong systems. More recently I have studied NEW Energy Ways.
However, when I started out, I was not fully convinced about chi, other than increased air capacity via controlled hyper-ventilation. This caused me to experiment and pump-up the volume in order to feel something definitive rather than auto-suggestion and that lead the following experience.
------- Small Universe Circulation – hot energy hand paralysis -----------
In my early chi kung training days, I did once badly lose control of the chi, though luckily it went down my arms, the second largest channel in the body. I had crossed my legs to block off this channel for the purpose of the exercise. The result was that my hands became paralysed for about ten minutes. I had an extreme sensation in those areas of burning and that might hands were about to explode. I had to concentrate very hard indeed, whilst redoubling my relaxation effort in an attempt to extend my chi beyond and out of hands to disperse the over-load. It still took over ten minutes for me to regain control.
I have since been very cautious about pumping-up the volume and particularly concerned (nervous of) about any strong sensations around the heart and lung areas. Since this time I have also studied as much as I can about Kundalini Yoga and NEW Energy Ways, the latter of which has appealed strongly to me by intuition as well as general education and training background. Consequently I have had the following key/ milestone experiences:
------ November 2004: Energy massage – cool magnetic energy surge like pale green / white flames -----------
I had recently been studying the NEW ways system devised by Robert Bruce, a natural mystic and medium. . During the night, just before going to sleep, I had been trying a little energy balancing massage on my wife by placing my hands on the main stress storage areas then dissolving my arms and body to allow the free flow of energy as she needed it. I had used a new emptying technique I had learned to open up my body. Not only did my wife report very strong and unusual sensations (apart from heat from my hands), but I also felt a cool and magnetic like energy stream rush up my spine. It was so clear and transparent that it made me nervous and I limited its ascent to the solar-plexus area and then directed it back downwards. Previous chi kung training had been like trying to look through a cloud and mist to sense the energy flows. The ease and speed with which I achieved the trance state also made me nervous, as I could feel myself dropping automatically back into it, whilst trying to get to sleep after the massage session. (I guess I am a bit of a control freak!)
It was the next morning that I experienced my first conscious and deliberate OBE. I kept the process fairly simple and short because I felt the conditions were right. What amazed me was more the ease with which it was achieved and the incredible sensations of a hurricane blowing behind my head / ears and neck once I returned. I also experience a massive energy field around me and a painful cramping sensation in the upper left abdominal area, near where I have a broken rib from and old training injury. The exit methods I used were a simple sitting up aided by the 'Rope Pulling' method when that got stuck at the abdomen area.
------ Early May 2004 ----------
On another occasion I was practicing small universe circulation and had pumped up the volume quite high. I experienced a sudden massive surge of energy from my spine to my forehead. The pressure was very intense indeed and quite painful. I tried to direct it down the front of my body, but found this difficult. Eventually I managed to get it to subside, but only by discontinuing that exercise.
------- Week 21 May, 2005 ----------
Recently I have also been studying more about healing techniques and have been doing some practice of raising the energy, charging up my Heart Chakra and pumping energy down the arms. The main difference between this and previous Chi training is that I was raising up from the legs via the heart Chakra in order to create the required activation and storage effect before pumping the energy down my arms to my hands (Palms). Last week in week 21 of May, 2005, I was again on the sofa trying to practice and improve my meditative trance state, as well as raising a moderate amount of chi. Suddenly I experience powerful strobing flashes of light and the most amazing sound effects. I can no longer remember the whole episode, but the main features I can only describe as the opening or closing of massive cargo bay doors on a space ship!
------ Tuesday 14th June, 2005-06-15 --------
This time I was experimenting again with healing techniques of raising energy upto the heart Chakra to store and amplify it before pumping it down the arms in order to learn if I could enhance the Reiki energy effects. I had also been raising chi into my abdomen quite a lot in preparation as I walked about on my daily activities.I was in a very light trance and semi-relaxed state with eyes closed. I had not done more than a handful of pumping actions when, as I raised the chi to my heart, it slipped past and suddenly snapped up into my head. It was as if someone had turned the lights off! It was suddenly very dark and I felt as if mentally I had suddenly dropped into a much deeper trance state. As I started to concentrate on delivery Reiki again, by directing the chi back down my arms and focusing on the pulse in my palms, the extreme darkness gradually eased off again.
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