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Hi Barbara,

Please take a peek at http://mercola.com , especially for the eating plan (http://mercola.com/nutritionplan/index.htm).

You also might want to look at a wonderful little book called Spiritual Marketing, of all things. (By Joe Vitale)

Hugs,

Mark

By remaining silent, the school could be construed as approving of the Christian message specifically. There's nothing wrong with disseminating your beliefs, but this was a obviously a planned, organized dispersal. A compromise could have been a statement by the school (on the PA during morning announcements, for example) that they did not necessarily agree with the views being presented, etc, etc.

Speaking from a minority perspective, I didn't really care during the holidays during highschool, but it was still a bit of a downer to see it everywhere. There's a difference between transformative spirituality and holding beliefs. And I think one tends to be lost when the other is pushed on you too hard.

On the other hand, it's nice to see kids who care. Their futures shouldn't be compromised, certainly. []

Mark

We are both the witness and the creator? Perceivors and stimuli? Seriously, it's supposed to be all One at the top, but I wouldn't know yet. []

You might want to try The Universe is a Green Dragon. It talks about how human self-reflection is really the universe's way of reflecting upon itself. Another point of view.

Mark

Hey Fat_Turkey [],

Robert posts personally about Kundalini in this thread (he continues over a few pages):

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1016&whichpage=2&SearchTerms=kundalini%2CKundalini

Mark

Hi manueuh,

Did you know that your skull slowly pulses as fluid is pumped around your brain and through your spine? I could be that, or energy movement, or maybe something else. []

Mark

Hey Gen-Army,

In Take Off Your Glasses and See, Jacob Liberman describes a Frenchman who lost his eyes in a war. Apparently, from his journals, he could see fine unless his emotions became too intense. Also, one of my father's friends is a healer. After a treatment, one of this healer's blind clients (I don't know if from birth or not--probably not.) was able to see for about 9 months and then the ability faded.

As higher states of consciousness are gradually accessed through meditation (or luck, or natural ability) one can apparently see with one's energy body. Robert Bruce refers to this as "astral sight." I know several people on the forum have mentioned experiencing this at one time or another. (I haven't managed it yet myself.)

I guess the trick is to do it while you're up and moving. [] But apparently some people have. Jacob Liberman mentioned above says that, objectively (light focusing ability), his eyes are still slightly myopic, but he claims to have 20/15 vision. (Better than 20/20.)

Anyway, if you're bypassing your physical eyes, I don't think seeing in the dark would be much of a problem. []

Mark

Whew, that's outside the context of my experiences. It sounds like you're having some sort of repeated "peak" experience, then dropping down into your usual level consciousness. Compared to the bliss, your usual level maybe feels worse then normal until you get used to it again. Or the peak experience unbalances your energy system/brain chemicals temporarily.

Only thing I can suggest is continued meditation and development to slowly raise your normal level of consciousness towards your peaks so you have more of a smooth ride. Of course, this will raise the peaks, but you'll probably catch up a bit. [] Also, strengthening your physical and energy body may make it easier to handle all that bliss running through you.

If you don't mind some tough going, Ken Wilber has little gems of personal meditation experience in One Taste.

One Taste provides context for practical exercises in Quantum Consciousness by Stephen Wolinsky (Ways to "strengthen" your consciousness to transcend those ups and downs).

And, finally, to strengthen your energy body, have you found Robert Bruce's New Energy Way's at:

http://www.astralpulse.com/guides/new/new.htm

Keep up those walks and recreation!

Please remember, I haven't experienced exactly what you're describing, so I don't speak with as much authority as I'd like. [] But I think picking and choosing from the above may be useful to you.

Anyone out there with more direct experience?

All the best,

Mark

During an obe and a lucid dream, I gained or "fixed" my sight by reaching up and pulling something away from my eyes as if they were being covered. During the obe it became the hood of a sweatshirt and a black cloth during the lucid dream. As they came off, vision was crystal clear. Easy to remember, and whatever works, right? Good luck!

All the best,

Mark

I find it hilarious, Tom, how much of our interests parallel. Photoreading has been on my list for a while. With respect to the integrity of the company, I purchased and practiced Spring Forest Qigong Level 1 for about two years and went to a seminar with Chunyi Lin. The SFQ1 course is very basic, but gentle and authentic for its limited scope. i'm sure it's been extremely beneficial to many people.

I'd put my money down for that company's products again, if I wanted something professional and helpful but intro level. But then again, I think photoreading is their "flagship" product.

I'll stop babbling now. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

Mark

Glen, sounds like a projection to me. I've never experienced it, but Robert Bruce mentions the racing heart several times in his work.

Another take on jerks and spasms: I read I think in Power Sleep that on the edge of sleep all of your muscles suddenly relax.

1) Usually people are more or less unconscious when this happens so they don't notice it. But when people are in trance or paying attention or only half-asleep, this is quite startling, causes an adrenaline rush, and a jerk in surprise.

2) There must be more to the falling though. People have described continuous falling sensations in trance and using that feeling to project, etc.

3) When I meditate my sinuses, back of my skull, neck, back all crackle and pop. And my neck twitches regularly and strongly. (Sometimes spontaneously and sometimes when I'm thinking about it.)

I'm curious now as to whether I'm actually causing my neck to jerk. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

All the best,

Mark

Hi username,

As your energy body develops, it'll get less itchy and become more of a pleasant vibration (at least in my experience). Also, as channels develop, you may feel less sensation as the "resistance" to flow decreases.

As you may know, energy collects where you place your awareness. Therefore, focusing on energy, even to draw it away from an area can cause more sensation rather than reducing it. Focusing solely on where you want the energy to go (sub-navel) may be more effective than working on moving energy from a starting location  to an ending location.

You may want to check out Robert Bruce's New Energy Ways. Strongly recommended. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>  It's available free online:

http://www.astralpulse.com/guides/new/new.htm

All the best,

Mark

Ok, I'll admit up front I only had time to skim the above posts; please bear with me. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

In my current understanding, meditation (among many of the benefits mentioned above) accelerates the evolution of your consciousness. It strengthens your consciousness so you can be aware of realms beyond the physical. Therefore, it is crucial for clairvoyant abilities, obe, etc. (Or, your consciousness simply develops naturally as you directly attempt these abilities.) I think of meditation as "weightlifting" for my consciousness, in a gentle, responsible way, of course.

When rodentmouse says he gets hazy during meditation, this is a sign of progress. He is accessing advanced states that he cannot yet sustain consciousness within. As he develops, he will remain aware within these states.

I imagine that, as states of consciousness enfolding the ego become available, that resting within those states quiets the mind naturally. (But I don't know yet for sure.)

This understanding has been developed primarily from One Taste by Ken Wilber as it correlates with my sketchy experience and other readings.

All the best,

Mark

Interesting what different people focus on. I've been working mostly with the sub-heart and sub-navel storage centers, as they're called in NEW. Abdominal breathing and heart breathing are what I do most, inhaling and exhaling into a specific center for say 7 minutes. (And then wiggling around and curling into a ball when it gets too emotionally intense. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>) I find this exercises the secondary system indirectly. And, of course, I move energy around, play with my outer field as the mood strikes me. I haven't woken up, even felt a chakra, in a while, though I will most likely do so again soon. The two storage centers I tend to feel quite strongly.

When I'm healing, I still don't get quite the flow I want. (And I'm not strobing yet, hence the work with the storage centers.) When I start feeling a comfortable flow, I'm going to work with the chakras to bring them into the healing mix. (And definitely chakra work if I need more "muscle" when I start practicing hard for obe's, and doing other crazy psychic things.)

I love this stuff! http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

Mark

[Originally posted by jdwills:]

quote:Originally posted by jdwills:
Thanks i will try NEW maybe theres still hope for my mother as she has been prescribed as theres no hope in the world for her but they didnt say Universe. But thet did say this about 15 years ago and she can see  to get around.

You're welcome. Have you considered dietary change? (I know it's almost impossible to get another person to change what they eat.) Honestly, if a diet is wrong, changing it for the better will probably have much more effect, at least initially, than energy work. (Especially for degenerative conditions of any type.) After all, you are what you eat.

My favorite nutrition site is:
http://mercola.com/nutritionplan/index.htm

Mark

Hi!

I'm reposting below a post Robert Bruce made a loooong time ago on the old forum. It's been reposted several times.

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NEW Healing Technique -- RB
On: Sun Jan 7 13:04:06 WST 2001
Posted by: Robert The Bruce [Robert@astraldynamics.com]
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G'day Julia!

Thank you for your progress report. You seem to be getting on really well with the NEW system. To answer your question concerning how NEW can be used to heal others...

Healing was my first love. It is a subject close to my heart.

What you have been doing will work well. Simply draw energy up your legs and 'feel' it moving down your arm(s) and into your patient.

A higher level of healing can be achieved if you have a little practice working with the primary centres.

For this method (which is the one I have used all my life for contact healing) prestimulate feet and legs, then use the full body circuit a few times. When you are ready to begin, sit your patient down and ask them to close their eyes (if this is appropriate, depending on the circumstances).

Close your eyes and relax for a few moments. Say a simple prayer for healing for the patient, i.e., "Beloved Father, please give healing to this person." but keep it simple. Place your hands on the patient and draw energy up through your legs and torso to your heart centre, and feel the energy overflowing in a Y shape and pouring down both your arms, and into your patient.

The breathing below is comprised of full inhales and exhales.

During each IN breath, draw energy to your heart centre and feel it accumulating therein until your lungs are full.

During each OUT breath, push the energy from your heart, down your arms and into your patient.

Continue the above process until the heart centre strobes several times. When this happens, you will feel a whole body orgasmic sensation. Energy will pulse powerfully into your patient. The heart centre strobe is a very noticeable, pleasurable sensation for the healer. When the strobe happens, the intensity of your breathing may increase quite a bit; this is normal. It can be quite a breathtaking sensation.

The strobe will pulse several times, with its intensity being affected by the energy deficit in the patient. If, after the first strobing pulses, the healer continues pumping energy into the patient, the heart centre can be made to strobe again, sometimes with several 'episodes' groups of pulsing. But one or two sets of strobing are generally enough for a single healing session.

The heart centre accumulates secondary energy, as energy is passed through it. But while this is happening, healing is still taking place through the secondary level. Whether or not the heart centre can be made to strobe will depend on development. But this will happen if you keep practicing. The best way to practice is to give healing to those whom need it.

The above can also be applied to distance healing.

A letter, photograph or email letter (onscreen or printed) can be used to make the connection. If you personally know the patient, this in itself is enough, and you can then just 'imagine' them being in front of you.

For distance healing, what I call 'computer healing' do the following.

Sit in front of your pc, with the letter onscreen.

Close eyes, relax, trance if possible, and say a healing prayer for the patient.

Raise energy as per the contact healing method given above.

Imagine the patient's head is directly in front of you, within easy reach. Perfection is not required, just imagine generally.

Reach out and place your hands (your real hands) onto the imagined head.

Pulse the healing energy through the heart centre, as per normal contact healing.

You'll find the results are the same. If your patient is also relaxing, they will often feel your hands and the healing energy flowing into them.

This works well on a chat or talk program, where the patient relaxes, closes eyes and receives the healing as the healing is being given.

The above method, when used a lot, programs your energy body to respond to sick people, or people low on energy. You will find, in time, the healing will begin accumulating in your heart centre, and flowing into a patient in need, whenever you are close to one in person, or connected to one, i.e., email, chat, etc.

With more practice, the healing act, with full heart centre strobing, can be accomplished in under thirty seconds. This makes it possible to treat a great many patients, if one has a healing centre.

This level of healing is invigorating for the healer and does not take energy from them. It can, however, make one hungry; especially if many patients are treated in a row.

The amount of energy that can be produced, especially for those new to healing, is increased by the trance state. This is part of the reason why I always recommend people develop a robust trance state, so they can operate from within it, i.e., be able to move their arms and talk, etc.

This is the simplest and most powerful healing technique I know of.

Just for interest......

25 years ago, when I opened my first healing centre, my first patient was an 11 year old boy with a serious eye disorder. He wore thick, shot-glass glasses, and was steadily going blind. During three subsequent weekly visits, his eyes improved to the point where he threw away his glasses. Worried, his mother took him to the eye doctor where he was tested for new glasses. His doctor was amazed as the boy now had 20/20 vision. I met this boy, now a man of 36, a few weeks ago. He still has perfect eyesight, and still gave me a hug, just like he used to after healing.


Anyway, back to work for me. I hope this helps....

Take care, Robert.

Human life is full of magic, one only needs to spot it.


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Ok, that's the end of Robert's post. Back to me again. What Robert describes above will work at any level. To help the strobing to start happening sooner, here's some "weightlifting" you can do:

1) of course practice Robert's "New Energy Ways" system. It's available free here:

http://www.astralpulse.com/guides/new/new.htm

2) here's my little addition

Lie on your back and place one hand on your lower abdomen and one hand on your chest. Breath so that your lower hand moves up and down and your upper hand moves very little. This is just breathing abdominally. Once you get the hang of it, you don't need the hands and you don't need to be lying down. And don't worry if you forget to do it sometimes.

Ok, now the important part. While you're breathing abdominally or otherwise, place your awareness on your heart area. Inhale into your heart (even though you may be breathing abodominally and it's actually your stomach that rises. And exhale into your heart.

Simply, heart breathing. This will exercise the heart energy center and help it to be able to strobe. Heart breathing, or any "energy exercise" may stir up old emotions and help them to be released and cleared. If you feel anxious or any other emotion you don't enjoy while you practice, you may want to sit back, breath normally, and feel/let the emotion flow through you. Play, see what happens!

All the best,

Mark

[Originally posted by Jargon:]

quote:Originally posted by Jargon:
ur projected double will move its head into alignment but ur physical head wont be... voila... head seperation, this should induce the major vibrations and u can work from there.

Whoa, that's an interesting idea. When I try and separate, my head always imperceptibly tilts in the direction I'm trying to roll out. I wonder if my head was tilted one way, and I was trying to roll out the other way...

Anyway, here's a fun, non-obvious meditation posture:

Lie on your back, with the soles of your feet touching together. (Your knees will be bent, and your legs spread open. Then, put the palms of your hands ttogether, or rest your hands on your stomach. Then breath abdominally, inhaling and exhaling into the sub-navel storage center.

This is great for storing energy/charging up. Energy can't escape through your hands and feet.

Mark

I didn't even know the website had that information. Thanks! Another project that I think is under development is "Mastering Astral Projection." Kinda a unification of Astral Dynamics and the 90 day plan on the website. Writing is soooo hard. And I am sooooo excited for this stuff to come out. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

Mark

Sounds a lot like my only two "full-blown" experiences: lots of flopping around, confusion, especially the lights not working. Robert Bruce mentions in Astral Dynamics that a light switch that doesn't work (but possibly still "clicks") is a pretty good giveaway if you're looking back on your evening.

All the best,

Mark

I think I know what you mean. Sort of waking up in bed, already awake?

Same thing happens to me, I think, but it never leaves such an impact on me so maybe I'm experiencing something different. First I become lucid, wake up in the dream. Then I try to maintain the experience so I can explore, but everything melts away to blackness and I'm left just in bed...then I open my eyes.

The waking up seems to happen before waking up.

Thanks for making me give this situation a double-take. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

Mark

[Originally posted by quant:]

quote:Originally posted by quant:
Hehe, it's funny you should say that Oliver, before i could do TK i had dreams that i could do it, and i could also feel how it felt to move objects in my dreams.  Once i was able to move the object for real.  When i did move it for real, sometimes it did feel like it did in the dream.  Strange...

I've had dreams too, where I could just do it. It felt so natural and normal. And I've also had dreams where the memory of how to do it was just out of my reach. Same goes for passing my hand through things. So strange...

Can anyone  "reach out" and feel an object, with energy, I suppose? I feel like being able to give it a push or pull would just require a little more "muscle."

Mark

Enjoying them sounds like a great approach. Whenever I start to do something they slowly fade.

Congrats!

Mark

Sleep is a tough one, at least for me. Most people are carrying around hours of sleep debt. (This is a real phenomenon, see "The Promise of Sleep" by William Dement, I think.)  If you get an extra hour of sleep for a few weeks it might not be a problem anymore.

On the other hand, when I'm very sleep deprived and I nap I get all sorts of obe-ish effects as I drift in and out of sleep.

Good luck!

Mark

Hi auraseer,

Much has been written about energy and sexual practice throughout the centuries! It can be a very powerful way to work with and cultivate energy, and it's also a lot of fun.

For some very practical advice and exercises that integrate sexuality, emotions, and energetic perception, I recommend "The Lover Within" by Julie Henderson. This book was first mentioned on this forum by Donni. (Thanks Donni!)

quote:If you females are wondering "What is the big deal with messing with theirselves?", Its a male thing .

In my humble understanding, I believe it is a female thing as well. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile_wink.gif" border=0>

All the best,

Mark

[Originally posted by Lucius:]

quote:Originally posted by Lucius:
Working with energy to improve eyesight, one might always consider to also "open the doors (or windows) of perception".

In many instances one may find energetic distortions around the area of the eyes especially which make it difficult to see clearly. It is possible that the muscles referred to which are said to pull the eyeballs out of shape are trying to compensate as they are straining to "see reality" through a haze of energetic shields and blockages.

L.

Hi, are you referring to "The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell"
by Aldous Huxley? I can't seem to find anything else.

Thanks!

Mark

Hey all,

I recommend "The Biology of Transcendence" by Joseph Pearce. Parts of it are rough going, but he comments extensively on the spiritual evolution of our race and ways to encourage it to continue with respect to childrearing.

Mark