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4) I think the entire universe is moving toward one goal and I don't think that goal is love. I think it is more one of acceptance and inclusion.[/color]

I just wanted to quickly point out that "acceptance and inclusion" are both Love-based concepts.

Update: It worked! I had my first lucid dream in over a year the first night I took Galantamine! I heard the loud "ringing noise" in my ear in the middle of the night, focused on it until it became jet engine loud, and then poof! I rolled out of my body and was in the dream world! I flew around with crazed excitement, shot energy blasts out of my hands like dragon ball z, and climbed up buildings. I sort of slipped back into a dream for a while on accident, and then remembered I was dreaming again. After that, the experienced ended. I'm going to take them again tonight (you're only supposed to take them 3 nights a week). Will update tomorrow if I have another LD.

Now the problem becomes... did you have the projection because of the pills or because you wanted it badly?  Guess we'll never know.

And therein lies the problem with popping pills.

I have had sp.   When I get sp I am awake.   I am aware and alert.   My body is temporary paralyzed.    It only lasts for a short time.

You aren't physically awake.  If you were to record yourself while you were having a sleep paralysis experience, you wouldn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
While, at the time, you might be having what you think is the struggle of your life with your eyes wide open and trying in vain to move... the video of your physical body would simply look like it's having a good, deep sleep.

So yes, you ARE awake and alert... in as much as you are awake and alert when you're projecting.

Think about that for a second. 

spirituality is fun on its own but I wouldn't want to get lost. to me religion is just a law, spirituality itself being what is proved. to stick with religion for me I would find it limiting. too much control and authority (if that word works). so zen meditation is my standby.

Religion is about finding truth in somebody else's belief (an impossible task, to say the least).
Spirituality is about finding truth in yourself.

I don't understand Xanth, to me, projecting is an awake state. What is the difference between your body being asleep and you experiencing a dream vs your body being asleep and you experiencing the passive state of being in sleep paralysis.

Nothing really.  Perspective?

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Any links pointing off site are the responsibility of either that site or the poster here.  We can't fix them, unfortunately.

All our lives involve a lot of learning.
Do you have any messages or lessons that you have learnt, to share with us? This would greatly aid all of us

Yes.

Life your PHYSICAL life.  There's a reason you're here, and it's not to "not be here". 
Balance in all things, right? 

I confirmed this with the videos David Warner took of himself while he projected and experienced Sleep Paraylsis...

During SP, you're not awake.  Your physical body is 100% asleep.  When people experience sleep paralysis, their physical bodies are fast asleep.  You're projecting.

So, if you're still awake and feeling tense muscles, then you've got a bit further to go unfortunately.

Instead, don't focus on experiencing sleep paralysis.  It's not required.  Just work on pushing your awareness away from this physical reality.

No.  You're a physical being, born into and part of this physical reality.  You're constrained to work within the limits of this particular reality.
Any physical reality "offspring" you have follows that same logic.

It's not heights that scares me... it's the splattering on the ground I fear the most.   

So I've been learning to astral project and I can tell that I am almost there.  I have had some of the various physical sensations like vibrations and buzzing and have seen shadows of images flashing behind my eyelids.  But I'm pretty sure that my throat chakra is holding me back, it's been blocked my entire life and I think I can tell because I have man of the physical symptoms that tend to be associated with it.  Recently I have been doing a lot of work to try to strengthen and open that chakra along with the other six, when I get to the point in my meditation where I'm starting to astral project I feel a huge lump in my throat that makes it almost hard to breathe and I start salivating more than normal.  Any physical movement like swallowing makes it go away.  I've been working on mentally focusing on not doing anything that would disturb that sensation because I'm thinking that it is a sign that the chakra is opening.

Has anyone else had this experience and if so can anyone help me understand what is happening and what I should do?

Thank you all.

From your post... I can tell you this:

You have no issues with your throat chakra.  
You BELIEVE you have issues with your throat chakra, and that belief is all that's holding you back.

You're well-spoke and communicate effectively.  You have no issues with your throat chakra.

With that said, stop worrying so much about stuff like needing to swallow.  Just do it.  Do you worry this much when you fall asleep at night?  Probably not.  You just lie down and fall asleep.  Well, projecting isn't any different.  You lie down and "just project".  If you need to scratch an itch, do it.  If you need to swallow, do it.  Do it calmly and gently so you don't break yourself too much out of your state of mind, but just do it.

I can meditate, get really deep and into it... then, UH OH!  I have to go to bathroom...
It's not a problem.  You open your eyes, calmly and quietly get up, calmly and quietly go to the bathroom, do your stuff... then go and sit back down.  This act of getting up shouldn't completely break your focus.

If a simple movement such as "swallowing" is breaking your focus, then you're worrying too much.

Just relax.  

Also, this seems to be a concern for a lot of people.  So if you don't mind, I'm going to post this up on my website (with your post as well) and hopefully it can help other people too! 

Watched a little... good stuff. 
Keep it up!

Skydivers, base jumpers and wing suit flyers.

Why do you think they're continually doing what they do?
They're not content at all... they're always seeking and wanting that next thrill.
They couldn't sit down and just "be" anymore than someone addicted to drugs couldn't look for their next hit.

Once I achieve astral projection can I change my life? Will I get a good job opportunity or know more about life secrets? Can I find a way to success and happiness and without having to work too hard, I'm a bit lazy and I think I can't change that?

First, you don't EVER need to project in order to change your life.  Everything is entirely up to you.  Nothing will EVER drop into your lap for you.

Everything requires hard work. 

You've already identified your first step to what you have to do. 

"I'm a bit lazy".  Begin there.

I feel like this dimension is so limiting especially when we compare this dimension too the higher ones I I've been it seems soo much more positive and there seems too be so much more life on the other planets on Mars Jupiter and from my understanding Pluto but you see why I just feel isolated now that I know about life in the other demension and in the spirit realm

Finding that same "positivity" in THIS reality as you do in the others is a small part of awakening and enlightenment.

LOL, so we do have a couple of smart arses in the bunch. 

I'm actually deadly serious. 

Think about the times in your life when you were most happy... they usually come AFTER you've got what you were looking for.
That point between when you get something to when you want something else is when you're most content.

Sometimes that point can last a second, a minute, an hour, a week... whatever... but it's there.  Try to look for it the next time you get what you want.
The moment that contentedness goes away is the moment the desire for something else hits you.

Being content and happy means no longer seeking.

Those who are no longer seeking.

Pretty straight forward question. What do you's think of using ego to bodybuild and gain self-confidence from a spiritual point of view? I guess it's a question of the pros outweighing the cons I tend to think here. But I am open to another way of seeing it.

What exactly is your goal in this?  Are you looking to impress people?  Are you looking to make yourself feel better?  Are you looking to just get healthier?

INTENT.

Still don't get difference between imagination and visualisation , for example when i imagine my city and flying in the streets and like my visiion is real copy of city is it visualisation or imagining ?

Exactly why people are confused.  Just like "AP" and "LD" are the same thing... "imagination" and "visualization" are the same thing.

Remember, there's nothing "visual" about visualization.  You don't SEE what you're visualizing.  You "perceive" it.

It's like if I asked you to remember a happy memory of you in the past.  When you remember it, you don't SEE it... you perceive it. 

Once you go from perceiving something to SEEING it, then you're no longer visualizing, you've now moved into something more akin to remote viewing.

Are visualization skills required to do astral projection?
Please help because I'm unable to visualize things. All I see when I close my eyes is darkness

All you *SEE* is blackness?  That's fine. 
You're making the same mistake most people do... "visualization" has nothing to do with physically SEEING what you're visualizing.

Read this:  http://www.astraldynamics.com.au/content.php?205-Part-2-NO-Visualization

It's probably one of the few things Robert Bruce and I wholefully seem to agree upon.  LoL

I read on another astral projection site that astral projection leads to spiritual enlightenment.How so?

If you're "expecting" projecting to lead to spiritual enlightenment, then no.  You're out of luck. 

As Nameless pointed out, it can certainly increase your perspective on consciousness and reality as a whole, but that concept alone, is only one extremely small part of the equation.

[Just not in the way you THINK it will.]

If astral projection truly is as powerful as I believe I am not sure that I agree that it doesn't matter Xanth. The ability to astral project at will would change my life in a bigger way than anything I have experienced. I believe in the objective of love, but it is such an abstract concept I can't get my head around it honestly. Loving my fellow man without projection isn't going to solve as many problems as it would if I could obtain advanced knowledge to generate free power like a Nichola Tesla character.

And you're 100% right.  The ability to project DOES change your life in a bigger way.  Just not in the way you THINK it will. 
It teaches you to embrace this physical life of yours to a much greater degree.

Thought I'd share this here!
This past Saturday morning and afternoon I spent training with a couple of Yoshinkan Aikido's highest ranked instructors.
It was an absolute blast and I learned SO MUCH from these two 8th Dan instructors.
Robert Mustard Sensei and Joe Thambu Sensei, two extrodinary gentlemen whom you would swear do magic.  

Indeed. I was just beginning to wonder.

And seriously... It's more funny since I'm the administrator here and those are the words *I* typed.  hehe
The administrator telling people to not worry about projecting!  HA! 

People really need to put things into perspective.  
I know this is only my experience, but it's an experience I try to share as much as possible... one of the most valuable lessons I've ever learned through my projections is that "Projecting" really isn't important.  If your goal is spiritual in nature, as in you want to better yourself as a person, a human being or as a being of consciousness...

... then the absolute best thing you can do for yourself is to learn to Love (as close as you can) *EVERYONE* as much as you can.  Be as kind as you can.  Everyone deserves it... even your worst enemy... ESPECIALLY your worst enemy, as they need your love the most.

When you start doing that... when you start growing as a being of consciousness, you'll begin to see how everything we experience in all planes of existence are intertwined.  You'll begin to open more to the truth of reality and, I guarantee, it *WILL* hit you like a tonne of bricks changing your life forever in ways you can't even begin to consider right now.

I choose to continue to administrate this forum because I know where it will eventually lead you... and it's not projection.  It's THROUGH projection where you will learn that lesson though.  So I teach.

You guys worry too much about "dry spells". 
Projecting isn't that important.  At least, it's not as important as actually living your life here the best you can.