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It didn't take long to try out my nvc again in an LD.  I became lucid and was trying to remember what I needed to practice.  It was just at the edge of my awareness so I asked for a guide to show up.  A woman appeared and introduced herself and started talking to me.  I was unable to hear her and everything was muffled.  'Oh Yeah' I thought...it was nvc that I needed to practice.  I put my hands to the sides of my head and touched my fingers to my temples and was trying to focus in on her.  I still wasn't getting anything so she pulled out a hand held device and adjusted the frequency and than I could hear her voice inside my head very sharply.  I thought out to her 'Thank you'.  I don't know if that worked or not but I was than thinking I should ask her what her name was again since I missed that at the beginning.  There was a man next to me now and he asked her what I was thinking.  It seemed to me he was my interpreter.  She introduced herself again.  Shortly after I started loosing my awareness and ended up waking up.

I feel that I will still need to practice the nvc for receiving and sending thoughts (hence...the interpreter).

It never fails to amaze me at all the excellent responses that get posted here on the Pulse!  There is so much Wisdom, Experience, Perspective and Insight from the members here.  I hope this forum will still be here 10 years from now!  I have learned so much from members responses here not only from my own threads but from reading all the others. 

I can't imagine being a pioneer in this field and having to learn and fumble thru all on your own.  It's great to learn things on your own but it's also great knowing that help is only a 'post' away.

Thanks to all the effort everyone puts into their replies! 
Cheers! 

I would like to be the conscious observer fly on the wall for some of these experiences! 

Thanks for the replies Karxx Gxx, Nameless and EV. 

I have had other LD's where I have had difficulty hearing/understanding and have failed to understand why but now things are starting to fall into place.  EV...I Like your concept of the 'curriculum' and that we must all follow and develop our skills thru this progression. 

Maybe the 'system' somehow allows for what seems like normal, verbal communication for awhile, but at some point in our development the 'system' pushes us to learn a new way, NVC.

I feel that this reflects me perfectly but now I must learn to adapt in order to progress.  I do recall in a past post of mine where the suggestion was for me to try NVC instead of all the questions I used to ask in LD's.  I guess that comment didn't stick as things back than were so new and overwhelming to me when I was first starting to have the NP experiences!

I look forward to the challenges in future experiences and I suspect that I will have to consciously kick-start it as Karxx Gxx suggests but hopefully things will become more natural and intuitive without having to think about it. 

A couple of nights ago I received my first lesson on NVC during an LD.  I was speaking with a Dream character and was having trouble hearing him.  He put his fingers in both of my ears and demonstrated by tuning in and out of different frequencies like tuning into different radio stations.  Hopefully I will remember to practice this next time. 

Does this come naturally to everyone when you are communicating with others in LD's / AP's or do you mentally and consciously have to tune into others each time you are interacting?

Wishing everyone here a warm and Happy Holiday season!

Cheers to everyone progressing on their own journey!

I have always enjoyed the topic of Synchronicity and am currently listening to an audio book on the subject.  I have tried this before but tried it again last night as a test.  I asked if I was on the right spiritual path and if I am making progress?  I asked to be shown a turtle as a sign.  Being the dead of winter I thought this would be a good test.  It only took 20 minutes and a commercial came on the TV with a turtle being the main character of the advertisement.   It made me smile!  It's nice to know the Universe is listening.

I think the whole point of the kick back and relax is just to wind down a little from your day before you start the exercises.  Better to calm the monkey mind chatter before you start.  You can relax a little with your hands behind your head or just sit in a recliner and listen to some music for a bit before the exercise.  There is no rigid requirements to relax before you start.  Whatever feels good to you!

Cheers!

shineling,

Always enjoy reading your AP's!  Sorry to hear about your kitty.  Always tough loosing a member of the family.  I had my cat from when he was only about 6 weeks old but had to put him down last year.  He was a couple months shy of 20 years!

I just wanted to comment about seeing your kitty during your AP.  A few years ago while my cat was still alive I had been napping on the sofa and my cat was also sleeping nearby in the living room.  I had a spontaneous OBE (RTZ) and I saw my cat walking around as well even though I knew he was sleeping.  I believe they AP all the time and probably explains why they sleep so much!

Keep up the great posts!

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Thanks Lumaza for getting to hear more of your life story.  I have read bits and pieces of it in various threads and posts over the last few years but it is nice to see it all come together!  You could seriously write a book with all your PR and NPR help you give to people!

I also wanted to thank you for this thread you have started and all the effort you put into it.  I know that there are only a few of us 'on-board' and posting here but I'm sure that there are many others following along and working on these exercises on their own.  I encourage others who are following along at home to stop in and say Hello and let us know this class is much larger than we think!

As I have said previously...I have mainly only gone the indirect route to NPR but am happy to learn something new.  I have followed your 'Doorway' thread in the past and seem to struggle with imagery at times but will certainly try it again.  I'm pretty sure many things you mention there will show up in this thread as we progress!  .

I too have been doing them a couple times a day when I can.  Sometimes I don't experience anything but other times I make a little progress.  During my exercise yesterday I felt both of my etheric hands ball into a fist and my etheric head pop up. 

Considering how simple this exercise is I am impressed at the progress I have made so far after only a few days.  I'm sure as the exercises progress I will be able to increase my awareness of my subtle energy bodies!  I'm hoping that in the near future I will be able to post that I have made a conscious exit! 

I have also experienced the Doorbell many times in the past.  Other ones I experience include the sound of my phone receiving a text!

Thanks to my fellow classmates who post their progress as well!

Cheers!

I stated above that I wouldn't be surprised if these exercises jump started a exit symptom. I will go one further and say I wouldn't be surprised if while doing one of these exercise that you actually found that you have already shifted. While doing them myself I had numerous times where I found that I could see through my closed eyelids. At time, it was more of a RTZ (real time zone) experience. The same thing happens while doing a Phase soak session. Once in a while, while doing a etheric based focus in my bathtub, I will be able to see through my closed eyelids as well.

Most of my Phase sessions won't appear as a RTZ experience. Many of them seem to take on more of a Akashic record locale/mental projection or some kind of Retrieval based experience. Especially when I go and open "doors", as in using my Doorway technique to explore.

I was going to post after the week was done but since you already brought this up I thought I should comment. 

Day 1:  I followed your exercises.  I was at the point of pinballing my awareness and felt movement or some stretching.  I set my timer for 30 minutes to keep myself from falling asleep.  I may have drifted off near the end because of lack of sleep the night before.  I was in NPR and seemed to be holding a kitchen pot in front of my face and was startled back to the physical.  Have no idea where the pot came from! 

Day 2:  I didn't feel much for movement but again closer to the end of the exercise I shifted and I was seeing thru my closed eyelids into my bedroom.  This only lasted a couple of seconds because my neighbours were slamming car doors outside and this brought me back.

Will do Day 3 in a little while.  Just had a Christmas party meal at work and am a little stuffed!

Lumaza,

Okay, I'm on board.  I am starting tonight for my weekly lesson.  I have recently asked myself during meditation what I need to work on and the answer that came back to me was my Awareness!  So here we go!  I can post in a week to update on any progress.

Hope your fingers aren't sore!  Feel free to use Bullet/Point form if you think that might be easier. 

Lumaza,

I guess I would have to say that I was semi-serious according to your guidelines!  I am serious about experiencing NPR everyday but I don't try it in every way that I possibly can.  Since I started 3 years ago I started my Dream Journal and enter my experiences every single night...No Exceptions!  I had never meditated before but I have added that to my routine.  Am I up to a daily meditation?  Not quite there yet but I am getting closer.  Other than a few spontaneous OBE's I've had I have mainly stuck to the indirect method such as LD's.  My goal was that I was going to practice the LD's until I got better at those and than I would add more direct methods to my routine.  I had tried some direct methods a couple of times at the very beginning but didn't really know what I was doing so have put that on the back burner.

As a child I believe I have experienced point consciousness.  I have never experienced SP and have only experienced vibrations once in a spontaneous OBE.  I know these are not necessary but just stating my experiences.  I am hoping that increasing my meditations will help me progress although I seemed to have stalled recently.  I haven't had an LD in a few months now.  Was thinking about pushing that 'Astral Pulse Hotline Button!' 

I am certainly open to mixing things up and trying something completely new!  If you are up to starting an Etheric Exercise thread than I would certainly be interested.  What could it hurt...other than your fingers! 

Thats too bad!

I guess the old web archive is not as good as I thought!  I was always under the assumption that everything is backed up one way or another! 

Main Forum Link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161024084459/http://www.explorations-in-consciousness.com/forums/index.php

Here is a shorter link: 

https://web.archive.org/web/20161109120549/http://www.explorations-in-consciousness.com/forums/index.php?forums/general-experiences.11/

Nameless,

You can give this method a try of accessing the old archives.  I tried it and was able to get to the forums but not sure what posts you were looking for.

CEO929,

First of all, Welcome to the Pulse. 

Lumaza and Nameless have given great advice.   Two very experienced people on this forum.  All experiences are learning experiences whether they are positive or negative in nature.  We learn from both.  Nameless gives a list of great points.  Find out what the negative thing wants from you or what you can learn from it or what is it trying to show you?  How do you do that?...Well as Lumaza states...give it a cookie.  It's that simple.  You are in non-physical reality so once again, THOUGHT = ACTION.  If you THINK, IMAGINE, BELIEVE or have a strong INTENT that a non-physical cookie is in your hand than a cookie will manifest in your hand.  Offering this cookie to the negative being is a way of opening a dialogue with it.  Find out what it wants or ask it what it represents?  You may be surprised at the answer.

I had a similar experience in a dream where I was being attacked by a dream character.  It was on top of me and I was trying to kick it off and this was not working.  I than became Lucid and realized I had other options.  I sent it Love and it immediately stopped and the dream character disappeared.  It was that simple.  I would have asked what it represented but it just vanished on me and did not ever return so it was something that I just needed to face and it was resolved with non-violence. 

Try opening a dialogue with yours if you can and if that doesn't work than send it Love and just believe that this WILL work.

Lumaza,

I am definitely going to remember to add cookies to my arsenal! 

Shineling,

Who needs the Disney channel when you have AP's like that!  Very awesome experience!

I just want to check if anyone else is having trouble receiving notifications from this website? 

About a week ago I stopped receiving notifications for PM's as well as topics I start or post to.  I have checked my account profile and nothing has changed.  I am still set to receive notifications and my email is working fine. 

Awesome experience shineling!  I guess it is true what they say...Laughter is the best medicine! 

Glad things are working now.

Looks like I need to find a new server as mine has apparently been shut down.  I still have access to what is there but I can no longer upload new pics. 

Seems to be working fine now.  Your profile pic is showing up on all your posts.

sorry,  having a little trouble getting into my server account right now to upload an example pic.  This is what mine has entered but it is an example only:

http://www3.telus.net/onlyanexample/TMAN.bmp

I have had trouble with jpg's here.  When I save them from my MAC computer it is actually using the jpeg format, not the jpg format.  This will cause it to fail.  Just confirm if your pic is using jpg or jpeg. 

omcasey,

I will post a pic but it will take me a few minutes.  I just want to confirm if you tested your link by pasting it into your internet web browser to test the link itself.  This test has nothing to do with Astral Pulse website. 

I don't know of any file restrictions but my profile pic is in bmp format.