Messages

I wrote about this same feeling about a year ago in one of my post. 

1.  I was in F10 and feeling pretty tranced out.  Then, the first truly different thing I noticed is that the 2D blackness became textured.  This is tough to describe, but it is kinda like the texture of the night sky in Van Gough's painting Starry Night (or like oil on lake water).  Now, the contrast was NOT as profound as found in the painting and relatively monochromatic, but you will get the idea.

That state seems to have common features for everyone. Your description reminded me of one of Frank's posts which I had saved:

"Not sure if you will be the same but I tend to see textures just before the 3D Blackness (Fz) state. Not always, sometimes I Phase right through it but often I'll take the transitions really slowly and it's greyish cloudy formations, swirls of coloured cloudy formations, textures and ink blots, and then Fz. My 3D Blackness is almost always punctuated by loads of stars. Well, they look like stars but they are not really. The view is like looking at the night sky." F2 to F1 to F2

Philippines: Saved By Jesus

MANILA: A 10 year old boy from Luzon in the Philippines miraculously came back to life 17 hours after being declared dead. He told his family that Jesus woke him up.

The Manila Times reported on Thursday (the 20th) that the boy, named Kadi, was pronounced dead at the Philippines General Hospital on the 21st of June. His family brought his "remains" back to his hometown, which was 300 km away. The very next day, Kadi came back to life during the vigil and asked for food and water.

Kadi described how he had fallen into a terrible darkness after he had lost consciousness. However, not long after that, he saw a beautiful church with angels singing inside. A man with golden hair and a beard appeared suddenly and asked him to wake up, and when he opened his eyes and saw his family, he could also see the same man above them slowly fading away.

The report said that after the miracle happened, Kadi was brought to a church for spiritual guidance and that was where Kadi related his experience. The clergy there and other church members believe the man Kadi saw was Jesus. (Sin Chew Daily)


FZ and F2/3?

We aren't guaranteed a set amount of time here, or even an enjoyable stay. You did as much as you could for your dog, and that's all you can ever do.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0603/features/peru.html

I copy/pasted it into my address bar and it worked. 

Are you getting a page not found error?

wow, has anyone gone to that?
I wonder what it's like for a woman to go alone. .

Wonder not.

Seriously, I need a life transforming experience. It'd be nice to rid myself of all anxiety and fear that has plagued me for the better part of my life. Is this stuff legal?

kevin

You'd have to leave the U.S. to do it. There are retreats like Blue Morpho that specialize in this.

[*]

Just put an asterisk * in the search field and then choose one day or whatever time interval ya want.

... that'll be one karma 

That's how I did it on the old board. This new version wants a phrase to search for.

Thanks to all who responded, I've got it working now. 

Is there a way to get the previous day's posts? This board doesn't allow blank "" searches. 

Mushroom drug produces mystical experience

NEW YORK - People who took an illegal drug made from mushrooms reported profound mystical experiences that led to behavior changes lasting for weeks — all part of an experiment that recalls the psychedelic '60s.

Many of the 36 volunteers rated their reaction to a single dose of the drug, called psilocybin, as one of the most meaningful or spiritually significant experiences of their lives. Some compared it to the birth of a child or the death of a parent.

Such comments "just seemed unbelievable," said Roland Griffiths of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, the study's lead author.

But don't try this at home, he warned. "Absolutely don't."

Almost a third of the research participants found the drug experience frightening even in the very controlled setting. That suggests people experimenting with the illicit drug on their own could be harmed, Griffiths said.

Viewed by some as a landmark, the study is one of the few rigorous looks in the past 40 years at a hallucinogen's effects. The researchers suggest the drug someday may help drug addicts kick their habit or aid terminally ill patients struggling with anxiety and depression.

It may also provide a way to study what happens in the brain during intense spiritual experiences, the scientists said.

Funded in part by the federal government, the research was published online Tuesday by the journal Psychopharmacology.

Psilocybin has been used for centuries in religious practices, and its ability to produce a mystical experience is no surprise. But the new work demonstrates it more clearly than before, Griffiths said.

Even two months after taking the drug, pronounced SILL-oh-SY-bin, most of the volunteers said the experience had changed them in beneficial ways, such as making them more compassionate, loving, optimistic and patient. Family members and friends said they noticed a difference, too.

Charles Schuster, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at Wayne State University and a former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, called the work a landmark.

"I believe this is one of the most rigorously well-controlled studies ever done" to evaluate psilocybin or similar substances for their potential to increase self-awareness and a sense of spirituality, he said. He did not participate in the research.

Psilocybin, like LSD or mescaline, is one of a class of drugs called hallucinogens or psychedelics. While they have been studied by scientists in the past, research was largely shut down after widespread recreational abuse of the drugs during the 1960s, Griffiths said. Some work resumed in the 1990s.

"We've lost 40 years of (potential) research experience with this whole class of compounds," he said. Now, with modern-day scientific methods, "I think it's time to pick up this research field."

The study volunteers had an average age of 46, had never used hallucinogens, and participated to some degree in religious or spiritual activities like prayer, meditation, discussion groups or religious services. Each tried psilocybin during one visit to the lab and the stimulant methylphenidate (better known as
Ritalin) on one or two other visits. Only six of the volunteers knew when they were getting psilocybin.

Each visit lasted eight hours. The volunteers lay on a couch in a living-room-like setting, wearing an eye mask and listening to classical music. They were encouraged to focus their attention inward.

Psilocybin's effects lasted for up to six hours, Griffiths said. Twenty-two of the 36 volunteers reported having a "complete" mystical experience, compared to four of those getting methylphenidate.

That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say "they can't possibly put it into words," Griffiths said.

Two months later, 24 of the participants filled out a questionnaire. Two-thirds called their reaction to psilocybin one of the five top most meaningful experiences of their lives. On another measure, one-third called it the most spiritually significant experience of their lives, with another 40 percent ranking it in the top five.

About 80 percent said that because of the psilocybin experience, they still had a sense of well-being or life satisfaction that was raised either "moderately" or "very much."

Are there any physical changes as well?

Seeing through the eyelids is basically an OBE where you haven't left your physical body.

Wow! Better late than never huh.

I wonder if i should use this phenomenon and do some experiments?

Try the triangle method.

That is the hypnogogic state. You can stay in it longer by practicing lucid dreaming and phasing techniques, or, better yet, use it as a gateway to astral projection. It's possible for any of your senses to overlap between the dream and waking state, so you may hear or see things in your room that don't exist in the physical.

Meditation and lucid dreaming will give you a good foundation to work from.

This is a pretty unusual topic. You might find useful information on Google.

ANTIGO, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin man has received an unexpected message from a deceased friend -- in a bottle floating in a lake.

Steve Lieder was chatting with friends near White Lake when he looked down and saw a bottle. They broke it open and found a note. Lieder was amazed to find it was written eleven years ago by one of his closest friends, who died last year.

Joshua Baker was ten years old when he wrote the message for a school project, stuck it in a bottle and tossed it in the lake.

The note reads: "My name is Josh Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95."

Baker died last year in a traffic accident in California. His mother says he had recently returned home after serving in the Marines in the Middle East. She plans to display the note in her home.

WHAT??? what movie??

I'd guess the Poltergeist series.

I read somewhere on here that an OBE is a conscious dream, but does it FEEL like one?

Check this thread for info on the OBE/LD debate. I would say you had an OBE because of the exit sensations. My OBEs are never anything like my dreams, but that's because my dreams aren't very lucid.  :confused:

Peru: Hell and Back

This is a great National Geographic story on the use of ayahuasca. The author has a life-altering experience while under the influence of the drug.

Cthulhu!

Ive never tried binaural beats music, because I dont know where to get it. Ive looked for astral frequency's, and i could never find any free "songs" on the web.

Check this thread, and be sure to browse the permanent topics and FAQ section if you haven't already.

Look into yagé  and iboga. I don't think drugs should be used regularly, but they have their place.

You don't need to be in an asylum. There's nothing you can't do outside of one that you can inside, unless you just want to be in an institutional environment.

Another person in your situation might be hopeful and optimistic; it's all a matter of perspective. You need to get a therapist who can teach you how to find that positivity within yourself. I know it seems impossible to imagine a life of contentment, but you have to trust that you are capable of it.

That sounds like a hypnopompic state, the border between dreaming and waking. If you learn to go into trance during that time, you'll be able to enter the astral fully conscious.