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I actually believe there's a solid reason for this.
Children should naturally be able to do this as well... but as they grow older and the clutches of society's belief constructs gets pressed upon them, they begin to think like everyone else and lose this natural ability.

Hum, like we once discussed, children may systematically lose that ability in nowadays culture. Then we can't say we're initially restricted to focus 1. We're more prone to staying here, but we may have contact with other focuses if we allow ourselves to. (I suppose)

The goal of being here, I guess, is to have a narrower experience in terms that it can be more easily planned, executed and analysed, making for an easier way to learn whatever it is we intended to before "arriving" here.

However, many understand being in this "limited" state of conscience as a bad thing. As if someone put them there to cause them harm. I think it was all planned ahead by ourselves and everything goes on accordingly to the plan. We're subject to the influence of others, and it's up to us to follow our own paths and do what we feel are our true intents.

As mentioned by Volgerle on the "focus 1 success" thread, we're meant to reside inside the "limited" focus 1. We can, though, through methods yet to be made official, have access to other focuses of conscience, enriching our experience even more.

It is the perceptual DEFAULT mode our phycial human body with its senses is attuned to , evolved into and probably conceptually designed and built for. I say human body because probably animals already have another Default mode, e.g. with regard to perceptions of the vast electromagnetic spectrum (the total of which we perceive so damn litte of). Some animals are also said to perceive non-physical entities more easily or even habitually - who knows?
Everything else from that human "mode" of C1-Focus is ALTERED perception/focus/attention, that's why it is also called "altered" states of consciousness by some (para)psychologists, it is every time when we experiencs sth that is not normally 'available' in "Focus/C1".

That explains it beautifully, I totally agree with you. It makes the goal here to find the "window" that allows us to reach other focuses and understand how it works. Mind if I quote you on my blog?

 

Very often overlooked indeed! It's hard to go through Focus 1 while fully conscious of what it represents. We often try to enter different higher focuses in an attempt to escape it. To live it fully while still having contact with other focuses must be a wonderful experience.

I don't know, but I feel it might be my conscience expanding, or something like it. It gives me a different sense of awareness, it feels like I've woken up from a dream or something. I feel like I've left full-automatic mode and switched to manual for a few seconds. It feels great, weird, but great.

I think it's a nice thing. I'm constantly investigating on it, once I come up with an idea I'll let you know.

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Hi there, I'm reviving this thread. There are updates on my theories. I'm becoming speculative, you were warned. But it fits my way of thinking at the moment. Here it goes:

If all there was to life was an automated routine, there wouldn't be much point in living, would there? Pretty boring, right? However, I can't think of a way the rational mind can escape it. The only way for new information to be brought in would be through the unconscious mind. Where does that information come from? I say it comes from different non-physical sources, be it a entity that happens to be accompanying you, your spiritual guide or, in the ideal scenario, your higher self (I mean the ideal scenario because that's who you are, it's your true essence)

Now take the reincarnation system: our higher selves, our true conscience, planned this incarnation of ours in order for us to go through determined experiences so that it could learn something through them.

My idea is: When we plan our incarnations, things work much like when you create a character at a "The Sims" game (Remember that? You choose many different attributes and then throw your character into the world, controlling its actions from "above").

Just imagine it: your higher self created this character that is you and put it inside this world we live in under predetermined circumstances. Then, it kept watching you from above, TRYING to control you through your intuition. I say "trying" because the great majority of people are totally oblivious to its commands due to this world's rational culture which takes intuition totally for granted.

If one trusts his intuition enough, though, I think he might feel what it is his true self wants him to do. What actions to take, decisions to make, and so on. I don't think our physical egos are supposed to evolve spiritually. I think our physical egos must trust their intuition (meaning to hear their higher selves) and behave the way they feel  they are supposed to. That way, our higher selves are the ones who will learn through controlling their physical egos' experiences.

** I came up with a nice analogy of how it all unfolds on a giant scale: take the whole universe and shrink it to a table-sized game board. The board contains all physical structures and creatures that exist. Your higher self walks up to the board and throws in his character after carefully assembling it. After that, all variables are set and the game begins. Your higher self will keep on trying to direct you to do what it originally meant for you to do, but it can't just push his character towards something, there's no touching the board. He will direct it through its intuition, and if his character is assembled properly and is in condition of listening to its intuition, it will behave accordingly, doing as his higher self ordered him to. That way, things will go as your higher self planned and he will learn from the experiences he is living through his character. Otherwise, his character will go on as it was programmed to and there won't be any real-time control over its actions, making its experience much poorer that it should be. Will you listen to your coach or will you keep on going full-automatic? **

I've come up with a blog I'll be using to keep track of my ideas. It'll be nice to look back and see how my way of thinking changes.

I have those you have when you're awake. It's like an epiphany really, but I feel good when I have it. I can't replicate it at will, though.

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I guess this is the same as asking whether we were chimps once. And still, I don't know.

Some say that we (our consciences) were created after someone (big old wise entity/conscience) took out a bit of their own conscience and dropped it here on Earth. At that time we were completely oblivious to all that happened around us and couldn't think straight at all. Little by little, reincarnating as different animals, we've become human beings. Our consciences evolved progressively. If this is right, then yes, we might have been dinossaurs once!

I don't know if the giant creator thing is right either. But it makes the dinosaur theory work hehe

That's how far internet love goes, things can grow complicated! haha

How old is she? I say you go talk to her face-to-face and see what each of you desire from each other. It's the best way to sort that out. Wondering what goes on inside her head will only get you more doubt.

Do you know the girl personally? I mean, do you actually talk? Has anything near what you're reporting ever come into discussion?

I've never attempted anything like that, so I'm of no great use before you brief me on that 

By Scorpio you mean that's her astrological sign?

It's part of the relaxation routine, we shut down various sensory inputs to our brain in order to shift our conscience outwards. Just like needing to go to the bathroom, hearing a sound or smelling smoke awakes us. They are all sensory inputs that can command your brain to wake up.

There is a specific pathway in our central nervous system that controls that, it's called the ascending reticular activating system, here's an exerpt from http://neuro.psyc.memphis.edu/neuropsyc/np-ugp-activat.htm that explains it:

Two Types of Reticular Formation: Ascending and Descending Reticular Activating Systems

Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS)

Fibers in brain stem which receive collaterals from sensory fibers projecting to thalamus
Fibers relay this information to the archi-thalamic nuclei, and project this information to the cortex in a diffuse manner
Reticular formation responds to stimuli from all sensory systems
Effect of different senses is weighted as to activating properties.

Its function is to wake up the central nervous system in response to external stimuli. Experiments with animals where this tract is cut off creates animals that always sleep. There are other stimulating pathways to the CNS, but this is the most important one.

All inputs can wake the cns up, and during meditation all we want to do is to shut down all systems that may create/transmit such stimuli. Closing our eyes is one way, but to willingly ignore the information the eyes send us is another way to do it.

I've done it also, it's just like you mentioned it, you make some effort as if you were flexing a muscle, but your focus is your brain. It's hard to instruct someone to do it. I guess it's like moving a point of awareness with extreme effort. It does make me feel some different sensations, specially because it takes your awareness away from the rest of your body.

It really seems to be an easy method to use, as it doesn't require any work outside our beds (my biggest issue at the time). I'll try it out extensively. Thanks.

There must be strong emotional memories involved there, how are you feeling about all of it? Is there any resentment present? Towards your sister, perhaps, for she has had the experiences you wish you had?

I think paranormal abilities only become truly useful once you are in peace with yourself and know what your inner self really wants. By that I mean there is no point in seeking paranormal advances until you have enough emotional control over yourself.

I'say deal first with any emotional issues there may be left and then your paranormal development should probably kick in much more easily.

It surely has a lot to do with the astral. I enjoyed the music.

Well, that is one thing that frustrates me, I never had any experience of the kind. I think it would be really interesting to see something that fantastic.

Search on the forums for "saltcube". There's a thread where I posted an explanation on his method to induce lucid dreams and Personalreality posted a mp3 of the alarm clock used. I haven't put it into much practice but it may work for you.

Here it is http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_dreams/saltcubes_timer_for_lucid_dreams-t32160.0.html

Horacio, I seem to be objecting to your posts in this thread.  Not sure why, but here goes- I disagree.  I'd say 'as they grow older', because the dance between the rational mind and the emotional mind are not linear and progressive- I'd say it's more like a curve.  In your twenties you become 'more rational' but in your forties the trend starts go go a different way.  I can say that in my case I have become more dream-driven and emotional after I hit my forties, and in my family at least, old people are not rational at all.  In both good and bad ways, old people overcome the lessons learned and go back to not caring that much about consequences, which are a function of the 'rational' mind.

I meant to grow older, in the sense you are using it, actually. My English let me down over there    I can see how people tend to get less rational as they go old, becoming more and more receptive towards life. That's grandpa described on a sentence  

Also disagree.  I believe the choices are different at every moment- the problem is that most of the time the rational is remembered because of the outcome.  Who knows how many dreamers jumped off the plane and didn't come back to tell the tale.  You get my drift.
Here I agree with you 100%

I think that could be so, but then I guess those dreamers you're talking about are the ones who have already gone through the awakening of the conscience, possibly without even noticing it.

I think freewill only presents itself to us when we awaken our consicences to our intuition, our true self. We get, then, to choose whether we want to keep that experience or to dismiss it. I think that is freewill.

Read the edit! Just posted it!

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After posting here, I had a conversation at home that gave me another perspective on that. You take a child, for instance. The main difference between them and adults is the extent to which their conscious, rational mind is developed. They have their dreams, their wishes, and behave in the natural way children are known to behave. As they grow old, they tend to over-develop their rational mind and put aside that dreaming portion of it, having it buried deep inder their controlling minds.

On other posts, I have talked about our true intentions and desires. I refered to them as being hid under the several layers of fears and conditionings made up by our rational mind. Now, however, I see those true desires ("what your heart has to say") and the rational mind as two separate things. There is the rational and the "emotional", and we tend to stick to the rational only.

I think freewill might come down to being able to choose to live your emotions or to set them aside and stick to the rational only. It is the right balance between both, though, that provides us with an optimum experience.


Edit: Let me put it in a different way. Think of the rational mind as if it were a computer. It receives numerous variables from its environment and ponders all of them in order to decide upon its next action. We receive different kinds of inputs that lead us, in a general way, towards the rational model or towards the "spiritual", or intuitive model. It is the influence from the environment (other people's actions we perceive) and our impressions on it that direct our behavior. My experiences have led me to these forums, where I receive a great amount of influence towards the intuitive model. I, then,  have become progressively more prone to consider that this is a path worth pursuing, as long as my experineces confirm that. I end up being caught up in a chain of thoughts that lead me to considering that leaving the rational experience behind can give place to a valuable experience.
Eventually, I think I'll reach a point where I'll honestly think that I can let my rational mind rest for a while while I live my emotions, free of the constant analysing and judging done by the rational mind. I think that this is what the awakening of the conscience means. To be able to step outside the rational mind process and to introduce the intuitive mind into our day-to-day lives.

I was talking to a friend of mine who is a fierce defender of scientific thinking (he declares himself an atheist) and another friend brought up the subject of freewill. My atheist friend promptly said there's no such thing as freewill, he said we're all programmed to respond to stimuli based on our past experiences.

At first, I tried to defend (in my mind) my previous notion that freewill exists and gives us freedom to do whatever we choose to do. However, soon I realized I couldn't deny the fact that his ideas made sense. I mean, our actions are indeed a result of all our past experiences being put face-to-face with all stimuli our current situation presents us.

I think there are tons of variables involved in decision making (not infinite, though, but probably dating back to when we were born), but when looking back into all I've ever done, given the circumstances involved in each of my actions, there was no way the outcome could have been any different in any of them. It's as if it was meant to happen that way.

The thing is, there are soooo many variables involved, it is practically impossible to predict how a person is going to react to a certain set of stimuli, which creates the impression that our actions are unpredictable. However, I can't say it is, theoretically, impossible to. Can you? Doesn't that kind of take away all the joy we get from thinking we're being able to control our lives and make our own decisions?

This is quite disconcerting, for if all there is is determinism, our fates are sealed! I often catch myself wondering what it is that commands my thoughts. Are they commanded only by the external stimuli I'm subject to? What is it that injects these thoughts into my mind? Or aren't they "injected" at all, but a mere product of the environment I'm in?

Exerting real freewill may consist of freeing your mind from the cage that being caught up in the physical loop of "conscience" may represent. Do you see the loop here? We're determined to respond to stimuli based on all we've been exposed to previously. Since our thoughts and actions are a product of previous experiences, we will keep on acquiring new experiences based on our previous ones, but exerting no real control over our actions! Think of the way pidgeons react when you feed them popcorn. We behave just like that, but in a scale thousands of times more complex! Automatically, just like a computer would! (Maybe it's better to think of the loop not as a loop, but rather as a never-ending chain of thoughts)

There is a chance that this might be what the so called "awakening of conscience" is all about. Freeing yourself from this chain of events. Awakening the commander that lies within  each of us and allowing it to take control of our minds. Now how do we do that?


*Maybe this belongs to the Integral Philosophy forum, I don't know.

Simplistic how? Must everything be complicated?

I was being over-judgmental, sorry about that. Looking back, it does offer people a chance to reflect on their intents and their attitude towards life. Much more welcoming than many other complicated methods. It's just a different approach, that's all.

Geordie Land, just like Mark Knopfler's Sailing to Philadelphia?

Well, that's a rather simplistic approach, isn't it?

I'd fit between the young and the mature ones, but that relates basically to a person's mindset at that time. Often, a single conversation with somebody might enlighten one to think in a totally different manner, but that doesn't make them older.

I think the whole idea of making up such a webpage is pretty primitive in itself, for people shouldn't be worried about their soul's age, but rather about how their way of thinking/approaching life affects their learning process.

Indeed!