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I was not at all familiar with this type of brainwave sound/music "stuff" before finding this thread, but I am very thankful to (what was his name)the poster who made/supplied the boxed nirvana track. I tried it last night and was rather impressed. The chakra awakening tones initially scared the crap out of me , but I recovered and was prepared for the following ones. I don't know if it actually would help me to project any better, since I can't do it all anyway, and I didn't last night. But perhaps if I had made it through the entire track I would have been more successful. I was put into a heavier trance than normal, as I typically have no problem putting my entire body to sleep, but I still got anxious and started to fret about 1/2 way through it. I wanted out and I wanted out right then...I really wish I knew why that kept happening. I have a feeling that if I could make it past that point that I would have more success, but as soon as that feeling comes over me, I have to stop my practice and just go to sleep or else I fear I will have a full blown anxiety attack. But anyway, the file was awesome. It felt like to me a tropical oasis, with a pool in the middle surrounded by waterfalls...that's what I visualized anyway. I'll keep at it, hopefully it'll work one day.

Ok so I finally get it! I feel like such a dunce now! So I put the island on my desktop here at work so I can learn to visualize/imagine it more clearly. Hopefully I will not encounter anything too strange if I ever make it there. Just so you all know, I have brown curly hair, and I'm a girl, haha...so if you see someone who looks like me floating around lost, grab her by the hand and tell her the giant spiders won't get her.

While reading your post, I notice you (like many others) spend a TON of time concentrating on the body: relaxing it, numbing it to the outside world, breathing exercises, etc.

This is very true. I'll check that link...I never really thought about it like that before. Thanks Jeff! Although I still don't know why I have them in the first place. I'm not afraid of anything happening to me, I'm really not, I just freak out like I have to out of my body NOW or I'll just...I dunno...combust or claw my eyes out or something. It's very strange and very hard to try to ignore and change your train of thought once it creeps in...I have to go to sleep after that or else I will wind up having a full blown attack. I should add I am rather prone to them, and anxiety in general even in my waking hours...sometimes when I lay in my bed trying to go to sleep at night I start to have one if say, my nose is stuffy or I feel like I'm going to just die in THIS body. So strange, I know.

Wow Rastus, I completely agree with you, but you said it so beautifully...I'm moved! I would very much like to talk with you sometime. I would say that spiritually I am pretty highly evolved in comparison to most people I encounter, I completely believe everything you just said, and other theories and ideals along the same line of thinking, but when it comes to developing my "psychic" "abilities", I'm beyond a dud. I would very much like to know how to translate my beliefs and love into actual experience. Of course, knowing and believing is just as important as experiencing, but it's rather discouraging when every attempt you make at experience is unsuccessful. Kindest regards...and nice sig.

so you guys must be really advanced projectors then huh? How do you know where the Island is? Like, how do you get there? Not that it matters sense I couldn't project to my left if I wanted to, still need lots more practice...but you guys have me so intrigued. And jealous...I know I'm not supposed to be jealous, be jeeze!

I have been practicing and studying all kinds of different OBE and meditation techniques for about the last year, to no great success worth mentioning. One problem that I continuously encounter (other than that "stuck" problem in the dreams forum, which BTW, I still need help w/please!) is that I begin to have anxiety attacks when I get really "close".
I assume I'm close anyway, I go through breathing exercises, go through the energizing of my chakras, count backwards, count forwards, imagine being surrounded by white light, all kinds of things. I have a very active and unconcentrated mind so I have to do several combined techniques to keep from just thinking away into the chaotic madness of my mind, but I am good enough that I can put my entire body to "sleep", completely numb and weightless feeling, with a loud intense humming and vibrating feeling in my head and ears, tingling in certain areas at certain times or when i have certain thoughts...and then I start getting anxious. I try to use every exit technique I can think of, and none ever work! I feel like I'm going to combust or explode or freak out or suffocate or something...and I start having an attack, which of course, leads to my breaking concentration and moving, and I then I lay on my side and proceed to fall asleep immediately.
I know that forcing the experience to happen only causes more problems...but what from reading this can you tell me. Am I doing something obvious wrong? Have I missed something in my reading? When I first came upon the astral information some 13 months ago and began to try to have an OBE, I actually got closer than I ever do now a few times. At one point I even felt the intense whole body vibrating and yet another time I heard a loud pop and "saw" myself in a stairwell, began to float off the ground, and awoke out of excitement. Since then...nothing! Again, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Imagination resides in the higher mind, well above the surface thoughts and analytical processes, and it can connect both to the subconscious and the super-conscious, the higher self. when Practicing psychic development, trust your imagination.  

I agree with James completely. So often we think of "imagination" as being synonymous with "fake" or "unreal"...the typical use of the word indicates some level of fanciful false hood or childishness, when in reality, that couldn't be farther from the truth. Our "imagination" is our greatest spiritual/psychic tool. It allows us to "visualize", and "sensualize" in general, our non physical experiences. Creativity comes from our higher selves, as a way of expressing the nonphysical, and therefore imagination is a creation of our higher selves. At least that's how I see it to be...if that even made any sense.

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I was not familiar with tarot or oracle decks until recently, and I'm still not sure exactly what the difference between the two is, but my experience with the deck I just received has been amazing. I recently bought Brian Froud's Fairie's Oracle (I'm a shameless fairy lover but you wouldn't necessarily have to be to enjoy this beautiful artistic deck) and have done several readings on family members and friends so far.

Although each person was apprehensive and doubting at the beginning, each was just as impressed as I at the end. I certainly have no level of skill comparable to those who have used the decks for years, but just from learning to center and ground myself, ask for any spiritual guidance I may find useful, and fully concentrate on my intent...I think I have found a very powerful source of spiritual assistance and even counseling in these cards. Obviously each person's experience with the deck is highly personal, I think that is why so many people have such a hard time when viewing the cards as having a definite meaning or direct interpretation, they aren't allowing for the individual themselves to tell you what the card means to THEM. I have found that listening to their own interpretation, then forming my own, and then reading the accompanying books interpretation, helps me to arrive at the most accurate and in tuned reading possible.

I think that the belief in any deck as anything other than an extension of one's own power is taking the use out of context. The deck only becomes a powerful tool when both the reader and the individual are in the right mind set (especially the reader), guidance is called upon, and the intention is clear. Also caring about the individual you are reading for seems to make a difference for me, I find that establishing a real connection with the individual allows to be better open to what they need to hear and what I need to know. Actually reading the oracle seems to involve a great deal of counseling and psychology in my opinion, or at least that's what I bring to it having majored in the field myself. I am also clairsentient (EXTREMELY emotionally and mentally sensitive to others)and I think that gift allows for me to be more successful than others might be.  

I am hoping that some of you will be able to help me with my problem, but first I will give you a little background on myself. I have been reading, researching and practicing all things metaphysical; astral projection, NDE, OBE, magick, meditation, lucid dreaming, shamanism, etc. for the past year, however I have not yet been successful at any of the practices I attempt.
My question is, quite frequently I find myself to be "stuck" in what seems to me a plane between planes, not fully awake and yet not asleep either. I can usually see through partially open eyes (I assume they must be open since I can clearly see the room around me) but I have vivid hallucinations, hear noises, sometimes voices, see all kinds of things, sometimes forms and shapes from my real surroundings morph into cartoon characters and monsters, sometimes I see people...it varies from experience to experience. The most extreme being truly strange and intense to the fullest extent you could imagine...sometimes rather terrifying, sometimes rather um...how shall I say this, sexual?! However the one thing remains typical throughout all accounts is my feeling "stuck", not being able to awaken myself, becoming quite distraught and at times internally frantic, feeling ripped or forced upon finally awakening or becoming "unstuck" and feeling a terrible pain, like a head ache, for several minutes afterward. There have been times when family members have entered the room unaware that I was not asleep, and I have desperately tried to call to them to no avail, no sound escapes my lips and I am completely paralyzed in my position.
This "phenomenon"(for the lack of a better term) happens mostly when I attempt to sleep during the day time, often if I have overslept simply for the sake of sleeping, or any time I attempt to sleep in my great great grandparents "haunted" house. Sometimes I am perfectly aware that I am "stuck" and make a consious effort to become "unstuck", other times I just "exist" in this strange dream like fantasy world unaware of anything at all until I have awoken. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Hope I was clear enough.

I'm pretty sure this theory is the theory that most scientists subscribe too in their modern day understanding of the universe. in that book i keep mentioning by Barbara Brennan, a physicist who worked for NASA for 5 years, she gives an overview of the modern view of reality that science holds at present, starting with Newtonian building blocks and continuing on through the most recent discoveries. It's absolutely fabulous. I think the main point she stressed with the  theory is just that ever piece is the whole, like a hologram, each part contains all parts. Anyway...this is me recommending the book again. "hands of light" Barbara Brennan...very highly suggested!

I just read an awesome book on the subject of which you are speaking, and which offers information more exact and descriptive, like what Rastus was saying...it's called "Hands of Light"by Barabara Brennan and I'm telling you, wholeheartedly, that book was amazing. She is an energy healer ...works with people through all levels of their energy fields, and she is also a physicist who worked for NASA for 5 years first and foremost. Her book is brilliant, very in depth...and a must read for anyone interested in working as a healer either personally or professionally. Awesome book! Mind blowing...it explains the different levels with awesome clarity,perception tools and techniques, etc. it's in a text book format and she even uses it in her classrooms (she has a healing school in south Florida) even makes small reference to her own spirit guide, personal case studies...etc.
Her book and Bruce's book mesh very well for an overall indepth understanding of the body and the unverse more invaluable than I can stress.

I recently left another forum where I was constantly bombarded with this type of conversation. (yawn) I just wanted you to know K(can't remember the rest of your name right now) guy, that I completely agree with you, and will be looking forward to speaking with you in the future. I have a lot of very strong opinions about Christianity and am very interested to know why someone would stay on this site simply to "correct" the "mistakes" made by others when taking part in these types of conversations. I'm sure that they will be telling us "the intentions" of God soon as well, as so many do. Keep up the good work man! But don't let the close minded bring out the worst in you, I often find that happens to me when I get in these conversations. It's just so exhausting listening to all of the Churchianity that people throw around. I do hope "we" as a general society grow out of this 2,000 year old childish understanding of Divinity soon. It's so unfair to the Creator of all existence to impose our supremely childish and limited human views on it's existence. (sigh)

I just received this book in the mail today and I am absolutely reeling having only read the first few chapters. The authors background is based in physics and she gives a truly invaluable explanation of our western view of reality and the universe. (although rather technical and possibly difficult for some)The book is in a text book format, and has questions and exercises in each chapter. I can't wait to continue my reading and I hope that this will spark an interest for others as well.  
Oh and the subject of the book is using, understanding and perceiving the human energy field or aura for healing. It's nice because it's less metaphysical, or shall I say "new age" than a lot of books I've read recently and it clearly and scientifically states it's case, if that makes any sense.  

I just wanted to say that I am so excited to be on this forum I could shriek! And my answer to the original question would be, um...no. I don't believe in "evil" per say. But anyway...I am so glad to have found this place, did I mention I could shriek!  

runlola...that is seriously frightening. It is beyond me how people can be so close minded. She did sound pretty serious...frighteningly serious. (shudder)

And I wholeheartedly agree as well.

I am so glad to have found intelligent people to talk to!!!!!

I am new to this forum as well. I just received Astral Dynamics in the mail today and look forward to all it has to teach. I previously read the Treatise on Astral Projection articles by Bruce and found this absolutely fascinating. I am very excited to be able to communicate with like minded people as well as learn to have an out of body experience myself. I have been trying for months now with little success. Hopefully that will change soon. BTW, I am 19 years old from Central Florida. Hope to see you all around!