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Wow, Lightbeam! I wish you a quick recovery. It was interesting anyway to try to find a connection between both events. That day I also projected and met a strange old man. At that moment, I thought a lot about the Library, which I visited for the first and only time when I was 16 years old, and I wasn't able to return (not consciously, at least). Then I read your post here where you visited the Library. I love the stories about that place!

I didn't feel anything particular that day. However, on February 28th, I felt dizzy during the morning, where the planetary alignment took place. I'm not saying it was because of that, since it could be any physical condition, although I've already had all kinds of medical studies done and everything comes out fine. They were very strange dizziness, to the point of holding onto furniture! After that, it passed and didn't happen again. It was very weird!
Sometimes when I return from a projection, I still feel like I didn't fully return "here", I feel weird and feel like everything is still tinged with that dreamy substance.

Hope you're feeling better!

Wow, all of that sounds like a real impact on consciousness, one of those experiences that flips your whole world upside down to put it back into perspective and turn it 180 degrees.

It may be that the body enters altered states during health issues and is more prone to leaving the body, your theory could be accurate.

Regarding Angels, perhaps that word suggests a strong religious connotation that not everyone feels comfortable assuming. Not me. But if you prefer you could simply call them non-physical residents of non-physical reality. And in those realms, the inside and outside seem more intermingled, just like "Them/I", inside vs. outside, does it really exist? My experience tells me no, everything is one in the end. As Tides said, it's something to explore!

We all have helpers who facilitate these kinds of experiences for us with a specific purpose, thousands of people describe similar cases to yours. I also felt them, but they didn't seem like angels to me, just highly advanced energy beings.

Thanks for sharing and I hope you learn a lot here to be able to induce them and live great adventures!
Astral Pulse is a great school 

Welcome Via! Feel free to ask whatever you need and also share your experiences.
We are all yours!

Tak.
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Hi New2AP, I wanted to tell you that there are some very interesting books that talk about our 'past lives' and the picture of existence in general. I've read the books by Michael Newton and Dolores Cannon, where through hundreds of hypnosis sessions that involve regressions to other lives, they've revealed a bit through their patients the mysteries of non-physical reality and how we relate to it. And these researchers who dedicated a significant part of their lives to investigating past lives have concluded that past lives are no longer important, what matters is the present. That is, the decisions you make now regarding your new challenges.

I believe it's not worth 'torturing' yourself over the past, thinking if you were a good or a bad person, carrying more weight on your shoulders than you already has. Michael Newton's books are more incomplete than Dolores', but she has revealed (just like other authors and people who study the subject) that time is an illusion and only exists from this 3D perspective, so there's no such thing as past or future life, and everything is happening at the same time, now. Also, our individual consciousness belongs to a larger soul 'Oversoul' that we're part of, and from which thousands of extensions (simultaneous lives) emerge and we experience at the same time. And each simultaneous life leads to multiple parallel lives, where we live different versions of our current life. Right now, you're only experiencing a small portion of your larger and broader consciousness. Complex, huh? That is why the issue of other lives is more complex than it seems. And I'm not asking anyone to believe it! You have to discover it for yourself for it to be valid. I've had some glimpses that confirm many of these things.

What I'm getting at is that you need to go beyond the 'good/bad' or 'reward/punishment' labels, look beyond the wall! What's important is to focus on the present moment and act from there.

As Xanth said, see what beliefs regarding how 'reality should be' (according to our conditioning or criteria) are leading you to those conclusions. Also, as he mentioned, try not to go against the flow of life. Maybe if a job isn't good, it's time to leave it and look for a new one, even if the pay is high. If you help people who don't reciprocate, and instead betray you, maybe it means they're not the right people to be around, and life itself is telling you to take different paths. But if, on the other hand, I feel like a victim and try to forcefully fit into a job or with people that aren't suitable, I'll take it as if nothing is going right. When in reality, life was doing me a favor by removing me from those situations. I'm not saying these examples are your case, it's just an illustration of how to flow with the opportunities that life gives us and learn to listen to its messages and signs.

If you still want to do a past-life regression, on Dolores Cannon's official website, there are first-level practitioners who offer free sessions, as well as more advanced ones who charge for their services.
The website is as follows, and there are practitioners all over the world. Just type in your country and city in the search bar, and they'll appear.
https://members.qhhtofficial.com/find-a-practitioner/?_ga=2.126892875.717648670.1740501514-1342569365.1738195507

You're worthy and valuable!

Good reflection, LB, I really enjoyed it. I think there's a general consensus that associates the word or concept of 'extraterrestrial' with something 'superior.' But 'superior' is an arbitrary and subjective word, as it depends on the observer and their belief in what it means to be superior. Superiority is a subjective term. For some people, 'superior' might mean survival of the fittest, for others, being technologically more advanced, for others, having impeccable values or behavioral qualities, and for others, being more spiritual or connected to their consciousness. I believe that if some extraterrestrial feels superior to us because they're more technologically advanced, it means they still haven't mastered their ego, false personality, and sense of identification with matter, because in the realm of pure Consciousness, we're none of those things, and it's all an illusion. Because, as you say, we're all part of the same Consciousness, The One. We're all part of this great cosmic organism, and we fulfill a certain 'function'.

I don't see an ant as inferior to me, nor a leaf, nor a cloud. Because if we see them on a larger scale, we realize they're an integral part of the natural balance of the planet and a larger ecological system that makes life on Earth possible and rich in biodiversity, forming an ecosystem that's alive and intelligent in some way. The same thing happens with us on a consciousness level.

I think that despite the terrible things humanity does, they're not inherent to the human species, but rather due to ignorance and social conditioning. Since humans can achieve great things, they just need to develop their consciousness and spirituality more. I think we have all the tools to create a better world, the beauty and creative force I see in art is something that surprises me beyond imagination. The physical body holds many secrets, and among them, all the spiritual and psychic qualities in potential that we were never taught to develop. I think that if human consciousness develops and expands more, we could have an Earth comparable to that of many advanced planets. It would be my greatest dream to see that, but in this lifetime, I don't think it's possible.

I've also read in Dolores Cannon's books that not all planets inhabited by extraterrestrials are more advanced, on the contrary, they seem more terrible than Earth and a hell, and some planets were even destroyed due to their negligence, since not all ETs are more spiritually advanced. So, compared to that, Earth isn't so bad!

If I'm proud to be human, I don't know, I think I don't identify as human or anything else, because our pivotal state is pure Consciousness, and we've surely explored thousands of different life forms on this and other planets. I'm still confused about why I chose the 'human program' to explore, out of the millions and infinite possibilities that surely existed to choose from. I always joke with a friend that I must have been drunk lol. I still haven't seen my 'Big Picture,' but it's something I hope to discover in this life.

Thanks for this reflection!
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Wow, Lightbeam! I love everything you're experiencing and how you express it! Thank you, it's inspiring.

I'm not sure if my dreams fits the category you're looking for, but I often dream that I'm inside vehicles, but they're not moving at high speed, there is some speed, but not high. They can be trains, subways (or a hybrid of both) or land vehicles. Rarely air. What catches my attention are the spectacular landscapes seen through the windows, beautiful seas, mountains, forests... They're very surreal at times, I've never seen anything like it on Earth and it's wonderful. Everyone on that vehicle with me, which can be a bus or minivan, is very kind. There's never fear and it's always very pleasant. Really, vehicle trip dreams are one of my favorites, especially when I can get off!

A few months ago, I also dreamed, like you and Traveler, that I was in a driverless vehicle, it was very technological and modern, powered by artificial intelligence.

I also feel that something has changed in me since this year started. And I did something similar to what you proposed to Traveler, I asked my Higher Self to return to my Core at night and remember it when I woke up, to return "Home". The next day I didn't remember it, but I felt so happy... I have a better mood and my thoughts are more organized. And I've been having very "strange" experiences during meditations, I really feel that the barriers are falling and that I'm directly connected to something bigger that guides me with Love. But not as a thought, but as a feeling that has been so strong to the point of feeling things in my physical body, like an energy rising up my trunk. And I wanted to stay in bed hugging my pillow just feeling the pleasure of that beautiful sensation as long as I could lol.
It's as if a small cell finally realizes that it's part of a whole organism and that it's not alone, nor are others separate things from what it's really a part of. I reiterate, all this not as a thought or mental concept, but as a beautiful feeling of integration that's getting stronger every time.

Maybe something is happening at a collective level, I hope so!

Very true, I think that is what being in this Earth is all about, learning to navigate in the dual world, to balance energy and transform it, to be a good navigator. And in the end, do not judge anything, because everything has a purpose no matter how incomprehensible it may seem.

Really enjoyed all the music. I love how with such basic and somewhat retro effects, they have been able to design such a creative and nice video. I liked the introduction and the reference to the cellular/molecular world, which has been recurring in my hypnagogic states lately.
I liked starting the day, eating my oatmeal, with this music.
Thank you!

Happy day to everyone too!
True and amazing words, LB, how important it is to remember this every day. We have been taught to always seek external validation, that to feel love, others must love us first, and that is not the case, it is the other way around.
And we must love ourselves with ALL our flaws and shadows. How liberating that is, not judging ourselves... that does not mean not improving to grow, but absolute acceptance, that is true unconditional love.

Just enjoying the (almost) full moon and chilling for a while.
Enjoy nature! Although this planet is so chaotic, I am grateful to have been born on Earth because of its enormous beauty. If it weren't for nature, I really couldn't stand this world in any way.
Thank you Mother Earth!

Traveler, what you shared today it's amazing! Well done! You have great insight. It's incredible that there's a group of beings helping us on this path. Michael Newton's books describe very well the work of guides with us and how they help us develop.

Two years ago, before I started reading more about the topic and even finding the Pulse, I received some revelations from my guides too. It seems that many of our helpers are also learners; two of them who assist me were people who recently passed away (whom I didn't know), one of them a great psychologist. Their greatest desire was to become invisible helpers (a term I learned here) after death. I've never met anyone in this life with such a great vocation of service and love for humanity as these guides; their greatest desire is truly to help/assist. They are guided by my main guide, who has more experience. Let's say they're also doing their internships! And they practice with me.
They also grow through love, continuing to learn. All this fills me with great joy, and I have no words to thank them. And yes, as you mentioned, they influence our lives more than we're aware of, but most of the time they prefer to go unnoticed. I thank them every day for their service, and I hope I'm not a headache for them! lol. There's a whole team behind the scenes working with us. Sometimes I feel like a little plant in a garden, and they're like my gardeners, patiently waiting for the fruits to come out, but the main work is ours.

It's lovely that you know the name of one of them! I don't know their names. May I ask why that shattered your worldview?

Thank you so much Frosty, for sharing these last two videos. It was really great to remember all this, even though they're things we all know and have read many times. It's hard to put it all into practice, right?

I really liked when she talked about the 5D stillness and the power of now. I've been reading a meditation book, and I also follow a channel by a guy who helps people with anxiety like me. Everything points to how our own mind plays against us when we're too focused on the future, with fear of what's to come. When you bring your mind to the present moment, there's no anxiety about the past, no anxiety about the future. It's just what it is now - life, being, existing.
So, my daily practice is to bring my mind to the present moment, to the now, so I don't get lost in the labyrinths of tomorrow, which are so uncertain.

I also like when she talks about how we already have everything we need right now, we're full. Our consciousness is currently united with God, we just can't feel it because of the filters we have on.
One of the things I love the most is walking in the forest and connecting with nature. In those states, I've really felt this - something transcendent. I felt things I'd never felt before, like I was full, complete, and I didn't need anything at all, not even the feeling that I'm a soul that needs to evolve, reach somewhere, or any of those things. I was just infinitely happy existing in that moment, just as I was. There was nowhere to go, everything was PERFECT. I felt fulfilled, I didn't want to go anywhere. I had everything in that moment, I felt in pure harmony and absolute love with all beings, and everything made sense. There were no doubts, questions, just full happiness and love.
Seeing a little bird bathing in a puddle of water or a squirrel running up a tree made me incredibly happy, and I couldn't describe it. I felt like I transcended many layers and reached a state of being that was very fulfilling. It's also happened to me in the mountains.
But in the city, it's hard for me to reach those states, I don't know why.

From a young age, we're taught that we're not complete, that we're empty, that we need to have things, please others, achieve this and that. But when we have it, we realize we're still empty and sad, because fullness is a state of consciousness.
I've met people with a lot of money, living a dream life, and they're very unhappy, sometimes on the verge of suicide. I'm not saying this to judge them, but if we don't focus on the inside, no matter how hard we work on the physical, we won't reach the fullness of being.

Thanks for this reminder! 

Wow, Frosty, that sounds impressive! I'm happy that you're still discovering new things, thanks for sharing that, I really enjoyed it! It reminds me of past experiences and I keep wondering, what's all this? Sometimes I wonder if we're seeing our own organism on a different scale.

Your cats are lovely, it warms my heart! You're a lucky person.
Regarding this topic, I'd love to hear your opinion or anyone else's who wants to share.
When I met my cat in the astral realm, he had passed away recently, and I had no doubts it was him, like you. I knew for sure it wasn't a hologram or a subconscious projection - you just know. I forgot to mention an important detail: the day he visited me, my mom also dreamed about him, and it was the same experience as mine. That confirms the experience for me.

Now, I'm having trouble thinking about calling him, because he's no longer just a cat, nor is he 'my cat' anymore. He's a free consciousness. I think he might be reincarnated in another animal or even a human right now. Although time isn't linear, and a part of him remains the same, I wonder if it's a good idea to call him or not. Maybe he no longer wants to be represented as a cat or identify with that form. I even think that I might have been someone's pet in the past, and I wouldn't want them to be attached to me in that way lol.

I now consider my cat more like a friend or a spirit guide, but I'm struggling to identify that consciousness as my cat, because that was just a role. So maybe I'll look for him more as my friend who passed away, rather than as a pet. I never really thought of him as a pet, anyway. I think I only do that in LD out of nostalgia.
When I was a kid and he was a kitten, I used to tell him that we'd be friends forever, transcending time and space! lol. And it came true.

I love your relationship with your cats, Frosty. I wish I could have one right now, but my life is too unstable to give a cat the life it deserves. My dream is to one day have another furry friend companion again.

Thanks Tides, your words mean a lot to me! Thanks also for taking the time to read this entire testament lol and I'm happy that you enjoyed it. I feel like I'm just taking my first baby steps... searching. What am I searching for? Sometimes I still ask myself.

Qigong has been a huge help in the last month of practice, but I've just begun, and our friend FrostyTraveler is the one who has delighted us with incredible experiences with this. I must say that I'm surprised by the results I've seen in such a short time, not only metaphysical but also physical and mental, it's doing me good and helping me maintain a disciplined life. This practice has helped me increase my energy in all aspects. After practicing I lie down to meditate a bit before sleeping and not only do hypnagogic images come quickly, but since I started practicing, my dreams are much longer and more adventurous! Almost always at some point in the night I gain lucidity, even if only for a few minutes.
I feel like this practice has had a lot to do with it. And that's just looking through the peephole... I'm glad you enjoyed it too!

The Guiding Force is wonderful and very mysterious to me. The first time it appeared was over ten years ago, but at that time I wasn't ready to receive it, I didn't like that 'someone' would take me through the air to uncertain destinations, I wanted to control everything. Now it's very different, I've changed. It can take me through the most spectacular landscapes, but the first time it presented itself, it took me out of the Earth directly to outer space, through distant galaxies at high speed... I was completely convinced that I had died, and I didn't understand why they were taking me out of the solar system. It was a shock! And what a presentation...!!! Although I was very scared that time, today I beg for it to happen again.
I'm happy to have an allied force that helps me in my progress, I think there comes a point where we need this guidance and that's where this force appears.

Since I started practicing formally around my twenties, I've tried, as Frank K said, to move from F2 to F3. But we know that everything is superimposed and that we can experience things from one focus or another at the same time, like when we listen to overlapping radio stations. I suppose that when the images cease and abstraction or pure Light appears, that's when we're entering other realms of Consciousness, as many meditation teachers speak of. I still have a lot to read or learn about it. But as Kurt Leland says, we must above all have a purpose.
I think one of my greatest longings is to feel part of a larger organism again, which I know I belong to, to break the illusion of separation. One of the things I've enjoyed the most in my most notable experiences was feeling that my body was merged with the environment and had no limits, or joining a vast network of consciousnesses, a collective mind where we could exchange all knowledge. That seems very advanced and I know I can only achieve it with help. But I don't lose hope of being able to continue discovering.

Dolores Cannon has taught me through her books that we all have an endless number of lives full of adventures, on this and other planets and in dimensions that defy imagination. I think our perception of others would change a lot if we could see even just a small portion of all that! What great mysteries our Souls hold, yes! We are fortunate.

Thanks, dear friend, your words are gold.
Hugs! ❤

I become aware and find myself in my home, floating in the air as just an energy body. I'm with my beautiful Siamese cat, who passed away, but I had him for 16 years and miss him dearly. So, I often create him to accompany me on my dream adventures, even though I know he's just a hologram.
To practice NP movement, I decide for some reason to do it through him. So, I make him play throughout the house, controlling all his movements. I made him jump and do lots of flips, chasing his favorite toy, a yellow ball. I took him through the entire house, exploring different spaces, and finally ended up in his room (Yes, he had his own room! With a bed and everything, he was very spoiled lol).
Suddenly, I see him lying on the bed, as if he got tired from running around. When I look at him, he appears larger than usual, with his bright blue eyes wide open. I lie down beside him to hug and kiss him, feeling his furry face and wet nose once again. But I didn't feel any of this; instead, I phased through him as if I were a ghost.

I lose some lucidity, but I quickly regain it and find myself in a strange story. I have a small device in my hand, like a tiny robot that initially was my friend or was directly connected to my organism. I think everyone had one of these devices. However, it later wanted to betray me. It was a small, square device with big, round eyes. It could contract and become a single piece for transport, like a pocket-sized device, or expand and show limbs.
It was taking me to an extraterrestrial base, where there were many spaceships and other abducted people. I rebelled and managed to escape; I also had powers and could fly. I think I destroyed the device. As I flew, I felt my energy field, and I said I was flying by manipulating the magnetic field around myself (?)
I flew all over the place and couldn't think of what to do until someone mentioned a beach. I looked around, and I was there. The sand was brown, but the sea was greenish, and there was a pleasant breeze. As I perceived myself, I realized I no longer had a body or form; I was more of an energy body again.
I want to destroy this place and free the people, so I think of a huge meteorite, and I see it falling from the sky.
I realize I'm creating a fear test for myself! And I remember that nothing can harm me in NP. So, I make the meteorite fall into the sea, and the consequence is a massive wave over 40 meters high, a kind of tsunami.
The scene is terrifying, and everyone panics, running around, but I remain calm, even though the scene feels very real. I recognize that nothing can affect me in the non-physical realm, and I just smile.

I end up returning to my physical body, but I detach from it. At first, I was moving so slowly that I thought I was actually moving my physical body, but I wasn't. As I fell to the floor, I couldn't see and felt like I still had my sleep mask on, but I could only see a little bit underneath it. I saw my room and was happy, thinking I was seeing the ethereal plane. But I removed the mask completely, and what I saw was that my physical body wasn't in my bed, but rather the sheets were all rumpled. So, I said to myself, 'It's a hologram.'
When I'm confused, I usually look at my hands, which give me an idea of how my mind is behaving at that moment or 'where I am.' It's not that this is a hard and fast rule, but I've noticed that if my hands are deformed, missing or extra fingers, I'm in a lucid dream. If my hands are perfect, just like my entire body, and they don't change, I'm in a simulation, probably created by my Guides or my Higher mind. If I'm just a point of consciousness or my body is made of energy, it's a different category. But the reality is that I've been in my energy body, watching projections of my subconscious, so this isn't entirely accurate, as in the two experiences I just described.
However, it's a small sign that helps me get my bearings from time to time – looking at my hands.

I decide to leave through my window and I saw another version of my city. There's a turquoise lake with a huge serpent inside, like a Chinese dragon, and I let out a surprised scream! Instead of buildings, there are green mountains, and they're beautiful, looking like velvet. There are also many wooden constructions and I can see the river in the background, bordering the coast, just like in physical reality. But in this version, there's a lot of vegetation around, all forests.
I practiced passive observation and looked at everything I could very calmly and attentively, without reacting. What's curious is that I could hear the sound of construction machines that were actually working in my city at that moment. So, these experiences are like an overlay, as Lightbeam and Escape Velocity explained recently in another post, where we can be perceiving layers of realities all together.

The Guiding Force is with me, and it's what's carrying me through the air. We're heading straight for the river! Whenever it takes me to the river, that's where the experience ends or the scene changes, as if it were the edge between two worlds. Usually, I get desperate and scared, but I remembered Kurt Leland's explanation that the sea, river, or a large body of water can literally represent the edge between two different states of consciousness, leading to a higher state. So, I wasn't afraid and saw it as a great opportunity.
I've already realized from other experiences that the river or sea is my exit from lucid dreams to other unknown states of consciousness. As I dove into the river, I didn't feel anything; I didn't feel the water. I asked (as I've been doing for some time now) to go beyond the realm of lucid dreams... I don't know what happened, but for a moment, I partially returned to my physical body and started spinning around! But when I realized it, I was in an environment completely made of white light, but it's not the first time I've been here.

This environment can be very peaceful, a place to rest or renew energies, or maybe it's just the Void, in its white version, as Volgerle described. The difference is that this time, I didn't feel that immaculate peace, and I didn't completely lose my sense of body. Superimposed on the whiteness, I saw strange geometric/organic formations in transparent colors – orange, pink, and yellow... Their shapes reminded me of neurons or microorganisms under a microscope (this has happened to me before). I keep thinking they're thought forms, mine, projected and visible in this way.
I was very confused and didn't know what to do! I didn't know how to proceed. I also didn't know if I was returning to the hypnagogic state, since I usually see these forms in that state, but it wasn't the case. Since I didn't know what to do in this new environment, I thought of doing a meditation exercise, but I couldn't concentrate well. So, I decided to return to my body. Not frustrated, but incredibly grateful that my Guiding Force is a great support on this path of self-discovery.

It's a bit funny how we ask for things, and when they're fulfilled, we don't know what to do afterward. I feel like I'm standing before an unknown threshold, an unexplored realm that's calling me to transcend my limits. But I won't be able to embark on this journey alone; my higher mind or my Guides will have to help me remember how to navigate through these unknown territories once again.

Hi Frosty, I just wanted to report here on your thread that about a month ago, I started practicing Qigong for an hour every night before bed. Although I'm still at a really very basic level, I can see my progress and how I'm getting better and my joints are creaking less, lol. While I still have a lot to learn about this venerable practice, I feel a noticeable difference in my mood; it's like night and day. It's really helped me with my anxiety issues, and I truly believe it's helping me balance my energy.
I feel very relaxed after practicing, and I feel a sense of well-being, like my whole body is smiling. It's also my daily mindfulness meditation moment, where I connect with my body, the Earth, and the present moment.

I actually wanted to comment that I had an episode of waking up in the middle of the night feeling something very strange, like what often happens to you.
After practicing, I went to bed and two hours later, I woke up feeling like I was partially out of my body, but there was a huge, very strong "swirl" spinning clockwise in my lower abdomen area, which could be the place between the second and third chakras. But this swirl was so strong that there was a moment of great confusion; I left my body for a moment, something happened with that swirl but I don't know what, I got disoriented or something, and then I returned to my body and opened my eyes. I've never felt anything so strong before that has to do with swirls in the body, and I woke up scared, thinking something bad had happened. But no, everything was perfectly fine, and I fell back asleep.
I really believe that the energy is starting to move and improve.

Thanks for all!

At some point I think my fingers get stuck somewhere and I can feel the pain, and I thought this was strange.. I'm like how can I feel pain here unless... my physical body is experiencing pain. Okay I snap back again and my fingers were uncomfortable—but in hindsight that was maybe a FA.

It's incredible how the mind is capable of reproducing almost perfectly what we've learned in the physical. We can reproduce a reality identical to this one, feeling aromas, flavors, temperature, and even pain - yes, in the non-physical realm. In my case, sometimes animals bite me, but it's never intense pain; it's like when your dog or cat bites you playfully, a gentle sensation.

On the other hand, I realized while being in my energy body that it's not completely subtle; it's still material in some way, just vibrating at a higher speed, but still having some degree of density. That's why we can perceive certain textures and sensations, as described by Monroe and Buhlman in their books, when touching certain materials, for example. In my case, I enjoy rubbing my hands together; it's like a magnetic sensation, like many particles frictioning against each other.

Keep sharing!

Wow, Lightbeam, you've had some fascinating dreams! I love that you dreamed about the Earth's shifting, and your train symbolism reminded me of the analogy Bashar makes in those videos you shared months ago about the changes of the world. It reminded me of that and I also enjoyed the comparison. I'm happy that you're overcoming your phobias and fears through this powerful tool, which has a profound impact on the subconscious, and can give us miraculous or lifelong healings, because perhaps in some cases, we resolve in one night what many people achieve in years of therapy. I also believe it's a very noble approach to use all this for healing.

Today, I had an incredible result with the same issue too. I've also been asking for healing because I have anxiety problems that manifest in unpleasant physical symptoms. I've done all the routine medical tests, and they come out perfect, they tell me it's just anxiety. But I don't take anxiolytics or any medication, I don't want to. I trust my power to overcome this, even if it's not easy.
And a few days ago, unfortunately I had a strong episode, and my chest hurt badly for two days, it scared me a bit, and the sensation was horrible, like having a tourniquet on my torso and a lot of pain.

So, I asked for healing/help (as you also recommended me the other day). So, in my experience today, an oniric instructor took me to the Void. When I touched me with my hands, I realized that around my energy body, there was a thick shell formed, especially around my chest, where it hurt. It had the texture of tree bark, I don't know why. I started tearing it off piece by piece because it was very hard, but then it came off easily and I took it all out. Then I threw it very, very far away... I felt free and great! Then, a piranha came to bite my foot, lol, but I kicked it out and sent it flying along with the shell. I didn't see any of this, it was all purely sensory. I also think that our bad emotions can literally form that kind of intrusion in our energy field, we have to be careful. I'm not sure how it works because I haven't studied the field very much, but I believe that somehow, those things are really there at a level between the subtle and matter.

When I returned to my body, the pain was completely gone, and I felt fantastic!!! It was so incredible, that I realized my physical body was smiling when I opened my eyes. Obviously, upon returning, I gave thanks.
I felt relaxed all day, and I hope to continue like this. Anyway, I'm working hard to improve myself.

Thanks, Lightbeam, and yes, yes, yes, I also encourage everyone to use this to have a better life and get to know more about ourselves.
Give it a chance!

You're right LB, in some way I think I was conditioning the results. I know that I should let myself go more next time and not THINK but rather open my heart to the experience and to what I am capable of experiencing at this moment, since I recognize that it could be something intense, but surely beautiful and pulsating.


I just wanted to mention an event that caught my attention the other day while practicing. External noises no longer take me out of practice like they used to; instead, they're incorporated. For example, entering hipnagogia, I heard the sound of the patrol car's police sirens, since I live a block away from the police station and sirens can be heard at any time.
As I associated this sound with the color blue (because it's the color of the police lights here in my country), while the siren was sounding, I started to SEE the sound in blue, making wavy and abstract movements. It was increasingly intense as the sound was heard. It was like a kind of synesthesia, since before the siren sound, I wasn't seeing anything, just the black screen in front of my eyes with my eyes closed, but the sound triggered the color. It was fun to play with it until it disappeared.

I also find it's getting easier to "manipulate" hypnagogic images. For example, I was seeing a scene from my city, and I thought there should be fireworks there, and they appeared, so I woke up startled. But I never stopped feeling like I was lying in my bed with my eyes closed all the time.

Thank you again for your responses! I feel that things are clearer now, and I understand a bit better what's happening. Sometimes, everything can be quite confusing!

I feel that the "devious non physical personality" is there to help in teaching whatever lesson it is that awaits. It is just another "tool" that our consciousness can access when needed.
Balance is incredibly important. I don't think we need to "abolish" those NP desires either. Instead, I think we just need to realize they are there and act accordingly.

Of course! Apparently, it seems that everything is part of our learning process. We can learn from everything and nourish ourselves with it. Nothing appears without a reason, and there's always an underlying cause. I think many things we see and find surprising are calls for reflection.

So, I think the body/conscious mind do influence our dreams and our APs, but hey, I'm all for French fries and parties, and for me particularly chocolate cakes. And when someone says food tastes heavenly, this comes from unconscious knowing what food in heaven actually tastes like. And I can proudly say that I've had a first hand experience tasting it in heaven lol.

I've felt the same way. I usually practice with an empty stomach, just taking a few sips of water to keep my throat from drying out. It's no wonder, then, that I often feel like putting something in my mouth during those lucid moments! I would like to try those heavenly chocolate cakes!

One thing that truly stuck with me- is that like me, you said you don't necessarily feel like one must go to war with the Ego. It doesn't have to be Ego vs Spirit. I agree with this. Maybe it is a romantic whim, but I believe the two can exist in harmony. I believe material and spiritual are wed, and the relationship is loving.

Thank you for your kind words! I feel identified with many of your writings, too. I think the word 'Ego' can be misinterpreted, leading to believe it's something negative that needs to be dealt with or is contrary to spirituality. I think that to achieve balance in life, we shouldn't be at war with anything, but rather understand, learn, and act.
When people talk about the Ego, they often think of an egotistical or narcissistic person who doesn't care about others. However, to me, the Ego is something different - it's the illusion of separation from reality. The Ego, per se, is just the illusion of separation, that bubble that makes us believe we're not part of anything and are isolated in our heads.
I think this illusion of separation is necessary for functioning in the material world we know now. I don't think I could function correctly without an Ego. The problem arises when this becomes uncontrolled, soulless, and we end up with the society we know today, in a constant state of struggle or flight, competitiveness, and the law of the jungle. It's something we need to learn to balance or, as you beautifully put it, 'wed'.
If life grants us with an 'ego dissolution' experience, that bubble bursts a little bit, and we feel that beautiful connection with everything that exists. I think the 'egosphere' isn't the same thickness for everyone, and in some people, it's thicker than in others. In some, it doesn't exist at all.
As you said, all our parts need to dance in harmony.
❤

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I'd like to share in my diary that today I tried the William Buhlman exercise 'Higher Self Now!' I didn't read the book with this title, but his books 'Adventures Beyond the Body' and 'The Secret of the Soul,' where he encourages all his students and readers to experience the highest part of their consciousness through this command.
This is one of my main goals through astral practice, as I'd like to find those wider states that life once gifted me, allowing me to see beyond human eyes or limitations. I want to have an expanded vision of reality and, above all, of my circumstances in this life, to understand them better. According to the author, giving this simple command is enough.

In my lucid experience today, I remembered it, stepped aside from the scene, knelt down, raised my arms, and exclaimed to the Guiding Force, 'I want to experience my purest essence, take me to the core of myself, please!' (I didn't mention the Higher Self).
Just like Buhlman mentions, I felt the movement and was propelled at high speed, also seeing some colors. However, that's where things ended... I ended up in a strange house where I felt like a ghost. Then I entered the Void and made the same request, ending up in a sinister version of my own city, Gotham City style lol.

So, I didn't achieve the supposed result, but I have to admit that something changed in my awareness during the experience. I felt something different, something I've only felt in the dream state and can't describe because I've never felt it here. It's a mix of adrenaline and exuberant enthusiasm, the immense happiness of feeling free.
In the end, I saw some writings on a kind of board that I didn't understand, wanted to ask some questions, but the board didn't respond and went blank, so I decided to return.
Maybe to reach this goal will take several attempts, even so, I am happy to have remembered to do this and taken another step towards making new discoveries. I also think that reaching this important point requires a lot of previous internal work and cannot be achieved simply with a command, but I don't know, maybe it depends on the person.

If you have given 'the Higher Self Now command' and want to share your experience here, you are very welcome! One of my favorites was Lightbeam's when she asked to see God.

So let's get started!

★ Lightbeam: That's an excellent idea! There are so many resources available through this practice. I'm glad you overcame your fear of snakes,that was great! I haven't tried to work on my fears or phobias in this way, but I'll think about it. In Stephen LaBerge's book, there's a section specifically dedicated to overcoming traumas and phobias. It's one of my favorite books. I'll keep it in mind!

The Guiding Force is incredible. I realized it has individuality, but at the same time, it's closely linked to my own organism and Soul... That's why I feel it's a Higher aspect of myself. This could generate a kind of conflict if one doesn't understand what's happening or believes that only what we experience consciously now as humans, through this particular body, is all that we are.
Through books and my own experience, I've learned that I'm only experiencing a tiny part of my Complete Being right now. The image they showed me once was that I'm just a grain of sand within an entire planet. It's scale is staggering, in comparison to the small spark of consciousness that we embody as present. I think that's what's called the Oversoul. It wouldn't be possible for the entire Self to be incarnated in this human body. It is simply not compatible to receive so much energy. I know that you all already know these things. Just as a large river must reduce its water flow gradually so as not to saturate the pipes and cause them to burst.
Now, I believe that between the Oversoul and the small spark that I am now, there are many gradients, and among them are these Higher aspects, like the Guiding Force, which from here seems like others, having its own will, but at the same time, it's still ourselves. We'll only be able to fully understand this by going beyond the ego and understanding that we're more than a personality in a body (physical or energetic), but rather we're part of a huge organism that extends and extends to the Source.

★ Tides: Thank you very much! With this, I don't mean to say that it's not good to have fun from time to time, it's healthy. But the problem arises when one has a certain purpose and it's delayed due to not being able to control certain aspects of the non-physical personality.
I think what I don't fully understand is why in the non-physical, we end up doing every day things, when we have limitless possibilities now. I suppose it's because the mind is still deeply rooted in the human, full of programming and patterns, beliefs and conditioning, which don't disappear overnight.
I find it hilarious that I always talk about God, the Source, the desire to know ourselves beyond the human... And sometimes when I'm there, the best thing I can think of is eating French fries or throwing a party? Really? LoL. Why does this happen? I don't know, since these are things I wouldn't even do in the physical. So, definitely, we have to go through many layers before reaching the Core. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

★ Lumaza: Thanks for your advice! I remember reading the thread, but I'll take another look because I don't remember much! This "devious" non-physical personality is something that really catches my attention. I suppose we all have portions of ourselves that we're unaware of, and they become evident in these consciousness expeditions.
I believe the key is not to deny our human desires, but to know how to control and balance them.
I suppose this is the same situation that many people experience after dying, those who gradually shed their physical vestments to be able to return "Home". Others go directly. Maybe we're skipping several steps from here. Thanks for sharing! I love the hipnagogic cave.

Thank you all very much! Your comments are very valuable and appreciated.
 

Hypnagogia: As I lie in my bed, I start seeing fractals, like concentric wavy lines on a black background, they're fluorescent and there are also some colorful spots. Everything is very abstract. Now I see a grid of flowers like daisies that turn into stars and spin around themselves, they have iridescent colors and I'm very happy, I feel incredible.
I feel a presence near my pshysical body, or an energy, like the sensation of a hand touching my forehead subtly and suddenly I fell asleep. That was nice.

I regain awareness and now I'm like inside an art gallery, lucid. I'm looking at a painting, it's a futuristic landscape, a Jetsons' style building with the shape of Saturn, there's also a tower and the sea is below because there's no land. I felt like a friend was calling me from the inside of the painting, it was more like an internal call because I couldn't see her. I wanted to get closer and closer to the landscape inside the painting until I entered the scene, but I couldn't, since I tried to do it by moving my legs and that wasn't a possibility, I had to do it with my thoughts. I knew it was an opportunity to practice a bit of non-physical movement and I had to achieve it! So, little by little, I can do it and I incorporate myself, with great concentration, sliding with my mind instead of walking. I explore a bit of the landscape from within the scene this time, but I soon lose awareness.

When I regain it, I'm sleeping in my bed, which I'm not sure if it started as a classic projection or was simply a hologram of my room, but as always, it was fluctuating. My door was painted black, when in reality it's white, so I had no doubts that I was in the non-physical, since sometimes it's so real that I'm not able to distinguish it.
I don't know how, but suddenly I'm floating around my building being carried by the Guiding Force, I don't even know how it happened, because I have no memories of seeing us leaving through the window... Everything looked very similar to how it really is, even the cloudy day.
Then I find myself next to a man, I felt affection for him and although I didn't know him, we hugged and I felt his warmth, like a pleasant enveloping energy... He mentioned that the moon was beautiful, and I told him that I didn't see any moon, although I looked for it.
There, I felt that this person really existed in physical reality and was not a dream character. And also, I felt that we were projecting an environment around us that was personal to each one. So, I told to him that I didn't see a moon, but what I saw was a peaceful blue sea in the distance. And on the coast, there was a futuristic construction, a building made with two huge spheres and other wavy structures, in black and made of glass. He mentioned that he also saw the futuristic construction, but in another direction. When I look at the landscape again, a stone pyramid appeared, but it wasn't perfect, it seemed like rocks piled up trying to form that structure, but he couldn't see that.

Suddenly, a hand behind me touched my shoulder and grabbed me, I got a big scare! I turn around to see who it was and confront him, but I saw a dwarf man in black robes and hood, maybe there was a slight glow around him, like an aura. At that same moment, I remembered the experiences of many of you or also William Buhlman, where their Guides sometimes had that attire, but in my case, it was a dwarf man and I calmed down. It also reminded me of the dwarves that EV mentioned and I wonder if that had stayed in my subconscious to project the image of a non-physical helper like that.
Immediately after being touched, I was removed from the scene, I was like absorbed, and my holographic body disappeared completely, leaving only my awareness. This felt very good, I felt free and happy... and in my original state. My environment now is like being submerged inside a huge nebula of pink, yellow, and green colors... there are clouds like forms around me and although I didn't have nerve endings to feel, it was as if these colors were massaging my body, even though I didn't have one, odd. At times, I saw three-dimensional geometric formations, but they vanished quickly, perhaps they were my thoughts projecting onto that energy canvas.

Unfortunately, I felt so disoriented by the abrupt change of scene that I decided to return to my body. I entered a hypnagogic state again, seeing patterns, like neuronal connections or some organism under a microscope. Like wavy lines and small spheres in shades of green and yellow. At that moment, I could feel the change of being completely disintegrated, without a body and free, to being part of matter, the oppressive density of the physical environment, so crushing.

Notes:
Lately, I see and feel like the Guiding Force "interrupts" my dream experiences to take me to environments that promise to be more revealing, beyond the dream holograms and truly cross the veil. I don't know why, but once in the non-physical, I find it complicated to get rid of my physical conditioning, not to try to walk with my legs or use my arms, not to open doors and windows, but little by little, I feel like I'm overcoming this basic aspect.
In a previous experience, I found that the Guiding Force completely invalidated my ability to move through the environment using my holographic limbs. I couldn't walk or move my arms, which were petrified, like during the visit to the art gallery. This made me focus only on my awareness and forget my body (physical or etheric) as many recommend here. I need to remember that I have no limits and only use thought.

Overcoming vices is also a challenge, sex and food, smoking or controlling fear and not ending up doing things from everyday life. Since, in reality, I would like to use that valuable time to seek a bit more of our true essence beyond the illusion of matter. Also knowledge.
The funniest thing is that I'm not like that in everyday life, I'm a very calm person, but it seems that when awareness is not high enough, the most basic aspects of human personality take control and seek to feed the most primitive survival instincts.
Still, I feel this Guiding Force helping me constantly with these issues and calling my attention to focus on my true objectives and purposes, in a way. This makes me very happy, since it's easy to get lost in the labyrinths of the human ego in a world where one can project everything they desire. But this is not my interest, and yet I find myself lost many times in this situation.

An example of how this Force helps me was in a previous lucid dream where I see through the window an incredible landscape, a turquoise sea with many stone islands. The Guiding Force takes me through that spectacular landscape. At one point, it seems like I submerged into the sea because everything took on the same grayish-green tone, but I didn't see any fish. Then I started seeing everything with difficulty as if there was a thick fog around me. I realized that I was entering that gray zone again, which acts as a buffer, this launch area from personal subconscious projections to the unknown realms of consciousness. But I didn't take advantage of this great opportunity and returned here.

I know I have a lot to ponder on, to be able to let go next time without doubting or being afraid. Kurt Leland talks a lot about all this in his books, so I should go back to reading my notes.

Thank you all and happy new year to everyone!

I loved the New Year's reflection! I won't lie by saying I don't have my goals for this year, because I do, but more like an organizational map, a course, a guide... like those marks on trees that are put on trekking trails to follow the path, but you don't necessarily have to go that way, it's just orientative.

I think it's part of the modern society we were born into, that kind of mentality. Always being obsessed with a goal and not being happy until you achieve it. And once you achieve it, you feel just as empty as before and look for another one. It's like being an animal running in circles. We need to break that obsessive pattern and focus more on quality of life, and the goals will be achieved on their own, as you mentioned.

I see people around me always obsessed with what they don't have, and they don't take a minute to be grateful for all the good things life has poured over them. Sometimes I find myself in the same situation, unintentionally, and that's why it's true that the things we don't like about others are sometimes reflections of ourselves, to become aware (not always, but in some cases). And while I was thinking about that the other day, walking down the street, a girl walking ahead of me had a t-shirt that said on the back "Expect nothing, thank everything". I took it as a confirmation.

I have had Tornados show up in my Dreams many times. I found them to be "board wipes" of a kind. I don't mean to sound insensitive to the realty of Tornadoes. They cause chaos, but also steer change. In my non-physical experiences I watch, helpless as a Tornado decimates a community. But then the scene switches to the future of that area. The carnage is over, and the area looks and feels different. It is peaceful and there is all kinds of re-growth there. The area is completely rebuilt. Many times, it will be completely different.

 They are also very powerful "portals" that you can utilize.

 Back in 2018 I wrote this short paragraph about Tornados in response to a quote by Nameless, in my Doorway thread.

"Nameless, there are many "vehicles" that you can use to cross "over"/exit. I experience "portals and vortexes" in many things. I finally gave in to Tornadoes and found that they are very useful to "switch the scene". We are always taught to fear them here in the physical and we should. So, that "carryover" was causing fear in the NP for me as well. Until that is, I experienced what lied beyond the Tornado. Then I saw that in the NP they are used as a form of a portal or vortex."

In those days of dream tornadoes, I did not use lucid dreams as part of a spiritual path, I was just doing it for fun. However, from time to time these kind of extraordinary emulated events would occur to create a change of consciousness in me. Awkening.
At that moment I was afraid, but if that light tornado returns, I will embrace it. Something very important was about to happen there.
 

Some time ago when we had to sell my childhood home, I was devastated because I identified it with my true home, but later I realized that as I am a multidimensional being existing everywhere, so is my home everywhere, the entire multiverse is my home, and I explore different regions of it constantly. And everywhere I go no matter how long I stay there IS my home. Imagine the multiverse is a castle and you are one of the owners, owning the entire castle. Although you may go from room to room to room, every room is in your home. When I changed my perspective I reached full content.

That's a great analogy, Lightbeam. I won't forget it!

Thanks for the explanation of what "astral winds" are, it was a term that I never managed to understand well. I never felt this wind in the exit symptoms, but when my Guiding Force takes me from one scene to another, it is like a wind that blows strong and takes me through the air, but it is alive and has its own awareness and will.
In lucid dreams from more than ten years ago, a tornado/hurricane was carrying me and I felt like I was going to disintegrate into a white light... that my "individuality" was going to "disappear". At that moment it was terrifying, one of the scariest things I have ever experienced in NP. But today I see it as an invitation to experience a higher state of consciousness beyond the ego, which came years later. I wasn't ready at the time, but it was interesting and I think it happened more than twice.
I suppose this is also the astral wind? Don't know. Interesting that the movement in consciousness is interpreted as the physical wind (I love the wind) .