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This reminds me of certain Christians who will forgo medical treatment because they believe their faith is better than medicine. In this case you are putting another person at risk to test your theories.

I don't know anyone personally but I am absolutely 100% positive that their energy system is damaged. Why do you think there are so few Asian schizophrenics? It's because they all practice meditation and energy body development while Americans drink beer and eat hamburgers!

The rates of schizophrenia in Asia are not any different from the rest of the world. Surveys(2) have found a lower incidence in rural areas and developing nations.

I have found that many if not all illness and disease is caused by imbalances in our energy bodies. This can include entities / past lives / emotions / foreign energy that attaches itself to your energy body. When this happens, people can start having strange thoughts, hear voices, see things, act unpredictably, etc. Then doctors give whatever you are having a silly name or syndrome and give you a bunch of powerful medication.

The combination of having energy imbalances as well as taking medications such as anti-psychotics and anti-depressants is a bad combination and the fact that you have convinced yourself that you can't function without them it not good. Perhaps you just have to try harder.

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM: The Antidepressant Myth

Professor of psychology Irving Kirsch will discuss his startling research into antidepressants and explain how, contrary to popular belief, mental illness is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Do you know of any schizophrenics who have recovered by correcting energy imbalances?

Ok, thanks. I'm still new to this so anything helps

One question: Are you saying that I should imagine what I would be seeing if my eyes weren't closed?

Thanks again!

Yes, according to the position of your astral body, not your physical one. The idea is to immerse yourself in the astral as much as possible with all of your senses. What can happen is that while you are imagining it, the scene will become real, and you'll be projecting. This is the equivalent of giving yourself a little nudge in the direction of the astral, rather than waiting for it to come to you, if that makes sense.

I'm happy to help, good luck and have fun.

I can only say to keep practicing, because you are clearly on track. In my experience I never had eyes to open in the astral, the visual component would happen by itself. I would try to imagine seeing what I expect to be around my astral body at the time if there is nothing visual happening.

Try progressive relaxation, starting at your toes and moving up to the top of your head, then use the NEW techniques to bring a pleasant feeling warmth and tingling into your body. This is what I do.

Here is a little science on this phenomena, although it won't help explain why it is happening to you outside of life-threatening events.

That's quite a journey you've had to here. I look forward to reading more of your experiences.

Make sure your psychiatrist understands your desire to eventually get off the meds, and is willing to help you do that. Most psychiatrists take a meds-only approach and are not trained in managing the symptoms in other ways.

You might want to check if you have sleep apnea if drowning and suffocating are common in your dreams.

I still think about Frank, I owe a lot to his instruction. I wonder if his unfinished book is laying around on a forgotten computer somewhere.  He had an email newsletter that went quiet at the same time he disappeared from this forum.

I don't have an opinion on whether negs, demons, or other presences are real or products of our mind. What I have always done when one shows up is to project a positive energy towards them and myself. This is easier said than done when you feel fear like that.

Are these experiences happening during the day, or only at night?

Welcome back. Please keep us updated on your progress if you have the time.

Take a look at the threads in the Permanent Topics and FAQ sections for a start.

When you have these lucid dreams, keep a little journal about how you slept that night. They happen for me when I wake up in the night and return to sleep, usually 3-4 hours before I'll be waking in the morning. Some people set their alarm early or drink a lot of water so that they'll wake before their usual time. The journal will help you figure out what time is best for you.

All I can do over the net is wish you peace with this condition and hope that it improves. Have you seen a cardiologist?

I've got a copy saved from 2007.

If you can meditate 9 hours a day you might as well join a monastery.

I can see them when the backgroun is in any color

Me too, I see them on white walls and pretty much any place that is bright enough.

I have depression and anxiety, and while they do manifest in dreams, I find it much easier to cope with them in the astral than while awake. With no body feedback - that is, physical tiredness or chemical responses to what I'm thinking - it is almost trivial to deliberately enter a different state of mind.

This is the blue field entoptic phenomenon.

Emptiness is a condition of the Soul. As M.Tsarion writes our world is full of empty shells of people who have no sense of identity outside of what they own/collect and what others (who fit in societal molds) tell them they are. Thus, they eternally seek outside stimuli to feed their ego in a neverending cycle.

Sorry, I left that definition a little too open. They mean everything is empty: the soul, thoughts, a physical object, etc. For instance, the body depends on food, air, and water to sustain itself; the atoms that compose it all came from elsewhere; and it is continuously shedding dead cells and waste products back into the Earth. If a body depends so heavily on other things for its existence, then we can't say that it exists by itself. All impermanent, changing phenomena (such as a body) are likewise essentially empty of any real substance.

Edit: Wikipedia has a page on this topic that goes into much more detail.

Sounds like Michael Tsarion's psychic vampirism to me.
http://psychicvampirism.com/

You might be onto something there.
:Love Light and Peace:

Corie

Huh? I don't follow how this is related.

The sight of old age, sickness, and death is what lead the Buddha to seek enlightenment. The Buddha himself suffered from back pain and died of dysentery. We cannot escape physical suffering, it is the nature of physical existence; all that exists is impermanent and subject to dissolution. We do have some choice, however, in how we react to conditions of the body.

Emptiness in Buddhism, as I understand it (which might be incorrect!), is not so much a state of mind or consciousness as it is a condition. All things are inherently empty because they lack an essential core, they depend on other things for their existence. The realization of this condition does lead to a change in perception.

Buddhism was made for this discussion!

1) There is suffering
2) There is a cause of suffering
3) There is a way out of suffering
4) The Buddha said he found #3

In a nutshell, it's how we experience the world, rather than the world itself, that leads to our suffering. Our experience of the world is based on one central idea in our minds: that there is a self. All phenomena are measured against the self, whether they are pleasant or unpleasant, mine or other. The less we identify with phenomena as being self, the less we suffer.

1- Check the FAQ and Permanent Topics sections to read about a few techniques. My view of astral projection is that consciousness is non-local, i.e. not in or out of the body, but in one place or another because that is where we are putting our attention. The body naturally takes up our attention when we are awake, and when we are asleep we tend to lose awareness. You have to practice moving your attention away from the physical body, and sleep is the natural way to do it.

2- Astral projection is exploration for me. People will do it for many different reasons. Life is what you make of it...? I don't know the answer to that one yet. 

3- No.

4- Yes, if you find it scary. I've always been too excited by it to ever be seriously frightened.