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I've never seen anything that wasn't there, but I have seen my friend transform into a Rat-Man, which was terrifying, but in no way spiritually enlightening, hehe.

Anyway, the first time I ever took acid.  I sort of "lost it".  I remember I was sitting on the floor at some point and I looked up to see time flowing in reverse and swiftly, I saw my friend walk backwards out of the room and flip the light switch in the opposite position.  I heard the tv playing in reverse and the general actions of everyone going backwards.  Later on that night while watching tv, i felt like i could change my percetion of the flow of time.  If I thought I wanted to hurry up and be through the commercials they'd start playing fast and sounding like chipmunks.  When it got back to the show, I'd slow it to normal.

One time I looked at the clock, then looked away for what seemed 10 minutes and was in deep thought, when I looked back at the clock, it ticked to the next second.

Once while watching a movie with my friend, I said "It seems like .. " and he finished ".. the movie is playing backwards."  And, we both knew that we had the same thought, or one of us picked up on the others (that happened about 4 times that night).

-- These are just a few examples, hope they are entertaining or insightful to someone.

Just another tidbit I hope helps.  I notice when I count breaths that I won't lose count, but my mind will still be chattering.

I find it is easier to think 'in' on the in breath, and 'out' on the out and remain focused then to count breaths.  Thinking 'in' and 'out' makes me focus more on the actual breath since i'm mentally saying the direction of the breath, and counting makes me focus on the numbers more than the actual breathing.

Also, it seems to me that somedays are just harder than others.  I've also noticed that the way you eat greatly effects your concentration, which I'm sure you knew, but thought I'd throw that in.

You have my prayers, I hope you feel better, I have a permantly injured shoulder myself so I know how you feel, but I try to exercise and just take it easy.  If you want to do a favor for me, you can pray or wish or whatever you would do, that I will have the strength and will to get over my current addiction problem that is preventing pesonal progress.

I read a short little book at Barnes & Nobles, I believe it is called "Seeing and Reading the Aura".  The book contains exercises that are designed to increase the range of colors and light you can see.  Its a little mini paperback book that only takes about 2 hours to read, check it out sometime if you hang out there, like I do occasionally.

Sorry, I know some of you live over seas, and I have no idea if you have a Barnes & Nobles, its just a big book store.

Right, I do not promote the use of psychadelics by any means, but they do have a sort of 'prying open the 3rd eye' cause, sometimes.  I've had bouts of intuition that I've later confirmed in reading.  I just like to hear trip stories.

You can also download 'free-trial' programs to convert files.  Just do a search for WMA to MP3 or something like that.

I know exactly what you mean Ash, sort of makes you feel like your mind is unraveling.  I think it just takes practice to have complete focus.  Somedays I would be 1/2 way focused, others I felt completely focused, but persistance makes it better.

I find that if I try to feel as if I'm breathing into my head, and then focusing on the way my head 'feels', I can concentrate much easier then if I am simply focusing on breath, or counting breaths.  Hope this helped.

I've never had a concious projection, but I can get to the trance state with out too much trouble.  Usually before I sleep I do a few Yoga poses to relax.  When I get in bed I do the physical relaxtion exercise from Astral Dynamics.  Then, I do energy work (MBA) on my entire body, from feet, up to the crown of my head.  When I have the energy flowing, I feel like my body is floaty and like its vibrating.  Once there I focus on my breath and try to feel as if I'm sinking on the exhale.  This whole process will take me about 15 minutes (unless I move the physical body which ruins it for me), and I'll drift into trance, mind awake body asleep.

Only, once I get there I start to panic most times.  The vibrations feel heavier and I feel heavier, which is an odd feeling.  A few times when I did not have a clear enough mind (overtiredness), I feel like I'm going crazy when I get to trance, i.e., wierd noises in my head, voices (maybe I'm just crazy, hehe).

My brother and I had the same reoccuring nightmare when we were children, only I didn't know until recently, because I brought up the nightmare, and he said "I used to have that nightmare".  

Its kind of silly, but, the dream was that we were on our bunkbeds and it was thunderstorming outside.  During a lighting flash I saw Mumra's face (the bad guy from thundercats) through the window.  My brother and I would hide under the bed, Mumra would come in the window, and we could see his feet from beneath the bed, then I would wake up.

I'm a little late on this I know.  But, energy development is like your foundation, it must be built strong for the rest of the structure to be properly supported.  The AD workbook has a good program to follow.

I just read over some of the posts I skipped.  I've always been a pretty upbeat, positive person.  But this past month or so, I too have been getting depressed.  A very dark depression, like nothing matters.  I've been doing better the past few days, but I've been self indulgent too .

Well, its March 21st now, but this is wierd.  In the first few days of March, not sure exactly what day, I had one of those 'bad feelings'.  In my case though it was more specific, either my friend or my brother was gonna get killed/hurt/or just have something horrible happen to them.  I suppose you could attribute it to the war starting this month, but.. I don't know.

Odd question.  I believe in all, or I'm inclined to believe, can't say I know unless some day I reach enlightenment myself.  I'm also inclined to believe that the point to living life and being reincarnated is spiritual progress/evolution/cultivation of conciousness.

As this is my first post, I would like to say hello, so, Hello Everyone.  I just wanted to say if you were more interested in this topic you should do some research on dowsing rods and pendulums.  I tried to do some quick research to find an example on the web, here is an ok one.  http://healing.about.com/library/uc_dowsing_0202.htm (not sure how to post links here).

I read about it in a book, but don't remember which one, sorry.