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#251
I started this on my subreddit, but figure I'll continue it here.  I wanted to break down methods and techniques into their basic parts and show how they're all essentially the same. They all ask you to focus on something in an effort to push this physical reality away.

So let's start with one of the most famous methods!  The Rope Method!

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I wanted to start processing the MANY methods and techniques for achieving Projection, with the aim of showing you how similar they all are. In fact, the only difference between them all is the "focus" for the technique.

We're going to start off with the famous Rope Method!

"Climbing the rope" is the focus for this method. Now, you can lie (or sit?) there and visualize yourself climbing a rope all you want and, literally, nothing is going to happen. It takes more than just walking yourself through the actions.

What you need to do is, essentially, convince yourself that you're REALLY climbing a rope. You need to feel the rope in your hands. Feel the materials, the strands as you pull on them. Feel the pressure of the rope in your hand and the weight of your body lifting up off whatever surface you're on. You need to convince your conscious mind that this is REALLY happening. The more you put yourself into this, the more you engage as many of your physical senses into this act, the greater chance you have of trigging the projection reflex to happen.

Eventually, as you're getting deeper and deeper into the act – you might actually see yourself climbing! Just keep going. Keep deepening the sensations toward climbing, as you do this, the natural progression of your awareness will be moving further and further away from this physical reality.

At some point you'll feel the shift. This could be a smooth transition into the non-physical, or you could lose consciousness temporarily and regain it shortly after. At that point, as long as you recognize the shift, you'll be projecting and you can then either continue doing whatever you currently find yourself doing or place the Intent to go do something else!

Let me know if you have any methods or techniques you'd like me to deconstruct for you!
#252
Quote from: Lumaza on August 28, 2023, 21:05:05Wow, I'm sure the Moderators here are ecstatic about that! I know what a chore that was!  :roll:  :-o  :-P
It's much nicer.  Not even a single spam account creation. 
#253
Quote from: Nameless on August 28, 2023, 20:46:11That's better, maybe go one up on font size. The quotes are much better than the standard posting.
Ask and thou shall receive!  How's that?

#254
Welcome to News and Media! / Re: Pyramids
August 28, 2023, 20:58:11
I'll have to put together a help post in the support forum for stuff like that.  :)
#255
Welcome to News and Media! / Re: Pyramids
August 28, 2023, 20:11:08
Quote from: Lumaza on August 28, 2023, 19:32:18Even though the gentleman in this video realized this all to be true, he still has his "Human side". He says at the end of the video that although he strives to control his anger and angst, he is still "Human" first and that means that he still has the emotions that go with the Human experience here. A fantastic video nonetheless!  :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRc430cTkQk
I guess that's why they say that you don't ever LOSE your ego, you simply learn to exist THROUGH it.  Meaning, you accept yourself (and others) just as you are, emotions and all. 

You should be able to embed youtube videos directly into your posts now with the YouTube button in the tool bar.
#256
Let me see what I can do for ya.  :)

There, how's that? I went a tad darker... I *CAN* go darker further.

Let me know.  ;)
#257
Quote from: Nameless on August 28, 2023, 19:06:00Thank you to both of you for all you have done and will do going forward. Whew, so glad I didn't have to pack up and move.
Tell me about it!  It was giving me anxiety just thinking about finding a new place to call home.  :)

The best part about the newest version of SMF is that we have all the new bells and whistles!
Google search should be paying a bit more attention to us now too.  Hopefully that means more members streaming in. 

ACTUAL members!  Not spam bots!  I've killed those.  :)
#258
Welcome to Astral Chat! / Re: Members' Artwork
August 28, 2023, 18:44:47
Ooooh nice!  The bottom one is my fave.  :)
#259
Welcome to News and Media! / Re: Pyramids
August 28, 2023, 18:01:59
Quote from: LightBeam on May 08, 2023, 19:55:06This is very alarming indeed. The new generation is completely disconnected from history.
But aside from that, I came across a guy on FB that goes around and films the worst neighborhoods and ghettos around the world and in the US. And it made me think how each and every person lives on their own personal world that is very different than everyone else's. I mean I knew that before, but now it became even more clear. There are millions oh homeless people just in the US living on the streets and in neighborhoods that look like from a horror movie. They know nothing else. That is their world. Then there are the rich that have no idea what it is to live on the streets. So, even though there are 8 billion people on the same planet, there are actually 8 billion different personal worlds of perception and choices of focus for various reasons.
The world is such a chaotic mess right now.  Sometimes I wonder what humanity would think if they knew that we were all truly connected via consciousness - that we are all truly ONE ENTITY. 

How would people treat each other if we knew that hurting another is the same thing as hurting yourself.  I think the world would change for the better. 
#260
Quote from: Blossom on August 28, 2023, 15:12:14From Aug 20th until Aug 28th, I posted here.  https://out-of-body.boards.net/thread/77/gateway-experiences-dr-steve-jones

I'm back here now since AP is awesomely back up!!!  And beautiful!! And updated and amazing!!!
Yes!  The conversion went incredibly well and the forums are now up and running better than they ever have.

They'll be online and continually kept updated from now on. 👍
#261
Quote from: floriferous on August 28, 2023, 09:34:07Didn't realize all this had been happening until I got an email notification. Good job, Xanth. Looking all shiny new.
 
#262
The Forums definitely wouldn't be here without your hard work over the years Adrian.  :)
We'll make sure that it sticks around for a good long time!

A big thank you for everything!  <3
#263
** I wrote this a few months ago and posted it on my sub reddit r/AstralAcademy - but wanted to share it here too - just my growing perspective **

You start off as a small bit of consciousness called an "awareness" and you're asked, "Do you want to go to Earth? You'll have this amazing chance to experience a wide range of emotions and experience things you could never imagine... but only for a small time, just a blip."

"Hell ya!", you say with enthusiasm.

So you're born here...

Now that you're born here, your job is to learn and grow and become as good a person as you can. As you live your life, you make choices - those choices have a certain Intent behind them.
We can look at it in terms of Entropy - or the measure of how much order is within a system. The more towards love that your Intent is, the lower the entropy becomes, the more towards fear that your Intent is, the more the entropy becomes.

I see at least two levels of Entropy here.

The individual awareness level - which is each of our individual awarenesses and there's consciousness awareness level - which we call The One, The Oneness, or you could even call it "god" if that floats your boat. Now, The One learns and grows in the exact same way as our individual awareness does - afterall, you ARE a part of it. You are formed in the image of that oneness, that's not to say your physical form, but the awareness which is the true you is.

Eventually, your physical body will cease to function and the awareness which you identify as you will return to The One and you'll share your experiences you've had with it. Your individual entropy will then be merged with The One, lowering or raising its overall entropy.

In this way, the choices you make in your lifetime affect everyone. You're either helping to lower your entropy (become love) or raise your entropy (become fear). Which, in turn, lowers or raises The One's entropy.

Your life changes The One in such a small amount, which is why The One has to create all of these individual awareness units (an infinite number) in order to interact with itself in order to grow and learn to become a more ordered consciousness.

So think about that the next time you're making a decision, the Intent behind your decision, ultimately, affects everyone, everywhere, in every reality stemming from consciousness.

Our species overall average entropy has slowly been increasing over the last ten to twenty years and you can see it in our interactions with each other. You can see it in our politics, the media, just about every aspect of our lives. We're becoming less ordered, more chaotic.

Choose love. Always choose love. The world needs it. All of consciousness needs it.
#264
Quote from: Seeker75 on July 20, 2023, 09:53:46Or is it the experience of that ,,void" (which I not did yet) that represents Focus 21 and you just know that you can start now with your OBE, if you wish?
Hey Seeker!  My apologies for the delayed response.   :-)

My understanding is that is correct, I believe!! 

And listen to Lumaza above, dude knows his stuff.
#265
Quote from: Kodemaster on April 03, 2023, 22:08:17They worked pretty well when I was developing my time-travel skills.
I know this was a few month ago, but damn... you've piqued my interest!!  Time-travel skills?!   8-)
#266
I made this graphic to illustrate how your awareness is a continuum within consciousness and how the varying levels all relate.

If you know anything about me, you know that I don't believe "dreams" are an objective experience within our human experience here.  I don't believe we "dream".

Instead, I believe you project, but with what I call a "dream awareness" - what that means is that you are non-physical and you do not know that.  You're kinda just going with the flow.

Then your awareness can go up from there to a "lucid awareness", right up to the full "astral awareness".  The astral awareness level simply indicates that you're experiencing the non-physical and you have your full waking awareness.  This means that you know who you truly are, what you are, and all your memories in tact of your physical life.

#267
Quote from: Lumaza on July 30, 2023, 12:14:54My "Mindfold" was a good blindfold for my Phase sessions
I know this is a little late, but figured I'd chime in... the Mindfold is probably one of the best meditation tools I own (gift from my loving wife <3).  For those times when you just want to get that light gone!  :)
#268
Hi Fowlskins!

I know this was a bit ago, but I read your post and I wanted to comment.  Hopefully this finds you.

Quotethere was a car with a couple of black gang members by it they approached me in a very intimidating manner but as i was in a fully lucid state i just went up to the more aggressive one and wiggled my fingers under his armpits shouting "tickle tickle tickle" i then dived forwards and flew away from them laughing at the ridiculousness of the scene
I'd definitely call that a very strong lucid awareness, if not a full astral awareness.   :-)
I like the way you handled it too.  Very "aware" of what the situation was.
#269
Quote from: Frostytraveler on August 21, 2023, 15:52:37I just downloaded the Robert Bruce Energy material. Looks like I have some reading to do. Both of you mentioning  R. Bruce, that's enough for me. I will also do some reading on the Egyptian Healing Rods. The sensation of moving energy you describe reminds me of that which I have experienced with Chi.
Just checked on the healing rods. Yikes, they are expensive.

Thanks for the info.
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of Robert Bruce... with that said, his NEW system is pretty effective. 
#270
Ok, the fine people over on the SMF help forums managed to figure out what I did!
Everything is fixed, the forum should be working just about as close to flawlessly as it should be now!

The BBC tool bar is back now as well!

#271
Quote from: Kree on August 27, 2023, 15:18:37Nice. I had assumed the forum was gone for good.

In case yall need a new place to chat in the future, I have a ~600 member astral projection / psychology / spirituality discord. If any mods are interested they can mod over there too.



Edit:
This place is more dead than I realized, I'm the only one online. Let me know if yall wanna just merge with the discord and rebrand it to the astral pulse. Xanth and any other admins can co-admin if they're interested.
We literally have events where we stream Tom Campbell's vids.  Give it some thought.
The forum is quite alive.  You've caught it on a down time.
We've got an SSL cert now along with a secured site and updated software.  We'll be good. 👍

But thanks for the offer.
#272
Quote from: omcasey on August 27, 2023, 02:26:45You did it, Xanth!.. well done, I like the new look, too, I just don't see any tool bar, is that coming? I know you have your hands full. What is most important is that the board is still here ( whew! ) this was a close one wasn't it!
Toolbar!  I see what you mean now.  Yeah, that's been missing since the conversion.

I'm actually wondering if I should just do a clean / fresh install for 2.1.4 now that the database and everything else is updated to current.
I'm running that option past the guys at the SMF forums. 

In the meantime, the forums DO work - so please enjoy them!  I'll get everything back up and running to 100% as soon as I can!
#273
I switched the mail server settings again, hopefully it works.  :)
#274
Quote from: T-Man on August 27, 2023, 12:26:28Did you get an email?

At the top of this topic I have it set to RECEIVE EMAILS AND ALERTS. 

I also have my notifications in my account settings to receive alerts and emails. 

I wouldn't worry too much.  I'm sure you will get all the glitches worked out.  Just happy the site is still here!
Hmm, nope, just the alert in the top corner.  I just switched mine to emails and alerts as well.
We shall see!  :)
#275
Quote from: T-Man on August 27, 2023, 12:05:24Just trying out the email notifications

...Didn't work even though I'm set to receive notifications on this topic.
Hmmm, I'm not seeing any errors in the log... it has to have gone through.  Strange.

You're 100% sure the "Notify me of replies" is checked at the bottom when you're in the editor?