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I have that problem with my cats.

I'll be right on the verge and then BAM! cats decide to run across the bed in a frantic race to see who can get to the window first.  I've got scars on my legs from them using my legs for leverage.  And of course I hear it coming, but i'm deep in trance and am hoping that they choose not to jump on me so i stay still and wait.  And of course they jump on me everytime.

I also have the opposite happen occasionally.  One of them (or both) will decide its time to take a nap with daddy and will pick a nice spot right between my legs to lay down.  They'll stretch around a bit, claw my legs a bit and pretty much ruin whatever trance I had.

Whenever I try to shut the door to keep them out the little lady yells at me because the only way they can get to the litter box in through the bedroom.

women and cats, the downfall of modern society.  

jk

earth.

He claimed to be the returning incarnation of Quetzocoatl

dude is a nut job

still interesting though

My point is that intelligence is relative to the social generation.  Just because I know more about physical science doesn't mean im any smarter than someone 200 years ago.  Intelligence in my example is based on competence in common sense of the age, ie adaptability.  This is what modern IQ tests measure.  Your familiarity and comprehension of the current paradigm in your respective social/cultural environment. 

So in that regard, AP is likely to enhance your intelligence because it can provide you with a wider scope through which you view your current paradigm.  Intelligence in this regard is fluid.

However, if you measure intelligence with some random descriptor like memory capacity or logical reasoning (which you honestly could call adaptability, but for the sake of my argument we wont) then AP probably wont increase your intelligence.  Though other factors involved in AP might, like practicing dream recall may enhance your memory.

If you consider spiritual development to be a method of self-actualization (ie congruence between self and perceived self) then yes, AP does increase intelligence.

Intelligence is essentially measured as adaptability or your grasp of common sense relative to this generation.  For example consider Abraham Lincoln.  Seems like he was a pretty smart Guy, but if he took a modern IQ test he would most likely score in retardation levels.

AP enhances your perspective of your "environment" to one of larger scale and position, allowing you to see a slightly bigger picture than the "average" person.  So, in comparison you may seem more adaptable, hence more intelligent.

Being a psych student, learning the "backdoors" to the human mind has been a common theme.  But the extent of the complexities in modern media programming/priming is just insane.  Check out this writer's break down of a BEP video and its connection to transhumanism (the evolution of humanity through technological means).

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=3563

http://rense.com/general90/wordmagic.htm

Have any of you ever read "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl?

Meaning can be found anywhere.

Yea I remember seeing this forum a while back with a lot of the "ask the author" type sections that RB has on AD.

I don't think Astral Dynamics is bigger, I think this one has been around longer. 

The two forums used to be one, but then they split.

This may be the biggest devoted to primarily astral projection.

I would agree the two are different to me because of the fear and not being able to break free of it easily. 

I like how you make that distinction.

This time last year I was really interested in entheogens and people like Terrence McKenna and Daniel Pinchbeck and found Reality Sandwich.  I haven't looked at it in a while, but they have some good articles.

that's sooo new-agey stookie 

There are realms in which time runs faster and there are realms where time runs slower compared to the material world.
In essence, timelessness is a nice idea but in reality it does not exist, it is always a linear run.

Now it has to be understood that when one "travels" back in time like with the akashic records, he is only visiting energy imprints of events like a manifesto of time itself.

It has to be understood that time is an artificial imposition. In nature everything happens simultaneously but time stretches simultaneousness into segments. In essence time is really a very complex entity.
It is as artificial as the universe itself.

I was going to say i disagree when i read that linear run bit, but I don't entirely disagree since reading all of this.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/trance_science_selfhealing

Found this article, thought I'd share

http://www.realitysandwich.com/sleep_paralysis

you're right.

the argument is a little more complex than this, but basically I say that sleep paralysis is not the same thing as inducing a feeling of your body not being there.  Sleep paralysis is technically a sleep disorder because you're not supposed to wake up during it.  When you induce "sleep paralysis" you're not actually inducing sleep paralysis, you're inducing a state of dissociation from your body.  (and i use the word dissociation specifically in reference to the body, not in any sort of mental pathological sense)

but, this AP thing is a very subjective experience from beginning to end, so whatever you call what you do is basically irrelevant, so this argument was basically useless in many regards.

i have never projected from a paralyzed state.

i have only been successfully consciously exiting for a couple months, but my projections aren't weak, though I do lack some control of where I can go.  I don't have enough personal power to fully control my environment, yet.  By that I mean that my mind kind of moves me on it's own.  Maybe it's more appropriate to call it my subconscious.   

Anyway, my projections are still very vivid and I have hyper-awareness, clearer than when I'm physically awake.

My body does not become paralyzed though.  My awareness becomes very focused on "the other side" and awareness of my body fades into the background, but it's still easy to move it if I shift my awareness back. 

we are dead

modified

if you call your messiah frank, then phasing might be right for you

word

I've read about a lot of people who project easily at night or after awaking in the middle of the night project doing it from their side. 

It seems that they are often already in that position when the state that makes projection easy just pops up.

I don't know a lot of conscious exit people who do it from their side, though I'm sure it's entirely possible if that's where you're comfortable.

In regards to locomotion in the astral, it's basically the same as walking in physicality. 

Do you do anything special to walk?  No, you just walk.  That's about the extent of it.

Things like flight or walking through walls can be tricky though because you don't really have any sense memory to compare it too.  It's like driving a car becomes almost unconscious after you do it a while, but that first time driving you are super aware of everything you're doing.  It was tough in the beginning.  Same thing in the astral.  You're not used to flight so it can take a little practice before it becomes second nature.  The trouble is really in thinking about it too much, trying to hard.  You just have to let go and do it without thinking about it.

This is a great question.  

Intent is the power that fuels your reality.  The necessity of intent may or may not be known when someone is undertaking a practice, but it still plays an important role.  Intent is the way that you communicate to the interconnectedness of consciousness the direction in which you wish to manipulate your reality.  

Part of my point in that statement is that it is not necessarily required to form a specific intention in AP practice.  Either way you will be putting intent into your practice, but you don't have to consciously create an intention.  The act of showing interest in Astral Projection (or anything really) is putting your intent into action.  When you show interest in something, that is a created intent, a very natural act.  When you do this, the universe (collective, subconscious, higher self, whatever you call 'the great mystery') gets the message and helps move the situation of your reality into congruence with your intent.  So for example, say I want to increase my intuitive awareness, I might undertake a divination practice like reading Tarot cards.  This is the basic form of an intent and it tells my subconscious that I want to open my intuitive channels and so my subconscious helps clear the way so I can perceive intuitively.

With regard to Astral Projection, doing something like joining an Astral Projection forum, practicing AP, reading AP books, etc. is the most basic form of putting an intention out into your reality.  This act gets the energetic ball rolling which in turn moves your reality to align with what you want.

These cases are what I've been calling basic or natural intent.  There is another level of working with intention which comes up in the realm of magickal practice.  Let me clarify that I'm using magick to mean the manipulation of reality via personal power in mind and focus, i.e. the ability to influence your reality through direct and focused attention.  This is what intention does on varying levels, depending on your active involvement.  

As you develop your personal power you can put more energy behind your intent and you can begin to make it more specific.  Now, intentions used in magickal practice are often formulated into a verbal/written statement, but that's not the whole picture.  What is different about this route of intention work is that instead of just wanting something and sending out a generic intent associated with your interest, you actually stop and consider the various perceptual aspects of your intent and fine tune it to be as specific as possible.  You then verbalize this intent, but as is the case in all magickal work, it's not just the words but the emotional perception that the words symbolize.  Language pales in comparison to the information present in your perception and emotional experience.  All of your experience in reality is filtered by your perceptual experience and your personal power as well.  It's not called personal power because it's yours, it's called that because it is subjective power in that it is power relative to your perceptual experience.  I know that may sound confusing, but the key to any kind of magickal work it to recognize that no two paths are the same.  Your practice works because it has your energetic imprint on it with your deepest perceptual feelings.  It is this emotional/perceptual energy that moves reality.  So when you form a specific intention, along with the words, you are also including an energetic imprint of your feelings regarding the intent and that's what is doing a lot of the work.

Here's an example:

I burned a 7-Day Ritual Candle for help with my projection a few months back.  I spent a couple days forming my intention (though I don't remember what it was now).  It was something to the effect of "I project easily from a conscious state", though it was more specific and less ambiguous.  The important part is that I spent a few days really examining how I felt and trying to connect with those feelings to form a proper verbal intention.  Once I had that I carved it into the candle and proceeded with the ritual (there were other things involved, like candle color, glitter color, picture in the bottom of the jar, oil, pennies, etc. in the ritual).  I had my first conscious exit a week later after trying for nearly a year straight without success.  

By forming a specific intention and taking the time to charge my intention with my emotional energy I was able to transfer a great deal of my personal power or my ability to manipulate my reality into the candle.  This candle then became a vessel to hold my intention and continuously "repeat" it to the universe for me.  

Intention is also a good partner for affirmation.  There is a post that I did in the Magic section that deals with Sigilry which is like an advanced form of affirmation work.  Check it out: http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_magic/affirmations_sigils_and_the_subconscious-t30844.0.html