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Well I don't get with the channelling thing personally . But this information itself reads well and echoes something I've said about the ego once or twice to people. Here however the information is more complete.
So regardless of source, I thank you daem0n for posting it.

Have you practiced anything like the NEW system at all? There is an article describing the healing heart method which may well be of benefit.
In particular EOL007 mentions acting as a channel. If your a fairly conscious healer who is used to making deliberate effort-I did from about 11 yrs old, then this method might be the easiest way to "feel" acting as a channel.
Though the first time I tried it I cried, and cried hard.
I'll leave Robert to do a much better job of explaining the method.
http://www.astraldynamics.com/tutorials/?BoardID=8

There are a very few number of viewpoints that I personally feel are actually wrong. In as far as most viewpoints can be considered valid on some level.
Very extreme viewpoints appear to me (IMHO) to be very incorrect and often dangerous to the advance of humanity's knowledge and to our future.

Fundementalism that misinterprets beliefs to allow for murder and suicide bombings are at one end (this is my own perspective which I admit is not as broad as many of you on here). At the other end is James Randi and the like.  After reading the link posted earlier by Migs and also reading another link regarding James Randi's practice my feeling is that Randi supporters are also pretty blind. He's the sole judge, jury and source of appeal for anyone who volunteers to take his challenge.
If he was genuine, he'd allow for a team of impartial judges-in the main from scientific backgrounds perhaps as well as other relevent areas. And he would allow for an equally broad appeal panel. He does not. This is a man fighting for cause. The cause of absolute materialistic dogmatic belief. I won't grace it with the word science. It is not science. It is not to know. It is to hold onto something he and others hold precious. It's as ignorant in it's way as severe old fashioned religious dogmatism is. Only it uses "science" as it's tool.

Blind belief is somewhat foolish, but so is blind disbelief.

People like Randi have hijacked skeptism. I'm a skeptic, to me that means if a question is important enough to me to know the truth then I'll try to find out for myself. If it's not then I'll simply admit that I simply do not know enough to form a solid opinion.
I don't need to believe in energy work for example, I use it daily. Just the same as I don't need to believe in this keyboard I'm typing on . It's right here.

Real skeptism would equally allow for the possibility that something is true as for it being false!
James Randi and fans only allow for things to be false. They talk very clever crap.  
Hone your own mind and prove things to yourself if it's something that's important to your life.
Healing and energy work are very important to my life so I HAD to work with it and attempt to find out for myself.
Astral projection and other paranormal abilities haven't yet become important enough for me to try to prove to myself. they might .

Excuse the incoherent ramble, first post of a morning is often like this .

breatharianism stretches my openminded skeptism too far by half. The same goes for gazing into the sun-though I can imagine dawn and dusk gazing with meditation/energy work might have it's own effects .

I'd need to see some ordinary proof of breatharianism. (as opposed to the common "extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof" crap). Is anyone into this enough to do a decent study? Is it possible that there are some practices a simple bit of open minded science could put to rest or settle?

Hmm I can't comment on the spirituality stuff-it's way way over my head .

but on the NEW energy work that's another matter to a small degree at least. Talking from experiences so far-it doesn't take long to develope the secondary energy body really once you put your mind into it. In the long run it's gotta be a little more solid as the chakra is likely to ask more of your energy system as a whole.

Put it another way, I left chakra work until the workshop in the end. And I'm glad I did as the secondary training i'd already done made getting into the primary centres fairly easy. Basically I can now utilise working on them as a routine no problem.

Admittedly I don't have any visions, OBE's or anything really mystical happening. But I do have a solid tactile feedback of energy with each move I make. And I sense all of the chakras to some degree and the end of the practice leaves me very settled indeed.
One note. Healing heart method that Mr Bruce relates caused me a lot of sudden emotional release. Just a passing thought.

Gaining a solid flexible energy infrastructure will speed up and facilitate all the primary center workings I would have thought.

Fever serves a purpose biologically, so does depression (to a LIMIT).
In both cases of course there could be many different causes or reasons behind either symptom.

For instance in my case-I have a history and so does my family of depression. I have begun to identify variations within depressive feelings now after having spent time trying various things.

Firstly there is shortlived depressive heavy headedness. Causes appear to be blood sugar, lack of available amino acids and some sleep deficit-any and all of these in combination are easy to solve now. The trick is self awareness and keeping track of basic needs. Also for me exercise is absolutely necessary. I need to work hard for a minimum of 1hr every 48hrs.  The science behind that is straightforward too.
Now this is all biological with only a small psychological component. But this is the stage I have got to now. Where simple self management and energy work also deals with the issues.

I also had for many years a deeper more pervasive daily underlying depression. Again this could be looked at biological just the same, however the truth was my life was genuinely a bit excrement. Mainly self inflicted with an added component of being conned a few times. Add in loneliness, wrong pathways taken, leaving home because of emotional parental issues and some other stuff too private to mention and there's a clear case of psychological triggers too. It's a bit chicken and egg-did the biology influence the psychology first or was it the other way around?
Doctors did try the pills thing. I did too with various stimulants.

Also there is one other thing that I have spoken to Bruce about and I don't mind sharing the broad detail of as I think there may be others that have had this issue and cannot bring themselves to discuss it in a wider audience.  Paraphilias. I have a number of these, none illegal or in themselves dangerous to others BUt some of them have a negative influence on me and one does not.

The ones that have a negative influence take the form of almost self persuasive second internal "voice" that takes a role during an act. Afterwards I don't feel so great about who I am and it takes rationalisation and other tricks to get back into level headedness.  This I'm prepared to discuss on a deeper level in private if it might help others.

I can sense the difference when I raise energy loads now. All this week since the workshop I've found the negative stuff has become less of a compulsive thing and more of a choice thing-less attractive. And my main interest which doesn't give me any issues is more fun.  Seems the negative sexual thing happens when one is in a lower vibe if you like and more vulnerable.

At this time I cannot comment on negs because I don't get into enough trance or visualisation to really sense them. But it's not to difficult to believe certain issues i've had etc either attracted them or were caused by them.

One thing I've learnt about myself is that there is definitly NO single one blanket cause for the symptom that could be called depression as this word itself does describe a whole spectrum of feelings, from a little low and blue (post workout, lack of sugar/sleep/protein/sex) to serious debilitating depression coupled often with other mental health problems.  So for others on this forum looking at this, it's often a multidimensionl/multicausal thing so I really strongly advise against any single line of thinking approach and look more towards multi disciplinary paths. Especially as you've got to take care of ALL your bodies and different approaches do just that.

The purpose of fever? Often the body needs to use the higher temperature to kill an invader that wouldn't survive quite so well at the higher internal temperature. Or internal chemistry has to move faster to cope with the fight. these are sort of my current theories, I haven't actually done any more homework on this so being wrong won't hurt (much) but I do know when I get a fever or a headache I try to stay in the pain for a while to give my body a chance to fight without suppressing it.  With headaches I usually give in in the end .

I can't do the channelling thing. It just doesn't feel like something real. If in there was a nice proveable experiment or something I could. This feels like a lot of the "new age" stuff I decided to duck out of some years ago. I'm only back because I've found some direct practical stuff I can work on and experience. .

I'm 27 and it's not unusual for me to need "release" 1-3 times a day. However since I've started the energy work such release is actually stronger and a better sensation all round. Now I have read it's possible to divert some of that energy so that each time I get turned on it doesn't have to end one way (I am at the house alone a lot), such as with chakra work raising the energy through into the other chakras step by step gently etc. That concentration will help in itself.

However using it the traditional way-and perhaps even learning to channel the energy during the act itself might have more use to you. I have learned to direct the orgasmic energy a little into a healing form either in my own body or elsewhere, using a sense of feel.

It wouldn't surprise me if you were needing release up to 5 times in a day if you're really going for it on energy training.  If that's the case feeling that it's unbalanced etc is quite likely. Add some sport/physical training - or add more if you already do . Swimming, cycling etc-change of environment perhaps.  I'm only writing this from my own limited experience. there will be a couple here who can tell you more about moving the sexual energy etc and someone else who'll tell you how to divert it for sure.  One final thing, if your reading Astral Dynamics or another source of primary center information it already mentions avoiding the genital chakra (not the base!) in your training.  I would go into that more deeply if you haven't already.

Sorry for the incoherent style here but I'm fighting a virus my mother had-one that cause projectile issues at BOTH ends. So far i've only the fever as I think the energy work I've been doing has hit the virus hard. But it's distracting being aware of the battle.

Regards
Richard

But the irc server is there. Rastus is in there.
For those who don't know you need  a client firstly
www.mirc.com is the main client of choice for the IRC protocol.

All you do is install mirc, run it, you'll get a blank window inside it that opens. At the bottom you can type into it.
Just type in "/server -m irc.webmaster.com"
Followed by "/join #astralchat"

You may also wish to go to the commands drop down menu, 4th command from the bottom->change nick. OR File Menu, Select Server, in the very first page you have the nickname and alternate nick boxes. Fill them in too .

I'm on IRC a lot on several other networks so if people decide after all it would be nice to have realtime chat I would be happy to help folks sort this out via yahoo or msn messenger. I have both running all the time (invisibly on yahoo) and will reply if I'm at the pc. karnautrahl@yahoo.com and karnautrahl@hotmail.com.

I for one would really value a popular live chat room for this forum-iRC is certainly one workable way to do it once any beginner's in IRC get it worked out .  It's a crying shame there isn't a Java link to it anymore as for relative newbies it's dead easy and for others just convenient. Maybe just maybe someone might want to do this sometime-with 7000+members .

It's posted around here someplace or on his homesite at astraldynamics.com.  If you've done tactile imaging stuff already this should be straightforward to enact. However the first time I did this on his course I cried!. Even though you are doing a simple energy action to do this, it will release emotional blockages in the heart chakra. I know for a fact that it did with me. I had small tears but very powerful in a way in class and just after class an incredibly powerful and quite difficult to cope with emotional release. There were certainly no other triggers for this either.
Simply breathing in, raising energy up into the heart chakra, breathing out, pushing it out through the arms. Having someone in mind to receive the healing however will make a huge difference. Just trying to hold that person's image there will trigger emotional voltage on it's own I think.
Perhaps attempting to release energy out through your heart towards someone or even in person attempt to heal this way. You can't hurt them if you intend only to heal-so in itself may be a worthwhile thing to try.
It's late here 2amish so logical structure is missing from my post. but I hope you get the gist and I wish you well .

http://seasilver.threadnet.com/Preventorium/breathar.htm

I found this regarding this subject. I've just started reading it and my gut instinct (I think) so far is this looks either complete **** and dangerous OR extremely advanced as in "you've spent ALL your life training to get to this level".

From what I have read-only the first page and first half of that note-I would strongly NOT recommend any novice take this up. Ok all i've ever done is basic energy work and NEW having recently done the last workshop with Robert. So I'm no expert or master at anything. But simple human common sense and intuition tells me that this practice-if it's for anyone-it's for those who can already walk on water-for want of a better phrase.

IMHO! I just KNOW someone is gonna disagree . But that's cool.

Hi everyone, newbie here. I'm due to go on Robert Bruce's course in Wales tomorrow but thought I'd post this question here as it's not all that relevant to the work tomorrow.

I have had a language "trick" for as long as I can remember. I think I developed it perhaps because remembering words to songs I find difficult and I do like to sing sometimes (badly!). However over the last few years as I've attempted to learn to do more with energy work, I've also noticed that it's unusual in that I can make it sound like a language easily-and vary the style. Often in the middle of a normal conversation without stopping to think if I want to.  I was told by one lady that it was Aramaic-however this is not something I believe as I can vary the style a little consciously.
More interestingly for me was for a while I was playing around with shaping energy-whilst singing in this "glossalia". I was moving more energy more easily than normal and my intentions sort of came off.  Hence spell casting as several of these attempts apparently paid off for a couple of people.
Now as they were with me at the time it could be psychological and I'm not prepared to jump in and claim I could definitly spell cast as such . I did have dreams over the next year from time to time that involved fighting with these same techniques for some reason. Since the majority of my experience has been using energy work for healing or self training I found that strange.
Has anyone had any experience with this, is there any basis for such a technique or is it simply psychological with a bit of linguistics thrown in for good measure?  I'd happily demonstrate applying this to healing with a willing volunteer or two, to see if they feel anything themselves .

Nightwolf, I have this really strange feeling that this Ultra Yoga site is either fake/fraud OR a mishmash of stuff thrown together. Why do I think this? The site apart from some blatent mis-spellings etc just oozes outrageous over the top promises, guarantees and hype. It has this "please trust us we are telling the truth" fake quality about it.
I just had to comment