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Your guides are typically one of your Selves. 

How many selves do you have??

One time I became lucid in a dream and I asked to see my spirit guide. I was greeted by an array of white butterflies.

Awesome !!

I am just looking for techniques to try. There seems to be a lot good reports of how the mind goes into trance with things such as candle staring and the Ganzfeld technique and thought maybe this could be used to project.

Yeah cool, why not! I actually find it pretty amazing going into a trance with eyes open, the room changes colour, gets brighter or darker, pyshical matter starts to lose its solid form and so on. I havent done it for a while but you git me all fired up and and gonna give it a go later! 

I found sitting in a chair and focusing on a spot on the floor or something that wont get the mind working too much and just let the gaze go and focus on the breath worked for me. Have fun! 

All I have to add is that it seems true clairvoyance is more difficult to learn/do than your standard AP, probably due to the fact that it's normal to stay physically awake during, rather than having your body fall asleep. Steiner found clairvoyance to be beneficial for having a more true perception of what's happening in your awareness, fewer chances of illusory perception of things.

yeah maybe that's true.  I suppose for all of us our experiences are subjective and some of us find certain aspects easier to obtain, or struggle with.
I do believe though that the more we become attuned to our subtle body, that awareness makes it easier in many aspects, such as to move our mind into that place to see sense or hear spirit or the spirit of another person..or to shift it completly and AP..I ofetn think we people say they havent had an AP but have been trying for a long time some meditation upon the spirit self would help so much...just to get used to the feeling of what we are trying to move into. Eyes open or not lol 

I don't understand this statement.  It sounds like you're saying two different things.  I was describing a technique to induce open eyed clairvoyance, I wasn't talking about my own practices.

Oh I see, sorry, I understand now  

And I don't meant to be a downer, but I've been projecting for around 45 years and only have projected with my eyes open once.  Just because you have a clairvoyant ability doesn't mean it's easy- it means you can do it in 10 minutes.

Yes i can do AP with my eyes open, but ist a separate issue from clairvoanynce.

I used to have a friend (back in my college days) that would get visions while up and about, and sometimes she got them while she was driving.  It wasn't mental illness either, she would often tell me what I was thinking and what would happen the next day- she was extremely talented.  But she was not your average person that can do that- it came natural to her and she never did anything to make it happen, at least on purpose

I think you will find the majority of people that "work" with clairvoyance do so with their eyes open, it really makes no difference if they closed or not since we see it with our mind, not our eyes as you know... its just what we ever we practice more. It its more practical to work with them open ie giving someone a reading. Unless of course you are on your own and then it doesn't matter either way I guess. Regards.

Congrats! 

I heard that taking LSD or DMT is the best feeling in the world and that they experience euphoria and bliss. And I know that when people take these drugs, they enter the astral or higher planes, without having to meditate, etc. So since people feel SO good and have a trip when experiencing LSD or DMT, does that mean that astral traveling can/will feel just as good....?

Erm word to the wise, both the drugs you mentioned induce paranoia and hallucination NOT AP... I I went through a crazy stage many years ago with taking different drugs and trust me forget it, mediation AP and spiritual unfoldment VS LSD is like comparing going on holiday to the Caribbean or watching it on you tube drunk.  It will mess you up if your not careful.

Hey. I been trying to contact my guides for a while now on getting help on astral projecting. If I can meet them... etc. I have even done EVP sessions asking for their assistance and I usually pick up some words but can't make anything out of it because it's very difficult to hear. Do I maybe not have any guides? This may sound silly... But I wrote a note and taped it to my wall saying "Guides? Pops? (Grandpa) Grandma? If I successfully have an OBE tonight will you meet me outside my room? See you on the other side. " I had some crazy dreams last night and alot of them didn't even make sense. In fact I can't remember most of them. Alot of them have been semi violent as well. :/ I simply just wish to see my guide or guides but I can't seem to get through to them. I have really bad anxiety and such, and sometimes I think I make them upset? Is that even possible? I sleep in alot and get depressed sometimes and keep promising myself to get out of bed and get out and go do stuff. I don't always do that though... I still really struggle. I will often cuss and swear, and talk to myself and shout random things with my touretts. Does this upset my guides you think? I cannot control it and I am sure they understand. Do they know who I am? Not just by what the see... but who I am Inside? Know my feelings? etc? I just wish I could meet them. I can't seem to figure out why I can't get anything from them. I have had one OBE and I didn't see one entity. Except for a fish lol swimming on my carpet. Was this a guide? How do I talk to it? I saw an entity walk across my hall once when I was about to leave my body but I fell asleep. I also saw a man standing by my bed as I was about to project but yet again.... I fell asleep. Are they trying to help me get out of body and I just don't know it?

Thanks guys... Lots of questions I know.

Hi Armyofone, hope you are well today, I empathise with both having low feelings and not wanting to get up etc I have been there a couple of times and also the urge to meet my guides in the past, ie whos there? why are they there, how can I see them etc. 10 years on and im a working medium giving people contact from the spirit word regularly.
Including some times guides who want to  make the selves known to people they are working with.  In my experience and its my belief that we all have guides of some nature, people who care about us and for different reasons wish to help. I know for a fact that people who love us and have shared times with us in our lives and have now moved to the spirit are about in a supportive and loving way, but NO, im sure you cant and wont upset them with anything you have mentioned.
Like I said the spirit world are drawn to us out of love and care and or if they wish to help us in a certain area of our life, whether that be a part of our physical/material life or part of our spiritual unfoldment.

If we remember that first and foremost we are spirit, an eternal spirit of endless potential. As we become more attuned to our own spirit by meditation to clear the mind, reduce our thinking and so allow our own stillness, beauty and power to shine through....which of course takes a little regular practice, (but well worth the journey) then we become aware of us, our spirit, who we really are. Once that happens our sensitivity to the spirit around us starts to awaken, so we might then sense feel, hear and see our friends and helpers. But we also then start to receive more intuition form our own spirit, through dreams, positive ideas, coincidences, we see messages reflected to us in nature and so on.

So our own spirt is really our greatest guide (people often call it our higher self) it knows who we are, what we want and whats right for us.
But make no mistake we have guides and helpers that are people totally separate from ourselves that come out of love and also im sure learn from their time helping us.

Im sure your guides (and im sure you have them ) will in their own way try and make them selves known to you and in a way that will work for you.
I wouldnt worry about it too much though, for me persoanly although I have the ability to see spirit people, one of my guides I work with the most ive never ever seen! I just hear him calls his name and speak to me...which i find quite funny, but im used to that now. I know nothing about him, but I know he helps.
Another never shows him self to me ever, but has confirmerd his presence through many mediums, why wont he just show him self to me?? lol i have no idea? and im sure he could. Another I just feel his energy and know its him. So we have to trust in their judgment of how they wish and choose to work with us, but if we want more proof just ask. Normally a calling card can be established, ie when a certain guide comes to you you might, feel an energy on your face or see a certain colour etc etc 

One more thing, im sorry this is long lol. People talk about guides appearing in what ever form we can handle, which I believe is true, but also we have to remember that what ever form they might take on might bring a certain aspect you need in your life so...seeing a fish im sure wasnt a guide but it most probably was a a helper projecting the image of a fish to you in order to say just "relax go with the flow" If we have a guide who comes as a monk then perhaps we have a need to become more disciplined or search for god etc etc or it could be a farmer or a young girl...what might that character bring that we need at that time.

I used to also think that we often see guides as spritual teachers becuase like them to be monks and native American Indians etc but not so excited when our guides a road sweeper or fisherman lol...but come on lets be sensible for a second...very spiritual people who have led very disciplined soul searching lives will undoubtedly wish to continue their good work form the spirit side of life and encourage others, so that's why I believe we should not be surprised at this. We might even just experience them as light.

Try and spend time in nature my friend if you dont already and find some good relaxing mediation techniques that you enjoy and im sure that will help you...think this is my longest post ever! lol regards x

However, it's not as easy.  There is something called the Ganzfeld effect which induces open eyed clairvoyance, but the conditions (the lack of visual input) are the same- you don't see anything, so your pineal provides the content.

Hi do you mean your physical is seeing at the same time as you are traveling  and expireincing through your subtle body? I must have miss understood lol that doesn't sound possible . I see clairvoyantly with my eyes open always, that's not unusual.

And i dont mean to be flippant but it really isnt that difficult, jut relax, focus and keep the intent in mind...took me 10 minutes or so the first time and i was free in the room and my physical was sat nicely in a chair with eyes open...but of course my consciousness was else where.

And by the way, i doubt you will meet them in Astral...but im sure you will in the Spirit World 

I can only offer my current understanding of this, rather than knowledge...

When you die, your loved one might be in a higher state than you are, such that you are unable to go visit them. However, a directed thought should always still reach them and they should be able to come to visit you. If you find that you are in a higher state than they are then the situation will be reversed.

You should always be able to have contact with your loved ones. If they are currently incarnate, you will be able to come down to our vibration to visit them or you can see them when they sleep.

From what I've read, perfect recall is an aspect of being spirit. You should never forget anyone or anything. It is possible that you will lose "interest" in someone and thus have no further wish for contact with them. It would likely be mutual in such a circumstance.

We come back here to progress and to learn. I once considered that we only truly learn from experience when there is a possibility of failure or loss: the difference between learning combat in the classroom or in the barroom. There is no failure in spirit and so learning is slower and suffering is impossible. We cannot be tested in spirit and so overcome personal issues. I know this is vague but I'm still trying to think and feel my way through it.

listening to a spirit communicator speaking to an audience of about 80 of us through a Medium in Trance (one of the best in the world)  some one asked about the Spirit guy (James) about reincarnation and he gave us some interesting information, but he also joked " I've been here in the spirit world many, many, many years...and I haven't yet lost any of my friends to reincarnation"...of course everyone found this hilarious, but also tells us something.

This happened a couple of years ago also.... weird eh

No its not true, you can move conciosness to astral awareness and shift out of body with eyes open...ive done it a few times...I wanted to test the theory so just let my self go into a light trance like state and focused on getting out..as it were... when you exit from pyhiscal focus into atsral body, you just see through subtle body and no longer through your physical eyes...it actually feels really cool! but it can make your eyes water.

Just curios though, why do you want to ? 

If they are doing something then thats the reason it took me 6 hours to get just 1 of sleep last night.
...and Im still not tired....whats really going on?

Me too!! had crazy insomnia on and off all over christmas!! good for APing though  but a pain in the butt...

i wish you the best!

thank you

I once attempted to inhabit a crystal during a real-time AP. It didn't work out quite like I'd hoped... It was a double terminated quartz, pretty standard, but I figured since I'd always found quartz to be great at storing energy, it would logically be the best choice.

In that attempt, I didn't really find the quartz crystal to hold any seriously special properties. I thought it might give the illusion of having more space within it, inhabitable in some way, but it really didn't... I simply moved through it in the same way I do most solid material in AP. I didn't try anything very special to get into it either. I suppose it would be interesting to experiment more, but I don't really know to what end research like that would help.

Erm the title of the post it seem is different from what you wrote? First off spirit is formless and manifests temporarily into a form so that's how spirit becomes a crystal, the same as it can manifest as a stone, a bird a tree a a drop of water, or the sun..etc But it isnt possible to trap the spirit of anything or anyone in a crystal or in a physical form, thats just fiction. Just as well really, how would you have escaped?? lol  Show me a trapped spirit in a crystal.   

Funny though, you did sound a bit dissapointed to have not been trapped in your crystal ! Regards

I don't belive in evil... I think there is confusion, ignorance and lack of awareness.

Love equals intelligence, love equals wisdom, love equals experience, love equals knowledge.

Gratitude is one of the most sublime and beautiful feelings. Sadness and depression comes from the difference between what you expect to live and what you actually live. Acceptance is crucial to live happily.

Bad or good does not exist, it is a matter of interpretation, it is a matter of choice.

I consider demons, black magic, and evil overall as a very imaginative thing, interesting to many, but still prone to be a fantastic thing.

What do you guys think?

Hi I come from exactly the same train of thought and belief as you, on most of the quotes your wrote.
However, if we are to study the balance of life that is created when the spirit that is to say the non manifest...manifests temporarily into to form, god had to create duality in order for the formless to take on the temporary existence of from. Within that duality IE positive and negative evil and bad has to manifest, otherwise there would be no pain, suffering, violence, famine, decay, anger etc...but the world is still an illusion...a dream of forms, so although evil does exist and effects the material world and thought forms, it is still a temporary manifestation of spirit and there for is ultimately still an illusion...lol

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Erm, yeah and they are banning nightmares also...lol

do you carry muscular tension in your shoulders?

if it's viscero-somatic tension then it often moves up from the mid back to the shoulders and ultimately to bruxism/grinding teeth. 

if you can alleviate the tension in the shoulders the tooth grinding should be fine.

if it's emotional tension, then lowering stress during the day usually remedies it.

if you let the stress build, then it will manifest during sleep or meditation.

either way, it's due to stress.  what is your stress?

Hi thanks for your insightful response, I do indeed suffer from a thoracic and shoulder injury which does effect my neck. However it doesn't manifest during meditation and I dont grind my teeth in my sleep. It seems there is a direct link between my mental stress of me getting lost in AP and the tension created in my physical body as its only time it occurs, thank you thou and regards.

The holy Spirit, The comforter is the manifestation of God "the source prior to everything" into spirit...form the the spirit all forms manifest, both physical and non physical, so the  Holy spirit is that which is used to create and manifest all forms...AMEN

i would come back to my body like that to discover my fists or back muscles or other muscle group clenched tight occasionally.  i know the feeling well.  that's when i started taking the herbal supplements.  however, i also found that those are signs of mental anxiety/tension and some extra time should be spent in relaxation before practice.

Yeah you could be right, but it happens most when I become lucid and explore from there, ie not if I decided to relax and travel. So im thinking some how my mind is acknowledging my body and theres tension being created. I described to my friend the wall paper I saw as i was heading through the wall of her living room and she said no wonder I got lost, i went into the chimney. It was when I got lost that the tension happened and I got called back...mmmm, theres something in this lol...ill experiment tonight and report back 

Maybe also try to get INSIDE it? It might be hollowed out. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgvecQhQTok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmKeSIVpNR8#t=52m12s

(note: I don't say it is, cuz I don't know, i just say it might  )

Ive heard its made of cheese 

i found that taking some valerian root or passion flower extract 30 min before attempted projection or before bed, seems to help some physical tension issues like clenching teeth or muscles.

Sounds like a good plan. Soooo strange though, last night, found myslef lucid, so thought right im going see my friends in Manchester who have recently had twins. I made it to their front room sorted! then as i was trying to find my way up the stairs I got lost and next thing im back in my room half out of my body with teeth clenching tight. So its seems to be happening spontaneously, really strange.. 

mooncresentgirl, i reviewed your posts and i empathize with your situation (my sister is schizophrenic). you should first see a psychiatrist. if it is even possible to ease mental illness through non-traditional methods like you are seeking i doubt there are very many people who can actually do it. also, anyone truly qualified would NOT accept money to heal you.

A kind response, but the question was is there anyone who can do this? (your correct probably not many)  and I understood we were talking about some other persons not mooncrescentgirl? also my concern would be the validity of the diagnosis.

I personally wouldn't except money for giving healing, but is this some kind of institute or organisation looking to experiment? Allot of speculation here. Can we be told more?

Thanks and regards   

Hi,
If forced awake by someone even from deep phasing I suffer a stinking headache. Eating seems to remove it.
Strangely....

Thats understandable, well the headache bit lol