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published by weiser this was a nice little book found in one of the brilliant esoteric bookshops in Glastonbury town uk

*the blurb*
carol is a self taught astral projector. she graduated from black hills state university with a b.s in mathematics chemistry and biology and received her mba from the university of south Dakota she lives in the black hills of south Dakota this is her first book

i really enjoyed this book its written in a very analytical way due to her scientific background but its also non partial and not bias to any school of thought
for the level i am at with my own practice i found it helpful but its not just an instruction manual or a list of techniques its a step by step incremental look at the way we can enter non physical reality's and what they mean

the book starts talking about consciousnesses and dreams and really breaks down the way she felt in certain dreams it goes on to talk about lucid dreams but also trys not to label them all as separate and explains them as a continuation of consciousness

then the section on astral projection and a balanced argument as to if its a subjective reality contained within our own mind or if its actually an objective experience in a actual non physical realm or parallel dimension making no real conclusions other than the experience she has personally had

there are a few useful techniques to help you to exit into a obe but its not primarily that kind of book

then there is a whole section at the end that is made up of her journal and her more memorable obes

defiantly worth a read  not sure if some of the more experienced projectors will get quite as much from it but ii found it was written in a refreshing way than alot of other books ive read on the same subject

welcome subu
start with the stickies on each of the sub forums
tons of really good advice about all you are asking

i also belive that our model of history is a long way off and there is still very much to uncover that will change these facts
look forward to reading your posts as much as i do everyone's and will do it with an open mind

Welcome and good luck with your attempts

Welcome to the pulse

have you tryed a blindfold ?

i would say if you think your anxiety is stopping you why not just concentrate on honing your lucid dreaming skills its something you can do that will not give you the same fear factor but will be fine tuning alot of skills you need to do it and if you still have a little intent you might find yourself having an unplanned spontaneous projection 

shave head , wear orange tunic = enlightenment

hi there welcome aboard

things you should take into consideration other than spiritual growth

does this woman make you laugh
can you communicate well to each other
am i committed long term to a family because leaving will hurt the kids too
will this effect my education and long term goals, dont want to end up with regrets of not doing things in the future and a family will limit things you can do
can you afford to keep a family of 5 a family that size gets through a ton of food per week

family life is hard, stressful expensive but ultimately rewarding its down to you at the end of the day though

bit long winded but bare with me as im probably just going to copy and paste it to my online dream journal

just to set the scene sunday night was a hard night my son had been gradually going down with a fever and was pretty delirious so me and the missus was up with him most of the night i think i had probably two hours sleep before setting off to do a full days work
monday when i got home we got the kids to bed fairly early and so i was ready to crash myself and in bed by around 8.30 - 9.00 pm
read a short few pages from my current astral oddessy book and then sleep (defiantly had intent to project on my mind)
i slept right through and was woken by daughter at 6.20 am i brought her in bed with me and she cuddled in and went back to sleep so i thought great time to attempt a exit

as i was drifting off i was getting hypnogogic imagery of a piece of rough ply wood that i was trying to smooth out with poly filler
must have fallen into unconscious sleep and then began to dream of walking up the ally to my old flat it was pitch black and and i bumped into a small boy that must have been about waist height i was trying to avoid hitting him again as he sounded a bit distressed as i made for the door that lead down another section of my alleyway
when i got to the back door of my house anna was in a outside loo and she said there is someone in the flat, sure enough the door was open and i could hear people upstairs as i walked up the stairs i picked up a big stiff broom and went in and cracked the first intruder around the head (at this point my awareness was beginning to heighten) i was sneaking up on the next burgler and gave him a good crack too and then the third i was really in control of what was happening in the dream but still playing out the scene i tied the three up in the corner and i was being pretty damn nasty to them torturing and taunting them (i think the fact that i had my daugther in a sling on my front had kicked me into protective mode)
things were getting a little dark and i was telling him i was going to kick a broken bottle up his arse when i heard another noise in the kitchen
as i walked to the kitchen my awareness took another step up i was suddenly in full consciousness and i decided to jump up and float through the celling i got stuck half through it so came back into the kitchen and then jumped forwards through the kitchen window (seems to be a pattern of the way i project from a lucid dream now) i got three quarters through and then it got a bit sticky so i pulled my way out using a branch in the garden hedge
once i popped out things were at optimum vividness i looked into the distance and decided to fly there as fast as i could
while wizzing along i thought about the intent to go to Glastonbury tor in pre history before the chapel was built on top i thought hard and changed the scene but the tor hill just didnt seem right to me it was more like a mound of rocks with gaps between each one
i carry on flying down the high street there is a strange contraption being driven by a black guy i fly through it and on the back is a large observation platform/seat with a police woman sat on it
i sit next to her and i start unbuttoning her shirt and im once again caught up in the old astral sex trap again
it lasts for a very long while of foreplay on this odd trike thing moving through town and across fields and eventually i get off and am looking for somewhere to have full intercourse but there are people everywhere and its a built up area (modesty started kicking in)
i wake up and look at the clock its now 6.59 just before my alarm goes off a good 40 minute experience

on reflection i really noticed how each level of awareness was felling as it slowly heightened
a nice successful dream exit and actually following through with an intent planned from waking consciousness followed by a slight failure returning  back into the carnal pleasure fixation ive been trying to phase out
also having a longer sleep period than normal defiantly helped

all good fun though  

nothing wrong with playing it by ear and getting to know the girl a bit before jumping in plasma
i agree nothing is ever black and white and you shouldnt just jump into things

but the main reason your getting these responses is because of the way you worded your question
if your question was just should i take on a large family that wasnt my own i would say think about it because it wont be easy by any means
but looking for a spiritual pay of at the end seems a bit futile when there are so many other factors to take into consideration before that

try to say yes as much as possible to as many experiences as you can now while you have youth on your side, because when you get older and you reach later life there will be things you wish you could do but life will get in the way one way or another work, health energy levels commitments etc

ive made choices that are bad and ive made choices that are good but i regret nothing really

you cant go far wrong listening to these couple of tracks and letting them sink in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uol6HRMryoo

Your still looking at it as what you can gain out of it
It's not a sacrifice if your looking at it as what benefits you will receive
If you like her enough to be with her you will take on the kids and treat them as your own
You will find the unconditional love you get from them will be pretty rewarding in itself (my first long time girlfriend had a child already)

But I honestly think if you have to weigh up what's going to be good for you then your looking to feed your ego not your spirituality 

just picked up ultimate journey for a £5 in my local esoteric bookshop been looking for your quote xanth to see witch one you recomended jumping too and it was the one 

add it to your favorites 

Congrats on the newborn
i also have found the benefits of young children keeping you up at all hours it really does help with lucid moments and sleep paralysis
i follow another blogger on wordpress that is a nurseing mum and she astral projects from sleep paralysis most nights 

 i started trying astral projection when i was around 16 or 17 and although i had lots of almosts and exit signs wierd sensations etc i can only definitely say that ive had my first complete successes this year..... im now 39 never give up

ooo that float tank looks nice whats that retail at ?

scanned back through my journal its difficult to pin down exactly how often im lucid in a week as sometimes it might be three times other times i might not obtain consciousness in a dream state for a month or so
sleep paralasis only happens with me rarely i may wake up in this state 3 or 4 times in a year and this is always where ive had my most success conscious projecting
my journal has taken a bit of a back seat lately with a new edition to the family making writing it up not top priority
ive tried phasing recently but after a days work with two young children draining what extra energy i have i tend to always just fall asleep which is why like Thomas trying to raise awareness to max from a lucid dream is my best bet usualy 

I guess failure is a strong way to put it
I think the thing is after having a eureka moment trying to replicate it from any possible scenario seems to be my main drive
That being said it dosnt mean I don't enjoy every moment of clarity in its own way
The meeting with my gran was really nice as it's been so long that I rarely think of her these days and the fact that my subconscious made her seem so bang on to how I remember her was probaly why I just melted into talking and spending time with her

The truth is I've never had spontaneous lucid dreams or Obe's as a child I've had to learn and practice as I'm sure many others here have also but that's why now I want to keep the progress ball rolling
But I still enjoy any little moment

As ever I appreciate all your feedback

so after my couple of recent successes at projection ive stumbled back into missing some pretty obvious things

it seems my subconscious has offered up lots of dream signs and moments in witch i could have raised my awareness enough to exit from the dream state but ive just failed to recognize them

the other night i was deep in unconscious dream when i saw my grandmother that has been dead for over 20+ years i instantly realized that i must be dreaming and became lucid but rather than take control of the scene i proceeded to have a chat with her asking her where she had been and how was the afterlife treating her until eventually slipping back into the dream

another dream consisted of sitting around in a circle of caravans with various like minded individuals that i didn't know but we were all discussing astral projection in depth but i never made the connection that i was in the non physical already

i had a large bought of false awakenings again but struggled to get out of the loop before actually awakening

and the usual out of place dream signs that should have been a trigger to lucidity but were not

it really is tricky this lark but i love exploring the mind so much
onwards and upwards

ive experienced voices like that a few times (also many female voices whispering and talking over one another)
id say its just a aural hallucination in sleep paralysis and if you had stayed fearful through them you would have made it to the point of projecting
but the confusingness of them pulled your attention towards the voices

welcome jenal
ive lurked for quite a good few years and tend to post when ive made another little milestone
like yourself i had always got very close with all the signposts but have only recently started to get conscious projections (actually i had them before but my expectations of how things happen or feel needed to change)
i would defiantly recommend the WILD technique ive had my most success after a 4.00 am wake up call from my hungry child being up for 30 mins or so and then going back to sleep defiantly made me become lucid in dreams and also wake up in sleep paralysis with the vibrations
the main key is to just stay calm acknowledge the weird feelings but just passively observe them happening and you will make progress each time
look forward to your next posts when you get some more exiting moments 

was trying to get my head around this latest discovery of gravitational waves
was listening to six music they have brian cox on talking physics some mornings and he tends to usually explains things nicely in lamens terms interview starts at 02.09.27 here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zh2nv#play (available for another 29 days)

ive always thought that time is just a human creation
but the idea that something can create waves or ripples through space and time is very interesting
the fact that we perceive time to be constantly moving forward even though there is only now and the rest could just be memory or even all just one big conscious memory makes my brain melt  

anyway interesting times i look forward to what other new discovery's this brings