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ha ha ha, that would be everyone's first thought and reaction, but believe me, sending Love towards anything that seems negative or threatening would resolve the problem. Genuine love though, not just a forced thought. That girl may be lost, or lacking knowledge, therefore anger and negativity may emanate from her. Offer help and guidance. If she is ready she will accept your guidance and move on. If not, she will disappear because positive energy resonates in a higher frequency than a negative one.

Please explain I don't think I am understanding.  According to this logic it would seem that a treble note should cause a bass note to disappear because it resonates at a higher frequency than the bass note.  Or that light would cause all sound to disappear since light resonates at a much higher frequency than sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fcKezLW__Q

Whole video is very good but I really like what he talks about at about the 11:00 to 13:00 mark.  There is some microphone issues at the very beginning but that is really the only spot.

"Becoming awareness in these non physical virtual realities does not require you to be foggy, nor do you have to sneak up on it with process or tradition."  (Tom Campbell)

What I see and read a lot is people talking about the "best" time to have obe and how to increase the likelihood of having an obe.  This pretty much unanimously comes back to working around the sleep states. While this is by far the "easiest" state to have an obe out of, it does mean it is the "best" state to have it out of.  I think it is important to remember that just because you have more obes does not mean they are more meaningful.  At the end of the day it all comes down to awareness and starting from a low awareness state (even though you can increase the awareness) is not going to be as good as starting from a high awareness state.  I personally would rather have a lower success rate of higher awareness experiences than a higher success rate of lower awareness experiences.

Anyways hope you guys enjoy the video

Sweet!  thanks for the reply, awesome area of study.  Good luck on finishing up your degree and future studies.

Lol not sure how I missed that one, thx.

Interesting post.  A few questions popped up as I was reading it.  First was do these VEA center locations coincide with or are they very near the traditional location of the chakras of the energy body?  Second is I am interested in how they have shown that conscious observation is not required for the collapse of a wave.  Do you have any references to research on this or which could point me in the right direction? (I am not afraid nor inexperienced at reading scientific articles)

Lastly where would one find a copy of your book.  I can't seem to find it with a quick google search.  Thanks.

Great post Szaxx, it touches on some of my observations and thoughts which I am not sure I got across clearly due to the complexity of the hypothesis I put out. At the core what I am looking at is where the reality fluctuations originate.  Most view points on this is that they originate either from within the RTZ observer (you) or that they come from interactions with other planes, bleeding from the 'astral' etc.  One point I think is interesting to look at is how these fluctations increase when you go to areas where interaction with others occurs, as you pointed out in your post.  So my premise is based on this.

1.  Information can be gained through the RTZ which should not be known to the projector otherwise.  There are numerous examples of this and this I believe is strong evidence that the RTZ is more than just an internally created copy of pmr.
2.  Thoughts and intent of the projector manifest within the RTZ as what are commonly referred to as reality fluctuations.
3.  Reality fluctuations increase or seem to manifest or increase in instances where the projector in a scenario where interactions with others occurs.

There seem to be 3 different possibilities for the origin of the reality fluctuations.

1.  They are produced internally by the projector.
2.  They are 'blood' into the RTZ from pmr.
3.  They are 'blood' into the RTZ from different npmr 'locations'.  Locations of course is used loosely as location has a different meaning in npmr.

My conclusion

1.  Reality fluctuations can be due to the thoughts/emotions/intent of the projector and these are the major cause of reality fluctuations in most situations.
2.  However due to the fact that interactions greatly increase reality fluctuations, even when to the best knowledge the mind of the projector is 'clear' than they also must be able to be originated from others within pmr.
3.  The RTZ is closer to pmr than any other version of reality so the most likely scenario of any bleed through effects would be from pmr and not any other locations.  And/Or if there was bleed through from other locations they would be diluted and have less of an impact on the RTZ compared to effects from pmr sources.

What I find interesting and not often talked about are points 2 and 3.  It is often ignored the possibility of the origin of reality fluctuations being from within pmr itself (specifically the inhabitants of pmr) and not solely due to causes internal to the projector.

Little background about myself.  I have been exploring, experimenting, researching, and studying consciousness and the nature of reality for over 15 years now.  Along with quite of a bit of research into various religions and how the basis of their models (not the 'churches of these religions' but the basis of the religion itself) express these concepts.  So I am very familiar with the theosophical models of reality as well as most major modern ones.  I only add this as a note that my deviation from them is not due to a lack of knowledge about them.
EDIT:  Would like to add just because I am quite familiar with most of the major models in this field I certainly am not claiming that I know everything about them or that I am familar with all works in this field or anything like that.

I use to spend lots of nights wondering how these things and different levels of consciousnesses fit together for my personal growth and advancement.  We tend to take the viewpoint of looking from the angle of how they are there to help us.  It is all about us as individual travels and seekers of knowledge and truth and growth.  We get this thrown at us from almost every major author and religion.  How you can become enlightened, or get a place in heaven, or eliminate your personal fear of death and know there is an afterlife (tool of choice for many obe authors).  The fact of the matter is it is probably very unlikely we are meant to even have wide spread access to these areas.  It would not make very much sense to make a system where you take someone and put them into a physical reality with the point being for them to spend most of their time traveling outside of the reality.  Don't get me wrong, projection can be used as a tool for growth, but it is not the main point or the main tool that we are suppose to be using.

If it was the main tool it would not be so hard to achieve and there would not be so many blocks against it (At least for conscious use).  We have drives that we cannot without great difficulty suppress.  Sexual drives and reproduction, social interaction and nourishment .  These are basic drives and probably the basic tools we are meant to use for growth while here in pmr.

We have to bend, pry at, manipulate, and spend many hours just to get ourselves out of this pmr with our lucidity intact.  Then once there we have to overcome more obstacles to interpret and remember the experiences to any benefit.  This would be a terrible system if this was our main tool for growth.  Again this is something we can use as a tool, the fact there is a way at all and there is help once there for further growth means this is not something wrong or that we shouldn't be doing.  Please don't think I am saying that.  Only that it was not the main design for this reality system.

Since it was not the main design for us to be using this it is highly unlikely things like the here-now area exist as a newbie zone or training zone or that we have several different advancing levels of energy bodies which are there for us to 'grow' into the abilities of each like leveling up a character on a video game and getting new powers.  Now these may be a very nice side-effect of the system and are awesome as a way for those ready to advance growth, but it is unlikely our use of these and our seriously limited interpretation of them ran through our pmr senses is their Main Purpose.

All that was basically to lay the background so you know when I proposed my hypothesis, it's aim was to come at the topic from an angle of why here-now might exist OTHER than for our own obe advancements, cause while it can be used for this, I do not believe this is it's main purpose.

So why do we have access to npmr at all if this is not our main goal or tool for growth here in pmr?  I do not know for sure but the best hypothesis is probably that it simply is required.  Our consciousness is not part of this pmr, therefore some form of access between pmr and npmr best exist for exchange of information and allowing of free will choices to be made.  Also there has to be ways for the information gathered here to go to the hard-drive in the sky or wherever it goes.  Pmr obviously has a purpose, perhaps it is to lower overall entropy and advance evolution, such as Tomas Campbell purposes, though I think taking driving pmr concepts and just deciding they are the main driving force for all of npmr might be a little naive.  Chances are it is a purpose so far beyond our ability to comprehend we can't even hope to grasp it other than with extremely limited kindergarten level models and dumbed down concepts.

Again thanks for the view points and inputs from all.  It is great places like this still exist where conversations like this can happen.

@Xanth

Thanks for sharing, very interesting.  Your metaphor is very similar to the classic plato writing of 'the cave'.

I see where you are coming from but at the same time I'm not sure I agree that the mind is not capable of creating it's own reality only encountered by itself.  Will have to think on this.

I certainly enjoyed reading his 'energy sensations' theory on them being distorted internal sounds such as heart beat and blood flow.

I will do a longer reply in a bit, short on time but wanted to make a couple of quick points.

First off thanks for your replies and insights.  As I said this is just a little thought I came up with, I think it is interesting, though at this point I don't believe this is how things are myself, just some interesting food for thought.

About here-now being an exact copy of physical reality.  I do not believe this could be the case.  If this was the case we would have no reality fluctuations as our senses are made, designed, and pretty darn good at interpreting physical reality.  The fact reality fluctuations pop up suggests there is a sensory input stream we must on the fly try and interpret which we are not use to.  This would not be the case if it was an exact copy, it would just simply be an exact copy no interpreting problems.  In my hypothesis there are more than one version of the real-time zone or buffer zone and some are closer with less fluctuations.  Also if this was the case objective proof would be very easy to come by.  I could see this as just being my own lack of level of consciousness however even the most advanced projectors cannot come back with really good objective proof on a consistent basis.

The point about reality fluctuations coming from the astral.  I am not a huge fan of the old astral model, however even using this model it would be much more likely the fluctuations would come from physical reality, which would be at much closer frequency to the real-time zone than from the astral which is much further away (frequency speaking).  I don't think even under that model the astral would have a huge impact on physical reality or the real-time zone.  The astral is it's own place and does it's own thing.

As for the real-time zone being a playground.  I do not see it as this way.  Rarely does it seem it is used for this.  We make our own subjective versions of reality for this purpose (dream landscapes), In my experience there is also an objective real-time zone which must have a different function.

Again thanks for the input and sorry for any typos I didn't have time to do a good proof read on this one.

I have been thinking lately about what the purpose of the area referred to as 'local 1' or the 'the real time zone' or the here-now area of consciousness is.  It seems clear to me it is not here for the purpose we use, or many attempt to use it for during an obe.  That is to say it is not around as a way for us to see other places, or gather information, or visit people far away, or prove the existence of something beyond physical reality.  Although it can be used for those purposes, if that was it's main purpose it wouldn't be constructed in a way which yields these tasks as having a substantially higher fail rate with very few successes.  That is to say it wouldn't have so many differences or reality fluctuations in it.

The defining feature of the here-now area (As I will refer to it as for lack of a better name) to me is reality fluctuations.  They are commonplace and everywhere, you cannot avoid them.  This I believe is because the purpose of the here-now is held within the reality fluctuations.  If our reality is a virtual reality which is created by consciousness and is stable because it is a mesh work of billions to trillions to many trillions (depending on what you believe has consciousness, which is a debate for another time) of consciousnesses then this creates a problem.  If our physical reality is stable because it is made up of the shared thought or intent or thought energy of all the consciousness which is apart of it, what happens to the thought energy which is rejected as part of our stable physical reality.  If thought energy creates, then all thought energy must create, not just the thought energy which is used to make part of our physical reality.

In comes the here-now area.  It exists as a place for those thought energies to express themselves and dissipate without having a negative effect on this physical reality.  It would not do to have all thought energy randomly popping into physical existence and then disappearing once the thought or intent which created it vanished.  By having the here-now, there is safe way for these thought-energies to manifest and go unnoticed.  That is unnoticed as long as we don't go poking around through obes.

I think this explains many things, such as why your thoughts screw up the reality of here-now so much, also thoughts of those you are visiting seem to create reality fluctuations, the fluctuations are not confined to just the projector, here-now is a shared area(s).  Fluctuations are such a problem in the here-now because they are the whole point of why here-now exists!  If having a place for things to express themselves which aren't incorporated as part of reality is the point of it, then of course you are going to have more failures than successes when trying to use this area to confirm things in actual physical reality.

Lastly I imagine it is likely there are many here-now areas which differ in how close the thought energies which dissipate there are to reality.  The longer you are out of body the further you naturally slip further from physical reality and so are more likely to slip into 'less stable' versions of the here-now.  This would help explain why when you first enter here-now you are more likely to gather information which can objectively be confirmed, you are in the here-now 'closest'(again for lack of better word) to the actual physical reality, there are less reality fluctuations.  This would be the here-now where fluctuations which vary slightly occur, however as you experience fluctuations or as your own thought energies manifest you naturally slip further away from this relatively stable here-now into less stable copies with greater and more confusing reality fluctuations.

Let me know what you think of the theory and if you have come across anyone else that has expressed it in a similar fashion as I would love to read their work.  Also would like to note this is a theory, actually not even a theory, more a hypothesis I came up with while thinking about what a valid reason would be for why here-now behaves and has the characteristics it does.

This sounds fantastic. I will definitely look into Astral Dynamics. I have also ordered Explorations in Consciousness.

I actually just started to read Explorations last night.  One of the more unique obe books so far, as he is a clinical psychologist (with first hand obe experience) and comes at the topic from that angle.

Some great ideas.  Just going to add a few suggestions.  First pick a specific idea out of the list and have a plan for implementing it prior to starting your obe attempt.  The attitude "I'll figure it out once I'm there" probably won't yield the best results.  So if you decide you want to build something, know exactly what you are going to try and build before hand.  Second when it comes to instant travel you might have the best results if you start not a place, but either a person or an object you are 'connected to' or that has meaning to you.  People are nice for two reasons, first is our strongest connections are usually social ones between each other (No matter how much you love your (insert most valued possession here) you are not going to be nearly as devastated if it gets destroyed as you would be if a loved one dies.  At least I hope not), and second if you get to them you can call and ask what they were doing around the time you called.  Kind of fun turns it into an experiment with a purpose, which can create greater intent, and intent is our fuel source.  Places just don't seem, especially in the beginning, to be as easy to get to as specific people or objects within those places.

Nothing really mind blowing here which hasn't been said before, so you very well may have heard all this before, but it is nice to have a reminder of the basics sometimes:)  Best of Luck!

I'll take a stab at this though to be honest I'm not sure what your question is, the only one I could find is "does anyone have experience with this?", also Bruce Moen's online book store is down so I can't pick up a copy of the book and read it to see what exactly he is talking about (I mean who doesn't their ebooks on kindle in this day and age:).  However with playing around with this a little bit I believe the tightness in your chest is coming from your intent to not let your intent happen.  What I mean is you build up an intent to move your finger but you don't want at first to actually move your finger so you have to block this intent from actually happening.  I use to get this same sensation when attempting to do the Monroe log roll where you are trying to roll over with your 'energy body' but not your physical one.

I believe the tightness is actually do to a stabilizing slight isometric hold of your chest muscles. If you try to hold yourself perfectly still, as in no movement at all you get this same tightness in your chest and quads (at least I do).  I do not think this is what you want.  I would back off slightly so you hold the intent in your mind without developing this tightness, once the tightness shows up you are overdoing it, for lack of a better word.  I would stop and start the intent over until you can hold the intent without allowing it to physiologically express (In the form of chest tightness).  Then once you have this intent down this would be the state to try and use to move awareness away from your body.  Hopefully this helps a little.  Good luck with your practices.

EDIT:  isometric contraction or hold just means you allowing tension to build up.

All of those astral moments I had in the past were achieved by letting my imagination run wild. Maybe there is some stock to this too; although it is the danger zone when it comes to accidental falling asleep

In my experience yes and yes.  Though falling asleep doing this isn't necessarily a death sentence for your projection.  William Buhlman's main technique is exactly this, having you fall asleep while imagining yourself having an obe at a place, real place, that is special to you while touching a real item there that is connected to you.  You then wake up directly into a obe phase or separation.  Not a bad idea to always fall asleep imagining yourself having an obe, creates great intent.  I also find it speeds up the falling asleep process.

If you haven't looked into AD (Astral Dynamics) by Robert Bruce I would give it a read.  If I am understanding what you are talking about correctly his practical works deals almost exclusively with this type of energy work, which he calls NEW (New Energy Work).  I am not a huge fan of his explanations but his methods for working in this state are very sound.  I am pretty sure you can get just the section of the book that deals with this work for free or very cheap, maybe a dollar.  It deals a lot with building up sensations and several methods of moving focus outside your body, Just about all of NEW can be done from a wide awake state.  Good luck and keep us posted on your progress with this work.

@astralm

I made a brief observation about Xanth's comment. I did not write anything about "best", but I did write he was "succinct". I will put it another way - "His comment was brief and clear."

I would also observe that this is a public internet forum, so others do have the ability to comment and add to any discussion that begins (and that includes any discussion that you begin). The forum is structured for comments to be made when someone posts a new thread.

I have NOT been critical. Actually I have been very respectful of you in all my posts here at AP, and that includes lettings you figuring things out for yourself in this thread.

I was just attempting to add an idea onto your comment.  It is clear I came across as attacking your comment.  I can understand why, I wrote it very late and did not really structure my post the very best.  I apologize that wasn't my attention and I always welcome everyone's ideas and comments.

Lastly about your not being critical of my posts.  I would just like to say I am completely okay with people being critical of my posts (in a respectful way of course).  I think having fellow peers you respect (and I do respect this community) be critical of your ideas is a great tool for personal growth.

I think that Xanth explained it very succinctly.

The point isn't about who said it the best.  Or even who is right and who is wrong.  The point isn't about persuading someone to see it your way.

The point is to put topics out there that are important and to put a few different perspectives out there which will engage you and have you think about it for yourself.  If you don't think the topic has relevance to your personal growth than ignore it.  If you believe it does then don't just pick out the few view points here or in a book which one you think is right.  Really engage the topic and think about it.  That is where real personal growth comes from, not from picking who you like the best, or who explains their point of view the best, or even who has the most logical point of view.  It is about discovering your own point of view. 

@Szaxx

That is exactly my point.  Fear is a huge word, with many meanings, many layers and many dimensions.  Some of these layers are bad and can be the root of great barriers to personal development, they must be purged and eliminated.  However what has been done is instead of identifying this subset of fear as a whole, the shortcut has been taken to just say fear is bad and needs to be eliminated.  This is a halfbutt approach which is misleading, confusing, and depending on how literal the person takes it, downright dangerous.  It is a very easy view, and seems quite rational when viewed from the surface, to say fear is negative and evil, and pain along with it, with no positive purpose.  This however is in actuality a narrow minded view, which romanticizes the simplicity of fear (and pain).

I use to be in the camp like many, that thought oh well it is pretty easy to separate the base level of fear that we need and is not evil from the emotion driven fear that we need to get rid of.  However after hours of really thinking about it, it is a much deeper issue than we give it credit for.  If you really dive into how all the feelings we have work and are connected, the longer you look the more you come to realize the error of the view of just cutting one completely out because it can cause problems with the expectation it will not cause chaos to all the others.  Or at least I did:)

I honestly don't understand what you're trying to say.

Don't worry your not the first:)

I disagree.  There is no such thing as non fear based growth.  Desire and fear are connected they cannot be disconnected.  Any intent you have is based in fear, this is not negative.  I want to feed people and help my fellow humans, can just as easily be expressed as I fear I am not doing what I can to end needless suffering of my fellow humans.  I desire to grow my consciousness can just as easily be expressed as I fear I will waste my opportunity to grow my consciousness in my time here in pmr.  These fears are valid.  I understand the difference between fear the emotion and fear at the being-level concept and both are necessary and not negative.  just because you decide to express your positive fears as desires doesn't change that they are fears.

So my guess is the root of issue is has to do with ideas translated from eastern languages into western languages, where there was no really appropriate word for what was described so they used fear.

The net result is in this 'new age' or whatnot movement there is what seems to be an almost universal view that fear and pain are 'negative' and love and such are 'positive'.  This is extremely misleading to flat out silliness.  Fear and pain are not negative, evil, bad, or something we should be striving to purge completely from ourselves.  They are actually necessary and we would never survive long enough without them to even be capable of doing any kind of spiritual growth.

Lets look at some examples.  Baby who just learns how to walk falls and hits his head.  This hurts, he feels pain, which leads to a fear of him hitting his head.  Is this negative or bad?  Absolutely not if we didn't have a fear of our brains getting smashed or of burning ourselves not a single one of us would make it to adulthood.  If we got rid of the pain of being burned and replaced it completely with pleasure, this would not be good or beneficial to us.

Even as an adult I am afraid of many things, and it is a good thing I am (I also struggle with negative uses of fear too, we all do).  I am afraid of getting hit by a car, so I don't walk across the freeway during traffic, I avoid the situation.  This is how fear is suppose to work, it identifies negative situations and you therefore use it to avoid those situations.  When fear is negative is when we use it outside of the situation it is needed for or allow it to control us (freezing and unable to act is rarely ever helpful, even in a legit fearful situation).  For example being afraid of getting bit by a poisonous snake is a good fear to have, it will serve you well as long as you can recognize when it is an appropriate situation to have that fear (for example if a rattlesnake is at your feet).  You still shouldn't let that fear control you, but you need the fear to stay safe.  Even worse is when you fear a snake is going to get you anywhere so you never go out for a hike because there could be a snake there, or you are afraid of a simple corn snake that cannot hurt you at all.  The problem is not fear, it is your reaction to the fear.

Alternately there is a current thread about if you need protection or not and how it is based on if you have fear or not.  Now having fear of something taking over your body or messing with you is valid, you should be afraid of these things.  However unless you are overly worried about these things they are not going to happen during a normal obe, so again it is not the fear that is negative, it is your reaction to it.

Even most of the greats seem to miss this point.  Everywhere you look spiritual growth is accomplished by replacing fear with love.  I was listening to Tomas Campbell preach this on audio book just today (actually what sparked this post.)  It is very important to point out you don't want to get rid of your fears, you want to get rid of how you react and allow your fears to control you.  Xanth was saying almost the same thing about emotions in the previous mentioned thread on protection.  The goal is not to get rid of emotions, this is stupid and honestly if that was your goal anti-depressants are great at achieving this, doesn't lead any sort of spiritual growth, you need to change how you react to emotions.  Same thing goes for fear and pain.  They are not negative, they are positive and necessary.  However how we react and use them (often as forms of control and oppression, both physically and spiritually) is what we need to address.

I thinking also about the duality of projection.  What I mean is by what appears to be the best models we have on projection we never really leave our body, we simply phase our awareness.  Some small portion of our awareness is still in this pmr though.  This is interesting because I have read some very advanced projectors that have been doing this 20 or 30 plus years are capable of actually splitting the focus with the result effectively being in two realities at once.  I wonder how these people view time when they project as they have two separate memory streams for the same 'time period'.  Does the perception of time in the pmr memory stream match the perception of time from the npmr stream?  Does it change based on where the npmr awareness is focused?  I personally don't have the answers to these.

I was thinking about the main question and looking over the responses and it occurred to me perhaps this also depends on where you are.  With many different reality frames, there are tons which are based on a time-space model similar to ours, in these I would think you would be bound to whatever the time-space rule frame is for that reality.  This could be shorter or longer than ours but would be fixed.  However I don't believe all reality frames (or planes) are based on our time-space model and the further away from the fixed time-space model you got the more control you probably could have over 'time', since really there what you perceive as time is more your interpretation of something else and not time as we know it.  So it may not be a question if you can control time, but where you can control time.

@Xanth

That is a very interesting point, I agree if someone or something slowed down time in our reality frame we would not be aware or notice this change.  To us it would just seem time is ticking away as normal and we would not perceive the stoppage.  If this has any real practical application from an individual projection (our ability to use it to stop time in other time-space based reality frames) I do not know.  Another thing to think about is that chances are in order for whoever slowed down time to feel the effects, they would have to be outside of the reality frame looking in.  This I think is the main problem.  Even if you could slow down time in a reality frame if you have your focus centered in that reality frame at the time you slowed it down you would not feel the effects, time would just seem normal (what you talked about in your post).  Basically in order to view time as changing speed you need be on the outside looking in.  From an inside perspective it will just appear time is going on as normal.

Oh Oh exciting idea.  So if that theory is correct you can never slow down time in the reality frame you are focused in because you would just not feel the effect even if you succeeded.  HOWEVER, since you are not focused in pmr it could hypothetically be possible to slow down pmr time while you are in a obe (because you are not focused in pmr).  It would have the same effect of appearing like you had more time out of body however instead of slowing down time where you are, you are slowing down time where you are not (focused).  Since you are focused outside (you have the outside looking in perspective which is necessary in order to actually perceive the time change) this would work.  In practice instead of actually trying to slow down a clock where you are you would need to to attempt to slow down time where you physical body is.  This of course has it's own problems since focusing on your body while projecting is a big nono and typically ends the projection.  The only way around this I can think of off the top of my head would be to either just build up enough control over several years to be able to overcome the pull back to your body when you are thinking about it, or just think about slowing down time somewhere not at your body, but still in pmr. My guess would be you would have the best success by focusing on where the official world time is kept, since slowing this down would have the biggest effect since it is where the majority of consciousness  accepts official time as coming from.  I believe it is in a lab in the US somewhere.  I believe it is the vibration of a cesium atom which currently is the 'official' time keeper.

Lots of ideas in this thread could be the basis for some very interesting npmr experiments.

Xanth's last post makes a lot of sense, I tend to agree with it.

That depends.  Fears tend to manifest themselves so if you are afraid of something happening to you, or even concerned it is a possibility then yes protection can put your mind at ease and therefore be beneficial.  Remember though that it isn't the protection itself that is doing anything, it is the change in your intent and fears (removal of a fear through feeling protected from it in this case) that makes a difference.  If you do not have the fear you do not need the protection.  Do not try to trick yourself into thinking you don't have a fear though when you do, that never works out very well, in the end you need to accept the fear and face it.

Personally I do not 'protect' myself per say but I do include in my affirmations that I want to interact with positive beings and go positive places that will help me advance my consciousness.  I feel this helps set my intent and I guess that could be viewed as placing a form of protection on myself, with the side note it is protection merely from my own intent getting in the way.