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The problem is, these things originated in Europe, not the US.  The cases I encountered were all in European countries.  If you research the history of the main people involved you invariably find they are psychiatrists and their cousins psychologists.
Research who formed the world federation of mental health (WFMH) and the trail leads to russian intelligence.  Research where psychiatry that practices these vile thins sprang from, and it wasn't the followers of Jung, but the black occult lodges in Liepzig and Hamburg.  Read Paolo Lioninni's research into how these black occult lodges formed and ran what became modern psychiatry.
Electric shock machines, which destroy the human mind, are today (the preferred ones) built by Siemens, a German firm.
The problem doesn't, however, end at europes borders.  It has spread worldwide, largely through intelligence services and psychiatry.  If you feel I'm too harsh on psychiatry, read Dr Thomas Sasz.  He was one of their leaders for years.
I attended an international meeting of the WFMH in a large european city.  Before the meeting began, a demonstrator stood up, and with a megaphone, preceded to tell the audience that WFMH had received their orders from Red China's intelligence agency...and he preceded to read out a list of things that China had dictated be done by the officers at this meeting.
Well, everyone assumed it was nonsense, and the demonstrator left peacefully.  As the meeting progressed, every single item this person had predicted was brought into the agenda by the officers.  Numerous DRs got up and walked out.  I was in the lobby when the canadian delegation stormed out in anger.  Their head told me, he had never dreamed that communist china was controlling this organization before, but he and his delegates would never belong to this group again.  And so on the story goes.
However, topics like these don't make for pretty reading, so this is my last post on this subject.
Radha

The only reason you don't understand football fans is you don't live in Manchester.  Think of it like this:  if you are very, very, very good in this life, and every night when you go to sleep you chant "bend it like beckham" then in your next life you'll come back as a Man U. goal net.  You'll get in all the games free.[][][]

Hey if you're as hot as the car and the affirmation then it's YOU I'm praying for [][][][][}:)][][}:)]

The use of unwilling test recipients has gone on for more years than you'd think.  
In the 60's I had a friend who I understood went to mexico with timothy leary and his entourage, and when my friend came back he was singing the praises of this new stuff called LSD.  I never knew where LSD came from until years later.  A person I knew said their family owned a large interest in ciba-geigy, a drug company who, to my understanding, controlled sandoz laboratories.  She told me that sandoz developed LSD, at the urging of the nazi regime.  They wanted something that would mentally incapacitate people until the troops could take over the town...and it's factories.  She said that it was common knowledge in her family that after the war, the newly founded CIA purchased over 50,000 doses of LSD from Sandoz.  For Leary to spread on the campuses?
My friend later told me that chemistry majors at a famous university
had a huge lab where they made hallucinogens and shipped them to the east coast.  The beginnings of the dumbing down of america.
Years later, while part of an investigation, I had the opportunity to interrogate some subjects who we discovered had had their "behavior" programmed with drugs and hypnosis by so-called mental health doctors.  The first one was "treated" 5 times by chinese mental health practitioners working in the cover of a yugoslavian prison.  After all this guy wanted to escape communism.  That must mean he is a criminal with no hope..right?  Well that was their logic.
I encountered others over the years so began trying to research, quietly, on my own, this unbelievable butchery of the human soul that I had been witness to the results of.
Try reading books by walter bowart if you can find them.  Also check out "whisper of the axe" by richard condon and "manchurian candidate" by him.  "whisper.." will give you some clues as to what and who was behind a lot of the race riots in the US in the 60's.
The CIA program, MK-ULTRA was, to some, the crown jewel of their evil empire.  I still remeber an afternoon I spent with one of the heads of that program.  The meeting was arranged by mutual friends and he very willingly discussed some things I was curious about.
I was amazed that I didn't once attempt to strangle this person as he talked.  What I saw before me was a horror in itself.  Just a shell of a body with no one home.  Just like talking to a machine of some sort.
Don't ever doubt that drug induced hypnosis can't, and hasn't, been used to turn innocent people into hideous replicas of their masters.
I've seen them.  I've pushed them to their limits in an interrogation room.  I've seen them turn into mindless, mewling, sobbing, puking shells of humanity, if I would mention certain words.
Words they were programmed to react to.
Sorry...didn't mean to get on the soap box and rant...but I do urge all of you to research these topics all you can WHILE you still can.
RadhaSoami

In my opinion it first depends on how you define these terms.  In the esoteric schools, meditation is defined as "change of Being".  You are taught how to do this.  Just thinking, or visualizing or talking is not meditation.  On the other hand, in the exoteric world it doesn't matter how you define it.
If you examine prayer as it was taught by Origen, Evagrius Ponticus and other notable christian writers of the first century (or thereabouts) you see the same defining being used.  The roman church, as usual, had people who spoke the truth murdered, and for centuries they taught nonsense as "prayer".  Now the romans are trying to teach something they call "centering prayer".  If you examine this against the above two sources, as well as the "prayer of the heart" as known in the eastern orthodox church (see the Phylokalia) you'll see that the two can have identical meanings.
The only problem the romans have is too much blood on their hands as well as a severe lack of theoretical structure for their centering prayer.   They sent members of the society of jesus (who, by the way, practice correct meditation but keep it secret from the masses) to Japan to learn Zen, and are now, last I heard, teaching Zen at various places.  They are desparately trying to reinstitute that which they declared "heretical" centuries ago, but are not doing very well at it.  What they don't want to tell is that Zen is a very near cousin to what Jesus taught and that James carried to Damascus.
These types of training were brought in by the Kwajagan Lords centuries ago and the same training, under different names went into sufism, yoga, buddhism, zen, and christianity.  It is also taught in certain qabalistic orders.

My personal opinion is that 99% of these "theories" go by the wayside if you just do a simple thing.   Learn to access your own past lives.  Period.   Once you can do that an enormous amount of speculation goes by the boards and you get down to the nitty-gritty so to speak.  YOU.  
My first training to access past lives was from a gitane gypsy who taught me a method they used.  Simple and it works.
Before we talk about how we'll do it, we need to address why we are doing it.  Your life as you are living it now, good, bad and the ugly of it, is to a great extent, the summation of your past lives.  The habits, the conditioned responses, all of it.
You need to work out individually what you want to achieve with this ability.  If you approach the technique with a wishy-washy, "Oh, I guess I'll try it."  I seriously doubt if you'll get anywhere.
Our group started working together on past lives in the 60's.
Each time we went "in" and worked through a life, we came back to the present with a new understanding of some part of ourselves.  There were also lives we'd rather we didn't have to see again, but we learned to wade through them no matter how harrowing.
Members of our group traveled all over the US, Europe and India and the middle east during our searches, and no matter where we ended up in our quest, we never forgot those valuable lessons gained from studying our own past lives.
The saddest thing to me on this subject is when I hear people say "Prove it to me.".   First off, it isn't an intellectual subject.  It's a consciousness subject.  If you don't yet have sufficient consciousness to access them then, for you, it isn't yet real.  But those driven by intellect will never access them, period.
From my hundreds of hours of personal experience in this area let me say this:  If you are a big drug user, you'll not be able to access them probably.  NEVER use hypnosis or ANY form of chemical stimulant in trying to access.  All drugs do is nail shut the door you need to open...and shunts you off into fantasia.  All hypnosis does is take away your innate ability to be responsible for your own self and the things you've done.  Another point is, if you get involved in this process, don't try to do it as a spectator.  You have to get back into that past body, that past viewpoint, and re-walk those steps.
Sounds easy but it takes cojones plus until you get the feel of it.
In closing, let me say that the world is full of books by alleged authorities telling you what happens to you after you die.  Which ones are true?  You won't know until you do just what we did...walk through that last door and see.  When you see, over and over, what happens when you die you'll just laugh and get on with living this life to your best ability.
Radha

Actually the cabalistic Tree has three pillars, Wisdom, Love, and the ability to cause efects (power?).  You can put together several triads though.

The first question of this thread needs at least a small answer.  Of course you need to remember that schools of east and west can and do use different terminologies for the levesls of inner work.

When you speak of "raising" the kundalini, as I've written elsewhere, you are changing BEing.  As you move deeper and deeper inside, you find there is still "deeper and deeper" to go.  In the writings of India, some of the oldest known, they speak of levels beyond the one that most of humanity would call "God".  If you use the word "Source" it makes it a bit more simple and avoids the dogmatic nonsense so prevalent in these days.
When you have blended with the Source BEing for this universe, and you think you've got it made, you find that this universe is only one of many.  So you do further, deeper training and eventually arrive at the Manvantara Lords abode.  In time you'll experience the truth that there are 12 universes controlled (birthed, continued, destroyed) by the Manvantara.  When you train longer and deeper, assuming good quality work etc, you'll be able to enter a place where there are birthed 12 manvantara Lords.  And it goes still deeper, the details of which I won't belabor you with.
The best place, in this age, to experience these things is as an initiate in an esoteric school of India under DIRECT supervision of a SantSat Guru.  Doing this deeper work without such a teacher is like leaving a newborn in a lions cage after you rubbed steak juice all over him.  The forces you encounter need tempering until your system can handle them.  I've been knocked completely off the chair and unconscious several times by some of these forces...but when you pay your dues and have correct guidance you'll also reap the rewards a good work deserves.
Books today on this thing they call "kundalini" are a joke.  Not even a good one at that.
Find a good school with a living santsat guru and go to it.  Just remember true inner work is like sex with an angry alligator.  It CAN be done...you just have to do it right is all.
RadhaSoami  []

I was fortunate enough to have had two teachers who were trained in Monastic environments.  One had spent 63 years in India in a monastic Order, the other 14 yrs.  They taught me some simple basics about this question that might help.  At least they helped me.
The energy you refer to is the energy that enters our system for purposes of giving BEing or life.  It can give BEing at whatever level it is applied to.
Sex has as its purpose, to give life or BEing.  IF the energy is given to a female (if you are male)it moves into a circuitous path and can benefit both persons IF it is charged with the energy of love.  If it is charges with the energy of lust, it is not of benefit, and can be destructive in its path.
In real training (meaning in an esoteric school...not from books etc) you are working on Change of Being.  Thus the energy which can give BEing is needed to aid in this.
I've written elsewhere in this forum on this in greater detail, but briefly: (1) if you are not in an esoteric school, and not working seriously at Change of Being, it probably doesn't matter what you do with the energy, so to speak. (2) if you are fortunate and in such a school, most of them suggest continence as opposed to celibacy.
(3) some paths insist you at least be at the point of being a householder before they will admit you.  This is because you would be more likely to have a channel for the sex drive in your female partner. (if male).
You can (and do) also utilize the energy when you study (changing being) change jobs, (changing being) get married (changing being) join a club (changing being) and so on.
As these two men pointed out to me, sex is just one center's application of the energy.  The spleen center might use it to develop a beautiful body; the solar plexus center might use it to "get ahead" in business or climb the corporate ladder; and so on up the chain.
The sex energy should not be suppressed.  Just put it to work in the center's activity of your choosing.
When they speak of transmuting the energy they refer to what eastern schools call "Bahkti" or devotion.  This doesn't refer to being devoted to a human being.  Bahkti transmutes the energy into change of Being.  If you put that kind of energy on another human all you get is varying degrees of sexual appetite.  This is why so often we here or read of a schools teacher being involved in a sexual activity of some sort.  They just didn't know how to transmute what was being put on them is all.
This may generate more smoke than light but if it doesn't help let me know your questions and concerns and I'll attempt to re-word some of this.
Cheers,
Radha

Eastern esoteric schools gave us the term "Kundalini" but without a full, comprehensible defining.  This opened the doors, I feel,for the babble we see in books today.
These basic points are from an esoteric school, and I hope they will help point a finger at the correct ideal.
The only purpose for ALL esoteric training, is Change of BEing.  There is no other purpose or rationale they espouse.
To make things more comprehensible, schools of east and west try to draw a workable schematic of the universe.  Sort of like a big circle, if you will, with Source at the center, and our daily life out on the  edge.  To jump from the outer edge to the center CAN be done, but it results in too great a displacement of mental masses.  The person might take weeks or months to appear "sane" again.
Plato in his "Allegory of the Cave" gives an incredibly accurate depiction of this.  It is more than worth a serious read...and re-read.
Your inner work in, lets say, a cabalistic school might take you upward on the tree of life, one path at a time.  YOUR goal is to be able to shift your BEing from where you are, to BEing that path.  As You move up the tree each degree will often be labelled with a number such as 9=1.  This might (depending on the school) indicate "9 parts human, one part Source".  As you slowly raise the BEing level upward you have the ability to BE that path.  If you look at some of the old drawings of the tree you'll often see a serpent drawn as though it was following a specific path up the tree.   You can also see what the definition is, in esoteric schools, for "serpent".  (This requires use of Gematria in western work).
The reason, in talk about Kundalini, there is such a consideration that the base of the spine is important is that the energy from  Source enters the body elsewhere, and moves DOWN the spinal column.  As it next moves its way up the spinal complex, it is the energy of BE.  It give physical BEing to things it energizes.  
At certain places in the body there are vortices which draw into the system energies that correspond to your level of BEing (consciousness) on that topic.  IF you train correctly, and the BEing is changed by your work, then the quality of what is sucked into your system through these vortices is changed.  You can spend aeons trying to "clean" these centers but this can be a waste of time.  Even Hercules learned the hard way you can't shovel out all the ______ in the stable.  
As you Change Being, over time, you learn that the true meaning of the Golden Mean is how you have always lived.  The Golden Mean really translates as "Nature is to Man, as Man is to Source".  In other words, the "life" events that inflow to you are directly correlated to your relationship with Source.  If you don't like the outer conditions, change the BEing within.  THAT is real magic and is High Art.
I use a western example simply because eastern schools are not responsible for westerners, western schools are.  For that reason you might or might not get this data as simply stated in an eastern path.
If you truly feel an inner impeling force that leads you toward this thing you call "kundalini" I would counsel you to consider carefully what your true motive is.  The true one.  If it has anything to do with gaining "power" I would urge you to consider another path...like carpentry or plumbing.  If you join and work within a good school, you'll learn that there are three Pillars to the Tree.  Only one is labelled "power".  You should pray with all sincerity that you achieve the other two before you approach the door to the chamber marked "power", or if you choose not to follow my advice, you will read, albeit too late, the sign on the back side of that door as it closes behind you "Abandon hope all ye who enter here".
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Radha

One writer I recall laid this question to rest very nicely.  See if you can find the book "Mystical Qabala" by Dion Fortune.  I contains a very aptly worded section on these topics.  The real issue, I feel, is who or what is seen as the causality in an operation.  If a human thinks they are, it is just the delusion of ego.  As the same person progresses up the Tree of Life (assuming they are in a real school) they find that more and more what they thought was their working, in truth wasn't.
As one writer put it, the day will even come when you'll see and experience the Reality that it was not you who was meditating...but you who was being meditated on.
To try to control nature for ego (meaning your sense of "I") gratification is a good sound lesson all aspiring magi need to experience at least once.  When they see the way the forces recoil against them for their delusion, they will have gained an enduring Reality all the books in the world couldn't shake.
The universe has one source, and only one.  Usurping that Source is not too be undertaken by those who wish to do well in Ars Magia.
Having said that I can also show you the scars on "burned fingers" as support of my thesis.
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Radha

Many years ago, I did something to help a Gypsy who was in a serious plight.  They hate being in the debt of outsiders and so the person wanted to discharge the debt as quickly as possible.  I demanded certain knowledge and got it.  Deby paid...the person left.
One thing I was taught was that in terms of what we usually call "pendulums" etc etc it was us and us alone who provided the replies.  No higher this or that...just us.  Albeit it was usually the intuitive level of mind, and area few know much about.
I was shown how to use my body as the instrument and how to obtain the replies.
It takes practice as well as a sense of responsibility.  i.e. Are you willing to be as responsible for wrong replies as you are for right replies?  You soon learn how to judge when the personality is getting in the way and how to address that issue.
I've used it now some 35 years or so and quite often with unerring results.
In testing it, for ex, I drove from my home in mid-america to L.A. and right to my friends house only by using my "guidance" for directions.  I then later did the same to a city near the canadian border, but this time got confused 3 blocks from my friends house and finally phoned her.  I use it almost daily and can assure you it is more than a treasure in my pocket...it is a jewel without price...once you develop it.
After all those years, I personally feel you are loosing a lot of opportunity by assigning casality in a pendulum to "beings" or anything else besides yourself.  YOU can develop and increase control over YOU, but not over a "being" or some other-than-yourself causality.  
You can use your body as long as you patiently learn to get the personna out of the way and let knowing answer.  You may surprise yourself and come face to face with parts of you, you didn't know you had.
Radha

i've been with Tatot a good number of years, while working with three different Orders.  There is a fine point often not given the public regarding Tarot.
What you focus attention on, helps create that object of attention.  This is a widely read "principle" but not the whole story.  When you focus attention on a key (or anything) you do create it...but you create it in your own body mind complex.  It will take root, so to speak, and grow.
The symbology of the Tarot was systematically designed by the inner school to create things in your system that later exercises (IF you are part of a school) will bring to fruition.  Look at any deck and ask yourself "What have I created in my system with this key?"
I suggest that if you don't know...leave it alone.
Real Divination is a vastly different thing from "reading" keys based on some memorized things out of a book.
Waite's deck is not a very good one to use.  It alters some important symbols.
Briefly, if you study with a real school, the correct keys will be built into your system very methodically.  In time the energy behind the key will make its presence known quite distinctly.  THEN, if you attempt real Divining, the energy behind the keys will select the keys and that energy, when you focus attention on the key, will flow through your system and the resulting intuitive grasp will be the PRINCIPLE (s) behind your answer, and from applying those principles to your life you gain a very deep understanding that affects all your bodies and minds.
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Radha

Try thinking of it like this.  You link your physical bodies.  You then (both if possible) rise above them and link astrally.  While it's true this is purely energy, some prefer to "shape" the energy so it looks like and feels like a body.  Then, if you can also link on the next level...at the highest point you can link, you blend and become one.  It will give you something to think about, and may take weeks to get the smile off her face, ha ha.
It can also be done, depending on the training levels of both, with alternating polarities on each level, which creates a stronger AC current flow.  In this case it takes months to get the smiles off both your faces.
In the more pure, unadulterated "let's get it on" genre, I've known ladies whom I would visit at night, and then the next day they would describe fairly accurately what they experienced.  It was OK as a curiousity, but was no substitute for.....
Radha

The best defining of meditation, I found in an esoteric eastern school.  It is defined as "Change of Being".  It doesn't involve thinking things, as that is just a mind game, it doesn't involve visualizing something as that is a close cousin to imagining.
While the Sufi schools I've worked with from India describe it just as the definition above, the cabalistic schools don't always define it...they just put it into practice.
The easiest way to put it into practice is to follow the axiom of "See, feel, BE" as the sequence of events.  An example would be a God figure, let's say of the Hindu pantheon.  You might work on looking through the wisdom eye until you can actually see the Light, then work to see Krishna.  Then work on feeling what/how Krishna feels.  Then BE Krishna.  In the western model, you look through the wisdom eye until you see the tarot key.  Then you feel the attributes of that key, then you become that key.  Then move to the next key and so on.  Moving up the tree is as good a model as any although some try to move down the tree.
One word of warning.  If you use Tarot ONLY use the tarot the inner school has placed with a school of wisdom.  DO NOT do this with 99% of the so-called tarot decks around.  The inner school has only, to my knowledge, authorized 2 decks.
A third method would be to obtain a copy of a book I believe was published in the UK .  The author was Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and the book refers to a rosary used in Atlantis.  This is strong meat so if it is too tough, back off and use one of the above concepts...but better still, get into an esoteric school and learn valid ways that produce good results.
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Radha

You might check out the research of james spottiswoode re sidereal time and how to calculate it for your area.  We used his calculations and when we did remotr viewing at the correct sidereal time we got noticeably better results.  I suggest you calculate it for a long-ish period as it may not be practical if it is at, for ex, 0200 hrs etc.
Radha

Interesting thoughts you guys are putting forth.  These threads make you think don't they?  If it helps any, the schools I have trained with have defined "plane" as non-three-dimensional.  They have legth and breadth but no height as it were.  It sems to me to be an illusion at best...or delusion at worst, that we think we need a "body".  A"body" is just an organization of particles.  The point of consciousness is and always has been a Spiritual being, and the Being has no mass, no energy, no "nuttin'".  It is purely consciousness.  It can exist on any "plane".  Physical bodies can't exist on the astral as the laws are different there.  Astral bodies can't exist on the above "planes" as the laws are different there.  Only the Spiritual Being that is the real you can exist on all of these "planes".  However you choose to name and divide them.
Each Esoteric School, East or West, was put into an ethnic group at some point in time, so beings incarnating into that group might have a vehicle for upward growth.  The training given the Arabs was not intended for the Africans and so on.  Today we have a veritable tower of babble, however, and people in any culture have access to numerous disciplines.
Each school sought some way to divide up the cosmos such that their members could grasp one part at a time...digest that one and move on to the next one.  So terminology can get a bit confusing if you are outside of the schools.  Also the defining of the "planes" was minimal.  The real knowledge came/comes from direct experience on that level as a conscious Being.
My suggestion would be to pick a vehicle, whether east or west, learn their defining of the "planes" and when you learn your way around then you can more easily synthsize the other definings into your well-digested model.
But don't stop questioning and trying to reach a bit further...just as many of you are doing.  It builds "growth-muscle".
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Radha

As I read the interesting posts on this thread I thought of something I might "add to the tucker bag" as it were.  The western world, except for a few schools, has been relegated to thinking about God.  Intellectual this and that.  The Eastern world is the opposite.  They have always had as part of their knowledge and culture that man should have direct experience, direct conscious awareness of God...and that this direct knowledge will bury forever the intellectual maunderings of the so-called church in the west.
If you truly wish to KNOW God, join an Eastern school and forget the western church.  It will give you intellectual ideas but very little more.  I say this in candor, not rancor, as I myself have served until retirement as a Bishop in our church.
You can read about God in the Qabala...and what the old Rabbis wrote can be directly experienced if you train in their Orders.
You can know about God directly if you practice Radha Soami, for one example.
When we tire the moon with our ceaseless talk...God sets patiently waiting....
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Radha

The first time I recall projecting was in the early 60's.  I first went out and walked across the pool so I could say I walked on water.  Then I went around the apt building and there was no one around so that got boring.  Then I went to a girl's apt I knew and watched her.  THEN I realized that it was completely bogus to watch a chick undress if you can't do anything with it...so I went back to my body and didn't go back out for a long time.
I think the reason most schools I've been in don't tell you not to do this or that is that they know you'll do it anyway so they let you see if it still interests you.
The only thing I'd venture re astral sex (or astral anything) is that you need to have a way to insure that "she" (or "he" if you're a girl) is in fact a "she".  There are things out there that can shapechange and will gladly do so to fool with you.  Never mind how I found out about that.  Harumph.
Good luck, whoever you do
Radha

Ronaldo, I'm not sure exactly what you're doing, but I might add that when energy hits the pituitary it can cause a sensation as though there was a pressure on the roof of the mouth and also can cause the effect of excess saliva to form.
Radha

Like a lot of words we use to describe the inner worlds, "doors" might not be the best choice, but it is an accurate depiction.
As a crude analogy, if your goal was to re-gain conscious union with Source, and you were here in daily life on eart, it would be like you are contemplating a huge jump in consciousness if you suddenly went from here to there.  Plato, in his "Republic" describes this in the allegory of the cave.  The person is taken into the Light too soon.
So the esoteric brotherhoods have devised a series of steps that make the journey easier and safer.  No unlike taking small bites instead of the whole sandwich at once.  Each Order constructs a "place" for their members to go to at each step.  So, for example, to take you to the astral temple they might have a mantra that will, when done correctly, "tune" your inner sight so you will see the temple before you, and usually the teacher for that level.  When you have that under your belt, you are given the next mantra and so on all the way withing to Source.
As the Templars used to say, their duty was to protect the pilgims on their journey to the Holy Land.  This is true except it may also have pertained to an inner pilgrimage to an inner Holy Land they referred to.
So, you utter the correct mantra correctly and a "door" opens is just an expression.  I apologize for any confusion.  It doesn't mean, of course, a physical looking door with hinges etc.  If such a symbol were to be used, it would be shown with no door knob on the outside.  The door can only be opened from within is the message it conveys.
Cheers,
Radha

The Rose Cross is an interesting symbol, and as Adrian said there is much lore usually associated with this symbol.
In Esoteric schools there are 3 main flower symbols:  a lotus, a rose and a Lily.  The Lotus and the Rose symbol represent the ultimate union state of being in one important sense.  They both open from within, and in response to stimulus by the Light.  Enough said.  The Lily relates to the Fleur de Lis symbol...the flower of Light.  The design of the Fleur de Lis represents a Light body used by a group under the direction of Sonat Kumara and his brother.  A  true Light body like this when built by corect procedure enables one to fashion what some call a "diamond body" within which one can travel pretty much anywhere in this or adjacent universes.
As to groups who use the name "rosicrucian"...they are usually of varying types.  I prefer not to discuss them or their working in a public forum.
For those interested in plumbing the depths of the arcane lore, a first starting point would have to be an ACCURATE glossary/dictionary/lexicon of Sacred Geometry or Gematria.
Gematria exists because several ancient cultures, as did the more modern Hebrew, Greek and Latin, used letters as both letters and numbers.  Thus a word would have a numer value as well as a literary one.
Thus if one is in a True Rosicrucian Order they would study, for example, literary Cabala as well as the numerical or practical cabala.
In principle a word's numerical value is a key to possible other interpretations.  If one has a numerical value, then all other words or phrases that have that same number value would be related in a, perhaps as yet unseen relationship.
Symbols are commonly used for this purpose.  The deliberate obscuring of meaning is only intended to throw dust in the eyes of the profane.  The true student, having entered an Order, will be given the Gematria he/she needs for their work.
When you encounter material concerning the alleged hidden meaning of the cabala or the Bible or the Koran, just keep both feet on the ground as you read it.  To much dis-information is published on this topic these days, so the sincere student, I feel, may be put off by some of the wild prophecy claims or"meanings" alleged to be in the Bible.
One way to get acquainted with the True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order is to get the book by that name by Paul Foster Case.  It is an excellent treatise on Gematria basics as well as an accurate use of Gematria in expounding on the symbols of the Rose Cross Brotherhood.
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Radha

Hi Paul, Tayesin;
In my own experience with CRV I would say your point of view is that of the body, except maybe when bi-locating occurs.  In ERV the point of view is not in the body.  
When a person does RV of any type, my experience has been that their concepts of REAL get knocked around and re-adjusted a bit.  
Re the BH, I'll see if I saved any of the session records we did and see if I can get permission to put some of the descriptors in here.
I think that threads like these and the ensuing discussions do a great deal to help people get more curious and hopefully, brave enough to try OBE, RV etc and learn some of these things first hand.
I, for one, really enjoy reading the posts and getting the different ideas I find.  Makes me think.
Radha

Probably depends on the generator and how it's configured.  I write my own programs, and I select a carrier tone that sounds nice to my ears, so the beat frequency does also.  If you listened to a typical session on mine you'd hear a gentle, soft hum at, let's say, middle "C", a soft blue light gently  pulsing to the beat freq. on the eyelids, and then the sound of my voice..."You will send me ten dollars when you wake upppppppp."
I'll send you that program free, ha ha.
One other thing, I experimented until I found the sound I like best.  Sometimes I add ocean surf just because I like it and so on.
Find some you can download and give it a try to see if it's your cup of rosy lee.  You might like it,
Radha

Ni, I bought a Nova Pro 100.  Had good results with the programs/scripts I wrote.  What have others bought?
Radha

As one of my teachers used to say;"It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in past lives...you'll come back anyway."
I've worked with past lives in myself and others since the 60's.  I've applied this area as a therapist at a psychiatric foundation and with just a group of interested friends.
The first thing you need is the procedure.  You do it over and over and sooner or later you are right in the middle of one.
Most people try to go into denial, rationalization etc, but oddly, they always come back for more.
Once you understand how the procedure works, and can be comfortable with it, we can get down to serious business.
Even if you don't do it very well you'll still gain understanding of the basis for behaviors, you'll see where habits you have today developed and why, and especially why your relationships today are the way they are with certain persons.
It is an area woth learning about and trying to understand, not with intellect, but consciousness.
If however you feel afraid of the subject or a fear of trying it, don't.  Leave it alone until perhaps a time you feel so inclined.
Good Luck,  Whoever you were
Radha