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quote:Originally posted by Laurel
This thread is cracking me up! I love the photo, Lasher! Can we have a sound file, too? Hee!

Fortunately for you, I've never recorded that.
However, if you are feeling brave, you can hear three of my songs at: http://www.mp3.com/davelasher
Don't say I didn't warn ya.   []

As for you saying that you sound like a Monty Python "Lady" when you scream, I hope that's not in the bedroom.  Your poor hubby will be distracted by unbidden images of John Cleese in drag!!! []

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by Ginny
Hope I've answered your question, Lasher--:o)

You certainly did, Ginny!  Thanks so much for taking the time.  That makes perfect sense.  []

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by Tyler
I'm going to need some answers.

Hi Tyler,

A few months ago I heard the first thing that ever made real sense of this stuff to me when I bought a cassette tape set called, The Mystical Kabbalah.  It was recorded by a guy named Rabbi David A. Cooper.  I won't be able to do these ideas justice, but I will try my best.

First, God is not a noun.  We get all messed up when we think of God that way.  God is more of a verb, a process, "Godding".

God's essence is creating, giving, loving, unfolding.  

Part of the process of Godding is the spontaneous creation of a receptical or vessel within "itself" to be a receiver of the "giving" and light.

Think of the vessel as a cup made of ice that water is being poured into.  The cup is essentially made of water too.

As the vessel receives the "giving" and light and beneficence of The Creator(God, Godding, Creation as verb), part of what is received is the desire to "give".  

The vessel now wants to "give" too.  But the creator is a complete whole, in need of nothing.  There is no place for this giving impulse to be expressed.

The vessel cannot remain in such a situation.  It needs a way to give back and feel it has "earned" what it is receiving.

So the vessel appears to explode into an infinite number of sparks.  Each spark is an individual soul.

The desire to give back has created the illusion of the universe and this allows us to exist in an environment where we can "earn" the beneficence of The Creator.

The universe is the illusion of space and time and seperation fom The Creator and each other.  It is also where Free Will exists so that we can choose whether to "give" or not.  

This allows us to earn the beneficence of The Creator by our own choices.

But for Free Will to exist, a force had to come into being that opposes the creating, giving force.

It's like a game of chess.  You cannot play unless you have a challenger.  

We need a challenger so we can feel we've had the opportunity to earn the light of the creator.

The physical universe, where all of this takes place, is a tiny percentage of ultimate reality, the tip of the iceberg.  But this physical universe is controlled almost entirely by the challenger.

Some refer to this challenger as Satan or entropy or chaos or any number of names.

But the important thing to remember is that we asked for this challenger to test ourselves against.

It was our desire to earn the light rather than to have it given to us which created the universe and the challenger.

So we are playing out this test and working our way back to the divine oneness.

The test frequently manifests as horrible events in our world.  But that is just from our current perspective.  And we have to have this perspective while participating in the test.

It is very tragic that the girl you described was attacked and died.  I feel the same way about the seemingly needless tragedies in the world.  

Realistically though, when she got to the other side she was probably met by a loving guide who brought her to a place where she could review her lifetime and then set goals for her next one.  From that side of things she could see the tragedies in her life from a higher perspective, like watching football tapes of the game back in the locker room.

Anyway, that is my very inadequate description of part of what I learned from The Mystical Kabbalah tapes.  

I don't know if that is any better explanation for why there is so much negativity in the world, than any other explanation you've heard.  But I figured it couldn't hurt to share it.  

All the best to you on your journey.

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by Ginny
Thanks Nick. Being of service to others in the afterlife was and still remains a passion for me (kinda nice to know I can help someone out now and then before I kick the bucket). When I first got started I had no idea that retrieving would lead to the inner growth and personal happiness I've experienced. So, everyone wins: my kind of ball game---:o).

Have a good one and much love,

Ginny

Hi Ginny,

Thank you so much for sharing these retrieval experiences.  They are very heartwarming and inspirational.

I have a question, if you don't mind my asking.

In your descriptions, a guide usually appears and brings you to the one in need of help.  The guide fills you in on the basic information, and then you help to transport the person to where they need to go.

My question is this.  Can the guides do this all by themselves if they want to, or do they need a person like yourself who is still alive in the physical world?  I was curious if they were allowing you to do the retrieval to help in your own spiritual evolution, or if they actually cannot do it without help from a living person.

Thanks for any information on this.  []

Lasher

Oh great, Tisha!  Now you've set our work on overcoming our egos back 15 years!!!  []

I can play and sing the entire song, Paradise by the Dashboard Light (by Meatloaf) on the ukulele.



I can also make people pay me to stop.


Lasher

quote:Originally posted by no_leaf_clover

ah.. crap. i forgot why. [|)]

oh, yes.. i am evil..

You and Nick are still here???


Lasher

Thank you for your detailed response to my question, Mayatnik. []

Of course every one of your posts makes me come up with fifty more questions. [:O]

I guess that's where the pendulum comes in.  If I can get a good connection with my guide going, then I can ask her instead so you can get some rest.

I got my pendulum this week.  It was that crystal one I ordered.  It's very nice.  I tried it for the first time last night.  I was very tired and about to go to bed.  I did the cleansing with water and the prayer ritual and then I asked a few questions (starting with the "please show me a yes" etc) The pendulum did move for me, but very tentatively.  I plan to work with it more over this holiday weekend (Independence Day in the U.S.) .

Ultimately, I would love it if my guide would do automatic writing with me through a pencil or keyboard.  Since I am not a typist, if she were to type through me with my eyes closed, that would assure me that my own thoughts and imagination are not getting in the way.

That's a real obstacle for me to overcome.  My unbidden thoughts and imaginings.  For example, when I pray for someone, I usually picture them in my mind, sitting or standing with light around them. Sometimes this works fine.  But other times, I cannot seem to hold the image still in my mind.  The image will begin making faces or acting weird or inappropriate.  It's like some part of my unconscious mind is trying to mess up the prayer.

So, I am concerned that this "party-pooper" part of my consciousness will get in the way with pendulum work and channeling and will confuse me as to whether I am communicating with my guide, or just some mischevious part of my unconscious mind.

I hate to waste the time of my guide with this sort of nonsense going on.  Any suggestions?

Lasher
 

quote:Originally posted by no_leaf_clover
i doubt a black hole could destroy your consciousness.. hmm.. i'd try it out if i could. i don't see anything to worry about. actually sounds interesting.

A Future Post:

Hey!  Anyone heard from no_leaf_clover?  He hasn't posted in ages.  Last I heard, he had experienced his first OBE and was planning to check out a black hole... [:O]

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by kromeknight

Hello Lasher
Sooo you get Emails from Nay [] I put up a colour photo and everything and YOU get emails []lol
I'm not jealous "sniff..sniff"... really []

What can I say?
When you got it, you got it.  []

Lol.  []

Ohh, don't be too jealous.
She was just curious as to when I was going to weigh in on all of the excitement of the other day.  

The answer is, probably never.  Everyone else did a fine job.  Besides, everytime I thought of something to say I realized that I would just be throwing more fuel onto a fire that needed to be put out.

Lasher

Krishna
Rama
Kali
Shiva
Vishnu
Your Higher Power

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by MAYATNIK

There is a misconception in the first part of your question, but regarding the second part, Yes – they do visit us regularly, although in recent years they can be said to be here constantly, encamped as it were, out there in space... around 100,000 miles away but in a 'higher dimension' so cannot be seen.  

MAYATNIK,

I was wondering if you remember Heaven's Gate?  That incident a few years back where a group of folks who believed that they were in touch with aliens committed mass suicide.  The media portrayed it as a crazy cult.  But now I am beginning to wonder because you say that they exist on a higher dimension and the Heaven's Gate folks believed there was a spaceship trailing the Hale/Bopp Comet.  Astronomers detected no ship, but if it was on a higher level, then maybe it was beyond their abilities to detect.

Still, the idea of committing suicide like that does not seem to be very enlightened or spiritual.  What's your take?

-Do you know if they were really in touch with aliens?
-If yes, which race?
-And most important, Did the aliens tell the Heaven's Gate folk to kill themselves?
-If not, then what happened with those folks?  Were they just over anxious to reuinite permanently with the aliens?

If you have any insight into this, I would be very interested.
Thank you.  And thank you for all of the time and attention that you put in here at the Astral Pulse.

Lasher

Hey Nay,

Say, I just wanted to let you know that I tried to respond to the e-mail you sent but it just kept bouncing back.
Didn't want you to think I was blowing you off.  [8D]

Lasher

Here's another odd story.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/07/02/chile.science.reut/index.html

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by Adrian

Note: I have now converted this excellent work into a 73 page E-Book in Adobe Acrobat format, and placed it in the file library:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/file_library.asp?showmethefile=34&thatcat=14&thiscat=E%2DBooks

Enjoy!

Thanks, Adrian.  I just downloaded it.   []

Lasher

[hope more people reply to mine. Frank's 25+ topic is making me look like really small. :p]

quote:Originally posted by Squeek

hope more people reply to mine. Frank's 25+ topic is making me look like really small. :p

Is this where I come to become a real memereber?   []

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by Jenadots

Thank you all.  Slowly, but surely, getting better.  The
infection is no longer spreading and I am breathing better.

Glad to hear it.   []

Lasher

[From Publishers WeeklyIf a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco's second novel--also an intellectual blockbuster--should prove more accessible. This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges its perpetrators into deadly peril. The narrator, Casaubon, an expert on the medieval Knights Templars, and two editors working in a branch of a vanity press publishing house in Milan, are told about a purported coded message revealing a secret plan set in motion by the Knights Templars centuries ago when the society was forced underground. As a lark, the three decide to invent a history of the occult tying a variety of phenomena to the mysterious machinations of the Order. Feeding their inspirations into a computer, they become obsessed with their story, dreaming up links between the Templars and just about every occult manifestation throughout history, and predicting that culmination of the Templars' scheme to take over the world is close at hand. The plan becomes real to them--and eventually to the mysterious They, who want the information the trio has "discovered." Dense, packed with meaning, often startlingly provocative, the novel is a mixture of metaphysical meditation, detective story, computer handbook, introduction to physics and philosophy, historical survey, mathematical puzzle, compendium of religious and cultural mythology, guide to the Torah (Hebrew, rather than Latin contributes to the puzzle here, but is restricted mainly to chapter headings), reference manual to the occult, the hermetic mysteries, the Rosicrucians, the Jesuits, the Freemasons-- ad infinitum . The narrative eventually becomes heavy with the accumulated weight of data and supposition, and overwrought with implication, and its climax may leave readers underwhelmed. Until that point, however, this is an intriguing cerebral exercise in which Eco slyly suggests that intellectual arrogance can come to no good end. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.]

quote:Originally posted by 13
I could fictionalise that when I hold the pendulum it is in fact me that swings while the pendulum stays still, and that it is simply a device to measure how much the universe is swinging at any one time.

13,

Have you ever read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco?
If not, then you should check it out.  Your above quote reminded me of this great novel.  I've posted a review below.

Lasher



From Publishers Weekly
If a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco's second novel--also an intellectual blockbuster--should prove more accessible. This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges its perpetrators into deadly peril. The narrator, Casaubon, an expert on the medieval Knights Templars, and two editors working in a branch of a vanity press publishing house in Milan, are told about a purported coded message revealing a secret plan set in motion by the Knights Templars centuries ago when the society was forced underground. As a lark, the three decide to invent a history of the occult tying a variety of phenomena to the mysterious machinations of the Order. Feeding their inspirations into a computer, they become obsessed with their story, dreaming up links between the Templars and just about every occult manifestation throughout history, and predicting that culmination of the Templars' scheme to take over the world is close at hand. The plan becomes real to them--and eventually to the mysterious They, who want the information the trio has "discovered." Dense, packed with meaning, often startlingly provocative, the novel is a mixture of metaphysical meditation, detective story, computer handbook, introduction to physics and philosophy, historical survey, mathematical puzzle, compendium of religious and cultural mythology, guide to the Torah (Hebrew, rather than Latin contributes to the puzzle here, but is restricted mainly to chapter headings), reference manual to the occult, the hermetic mysteries, the Rosicrucians, the Jesuits, the Freemasons-- ad infinitum . The narrative eventually becomes heavy with the accumulated weight of data and supposition, and overwrought with implication, and its climax may leave readers underwhelmed. Until that point, however, this is an intriguing cerebral exercise in which Eco slyly suggests that intellectual arrogance can come to no good end.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

quote:Originally posted by celticmagick909

Hello and well met everyone. I am writing to ask everyone what there thoughts are on astral beings such as Dragons, or Faeries, and other things of that nature. For I am told that these entities exist in the astral worlds and in the physical. I have encountered these beings in dreams, but never in an O.B.E. Which I have only had twice which I woke up while I was dreaming.

I am a Pagan myself, and have always believed in the existence of otherworldy beings. Things such as Angels, Dragons, and Faeries which I had mentioned before. It would be an awesome expierence I am sure to encounter one of these beings while in the astral realms.

If anyone has encountered, or has heard of someone encountering one of these kinds of entities please share!

                    Regards,
                              Doug

Good question, Doug.
It's funny because I thought about asking that same question yesterday.

I was also curious if throughout history, people have been basically running into the same beings, but have been perceiving them differently based on their cultural perspectives.  Could it be that angels, faeries, and aliens are all really the same beings?

quote:Originally posted by Kristen

Hi Lasher -

Have you read Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah and Israel Regardie's Tree of Life or Garden of Pomegranates?  I recommend them all... actually anything by these two authors are classic and important additions to a magickal library alongside Franz Bardon.

take care,
Kristen

P.S. dude - cool homepage

Hi Kristen,

Thanks for the book suggestions.  I will definitely check them out.

Also, thanks for checking out my website.  []
It would be even cooler if I ever had time to update it.  It hasn't been touched in well over a year.  [:O]
Hopefully that will be changing soon, though.


Parmenion,

Thanks for your insights on the books.  I can't wait 'til they arrive.  []

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by AndrewTheSinger

I used to try that in the past. I had a sheet of paper with 2 circles drawn about 6 inches apart from each other, one circle was empty and the other one had an X mark in it. I placed a plastic coin over the empty circle and I had to move it to the marked circle when I was out of body. I managed to get out many times and move the coin across the paper, but it never happened in the physical world.

The good thing is that when I was up for the experiment I was projecting 2-3 times everyday and I had no longer any doubts that I was really getting out of body even though I could never get the coin to move.

I believe it is possible to make it happen, but it would probably take alot of emotion, a very strong feeling about it and stuff wich is hard, cause the last thing you would want to try when out of body would be to move a plastic coin across a paper.

Think it's more of a phenomenon rather than an ability.

This may seem like a silly suggestion, but I'm serious.

What if you cut out a little figure out of cardboard.  Draw a little face on him.  

Then on one piece of paper draw some kind of scary threat like a dragon or a monster or something.  

On the other piece of paper, draw some sort of loving angelic figure or anything positive.  You don't have to be an artist.  Just something that is recognizable to you.  

Then put your little cardboard cutout figure on the piece of paper with the scary image.  

When you project, perhaps you can use the imagery to help imagine a sense of urgency in moving the figure from the scary background to the safety background.  Like the figure is saying, "Save Me", and you feel you must make the rescue.

This might help to bring some urgency to the task.

Just a twist on your coin idea.  If anyone tries it, please post results here.

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by Adept_of_Light

Hello Lasher, I do believe the *Mystical* Kabbalah to be an accurate model of how the Universe manifests yes, but that is only one of many models.

Thanks for your response, Adept_of_Light.

Recently I began reading some about the Mystical Kabbalah in the Jewish tradition.  I had always stayed away from books about Kabbalah because they seemed very complex and intimidating.  But I picked up a cassette tape set called, The Mystical Kabbalah by Rabbi David A Cooper, to listen to while driving my route.  

The ideas presented really resonated with me.  It was like all my diverse readings on religion, spirituality, mysticism, and the occult, were pulled together and could comfortably co-exist within the Kabbalah.   Like a puzzle that makes no sense until the final piece is put into place.  

But as soon as I returned to the bookstore for more insight I was overwhelmed by all of the books on Kabbalah.  Where to begin?  

I bought a few books that turned out to be kind of pop pablum for the masses.  Not what I was looking for.

After reading this thread a bit, I decided to look at book reviews on Amazon.com.  I decided that the book which most likely contains what I'm looking for is, The Key to the True Kaballah by Franz Bardon.  Since it is the third book in a series of sorts, I decided to order all three, including Initiation Into Hermetics and The Practice of Magical Evocation.  

To complete my order I bought, The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece by Three Initiates.  A friend had lent that to me back in High School and I remember that it kind of blew my mind back then.  I figured that this book would give me a good philosophical/historical foundation to build upon with the Franz Bardon books.  They're all big books, so it will be a while before I make it to The Key to the True Kabbalah.  But I have a feeling that it will be a very interesting journey...

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by Ides315

Hey, deep thoughts.

According to quantum physics there are multiple universes. Also, everything is everywhere until observed. Observance is what locks things in. This has been proven on the atomic level. A proton fired at a lead plate with 2 holes goes through both if looking at the energy trail left behind. If it is observed while going through, it only goes through one.

Best to all

If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?

I guess the answer would be "no".   []

Lasher

Adept of Light,

If you don't mind my asking your opinion on this,
Do you believe that the Kabbalah is an accurate model to how the universe manifests?

Also, would you recommend the books of Franz Bardon?

Thanks for any input.

Lasher

quote:Originally posted by RoyHarper
I've noted that to become enlightened you must first be enlightened.

What is that???
A zen koan???


Lasher

I used to play Starcraft, but I'm off the stuff now.

I joined a twelve step program, SA, Starcraft Anonymous

The first step is:

We admitted that we cannot stop playing Starcraft and our lives had become unmanageable.

Lasher