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it's all focusing inward. 

think about when you read a technique that tells you to reach outward toward some imaginary object, like a rope.  you're not actually reaching outward, you're going inward toward your imagination and making the visualized scene feel real enough to simulate reaching outward.  it's all happening in your imagination.  that's basically phasing.  in phasing you use your imagination to convince your mind and body that you are somewhere outside of yourself.  traditional obe on the other hand involves induction of a near sleep state.  when you go to sleep at night you naturally withdraw your consciousness to let the body get some rest.  if you can replicate the same process, while still maintaining a small amount of awareness/consciousness, you can pass through the transition without losing awareness and explore the otherworlds.  this is experienced as a typical obe separation. 

certainly not.

my fiance mostly hates it.  she can't stand the way british tv is shot, nor does she like british sensibilities or demeanor.  she finds it odd.
i say mostly, because this season looks a lot more like american tv as far as how it's shot and the cameras they use.  she has enjoyed the first two episodes.

i know plenty of people who think the show is terrible.  it's quite alright.  i hate reality tv, some people love it, that's ok.

NoY is a member of the forum.

it's really easy.

inhale, pull light into your feet (white)
exhale, engulf yourself in a purple flame that is burning above your crown chakra
repeat as necessary.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.  Don't worry about labelling the experience.  You have been to the otherworld, enjoy it and keep going.  Definition will come to you in time.

It works, can you blame them?  If nothing else its something to do, lol.

I have found that grounding yourself in the astral helps tremendously.  Immediately upon exit, draw in astral energy.  Any energy based meditation will work, I use NoY's purple flame meditation.  It seems that it helps to acclimate you to your new environment.

I don't care how often you come and go, you'll always be my favorite Kurt.

Congrats

those people have reasons for their lifestyle.  it's not up to us to decide that they are wrong or right.  i also wouldnt say that we were any better.  our common path may seem to have a bigger perspective, that's all really.

lol.

who cares.

people fuss over the most trivial things.

in the grand scheme of your life you really find the investigation of an imaginary figure's sexuality to be important?

come on.

i hear santa clause is a transvestite.

lol.

is your consciousness any more than your memories?  that's what the materialists say anyhow. 

no

welcome back howard

Happy Dr. Who Day Again!

so far as i've experienced, reality beyond the third dimension is abstract and so it would be difficult (if not impossible) to nail it down with numbers.  thus our brain is capable of intuitive reasoning, not just logical reasoning....

yea, no.

the synaptic memory is like a river.  as the river flows over flat ground it dig out a channel and then breaks off into tributaries which dig out more channels and so on into infinitely small fractals.  in much the same way, the idea is that the as signals are sent through particular neural pathways over and over, they form "channels" that are more "permanent" (not really permanent at all) than a synaptic pathway that has only been opened a few times.  so the idea is that memories are stored in the form of neural "rivers".

well aware.    

I don't believe in much eschatological mythology either. And obviously I can't know for sure if Nibiru is really orbiting our sun. From reading and listening to zecharia sitchin and looking at the evidence he gathered over his lifetime , I feel it's possible that Nibiru exists. 

sitchin died last october

yea, my last comment was directed to razputin, i should have quoted him.

logic as a quality of critical analysis is fine, practical logic is flawed (goes without saying, but imo).

it's like science as an abstract concept is fine, but practical science is flawed, biased and unfavorably balanced toward the prevailing social context.

if that makes you feel better, sure.

again, i don't deny the seeming physicality of our reality.  i'm just trying to express a possibility for how and why we see it like we do. 

we're talking about two different things.

and that is my point.  remove all of your human perceptual bias and then we'll talk.

i can't argue with the reality of losing a limb.  my only retort is that that is how good of a job our brain and mind do at convincing us of the concreteness of our reality. 

it certainly makes me aware of the brilliance of an eyeball and it's connections through the brain, which is what i meant up there ^.

the issue for me is reconciling the abstract with the concrete.  from my studies over the years (particularly in psych and spiritual traditions) it has become apparent to me that the psychology of the individual has a profound impact on the reality we experience.  this is tricky because i don't want to be lumped in with the new age, neo-new age or even buddhists.  but, simply put, our mind creates our reality.  not in some metaphysical sense, but quite literally as i'm sure you're probably aware.  it's the abstract concepts in our mind and memory that turn a collection of energetic vibrations in the form of sensory stimuli into the reality that each of us perceives.  behind the interpretation of our mind, reality is ambiguous and undefined.  it is just energy.  our mind interprets it to be what we call reality.  so the individual psychology has a big impact on the way we see reality.  now i completely understand that on the whole (as far as we know) we see the same things in the world.  but we also share human culture that was developed in it's unique way on the planet earth.  we are extremely earth-biased because this was the birth place of our whole species and all those species that came before us that were required to ultimately produce us (assuming there was no alien intervention or anything, lol).  the history of life on earth penetrates every part of us, body mind and soul.  so the way we see reality is almost entirely dependent on the way our minds evolved on this planet, at this time in space and reality, in this scale and position.  perhaps this is the only way life can spawn, perhaps every inhabited world is so uniquely alien that we wouldn't even recognize it as life.  who knows.

either way, relative to us on earth, we have a common history psychologically.  naturally we have gotten more complex as our cultures split and new ones are born that shape our view of reality in unique ways.  but we still share a common ancestor.  but you don't even have to go back that far.  just go back to say ancient greece and the "foundation" of the modern western world.  starting from there would be sufficient to show how our perception of reality is really dependent on our psychological make-up.  that was where the modern thinking was born.  but if you go to some indigenous tribe that has had little interaction with the western world, their reality is a strange and beautiful world compared to ours.  however, there is still a common ancestor between us so we are still programmed to see the "concreteness" of reality in the same way.  but maybe on a different planet in a different realm, reality would be beyond our comprehension (which is not to imply superior, we just wouldn't be equipped to think like they do).

however, for the sake of argument, if you cut me i bleed and we both know it.  only we know it because our measuring apparatus (our bodies) are nearly identical in the grand scheme of reality.  the same physical body with the same sensory organs, evolved on the same planet and influenced by the same cultural biases over long periods of time.  to me this makes the comparison of our realities (or anyone on earth for that matter) as a means to justify objective reality just bad science.  there isn't really a comparison to be made because relative to the whole of reality, our perceptions are nearly identical.  (mind you, nearly identical in an infinite spectrum is still infinitely different, but in a materialist perspective, the difference is miniscule.)

this isn't really art, but i didn't feel like starting a whole thread.

i took these pictures in the great barn at the stagville plantation around Durham/Raleigh North Carolina, US. 

the orb on the right and the shaft of light at the top followed me around for a ton of pictures, probably in the neighborhood of 20.  I walked around the barn taking pictures in different places to make sure it wasn't a light artifact.  i cleaned my lens, made sure my finger or anything else wasn't in the way.  and picture after picture, the same orb on the right (at varying intensities) and the same shaft at the top, popped up.  if anyone is actually interested i have a bunch more that i can upload in it's own thread.  i'm not saying it's ghosts or anything, i might have just caught my own energy because it seems to follow me and hold a similar position relative to me each time.  (it could be a nonphysical being that is following me i guess).  whatever the case, i thought it was cool.

these aren't as exciting, but they are pictures i took for a texture study that i used later in some faux painting.