Hello,
First of all excuse me if my question has been answered somewhere else, I haven't been able to find it. As you can also see this is my first post but I have been reading you non periodically for several months now. Also, excuse the lenght of the post.
I've read in several places an statement that has cought my attention. To give you an example of my sources see page 365 of Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics. Basically the idea is the following (using Bruce words): the structure we percieve of the astral planes depends a lot on the "perception angle" of the projector. Such perception angle depends very much on the belief system of the projector.
Some other sources I just cant remember right now (forums, books etc) continue to explain that our thought patterns and our belief system basically lead us to some astral realm or astral plane, whatsoever, that fits into ourselves and somehow fits our expectations. Advanced projectors are able to see beyond and move around, so to say.
"What dreams may come" a fiction novel, actually even pictures religious people somehow "trapped" into their religious always-in-church plane. I understand it is a work of fiction, but the example helps with the question I want to ask:
Isn't all the knowledge in Robert Bruce's work (just to put an example I remember), or even the statements this very forums produce, a belief system in itself?
I mean, Robert says "Look, what you see in the astral depends on your view of things, on your thoughts and mood. Lets try to keep an open mind so we can see the whole picture." But then, he goes on to actually give a very definite structure of things! An structure, we are told, that is the result of open minded non biased observation.
Let me explain just a little further: I am receiving Adrian's newsletter. I havent bought his book, but I've taken it into consideration. One of the two things that stops me from buying it is the question I just asked... Observing Adrian's extensive index of the book I expect that the book will give me a very detailed point of view of how things work and how things are outside of 3D or material reality (using Adrian's words now). One almost comes to expect to read "The true nature of the universe" so to say.
Isnt such a detailed, extensive information a belief system in itself? If I'd project right now, wouldnt I be biased to expect whatever Adrian, Bruce or whoever I read, tell me it is their view of things?
In the stiky post "Phasing, what it is and how you can do it" Frank explains that people are hindered in their attemps to project by the multitude of things to do to achieve a projection, and thus usually miss it. He proposes "just notice". Sometimes I wonder if all this extensive glossary of ideas, all this structre, all this knowledge of things beyond is somehow something I will come to expect, and thus something not ENTIRELY "real". Very much as some people will expect to be in front of a Saint and a huge golden door the day they die.
Thank you for reading so far,
Fric
First of all excuse me if my question has been answered somewhere else, I haven't been able to find it. As you can also see this is my first post but I have been reading you non periodically for several months now. Also, excuse the lenght of the post.
I've read in several places an statement that has cought my attention. To give you an example of my sources see page 365 of Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics. Basically the idea is the following (using Bruce words): the structure we percieve of the astral planes depends a lot on the "perception angle" of the projector. Such perception angle depends very much on the belief system of the projector.
Some other sources I just cant remember right now (forums, books etc) continue to explain that our thought patterns and our belief system basically lead us to some astral realm or astral plane, whatsoever, that fits into ourselves and somehow fits our expectations. Advanced projectors are able to see beyond and move around, so to say.
"What dreams may come" a fiction novel, actually even pictures religious people somehow "trapped" into their religious always-in-church plane. I understand it is a work of fiction, but the example helps with the question I want to ask:
Isn't all the knowledge in Robert Bruce's work (just to put an example I remember), or even the statements this very forums produce, a belief system in itself?
I mean, Robert says "Look, what you see in the astral depends on your view of things, on your thoughts and mood. Lets try to keep an open mind so we can see the whole picture." But then, he goes on to actually give a very definite structure of things! An structure, we are told, that is the result of open minded non biased observation.
Let me explain just a little further: I am receiving Adrian's newsletter. I havent bought his book, but I've taken it into consideration. One of the two things that stops me from buying it is the question I just asked... Observing Adrian's extensive index of the book I expect that the book will give me a very detailed point of view of how things work and how things are outside of 3D or material reality (using Adrian's words now). One almost comes to expect to read "The true nature of the universe" so to say.
Isnt such a detailed, extensive information a belief system in itself? If I'd project right now, wouldnt I be biased to expect whatever Adrian, Bruce or whoever I read, tell me it is their view of things?
In the stiky post "Phasing, what it is and how you can do it" Frank explains that people are hindered in their attemps to project by the multitude of things to do to achieve a projection, and thus usually miss it. He proposes "just notice". Sometimes I wonder if all this extensive glossary of ideas, all this structre, all this knowledge of things beyond is somehow something I will come to expect, and thus something not ENTIRELY "real". Very much as some people will expect to be in front of a Saint and a huge golden door the day they die.
Thank you for reading so far,
Fric