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I love speaking to people on here I just think it would be great to meet some people who I can speak to in person, especially people who are my own age which is reasonably hard to come by  (I'm 18)

I need some ideas on how to meet new spiritual people who are interested and want to talk and engage about spiritual ideas. I want to meet people in in person in my area, but I just don't really know how to bring it up in a conversation with someone. Most people just reject the ideas and want to talk about boring celebrity gossip. I want to learn about the universe and expand my knowledge from someone else, I just don't really know how to find the right sort of people. Any ideas from anyone?

Lots of replies!! Thanks a lot for the advice.
Xanth - I am normally quite good at interacting with people I don't know as I do like being introduced to new people etc. I think that's one of weird things, I have also been more extroverted and now I think I am becoming more introverted. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing as I enjoy spending time alone. I still have all my close friends but the people that I am just friends with to a smaller extent I just would rather spend less time with at the moment. 
Bran - I completely agree with your views on Christianity and unfortunately I cannot agree with the ideas and conformity of religion. This is something I decided on my own and I agree that it feels like brain washing, I believe Christianity and other religions teach good practices, ie love every one around you, but I also believe it is a system created to control the masses. I have had all of my realisations on my own and share my thoughts with only a couple of people who actually understand me and want to hear it.
A weird thing is about a week ago I tried by myself to think up what I really believed about the world and spirituality, with no influence from this forum or anything at all. The things I realised that I believed fit straight into this category, away from normal religion and atheism and I looked up all these things a couple of days later and they were general thoughts within communities. Which is weird that I came up with them on my own and they turned out being exactly the same as some of the general views. What I don't understand is the spirituality side of things, is it a religion or a way of life or a science behind our actual existence or even something else?
Thanks

Hi thanks for the reply it's really helpful. Well about a year or so ago my dad introduced to the idea of astral projection and I started to read into it a lot and about the spiritual world, lucid dreaming etc. I have tried AP but I just find I don't have the time to be able to commit at my age with everything going on in my life but I have experienced a lucid dream. I also am a confirmed christian. I started doubting Christianity and everything I have learnt. I think my thirst for wanting to know what is happening got the better of me and I challenged all of my original beliefs. I have also had a girlfriend for the last year, she doesn't believe in any of this but I think our relationship has matured me and may have contributed to me being able to see past the fabrics of our perceived lives as it has been my first proper relationship. I have been a vegetarian for longer than I have realised this spiritual awakening and I don't think I could physically eat meat anymore as I don't really see it to be right to harm any living thing. Just some extra info...

I'm 17 and I have just realised in the last couple of days that over the last 6 months I have been having a spiritual awakening. I gave up eating meat about 8 weeks ago and didn't really know why at the time but I just felt it was wrong and didn't think that humans were ever meant to eat other living things. There are also many other things I have realised and I think that astral projection was the thing which initially triggered it, although I am still unable to AP. I am just a bit overwhelmed at the moment and it makes me confused seeing all my friends have no idea and carry on watching their reality tv shows etc.  I am just a bit confused and some guidance would be really helpful. Thanks a lot.

Thanks I'll close thread

Hi guys,
I haven't posted on here in a while as I sort of gave up trying for a bit as I'm still at school and have been quite busy. I need a sort of beginners guide on how to start AP as I have completely forgotten the methods I was previously using. If anyone can help me begin as this time I intend to stick through until I can do it.
Thanks

Police brutality in general seems to be overly forceful without police receiving the implications that would happen to anyone else. This shows a serious flaw in the legal system and that it really needs to be amended ! However the government are never going to change things like and that is one of the main problems. The other problem is with the rioting. Many people have no intent to help the actual cause of protests and just see it as an excuse to cause anarchy within society, many people who are nothing to do with the problem are negatively effected by the riots for no reason. Shops get looted because it's an opportunity for people to take advantage of negative situations in our society, whilst they don't actually fight for the right thing. Shootings like this happen a lot more often than it appears to and the fact that this has been labelled as a 'race hate', when it was probably nothing to do with mike Brown's colour and just the fact that the policeman had the power to do what he did. That is why I think people are protesting for the wrong reasons

Just wondering what everyone thinks about what is happening in Ferguson at the moment. Personally I think that people should be protesting against police brutality in general, black or white.

100k to go to work!! 
That makes England seem like such an easy place to live!!

The body always works properly. When you project you refocus only a portion of your awareness. Your body is not an empty shell during an AP as some may assume.
It does not matter how or when you project, nothing can harm your physical body and you wont be "lost" if your physical body is moving.

I have APd on an airplane and it was just like any other projections. Although I instantly refocused some place else and not in the airplane environment. During projection your spirit is not relocating in physical distance, but rather in frequency divided worlds. While your body is biologically alive, no matter what you do spiritually, your body never becomes an empty vehicle while you are refocused. You can never get lost or unable to "return". If those assumptions had any ground, then people would be dying very frequently during sleep, because as soon as your physical senses get shut down, guess where do you get refocused? The dream world is in fact an astral environment.

That makes sense, the fact that you relocate somewhere else straight away. Does this mean you believe that you go to the astral universe when you die? As I can see this being true as your physical body is shut off your spirituL body can carry on. Maybe withs large release of Dmt from pineal gland? Slightly off topic I know but interested what so done else's views are

Weird concept isn't it. I don't know if your body would cope. You would have to be very experienced to be able to do it. I would like to hear from so done who has experienced it. I reckon it would confuse the brain completely to be honest

I was wondering if it is possible to AP in a moving vehicle like a car. It's an odd concept because I don't understand what would happen once entering the astral world as everything in the real world is moving around you but is still inside the car.
Has anyone experienced this or something of the sort? I'm quite interested

Yep, it's a bit like the story of the young lad going through the mystical forest. At first he said no way. Each day he went in and remembered how far he went. When familiar with the way, he went deeper. Each time he repeated this his fear grew weaker and more forest was ventured into.
Eventually he knew the way easily and soon reached the other side. When he realised this he wondered what all the fear was about as the journey was easy.
Small steps each night remembering what you experienced along the road will get you there.
You'll meet signposts too, have no fear, you sleep each night and that's all you're doing. A twist here is to stay aware and PASSIVELY watch what takes place. Noises and visuals are there as well as feelings.
See how you go.

Thanks that's been quite helpful. I'm starting to try and I guess I will keep trying until I start to see results as this doesn't really involve changing my routine at all.

Aha a teenager, perfect.
When you go to sleep each night, just remember the stages you go through. Do your best to stay aware of being that personality that's the 'you' within and relax. You may drift into sleep later and later as more strange things start to be recalled.
In time you'll get the vibrations naturally.
This is what to do for now. Once you get the vibes, you'll know. The next step is to walk to another room in your house. It's that simple, it may take a while but start off with a room that's as far away from your sleeping body as you can get. Keep this room in mind each night before you sleep.
If your mind is ready you'll see progress.
The lights may be on, you'll understand this.
The room will be dark in the physical world though. 

Do you mean remember the stages of sleep (like the NREM stages)? And recall these as I go along? I also just don't really know what to expect if I'm honest

I'm only 17 so I have a long time to try everything. It all just interests me so much the only problem is that i don't know where to start 

It was a spontaneous non physical experience.
Many experience these in their teens and pass them off as a wierd dream. The awareness you have is far greater than any dream and you never forget this.
There are some posts on site  with the same experience as you had but obviously in a different location.
Read the stickies on various methods of projection, if one looks interesting give it a go.
You may not get instant results but it's worth a shot.

I had this experience this summer and it's really made me want to try to AP I've known about it and tried before but I just don't really have the time. I think I'm going to start with LD and try that before I try to AP. Do you think this is a good idea or should I just try AP straight away?

[I had this weird experience and was wondering if anyone could help me with it. I was camping one time. (I was in a tent by myself) in the summer and I went to bed. I put an eye mask on so I couldn't see anything at all. I then clearly remember being able to see everything in the tent. I could see through the eye mask and was able to see everything. What was even weirder was when I was lying down I was able to see through the tent and see all of the stars above me clearly and vividly. I sat up (don't know if it was real or not) and started moving my arms about, seeing everything in my tent and i tried to grab what appeared to be my bag. When I tried to grab it though there was nothing there that I could feel. I was just able to see it. It turned out the bag was the other side of the tent. The entire time I had this eye mask on so there was no possibility that I could see in real life. I have never astral projected and I had no preparation or had tried to AP or LD before this in a long time. Any thoughts or explanations?]

I had this weird experience and was wondering if anyone could help me with it.
I was camping one time. (I was in a tent by myself) in the summer and I went to bed. I put an eye mask on so I couldn't see anything at all. I then clearly remember being able to see everything in the tent. I could see through the eye mask and was able to see everything. What was even weirder was when I was lying down I was able to see through the tent and see all of the stars above me clearly and vividly. I sat up (don't know if it was real or not) and started moving my arms about, seeing everything in my tent and i tried to grab what appeared to be my bag. When I tried to grab it though there was nothing there that I could feel. I was just able to see it. It turned out the bag was the other side of the tent. The entire time I had this eye mask on so there was no possibility that I could see in real life. I have never astral projected and I had no preparation  or had tried to AP or LD before this in a long time.
Any thoughts or explanations?