To answer a few of the questions/concerns above...
Again I must reiterate that I do not consider any spiritual energies as being "evil", in the commonly-understood sense of the term that "lay-people" may have about it. I mean they are bad, and only in the idea that they are malevolent energies with regard to harmony and peace. They are, in a word, "wilders". Not meaning to cause a particular harm, but rather just harmful to the finer sensitivities of those who do not desire or condone conflict.
I am far behind the curve when it comes to the current vernacular regarding levels of awareness in other-than-waking states of consciousness, and thusly I am in the dark when it comes to discussions of "focus levels". On the other hand, I do not need to know the meaning behind those terms when I can tell you that what I experience is NOT simply a recurring dream or an aspect of a subconsciousness, as someone above postulated. And this genre of experience is not just a mall, but an entire cityscape with much more than just the "mall". Basically, the mall is usually where I find myself in the beginning of the experience, before branching off and exploring other parts of this place. It is not the entire experience, but the main constant.
I have come to learn through my subjective experiences that dreams and dreaming, at least for me, are far removed from being "symbolic" or allegorical or metaphoric. They ARE true journeys outside of my sleeping husk of a body, if you will. Experiences that can be and have been MORE vivid and "real" than what I experience in this waking state. Ergo, I am not experiencing a "recurring dream", but am constantly going back to this same place many times per month, and sometimes there are slight variations to the environment as compared to the previous experience. Some might call them OBE's, some others may call it AP, and yet some others may say a dream where an AP is dreamt, kind of like a dream where the dreamer dreams that he is dreaming and during that dreamer's dream he dreams that he is projecting.
There are so many points I wish to make on this one single aspect of this subject alone, but I have neither the time nor the mental dexterity to attempt that at this moment.
I just wanted to clarify a few things as I read those responses above.
One other point I wish to reiterate here is that I never suggested that the API was a negative place, and I do not feel that speaking of this subject would "send negative vibrations" to the Island. In my original post I was only stating that the journey itself could lead folks astray and into territories with which they may not be prepared or expect, as what happened to me. Although, now that I see that there is a collective effort to reach an island with a particular geography and purpose, I will try to reach it! Would be fun to actually succeed at something like this without falling off the jogger's path, as it were.
That's it for now.
Hoo.
Again I must reiterate that I do not consider any spiritual energies as being "evil", in the commonly-understood sense of the term that "lay-people" may have about it. I mean they are bad, and only in the idea that they are malevolent energies with regard to harmony and peace. They are, in a word, "wilders". Not meaning to cause a particular harm, but rather just harmful to the finer sensitivities of those who do not desire or condone conflict.
I am far behind the curve when it comes to the current vernacular regarding levels of awareness in other-than-waking states of consciousness, and thusly I am in the dark when it comes to discussions of "focus levels". On the other hand, I do not need to know the meaning behind those terms when I can tell you that what I experience is NOT simply a recurring dream or an aspect of a subconsciousness, as someone above postulated. And this genre of experience is not just a mall, but an entire cityscape with much more than just the "mall". Basically, the mall is usually where I find myself in the beginning of the experience, before branching off and exploring other parts of this place. It is not the entire experience, but the main constant.
I have come to learn through my subjective experiences that dreams and dreaming, at least for me, are far removed from being "symbolic" or allegorical or metaphoric. They ARE true journeys outside of my sleeping husk of a body, if you will. Experiences that can be and have been MORE vivid and "real" than what I experience in this waking state. Ergo, I am not experiencing a "recurring dream", but am constantly going back to this same place many times per month, and sometimes there are slight variations to the environment as compared to the previous experience. Some might call them OBE's, some others may call it AP, and yet some others may say a dream where an AP is dreamt, kind of like a dream where the dreamer dreams that he is dreaming and during that dreamer's dream he dreams that he is projecting.
There are so many points I wish to make on this one single aspect of this subject alone, but I have neither the time nor the mental dexterity to attempt that at this moment.
I just wanted to clarify a few things as I read those responses above.
One other point I wish to reiterate here is that I never suggested that the API was a negative place, and I do not feel that speaking of this subject would "send negative vibrations" to the Island. In my original post I was only stating that the journey itself could lead folks astray and into territories with which they may not be prepared or expect, as what happened to me. Although, now that I see that there is a collective effort to reach an island with a particular geography and purpose, I will try to reach it! Would be fun to actually succeed at something like this without falling off the jogger's path, as it were.
That's it for now.
Hoo.
