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Like, can one communicate with astral beings while still 'awake' and doing mundane things, anything repetitive that you do every day? This is when I 'talk' to what I thought of as imaginary friends when I was small, delusions when I learned about schizophrenia, and beings when I learned about all this weird stuff. I wouldn't suppose it was anything more than day dreams if not for 2 things: 1) I can't controll the actions of the beings, and 2) They tell me things that turn out to be more or less true.

For example, One of them calls himself Demon, although he says he was a bartender called Darren when he was alive. He's something of a shady character, but I've known him for a long time and I've come to trust him. Anyway, he was telling me how he considers some ghosts to be 'bums' because they don't have jobs, and just sob about how sucky their lives were instead of doing anything. I asked him just what it was that he does, and he told me that he's something he calls and 'equalizer;' thay he kills people. Before I freak out, he explains that he isn't their cause of death so much as the death itself. He explained it like this: there's a person's body,a person's soul, and a person's life essence. Then there's what he described as a 'belt' that connects the latter two to the physical body, and when it's time, he cuts that belt. I always pictured a belt like a peice of clothing, until I saw the pictured that Peacefulwarrior posted in the OBE section, with the 'belt' of energy connecting conciousness to body. Is it possible that this is the 'belt' demon spoke of? Or should I seek psychological councelling?

Hey. I've been interpreting things like cards and clouds as omens all my life, although I've never really recorded the accuracy. However, what I interpret always seems to more or less fit my situation. I don't really do this because I'm uncertain of the future, it's more like a deep hunger to interpret.

Okay, now that I'm done with my life story, I'll tell you about the pistacio shells. I took a bunch of 'em one day, and not really having any purpose in mind, started drawing on them. When I had what I felt was a full set, I shake them like dice and throw them down, and they seem to fall in such a way as shows a window into my (or whoever throws them at the time) personality. It's a little bit like runes, except there are symbols on both sides of the shells. Here are the shells I've made so far: (life/death), (fire/water), (hollow circle{social}/dot{individual}), (Fist {hostility or 'grabbyness'}/open hand {pascifism or generosity}), (herbivore/carnivore), (Simple {triangle}/Complex {filled circle}), (logic/intuition), (Air/Earth), (Sun/Moon), (Male/Female), (Open eye/closed eye), (Birds {day-dreams or consicousness}/ Fish {subconcious, dreams).
There are a lot of ways to interpret each shell, but mainly use your intuition. Do you think this method has any merit to it?

First off, thanks to the guys who run this site. Without it, I would be pretty much on my own about this stuff. I apreciate a place to talk about this. Secondly, I should warn you that I'm not exatly sure of what I'm doing. I've read a bunch of books, and the 'lessons,' but I think the very idea of following these lessons makes me tense and divides my concentration, so I'm basically doing my own thing. Anyway, I'm having some problems moving around when I do the OBE thing. In fact, I'm not sure 'out of body' exactly describes what I do. I think I'm actually very deep inside my body - where ever I go doesn't look normal. I almost always find myself inside a series of long, smooth-walled, dark tunnels, the bend up and down. Gravity doesn't exist. Eventually, I reach what appears to be a door. However, as I slow down and get close to it, a strong current repells me backwards. Once, I think I fought the current and actually got through the door, where I found myself in what looked kind of like a receptionists office. It was unoccupied, and that was pretty much where it ended. Can anyone tell me what happened here? What are the currents, and why the tunnels, and the office, for the matter?               Thank you for your time [|)].

Yeah, at first I didn't beleive it either, until I saw the 'umbilical cord' thing going from conciousness to body in those OBE pics. As he tells me, he doesn't 'kill' them, it's more like he 'is' their death, or at least the separation part. And yes, he says there are things that cut those 'belts' in war, but he says it takes different people to 'separate' different ways. He tried to go on into how, but I didn't really understand him. Something about energy, karma, and hanging on to the physical world.

Are you sure shuffleing cards is going to tell you something? I think their are omens everywhere, and you can interpret absolutely anything, from clouds to wood grain to what washes up on the beach. Anyway, so far, it's been about as ancurate as a good online quiz... *shrugs.* If you're looking for the future, maybe it's not the best method... Which one do you prefer?

Thank you all for responding, and for telling me what this is (AP rather than OBE) [].  I still worry about the currents. I don't think that it's fear, the only thing I feel about it is curious to see what is coming, confused about what is pulling me back, and aggrivation at being kept from the place I want to go. I don't think the currents take me back to my body, just back to where I started.