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Haha thanks - no it was just a kind of ridiculous fictional story. I'm not quite crazy enough to drive a moped at 60 mph with a burned scalp and one eye closed

Hi all, I completely forgot about this forum until recently!

I've been writing constantly for about a year and a half and would love it if you guys would check out my site:

http://www.dingtwist.com/

There are quite a few posts about spiritual topics that you may enjoy. Most recently:

Baby Carrots, a Dead Hamster, a Moped, and a Monk
http://www.dingtwist.com/carrots-hamster-moped-monk/

You can view the archives here:
http://www.dingtwist.com/archives/

Thanks!

This is indeed interesting, thanks for sharing.  I've always wondered if they ever made mistakes and apparently they do mess up from time to time. 

I've also wondered if they realize we can't hear then most of the time that if they send us a signal and we receive it that they understand we might not get the meaning of the message or lesson.

If I had to guess, I would say there's pretty constant communication between them and our higher selves, or our subconsious, or whatever you want to call it. Or maybe we sometimes perceive them as separate from ourselves when they're really just facets of our higher selves trying to guide our lower, Earth-conscious selves. Who knows? lol

Hello everyone! I haven't been around in a while. Although I've been meditating daily, I haven't focused much on lucid dreaming or AP as of late, not sure why exactly, but my experience yesterday reignited my interest.

I won't describe the whole thing because, frankly, it was kind of boring. Two things were most notable though...

First, I had a false awakening and for a full five minutes I was trying to get out of my bed, my vision was blurry, and trying to move was like I was in wet cement. I became very frustrated and just fought it, and finally I realized, "Wait...this sh*t doesn't happen in 'real' life...my body is asleep." During this whole ordeal I was completely unable to look to my left even though I kept trying to because I felt a presence there. Interesting that after I realized fully that my body was asleep, and because it was such an uncomfortable experience, I first tried to get back into my body and wake up, but was completely unable to. That was a first. I was even surprised and had the thought that it was strange that I couldn't get back to my physical body, which in the past even a hint of such a thought would zoom me back. It wasn't scary at all, just interesting. So I closed my (dream) eyes to meditate and try to project instead.

As I closed my eyes, messages appeared on a sort of screen just like if you're looking at a Pinterest board. Perfectly vivid and intelligible. Different colorful fonts, pictures. The first message said something like, "We're sorry about this experience, we're trying our best, stay tuned!" It was a message from my guides saying that they were trying to help me have this experience but were not doing a very good job at it. lol - first time I've gotten a direct, written message from them, and it's the first time I realized they were fallible. I always thought they just knew exactly what to do to help me, not that they had to come up with ideas and try them out on me. Apparently they miscalculated this time.

Then they gave me several little quizzes via the same "Pinterest board". I remember they told me about four cubes, and that I had to tell them what I saw inside each one. They were empty, but I just had to tell them what I imagined. My memory of the quizzes is vague, as is the transition to the next scenes in which I found myself.

I won't go into detail on the scenes because they were quite boring, but the second interesting aspect was that I was fully, completely lucid and several times had the thought of going back to my body, but was unable to. I was fully immersed in this other reality, more solidly than I've ever been before. I had no fear whatsoever even though at one point we had a missile coming directly to our house and it was about to explode. Everyone else was freaking out and I was just like, "Whatever, this is just a dream, people." I actually remember being a bit annoyed at the entire scene. It wasn't the type of airy, fleeting realities I've been to before, but very dense and solid. There was no flying, levitating, or spontaneous manifestation in this place.

Well, it was the most interesting experience I've had in months and I just wanted to share.

Any of you all have cool experiences lately?

Tell you what, since I recently decided to quit my job and pursue my dreams, I have been noticing a lot of synchronicities. I take it to mean the Universe is telling me it's there to help any way it can.

Just one recent example from Tuesday. I was in New Hampshire with my girlfriend and her friends from out of town. One of them said, "Man, New Hampshire is the Wild West of New England!" which honestly makes no senses lol. Ten minutes later we're at a gas station and a local woman was wearing a shirt with "Wild West" in huge letters on the front. I can't remember ever seeing a shirt with "Wild West" on it in my life. That's just one of hundreds recently.

Biology of Belief blew my mind.

Always love reading about your experiences Lionheart!

You should read this:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2011/08/love-the-bombs/

Love the Bombs

Do you feel that poverty, war, famine, disease, imprisonment, etc. are all negative experiences that we should avoid as much as possible? Are these scourges that we must rid the planet of? Are they terrible things for anyone to have to experience?

These experiences have been with us for a long time for a very good reason. They help us grow. And so we're going to continue creating them as long as they continue to serve that purpose so well.

From one perspective these experiences may seem wrong or bad. And yet people are experiencing them every day, and your feeling bad isn't making a shred of difference to them. Wars are still being fought, people are still getting cancer, and many don't have access to clean water — despite your best efforts to feel as bad as possible for as long as possible about their crummy situation.

What if you're the one going through such an experience? Again, your feeling bad doesn't help much. If anything it makes things worse and guarantees that the unwanted situation will continue. Feeling bad doesn't typically end wars, hunger, or disease. More likely those negative feelings may help give rise to those events.

Is it noble and ethical to feel bad and then do nothing about it? Complaining about what you don't like doesn't make you a compassionate person. It just makes you feel powerless.

You're not going to change these aspects of reality, not because you don't care about people, but because deep down there's a part of you that recognizes the intrinsic value of such experiences, even if you're not ready to consciously acknowledge that.

From a broader perspective, we can see that the pain involved in such experiences is always temporary, never permanent. It always comes to an end eventually, allowing us to cultivate an awareness of the value of such experiences — a newfound sense of appreciation and gratitude for life.

If you're honest with yourself, you'll see that you don't hate these things or want them to go away. The real truth is that you love them and can't get enough of them. You're just having a hard time coming to terms with this truth since you've been taught to believe it's wrong.

And so you justify your interest in violence by saying that you're just observing it or educating yourself — you're not an active participant, just a concerned bystander. In a similar fashion, you may pay people to slaughter your daily feast of animal flesh, while continuing to pretend you're a nonviolent person.

Which diseases have you cured? Which famines have you fixed? Which wars did you end? If you think these are ethical pursuits, then where's the evidence of your ethics? Are you just lazy? Or it is possible — just maybe — that you don't actually care to spend your life working on any of these things? Aren't you perfectly fine doing something else entirely? Does this mean, as you've been taught to believe, that you're a bad or uncaring person?

Another way to care about people is to recognize that we're more than just physical creatures. We are conscious beings, and all of these seemingly negative experiences serve to fuel our expansion and growth. If all we had was perfect peace, health, abundance, and more, we'd likely be bored to tears and depressed. There would be no basis for appreciating what we have. Gratitude and appreciation exist in a realm of contrast. To appreciate something is to recognize the value of its presence relative to its absence.

When you know sickness, you can appreciate health. When you know violence, you can appreciate peace. When you know imprisonment, you can appreciate freedom.

But you can go way beyond appreciating one side at the expense of the other. When you embrace these opposites, you can learn to appreciate both sides as an integrated whole. You can appreciate war as much as peace, disease as much as health, lack as much as abundance, etc. You can see how war expands your courage, how disease gives you time for solitude and introspection, how imprisonment makes you think deeply about how you use your time.

Some people mistakenly assume that I'd like to eliminate poverty, war, disease, and so on from the world. Perhaps I should want to create a more equitable situation for everyone. I would not like that at all. I value these aspects of reality and appreciate them, and I expect to see them continue.

In the years ahead, I expect to see the gap between rich and poor grow even wider. Some people think this is terrible, but to me it's a good thing — it means more contrast, which will fuel more conscious expansion and growth experiences for all. We will add new layers upon layers as the haves move ever further away from the have-nots in terms of wealth, health, technology, and more.

I expect to see lots of new weapons invented and used as well, and I welcome their arrival. I expect to see new diseases. We have a whole host of new problems ahead. Again, this is wonderful fuel for expansion and growth.

We live in an expanding universe, and it's expanding in all directions, not just the directions you like. Would you rather live in a contracting universe? Would you truly be happy in a world where life is collapsing towards equality, uniformity, and conformity? Would that make you breathe a sigh of relief — knowing that we're reducing contrast over time instead of increasing it? Would that be heaven... or hell?

Whether you agree with this article or not makes little difference to me. I care nothing of convincing you of anything. My job is to stimulate growth by bringing unconscious notions to conscious awareness. But for your own sake, make up your mind about this. If you're serious about putting an end to those unfair, unpleasant, and cruel aspects of human life, then don't waste another precious moment reading my blog when you could be doing the hero thing. If you truly think the world needs rescuing, then quit being lazy, pick a problem to tackle, and go get busy. Or you could ponder the possibility that maybe the world is perfect the way it is, and your relationship to it is what really needs rescuing.

Beedeekin-  It seems we agree wholeheartedly on this matter then. My problem with this concept, is that "spiritual kindness" (pardon my phrase theft) can't be explained with math or even defined with language for that matter.

Mr. Price himself killed himself after he went mad trying to disprove his own work. He "discovered" the theorem when he was an Atheist.

He began contemplating about his own life and how everything came together to bring him to the point where he was at. In other words, he believed that there were far too many coincidences that he believed influenced his life's journey. For example, he had something like 5 serious gf's in a row who had the name "Mary" (I can't remember the real name). Since he was a "love at first sight" kind of guy, he reasoned that he was not attracted to the specific name for some unknown reason since his infatuation for the women would begin before he knew their names.

Anyways he looked at a lot of others things and worked out the individual odds of each coincidence and them looked at the odds of each one coming together. He reasoned that only an outside force or "God" could overcome those odds so he became a believer.

Unfortunate, but fascinating end to his life. Also, fascinating thread.

I think about kindness and "selflessness" a lot and have come to the conclusion that every single act is done in self-interest. At least, every single act can be construed as being done in self-interest. I don't like this conclusion, but when I explain it as I will below, I don't know what else to think.

Think of a "selfless" act, for example, sacrificing your life for another. You go onto the train tracks to push a child out of the way of an oncoming train, knowing there isn't enough time to save yourself, so you'll definitely die.

I think it could be argued that the alternative, letting the child die when you know you could have saved him, is so undesirable to you in that moment that it's preferable to die and save him. So the act is in part motivated by a desire to save that child, and the desire to avoid those terrible feelings of not saving him. Those desires outweigh your desire to live, especially in that moment (if you could freeze time and ponder your decision maybe things would change), so you act accordingly and sacrifice your life.

Even the desire to save the child could be described as a desire to avoid the negative feelings of not saving the child as well as experiencing the positive feelings (albeit very momentary in this example) of saving him (albeit very momentary in this example).

This could be flawed logic though, I'm not sure. Like saying, "I want to do this because I want to do it." Or something. But it seems pretty reasonable to me that even the most selfless acts can, at their base, be described in terms of self-interest.

Just yesterday I got home from work and there was a centipede on the dry part of a chopstick in a water-filled bowl in my sink. I imagine he was going to drown but found safety on the floating chopstick. I brought him outside and released him in the grass and wished him luck. If I didn't post this no one would have ever known I did that. It seems like a pretty selfless act but the thought of killing the centipede irked me. I would have felt bad. Maybe I only did that to avoid those bad feelings and to experience the good feelings I did by freeing him? I'm really not sure. I find it easier just not to think about these things as it doesn't really matter anyway

I just want them to be able to believe it more easily so they can be happier.

Right, I'm not asking for verification of the actual NDE. Just asking for VERY simple verification that his body was, in fact, without any vital signs for 1.5 hours. It would just take the charts showing zero vital signs, then charts afterwards showing vital signs. Or even JUST the nurse coming out and telling the story.

For what it's worth, I listened to him describe the experience on youtube, and I have no doubts that he's being genuine. My concern is for the total skeptics out there. A couple simple charts would go a LONG way to helping them be more open-minded, and as a result, happier.

There's also the question I like asking...
If every consciousness experiencing this planet we call earth (humans, animals, bugs... everything) were to vanish from this reality.  Would the earth then vanish as well?

Like a dream, does everything disappear when there's no consciousness left to create or sustain? 

Obviously we can never know the answer to this, but it's interesting to think about regardless.  hehe

I think I answered this question when I wrote this:

http://www.dingtwist.com/reality-is-subjective/

Very interesting topic, subjective reality.

I'm nowhere near the point where I'd call myself experienced at AP. However, as a direct result of my "spiritual awakening" (or whatever you want to call it) some 9ish months ago, I'm simply happier. Knowing, or in my case believing (I hope to "know" this some day), that we are eternal, non-physical consciousnesses temporarily inhabiting physical bodies, makes it much easier to be truly happy in this life, in this incarnation. And after all, what's more important than being happy? I can't think of anything. Even if it turns out that I'm wrong, that we're wrong, that this physical world is all there is, that our consciousness is quashed when our physical bodies die, believing that is not the case will result in a deeper enjoyment of this short life. It's a win/win situation. Mind you, I used to be a complete skeptic just like OP's brother-in-law.

Neat story too - when I read "precognition" in the initial post, it made me think of something interesting that happened to me yesterday evening and this morning. I listen to Pandora all the time. My sexytime station is usually Maroon 5, and before I even put on the music yesterday evening, I started whistling a Maroon 5 song. When Pandora started playing, it was that song. I was shocked because my whistling was not done consciously, I just started doing it then made the connection when the song came on. Same exact thing happened this morning when I put on the techno station on my way to the gym. Whistling a Mord Fustang tune, Pandora comes on, BAM, that song starts playing. Pretty cool stuff

Why is it that in these kinds of cases, none of the recoveries are actually scientifically verified? Although it's a brilliant write up of the experience, nothing can be proven scientifically, while it seems like doing so would be relatively easy. Charts of his ailing body before the experience, and charts after. Simple. And almost without fail, the people who have these transcendent experiences in some way make money off of them after the fact.

I, for one, have an open mind and am willing to believe in their validity, but the facts surrounding these types of experiences make it exceedingly easy for skeptics to immediately dismiss their validity, which irks me. So many people could be much happier if they believed in their own eternal consciousnesses.

I guess you could say it's part of their life path to experience skepticism and have the blinders on, so to speak, to be completely immersed in this physical play, but saying that seems like a bit of a cop out.

Thoughts? Do you all believe he had this experience as he portrays it? I'm not sure what to believe. At best, this is exactly what he experienced. At worst, it's a complete ploy to sell his light machines, which, to be honest, seem very scammy.

THANK YOU OP and the person who bumped the thread. I wish everyone in the world could read this. I know I'll be reading it again and again. I hope to experience something a fraction as brilliant at some point in the near future. But not because I'm dying

One of the best things you'll ever learn is this:

STOP WORRYING. 

This goes for *everything*.  Physical... metaphysical... everything.  Stop worrying and just "do". 

Can't agree more. I try to help people realize that worrying is pointless. So many people worry about things, even things completely out of their control. Worrying will only hinder our quality of life and it accomplishes absolutely nothing. All you have to do is realize that and your worries will melt away

The physical is being detached and your mind speeds up around 5 times faster I find

I agree! Just this morning when I was in and out of sleep and having vivid dreams, each time I awoke I was amazed how much was going on in such a short time. When I reacquainted with the physical it was like I couldn't even process how quickly things were happening and how fast I was thinking, although it seemed normal within my dreams. Hard to explain...

http://www.explorations-in-consciousness.com/vigil_method.html

Try that method.

awesome, thanks!

Well you answered your own question there, you are moving your eyes.

You must "passively observe" the scene with an air of curiosity. The scene will develop more and more each time when you ALLOW it to.

I think you are jumping the gun. You are so excited at this point that you are the one hindering further development.

Lately I have been asking to "return to Source", which means by my intent, where my consciousness really is. This has led to many unique scenarios.

Trust in yourself, have no expectations.

Just do what you are doing and ALLOW the shift to occur. When you do this, it will and you will be rewarded for all your efforts.

The eye movement is involuntary, which is the frustrating part. I guess that probably is why I can't stick with the images. It's like I get these alluring little flashes into awesome scenarios...then they're pulled away from me. Like watching a great movie trailer and not being able to watch the movie lol.

"Return to source" - I like it, thanks. You've helped me a lot already lionheart. In a way I wish I only listened to your advice instead of flooding my brain with so much information and so many different ideas from all across the internet.

Time to keep it simpler

What's the technique you found that works every time?

Hi everyone.

When I meditate and try to project, once I get into a very relaxed state and my body goes numb and I get the hypnagogic imagery, I will start seeing images, extremely clear, vivid, detailed images either of a scene or a face or an animal's face. They're at least as clear as my vision in normal everyday life, but they only last a tiny fraction of a second. I'll see a beautiful scene of a mountain with all the colors and everything, but I can't hang onto it. As soon as it registers, it's gone. I suspect maybe I'm moving my eyes to try to focus on it, which is partly why it disappears.

Any tips/tricks for really holding onto those images so I can "enter" the scene? Or maybe I'm just not deep enough to enter the scene so I only get flashes of it. Thanks!

Thanks for the replies everyone. Very interesting.

I like to think that within this reality, with our blinders that block knowledge of the wider reality, what seems to us to be very evil is in fact not all that bad without the blinders. After all, maybe we (our consciousnesses) have experienced things far more horrific than anything we (in this physical reality) can imagine, so when we choose to incarnate and put on the blinders with the foreknowledge of certain negative experiences, they don't seem so negative at the time.

I like what Xanth said - let people be as they are. I think we can apply that mindset to the entire physical reality: let it be as it is and just enjoy it for what it is.

Lately I've been enjoying it more than I ever thought possible, especially nature, specifically birds lol. They're amazing...so agile when they fly through the forest, and this time of year chirping and singing all the time. It's easy to realize they're communicating on a high level when you really listen...actually I recently wrote something to that effect:

http://www.dingtwist.com/sounds/

That was all just tangentially related...point is, good replies

I have a question I've been pondering lately, figured I'd post it to get some opinions.

I've begun to believe, as many of you do, that this physical world is just a play of sorts which we willingly enter from the wider, non-physical reality, willingly placing blinders on in order to fully immerse ourselves in the experience and expand/evolve our consciousnesses as a result.

Although I hate to be judgmental, I often can't help it. Some people are just flat-out complete pieces of sh*t. Rude, selfish, STUPID, completely self-unaware, living life unconsciously and causing pain to others.

Is it possible these people have within/fueling them even more evolved consciousnesses than the truly good, loving people of the world, but they wanted a different experience when they decided to incarnate?

I see some people, watch them and listen to them and just think to myself, "It makes no sense that that piece of crap could have within him a highly evolved consciousness."

The only way I could see this being the case is if this physical world is even more insignificant than I had previously thought with respect to the wider reality...like this world is just kind of a joke, a playground, and nothing matters that much at all. Kind of like a video game is to us.

Thoughts?

When it comes to diet, I have no idea what to believe. I'm pretty sure no one really does. It appears our bodies are similar to non-meat-eating animals. But then I've read research stating the reason we developed such high-functioning brains is because of animal fats. I don't know. The one thing we do know is that eating processed foods is unhealthy. It's full of all kinds of chemicals and hormones that are truly bad for you. Beyond that, do what you want.

Personally, I'm into weightlifting, and largely as a result, I eat a lot of meat and protein, mostly complex carbs, and good fats. I add veggies and fruits to that for vitamins and nutrients. I always feel great, look great, and it is at least mildly annoying when people try to tell me we're only "supposed" to eat fruits & veggies. All of the vegan/veggie males I've met are physically frail, and they actually act like women. Which is fine for them if that's what they want, but I would never want to be frail and feminine. I've also met obese female vegetarians, which just blows my mind. Then they have the cojones to tell me meat is unhealthy. It's more unhealthy to be 100 lbs overweight than to eat some steak and chicken, in my unscientific opinion.

Strange. I've read that cats can be more open to the astral. Maybe your connection just makes her anxious or something.

I do know that my old cat (RIP) acted very strangely. Sometimes I'd go into the basement at night and find her sitting there, all alone, just staring into space. She'd be moving her head around as if she were watching something moving, and completely ignore me. It freaked me the F out. When I think back, maybe she was able to "watch" other-dimensional beings in the basement.