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Simple Question: Does size matter?
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I only have a small Moldavite. Would a bigger one yield more results (due to greater field of resonance with me or whatever theory might be postulated here)?

I could say that my experience watching myself as a slow cross country runner was just an imagined event of what i truly did not want to happen in my current life.

That wouldn't disprove anything for me. I think that our Higher Self (or Guide) might somehow direct us to what might be relevant or interesting for us to see. Therefore, viewing somehow the opposite of what you are now in this life is not really unusual also for many past life regressions.
Experiencing contrasts is what we are here for, that might also mean contrasts from life to life. Maybe in that (possible future) life completely different things will matter to you, maybe that is exactly what you / your Total Self wanted to show you. (Just an idea).

Or obviously it could be that the body has adapted to regular exits, and now does not have a "rough" escape....

I think that's exactly the case. The Lucidology guy explains it in the same way, stating that you don't need the vibes to exit at all, and that they might even be a sign that you are NOT yet ready to exit, but only after they stopped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zeoLMO37i0

The written words in astral are a good example. They always morph into whatever you want them to be. So it is best to look at any writing casually and just note it quickly by repeating once, if you stare at it, it will morph.

Is this also related to what we call 'reality fluctuations'? Maybe we should trust our first look. For example, if I look at a stack of cards with one at the top (which I tried often at the beginning of my adventures) it starts to change every half second and oscillates between different cards. The first one I saw was pretty stable, but it was not necessarily the right one then.
I also see words and letters in the astral when looking at things. Sometimes the letters are recognisable, but the words don't make a lot of sense to me.

I never was a conspiracy theorist fan. But as I am am witnessing now, in a time where I myself have somehow "woken up" by willingly and consciously experiencing the paranormal, spiritualism and metaphysics in different forms on the one hand, and seeing on the otherhand, how the "mainstream" of people still look at these things, I cannot help but discover some value in the concept of mind control.

As said above, I am still not a fan of David Icke & Co. However, like him I think that AP and 'real' spiritual development seems to be blocked form the public perception, almost in an indoctrinatory form.

It is surely some people "behind" the government. But it also comes from the mass media nowadays, and the "left-brain curriculums" of the education system (put in place partly by governments again, of course), which is what D. Icke talks about here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOfRkdVlLZA

(By the way, I also started to dislike WIKIPEDIA a lot. Have you ever read "their" articles about AP/OBE, Remote Viewing and similar ones? They suck!
Is it written by the 'skeptics' fraction ONLY? I think so, they have taken it over completely. If a skeptic or "debunker" with dubious qualification has sth to say about this topic then it is given much weight. I have personally witnessed there that scientific experiments that are documented (in literature or also online) get edited out by those "demi-god"editors with overwrite rights, simply because it does not seem to fit their world view. This is sad.
And this, for me, is manipulation, too, because nowadays some naive people have a simple formula: "It's explained like that on Wiki, so it must be true (or not true if it is "debunked" there)." - so they get manipulated this way as they don't recognise anymore that Wikipedia is in many parts just 'opinion' too, like any other scientific or whatever publication signed by an author. Wikipedia has no official authors (just editors in the background), that's why it seems so "official". I see a great danger in the spreading "Wikipedianism".)

Jurgen,

I still think your rebuttal of the validity of regression hypnosis reports is a bit too hard. I've read many accounts of life-between-life regressions that do not necessarily contradict APers reports. They also talk of cities, areas, buildings, landscapes and people appearing in bodies (mostly their incarnations, alternating) - although things are more fluid there.

Maybe it is just because in hypnosis you do not see and experience it as directly as like in a projection. Possibly hypnosis "view" is just like looking at it through a blurrying lens or a filter laid upon their perception, that is why they describe more light orbs and energies instead of "solid" sceneries.

We should not forget: in hypnosis you mainly just deal with memories, unlike OBEs when you are actually "there, on-location" - ok...  later you also report it as you memorised it, but it is still much more direct. (Although sometimes it is indicated that regression subjects get direct advice from their guides or meet them 'live' to discuss some life issues.)

Moreover, many reports on past lives from these techniques lead to validations.

So I do not think it is really that different at the core. Perception may differ due to a different technique, but the content iteslf surely isn't.
E.g. comparing M. Newton's systematisations and categorical stages / locations in the afterlife (somehow chronologically from homecoming to reintegration to life and learning there and to preparation for further incarnations) for me fits almost perfectly with some descriptions of those locations and 'institutions" (e.g. reception center, rehabilitation center, library) described by Monroe and other of the TMI (mainly said to be "located" in Focus27).

Just my 2 cents.

Volker

[Merry Christmas to all !!!]

Merry Christmas to all !!!

Humanity's history is ripe with bloodshed.
It's safe to say that EVERYONE in one life or another, has spilled blood that wasn't theirs.

Definitely, yes. Still, it is hard to imagine that maybe in our pre-planning phase we knew about the life (e.g. as warrior) we would be likely to lead and took all of it into account. But that is the way it seems to be on "(over)soul level", it seems not solely just about earthly morals in the first place, but about experience - of whatever kind.

I like Schoch's work a lot, especially on the Sphinx. He is by far not the only scholar who claims that is much (possibly very much) older than claimed by the "official" opinion of mainstream science. The Egyptians did not build it. There were advanced societies AGES before our orthodox archeology claims there were.

"History is a set of lies agreed upon." -  Napoleon Bonaparte

I think I read somewhere that the steam engine was also invented in China, too, even much more in the past, need to look for the link if I find it again.

Hi Jurgen,

very interesting site indeed, bookmarked now.  

One first thing that strikes me: you write about a "wormhole in our brains" that connects us all to the other dimensions. Is that more a metaphorical expression or do you really mean this literally?  

Many other theorists talk in their holistic and / or vitalistic models about (nonlocal) 'quantum' fields around our human bodies who are in constant interaction with our body and organs - including of course the brain -  but not only the brain. For example, some researchers also found out that the heart plays a vital role in information sharing with the outside environment and even giving info to the brain. In some precognition studies of the Heartmath or IONS institute they found out that the heart "knows" things ahead of time - and ahead of the brain, too.

So, if you still put all the weight on the brain is it still speculation (which still seems logical to me as it is related to the functions of thinking and cognition of our body-vehicle here) or do you have any evidence or conclusions from your experience to support it?

Cheers,
Volker

First of all it is the physical format, at least my copy is a low, very wide book, as opposed to many ordinary books that are higher than they are wide. The format gives some difficulties when reading in bed.

Yeah, strange format, never seen before. I read this on the train as a commuter, often when I am just standing, I put it in my jacket (of course fits perfectly!). It is ideal for this purpose. I am just 1 third through it and so far I like it. But I dare predict that it won't beat W. Buhlman or R. Bruce.

Lol and no I don't think AP is a sin.

How can anything be sin if there is no sin in the first place? Sin is a dogmatic construct used by certain religions. It is not universal.

[FoR is the key.]

Brian Weiss is cool. Michael Newton is cooler.
His books are even more systematic and cover the processes of the lifes "in between" too.

As regards the discussion on past or not past:

It is really that 'fashionable' to hold up a view like "all is now" or similar?

Just btw, "all happens in NO-time" for me would still be more adequate instead of saying "same- or now-time", because the word "now" still implies time.

Anyway, in my view, this all is a little bit of an intellectual highbrow cul-de-sac.

For me past and "past" lives exist. Again, it's a thing analogous to what I wrote here a few days ago:
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_book_reviews/frank_kepple_astral_projection_truth_newsletter-t32536.0.html;msg267716#msg267716

FoR is the key.

I mean, if you tell s.o. for example, "yesterday I washed my car", then you express with it that you did it the PAST day, using the simple PAST tense in your sentence, adding PAST related adverbs (such as yesterday, the other day, before, etc), and so on. Even a second "ago" is PAST.
Every one uses this in language. But now, when the discussion comes to "previous" lives, we are suddenly forbidden to use it. We are reminded that "there is no past", oh wow, year, of course... I always wash my car NOW. 

Come on guys, this is getting ridiculous!

What else would you say in the example? Do you say really say "I wash my car (now)" instead?

No. You form your linguistic expression from your viewpoint (FoR) where time exists as a reference to "index" successive events. So why not for "past" lives? People who argue this way should stop using any past or future tenses, past or future adverbs or anything else related to time in their speech. (Which is not feasable for communicative reasons, of course).

Yes, I know. time is not absolute, not linear as was thought for a long time in a Classical Newtonian Universe physics. Even on our plane these "linear breaches" can be proven by experiments now. They can be proven by quantum mechanics calculations. But relative view or absolute view ... that is the point here.

Time experienced in linear sequence is still fundamental for our lives here, it exists "here" (and "now"... how funny, yeah...) in this physical reality ... in "our" FoR as "re"incarnated beings. And yes, of course it is certainly more adequate to speak of "multiple" incarnations rather than "re"incarnations, especially if there are chronological overlaps (multiple lives).

However, from this FoR, in the timespace of this reality, past lives exist, and most of the "times" (... ) they are even pretty (chrono)logical. Time is one dimension /  operand / parameter in this 4D-reality, it is installed "in place". So why not use it even in metaphysical discussions, especially when we "only" talk about events in this physical reality, which is exatly what we do when we discuss other physical lives lived before or after this one ? Why should we not 'refer' to past lives if I can still refer to my 'past' vacation or 'past' (yesterday's) visit to the dentist? That does not make any sense.

In "normal" "linearly experienced" life in this reality, events are experienced successively (even though they can be breached by paranormal events). Every time increment with a state vector of certain energy and mass states follows another time increment with a state vector of certain energy and mass states follows another time increment with ...

Otherwise we could completely give up our language which is inadequate to express reality, as it contains past tenses and words relating to past (btw, some ethnic indigenous languages indeed do NOT have past forms ... makes one think, doesn't it?), we should no longer try to exist in this society which is dominated by processes in chronological time and just sit, meditate and "Be". Even then we would not escape time.

Yes, Buddhists and E. Tolle say that the NOW has the ultimate power and we should try to live in it, fine, but that does not mean that past/future don't exist, I still think they do.
Even simulated or alternative pasts / futures are still ... pasts and futures ... and thus ... time. Alternative time is still ... time. Time is defined by a spectrum of past, future and present (and that does not mean it must be linear!).

Sorry for the little rant, but for me this whole business and the obsessive need of stressing the fact that there "is no past" when it gets to discussing past lives and reincarnation gets a bit too artificial ... and even a bit too new agey .

I stopped reading this text pretty early. Yes, normally LaBerge does some pretty good work and is a standard reference for Lucid Dreaming. Actually I also have one of his books, it was even one of my first in the field of LD/AP and related matters.

But I had to stop reading this now when the name "Blackmore" appeared. 

Staunch refusal is my natural reflex now.

Seriously, guys, I'm slowly getting tired of these people. For me, this woman is not even a scientist, even though she is advertised as such by some people with an agenda. And yes, she has her professional credentials as (former para)psychologist. So what? Many do.

And she is heavily courted, promoted, featured and praised by ANY skeptics organisation (Randi, Shermer and the rest of the pack  ) That says it all.

Read here:

http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/New/Anomali/skeptic_research.html

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/articles001.html

No, thanks, I don' want to spoil my day with these people anymore. I did not until recently, but I increasingly get used to ignoring them now ... on principle.

[Science Consultant]

Frank did.

He worked as a "Science Consultant".


Monroe did.

He started TMI.


I do.

I critically review documents.

You misunderstood me. Whe I said that I was referring to those guys of the "scientific" "mainstream" who would deny the results of R. Monroe (or Frank or similar consciousness researchers) any scientific value, because according to their close-minded world view only "their" interpretation / model of "THE VERY" scientific method counts. That is what they restrict their "belief system" to.

That is what I meant by saying we should not care too much about "them" and "their" view anymore.
I am not totally "antiscience" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiscience) but critical of "science" as it is understood by many of the "mainstream" nowadays (still, a paradigm change will come, I am sure).

There are other epistemological models that can be pursued and do not have to coincide with "official" science which is not up-to-date anyway. First of all, subjective experience (if systematized) must be "counted in" if we evaluate results, but it isn't for "mainstream" science who still only rely on "objectifiable" data, which is almost impossible when doing "parapsychological" research in the field of personal consciousness (with the exception of a few statistics-based and some of the body measurment methods, as for example done by Dean Radin in the laboratory, or some of the stuff that certain bio-photon resonance  research groups nowadays do) - personal is always subjective.

who of us gives a damn about 'scientific' anyway?

Over half of europe has declining birthrates below replacement levels among its natives in any individual country, and the Immigrants coming in from the Middle east, Turkey, and North Africa are all having large families several times replacement.  I am not saying this trend will continue indefinitely, but if it should continue over a couple generations, Europe will begin to look 25-40% Muslim. There are already places in Sweden and Denmark where these percentages have actualized.

Newer statistics show that Muslim women adapt their child numbers to European level which means that the immigrants lower their birthrates and so become equal to European resident national levels.

At least that's what I read lately. It was said as reponse to a bitter public discussion in the media of this topic here in Germany that we had a few months ago, sparked off by this book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilo_Sarrazin#Controversy

I remember reading a death scene in the classic astral projection book by Sylvan Muldoon / Hereward Carrington ("The Projection Of The Astral Body"), where Muldoon observes a sick man who is dying.

well .. if we're lazy maybe we could choose among some terms already in existence, labels that "some of the others" might already have for us (depending on their pre-knowledge about these fields):

esotericists, occultists, new agers, mysticists, spiritualists, theosophists, metaphysicists, magicians and witches , etc      ...

Personally, I would choose none of these, I'd rather call myself a "spiritual freethinker".

(freethinker is to stress my being free of any dogmatic belief systems.
however, I know the term is not unproblematic, since I have the impression that it is often "occupied" by this type of materialist atheist / close-minded skeptic person. This they do to my mind without any real justification, since a materialist atheist has a very rigid belief system and is NOT thinking freely at all, now matter how strongly they claim to, these guys are as dogmatic and close-minded as religious fundamentalists and far from any "free thought").

That explains it beautifully, I totally agree with you. It makes the goal here to find the "window" that allows us to reach other focuses and understand how it works. Mind if I quote you on my blog?

you're welcome, feel free to do so 

Oh, I didn't know that website existed!  I'll have to spend some time one day and check it out.
Thanks

They have two sister sites on OBEs and on ADCs also worthy to check out:

http://www.oberf.org/

http://www.adcrf.org/
http://www.adcrf.org/adcrf_research.htm

Btw, I am not sure if NDEs is the main method to meet the deceased (relatives). There is also the ADC (after-death communication) perception/manifestation event which is reportedly VERY common (see site).

And another still very new method consists of INDUCED ADCs, developed by psychologist Alan Bottkin.
Here is some stuff on this if you're interested:

http://induced-adc.com/

If you've ever read the description of how you define your child as an "indigo"... it's basically all ADD type stuff.
They're unruly... they're undisciplined...

Basically, I just get the feeling that it's just an excuse parents put out there so that they can escape being a parent.

Well, I would not over-generalise here. Yes, some are describes to be "problem" children. However, some other children are rather what we would call 'prodigal' children with special gifts or insights, some call them "old souls". So not all of them are problematic children, some are quite the contrary of that.

I think the main difference (and mistake!) of the Matrix movies is that they lay the "hardware" (and human consciousness trapped by it and 'wired' to it) as the fundamental basis.
Reality is the other way round. Consciousness is the computer and forms or even "IS" the 'divine' (as called so by G. Braden) matrix itself. Many progressive quantum physicists also talked about "the matrix" (long before any movies of this kind). I think that for example David Bohm did.

It'd be interesting to see exactly why and understand more fully how we find this Focus so easy?

It is the perceptual DEFAULT mode our phycial human body with its senses is attuned to , evolved into and probably conceptually designed and built for. I say human body because probably animals already have another Default mode, e.g. with regard to perceptions of the vast electromagnetic spectrum (the total of which we perceive so damn litte of). Some animals are also said to perceive non-physical entities more easily or even habitually - who knows?
Everything else from that human "mode" of C1-Focus is ALTERED perception/focus/attention, that's why it is also called "altered" states of consciousness by some (para)psychologists, it is every time when we experiencs sth that is not normally 'available' in "Focus/C1".

I think you're projecting with all the related symptoms (paralysis, viewing your surroundings, then also dream-like reality fluctuations).