Some kind of cosmic interference going on?

[Lizelle]

Is anyone else having trouble phasing, projecting, or achieving a helpful trance? After some early successes (spontaneous vibrations, etc.) it's dropped off to almost zero. I used to have sleep-paralysis type hallucination episodes regularly (which is what got me into this) but now, after a few short OBEs, they've totally stopped.

I guess I'm just wondering, is it me? Do I need to start from scratch here? Anyone else hitting roadblocks?

[Pauli2]

Buhlman and RB recommend energy work. If that works?

I'm still working at getting out.

[astraladdict]

No, i've been projecting every time i feel like it. I think you're just in a common dry spell.

~astraladdict

[c0sm0nautt]

My stuff comes in spurts and then I will lack success for a few weeks.

[personalreality]

you may be ungrounded or otherwise mentally unstable.

some people believe that celestial bodies/events can effect projection ability if you're not very practiced.

its probably just something in you.  stress maybe.

[Lizelle]

"Mentally unstable"?    Gee thanks PR.  You know, the ones who claim to be flying around other dimensions and meeting up with dead people might be viewed as mentally unstable by a large majority of the population!

I should have known better than to ask the inmates running this particular asylum. 

[Lizelle]

Seriously, thanks for the comments. No I'm not too practiced. For about five years I was having a form of SP (where I was not asleep and not quite paralyzed) with the distinctive noises. It was often creepy but upon somebody's suggestion I let the feeling progress and got vibrations - that was quite a surprise. After finding this forum, I knew what to call all these things. After reading some of the material, I had a few successful separations. Wasn't really meditating or working too hard at it. I would know when it was the right time to try. But that hasn't happened for a while. Just wondering if there are outside influences which tend to affect us across the board.

[blis]

Maybe try some energy work. Not that you need to do energy work to project. But maybe you're in need of energy work in general. Like fate has stopped you projecting just so you would come here and have Pauli suggest energy work.

Whenever I've gone throgh a dry patch it's been a sign that I need to be doing something else, be that metaphysical, physical or whatever.

Anyone here ever projected to the rtz on a full moon? I've never been able to do it. The moon has apeared full to me while projecting but never on an actual full moon in the physical.

[personalreality]

I think you totally misunderstood my comment.

I didn't mean unstable as in pathological.  Ease up on the defensive pedal.

I meant that perhaps your normal mental state is unbalanced or unstable, as in maybe something is going on in your life right now (whether or not your consciously aware of its effect on you) that is throwing your mind off balance.  This may result in you feeling spaced-out or "just not right" in your normal daily awareness.  It happens to everyone from time to time.  Point being, if that's the case, it can seriously disrupt your meditation based practices (i.e., AP/OBE/LD). 

If you want it in "new age/metaphysical" terms, you may be 'ungrounded' or 'uncentered'.  This could be the result of an energy blockage or some other imbalance. 

Though I prefer to stay "grounded in reality" as it were, and say that perhaps your mind (energy) is off kilter (ungrounded) because of some unrecognized stressor (energy imbalance). 

So calm down, I was legitimately trying to help.  No ill intent or jokes at your expense.

[Lizelle]

'S okay PR - no worries. Just busting your bubbs a little.

I AM adjusting to a big change - one for the better, but a change nonetheless. And there was some trauma about three months ago. Years of stress is starting to show physical form, so no disturbance would really surprise me. I'm seeing a great new osteopathic doctor, and am very interested in alternative healing.

It's just funny... I guess your comment reminded me of when I told a counselor I was seeing at the time, about my SP/hallucinations, soon after they started. She looked a bit worried and asked if I'd ever been diagnosed with a psychiatric or sleep disorder.  Thank goodness I didn't start taking sleeping pills and walling off the realm which, in retrospect, was knocking on my door. I will read up on energy work.

[personalreality]

I understand the concern when discussing such things in a psychiatric setting, I'm about to be getting my bachelors in psychology and lord knows they hate it when I talk about this stuff in class.  When I told one of my statistics professors that I was interested in consciousness research through altered states of awareness, she called it parapsychology and told the class that it was their mission to change my mind before the end of the semester.  *sigh* that's not even what parapsychology is.  nevertheless, i fully understand the concern, but that's not what i meant, so it's all good.