Questions!!!

[James S]

Hi Coyote, welcome to the forums.

Firstly, nothing in this post looks idiotic. They're all good and valid comments and questions.
I'm really glad you've decided to try and explore your abilities more. I first discovered psychic abilities within myself at 14, but turned away from it. It took me 20 years to come back to exploring the potential within me, and sometimes now I regret the time I've lost. Oh well....

The ESP you describe is Empathy, or more accurately empathic telepathy. This will happen more as you open up to your intuition and become more sensitive to the spirit world. You start to notice the energies around you more, especially the energies in people around you. This comes to you as feelings, and sometimes colours, which is when you start noticing people's auras.

It's actually quite a natural ability. We can all do it, if we're interested in learning how.

You've definitely started taking the right steps if your learning to meditate. This is what will open all the doors for you.  Meditating will help you to tune out from the everyday world around you and tune in to the spirit world, and in to your higher self. Learning about your higher self – that part of you which is spirit, and communicates with you through your intuition is where you'll gain the most knowledge of how to grow in your abilities.

Try to make meditation a daily habit. Even just a little bit of time, 10 minutes or so, every day can have a huge impact on your psychic growth.

As to what you're experiencing when you meditate lying down on your bed, the feeling of lightness, is you are relaxing and your awareness is moving away from your physical body. This is an important first step towards an OBE. When you have an OBE, what is basically happening is your consciousness is separating from your physical body, and moving out on its own in what could best be described as an "energy" copy of your body.

As this happens, you become less aware of your physical self, and more aware of your energy self, which has no weight. Once you feel this separation from your physical self, you might feel like you're floating.

Don't worry about bad spirits. There's a fair bit of hype around about "negative" entities, but for the most part very few people actually encounter spirits that truly wish to do them harm. What they are experiencing is typically manifestations of their own fears. Simply put, don't worry or be afraid of what you might encounter, or your fear will provide something nasty for you. The best frame of mind to have when you meditate is one of curiosity but with no expectations. This frame of mind should also help with the freak-outs and crappy feelings afterwards. Just keep in mind that whatever weirdness that might happen, it's all part of exploring this new world.

You probably won't sense much when your in this kind of state because when you  are concentrating on astral projection, your senses are turning more inwards rather than being open to what's around you. Don't worry about trying to control things too much either. Best way to have an OBE is to completely relax and  let it happen. Try too hard and you'll just end up keeping yourself pinned down.

As to the feeling of being filled with power but can't use it, I can soooo relate!!
If you want to know about frustration here, wait till you're being told by spirits almost every friggin day that you have all this power and you just have to unlock it! It's a case of "thanks guys, I already know that, but would you mind telling me please just HOW to unlock it? Hmm?"

The one thing I do know here is that it's a matter of letting go of your rational mind that likes to tell you exactly how something can't be done, letting go of  your fear of possible failure and think Nike ads  – just do it!
Yeah I know, easier said than done, but once you stop your rational mind from butting in and go with your dreams, you'll see the possibilities becoming real.

As to whether it's good or bad? Because everyone is different, there are no straight answers here. This is where you need to develop your intuition. It will quickly tell you what is right or wrong for you, and you will soon learn to be guided by your feelings.

If you want to look up more info on OBEs, have a look at topics posted in the Permanent Astral Topics section. You'll find a lot of good info there, or even the articles on the www.astralpulse.com main site.

There you go. And you thought you're post was long. It certainly wasn't pointless though!

Oh, one last piece of advice with regards to any kind of psychic or spiritual development – don't ever stop having fun!  When you start taking things too seriously,  you won't get nearly as much out of it.

Kind regards,
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James

[Coyote]

I imagine this post will look idiotic, and I've probably posted this in the wrong forum. Anyway, I'm 14, and have ESP. Always had it, and to my knowledge some of my family members also do, though I shut it off for a few years due to the fact I was young(er - I'm probably sounding old here ) and it scared me. (Sensing nagitave energy etc.) I've got it back now, for the most part, and can also sense how people feel (yeah esp) and can make energy balls and have night vision, some other random things; that's probably the extent of my 'special abilities'. Lately, though, I have been trying to extend my abilities beyond this. But there is something weird I've noticed, when I meditate (which I generally do when trying to get an OBE, which I haven't thus far) I lay on the bed, and I usually do this at night and then go to sleep so I almost always have bed covers on me, it's almost like the blanket starts lifting up, or I do, or the covers start to flatten out on me and things of that sort. It's totally freaking me out, considering I constantly worry about, well, I'll probably sound crazy here, but .. I do worry about bad spirits/weird occurences. But I when I'm in this state I usually can't sense anything so I don't know. I don't think I'm consciously controling this though, it just happens when I'm doing this kind of crap. But alas, I don't know. I also go into a weird state, and I almost feel like I could change my shape or something, but I get freaked out and usually stop this kind of stuff but I usually feel really crappy afterwords. I feel like I'm filled with power but can't use it.

Any tips on what's going on, and if it is me, what is it exactly? Ansd is it good or bad?

Sorry so much of that post was long and pointless.

EDIT: I thought I should also mention, I've had some random lucid images flash in my mind in the last few months. A few days ago, I saw what looked like a green cargo van in the woods trying to to hich on something... Like a boat trailer. And about a month before that, I saw what looked like the town(?) (aspiring city) which I used to live in, only it was tons bigger and horrible!! Everything was so weird, and I haven't fogotten it. I don't know, what could it be? I usually get these when I'm like really relaxed or something. Too weird to be the future, I think.