The Physical Mind and Projection

[Ta_alos]

Good day!
        A collegue of mine and I were discussing this very topic the other day. The question was posed.  Does our ever day personality and do our every day choices pose an issue with projection???
       No matter what method you try.  No matter which adept projector you read about. One common thing that seems to be present is the dicipline of the minds eye, dicipline as well as keeping the mind clear seem to be omni-present within each of these methods.  Some may assume such an ability is present already and is just simply not mentioned.

       All of those things also manifest themselves in the physical on a day to day basis.  So... Why wouldn't the type of people we are affect our projection ability?  If we engage in mindless activity, why wouldn't we be mindless as we go to sleep at night.  How can we maintain awareness as we drift off to sleep if we choose to be un-aware as people??
         I've spent considerable time reading up with regards to all of the members and their wonderful contributions to this board.  IT seems as though collectively as a a community there is a tendancy to put the cart before the horse..  Sighting Astral difficulty when we don't even get there in the first place....
          Remember, first we must help ourselves.  If there are such things as guides and guardians spritual and other wise... why would they help us while we are still being self defeating? I think each of us who is serious enough about projection needs to ask him or herself this question.
         Projection is a life style choice.  It is a muscle that needs to be exercised.. just as the minds eye, your bodies electrical systems etc etc.. need to be balanced.  If you spend your life un-balancing these key systems... it would be the same as... an aspiring olympic athelete sitting on the coach for 16 hours a day and watching TV... You can aspire and complain all you want... but the flaw (if any) lay in the actions of that indivual...
           I suppose my words are a slightly harsh and blunt.  But we collectively as a society function with many faces.  We are shattered beings... each peice.. requiring a peice of our brain function to work.  
          Suppose your brain has a hard drive for storage.... I'll say that it is not necessarily a repository for data (I do not beleive science has actually proven where memory is stored in the brain)... but a repository for configurations.. Lets say your memory contains 1 000 000 terra-bytes as an example.  
            One aspect of your personality is that you have many faces. With person a) you act this way.  with person B) you act this way.  These are to different configurations.  lets say that each of these configurations use 500 terra-bytes.  Now on top of that.. with person C) you are a totally different person...  this takes up another 1000 terra-bytes.  
            In this simple example.. you have 3 different peices.  Each peice requiring different location in your brain to reside.  Now on top of that you have your habits... You play lots of video games, or you follow 3 soap opera's... or you are an aloholic, addicted to sex to much sports to much of anything..
            All of these things possess sweaping configurations in your entire brain.  Each clouding and distracting.    The result is.. your brain never really gets to a level in which it can truely specialize in something.
           This might include projection as well. If you are constantly clouding your brain with many different configurations.. connections.. etc.. You may have diffulty learning to project, your brain power.. both consious and sub consious is being used to maintain these connections.
            In my own experience I have learned that individualy we are accountable for the choices we make. We may not choose to accept that.  But it is omni-present. Many would-be projectors may never touch on this. I believe it is one of the most important points.  If not with projecting.. but with life.  If we choose to split ourselves into millions of different people... we may very well lose ourselves.... let alone successfully project.  
         
            If we ever took the time to specialize in any one thing we'd find out that no matter how much we tried to satisfy ourselves it would only leave us feeling empty and unsatisfied. That is why we juggle many things...  We never have to face that fact.  Try lessoning the load on your brain. Try saying.. okay.. for 1 week.. I'm gonna stop some type of habitual behavior and use that time to practice projection.. or mind taming.. or energy raising.. or reading or what ever... See how it changes the person you are.  See how it affects you? Do you feel sad? frightened... overwhelmed.. shaking.. Angry? Sound like WITHDRAWL!!!!!!

            So for any of you having consistant trouble with projection... maybe this would help... Then again.. just my two cents!!!!  Have a great day!!!

[Ben K]

I stopped reading when i got here: "as well as keeping the mind clear seem to be omni-present within each of these methods"

That is definitely not the case in any OBE technique i have heard of. Most of them have you either visualizing something as in ROPE and the phasing method, which actually encourages you to USE all your physical senses in your "minds eye".

Also, you seem to think that our consciousness is corrolated with our brain. This is obviously not the case, as action follows thought, and thinking that our brain creates our consciousness presupposes that the brain has a consciousness of its own, ie it is a seperate entitiy.

Your brain is not the creator of anything, it is an interpretor. It interprest subjective energy into our physical life. No memories are stored there, etc. If you can give me a link to that whole science discovers memories in brain thing i would love it, as you would have made possibly the greatest discovery in the last decade of neurology.

[Ta_alos]

When I refer to keeping the mind clear. I do not mean keeping your mind blank...  When I refer to keeping the mind clear being omni-present.. I refer to keeping the mind absent of all the chatter and noise that goes on during our daily lives.

One can have there mind clear of these things in order to make what ever visualization work for you in a much more efficient manner.

The point about the Brain being its own seperate entity is most definatly debateable....  It is my belief that our brain functions as a type of transeiver... As we progress through our lives the choices that we make cause network changes in the way our brain is mapped.. thus affecting who we are and our experience...