Interesting Chance Encounter

[personalreality]

I wanted to share a cool encounter I had today at work.

So, as I've mentioned before, I work in a Metaphysical Bookshop and I get a lot of interesting people coming through and today I had a great run-in. 

A guy came in the store who used to come here when he was a kid (back in the 80's).  He now lives in Las Vegas.  He was visiting Virginia to go to the Monroe Institute for an OBE conference.  The Monroe Institute is a little over an hour from my store.  He decided that on his way up to D.C. he would pop into the store.  He got a reading with one of our psychics and told her about the conference at the Monroe Institute. 

The reader knows that I'm a projector so she introduced us.  We talked for a long time about projection and he told me that he has only projected from a lucid dream, never a conscious exit.  I told him that I had only been projected for a couple months, but I was able to achieve conscious exit.  He got very excited by that because he says he hasn't been able to really talk to a lot of people who achieve conscious exit aside from these conferences.  We have a lot in common in that he has been using the RB methods for a while and is pretty much stuck where I was until I read Robert Peterson's first book.  I told him how I project and what helped my get over the Robert Bruce hump.

It was such a random meeting. 

He also told me to check out some Thomas Campbell video on YouTube.

I will sometime, but if you've already seen it or want to check it out, let me know what it's about.

[Xanth]

... and you probably didn't tell him anything about Frank!  *facepalms* 

Kidding.

That's okay.

Pretty neat though! 

[personalreality]

Actually Xanth, I DID tell him about Frank. 

He used to be on Astral Pulse years ago and I told him that since he was having trouble with the conscious exit, maybe he should try Phasing.  And he said "I remember something about that from Astral Pulse, some guy talked about it a lot" and I said "that was Frank".

Then he started asking what happened to Frank, told him I didn't know and then I told him that you made a "Frank PDF" and he got all excited and said he'd check it out.

so 

[Tiny]

Dear personreality,

I agree, something is really wrong in R. Bruce's instructional part of the book astral dynamics. R. Bruce's experiencial depth is amazing and the book has many useful tips but the whole of his instructions just never got me anywhere. I think there are real structural errors in it tho i really wish I was wrong! I don't wish to dive into the details of it in this post.
I love Robert Bruce and I think he has the greatest intentions from all the authors in the field.
But in my opinion Peterson did a much greater job describing the necessities in his book "OBE'S how to have them and what to expect" (see for example chapter "Quiesce and Focus Your Mind").

I told him how I project and what helped my get over the Robert Bruce hump.

For anyone who is interested and doesn't know, here's personalreality's legacy.

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_projection_experiences/how_i_got_out_for_the_first_time-t30942.0.html

Thanks for your contribution, personalreality.


kind regards,

Paul

[personalreality]

I came to this forum a while back with lots of theoretical knowledge but no experience.  The people here, I especially remember Stookie, did everything they could to help me.  It took a while before I was able to project, but everyone here was always helpful.

I want to be as helpful to others as I can.