Phased While Driving

[personalreality]

This was a weird experience so I thought I'd share it.

I'll preface by saying that I've been very "loose" today, not all the way in either world.

I went to work to get my paycheck and some boxes and I got a strong energy sensation when I got near my boss' piece of Lapis we keep on the counter (it's probably a foot and a half tall, 6 inches wide and 3 inches deep - it's pretty big).  I stopped and soaked up the feel goods from the lapis and then went on my way.

While I was driving home a song popped up in shuffle on my ipod that i made strong emotional connection to when I was at the beach this summer (Byrdshot & Bye - Dimlite; the connection was made between the beach and the song, ie, the song reminded me of the beach).  A combination of a cool breeze, a sky full of big puffy clouds and this song illicited a very strong emotional reaction in me.  Instantly I was at the beach.  The road I was driving on was exactly the same, and the cars driving around me were the same cars, but the landscape around the highway was suddenly the landscape around the area where we stayed last summer.  I was driving in the middle of the city but I saw the ocean on my right and a small boardwalk on my left, just like the road in front of the beach house we stayed it.  This lasted for nearly a minute.  I couldn't believe it.

A few important things that I want to point out are brought up in this story.

1. EMOTION EMOTION EMOTION!  I've been talking about emotional memory around here for a long time, especially in the context of magic.  This was proof positive of my theories on emotion.  With the right stimuli I was able to phase to the beach with very little effort.  I wasn't trying to phase, but I was trying to really feel the emotion and familiarize myself with it so that I could use it later in ritual because it was such a strong feeling and a feeling of serenity. 

2. The emotional memory was stored in my body more than my mind.  I felt a rush through my body and an intense urge to cry (happy tears).  That is what needs to be recalled, not necessarily the images that my mind associates with the feeling, but the physical sensation itself; that was what I was trying to enhance and remember.

3.  When you put all this together, there is a very good phasing technique hiding right in front of us.  If you combine a very emotional event (like my beach trip - which was a very joyful feeling, the ocean holds much power and i can always feel it.  the beach wakes up my subtle self and makes it stand at attention) with good control of the emotion in the body, it is only a matter of filling your mind with the sensation.  When I tried to enhance the emotion to make it more tangible and thus more memorable for use in later ritual, I actually identified with it so much that i went there.  That reality became my reality.

I don't recommend trying this while driving.  I was pulled back because I got scared when I finally let go of the beach emotion and felt the fear of the fact that I was seeing a different place than where I was driving.  Nevertheless, this was a valuable experience chock full of lessons to be learned.

[NoY]

WoW 

:NoY:

[AstralAstra]

how long did it last

[personalreality]

i said it in the post, nearly a minute.

[Lexy]

Cool, you and ether have something in common!!!


Great experience though, good thing u didn't crash or something.

[Summerlander]

What drugs did you take, man?

[personalreality]

this awesome new drug called "disciplined practice".

it's great, you should try it.

[Pauli2]

PR may be relaying a completely genuine astral experience, but...

I still think it's valuable to consider Summerlander's joke. If we take a look at Wikipedia, there is for example a section on LSD, which is titled "Flashbacks and HPPD" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsd. And as such, an ex-drug user may temporarily enter F 22.

Users of drugs can several years after having stopped using the drug, experience so called Flashbacks. The experiences can last for shorter or longer time periods. The existence & persistence of Flashbacks are debated.

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And oh, I almost forgot.

I hope I don't despise anyone.

[Astral316]

I agree that strong emotional attachment to physical locations are the "yellow brick roads", so to speak, to their non-physical counterparts. I wouldn't have the balls to try this on the highway especially in the Boston area, but fascinating experience nonetheless.

[Summerlander]

BINGO, Pauli2!

I experienced something similar with salvia...but different context. Psilocybin can also alter you perception of reality massively but no flashbacks.

[personalreality]

I agree that strong emotional attachment to physical locations are the "yellow brick roads", so to speak, to their non-physical counterparts. I wouldn't have the balls to try this on the highway especially in the Boston area, but fascinating experience nonetheless.

I wasn't trying to phase at all.  It's way too dangerous and in the end that was what pulled me out of it, I realized how dangerous it was.

I wanted to really feel the emotion that popped up so that I could use it later.