What techniques do you guys personally use to understand where you are in the astral?
Eg: The only technique I know of is to talk to the first person you see to see if their reply will be intelligible (past F2) or unintelligible (F2), but what other techniques exist?
My entry point is usually via lucid dreams
Oh, technically, that only comes with experience. The more experiences you have, the easier it is to fundamentally figure out what's going on.
Just work on having experiences and logging those experiences. :)
If you know your occult symbolism you can sometimes get an idea - symbols, colors, feelings, etc. I also notice a difference in how I perceive and/or think within certain areas of consciousness. The further removed I am from the physical, the more "direct" it becomes. And of course, the less "physical" I feel.
Stookie,
This is interesting, can you give any specific examples from your experience so I can understand it better?
I know a lot of occult symbolist (I have been an occult 'student' for last couple of years), but I don't find any of it in the wider reality at all. All I find are scenes/environments which have different 'settings' applying to them. For example one scene would be just like physical world, like someone's appartment, with people walking and stuff. Next trip would be a scene which is like a giant sphere, like a theatre, and I am a huge presence there moving around, with literally hundreds of people spread over different 'heights', animals and all sorts. Third scene completely different, would be like a 2dimensional screen with lots of images and me deciding which image to 'fly into' (i.e. flying into an environment) and so on.
Can you share different experiences you had?
These must be spread over at least 3 different 'levels/zones'? But how do I know which is which, nor indeed what to do there (except simply go with the flow)? The need for a guide becomes more imperative, but I can't seem to get 'him/her' to talk to me normally. Last time I met 'him'her' the conversation was very short.