The silver cord

[catmeow]

In the many LD/OBE's I've experienced, I have only once seen what I assume to be the "silver cord".  The experience was as follows:

I went through my normal exit procedure and found myself standing with my back to the bedroom wall facing my bed.  The room was dimly lit and grey (as it always is for some reason).  On my left hand side was a kind of silvery ribbon about 3 cm wide, wafting around in "S" shaped curls.  I didn't notice whether it was connected to either my external or physical bodies, and the significance of this "ribbon" escaped me at the time.  All I thought was "what is this annoying ribbon-type thing getting in the way?".  I actually grabbed hold of it and wafted it around a little.  I then left my bedroom and got on with the LD/OBE experience.

It was only when I woke up and thought about it, later during the day that I recognised the unmistakable significance of the "ribbon".

Has anybody else seen the "silver cord"?

catmeow

[manuel]

Well I havent actualy seen it my self, I have actualy felt it instead, it was located at the base of my nonphysical "head" i felt it with my hands, it was 2-3 inches thick, it felt very rubbery, and thick, on the base it was very wide, about 5 inches, very much like the roots of a tree, wrapped around the cord where many, many rubber like tubes,  some of these hollow tubes where also attached to various places on my non physical body, i could actualy snap these away and made snap sounds as i did so, also when i gave a some what sharp tug on the maincord, it felt very unpleasent on my nonphysical face like electricity of some sort, a few days after, the back of my physical head was slightly sore and tender.

[jamieandnici]

Guys this silvery cord is classed as the Astrals Umbilical cord that leads from the physical )usually from your 3rd eye) into your Astral (usually at the back/base of the neck/head/Throat chakra). However R.Monroe and a few other well known projectioners have talked about this cord in their books and describe it exactly as you both state. 3-5 cm thick, feels like rubber and is very elastic, so elastic it travels and stretches everywhere with you when projecting. Most often than not you wont recognise the signs of it being there. However the name 'Umbilical cord' suggests that you should leave it well alone whilst projecting in your astral as I have also read that if the cord is broken instant death or permanent separation between the physical body and the astral will occur!!! So please don't meddle or snap bits off as this may have horrible repercussions!!! As my mum always used to say when I went to the sweet shop with her 'Look but don't touch'!!

Love and peace!!!

[manuel]

Oh about those cords that broke off, I have felt in other projections them breaking off them selves, even a friend of mine has seen these smaller cords. more on the cord.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research12.html

[Tayesin]

Hi Catmeow,
I've only seen the cord on one or two other projectors/OBE'ers, and not my own, as yet.

Not sure what to make of the snapping bits of it, sounds pretty wild to me, although I am sure they would heal up again, naturally.

And what jamieandnici had to say about it being severed is probably very correct, as my old teacher also stated the same thing to me.

Tay  

[astralpwka]

I have never seen it, but I have never thought to look for it either. I guess I've felt that if I saw it I could be limited. I've read accounts of people having difficulty moving because the cord was tight and refused to allow the projector to travel.

I think I'll make my next out-of-body goal looking for the cord. Even hampered, it has to be interesting.

[PennywiseTheClown]

I've had about 30 spontaneous real-time OBEs (unfortunately the last one over a year ago ), and yes, the cord was there almost everytime. Most of the times I could only feel it, as there were always visual problems (it always extended out of my astral neck), but 2-3 times I could also see it. It was white and faintly glowing. On the one and only occasion when I could see my physical body, the cord entered it somewhere between neck and chest.

[BOATS]

I only saw it once.  I had someone come up to me and tell me he could see my cord.  The idea behind this being that he knew I was only visiting his realm.  I turned to look and it was aqua blue with silver sparkles going thought it and almost appeared to glow quite beautifully.

[upstream]

I have seen (or felt) the cord at least 50 times and broken it consciously at least 5-8 times. At the first few occasions I seemed to do this by mere habit which was often freaked me back into wakefulness. As my cord obsessed period is over, apparently without all those conclusions I've hoped for, I'm still not sure about the consequences, but I believe, that breaking the cord is not a healthy practice.

About 90% of my cords was attached to the solar plexus area of my dream body by a fist sized cone. The cord was about 3-5 cm in diameter and couldn't be experienced unless I was looking for why I'm pulled backwards after a successful separation. For me, this is the most aggressive cord type, the only one, that was and still able to terminate an episode. Later I've found a way to form these cords from "outside" by doing breathing exercises near to my body. My goal was to see what impact the cord has on RTZ projections. In this state I still couldn't see but felt my environment fairly well and was able to manipulate my breathing patterns as I have heard myself breathing very loud and from every direction.

No doubt, the plexus cord is the continuation of a viscosus honey like abdominal flow I used to feel at forced "etheric separations." It has components from some of the most strongest rubber-band like threads as well that survive the separation process and seemed to attached on muscles. Sometimes flickering muscles has a tiny cord too. When I've placed one of my dream hand on the base of the cord I felt my hand moving towards the sleeping body. Later I concluded that the cord must have be the interpretation of some vital flow (chi, etheric substance) as I was told. Apparently it a passive sufferer of the separation process and flows back into the body as fas as it could. Now I think this hypothesis could explain only one part of its nature since the "pinch" of the detached somatosensory phantom is should be involved in its formulation.

The second most familiar type of the cord is come out from the neck of my dream body. It is far easier to see because the cord has a tendency to shift upwards and when it reach the height of my upper thorax sight will come inevitably. At this point the cable could be already fake (empty dream picture of the original now ceased sensation) and usually broke off by its own. (The remaining chewing gum like residue even could be eat and tastes like salted water).

Also, I have been observed many fake cords and cord like structures. One type come into play when I move too fast through a window. I suspect the cable is a felt part of the resistance mechanism that try to slow me down in order to render the sensory experiences into a smooth, continuous flow. I've found these cables to work more often when I have an entity attached on my back (a dissociated fragment of my personality I suppose). But it is very rare to see cords attached to my heart area or to the base of my head. I consider the heart cable the only "real" type that could be seen.

[manuel]

What?? you broke your cord?? and you ate the other ones??  

[upstream]

yes manuel lol but they were fake

[manuel]

Uhmmmm, alright, let me get this straight, you ate fake astral cords am i right?

[upstream]

Yes, you're almost right manuel but... I'm still not sure whether it was "astral" or not, since it was fake. Or have I done something wrong lol? I ate only a little bit. I'm getting frightened here.

[manuel]

Well this is a first I ever heard of this, so you pulled it out and ate it..what did it feel like? the texture and what not. Hope I am not sounding intergatish, but its not every day you hear this, perhaps you created an edible one.

[upstream]

Ok manuel, the actual fun has happened after I started to hack some of my zooms by deliberately misdirecting the dream-eyes. Something went wrong and I trapped inside a dreamy scenario. I tired to stabilize but my sight became distorted and the world started to spin. I decided to capitulate from the dream by feeling for my sleeping body and moving something around it like I would be inside a little tornado.

I rolled out at my right and crawled away from the bed. I felt the pull right after I got my sight and noticed that the mattress is perpendicular to its original orientation. I tried to grab onto the pull with my hand - my only trick to see cable like structures after separation. I felt a smooth, gut-like cord that had a thickness of a crayon. I thought it's connected to a point somewhere on my neck but when I felt for it, much for my surprise, I found the cable attached to the upper part of my sternum (on the dream body).

The cord felt tensed up to the point of snapping as I was about to get further away from the bed by moving slowly but deliberately to get into the farest corner of the room and gain some stability. Then I heard a snapping sound and thought "It is like when a muscle become limp by loosing its etheric charge." The cable was gone but I noticed a little piece that remained in my hand. I happened to had no other idea for further examination than put this piece into my mouth. "It tastes like physiological salt solution...Hm. A very original interpretation indeed." Then I was awake again. Too much thinking after separation I suppose.

[redcatherine]

In the many LD/OBE's I've experienced, I have only once seen what I assume to be the "silver cord". ...Has anybody else seen the "silver cord"?catmeow

I am sure that the cord develops over time as we build up the light quotient in our subtle bodies . Initially the cord we are born with becomes stronger thicker and grows with us but still it is a tether to the lower realms and represents a sort of ring pass not . To go beyond the astral we develop a different structure , the cord becomes an ascension tunnel. It evolves into what some call the antakarana and can be seen clairvoyantly like the opening of a vortex into the star aperture or the omega aperture above your crown chakra . So it becomes more of an entrance and exit tunnel than a linear tether cord . Same function higher realms .

[redcatherine]

1....About 90% of my cords .. attached to the solar plexus area of my dream body by a fist sized cone. 2... this is the most aggressive cord type 3. comes out of the neck of my dream body....4. But it is very rare to see cords attached to my heart area or to the base of my head. I consider the heart cable the only "real" type that could be seen.

I agree with you that there are more than one type of cord and more than one anchor for cords.

Although I see it above the head ,  I have seen it come out of the male energy centre and the female energy centres too .

The vortex can be formed with the female energy storage center (third eye )and two palms . The cord is seen as two cones then the one bringing us away the other bringing us home .


But it is better formed with the da Vinci pose with the male storage centre (solar plexus to sacral chakras) and the two legs also . This is a stronger 5 pointed star structure .

So the "cord"structure is different if we are attached only to the one we are born with that brings our consciousness back to the physical body when we travel in the astral .

It is more sophisticated when we travel through the ring pass not into other realms on a group merkaba .

It becomes more evolved when we open the vortex ourselves on three points and can be seen like the cone you describe so well .

It becomes more developed when we open the 5 point vortex .

The highest form I have witnessed so far is when the energy body forms a merkaba itself it looks like this :

the head and body itself is striped
pale blue platinum lunar magnetic and
pale yellow solar electric sun

the dominant leg is salmon redcoloured warm electric earth
the nondominant leg is cyan green coloured cool magnetic air
the dominant arm is amber orange hot light gas electric the stars
the non dominant arm is indigo blue cold heavy magnetic the heavens space

see the seeker twist at the waist from the Da Vinci pose
see the spine become a rod upon which the other spokes will spin at 23 degrees like the earth itself

the legs are opposite in polarity and  becomes two parts of a spoke going E and W  
at a 90 degree angle to the pin the arms become 2 more spokes going N and S

after you have progress to open the vortex from there than add two more
first visualise a shaft that is pale yellow and pale blue going at a 45 degree angle from up and NW to down at SE
the final spokes lie upon a shaft going from NE up to SW down and they are gold and purple respectively

see your energy body spinning becoming the merkabah itself with 8 colours .

It goes beyond that to 12 point but I am not sure how yet .

Let us help each other there is so much to learn .

[upstream]

It seems very interesting what you wrote, Catherine (you seems to be a real astral people here), but I am embarrassed to say that I can't completely understand it, even after re-reading for several times. But it's obvious you have some knowledge that could shed light on some gray areas in my mind.

I've already supposed that the vortex is the astral version of the "silver cord" and could function as a traveling tunnel but I can't imagine how I'm supposed to perceive it directly. How do you see it above your head? Is it a clairvoyance thing?

I thought that all my cords was "etheric" - even so the fakes before they ceased to exist and replaced by an empty dream picture. What do you think about this?

The cord is seen as two cones then the one bringing us away the other bringing us home.

Exactly! I mean it should be that way. The astral chord is supposed to have a configuration that made by two cones pointing to each other. As far as I know this structure can't be seen. (At least I've never seen astral cables....neither I've tried to). How did you come up with this conclusion?

[the vortex] is better formed with the da Vinci pose with the male storage centre (solar plexus to sacral chakras) and the two legs also . This is a stronger 5 pointed star structure.

I think that the vortex is formed by neuronal loops of the brain but first a dissociated state is required to attain by withdrawing the self into the abdomen. I assume legs is for energy support but I have no idea what this da Vinci pose is.

It becomes more evoslved when we open the vortex ourselves on three points and can be seen like the cone you describe so well .

As far as I remember I didn't describe it yet lol. Anyway, your merkaba meditation seems very interesting but I'm afraid it's too mystic for me. How did you have "witnessed" this configuration? How can I do similar things without lunar magnetism, electric suns, and suchs? I know they are metaphorical pictures that meant to support imagination that control subtle processes. I've done similar meditation like the 5 sun.

Let us help each other there is so much to learn .

Exactly. Thank you.

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