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A few nights ago i was having trouble sleeping after waking at around 3am. This is not normal for me but i knew i had little chance of getting back to sleep straight away so i bit the bullet and got out of bed & found my way onto the computer. I must have stayed up for about 2hrs.
I returned to bed and had an interesting series of experiences which were all totally related and interconnected. These experiences (i think) revealed to me some of the similarities/interconnectedness between the dream and the OBE state.
Opon sleeping i soon found myself in a dreamscape and became aware. I was at my parents house, the house in which i grew up. My father was there as the main character & the dream was playing along with me going for the ride. I was aware and watching the dream, without deciding to ever take control of the scenes.
I then found myself come back into my body at one stage. The screen was black. I was looking at my eyelids and was aware of this and was enjoying the dream so much i decided to hold the last image i remember in my mind in an attempt to return to the dream. This worked! I re-entered the same dream or one just like it. The dream played out for a while longer, the scenes the people, the messages, all similar... I still had no desire to take over the dreamscape, I was consciously dreaming but not controlling it.
Then once more i re-entered my body but this time i was less in my body than the first but I still had the black screen at the back of my eyelids. Then i felt myself rolling inside my body. I was turning inside my body but i was NOT doing it... It was happening TO me... I was just being aware...
One of my main astral projection techniques involves rolling out of my body, so it was not an unusual sensation for me but in this instance i was seperated from my body but still inside & turning full revolutions. About two or three revolutions later i found myself return yet again to the same/similar dream!
What was happening?
Was I projecting?
To me it felt like a dream and if i hadn't experienced the turning in my body i would have presumed i was consciously dreaming then returning to my body and consciously re-entering the dream and remaining aware.
It was occuring in early morning while it was still dark but in the dream/projection it was fully daylight. The colours seemed to come from within the objects, much as they do in other lucid dreams (possibly projections?) i have had. So i am unsure..
Though due to the turning (which i have associated with my projection techique) & after the Astral Pulse thread "I projected this morning!!" i have been entertaing the idea that i WAS perhaps projecting at a lowish level of lucidity..
Throughout these experiences i had quite plesant vibrations at times, especially on returing to the body (partly i think they were due to the thrill of being aware of what was happening) but I never experienced any intense vibrations at all... I also never found myself in any close proximity to my current home or room i was physically in apart from when i was actually in my body between returning to the dream/projection experience/s...
So for now... not sure.. dream...OBE... looks like more exploration is in order :)
This episode of events does however indicate to me that the mechanisms behind OBE & dreams are very similar and maybe it is merely semantics that separates the two.
Thanks for reading,
-Newmethod-
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Goals and Astral Projection
It has been a while since i posted. The main reason for this is that i have recently began my final year of a four year University Degree. This, combined with my responsibilities as a parent, responsibilities to work etc have slightly disrupted my recent AP attempts.
What I began to do however was prioritise my meditation, energy work & projection attempts ABOVE other things that have less importance & value in my life, such as television, unnecessary time on the Internet etc. Many of us enjoy activities such as these but how many of us are wasting TOO MUCH valuable Earth time on activities such as these? I have been guilty of this many times...
Study has become my main priority lately, balanced up with my family responsibilities & some time for myself.
The importance of understanding & inducing AP has decreased little through the last weeks though and to compensate for my new study load i find myself arranging the entire evening around so my family & I can make it to bed early and get a good nights sleep. This is seemingly working well for all concerned.
For me this typically means the first 30min-1hr of getting to bed, is spent on energy work, attaining focus levels & projection attempts. Though actual projection attempts have become rare over the past few weeks as my energy has been a little lower lately and I have deliberately decided to conserve my energy by engaging very little in actual projection attempts.
Instead i am focusing on long term goals and feel it is more important at this time to build a good foundation (via energy work etc) from which to work on AP in the future.
What i ask you is:
1. How much time are we spending doing things that have little or no value to us or to others?
2. How often are we achieving the goals we set ourselves? The daily goals? The long term goals?
3. What do we need to do to achieve these goals?
4. Are our goals important?
To find out how important our goals are on a daily basis i have began an easy but quite effective strategy. Not being a note taker myself, it is sometimes slightly difficult to motivate myself to do this, but its effectiveness in my life recently has been of great value.
It's as simple as this:
Write down in order the things you need/desire to achieve in your life in the near future (i've been looking 2-3 weeks ahead - go further ahead if needed). Add in things like time with family, friends etc - prioritise these also. Continue to write down everything that requires any amount of your time so your mind is clear & focused. You may need to write all the things down once, then number them and write them down again in order, so the most important goal is at the top. (It is more concrete if you do have them in order of importance rather than numbered but not in order).
This simple strategy has helped me focus on the task at hand, kept my mind quieter & helped me understand more wisely, what & how to spend my energy on.
If you are not a 'natural' but desire to 'learn' AP and are spending very little time on practicing AP or practicing the small steps to help you get there (such as energy work, meditation, reading about it etc) you may need to look at your goals and see where AP rates for you as a priority.
Hope this helps
-Newmethod-
What I began to do however was prioritise my meditation, energy work & projection attempts ABOVE other things that have less importance & value in my life, such as television, unnecessary time on the Internet etc. Many of us enjoy activities such as these but how many of us are wasting TOO MUCH valuable Earth time on activities such as these? I have been guilty of this many times...
Study has become my main priority lately, balanced up with my family responsibilities & some time for myself.
The importance of understanding & inducing AP has decreased little through the last weeks though and to compensate for my new study load i find myself arranging the entire evening around so my family & I can make it to bed early and get a good nights sleep. This is seemingly working well for all concerned.
For me this typically means the first 30min-1hr of getting to bed, is spent on energy work, attaining focus levels & projection attempts. Though actual projection attempts have become rare over the past few weeks as my energy has been a little lower lately and I have deliberately decided to conserve my energy by engaging very little in actual projection attempts.
Instead i am focusing on long term goals and feel it is more important at this time to build a good foundation (via energy work etc) from which to work on AP in the future.
What i ask you is:
1. How much time are we spending doing things that have little or no value to us or to others?
2. How often are we achieving the goals we set ourselves? The daily goals? The long term goals?
3. What do we need to do to achieve these goals?
4. Are our goals important?
To find out how important our goals are on a daily basis i have began an easy but quite effective strategy. Not being a note taker myself, it is sometimes slightly difficult to motivate myself to do this, but its effectiveness in my life recently has been of great value.
It's as simple as this:
Write down in order the things you need/desire to achieve in your life in the near future (i've been looking 2-3 weeks ahead - go further ahead if needed). Add in things like time with family, friends etc - prioritise these also. Continue to write down everything that requires any amount of your time so your mind is clear & focused. You may need to write all the things down once, then number them and write them down again in order, so the most important goal is at the top. (It is more concrete if you do have them in order of importance rather than numbered but not in order).
This simple strategy has helped me focus on the task at hand, kept my mind quieter & helped me understand more wisely, what & how to spend my energy on.
If you are not a 'natural' but desire to 'learn' AP and are spending very little time on practicing AP or practicing the small steps to help you get there (such as energy work, meditation, reading about it etc) you may need to look at your goals and see where AP rates for you as a priority.
Hope this helps
-Newmethod-
Monday, February 2, 2009
The Value of Energy Work
A few days ago I decided to attempt OBE in the middle of the day. I had the day off work and the family was out...Since I had some recent positive experience with "Condition C", I decided to give "Condition D" as spin to see if it could help me project during the day.
I didn't present this here immediately as I was hoping to integrate some of the experience & learn how to explain it better to you so you could fully grasp the experience and importance of my insights (presented later)...
I had left out some of my study notes in the bedroom and my goal was to AP and see if I could glimpse my notes while I was "out". I began with a short meditation for a couple of minutes to clear my thoughts, then progressed to relaxing my body part by part. After a good level of relaxation was attained I progressed to allowing my senses to shut down.
During this experience I was more aware of the actual tone in the Hemi-Sync track than I remember being in the past. From memory I usually hear a lot of the pink noise mixed with the tone, but only a few times can I remember listening 'mainly' to the tone itself. When I used the Holo-Sync meditation programs years ago, if I was hearing the tone like this, it was likely to be a good meditation. Therefore I allowed myself to follow the tone to see where it would take me...
I followed the tone and it felt like my mind was becoming more and more still.. Following the tone was enjoyable in itself but this is where it started to get interesting...
At times my body felt like it was full of white light.. as I was feeling this I began to feel vibrations.. Knowing what they were I tried to observe them as I followed the tone deeper and deeper. Occassionally I would try to bring the vibrations on more by imaginining myself having more intense wobbles than I was actually experiencing (often the wobbles come along with the vibrations).
Again the white light filled my body. I had a fairly white screen behind my eyelids also and I know this wasn't coming from outside as I had a sleeping mask on to block the light.. As the white light filled me and the vibrtions started, I became more aware of myself as an energetic being. Occasionally I would feel some tension in my body which bought me back to the body.. Immediately I would relax the area that contained tension and in moments the white light and vibrations would start again...
This cycle occurred maybe 6 or 7 times over the course of an hour. It went from white light and vibrations with wobbling, back to physical awareness due to tension in my body... If I experienced tension I quickly felt the area with my awareness and released it... Then the white light & vibrations would start back up again..
I didn't manage to project on this occurrence but had two insights through the experience:
1. Energy blocks that feel dense in the body can slow or interfere with what seem like good opportunities to project - My insight: Energy work will assist in removing these 'blocks'.... Energy will then flow more freely. This should in turn reduce the likelihood that attention will be bought back to the physical body, thereby improving the chance of success...
Solution: Integrate 10-30mins of energetic work into my daily routine where possible...
The next insight I received was related via what I call "clearlight" (this is a method of information transfer I sometimes receive) - it feels as though the information is encoded in "clearlight" but perfectly understandable to my mind/body & translatable to the English language - though sometimes it loses some of the importance and value in the translation - I take information I receive like this seriously and as likely to be true...
Basically this is what was related:
2. That the dense "blocks", that may be perceived as being 'blocks' in the energetic system or tension in the physical body, are actually just energies that are more dense than what we require for successful projection experiences and that the differences between this energy and the denseness of the physical body are often not very different.... These blocks are NOT part of the physical body... They are perceivable on an energetic level, and have at least some part of them originating on subtle energetic levels.. whether we are aware of the cause or not.... But aside from causes these denser energies can be simply released through energetic awareness...
Following this experience and the two main insights (above), I believe 'Energetic Work' can be extremely useful in aiding us (particularly the beginner) in experiencing positive successful projection experiences.....
Love
-Newmethod-
I didn't present this here immediately as I was hoping to integrate some of the experience & learn how to explain it better to you so you could fully grasp the experience and importance of my insights (presented later)...
I had left out some of my study notes in the bedroom and my goal was to AP and see if I could glimpse my notes while I was "out". I began with a short meditation for a couple of minutes to clear my thoughts, then progressed to relaxing my body part by part. After a good level of relaxation was attained I progressed to allowing my senses to shut down.
During this experience I was more aware of the actual tone in the Hemi-Sync track than I remember being in the past. From memory I usually hear a lot of the pink noise mixed with the tone, but only a few times can I remember listening 'mainly' to the tone itself. When I used the Holo-Sync meditation programs years ago, if I was hearing the tone like this, it was likely to be a good meditation. Therefore I allowed myself to follow the tone to see where it would take me...
I followed the tone and it felt like my mind was becoming more and more still.. Following the tone was enjoyable in itself but this is where it started to get interesting...
At times my body felt like it was full of white light.. as I was feeling this I began to feel vibrations.. Knowing what they were I tried to observe them as I followed the tone deeper and deeper. Occassionally I would try to bring the vibrations on more by imaginining myself having more intense wobbles than I was actually experiencing (often the wobbles come along with the vibrations).
Again the white light filled my body. I had a fairly white screen behind my eyelids also and I know this wasn't coming from outside as I had a sleeping mask on to block the light.. As the white light filled me and the vibrtions started, I became more aware of myself as an energetic being. Occasionally I would feel some tension in my body which bought me back to the body.. Immediately I would relax the area that contained tension and in moments the white light and vibrations would start again...
This cycle occurred maybe 6 or 7 times over the course of an hour. It went from white light and vibrations with wobbling, back to physical awareness due to tension in my body... If I experienced tension I quickly felt the area with my awareness and released it... Then the white light & vibrations would start back up again..
I didn't manage to project on this occurrence but had two insights through the experience:
1. Energy blocks that feel dense in the body can slow or interfere with what seem like good opportunities to project - My insight: Energy work will assist in removing these 'blocks'.... Energy will then flow more freely. This should in turn reduce the likelihood that attention will be bought back to the physical body, thereby improving the chance of success...
Solution: Integrate 10-30mins of energetic work into my daily routine where possible...
The next insight I received was related via what I call "clearlight" (this is a method of information transfer I sometimes receive) - it feels as though the information is encoded in "clearlight" but perfectly understandable to my mind/body & translatable to the English language - though sometimes it loses some of the importance and value in the translation - I take information I receive like this seriously and as likely to be true...
Basically this is what was related:
2. That the dense "blocks", that may be perceived as being 'blocks' in the energetic system or tension in the physical body, are actually just energies that are more dense than what we require for successful projection experiences and that the differences between this energy and the denseness of the physical body are often not very different.... These blocks are NOT part of the physical body... They are perceivable on an energetic level, and have at least some part of them originating on subtle energetic levels.. whether we are aware of the cause or not.... But aside from causes these denser energies can be simply released through energetic awareness...
Following this experience and the two main insights (above), I believe 'Energetic Work' can be extremely useful in aiding us (particularly the beginner) in experiencing positive successful projection experiences.....
Love
-Newmethod-
Short but interesting experience...
Last night I decided to use Journeys out of Body by the Monroe Institute. I have had it for a little time but not used it too much. I went to bed about 12:15am last night (after the Australian Open Tennis Final - so quite tired) and began listening to "Condition C".
Last night, this combination gave me a small glimpse at something interesting..
I was being aware.. or so I thought.. then I had the sensation, feeling and image of my son (who is 2yrs old) sitting up right next to my head as I lay in bed. He and I were having a conversation.. This seemed perfectly natural for me... I don't remember what the conversation was about but that's how I was interpreting the experience.. I then nodded my head in reply to something he said...This is what snapped me back out of "it" and back to awareness..
Was I within my body and nodding my physical head? ..(don't really think so)
Was I dreaming? ...(quite possibly)
Or was I having a very short OBE experience where my projectable double had become loose inside my physical body (but still within it) and I was nodding the head of my projectable double?
The latter was my initial thought at the time and it was this thought of my projectable double nodding and the possibility of being out of body that caused me to "snap back".
Not sure which scenario is correct... but the event shows I'm on the right track as I'm resonably sure if I wasn't dreaming (which I might have been) then my projectable double was certainly loose..
Last night, this combination gave me a small glimpse at something interesting..
I was being aware.. or so I thought.. then I had the sensation, feeling and image of my son (who is 2yrs old) sitting up right next to my head as I lay in bed. He and I were having a conversation.. This seemed perfectly natural for me... I don't remember what the conversation was about but that's how I was interpreting the experience.. I then nodded my head in reply to something he said...This is what snapped me back out of "it" and back to awareness..
Was I within my body and nodding my physical head? ..(don't really think so)
Was I dreaming? ...(quite possibly)
Or was I having a very short OBE experience where my projectable double had become loose inside my physical body (but still within it) and I was nodding the head of my projectable double?
The latter was my initial thought at the time and it was this thought of my projectable double nodding and the possibility of being out of body that caused me to "snap back".
Not sure which scenario is correct... but the event shows I'm on the right track as I'm resonably sure if I wasn't dreaming (which I might have been) then my projectable double was certainly loose..
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Mastering Astral Projection
I first read Astral Dynamics (AD) by Robert Bruce about 7-8years ago. Since then, one of my future (now current) aims was/is to experience and understand Astral Projection. What is happening? What can it be used for? Will it validate my belief in life after death?
I bought Mastering Astral Projection (MAP) by Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer, about 2 years ago. I took a little look, did some exercises for a week or so then put it away. It was too difficult for me at the time to incorporate into my lifestyle.
Now i am back! It is time! This time i feel i am determined, patient & experienced enough to learn Astral Projection (AP). I am an experienced Lucid Dreamer and will hopefully integrate what i have learnt through Lucid Dreaming (LD) into tangible, controllable, conscious astral projection experiences, allowing me to explore parts of the Great Spirit that currently elude me.
Since i am familiar with the techniques and methods in Mastering Astral Projection (as many cross over from Astral Dynamics) i will utilise exercises & techniques from both MAP & AD in my practice. I will keep you posted with developing insights, experiences & thoughts. Hopefully this blog can be a place to aid you in understanding yourself, nature & the LD/OBE experience. May it aid your thirst for personal truth. May it entertain, inspire & help others in living a life of peace, harmony and greatness.
Become a seeker of truth!
"Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you." Matthew 7:7 GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I bought Mastering Astral Projection (MAP) by Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer, about 2 years ago. I took a little look, did some exercises for a week or so then put it away. It was too difficult for me at the time to incorporate into my lifestyle.
Now i am back! It is time! This time i feel i am determined, patient & experienced enough to learn Astral Projection (AP). I am an experienced Lucid Dreamer and will hopefully integrate what i have learnt through Lucid Dreaming (LD) into tangible, controllable, conscious astral projection experiences, allowing me to explore parts of the Great Spirit that currently elude me.
Since i am familiar with the techniques and methods in Mastering Astral Projection (as many cross over from Astral Dynamics) i will utilise exercises & techniques from both MAP & AD in my practice. I will keep you posted with developing insights, experiences & thoughts. Hopefully this blog can be a place to aid you in understanding yourself, nature & the LD/OBE experience. May it aid your thirst for personal truth. May it entertain, inspire & help others in living a life of peace, harmony and greatness.
Become a seeker of truth!
"Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you." Matthew 7:7 GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
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