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Points of Interest Along Your Dreamtime Itinerary

mystillate — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:43:59 GMT

Years ago, I found myself in a strange place. It was a hardscrabble desert with reddish brown mountains in the distance. Train tracks crisscrossed the plain, leading off into infinity. I wasn't supposed to be there; I slipped in behind another Dreamer who had a chantkey to the place. An olive skinned woman in colorful Gypsy garb appeared shortly after I arrived and snarled at me to "leave the plain!" I didn't - I just stood around gawking - and she appeared again and tossed me out on my ear.

There is a city where it's always night and the streets are always wet, as if it has just rained. There's a boardwalk by a body of water (or so I'm told; I've never seen it), there's a neighborhood where everyone wears a mask, and there used to be a huge building that had a vast marketplace and many, many living spaces inside. The building was bigger inside than out and the interior sported many doorways to other planes. I had an apartment there until the whole building just collapsed into rubble one day, whether due to age or the machinations of the demons that lived in the dark places within, I don't know.

I've found, through talking to other travellers of the Dream, that these seem to be stable places that a lot of Dreamers know about. Anyone know more about them, or know of other places?

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Introduction and more

Ravenspoetry — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:34:45 GMT

Hi, my name is Erin. I have most of my clairvoyancy in my dreams. This has been happening since I was three. I am a lucid dreamer/vivid dreamer, dream walker (astral travel) and most importantly my roll of my dreams is to help those that are passing or just passed to the next realm. I am not the one to judge, just the one inbetween realms that is able to see and hear both sides while sleeping.

My totem is an owl, I have known it for a long time, it just took me a while to get used to the Crone roll and accept that I would never have children, I knew I was born the Crone. I chose to give up having children for a different reason, because I suddenly started having seizures at 21 for no reason, but at 25 I accpeted my Crone roll after losing a child to a seizure.

On the owls; I am one of the few people who have always heard them fly, even when their wings are so downy they are almost silent for hunting. They call to me in the night when I am outside and I can SEE them in the sky when others cannot. I can see mother's teaching owlets to fly and they always fly near me and call out to me.

I am a genealogist, who goes through some rather strange ways about finding her information, but then I always proof my work with logical backed up work. I am an empath who feels the pain of the living as well as those who have passed. Even though they have passed to a better realm, one without pain, when they come here they let me know their pain in my dreams, it is like if they want to talk to me, to come to a lower realm they have to give something up, though some are very happy to let weight off their shoulders. My fourth great grandfather died in a poorhouse in Madison County, VA in 1888 and he came back because I asked God to please ask him to come explain why the family would leave him alone dying in a poorhouse. The family didn't leave him, he left them so as not to be a burden on them as he was the executor of the will and was being sued by all the relatives for property and money, he gone to debtors prison, lost his wife's 100 acres that was willed to her and lost all the land because his brother and he could NOT get along and so he chose to cut his ties with them for them.

I have always had the 3 number vibration follow me through life but not 6, it had to be a 3, 33, 333, the times and 9, 99, and 11:11 when my grandmother's sister died two weeks ago. The same date as my grandmother 6/12 which in my eyes is of course 9. 6+ 1+2 =9. When I was 9 I drempt I would die before/at 33, I almost did, 3 months before my 33rd birthday. God said it wasn't my time, that I had two nephews to teach, except I only had one at the time, I have two now. And I have a friend's daughter that is like a neice and calls me auntie, that would be my third. She is extremely empathic as are the two boys.

I just thought I would write a little about me since many don't write often on here. Is there a reason for that?

Slainte!
Erin

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dreaming I THINK. I was someplace, and not excepted due to not having the symbol

philip — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:56 GMT

This was weird..and woundering if it was a dream or not? Has anyone had this happen to them?

Iam a guy..but when I went to sleep I was all of a sudden a girl I think. I looked down and had a dress on..didnt really remember who I was at that time (very weird). I was some where else..then I remember someone saying you do not have the symbol..then I woke up right after the person said that.

Post back to me if you like..and email me at pkakz@aol.com

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Dreaming ourselves awake 21Dec2012

johnkellden — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:50:41 GMT

Is it possible?

I've had these recurring lucid dreams -
mostly meeting in "lounges", in a nutshell -
that we are perfectly on schedule.

I've talked with others, telling me that it is
very very difficult to "see" 21 Dec 2012.

Other's here have had any related dreams?

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Dreaming things that haven't happened...yet

Sno — Thu, 06 May 2004 17:43:52 GMT

It's so weird to wake up from an intensely visual dream... The sensation I feel is extremely disorienting. I feel like I've walked through a wall sometimes, or a thin, but completely opaque silvery surface (like a mirror or photograph). The only difference is that the imagined reality often looks identical to the physical waking world. Sometimes I dream about that things I'm going to do and wake up only to realize it hasn't happened yet. For instance, I was imagining that I would install a cat door for my friend's cat. Of course, I know that this will get done eventually, but to see it functional in my dream and then to wake up from that reality, is extremely frustrating. I'm sure that this is one of the reasons I don't recall most of my dreams. If dreaming is just intense astral travel, then of course I would get bored and frustrated doing everything over and over again. Have you ever dreamed about intesely repetitive tasks as you are going to sleep after having done those things all day? It's kind of like that only in reverse.

Sno

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VERY IMPORTANT

nikki — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:14:42 GMT

For years now i have had dreams that makeme very worried about my sister. Dreams so intense that i would have to call home to make sure she was ok. And my aunt who gets visions, just had one about her. She said that she could feel a great deal of sadness ect. around her/ coming form her. And then she saw a dean man in a wooded area covered in twigs and such. I need to know what all this means cuz i am very worried about my sister.

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Dreaming to Escape

sustcomm-at-Yahoo — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:31:40 GMT

NorthWest Homestead

I live here on the North Coast. But I have some land up in Washington that needs a good home.

This place is way out of sight up on a hilltop that is situated way up in Ferry County in North East Washington State and is near water and National Forest lands.

It is a very private and sunny 10 acre piece of land with a view that would make a great Self Sustainable Solar Powered Homestead for someone who wanted to start putting some roots down in one place and to build their own natural home in a place that has few building restrictions.

The land is nicely situated way up high on a grassy hilltop with a great view overlooking the beautiful Kettle River valley and then across to the mountains on the other side.

It is about 5 miles north of the historic little town of Curlew on highway 21 up in the northern end of the county and it is near tribal lands and other good folks in the local community.

Good building sites, almost flat in many places, Trees out behind and not too far from the year around creek below and within a short walk out back to a National Forest that extends way up the mountain behind you and with grassy fields to the south and below and at a relatively Low Elevation of only 2500 feet you may be able to grow almost anything there and it is a nice sunny spot that is perfect for Solar Power. You will need to put in a well, eventually. There is power and there should be phone lines nearby. It is not that far out but I would stay off the grid and out of sight.

I just want to find a good home for this place since I am committed elsewhere and can't get away. But I live off the grid myself on all Solar power and have been doing so for over twenty years on raw undeveloped land as far as the cocunty is concerned and that means very low taxes stay in place long term. They don't see a house, they don't tax a house.

Consider this to be a safe haven that you can actually retreat to and live when you retire or on in any time of need or as a place to bring together around to create a sustainabvle way of life in community. - T

http://sustcomm.com/curlew10.htm

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Nietzsche on Dreams...

Sno — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 03:31:20 GMT

Dreams.-On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection-most dreams are bungled- they are symbolic chains of scenes and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed at ourselves when we remember our dreams. We use up too much artistry in our dreams-and therefore often are impoverished during the day.

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Dreaming darkness...

Sno — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:40:28 GMT

Ever have a night of dreamless sleep?

I'm thinking that it must be becuase I'm not getting enough rest and I'm really pushing myself to the limit of my ability. Perhaps Nietzsche was right? If we only have a certian finite amount of energy to put into our day to day, then even while we are asleep, some energy must get used up through dreaming, right? I guess if I'm really that exhausted, I won't dream. Do you dream if you're exhausted?

Sno

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Enchanted Creatures of Love and Light

ashlian — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:06:31 GMT

hi, i'm a member of Enchanted Creatures of Love and Light, and i think you might want to join too.

http://tribes.tribe.net/norcalfaeries

creativity and love to you all,
ash

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Life is but a dream...

Sno — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:31:22 GMT

Here in Amsterdam the last few days have been incredibly dreamlike. The feeling of being in love coupled with the heavy hash smoking has produced an euphoric effect the likes of which I´ve never seen before. The new language barrier thing is trippy too. It makes all social interaction incredibly isolating. I say as little as possible, unlike my emails (ha, ha). So, I did manage to dream something, but it wasn´t any different than my waking experience. It´s moments like these when I realize that dreams may only affect us during sleep when the feelings they embody are otherwise somehow suppressed during normal waking consciousness. My hypothesis is that if we suppress certain emotions, in other words we avoid certain experiences altogether (which it is in our natures to experience), then we experience these emotions during our sleep in our dreams. It is possible, and perhpas preferrable to experience these feelings during unconsious sleep, but residual memory of our experience while dreaming may be disturbing to the mind which has suppressed those emotions.

One perfect example comes to mind. I enjoy a pretty healthy sex life, but resolved to avoid non monogamous sex after my engagement to my fiance. Normally this wouldn´t present any sort of problem except that in this particular situation, she happened to live 9 times zones away. This suppression of the emotion of lust, or the satisfaction of it, resulted in several weeks of erotic dreams which would often haunt me upon waking each morning. In order to combat the frequency of these images from overwhelming my thoughts, Karolina (my fiance) and I would frequently engage in phone sex. Later, after the transforming of this desire into satisfaction, I ceased to dream about blond bombshell orgies. Kind of a bummer huh? Well you should meet my fiance...

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ello?...

seegull — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:00:33 GMT

-Whistles- " anyone ere'?"...

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technique for learning lucid dreaming

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 07:49:06 GMT

1.) pour a glass of water and set it on your bedside table.
2.) stare at the glass and concentrate on it for one minute. think about the molecules of the water, how the glass feels, etc...
3.) look up at the ceiling and concentrate on a point there for one minute.
4.) one more minute concentrating on the glass again.
5.) now take a drink, concentrating on how the water feels as it goes down your throat. when you are done, set the glass down and say out loud "i will remember my dreams tonight"
6.) when you wake up in the morning, take a drink of the water, and memory of your dreams will flood back to you. as you do this exercise for a while, you will find that you will start to have moments of clarity during the dreams, and soon, you will be able to be conscious inside your dreams, controlling the environment and doing and feeling anything that you want.

it's exhilarating... i encourage you guys to try this out. it took me about two weeks of doing the thing every night before it started happening.

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Dreams of Horror

Sno — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 06:32:30 GMT

I think that I must be having nightmares. Not just ordinary nightmares either. These are the kind of nightmares that seem to drain one of energy, instead of replenishing it. It's as if I've been cast into the void of nothing in my sleep. Or else the imagery is so horrifying to think of that I immediately repress it upon awaking. I'm perhaps also dreaming vicariously thour the dreams of others. Someone who comes to mind suddenly is Henry Miller. At once, this man who lived in New York between the times of the two Great World Wars of last century, is suddenly endeared to me. I've been reading Plexus, devouring it really. I could not put it down after my customary busride today. I was so close to finishing it, that I had to go on until the end, even by the light of a lonely streetlight south of downtown. So ironic, his life seems to parallel mine in so many ways. I seem to be a bit more fortunate and of course I live in a different time. But the lessons we learn from our experiences are relatively the same, for we draw the same conclusions. Expressing the meaning of life as an exercise, mentally and spiritually significant as well as physical, in which we realize that suffering exists only to demonstrate that we are in a perpetual state of freedom, we have only the responsibility to recognize this fact and it is so. The experience of suffering serves only to preserve in us a confirmation and explanation of our true nature. To stray from this path is to take a backwards, or as Miller puts it, an oblique view on life. Fatal to artists and geniuses, this looking askance, instead of courageously, into the open jaws of destiny, (a fire breathing dragon, according to dear Henry) may be the only real cause of suffering and evil. Let me share with you now, the dream of horror that I have inherited from my "real father".

It opened with a nightmarish vertigo which sent me hurtling from a dizzy precipice into the warm waters of the Caribbean. Down , down I swirled, in great spiral curves which had no beginning and promised to end in eternity. During this ceaseless descent a bewildering and enchanthing panorama of marine life unrolled before my eyes. Enormous sea dragons wriggled and shimmered in the powdered sunlight, which filtered through the green waters; huge cactus plants with hideous roots floated by, followed by spongelike coral growths of curious hues, some sullen as oxblood, some a brilliant vermilion or soft lavender. Out of this teeming aquatic life poured myriads of animalcules, resembling gnomes and pixies; they bubbled up like gorgeous flux of stardust in the tail-sweep of a comet.
The roaring in my ears gave way to plangent, verdant melodies; I became aware of the tremors of the earth, of poplars and birches shrouded in ghostlike vapors, bending gracefully to the caress of fragrant breezes. Stealthily the vapors roll away. I am trudging through a mysterious forest alive with screaming monkeys and birds of tropical plumage. There is a quiver of arrows in my gidle and over my shoulder a golden bow.
Penetrating deeper and deeper into the wood the music becomes more celestial, the light more golden; the earth is carpeted with soft, blood-red leaves. The beauty of it is such that I swoon away. On awakening the forest has vanished. To my beffuddled senses it seems that I am standing before a pale, towering canvas on which a pastoral scene of great dignity is depicted: it resembles one of those murals by Puvis de Chavannes in which the grave, seraphic void of dream is materialized. Sedate, somber, wraiths move to and fro with a measured, haunting elegance which made our earthly movement appear grotesque. Stepping in the canvas I follow a quiet path which leads towards the retreating line of the horizon. A full-hipped figure in a Gecian robe, balancing an urn, is directing her footsteps toward the turret of a castle dimly visible above the crest of a gentle knoll. I pursue the unlulating hips until lost in a dip beyond the crest of the knoll.
The figure with the urn has disappeared. But now my eyes are rewarded by a more mystifying sight. It is as if I had arrived at the very end of this habitable earth, at the magic fringe of the ancient world where all the mysteries and gloom and terror of the universe are concealed. I am hemmed in by a vast enclosure whose limits are only faintly discernible. A head of me loom the wallsof a a hoary castle brisling with spears. Pennants blazoned with incredible emblems flutter ominously above the crenellated battlements. A sickly fungus growth chokes the broad sweeps leading out from the terrifying portals; the gloomy casements are bespattered with the remains of great carrion birds whose foul stench is unbearable.
But what awes and fascinates me most is the color of the castle. It is a red such as my eyes have never beheld. The walls are of a warm bloodlike hue, the tint of rich corpuscles laid bare by the knife. Beyond the frontier walls loom more spectacular parapets and battlements, turrets and spires, each receding in rank steeped in a more awesome red. To my terrified eyes the whole spectacle takes on the proportions of a monstrous butcher's orgy dripping with gore and excrement. (to be continued...)

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Dream fragment 7/30

Sno — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:02:04 GMT

Was hunting for ghosts and goblins in the bullrushes with my roommates. We didn't find any, but there was a grass hut in the middle of a clearing that stood on four foot stilts. We didn't go in, but kept searching around the edges of the clearing for something in the tall grasses. The wind would blow and make the most interesting rustling noise you've ever heard. We were sure that there was something else out there, but couldn't find anything.

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Astral Travel

denny — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:01:46 GMT

Consider taking the free courses at http://mysticweb.org.

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Astral Projection - A New Age Smart Consumer's Guide

Sno — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:58:19 GMT

What is Astral Projection?

Astral Projection is the process of temporarily separating your consciousness or spirit from your physical body. It is an extraordinary experience. All who have experienced it can testify to its lucidity and magical quality. Astral Travel is very different from normal dreaming. In fact, it seems even more clear than our normal daily lives; our senses seem sharper and the environment somehow more real.
In the Astral the sky is not the limit. One can fly way beyond the blue sky, into deep space exploring the planets. One can consciously project to any part of the world through concentration...
There are all sorts of hidden knowledge one can acquire through Astral Projection, knowledge that cannot be acquired in every day life, from other people or books.
This is the reason why many want to Astral Travel - to acquire knowledge through experience about ourselves, about the Earth, the Universe, or anything we want to. All of this is available to us through Astral Travel. It is something worth experiencing and verifying and it will certainly change your outlook on life for the better!

Is Astral Projection possible?

Science is finally starting to gather evidence that suggests you CAN leave your physical body and that your conscousness even survives the death of the physical body. Using brainwave technology that has been around for years, it was discovered that certain combinations of alpha and theta harmonics can cause the immediate transference of consciousness away from the physical body. It's like your brain is actually shifting gears!

Almost everyone trying these frequencies has agreed that the effect is very unusual. Several users have reported a distinct 'moving ' of their perception away from the physical body. It can normally take a lifetime of dedicated training to open the doorway to this inner journey; the Astral Projection frequency can do it in 20 minutes.

Special sine wave equipment was used to produce special acoustic audio patterns that when played through headphones, are slightly different in each ear. This effect is capable of shifting the brain waves into the desired frequency range.
During experimentation through the entire range of brainwave frequencies, the alpha and theta waves (from 5 - 12 Hz) showed the most promise. it was discovered that a combination of specific brainwave frequencies consistently caused a complete shift in consciousness to occur. While your brain is locked into these specific frequencies it triggers an altered state of awareness. This feeling is like all of your awareness suddenly being focussed into the center of your head to your pineal gland (third eye, head chakra) believed to be the seat of the soul.
You can now recreate the effect for yourself by downloading the "Astral Projection frequencies" directly from the internet and listening to them on headphones.
The audio track lasts for 20 minutes and works every single time to trigger this effect!

Although I do not advocate buying such a thing, there is a guide for sale on the internet that will provide you with details about where to go while out of your body and how to navigate so you won't get lost. It claims that it will guide you through the other various dimensions safely. It is claiming to be literally a road map to the astral plane!

I think that several of these guides must exist. The Qabalist Tree of Life is one of the first that comes to mind. There is no need to pay someone for this information, however. A few useful resources may be purchased which are much more valuable and for less money. These two books can be found in most used book stores in the occult section:

The Mystical Qabalah - Dion Fortune
777 - Aliester Crowley

With practice, you'll quickly learn to:
Fly like a bird - Feel the joy of flying free and soaring high and explore like you never could before while inside your body. Make sure that you are in a safe place when you do this. Don't let anyone interrupt you either, or touch you while you are away. Make sure that if you must astrally project in someone else's presence, that at least they know what you are doing and that they have agreed not to interfere. Safety is an important concern here. Grounding oneself after such an experience may be difficult if these precautions are ignored.

Walk through walls - This is one of the really fun points of being out of your body. You will be able to pass through any physical matter safely and with ease. Experiment with rising on the planes once this "trick" of the perception is mastered. As you leave the planet and travel "up", it will be dark for a long while. This is one of the first of such "guideposts" travellers will encounter. For more information look up the correspondences for the Sphere of Yesod on the Qabalist Tree of Life.

Meet deceased loved ones - Its possible to meet with loved ones who have passed away and to meet your spirit guides or angels. It is also possible to meet beings who would like to impersonate these trusted loved ones and manipulate us for their own ends. Use discretion and sceptical questioning to make sure not to be led astray.

Spiritual growth - As a result of Astral Projection your outlook on life will change for the better and you will experience profound awareness of your spirit and the creator, (by the way, that's you!). We create (or more acurately, we navigate) our own reality through our intention and the choices that we make.

Travel through time - It may sound far fetched but its true! You can travel to any time or place in the universe and explore. Travel to other planets or to the past present or future and witness events! The important thing to realize about this is that there are an infinite number of parallel universes, any of which may all contain the same (or similar) elements, but in a diferent order. When we witness "events" in these altered states of consciusness, it is important to understand the relativity of each separate event. All events are possible. It is the choices that we make which will ultimately lead us closer to certain events or further away, depending upon the intention of our acts that determine our choices. The power of belief plays an extraordinary role in this process surprisingly enough. It is possible to hypnotize ourselves into a powerful delusion. Hence, the danger of astral projection.

Heal yourself - It is possible to heal yourself or even others while out of your body.
This is done through vibrations of energy that travel between the chakra energy centers of separate individuals. It is possible to give over one's power to another in such an experiment. Be careful of how much you give, most illness is self inflicted and cannot be fixed by another person. It is important to explore and understand what is bringing the illness into manifestation and then address that issue instead.

Accelerated psychological change - Out-of-body experiences can help you to break free from old mental ruts and bad habits.

Increased psychic abilities & ESP - As a result of Astral Projection many people report (often erroneously) various psychic abilities and experiences of ESP. This is very difficult to prove and still has not been something that folks with this ability have been able to master. One such case study comes to mind, a woman who could see violent crimes and help authorites to find the killers could not control her visions. She could not choose whether or not to witness these "events" and could not use her ability to prevent the crimes. This may not have been due to her experrimentation in this field, she seems to have been born with this faculty.

Decreased fear of death - You will no longer have any fears of dying after experiencing the joy of existing without your body. This alone is a life changing event, not often experienced even by well experienced astral travelers. The event of death is a physical and mental event as well as spiritual. Even if the spirit is willing, often the body and brain revolt. Fear is something that everyone experiences. It is important merely to let the fear wash over us and not react to it. Then the experience is over and the event that inspired the fear can be dealt with more calmly. Death may be inevitable, but never give up fighting against it. This is the only way reincarnation is possible, to push against the encroaching darkness.

Encountering a being of light, an angel, or Astral Entities - Many people report face-to-face meetings with various forms of nonphysical inhabitants. Astral Projection researcher Dr. Stuart Twemlow reports that 37% of people who Astral Project become aware of the presence of nonphysical beings such as guides, helpers or angels. Most of these beings are dangerous to trust. There are correspondences in the Qabalist language that can serve as guideposts. Without these helpful reminders, the astral traveller could be led into madness and delusion. If you encounter such a being in your travels, there are certain signs or passwords that can be used to test whether the entity should be regarded as friend or foe. Most magical orders provide these to their initiates, those without such safeguards are playing with the most deadly fire.

Awareness of your true self - While out of your body you will be more aware of who you really are then ever before in your life. When out of your body things are always much clearer and it feels even more real then life inside your body.

Influence the minds of others - When out of your body its possible to affect the dreams of any sleeping person to influence their mind. This is one of the greatest powers of Astral Projection when properly mastered. An interesting point to mention here also is the fact that this ability could only be tested under the most extraordinary of circumstances. I think what is really happening under this circumstance is an increased ability to connect with the subconscious in such a way that only the most "comfortable" path is chosen among the possible events that one find available in time/space. This sense of harmony with one's environment could be interpreted to mean "influence", but this may be merely an error in the perceptions of dis-empowered beings.

Solve any problems - Learn how easy it is to solve difficult problems that seem impossible normally but when out of your body problems become much easier to solve. This sounds like "dissociation" and an undisciplined mind could easily substitute this psychological defense for actual astal projection and lead one toward a delusion of the worst kind. Problems generally have more than one solution, and procrastination and avoidance are generally handy in a pinch, but only prolong the inevitable. If you are having trouble with a problem that you cannot solve, get some help! There is nothing enlightened about escapism.

Increased self-respect, self-responsibility and inner dependence - Many recognize, often for the first time, that they are the creative center of their physical existence. They often experience the vast potential and power of their inner, nonphysical self and tap into their creative essence. Many people have told me that they realize more than ever that they are completely responsible for all their actions, both thoughts and deeds.

Accelerated personal development - You will see a great change inside yourself that will benefit you greatly mentally, physically and spiritually.

Increased intelligence, memory recall and imagination - Many people report that their out-of-body experiences have somehow enhanced their awareness and intelligence. Probably this is also delusional thinking. People who astra project often are more likely to be susceptible to delusional thinking, especially about themselves.

Profound sense of knowing instead of believing - Personal knowledge is powerful and life-changing especially when compared to beliefs. Out-of-body experiences provide firsthand, verifiable knowledge of our immortality and our spiritual identity. This knowledge cannot be adequately explained - it must be experienced.
As a skeptic, I'm not sure how to verify firsthand experience. It seems a little bit contradictory. But in my experience, the power of belief plays a strong role here too. It's a problem of putting the cart before the horse, saying: 'I believe that I know', instead of saying: 'I know that I believe'.

Watch out for Guide books that sound like a TV infomercial:

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Anyone who wants to sell these tools to you is a thief and a liar.
These things can only be mastered through constant sceptism. Check your resources out thoroughly against other sources. Compare and contrast everything with everything else. Only by uniting every one thing with its opposite can we discern any kind of meaning in our universe. The laws of analogy are useful and scientific method too. Test your hypothesis by selecting your control group carefully. Look for hidden variables and unknown possible sources of error. This is the way to avoid the pitfalls in these studies.

Good luck and happy journeys!

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April 3, 2004

Sno — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:28:18 GMT

Last nights dreams were tantalizing and erotic. I seem to have this dream pretty often. It started out on the playa and I was trying to put a huge parachute tent up with my friend Jim all by ourselves. There didn't seem to be anyone else there and it was night so we couldn't see very far. Anyway, the dream ended up changing pretty abruptly, probably because our situation was absolutely hopeless. I don't know when the dream switched into something erotic, but it certainly wasn't erotic about Jim. I think he wandered off somewhere in search of some help, or maybe that was me...anyway, the next thing I recall is being naked with some kind of angelic goddess. I think I meet this entity in dreamspace quite often. The visual impression is one of being bathed in pure light. When I wake up I usually try to put this experience into something more tangible, so invariably I fantasize about any number of different women in my life who turn me on in a dimly similar way.

Before bed last night I was at a party and someone started talking to me about a certain indian tribe whose culture asserts the possibility that our waking life is just as much dream as our dreaming life. This person went on to explain that when things aren't going so well when we are awake, this situation is no different than
when things are not going well in a dream. Apparently, it seems to be related to Hindu conceptions of Maya, or even the Bhuddist Trance of Sorrow. The illusion of impermanence that gives way to something eternal, is this nirvana?

This conversation brought up a lot of issues for me, and I think that I will need to meditate more on what it means to me.

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March 31st, 2004

Sno — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 03:49:18 GMT

Last night had a dream about trying to get art to fly. There was my ex girlfriend from three years ago and a couple of her friends too, they seemed to be helping me. Alas, it seemed hopeless, so much darkness in that dream, no light and finally waking up. After dozing off again I recall going somewhere to eat in my dream and telling the guy making my food that I couldn't eat any wheat or gluten, so he was going to make me something special. I forget what it was though. It's true I am on a gluten free diet, and today I submitted a proposal for an art project to the Black Rock Arts Foundation. I hope they like it.

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March 30th, 2004

Sno — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:27:51 GMT

Dreaming in shadow again, woke up feeling like I was somewhere else. The familiar seizing of my nervous feet by the cat reminded me I was at home.

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March 29, 2004

Sno — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:50:13 GMT

Talking to my friend Justin about how cultures act as groups only in the subconscious. That's why mob mentality only operates if there is a high level of confusion. Conscious power of control is given up by the individual to the tribe or to the group. Dreams are a way for individuals to make their mark on the dominant cultural paradigm. I've created this forum to aid dreamers in their quest for additional support. It is my feeling that archtypes and motifs that interact with us in our dreams can also interact with us in our waking life. If we can connect ourselves in spite of the disparity between the two perceptions of reality (ie. dream and wakefulness) then we have come a long way to unifying consciousness in an incredibly positive way. Once we recognize we are all in the same dream, things will start to make a lot more sense to people.

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