The Malleable Light

I have been reading Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now and in doing so I have learned some new things and reinforced others. While riding my bike today I was putting Tolle’s words into action and became intensely aware of the unconscious state that everyone was in while driving, walking in out of stores, etc. Even fellow cyclists were somewhere else while they listened to their mp3 players.

I tried my best not to analyze the thoughts that entered my mind during the ride. My goal was to stay present and to simply observe everything around me including myself and my own thoughts and emotions without becoming attached to any of it. It was a riding meditation.

Several thoughts ran through my mind as I rode. I thought to myself: “Why aren’t people talking to one another?”, “Why aren’t they acknowledging each others existence?”, “Where are these people going in such a hurry?”, “What will they do once they get there?”, and “What happens after they do whatever it is that had them in such a hurry?”. Maybe they will start the entire cycle over again? It all seemed so surreal to me when I was in the now. The roar of the cars seemed be more like chaos and I could actually feel the insanity of the peoples uncontrolled thoughts dragging me into unconsciousness.

When I arrived back home I turned my analytical mind back on to process what I had experienced on a physical level. People in general didn’t seem to be aware of the present, anymore more so than when they are sleeping. They seemed to be walking and driving around in a sleep state. Consciousness manifested for the experience but the experience never happening because their minds were focused on the nonexistent future and past.

I thought back to my childhood for the specific purpose of trying to understand this unconscious state they were in. Before I started school, time meant nothing to me. I didn’t think about the past or the future, only the present. I still learned new things and functioned in society much like I do now only I was closer to the source of life as a child, the root consciousness that I feel we all come from and are still connected too. I rarely see a child that’s stressed out or on blood pressure medicines. Children are generally joyful and compassionate for others and live in the moment. What a wonderful idea.

This brings me to me new year’s resolution. Starting now I resolve to be more like a child and to live more in the present, only drawing from the past and the future when absolutely necessary while living this physical life that is trapped in time and space.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually dont use it at all. It uses you. — Eckhart Tolle

David Mathis Books & Media, Meditation, Miscellaneous Consciousness, Eckhart Tolle, Life, Now, The Power of Now, Thought Provoking, Thoughts, Time

I have been in a cycle of very few dreams or other AP type events… but that seems to happen to me and soon I’ll be in a cycle where Dreams and Lucid Dreams are nightly or multiple nightly

Anyway…  I was having quite a pleasant lucid dream that I was totally content in.. I could fly, I had pretty close to full waking consciousness at times, but I didn’t feel like moving to an AP which is now often my goal when becoming lucid…

I was in a scene on the road of my primary school.. I felt like I was in my twenties or later..

Where this becomes interesting is when I get tired of the dream and decide to take some more control..

My current AP target has been Dec 2012 – Jan 2013… Every now and then in the day I recount that this is my target..  So when leaving the Lucid Dream it was natural that this is where I wanted to go.. Though I forgot to get ready for an AP (ie. aim for physical body back in bed -> project etc)..

I actually seemed to move forward (in time) within the lucid dream.. My desire to go forward in the future caused me to spin around (I actually believe that the scene around me was spinning and was I still)..

Whichever way it was, I found myself in what I took for 2012 (though no way to tell other than this is what i was aiming for) – (nothing much had happened by the looks of it!)…  I then thought I should actually aim for Jan 2013..

When I landed I was in the same location.. things look the same as they do in reality though compared to my earlier lucid dream the scene has now changed to night..

I’m in Australia.. same locale.. nighttime.. behind me is the service station just as per reality.. I stand underneath it’s cover and close to me are a few people.. There is quite a large storm off into the distance with lightning.. The ground feels as though it is trembling off into the distance (but i can’t be sure about this)..

I look to the storm and lightning and ask someone next to me “What is that?”..

“That”, they said.. “Is Krakatoa”..

???

So I’m not sure where I landed, but if it was Jan 2013, part of me on some level must think that in Jan 2013, Krakatoa has recently erupted or been erupting???

In waking life I have wondered if there will be an increase in volcanic activity while moving to 2012..  though I’ve never consciously thought about Krakatoa particularly (though i know of it) so I’m not sure how much this influenced what I saw,

Thanks for reading,

Merry Christmas
Dean

Dean Keune Lucid Dreams 2012, Flying, Lucid Dreams

I have not been sticking to my commitment to write a bi-weekly progress report so I will just do a monthly report instead, unless I am seeing a lot of activity and then I will just let the posts speak for themselves. I continuously try to consciously induce the out of body state but as I have stated so many times in the past, being busy in waking life puts a damper on any real progress. I have been meditating every night using a modified Shamatha meditation technique where I am actually laying down rather than sitting up and I have been reading Astral Dynamics and doing energy work.

The meditation is interesting but I think that laying down while meditating is probably not the best idea because I end up drifting off to sleep. I have been experiencing rushing noises right before drifting off that can only be described as the noise you might hear on a radio when the dial is between stations. I posted a video Rushing Noises / Sleep Paralysis Sounds in the video section that somewhat represents what I hear only mine are much shorter in quick bursts that fade in and out.

Astral Dynamics is great and is the best OBE guide available in my opinion. I have finally decided to just read the book rather than stopping when I don’t feel like I and progressing with certain exercises. The book states that one must understand tactile imaging and be able put it into practice to get the most out of the book however if I never read the book because I pause at every hurdle then I know for sure I will not get anything out of the book . I was able to get my hands on a wonderful Astral Dynamics overview Robert Bruce On OBEs thanks to ubikmonroe. I highly recommend this book and even if you don’t buy in to any of this, it’s a trip and worth the read.

That’s all for now. Thanks for dropping in and reading and I wish you the best of luck in your spiritual endeavors.

David Mathis Astral Projection, Meditation, Progress, Techniques Astral Dynamics, Astral Projection, Astral Projection Techniques, Meditation, Progress, Rushing Noises, Shamatha Meditation, Sleep Paralysis

I’m not sure what this is considered exactly. It seems to be a dream about projecting. I started out in the sky, realizing I was projecting. I look up and focus by finding orion. It’s the way things usually work when I project. Orion has always been the way that I focus, even in waking life, since I was a kid basically. I focused on Orion, and I said out loud that I wanted to go wherever it is that I need to go to learn whatever it is that I’m needing to learn.

I ended up in a three room shack. I walked in, and the first room has a gray and yellow chair. I walked through, basically the whole place is gray. In the last room, is a closed door. I was wondering what in the world am I going to learn here. So I started to leave by going through the wall, except I couldn’t get through it. The wall was solid. The door was locked.

A guy came in through the locked door, and had a knife. I had to defend myself by stabbing him with a fork. There was a LOT of blood, but when I left I didn’t have any stab wounds, even though he had stabbed me a lot more than the few stabs I’d gotten in on him. Eventually, I was able to go out the door, and floated up, and continued projecting. I can’t remember now what I did though. I just remember refocusing on Orion and attempting to go somewhere else.

Renate Moody Miscellaneous Astral Projection, Dreams, Lucid Dreams