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

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I didn’t see very much activity this month in the realm of Astral Projection and I’m not sure why. Once again this is not a surprise, I have only been experimenting with Astral Projection for about 5 months. Things that I suspect contributed to the dry spell include too much work at my day job, a two year old that wakes me up constantly and lack of a good strategy.

I am not sure what I can do about work other than to meditate more and learn to put it out of my mind. I will continue working with my 3 year old daughter and hopefully she will start sleeping in her room all night soon and then lastly I want to focus exclusively on the techniques that I am learning in Astral Dynamics going forward.

I am 140 pages into the book and Robert Bruce seems to have intimate knowledge of the underlying science behind Astral Projection and of the energy bodies and chakras. I will not know for sure if it’s 100% legit until I have more experience with the system, but it seems reasonable and logical at this point.

I am currently in the early stages of MBA and T.I. which Bruce suggests is the foundation for all of the techniques throughout his book. MBA (Mobile Body Awareness) deals with ones ability to focus body awareness on specific parts of the body while T.I. (Tactile Imaging) is the active use of body awareness to directly stimulate and manipulate the substance of the energy body.

I will continue to meditate and try for OBEs however my goal at this point is to learn Bruce’s system inside and out and use it exclusively for awhile and then possibly expand on it in the future. I will continue to post updates of my progress through the Astral Dynamics system.

I am grateful for my successful out of body experiences achieved while using many different techniques learned from literature by Robert Monroe, William Buhlman, Vessen Hopkins, Nicholas Newport and many others. This has proven to me that it’s possible and given me the motivation to become more precise and methodical in my approach.

To everyone reading my blog, thanks for reading and good luck on your journey, whatever that journey may be.

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I have been dry in the area of Astral Projection over the last 9 days. This is not surprising to me when I stop and consider that I have only been practicing for the last four months of my entire life (that I can remember) which is just a fart in the wind in comparison to others.

Along my journey I have had a dozen consciously induced out of body experiences and I have also read over a thousand pages on the subject between Robert Monroe’s entire collection, William Buhlman’s Adventures Beyond the Body, Matt Jones’ Lucidology videos and Vessen Hopkins’ Vehram System. These were very good resources and I highly recommend that people read and study them all. There is however one book that I have been wanting to read more than all other books and it’s called Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. I was saving the best for last.

I picked up the book last week from my friends over at Whole Life Books here in Austin. I’ve read the first 4 chapters which is about 80 pages into the 600 page book and I must admit that it’s very good.

When reading Monroe’s books he would always talk and re-entry and about the bodies that he would see hovering next to his body that mirrored his own. Monroe never really went into much detail about this but in this book it is thoroughly explained within the first 100 pages and I am sure this is just skimming the suface of what’s in the book.

He also explains a concept called “Mind-Split”. Which literally means that your consciousness exists and is fully functional in two or more different bodies at once. He also touches on a subject that I posted in one of my previous blog entries about remembering OBEs. He states that most people have successful OBEs but think they are failing at it because they don’t remember that it ever happened. I guess this would be a partial failure still, but knowing this and overcoming it is worth the price that I paid for the book alone.

I will continue reading this beast of a book over the next few weeks and put this new information into play and see if I can shorten the gap between OBEs. Make sure to check back soon as I should have some pretty cool experiences to write about and possibly some great advice.

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I really don’t search for these things, they just show up most of the time. The same friend that subtly mentioned astral projection to me over a ten year span suggested that I watch a movie called Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

The movie is about the progress of the soul as depicted through the art work and narration of an artist by the name of Alex Grey who I had remarkably never heard of.

He starts out by reviewing the human anatomy and then moves on to energy systems and how they merge together with the physical. He explores first incarnation, birth, life, spiritual enlightenment, death, the place after we die before we are reborn and then reincarnation.

Below I have selected a painting from the later part of the movie. His painting here describes a point in our progress where we see past our constricted egos and consider not only our collective consciousness on this planet but our cosmic consciousness and interconnectedness with the vast galactic web.

This movie is a great example of how the universe can speak through the physical when a person has a passion for what they do and they open their mind to their inner self. The artwork is breathtaking, inspiring and insightful. This is another movie that I highly recommend.

You will find a link to the DVD under my recommended products or the movie can be watched on google by clicking here.

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It’s my current belief that thoughts and intention literally create the universe around us. I should also mention that my version of the universe is more than stars, galaxies, physical matter, observable phenomenon and the vastness of space. It’s my opinion that the physical / tangible universe may only be 0.00000000000001% of the actual universe, and that’s assuming it’s finite.

Needless to say I am constantly setting intentions throughout each day and one of these intentions is to experience and understand nonphysical dimensions of my existence though expanded awareness into non local areas of my existence. Sometimes these intentions are answered by giving me direct communication or contact with these areas and other times it seems that the universe simply presents me with new reading material, a new documentary or perhaps a new friend or person in my life that has information to share on the subject. Last week the universe sent me a new movie called Spirit Space through my Wife’s facebook account.

I have been telling people lately that I no longer follow any established religion and instead I follow my own path which is not of faith but of direct fluctuating experience. Spirit Space is comprised of a similar group of scientific and spiritual experts who have also decided to walk their own path.

The cast; Miguel Ruiz, Laurie Monroe, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, Linda Gabriel, Dr. Linda Backman, Dr. Edgar Mitchell and F.Holmes “Skip” Atwater delve into areas such as the soul, consciousness, belief systems, astral projection, out of body experiences, past lives, quantum physics, human evolution and what happens to us after we die.

The message I took away from this film is that we all have the ability to experience things beyond that of which our physical bodies perceive and that organized religions are nothing more than part of the overall truth which is created by our thoughts. It was very refreshing to see this type of film because it indicates to me that there is an awakening that’s taking place which suggests that humans and animals are evolving as physical beings into purely spiritual beings.

I highly recommend this film for anyone who has an open mind and is searching for the truth through experience rather than just science and religion. The movie is 20 bucks and I have added a link to it under my “Recommended Products” on the left.

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Yesterday I woke up early to get ready for work. I was slightly rushed because my friend (co-worker) was waiting at the auto mechanic garage for me to pick him up. In my haste I left the Performer 2400 chi generator on the lucid dreaming frequency of 0.5 HZ all day with the “Gateway Affirmation” running on a trend. This may or may not have been responsible for my discovery of the “The Vehram Energy System”.

Later in the day after work I was out on the Astral Pulse forum and noticed a new post about the “The Vehram Energy System”. When I first looked at the title I almost dismissed it as some crazy experience or place on the astral planes with a strange name. My curiosity got the best of me so I opened the post and started reading and I quickly realized that the author had stumbled onto something unique. He was describing a book about an energy system that he was pulling energy from to create his second body and astral project. I didn’t understand much of what he was describing but it piqued an interest so bought the book and began reading.

I finished reading the book at approximately 8:30 PM and then went to bed around 9:30 PM. I fell asleep at 10:30 PM while running the mantra “I will wake up at 3:00 AM” through my until I fell asleep.

Sure enough I woke at 1:15 AM which is my normal 3:15 AM because normally go to sleep around 12 AM. I began the breathing technique outlined in the book and created the sensation of getting heavy as described. I continued this for about a minute and then I clearly remember passing into the hypnagogic state. My body got heavy and I felt my body lose the ability to move and I was left in a totally paralyzed state

While laying in blackness I did exactly what the book suggests. I willed energy from the Vehram array and directed that energy into my body and within less then a second very strong vibrations consumed me.

I was not able to exit at first so I relaxed and then rolled out to the left side and found myself standing next to my bed. Everything was all distorted at first so I asked for total awareness and clarity and almost instantly I was seeing the room and the house EXACTLY how it is in waking life.

I made a conscious effort to stay as close to the physical world as possible this time and then I walked down stairs, through the closed front door and outside. I continued walking until I was out in the street in front of my house. I turned and looked northeast towards downtown Austin which is 6 miles away and hidden behind trees. I commanded my vision to zoom in on the skyline and instantly I could see the buildings with crystal clarity. I was completely amazed by this new ability and was very excited. I looked down at the street and I could see every detail of the pavement.

Next I turned and faced southwest because I remembered once again that I told my friend that I would visit him next time I was out of body for validation purposes. I started imagining his face and for some reason I felt a rushing and could not stay focused. I woke up and it was 1:20 AM. I went down stairs and wrote up a skeleton version of this and then went back to bed to try again.

This new found system seems to work very well and I really don’t know what to think about it yet. I would like to do some validations and then report back my findings. I have added a link to the vehram.com site on the left and I recommend spending the 10 dollars for it. It’s worth it.

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This will be a short post inspired by a three hour philisophical discussion, in which a man of strong religious beliefs who I have great respect for tried to sway me into his belief system. We discussed “The Ultimate Truth”, and how religions or the lack of religion fit into the search for it. I will not disclose which religion or who I discussed this with, as it is not relevant to this blog entry.

When I was younger, one of my favorite movies was “Hell in the Pacific”, which tells the story of two men, one American and one Japanese, marooned on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific. They survive by accepting their differences and working together, despite the fact that their two countries are at war. At the end of the movie, after calling a truce, a magazine brings their conversation back to religion and war and therefore ending the truce and they begin fighting again. Minutes later a bomb lands on them and blows them to pieces. Last night’s discussion reminded me of this movie.

Our main disagreement stemmed from a hypothetical person who chooses a predefined organized religious path versus one who simply chooses his own path and how this choice will ultimately lead to “The Ultimate Truth”. The one thing that we both agreed on, is that neither of our beliefs or paths made sense to the other.

My current observation is that there may or may not be an “Ultimate Truth”; however, my logical but currently limited human brain tells me that there most likely is. What doesn’t make sense about all of this is when a person expects his religion to make sense to others and tries to force it on them. Based on the information I have collected, no one knows what the “Ultimate Truth” is or even if it exists. There are various religions of various popularity, spread across virtually every culture, all attempting to discover “The Ultimate Truth.”

My personal belief is that Earth and humans are a VERY small part of the overall picture, and confining oneself to one physical world, or even worse, to one religion, will limit one who chooses to do so. Be happy if you have found your path, even if it is a limiting path. It’s fine to share your discoveries with others, but realize that not everyone will be or will want to be on that same path and all paths may “Ultimately” lead to the same truth in one form or another.

It seems that the truth gets lost in interpretation, or perhaps the truth IS the interpretations which exist in religious silos. It’s possible that the “Ultimate Truth” lies in the absence of any interpretation. I think that the key here is to respect others for what they believe even if it doesn’t make sense to you, because it’s very likely that what you believe doesn’t make sense to them either, and that’s ok.

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It’s been over a month now since I began my journey of astral projection.  Then the night before last I was browsing meditation tutorials on youtube and “by chance” came across a preview of the videos offered on saltcube.com for lucid dreaming OBE.

The videos cost $19 dollars so I figured “what the hell” and went ahead and bought them. I watched part one this morning and I must admit, this looks VERY promising. Matt actually presents the entire process scientifically and seemingly removes the guess work from achieving this higher state of consciousness. I am very anxious to try out these new techniques.

He basically suggests that the body speaks to the mind with certain signals throughout the day and night essentially performing checks to make sure that the mind is not asleep. Once we learn what these signals are and to recognize them we can “trick” the body into thinking the mind is asleep and the body will simply shut down while the mind continues to be conscious.

The one thing I found odd about the videos was the fact that Matt seemed (may not be true) to believe that none of this was anything more than just a dream. I thought that this was a bit shallow but then I thought some more. It dawned on me that perhaps it was my definition of dream that was throwing me off. I was not considering the possibility that waking life itself is just a different  state of awareness, just a dream that’s tuned into the physical part of the universe.

The more I research this subject the more I realize that the physical brain itself is fundamentally just energy and nothing more. This means that when we experience an OBE or a lucid dream it’s just a shift in our awareness into a different energy state, the same energy that our physical brain shares but is not aware of. Therefor when we project it is indeed just a dream which is created by our physical brains just like Matt explains, and so is our waking life.

I will try these new techniques that Matt has so clearly explained and I am 99% sure I am going to see an explosion of OBEs.

Good luck everyone and I hope I am able to help you achieve the same goal as mine. I’ve added a link to saltcude. com on the left.

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