The Malleable Light

Anyone who has been around meditation or the exploration of consciousness scene long enough knows about binaural beats and how they can be used to coax the brain into specific rhythms. I have been using a wide variety of beats for about two years now including Hemi-Sync, Brain Sync and a few others. I have have produced some objective results using beats in regards to faster learning, more intense focus and with lucid dreaming and OOBEs.  The thing is,  it’s hard to know if the results are being manifested from my intent or  if the beats play some part. I tend to think that binaural beats do work based on the research that has been done at the Monroe Institute, however without personal experience to back it up I can only consider it a likely possibility.

A few months ago I was looking through the iPhone store  for applications to dynamically generate binaural beats and I came across the term isochronic tones. Interesting! I quickly headed over to Google and started reading about this new technology. Wikipedia defines them as:

Isochronic tones are regular beats of a single tone used for brainwave entrainment. Similar to monaural beats, the interference pattern that produces the beat is outside the brain so headphones are not required, but since isochronic tones are more pronounced, the stimuli is even stronger. They differ from monaural beats which are a sine wave pulse rather than entirely separate pulses of a single tone.

The reason I was looking for an app to generate beats was because I got tired of having to depend on one implementation to generate some kind of result. I would rather just have an interface that allows for frequency adjustments and dynamic track overlays. I found a few iPhone apps that would do this, but the tracks were always limited and were of very poor quality, to the point of being a distraction. Then there are so many apps of this type within the store that it seems more like a get rich scheme rather than designed to actually do anything.

Last night curiosity got the best of me so decided to try out the AmbiScience™ series. The application I bought is called Pure Meditation | AmbiScience™ by By Tesla Audio Sciences. I think it ended up costing me a whopping $2.99. What sold me on this product was the fact that it uses the isochronic tones that I have been wanting to try and the track names sounded interesting with names like Lapis Lazuli, Fire Opal, Amethyst, Topaz, The Android’s Dream and many others. As you might have guessed, it lets me pick a frequency and then lay tracks over the top, which was my original goal. Full description here.

So what did the pudding taste like? This morning around 6 AM I ended up using Shamanic Meditation Low Pitch (Isochronic tones at 4.5HZ) with a Brown Noise overlay. The track volume was at 100% and the tone volume at 75%. The iPhone volume was set at about 8. The product allows for a 4.5 – 9 HZ frequency with a choice of binaural beats or isochronic tones. I was laying on my right side and I began to use a concentrative type meditation. The goal at first was to have no thought and then I progressed to just focusing on the tone. The brown noise track basically sounded like a soft wind.

My wife was sitting in front of me holding the baby and I remember hearing him occasionally. Within about 10 minutes he started fading and I felt a floating sensation. I shifted my focus away from my body and upwards and felt myself float up through the ceiling of the room and out of the house. I drifted up higher and off into the sky and then started spinning head over heal  back down into the house. The entire time I was consciously aware that I was in an altered state and could hear the tone the entire time. I had pretty good control over this experience. I like the sensation of flying so I ended up flying all over the sky above our house for several minutes.

I shifted my focus back to my physical body and found myself laying in bed staring at my wife holding the baby. I decided to end the experience and reached up to take the earphones off and my hands passed though my head. I discovered that I was still in the altered state and had actually been looking at her through my closed eyelids. I simply focused on coming back into phase with my physical body, felt gravity and knew I was really back. I opened my physical eyes and my wife was in the exact spot and position that I saw her in while in the altered state.

I found this experience interesting  in that the isochronic tone seemed to have locked me  into this altered state because I had to really focus on pulling myself out of it. This is a very good sign! Perhaps I will be able to repeat this again. We shall see.

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I started my journey for spiritual growth about 1.5 years ago. From the beginning I have intuitively known that I need to quiet the incessant cacophony in my head to make any real progress. This has been a real challenge with so much work all the time. I have been searching for a practical meditation technique that only retains the active components needed to be effective without any added nonsense. The Buddhist meditation was close but didn’t totally connect with my personality.

I am not going to claim success, because I just don’t have enough experience with this technique to do that however I do know that Thomas Campbell’s meditation technique showed some positive results last night on the first try. I really liked when he said that humanity is just a wrinkle in the fabric of consciousness and by using a simple mantra we can create enough background noise to remove the wrinkles leaving only pure consciousness. He has a way with words that I can relate to. Eckhart Tolle almost had me there but not quite. The funny part is that I have been saying all along that the mantra itself didn’t matter but I missed a vital component.  I think the key was that I was using real words that were attached to meanings and that was creating thoughts. Last night for the first time I used an alternating mantra of sounds with no meanings. Each manta contained 5 syllables with only the third syllable changing which created resonate meaningless complex sounds which I kept coming back to anytime thoughts would arise.

I went to bed tired at about 10:30 PM and put on my headphones and started listening to Brain Sync Dream Wave Meditation to block out background noise and then started the mantra ah-lum-bar-dee-dum – ah-lum-baa-dee-dum over and over.Within 10 minutes all I could hear in my head was bar-baa bar-baa. 10 minutes after that all physical sensory perception was gone and I was a single point of consciousness floating in 3d blackness. I could feel a surge of energy flowing through my body and my heart felt like it was racing prior to this. I ended the meditation session and went to sleep.

I woke up at 2:30 AM itching and could not seem to go back to sleep so I got up and went to the restroom and then came back to bed and listened to some random music for a few minutes until I started getting sleepy again. I put on Brain Sync – Brain Massage this time and started the mantra again. I fell asleep within a few minutes.

Around 4:00 PM I woke up in vibrations and instinctively exited my body and was standing in front of my house in the dark. I must have teleported there. This was the first OOBE followed by 2 more. The first one was interesting and I will just say that I was creating my surroundings just by thinking about what I wanted. I will not get into too many details. I had a second OOBE but I can’t actually remember what happened, only that it occurred.

The third OOBE was the most interesting of the three. I was standing on the top of some building that stood alone in some remote country landscape at daybreak. I was thinking to myself about how I had always wanted to project into space. I figured I would give it a try. I thought about flying into space and instantly was projected upward at and incredible speed and stopped at an unknown altitude in complete darkness. With my mind I asked to see the cosmos and suddenly at what appeared like an altitude of about +50º to my right appeared the Milky Way Galaxy with the Moon sitting in front of it. I was so crystal clear and beautiful that I can’t even describe it. I found myself back in waking awareness right after this and then went back to sleep  and had no other experiences.

I would like to point out that if you are going to use Thomas Campbell’s technique for meditation then you will need to read his trilogy My Big TOE. Although I explained his technique above, there is a lot of reading material that leads up to that technique and prepares you for how to effectively use the technique. The main part is adjusting the attitude. Like I said, Eckhart Tolle get’s very close to the exact same message but comes across in a slightly less direct manner. Thomas Campbell is a nuclear physicist and is one of the main guys that helped Robert Monroe invent Hemi-Sync and start the Monroe Institute. He was also one of the main players participating in their exploration of consciousness.  It’s no surprise to me that the technique worked so well.

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This week is finally drawing to an end and the extreme pain that I have been experiencing after having the bottom two wisdom teeth yanked out a week ago is now fading. I am beginning to get my focus shifted back in the direction of Astral Projection, and with a powerful new weapon in my arsenal.

You might say that I asked for out of body experiences and the universe is listening. I really do see bright things in my future. Today my new Performer 2400 – Heavy Duty Chi Generator® arrived in the mail. This device is life force generating powerhouse. All I can say is that if you give you will receive and I want to send a big thanks to the sender (you know who you are).

The purpose of the Chi Generator® is to energize yourself and to add power to all of your actions at a distance, such as in combination with a manifestation program or with an older-type manifestation or radionics device, i.e., any device without a built-in Chi Generator®.

This particular model is very powerful and has 12 preset frequency settings, one of which resonates at a frequency ideal for lucid dreaming. It also has three other separate dials that allow for precision frequencies.

The performer 2400 basically emits low pulse life force energy in the exact frequency of brainwaves in a similar fashion as Brainsync  and other technologies do, however with a huge difference. When you are in a field of low pulse life force energy your brain can adjust very rapidly to it’s frequency and the need for sound or other devices such as light are no longer needed. This basically means you really don’t need binaural  sound beats or headphones anymore, you can just turn this machine on and set a transfer next to your bed and go to sleep (or not).

I do like the sound tracks so I doubt I will stop listening to them.

I have added a link to http://www.hscti.net, the maker of this device to my links below. Please take a short trip over to this site and check out all of the devices. You may want to consider purchasing one of these devices if you are a die hard  binaural  beat user, as it will eliminate the need for sleeping with headphones as I mentioned earlier and on top of that, the actual applications for this device are as limitless as your imagination.

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I had a very interesting experience with “Hemi-Sync – Journeys Out of Body – Condition C” last  night. I read about 20 pages of Monroe’s – Far Journeys” and then at about 11:30 PM I got sleepy and I started off my night listening to the complete “Hemi-Sync – Gateway Experience – Introduction to Focus 10″ track. This track completed and I started listening to “Condition C’, but I was too sleepy and I fell asleep.

Before I go any further I want to share with everyone the difference between these tracks in the “Hemi-Sync – Journeys Out of Body” collection. This is straight from the guidance that comes with it.

The Borderland Sleep State, Condition A.

“Lie down, preferably when you are tired and sleepy, As you become relaxed and start to drift off into sleep, hold your mental attention on something, anything, with your eyes closed. Once you ca hold the borderland sleep state indefinitely without falling asleep, you have passed the first stage. You will know you are successful when you become bored and expect something more to happen.”

Bob, described Condition A as “the ability to hold calmly in the borderland sleep state, indefinitely, with your mind on an exclusive thought.” Continue using the Condition A support exercise until you have achieved this state.

The Condition A support exercise consists of Hemi-Sync audio-guidance designed to help you stay awake and alert. At 20-minute intervals, an extended reminder sequence refereed to as the “beacon guidepost” is repeated with additional reinforcing Attention/Concentration frequencies, and a short verbal reminder in Bob’s voice, “remember your purpose….”

This exercise and all that follow are one hour in length and can be repeated automatically, if desired, by setting the appropriate controls on your CD player (refer to your owner’s manual).

Condition B

Similar to Condition A, but with the concentration eliminated. “Do not think of anything, but remain poised between wakefulness and sleep. Simply look through your closed eyes at the blackness ahead of you. Do nothing more. You have accomplished Condition B when you are able to lie indefinitely after the impressions have faded away, with no nervousness, and seeing nothing but blackness.”

The Condition B support exercise is identical to the Condition A exercise, without the repeating reminder sequences. As you begin to acclimate to this borderland sleep state, you will no longer need the reminders and they will simply get in the way.

Condition C

“Condition C is a systematic deepening of consciousness while in the B state. This is approached by carefully letting go of your rigid hold on the borderland sleep edge and drifting deeper, little by little, during each exercise.

“Condition C is characterized by the shutting down of various sensory mechanism inputs, The sense of touch apparently goes first. You seem to have no feeling in any part of your body. Smell and taste soon follow, The auditory signals are next, and the last to fade out is vision.”

The Condition C support exercise, as in the previous two exercises, uses “Hemi-Sync audio-guidance designed to help you stay awake and alert. At 20-minute intervals, the Attention/Focus/Concentration signals re replaced by “Hemi-Sync signals designed to allow you to drift deeper and deeper into the borderland sleep state and reinforcing signals conducive to the out-of-body experience and lucid dreaming.

Condition D

“Condition D is the achievement of C when one is fully rested and refreshed, rather than tired and sleepy, at the beginning of the exercise.”

The final exercise in the series switches to “Hemi-Sync audio-guidance frequencies designed to help you move from a fully awake and refreshed state, into a state of deep relaxation. At 20-minute intervals, additional reinforcing signals are added conductive to the out-of-body experience and lucid dreaming.

Like clockwork I woke up at 4 AM for my bathroom run. I seriously think I have reprogrammed myself to automatically wake up at 4 AM because it happens every night now. When I woke up the headphones were still on and had been looping “Condition C” for the last 4 hours.

I went back to bed and fell asleep listening to ”Condition C” again. I am not sure how much time passed but I ended up in a dream. I was in an unfamiliar room with a bunch of people I seemed to know in this dream, however in waking life, looking back on it, I don’t think I know any of them.

The room I was in was like a huge sleeping area with several beds however it also resembled/span a classroom. I was at the front of the room where the chalkboard would be with someone that I knew in my dream (but not in real life), and I was trying to get some sleep. There were about 40 other men and women in the classroom part of the room partying there heads off. There were several long folding tables lined up and they were running back and forth between them.

This all seemed quite innocent at first and I was getting annoyed by it all because I was trying to sleep. Then for some reason this took a turn for the wild side and people started taking off their clothes. I looked at the person I was with at the front of the room and we both seemed a bit shocked by it all.

I got the idea that I was considered the prudent type by everyone in the class including this person that was with me at the front.

The wild party continued to spiral out of control and people ended up having sex and I then realized that I wasn’t going to get any sleep and then for some reason every one’s focus turned to me. I remember being picked up by several of the people and thrown right into the midst of this orgy. This is when I realized that the situation I was in was to bizarre to be real and instantly I became lucid in my dream.

I guess I didn’t feel worthy or I chickened out, but I willed myself away from this sex party and thought about exiting my body. I was immediately back in my bed in the vibrational state. I think I had already transitioned to by astral body because I could see right through my eyelids and was looking at the wall beside me in my bedroom. I guess I chose the wrong exit strategy because I tried to raise my upper body up with my arms, kind of like a push up,and when I did, I ended up snapping back into my body. I woke up and opened my eyes and was facing the wall. How annoying.

What have I learned from all of this? I have learned that I can transition from a dream to a lucid dream and then from a lucid dream to out of body. I have also learned that I chicken out when thrown into a huge group of naked women in a dream. LOL.

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Last night I was very tired and didn’t feel like trying to project, however I didn’t want to waste a night so I got the Gateway Experience tracks out loaded up “Wave I – Discovery 2 – Introduction to Focus 10.mp3″. My goal was to practice achieving “Focus 10″.

I am the “oncall” guy this week at work so I am required to carry a Blackberry with me everywhere I go and must respond to any pages that come in. These pages alert me when customers run into issues with our hosted web applications or if one of my monitors indicate a server issue. These pages can come in at any hour of the day or night.

I become relaxed around 11 PM and put on the “Introduction to Focus 10″ track and started visualizing what Monroe was saying. I would like to point out that I always start off my sleep with the Gateway Affirmation because I “firmly” believe that thoughts become reality. The affirmation goes like this:

I am more than my physical body. Because I am more than physical matter, I can perceive that which is greater than the physical world. Therefore, in these exercises, I deeply desire to Expand, to Experience, to Know, to Understand, to Control to Use such greater energies and energy systems as may be beneficial and constructive to me and to those who follow me. Also, during these exercises, I deeply desire the help and cooperation, the assistance, the understanding of those individuals whose wisdom, development and experience are equal to or greater than my own. I ask their guidance and protection from any influence or any source that might provide me with less than my stated desires.

I got to the section that takes you through relaxing each part of the body and then had a vision of floating over this endless plane of three dimensional cubes lining the ground below me.  This quickly disappeared and I was staring at the blackness again. Suddenly had the feeling that my body was swaying from side to side and that I was floating. I felt a surge of energy (vibration around my heart) and then without warning it was all shot down by the blackberry pager which sounded and pulled me completely back to waking life.

I got up out of bed and noticed that it was one of my monitors that I put in place. It was nothing critical so I went back to bed and put on “Hemi-Sync – Journeys Out of Body – Condition A”. I figured I was done with “Focus 10″ for the night and that I would just try for normal sleep. I wasn’t trying hold myself in the borderland sleep state by listening to “Condition A”, I just thought that something might happen involuntarily if I had it on.

20 minutes later heavy vibrations started which were interrupted by Monroe’s voice saying “Remember your purpose”. I was awake again at this point, completely out of the trance. I laid in bed for another 20 minutes and heavy vibrations started and once again were interrupted by Monroe’s voice saying “Remember your purpose”.  I finally fell asleep somewhere between one to 19 minutes later.

I woke up at 4 AM and had a strange swimming sensation going on in my head. The headphones  had fallen off at some point. I went for a bathroom run and then came back to bed and put “Condition A”.  I started staring at the blackness and 15 minutes later I felt like there was something with me, a presence in the blackness. I don’t think I was out of body but I asked the question “Am I doing things right?” and I clearly got a reply back, “You are doing things perfect”. I took the headphones off and fell asleep.

So what does all of this mean? I really have no idea. I think that I should move on to the “Condition B” track that doesn’t have Monroe’s reminders.

I am pretty sure I would have reached the out of body state if it had not been for ”Remember your purpose”.

I can’t do anything about the Blackberry alerts that wake me up, but it would have been interesting to have seen it progress further.

The reply that I got to my question seems to indicate that I am on the right track. We will see .

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I wrote a small blog entry 5 days ago about “Hemi-Sync Support for Journeys Out of the Body”, so I am taking the time to give a small progress report, especially after last night.

I went to bed around 10 PM last night and read 30 pages of Robert Monroe’s book “Far Journeys”. I am actually reading his books in reverse, I started with reading “Ultimate Journey”. It was lights out at 10:30 PM and I put my headphones on and began listening to “Condition A”.

I spent the first 15 minutes staring at blackness and repeating affirmations. Then some unusual events started unfolding before my closed eyes. I first started seeing the pulsating colors that I mentioned in a previous blog entry. This resembles the colors that appear on an old TV if you stick a magnet on it, the colors start out by covering my complete field of vision and then move inward to single point and then disappear. I would like to mention that there is a pattern here in that when I see these colors, I am right on the edge of stranger things.

The colors lasted for about 5 minutes and then I started seeing very vivid mental imagery. First I saw a coiled rope in perfect clarity laying on the ground and then it vanished quickly. Next, I felt that I was floating in a forest at twilight, I was 20 feet above the tree tops and the trees, they were all bare and displayed perfect white branches. There were thousands of these trees. The sky was a beautiful dark blue color and the stars were out. This vision quickly disappear. Next I heard a voice very clearly say “There it is!”

The voices and imagery stopped after about a minute “I think” and I sat up in bed. When I sat up, I noticed that something felt wrong, I didn’t feel my body’s weight or sense of touch. I suddenly realized that I was out of my body and instantly was snapped back and sat up again and noticed I still had the headphones on listening to “Condition A”.

I will continue using this product as it seems to induce the OB state very effectively.

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I brought up the Gateway Experience over on the Astral Pulse Forum a few days ago and CFTraveler mentioned Hemi-Sync Support for Journeys Out of the Body” as a cheaper alternative.

I have listened to the first 4 tracks of the “Gateway Experience” and the material is great and I was able to see some results but after looking over the “Support for Journeys Out of the Body” series I think I am going to put “Gateway Experience” aside for awhile. I want to pursue my more immediate goal which is to achieve OBEs. This is no way means that I giving up on the “Gateway Experience” as I plan mastering each wave in the series.

Here’s a brief overview of Hemi-Sync Support for Journeys Out of the Body” from the Monroe Institute’s website:

The out-of-body-experience (OBE) is a state in which one’s consciousness appears to depart the physical body allowing perception by means other than those of the physical senses.  Hemi-Sync® Support for Journeys Out of the Body is an in-home training series designed to provide Hemi-Sync audio-guidance to those who desire to achieve this state. With practice, one can be brought up to the borderland sleep state, and through it, to experience the out-of-body state with full conscious awareness. 6 CDs with Guidance Manual.

So you see that while the “Gateway Experience” series is well rounded, this series is targeted at relaxation and Out of the Body experiences.

The price is $99 and can be found on The Monroe Institute website.

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Last night I was very tired and had the beginning signs of a migraine and witnessed my first failed migraine visual aura right before bed. Normally when the visual aura appears it’s a 45 minute process of progressive visual hallucinations. I was not going to risk it coming back so I headed to bed.

I watched TV for about 20 minutes and then at about 11 PM I put on the headphones and started listening to Hemi-Sync – Wave I – Discovery 3 – Advanced Focus 10″. Focus 10 is that state of “Mind Awake, Body Asleep”, and is not necessarily an OBE. This state is a very relaxed state in which you don’t feel much of your body anymore and you mind is totally alert.

I listened and did the breathing exercises while relaxing every muscle in my body and after about 15 minutes I found myself in Focus 10.

I was in Focus 10 for about 5 more minutes and then things started getting insteresting. The first thing that grabbed my attention was that a mans face appeared (flashed) above me. It was as if I was laying on the ground unconscious and people were standing around me waiting for me to come to. I saw a man directly over me and I could briefly hear him say something, maybe “There he is”? I sensed others standing around him. This quickly faded. I am not sure if this was hypnagogic hallucination or what, but i was alert when I saw it.

Next I found that I no longer felt my body. This was good because I was very relaxed, but it was bad at the same time because I was trying to shift my focus away from my body so that I could transition my consciousness to my higher energy body.

I wanted to test the validity of the state that I was in so I immediately shifted my focus away from my body again and I started to instantly feel a swaying feeling and felt very light. I moved my left hand down and it penetrated the bed and went right through it. I could see that I was already separated and just need to will myself away for my body.

I imagined myself floating away from my body and began to feel a slight floating sensation. I was out of my body at this point. This was abruptly ended when the Hemi-Sync track started talking again.

The moral of this story is that the Hemi-Sync technology seems to work, however I need to listen / skim ahead and see if there is a track that leaves me in the state rather than pulling me back out of it.

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