The Malleable Light

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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