lloydnoise wrote:
Do you think you are actually seeing these things (with your eyes)?
If not, do you think the experience is happening physically or not?
If not, do you think the event is taking place externally (but on another plane/dimension) or internally, in your head?
Does it matter to you?
I am very open minded but also really rational. I do not doubt you experience something but I find it fascinating to understand it having not had such an experience myself. I have had out of body and other such lucid mental experiences but I know what they are, and I know what reality is, and (most often) how big the gap between those things is. If I see a pyramid shaped UFO during one of these experiences my brain can remind me that I have only seen such things in similar circumstances and that the likely hood of the event being 'real' is slim.
Or would you be of the opinion that what we experience day to day is less real than these experiences?
SO MANY QUESTIONS
Just as we cannot talk of visual beauty if we are blind, so we cannot discus inner spiritual beauty we have never received it – Plontinus
t is somewhat presumptuous to disdain or condemn as fake, that which does not appear likely
." - Montaigne
No i do not need to take anything. Astral and etheric experiences have been documented and explored for a very long long time across virtually all continents. there is a distinct difference between a lucid experience and an astral experience and various types and layers of perception attainable when either state. various methods.
i see visual representations of the physical, yet i know they are not physical. like a holographic projection of all involved, yet at the same time 3rd dimensional in the way they move. spirit/ghost/ether or the 'Ka' in the egyptian concept of the soul.
Sometimes i am within a projected environment , and sometimes i am in my room , completely sober, with very perceptible spirits. Some just curious, some helpful. It more often than not feels like i'm just in their space as apposed to me actually trying to visit them. But recently they have all been very nice. I've been doing lucid/astral stuff long enough and have had to question everything 900 times over to be able to tell if a character is my own creation or something that is 'other' than me. Yet i don't claim to be an expert and i'm stil trying to learn the actual navigation side of things which is difficult.
We both know there is no true separation from the internal and external world. As all external light is processed internally etc we know that higher dimensions are dependable on the lower dimensions and that no dimension or plane arises independently etc
In october i had it continually. astral spirits- was waking up with the name of islands from fi-ji and specfic parts of the amazon river, and all kinds of random information that was way too culture-specific for me to have sub consciously heard about it.
Some of it helps me, some of it does not. just collective information accessible through the archetypal language of dreams and visuals. I have learnt to distinguish between sub-concious projections and actual interactions.
Again, if there is anything that ANY person can check the validity of them selves , it is the Astral plane.
You talk in terms of likelihood (aka probability ) , but what is the likely hood of life existing on this planet? Pretty slim... but it happened. what is the likelihood of a species developing self awareness and colonizing a planet ? Pretty slim but it happened.
I do understand the difference between subjective truth and the dissolving of subjective truth in to a more conceivable objective whole etc
AS for the earlier question of does it matter, that could be applied to anything and everything. Hence why we are here--we only act upon the circumstances we are within etc
In 'my' perception, you are not a separate person to me. seperated by space maybe, but i see the universe as a single organism, that becomes increasingly self aware.
But yeah, this is all ultimately just my opinions still, and i don't claim to be in any kind of higher state of being than anyone else. A scientist can measure reality but can never tell you 'Why" it is so.I dont really buy the whole empiricist view that we are just clever monkeys. and if we are , i think we're moving way beyond that.
books for astral tips:
Tibetan Yogas of dream and sleep,
Toltec Dreaming
