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originally posted by: doobydoll
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Another time I left my body, again unintentionally. I had just finished praying, asking the Lord to please help me cope with the pain I was in, when I became aware/sensed an extremely powerful energy right next to my left arm. At the same time I had an intense 'thrill' type sensation in my abdomen which made me look down at that area of my body, and what I saw there was a spinning sparkling bright light.
This light was spinning so fast and it was full of sparkles. I could make this light expand and spin faster just by thinking/feeling love.
I noticed that the energy that I could feel to my left would intensify at the same time the spinning light expanded. So I turned to my left to look, and saw a huge beam of light coming down at an angle from above, right next to me. It was no ordinary beam of light, this was a 'solid' light, bright white. I couldn't see through it like you would an ordinary beam/ray of light. The energy within it felt SO UNIMAGINABLY POWERFUL just being next to it, it was pure energy. I wanted to touch it but it was way way too powerful/intense to touch. The next moment I was looking down at myself at a distance from above, I could see myself sat in my living room on the sofa just as I had been when I'd prayed minutes beforehand. I realised I was looking at my physical body from 'inside' the beam of solid light, I felt as if I 'was' the light AND 'part' of it too. I was both. With that realisation I was back in my body in an instant. I have been in awe since.
Anyway I don't want to sound too much as if I've crossed the boundary into insanity so I'll stop here lol.
Have a wonderful day peeps.
originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
Excellent description of the out-of-body experience. There is much to be learned there. I haven't been out in a long time. I got pretty good at it back in my 20s, but made a decision to ignore that realm.
It can be scary until you exchange your fear for fascination. The void is very calm, the falling sensation is actually fun and repeats in a cycle (you never have to hit a bottom). Opening your astral eyes can be difficult when first leaving the body.
Fear based entities are easy to banish if you have no fear of them. You should be careful of traps though. The traps are like a maze of linked together pieces of space-time that have some association to them. Often they are under control of entities that mean you some sort of harm. You can tell which ones have bad intentions because although no lies can happen there, they don't have to tell you the truth. Often they will refuse to give an answer or give you answers that sidestep the questions.
I've never visited the source too often that I can remember, just various planes starting at the "here and now" to the "elsewhere". The future, past and present can get jumbled together or be a pure experience. It always seems like a far more real experience then what you experience in daily life.
originally posted by: Abednego
a reply to: Justshrug
Congratulations. You just experience God. That fan blade going WHOOM WHOOM is the OM or AUM. The first vibrational state. The Word spoken by the Concious. The first and last sound.
What a ride!!!
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: Justshrug
After 45+ yrs projecting and meditating? I see nothing in what you explain and how you got there all that unique or unusual. In fact, it appears normal upon your success.
Mine.. as a born sensitive.. I had to learn how to pull back and maintain control... and as a child it frightened me until I could...
Safe travels... Best, MS
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
Excellent description of the out-of-body experience. There is much to be learned there. I haven't been out in a long time. I got pretty good at it back in my 20s, but made a decision to ignore that realm.
It can be scary until you exchange your fear for fascination. The void is very calm, the falling sensation is actually fun and repeats in a cycle (you never have to hit a bottom). Opening your astral eyes can be difficult when first leaving the body.
Fear based entities are easy to banish if you have no fear of them. You should be careful of traps though. The traps are like a maze of linked together pieces of space-time that have some association to them. Often they are under control of entities that mean you some sort of harm. You can tell which ones have bad intentions because although no lies can happen there, they don't have to tell you the truth. Often they will refuse to give an answer or give you answers that sidestep the questions.
I've never visited the source too often that I can remember, just various planes starting at the "here and now" to the "elsewhere". The future, past and present can get jumbled together or be a pure experience. It always seems like a far more real experience then what you experience in daily life.
Your experiences above basically describes my ethereal travels but lately it is moving more towards those experiences of the OP, in that, I am experiencing the physical world as a sort of (hard to explain) a merging of energies both physical (electrical/vibrational) and ethereal (also electrical/vibrational?). Somewhat living in both worlds at the same time and 'feeling' or 'acknowledging' sensations or insights that go beyond the earthly plane.
It is also seems serendipitous that you should mention fear-based entitles, as my daughter had a bad experience recently (she described a shadow figure holding her down on the bed of her new apartment) and I have an upcoming date with this entity because I will be staying overnight there to see what is going on there. I have no fear because I do not fear death although I am concerned as to how I will die (not suffering, I hope).
As the OP mentions, death is merely another state of existence/consciousness and when one has left the body, and one was brave enough to linger there and then to become one with the 'all' or 'source', then the truth is revealed to you.
I too decided to ignore that realm because I had/have earthly responsibilities and I am connected to people I would not want to be disconnected with...or perhaps I did not want the disconnect from all this earthly plane can teach me, such as love, wonder, awe and learning. Does the ethereal realm offer all that?
originally posted by: Justshrug
originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
Excellent description of the out-of-body experience. There is much to be learned there. I haven't been out in a long time. I got pretty good at it back in my 20s, but made a decision to ignore that realm.
It can be scary until you exchange your fear for fascination. The void is very calm, the falling sensation is actually fun and repeats in a cycle (you never have to hit a bottom). Opening your astral eyes can be difficult when first leaving the body.
Fear based entities are easy to banish if you have no fear of them. You should be careful of traps though. The traps are like a maze of linked together pieces of space-time that have some association to them. Often they are under control of entities that mean you some sort of harm. You can tell which ones have bad intentions because although no lies can happen there, they don't have to tell you the truth. Often they will refuse to give an answer or give you answers that sidestep the questions.
I've never visited the source too often that I can remember, just various planes starting at the "here and now" to the "elsewhere". The future, past and present can get jumbled together or be a pure experience. It always seems like a far more real experience then what you experience in daily life.
It's funny that I have had my experience and it's been quite amazing but although I've intentionally tried many many times I have yet to experience an Out Of Body or Astral Projecting. I came close one time while meditating in a hammock, the free-swinging helped to get it started but then when it was happening I shocked myself back into my body.
I have absolutely *no* idea how I would take myself to an OOB through meditation (the mechanics I would use) but I feel like when I do try it, I am *forcing* it too much instead of 'allowing' it to happen.
Anyone have any advice on that?
originally posted by: Justshrug
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: Justshrug
After 45+ yrs projecting and meditating? I see nothing in what you explain and how you got there all that unique or unusual. In fact, it appears normal upon your success.
Mine.. as a born sensitive.. I had to learn how to pull back and maintain control... and as a child it frightened me until I could...
Safe travels... Best, MS
@Mysterioustranger
whoa, it's just so unusual to get a response like that, that what i am experiencing is 'normal' -- thanks for that!
I have a question for you: I mentioned in a reply post on the following page that although i have had some amazing experiences while meditating i have been unable to astral project. Would you be able to recommend some steps or mechanics that would put me on the correct path. At the moment, I feel as if I am trying too hard to 'push' myself out of my body. How would you coach a beginner into having their first successful experience?
Thanks!
originally posted by: reject
a reply to: Justshrug
Ok...from what I gather, you're just dreaming.
Never trust an experience to be real when you're sleepy, high, or drunk especially if you're in bed.
It's called lucid DREAMING.
This is nothing new and more than well documented.
obe4u.com...
originally posted by: Wafflecoptor
You should go read a dimethyltryptamine trip report, strikingly similar
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originally posted by: Justshrug
@MS - thanks for your detailed post, lots of great thoughts/advice and I appreciate it!
I understand what you are saying, that I may already be halfway there but I have built up expectations of what it will be like therefore i am 'missing' it when its right in front of me. I have extreme difficulties with visualization, or 'seeing in the minds eye' so for me, I need to interpret the data/information that *is* available to me, which would come more in the form of thought-impressions or other sensations that are new and that im learning to feel and manipulate.
About dark entities, that is also something that i may have encountered in the past and not even been aware of it because i do not get visualizations. So for example, if an entity came to you or any other sensitive person, you may get the impression or image of a specific type of figure, like a tall, dark slender man. If that same entity interacted with me, i would not get any image or suggestion as to what it might 'look' like, but i would 'feel' it in the sense of its electromagnetic field and that manner in which that field interacts with mine.
It is possible for me to visually 'see' the entity with my eyes, but they would all look the same to me, as what i see looks exactly like what my own consciousness vortex looks like. If i focus on it directly with my eyes, what i see is a warped bubble, like light is bending around or being displaced around a point. If i look at the same spot and instead of focusing my eyes, let them relax (think of going half-way to crossed-eyed) then what i can see is a shimmer with wisps at the small core of a vortex. This is all very difficult to actually see though, and without knowing exactly where the energy/entity is, it would just be invisible, hidden by the nature of that sphere of displaced/bending light.