One of the most difficult things in regard to learning from the book “Mastering Astral Projection” isn’t even really under the author’s control. My biggest obstacle is time. Finding an hour or so a night where nobody will disturb me, where I won’t lose focus or fall asleep, and resisting the temptation of just “doing practice after this activity” which is oh so familiar to many people.

Besides that minor obstacle, I have made rather fine progress, and I still continue to be impressed with the quality of the book. They provide you with everything you could ever think of to assist you with learning. Binural beats, auto-suggestion, energy stimulation, and then just plain practical exercises. There are a lot of choices you can make as well. Do you want to do the “optional” listening to brainwaves exercise? The same energy work you did last night? You can opt out of these and cut the time down, but I think that if you are serious enough to buy a book, you could find another thirty minutes. I’d rather not practice at all then rush over something.

Then again, maybe that’s why I’m skipping days left and right.

In regard to the book “Far Journeys” by Robert Monroe:

It is simply astounding. The implications and observations are very difficult to accept. Robert Monroe, in the last half of the book, meets and befriends another entity while exploring the “outer rings” as he calls them. This entity causes him to explore many things about human nature, until he eventually discovers why humanity is in existence at all. I simply cannot take Monroe at his word for something this important. Whatever the truth happens to be though, the book is quite fascinating and has many interesting tidbits in the first half that aren’t quite as hard to swallow.

I continue to work on my exercises, even if not nightly. I hope to make a more interesting report of some better progress soon.

-Hatter

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Hello everybody, and welcome back to the continuation of the Deluge. I’ve been busy with school over the past few days, and I’ve just now gotten time to blog again. Now, with that out of the way, onto the meat:

I recently bought several books pertaining to everybody’s favorite and controversial subject, Astral Projection. The books are:

1: Journeys Out Of The Body- Robert Monroe
2: Far Journeys- Robert Monroe
3: The Ultimate Journey- Robert Monroe
4: Astral Dynamics- Robert Bruce
5: Practical Psychic Self Defense- Robert Bruce
6: Mastering Astral Projection-Robert Bruce & Brian Mercer

I’ve read a significant portion of 2,4,5, and all of Journeys Out Of The Body. #3 has yet to arrive.

The last book is a little different from the previous 5, namely because it is a training course. It gives you all the information you need to experience Astral Projection, in tidbits along with exercises that build upon the prior exercises. I am currently on day 6, and I am following the book pretty much to the letter. I could have skipped a lot of what I’ve done, because it’s basic stuff, but for the sake of a fair judgment on the book, I’ve decided to be ridiculously strict in how I follow the instructions. Interestingly enough, the book isn’t anything new to me really, but it’s the way the information is presented that is rather new. It is easy to complete the exercises, and bit by bit you become more advanced. I am already better at physical relaxation by a significant amount, on day 6. I will try to keep you updated with weekly or bi-weekly reports on my progress and things I find particularly neat from the book. I will also post my overall opinion on this book when I finish with it.

In quasi PsiPog news:

One of the mods, Roy, has been cranking out articles for his new site, Perception Engine. This site is all about human perception. It ranges from psychology to the paranormal, so it covers a broad amount of material. There are currently five well written articles online, and more soon to come. It is certainly worth a look.

In other news:

Also, if you’ve got about 5 minutes to spare and are a fan of insane archery/ridiculously difficult feats, this link may interest you.

See you all on the other side of reality
-Hatter

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So, as I was wasting time online yet again, I found myself on Steve Paulina’s self improvement page. I’ve been to this website before, and I’ve really enjoyed reading through his interesting and innovative articles. He has some very challenging ideas, and many of them force you to do a double take of your life and beliefs. Today I stumbled into the podcast section.

There I found a podcast about reality. A little over an hour long, and just over 30 megabytes in size, I decided to take some time to listen to it. It focused on intention manifestation, which is a very intriguing model of reality. I can only say that the podcast seriously helped me define my definition of reality. I had reached a point Steve describes that he reached earlier, then he went on and basically answered all of my questions that I had run up against. I recommend listening to it, but only if you are willing to question your beliefs. I’d wager that if you’ll read this blog, you’d enjoy listening to this. If you’d like to know more about intention manifestation, which uses the law of attraction, then check out this article.

Aside from Steve Paulina links, I had a very short lucid dream last night. It actually fits into the intention manifest theme, because I simply told myself I would lucid dream tonight, a la autosuggestion. I think I accidentally hit the perfect mix of expectation and apathy. You can’t focus on it too much because then you start to doubt. Somehow I managed to just say that I’d become lucid tonight, right before I dropped off to sleep. I’ve been taking a dreaming break lately, but this little success is enough to tempt be back out of reality.

Speaking of reality, today I honestly could not remember if one of my memories was from a dream or not. Scary, huh?

And now in closing, a quote I think fits this topic:

Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?
~M.C. Escher

-Hatter

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