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In MAP News:
I have been extremely busy the past week, and haven’t had much time for anything outside of school. This has shown me that not only does it require will and determination to keep up with the MAP course, it requires focus. However, I am into the trance portion of Mastering Astral Projection. I am fairly excited to see where the book will go after this, but it is very interesting right now. The various methods used to induce trance are relatively effective, and some work better than others, at least for me. Right now my favorite is the elevator method, but I may find another, there’s still about four left. I’ll post my favorite one here
In PsiPog News:
Big things are just around the corner, or at least I like to think so. One thing is for sure, and that is that the forums will be closed sometime in January. In my opinion, it couldn’t happen sooner. The forums didn’t just go downhill in quality, they fell off a cliff. It went from meaningful, intelligent debate to some spam, and then shameless advertising and general lawlessness. That’s about where we are now. My hope is that sometime after the forums close, Sean Connelly (He dropped his old name of Peebrain, so I’ll use Sean Connelly from now on) will begin his new site about out of body experiences. That’s my main focus right now, and I have fallen out of the psychic community somewhat, so this could pull me back in.
In Other News:
I’ve got a lot of stuff right on the horizon, and a lot of it about to land in my lap. MAP would be a horizon, and a current event would be the lucid dreaming mask kit I ordered. I know it’s a shortcut, I know it’s cheating, but I’m going to use the lucid dreams this gives me to induce further ones. Then I plan to wean myself off of it. And for those of you who have ever seen how much lucid dreaming masks cost, I did not buy one of the 300$ ones. I bought a cheap kit, from a blogger who threw it together himself. 300$ is ridiculous considering the technology involved is quite simple. I’ll let you know how that goes. If you’re interested in trying it out for yourself, you can see how to build one, or alternatively, you can order a kit for about 30$. You have to do a little soldering, but it’s well within the means of anybody who reads a little about it on the site.
I also recently purchased the Photoreading Whole Mind System. It’s a fancy name for a system that lets you read at about 25000 words a minute, or a page a second. How do you read that quickly? You don’t actually, you just kind of turn the pages, while staring at them with your eyes unfocused. It’s not mainstream, to say the least. You go through about 5 steps total, the actual photo reading is only a small part of it. I picked up this recommendation from Steve Pavlina’s blog. I haven’t gotten far enough in the course to recommend it, but Steve certainly does. Enough to get a discount for his readers. I am not saying you should buy it, but if you do, make sure to get it there, and save yourself a hundred or so dollars.
Updates should be more forthcoming, I’ll aim for once a week, around the weekend. So check back around Saturday weekly, at the least. Not to say I won’t update more often, if something important happens or the mood strikes me.
Keep Dreaming
-Hatter
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How’d did that Photoreading course go? That is unbelievable. Do you trade off speed when reading highly complex issues? For instance, a confusing book on quantum physics that normally makes me read the page twice already?
Making your own “novadreamer” mask is totally badass. I am impressed. Really impressed!
I wonder if I have the mechanical inclination to do this. (Historic indications predict it this to be “unlikely”.)
The Photoreading got buried under the many other courses I overload myself with. I will get back to it soon, but in the book that comes with it (which I read all of) they say that it’s actually great for technical material. I’ll post about it when I do finish it.
That mask was an ordeal. My friend and I spent a while trying to get it to work, as you can read about in the post hours soldering in a basement. It turns out the IC chip was upside down. Of course we skipped over obvious stuff like that, but tried about six different soldering combinations. My experiences with it so far have been…less then impressive. There are a few fundamental issues with it. It kind of falls off unless it’s on really tight, in which case it wakes you up because it’s uncomfortable. I’m still testing it though, so no final judgments thus far.
I’m a fan of about 67% of what Steve Pavlina writes, but Photoreading has “scam” written all over it. If Pavlina jumped the shark, it was with that product endorsement.
I like the idea of making your own Novadreamer, but it wouldn’t be something I would try on my own.
Sounds like I should try and render a judgment on the photo reading thing. It does reek of scam, I have to agree. I have a few other things from the same guy who did photo reading, Paul Scheele. They are called “Subliminals” and are also endorsed by Steve Pavlina. They haven’t done too much for me thus far, but I’ve only dipped into them. So I shall get to work on all of those things, as soon as I finish this latest dream work I have been doing.
Tests of will and determination are certainly presented all the time. Its up to each of us to be selective and decide what's most suitable for us. Astral dreaming courses and books are available to develop certain skills. Yet, these aren't the only means of doing so.