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Part
6 : More on the Rope
ROPE is a very effective projection
technique, but it still has to be learned to be effective. I would like to
elaborate on a couple of points about the technique, inspired by the
feedback I have received so far.
1. There is NO visualization required - AT ALL - in the ROPE
technique. It is ALL tactile imaging. This
means you do NOT have
to picture yourself doing it.
i.e. To climb ROPE,
the correct mental action is to REHEARSE the
climbing action in
your mind.
This mental rehearsal - IS - the ROPE technique
2. You need to * mentally * grit your teeth and
strain with the
action, i.e., you have to put maximum mental effort
into it, as if
you were really climbing a ROPE, but without allowing
your muscles
to take part in it - this is ALL mental. Your
body must not be
allowed to respond. You also need to feel you are
very strong,
full of energy and could climb like this all night.
3. You will find that a certain way of holding the focus of
your mind,
while you climb, will exert more pressure on your
astral body than
another. It is VERY important you note what this
is and learn how
to apply it. This will tune your climbing action
for the maximum
effect. When you hit on the right mental focus
for the action, you
will feel a corresponding dizzy/falling sensation in
your Solar
Plexus.
4. To use ROPE successfully, it is extremely important to
make a firm
decision to DO IT. This commitment is VERY
important to success.
A DO OR DIE effort is needed. This focuses all
your mental energy
into a single point, for a single purpose - to exit
your body.
5. Many people have emailed me with ROPE success
stories. In every
case - they have been practising ROPE when they
suddenly decided to
give it a go - TO REALLY DO IT! This commitment
to succeed means
the difference between actually getting out - OOBE -
and
experiencing various levels of ROPE induced relaxation,
trance,
paralysis, chakra activity etc. I cannot stress
enough the
importance of this commitment to the success of ROPE
induced OOBE.
6. While using ROPE, completely IGNORE ALL PHYSICAL SENSATION
AND ANY
NOISES YOU HEAR. If you react to a sensation, in
any way, you will
lose the focus of your mental energy and dilute your
effort
considerably.
All the energy/chakra work and other exercises in parts 3 and 4, are
designed to stimulate the flow of energy in your body and increase
concentration, will power and mental control. By increasing the energy
flow during a projection and controlling your mind better, your duration
in real time is increased. It is also easier to exit.
You CAN skip all the exercises
entirely and just concentrate on learning ROPE. Everyone has different
levels of skill, natural ability and energy flow. Some people need lots of
training in order to OOBE, others do not. Some people will prefer to learn
ROPE by DOING it, rather than training for it. If your goal is just to
have a conscious OOBE, of any kind, the simple use of ROPE, below, is your
best option.
SIMPLE USE OF ROPE
Some people have the impression ROPE is too complicated. This was possibly
because by the detailed explanation I gave about the mechanics of ROPE in
part 5, i.e., HOW it works.
ROPE is THE simplest projection technique
to date. All that is needed to use ROPE in its simplest form, are these
two steps:
1. Go to bed, or sit in your chair, relax and settle yourself
down, as
you normally would do before going to sleep.
2. Start climbing the ROPE.
This is
all there is to the simple use of ROPE
As there are no time consuming exercises or complicated relaxation
exercises involved, the simple use of ROPE has many advantages. It allows
you to focus all your mental resources on it. In many cases this is all
that is needed to give you your first conscious OOBE.
Because the simple use of ROPE
is less complex, you will find yourself attempting projection more often,
even when you are tired - one of the best times to try - and cannot be
bothered with anything complicated. The increased frequency of your
projection attempts gives you more practise with ROPE and hence the
technique will be mastered sooner.
LUCID DREAM BACKUP
I have had a great many reports of vivid dreams and heightened lucid dream
activity (L.D.) from people doing the energy/chakra training exercises.
This is happening far too frequently for it to be coincidence.
The energy/chakra work increases the level
of energy flowing into the energy body and heightens awareness and memory
of the dream and OOBE state. It is a shame to waste all this energy on
uncontrolled dreams, so I suggest L.D. be used as a secondary goal. This
will give you OOBE experience earlier, in the form of L.D., and help keep
your interest high until you learn how to do the conscious exit.
Lucid Dreaming
To become Lucid in dream you need to program yourself with a trigger to
make you realize when you are dreaming, in order to take control over it,
i.e., become lucid. The best way of doing this is by getting into the
habit of doing frequent reality checks during your daily life.
Reality Checking
A reality check is when you stop what you are doing and check the reality
level of your situation. This is simple to do. Every time you do a reality
check. Ask yourself:
1. Is this a normal situation, is
there anything strange about it?
2. Can I fly? Try floating up in the
air.
3. Try closing your eyes. This is a
dead giveaway as you cannot close your eyes in astral form.
Note: This reality
checking must become habitual to be effective.
When you do a reality check during a dream,
you will realize you are dreaming and can take control of it. It is then
important to affirm to yourself you are going to remember everything. Tell
yourself over and over, " I will remember this when I wake up."
Lucid Dreaming Trigger
The key to success with reality checks is to have a good trigger for it.
This should be something you would normally do many times a day. This can
be any kind of habitual action, but here are a few ideas:
1. Time: Every time you look at your watch, do a
reality check. An
electronic watch is a good aid. Set the timer to
beep hourly.
When it beeps, do a reality check.
* A wrist watch, beeping hourly, is the
most effective *
2. Hands: Every time you notice your hands, do a
reality check.
3. Smoking: If you smoke, every time you have a
cigarette, do a
reality check. You will usually find yourself
reaching for a
cigarette during the course of a dream, if you are a
habitual
smoker.
Note: It takes time to make your
trigger habitual, usually a few
weeks. It also helps to do a
few affirmations before you go to
sleep, e.g., "I will remember to
look at my watch"
When you become aware in a dream, L.D., you should already be in a
communal dream pool. If you want to try changing this to a real time
projection, try and become aware of your physical body. If you can sense
it, you may be able to return to a time location near it.
This is difficult, though, and may end the experience completely, i.e.,
forcing a return to the waking state.
I suggest you enjoy the L.D. for what it is. Communal dream pools are very
colourful places and usually lots of fun. You will see all kinds of weird
and wonderful things there and have all kinds of adventures.
Note: To improve your memory of the L.D.
don't forget to remind
yourself constantly during the L.D.,
to remember it all.
Changing Your Reality Location
If you don't like the dream pool you are in, or are in a real time OOBE
and want to enter a dream pool, here are a couple of ways to do it:
1. Look closely at your hands and watch them melt. (This is worth
doing just to see the melting hands phenomenon).
2. Spin around until you become disoriented.
3. Visualize a place you would like to be. (Instantaneous travel).
This will usually move you to a dream pool similar to your
visualized target destination.
4. Fly straight up, as fast as you can. If this fails to shift your
reality location, at least you will experience space flight.
5. Fly away fast, close to the surface, until you find a place you
like. The blurring of speed will cause a reality shift.
6. Walk into a mirror, picture or painting. This is the same as VRP
(virtual reality projection).
These techniques all trick the subconscious, through disorientation, into moving you to another reality location.
THE ASTRAL FORM IN
MOTION
Many people have motion problems in their first few projections. Simply
getting across a room in the right direction, can be a major
accomplishment. This lack of control is simply because they are unfamiliar
with astral form. It is like being in zero gravity. You have to learn to
move all over again. When you project in real time, you are just a point
of consciousness with a poorly constructed etheric shell surrounding it.
Motion is provided by thought - not muscles.
Astral Momentum
There is a type of momentum in astral form that causes most of the
problems. This causes you to continue moving for a while, after you decide
to stop. This may take you through a wall or a ceiling etc. This impetus
is caused by the thought you used to cause the motion. If it is too
strong, or too prolonged for the action, you will move too quickly or too
far. Only practise teaches you how to get about with any degree of
accuracy and grace.
It really is quite a comical
process, learning astral motion. I remember learning to move about my home
town, in my youth. I would start by trying to navigate through my house,
usually ending up stuck in the roof, for a while. Then I would run down
the road, trying to build up speed and take off like a plane. I would get
airborne for a while, but could never quite clear the roof tops of the
surrounding houses. I would often float unintentionally into strange
houses, blundering about like a drunk in zero G. I seemed to be endlessly
apologizing to all these strangers in passing, as I floated in and out of
their houses.
How To Move
To move about in astral form, simply - DO IT. Do not think about what you
are doing, just DO IT. Be aware that motion is provided by your mind. You
have to will yourself into motion, to change direction, and to stop. This
is the best advice I can give you on this. It really has to be learned by
doing. Have fun.
When you have learned basic
motion, do not try anything too ambitious for a while. Stick close to the
surface and learn to get around your local area first. Practise varying
your speed until you gain some control over it.
Learning To Fly
Learn to fly the same way as you learned to move, by using your mind. At
first you may find something very much like gravity affecting you. You may
get yourself into the air only to find yourself slowly arcing back to
earth again. If you persevere you'll find yourself moving in a series of
short flight hops. This is caused partly by habit and partly by the basic
motion problem in general. You sink back to earth when your motion causing
mental action falters. This causes your flight impetus to stop and the
gravity habit then pulls you down.
You may find yourself, as I
did, trying to fly by running down the road and leaping into the air. This
is not necessary. Focus your will into floating up into the air. Then use
your will to provide motion, same as with basic motion. There is NO
gravity affecting you in astral form. Convince yourself of this and you
will be flying in no time.
Speed
The three speeds as defined by, S. Muldoon, and commonly accepted, are a
basic guide only. These are:
1. Walking speed.
2. Motor car speed.
3. Instantaneous travel.
I think these three speeds
were a sign of the times back then. These would have been the only types
of speed known to most people. Today, movies, computer games and air
travel have thoroughly prepared our minds to accept much higher speeds.
With practise and good mental control, you CAN
vary your speed to your purpose, from walking speed to supersonic speed.
This is a big problem for the beginner though, the control of direction
and speed. It has a lot to do with how stable the projection is and how
experienced you are at applying your will to motion.
Instantaneous Travel
It is generally accepted that if you can visualize a destination you can
project yourself there instantly, at the speed of though
I have found this to be highly
unreliable
I find this instantaneous method usually projects you straight into
a subjective location created by the visualization of your target. You may
appear to be at your destination but you will usually find many
discrepancies between the real location and where you are.
Instantaneous travel is very
like VRP. By using your visualization powers to travel with, you will not
actually travel. You will create a subjective copy of a destination and
enter it.
Long Distance Travel
I have found it more reliable to follow the surface for short to medium
distance projection of up to a few hundred miles. Even this can be
difficult as it is easy to fall into the Alice effect while travelling.
All you have to do is break concentration once and you will slip into a
dream pool. Strict mental control must be maintained at all times when
travelling in real time.
It is not really practical to
follow the surface for a long distance. For example, a country on the
other side of the world from you is 12000 miles away. You would need to
travel at about 64 times the speed of sound to reach there in 15 minutes.
At this speed in the atmosphere, everything blurs and clouds and surface
features cause disorientation and a corresponding reality shift. Any real
time objective aspect of the projection will then be lost.
Note: Newbie projectors can normally
hold themselves in real time for
only a few minutes. Therefore,
any long distance travel is
limited by the real time part of a
projection.
To travel long distance you need to study geography. You have to be able
to recognize continents, oceans, countries, states and cities. You also
need to study a map of your target area and note any landmarks. To project
there, after this is memorized, you must go into orbit and reenter over
your target. As you approach the earth you must adjust your approach and
aim for the geological features and landmarks around your destination.
Orbiting the Earth
To enter orbit is a little more difficult than it sounds. Getting up there
is easy, you just go straight up, but stopping when you get high enough is
difficult. Most people, myself included, tend to blast themselves straight
out of the solar system, sometimes right out of the galaxy. To avoid this,
it is important to control your speed during the ascent.
It is easier to project to the
moon first, as a way of entering orbit. This gives you a large visual
target you can project to in moments. Once there, it is a simple matter to
head back to Earth, enter orbit, and circle until you are above your
target. In space, away from the atmosphere, there are no problems with
speed induced blurring.
How Far Can You Go?
There are NO limits to distance, destination or speed. You
can travel to the most distant galaxy. The speed of thought is infinite.
It is like folding space and moving without moving. If you can see
something, you can be there....as quick as that. In comparison, the speed
of light is that of a snail. I often go out into deep space, where the
galaxies are just tiny smudges in the distance, to think and meditate.
That is easy, but the trick is getting back for a conscious reentry.
Unless you have a good knowledge of astronomy, which I do not, this is
difficult. Following the silver cord, if you can see one, is not practical
at that kind of speed, though it will give you a basic direction to go in.
To return from a long distance
projection, tune into your body and become aware of it. Then try moving
part of your physical body, i.e., a finger or toe. This will return you to
your body, and end the projection with full memories of the OOBE.
FUTURE WIND
There is a strange phenomenon you will come across, from time to time,
while you are projecting. I call this "Future Wind."
You will be OOBE'ing somewhere, minding
your own business, when all of a sudden you will feel an irresistible
force. You will feel yourself being moved against your will, usually
backwards, by this force. You can fight it for a while but it will grow
steadily stronger until you are blown away; over the roof tops, up into
the sky and....into the future.
Then, after a while, you will come down in
a different place....and time. Often it will be somewhere mundane, maybe a
domestic setting of some sort. You will be released there and left to
wander about... confused. You may even meet people you do not know, yet,
and they will be just as confused as you are.
This may be an actual scene out of your
future life, it may be a symbolic vision, or a mixture of both. You may be
an invisible spectator to this scene, or you may merge with your future
self, and see out of your future eyes for a while.
This can also be a scene of an important
future event. It could be a disaster, natural or otherwise, or something
unusual or exciting on the world scene. These type of events usually have
a lot of energy surrounding them, and this may be part of the reason for
the vision.
The only explanations
I can give for this are:
1. The intervention of your higher self: For some
reason it decides
that now is the time to show you something from your
future.
2. Clairvoyant interference: Your Brow chakra has
become
clairvoyantly active and has tuned into a future
setting. Your
point of consciousness is caught up by this vision and
projected
into the vision.
3. A combination of both of the above - this is the most
logical.
Symbolic Visions
There is another aspect of this wind that is very similar to the above but
the vision you experience is symbolic, or has a symbolic aspect, rather
than an actual future event or scene.
Note: I would like to warn you about
the symbolic aspect of visions.
If you don't understand the nature of
symbolism it can cause
great harm to your life. This
warning applies to all
clairvoyant visions in general,
whether experienced in astral
form or not.
For example:
You are taken, by a future wind, to a scene in which you see yourself
winning a lot of money. You are sitting at a table checking your lottery
ticket with the results. You see the prize money is $18 million. You check
your numbers, or ticket, and find you have the winning ticket. You feel
all the excitement, the surge of adrenalin, dreams of wealth come flooding
into you and your heart races with excitement.
After this vision, you start buying lots of
tickets. You also start to make decisions that affect your life with a
"When the money comes through" type of attitude. This can cause
irreparable damage to your life! You lose your drive, your initiative,
your ambition, i.e., you stop trying. This imparts a "Cargo
Cult" type of belief system on you, a belief that everything will be
given to you - with all the negative aspects this primitive belief system
has.
This can cause you to mark time in your
life, instead of living it to the full.
What you may have missed,
from the symbolism of the above vision is:
The amount of money may be unusual for that lottery draw. $18 million is
an odd amount of money and may be a rare event. This is what I call a
SIGN POST - a date stamp of a future event. This means that when your
local lottery has a prize of the above amount, something important is
going to happen in your life or in the world around you.
If you know how symbolism works, during
the vision you would have been able to pick up more information about
this coming event. The setting, the symbols, the connections to you, the
action and the sequence of events in it, are all important aspects of
its meaning.
Misunderstanding a vision can ruin your
life. Only experience and the intelligent application of logic can teach
you how to interpret a symbolic vision. Until you have this experience,
it is best to treat any sort of vision with caution.
Some possible reasons for a
symbolic vision are:
1. You are being given a warning or guidance by your higher self.
2. You are being given proof there
is a future, a destiny, a meaning, a purpose to your life.
3. The sign post of this vision
may mark a good or bad event in your life.
4. You may actually win the
lottery. Personally, I would always make sure I had a ticket in the
draw, just in case, but I would not depend on it.
Future Wind Example
I left my body and was moving about my home, getting my sea legs.
Suddenly, a force moved me across the room. I tried to fight it but it
grew stronger until I was blown out of the house and up into the night
sky. A short time later I was brought down again, outside my home. I was
just left standing there in the middle of the road. In front of me stood a
refrigerator. It was just sitting there in the road with its door open. I
examined it and could tell it was not working. Behind it was a massive red
brick wall, 40 feet high and twice as wide. There are no REAL brick walls
in this street. Then I noticed my wife was standing beside me. I turned
and said hello to her. She just said goodbye, very coldly, then turned and
walked away. Perplexed, I watched her walk away. Oddly, instead of walking
to our home, she walked away from it and off into the distance.
Being experienced with the symbolism and
nature of visions I knew what this foretold, the end of my marriage. I
could not understand it as we were only recently married and very happy
together.
To decipher a symbolic vision it is
necessary to analyse it and break it down into its parts.
The six
significant aspects of this vision are:
1. The sign post... (the date stamp of the event)
The refrigerator that did
not work.
2. The connections... (something, or someone, in the vision
that
connects the events to me).
1. My wife. 2.
It was outside my home. 3. I was there as me.
3. The symbol... (the basic nature of the coming event)
The large brick wall.
This symbolizes a barrier or an end to something. This was the only
actual symbol in the vision,
but other parts
of it were by nature or action - symbolic.
4. The symbolic action... (this signifies the meaning of the
vision)
My wife's cold goodbye.
5. The symbolic modifiers... (these modify the symbol or, in
this
case, the symbolic action in the vision).
1. My wife departed in a
direction away from our home. 2. She walked away until she
disappeared from view.
6. The sequence of events.
1. The broken
fridge. 2. The large brick wall. 3. My
wife's actions.
OR: When I saw the broken fridge (sign post) I saw the brick
wall (symbol) and my wife (connection) said
goodbye and left
(symbolic action) in a direction away from our
home, until she
disappeared (symbolic modifiers)
The timing and sequence of a vision is important to unravelling its
meaning. It is important to break a symbolic vision into its 5 basic parts
and to note this in your journal, while it is still fresh in your mind.
Note: There
may be more than one modifier to each part of a vision.
Hindsight
A year after I had the above vision, we moved to another town. The day we
moved, we had to borrow a refrigerator from a relative. Ours had broken
down and was in for repairs. The borrowed fridge did not work either.
After our's was repaired, this other fridge sat on our porch for two and a
half years, waiting to be collected. I remembered the vision clearly, and
knew this fridge was the date stamp of an upcoming event. I also knew what
the event was, but honestly could not see it happening. One day, though,
they came and collected this fridge. A week later my marriage ended.
Suddenly, permanently, and for no foreseeable reason.
Looking at it in hind sight, it is crystal
clear what the vision meant. It was as simple as it was accurate. Most
symbolic visions are this simple. Be very careful not to read too much
into vision otherwise the true message in the vision will be obscured.
Always break a
vision down into its parts.
Ask of each part:
1. "What is it in itself?"
2. "What does it do?"
3. "What is its simplest, most basic, symbolic meaning?"
Write these answers down and then apply common sense and logic to them.
This will give you insight into the true meaning of the vision.
MIRRORS
Mirrors, historically, are magical devices used as doorways to other
worlds. There are also numerous superstitions and old wives tales
concerning their effect on the recently departed. After a person had died,
all mirrors in their home were covered. This was so they could not see
their lack of a reflection and be shocked. Another reason for this was to
prevent them from being accidentally trapped in a mirror.
There is some logic to this if you look at
the mechanics of projection. Death, in the early stages, is very much like
a powerful real time projection. The biggest difference being the lack of
a living body to return to.
Spirits are normally held close to the
physical dimension, in real time, for a week or so after death. This is
until the supply of etheric matter that binds the spirit to its physical
body runs out.
During this time it is normal for the
spirit to wander among relatives and loved ones, saying goodbye and coming
to terms with their new state of existence. This goodbye process, eases
the psychological trauma of death, and helps prepare the spirit for the
next stage of existence.
What can happen with mirrors, is this: A
new spirit can inadvertently enter a mirror. If this happens, they enter a
mirror world in the same way a projector enters a picture through VRP.
Once in a mirror world they usually do not know where they are, or how to
get out of it, and can be stuck there for the duration of their real time
stay. This will not interfere with the journey of the soul. It will just
cause confusion for a few days until it enters the next stage of
existence. This can though, make their last days near the physical world
very confusing and interfere in the natural goodbye process.
This, I believe, is where the
old superstitions came from. Therefore, in the light of my understanding
of projection and the death process, I think the covering of mirrors after
a death is a VERY good idea, for the benefit of the deceased. This is best
done for two weeks, to be sure.
A Better Goodbye
It is possible to communicate with a recently departed spirit during its
real time, post death wandering.
This can be done by leaving a letter, uncovered, for the spirit to read.
They can also hear you, so talking to them is also effective. I think a
good practise would be to have goodbye letters, from all the people that
loved the deceased, stuck to the wall in the spirit's old room. Leave the
letters open, with all pages clearly in view, to make reading easier.
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