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MORE ON 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 visualisation required - AT ALL - in the ROPE technique.
It is ALL tactile imaging. This means you do NOT have to picture yourself
doing it.
That is, 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 realise 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:
- Is this a normal situation, is there anything strange about it?
- Can I fly? Try floating up in the air.
- 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 realise 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:
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 *
Hands: Every time you notice your hands, do
a reality check.
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:
Look closely at your hands and watch them melt. (This is worth doing just
to see the melting hands phenomenon).
Spin around until you become disoriented.
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.
Fly straight up, as fast as you can. If this fails to shift your reality
location, at least you will experience space flight.
Fly away fast, close to the surface, until you find a place you like. The
blurring of speed will cause a reality shift.
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
apologising 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:
- Walking speed.
- Motor car speed.
- 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 visualise a destination you can
project yourself there instantly, at the speed of thought.
* I have found this to be highly unreliable *
I find this instantaneous method usually projects you straight into a subjective
location created by the visualisation 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 visualisation 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 recognise 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 memorised, you must go into orbit and re-enter 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
re-entry. 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:
- You are being given a warning or guidance by your higher self.
- You are being given proof there is a future, a destiny, a meaning, a purpose
to your life.
- The sign post of this vision may mark a good or bad event in your life.
- 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:
The sign post... (the date stamp of the event)
* The refrigerator that did not work.
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.
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.
The symbolic action... (this signifies the meaning of the vision)
* My wife's cold goodbye.
The symbolic modifiers... (these modify the symbol or, in this case, the
symbolic action in the vision). a) My wife departed in a direction away
from our home. B) She walked away until she disappeared from view.
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:
- "What is it in itself?"
- "What does it do?"
- "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
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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