Lesson 22: Review Lesson 11 through Lesson 19

Lesson 11: Lucid Dreams

Okay, in this lesson, I make the declaration that True Dreams are in Black and White, while Lucid Dreams are in Color, a declaration which was gently refuted by you guys. Meaning that I was mistaken in this declaration. According to your guys, all dreams are in Color, and you only have your intuition to go on to determine which is which.

However, I do go on to speak about what is happening when you are asleep and the data you are assimilating while being asleep, and why I think that there is not enough time or energy to put more detail in True Dreams.

This is also the first time I mention a "pre echo" of thought, where you know what is going to happen before it happens. Normally in Real Life and in Lucid dreams, you don't have that advantage, but in a True Dream you may know what will be happening a split second before it happens.

I went on to share with you one of my lucid dreams that I recorded on a micro cassette recorder that I have, showing how much detail you can get when you record it immediately.

Lesson 12: Guided Meditations

In this lesson, I went on for some time on Guided Meditations and what kind of use it could be to you. In essence, it boils down to GMs are a cross between a hypnotic session and a meditation. It has elements of all of these and the same therapeutic uses are there from each, but most times it is not a full hypnotic trance. In other words, from the perspective of the person going through the session, there is no associated loss of consciousness. Generally the person undergoing this technique will remember the entire meditation, rather than forgetting it upon waking.

I point out the power that a GM has is due entirely to the fact that you are working in a set of languages that make sense to both the conscious mind and the subconscious mind at the same time. It makes for a powerful therapeutic tool because you can work with the imagery you are comfortable with, and that also makes sense to your subconscious mind.

In other words, instead of having to say that you see a fish to represent birth (because a fish lives in water and water represents the amniotic fluid, hey, I've seen weirder) you can say that you see a medical table with the stirrups for the mother's legs or the maternity ward where the babies reside after birth. Both of those are powerful images that the Subconscious will understand without further interpretation.

At one point, I give you a guided meditation in there, one about recognizing your life and ignoring the belittling your parents did to you. I would like to hear if this helped anyone.

Lesson 13: Theology and OOBE

Okay, in a lot of ways, this lesson was one of the more subjective lessons you had to take. In this lesson, we dealt with several subjects that have inhibited many thorough the ages.

I fear that in many ways, I was off topic and on a tangent when I wrote this lesson, as I digressed for quite a long time on some personal theories and teachings that truly had nothing to do with AP. However, the theories are solid and in further meditations I got approval from The Powers That Be on this.

It is possible for us to learn enough to become the Gods later, and to act like Gods now and here. Later in the lesson I pointed out that the Gods become partners and teachers, companions rather than objects of veneration.

Personally, I think that is exactly how we should be acting and treating the Gods.

I shared two stories that I felt illustrated my point, one where divine intervention occurred, one where my wife was the Goddess for a rite. I feel these strengthen my position, but there are others who feel this is not the case. Many I have since shared this lesson with feels that treating a God or Gods so casually shows that I'm immature and not ready to be the "beloved of God" or whatever.

From there, I touched on "Spirit Sight" as being a skill complementary to OOBE, one that will probably develop as the OOBE skill gets more practice and control. It's kind of like having a sense of smell because you can breathe. It's something that is complementary to the primary ability, a sense that gives more depth and meaning to the primary ability.

I also point out that on the Astral Plane one will be coming into contact with the Gods, and that one should understand a few thing about them and determine how one is going to act around them. My point is that most Gods don't demand worship, but they appreciate courtesy.

Lesson 14: Vibrational theory of the Planes

Well, in this lesson, I talked about our soul's energy and how this relates to OOBE. With that energy, you can feel a vibration going through your body during meditation, and in some cases temporarily increase that vibration in order to achieve AP.

In this lesson, I talk about how our soul's vibrational rate affects not only our ability to AP, but also our upward progression during our lifetime's progress. I point out that just because the overall progress is upward, that the specific changes within that lifetime are not necessarily all positive, that it is possible for one to backslide.

One thing that I did NOT talk about in this lesson is the question "Is it possible for the overall progress to backslide and go down" to which the answer is "Yes".

Being consistently petty and cruel will have a general downward progress for any one lifetime, and if that happens it is possible for the overall progress to go downward, for this soul to become less enlightened as it were. What affect will this have? It will mean that the soul who is living this lifetime will have to have more lifetimes overall to learn what they need to learn and are failing to learn.

But, once again, one needs to realize that this is an order being imposed on observable (and felt) phenomenon. It is entirely possible that none of this actually applies, that the only order or scale being used is one that we have no way of measuring.

The last part of this lesson is going over the energy of the Astral Plane and how it can be used as magickal energy and to fuel the psychic and magickal abilities, along with actual physical energies.

The theory of physical energy is this: metaphysical and physical energies are the same, just acquired in different manners. There are many times when one uses physical energies to fuel metaphysical ends, so being able to reverse the process is a logical conclusion, correct? And you can do it. Try it sometime.

Lesson 15; What's really happening?

This was the first of the purely theoretical lessons, an attempt to explain what is actually going on.

I discussed in depth why the Astral Plane differs for each traveler. It's not only the fact that the reality there IS plastic, but that each traveler is trying to find and see different aspects of the plane, based entirely upon their expectations. From the lesson:

"One of the biggest objections to the Astral Plane and AP being real is that the accounts of the visitors differ so much. I read in one place that it's like getting a random 50 people off the street, sending them out to a distant city, and asking each to write a comprehensive article on that city once they get back. They are allowed to make no notes, no pictures, and so on and they are expected to write these from memory. Each account will differ, if only in that each person is putting their own experiences into the article, seeing what they want to see (one seeing the children, one the architecture, one the artistic expression and so on) and that they are in different places in that far city, looking at different scenes."

I also expanded on splinters and the three bodies and just what they are. I also talk about the environment inside your own mind, and denoted that the "Head" and said that splinters will tend to stay there, but that since the AP touches that region they could get out on to the Astral Plane and other things could get in.

I talked about (briefly) how to protect yourself and gave you some thoughts on Shields and Wards. I gave you an experience out of my own life and showed you that this kind of astral combat actually does occur all the time.

I talked about using mental psionic abilities while projecting and using magick while on the Astral Plane. How it is easier and more devastating to use these abilities because of the nature of this plane, i.e. having to desire something to make it real.

I also discussed in more depth avatars and doppelgänger on other realities. How to create them, what to do with them, who they are, who you are and so on. I highlighted some of the dangers and pitfalls of them, and I also told you there could be some good uses for them as well, especially when you have to do something for quite some time that is repetitive in nature and you are too busy to do it all while you are there.

Finally after a long time of talking on this subject, I mention "Walk Ins" and tell you about them. It's one of those things that I have encountered directly on more than one occasion and others have verified which you have to take on faith since you either beleive it is possible or not.

Lesson 16

This lesson we talked about what happens after you die.

It is full of a lot of subjective material, but material that has been verified from other sources and people, not just my thoughts.

I talk about what a Shaman used to do and why one of the necessities of being a shaman was an ability to project out and return and see and confront the Gods on their own terms and in their own habitat.

I talk about near death experiences and tell you that in all documented cases of NDE's that they are remarkably similar to OBEs. So it is possible to learn to die on cue and come back.

I give a lot of theories about the Astral Plane upon death, and what happens next, but until we die, there is no way to prove any of it.

I am glad that it helped some of you in your struggles to deal with the death of a loved one.

Lesson 17

Here in this lesson is where I pontificate for a while on how OOBE can be used to improve yourself and your position in life, mainly by eliminating personality problems that are holding you back. I point out some likely scenarios in which a personality problem may manifest as a person for your to interact with. I also point out that it is unlikely that you will be able to make changes without affecting something else.

Since your personality is interconnected and dependant on other portions of you, you cannot make a change to one aspect without affecting another aspect. There are things you can do to minimize the "damage" but you can't eliminate it.

I point out that when you are dealing with problems on the Astral, you have more leeway to make mistakes and you can see the effects of your actions in a much quicker way.

I give some advantages to dealing with problems on the Astral plane and why you may want to deal with them on the Astral almost exclusively.

After dealing with personality problems and AP, I switch to Astral Combat. It's stated that you can engage in combat like this, but that it would probably be better if you didn't. I teach you how to ward and Shield, what a Guardian is and what we do.

I also give you some rules on how to act on the Astral Plane to avoid conflicts.

Lesson 18

In this lesson we spoke of Channels and what they do and don't do. Primarily, they don't give us all the answers. The channel is the person sitting in the trance, and the spirit is being channeled is the person we are talking to.

What this means is that the channel's soul goes someplace while this is going on.

I talk about some references that I had found at one time or another dealing with channeling and a suggestion that you read further. Hope you all did.

I then talked to you about magick and the Astral Plane, and pointed out that since all the energy to perform magick on THIS plane comes from the Astral Plane anyhow, that casting spells there is sooooo much easier in some ways, but a couple orders of magnitude harder in other ways. Like visualization. Keeping your mind on what you want and not letting it wander at all is a really delicate skill and one that is critical to being able to do this effectively.

Pulling energy is easy since all the "places" to pull energy from is already here, and recharging yourself is easy as well. However, it takes some skill to be able to turn that energy into physical energy for use here.

I also talked somewhat freely about the pitfalls to living for the Astral too much, such as wanting to see all the other MHBs that you could have taken and being more interested in them than in yourself.

Lesson 19

In this last lesson, I talked about some theories of Reincarnation and what it means to us who can project.

Here is the first lesson in which I detail the database as I see it that the Soul goes into. It is like a hard drive on a computer which can hold all this information without loss, and it's the average of those combined lives that determine ultimately what we have to learn the next lifetime.

I also state my "tapestry theory of time" and it apparently got good reviews. ;-) I explain that Time and Space are functions of perception and if you can overcome that perception, neither states exist and it is then possible to go anyplace at any time in the blink of an eye.

The question was also raised, but never addressed "is it possible to live simultaneous lifetimes on THIS plane?" and I answer that it's possible, but unlikely.

Why would one want to live a lifetime here and now, and have another in the here and now when there is an entire multiverse to choose from? But there may be cases where it's necessary so I won't say that it can't ever happen.

Then I went more into depth with wards and shields and posted a lot of information on it. Some of it needs to be repeated.

A ward being cast, as well as a shield does not get rid of what is there, it only keeps other things from coming in. So the cure for getting rid of something is to make sure you get rid of it the first time, THEN cast the protection, and then invite in only that which you want there.

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And that, children, is the end of the review.

I am writing the exam as I write this, so it will be ready really soon, possibly in the next few days. So, get on this review and re-read the lessons you don't remember too well.

For reference, I'll be posting these reviews to my site, and you can find any of the old lessons there at http://davensjournal.com and you need to click on the button on the left that says "OOBE Class". Or you can just go to http://davensjournal.com/OOBEIndex.xhtml which has a listing of all the files relating to this there. There is also the graphics you may need and links to the materials you may or may not have.

Hope this has been as challenging for you as it has for me.

Daven

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