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I was just talking with Powesse about the need to let the meditative object be, to accommodate it, instead of putting it in a mental/conceptual box. I think my word for listening or silence is going deep. I think you have to be still and silent to go deep mentally.

Years ago I picked up on an image that was in my wife’s mind when I was trying to be mentally deep. It was a red barn. If what you say is true, my mind reading was the low hanging fruit. It would have taken more time and skill to pick up on smells and touch/feelings? When I mentally resurrected...

Neat. Someone else has already done this weird science and found it useful, even recommending it to others!

I’m Add to that the use of positive self-fulfilling prophecy. Praying to God works well enough to make some desired “prophecies” come true. “God” helps the mind attract good things from out of the blue, from the unknown. This is the topic of my new post, Religion as Self-fulfilling prophecy. Of...

Sounds like your mind has the habit or skill of viewing (what most people would identify as) its own projections and using what developmental theorist Piaget called “accommodation” to experience them. The mind accommodates the raw perceptions instead of assimilating it into known concepts. The...

I get similar symbolic “messages” in my dreams. Teachers seeming to teach me spiritual truths. Lots of school and prison settings. Sometimes I am a teacher, but more often a student. Also some helping and healing stories. In one dream, a male voice gave me a Bible verse to look up, “Matthew...

If there is a Zero Point Field (from Lynn McTaggart’s book, The Field) that stores life’s memories and other information and energies, or Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphogenetic Field or Jung’s Collective Unconscious or a Quantum Substrate, then our mind’s focus might attract frequencies or energy in...

Yes, praying to the “Good Unknown” (Good because we don’t want the bad stuff from the Unknown) is like the new age concept of “law of attraction.” The mind orients towards. hones in on, and at times seems to actually attract certain realities. Case in point, I wrote this poem during Easter...

Do I believe in God? Yes. Mainly because my praying to God works for me. Metaphysically? If it works, there must be something there, but knowing its exact nature is not necessary. Even if “God” is really only a positive self-fulfilling prophecy that my mysterious mind fulfills religiously...

Probably correct that it is a necessary step to later experience “good” more internally and then want to do good for its own inherent expansion of spirituality/wholeness. Morality is a fake it til you make it method of spiritual growth, called Sutric in eastern thought. Christianity with its...

What you described could be useful even if not true in an objective or metaphysical way, because the human mind as it imagines and thinks or even perceives is always projecting and often does not reclaim the projections in the form of personal insights from them or spiritual growth. Even if it...

When I searched the internet with the following question: “Is there any truth to the book, The Field?”: Response: “Yes, Lynne McTaggart's book, "The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe," explores ideas and research that align with some aspects of quantum physics and the concept...

Besides, most religion is not spiritual, but more moralistic. And even that part of religion that does emphasize spirituality is more focused on optimal wholeness than mastery of spiritual practices or spiritism as a means to being more “spiritual.”

The one I had after meditation, then napping, then waking up, involved seeing back into the windshield of the car I was in. Since I was in the drowsy state (hypnogogic) I could have thought it was imaginary, but the intense “knitting” sensation as my astral body reentered the right side of my...

I accidentally prematurely posted the above. What I imagined was that the upper shelves were analogous to a different dimension that had greater capacity than the retail shelves, our physical reality. The effect of transition from greater to lesser is a pushing forward, time. Products come and...

As a stock worker for a year after my retirement, I noticed an analogy for time. The shelves that customers got products from could only hold so much, so additional products were placed up high. The retail shelves did not have enough capacity The Tibetan Book of the Dead advocates preparation...

Would astral projection skill development now help us transition better at death, when we leave and don’t come back, give up the ghost? Perhaps now that I am old, I’m motivated to practice moving out of my body. As long as I’m still alive, the mind or the silver chord will lead me back to my...

Sounds like the mind’s relationship with its own projections. Gestalt therapy advocates developing the skill of reclaiming one’s projections. I did so once in a dream. I reclaimed the angry character as a part of myself and our breathing became one, I realized in the dream that the disowned...

I personally have only had two astral projection experiences in the wake state, and one of those was actually in a semi-awake state following a nap. The other astral projection occurred during an intense emotional state. One vision occurred also during an intense emotional state, and walking...

Powessy said this: “I have had thousands of out of body experiences and astral experiences .,,” Today on Palm Sunday our Sunday School class reviewed a book about the Bible New Testament book of John, specifically the account of the tomb stone being rolled away and the eventual discovery of...