
Part of the fun is trying to figure things out,I'm just glad to discuss this stuff somewhere...I'm not really too attached to any one theory though...
Brilliant quote!" you can connect any star in the sky if you want to."
Ah well to tell you the absolute truth... I used Microsoft word with a b5 (instead of default a4) page size and used the section break tool to separate the chapters/get the headers to tell you what chapter your reading. The page numbers are easy to sort out (just click" add page-numbers") and the table of contents is an auto updating feature which you just use headers and it auto analyzes and write does down page numbers/header name. Actually using word could be complicated but I could send you the "word version" of my book so that you can play around with/convert it into your own book.Maybe I should write a book? heh
How did you write yours? Are there tools on some website to get you going? I think it would be fun to answer "I am an author" or "I am writing a book" when people ask me what I do.
In other words "You experience what you believe your experiencing... e.g. If you think your in the astral dimension your mind will create the astral dimension". Its funny because I approach my friend tony with this same idea... What if your experiencing the astral because you think you are. This argument however was used against me saying that the astral transforms based on your beliefs... If you believe its in your mind then it will be created to seem like it is. Some of the things you see are "real" and some are "not real" (created by your mind). Both ideas put forward by summerlander/micheal and Tony/Phanes contradict each-other and both are "possible".What is experienced during that state is up to the practitioner. However, it has to be emphasised that you can take control of any situation in the phase - especially when you are not thinking that it is beyond your control. Thinking that something is not yours or beyond your control in the phase (as in the case of people believing that phase characters are spirits of the dead for example) will yield results that will absolutely convince you of the reality being experienced.
The problem is that every time proof is received it can be denied. e.g. a skeptic could say either "luck" or "faked/fraud experiment". If there was some massive experiment to prove it was real then the world would have proof... I told my friend tony about that $1,000,000 prize for that experiment proving that the phase is more than a mind creation that nobody has even attempted to do... He said hes gonna do it in the future (he wasn't told about it prior to today). But the guy recalls leaving his body, going to a high shelf and reading a string of numbers. He got the numbers completely correct. Some would say from the equipment reading he was just Lucid Dreaming -- but then, how did he get the numbers right?
Wow thanks... That give me a lot of confidence for the plans I have made for my second book (phase acquaintances). I will have a phase-person (perfect lucidity trigger) who I will meet in every phase experience and they will be my guide. On my request (most nights) they will pull me out of my body as I awaken making it the perfect technique. Even if the phase is a creation of the mind the technique will still work because you believe it will work.Montana wrote: Somewhat spontaneously, I grabbed another fellow by the shoulders and said.... "Hey! Wake Up! We're in a dream!" He was like 'yah yah ... whatever~'. I said something like "No, THIS is a DREAM!... see? We're dreaming!!!" He looked me in the eye, and suddenly, he got it. He too went lucid. The instant that happened, the whole world there went really solid, and my lucidity became very solid. I felt and thought "I'm free! I can stay here forever! I just need to wake up a few more people!" .... Unhappily, the phone rang (in this world) and woke me. :-(
Apparently, where others are also awake, the world one inhabits becomes more solid, more stable...?
This is one of Stephen LaBerge's techniques to increase the chances of becoming lucid in a dream. You will find this very advice in the CD that comes with his book "Lucid Dreaming". I wouldn't say that it allows you to move beyond influence though. You are still being influenced by a state of mind and thus behaving according to how you feel. It is true that you would have behaved differently in certain dream scenes had you known that you were dreaming, but this does not mean that in the phase you have free will as opposed to being totally influenced by the unconscious mind in a dream. We don't even have free will in wakefulness. Our will is always directed by unconscious processes in our primordial brains (see our free will thread for more insight).Now, look at the waking world around us as you read this post, observe yourself and, others around you. Compare what you see now to the dreams that you have had. Notice the similarities between the two, how we "react" to our environment, Try to suspend disbelief for a moment and picture the waking world as a dream, and imagine waking within this dream. Feel your body sitting at your computer, or phone as the case may be, the same way you can feel your sleeping body while lucid. It is this "conscience awareness" that allows us to move beyond influence, the same as it allows us to move beyond the dream.