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Healing Dreams / Re: Meeting Dakota
« on: October 05, 2011, 10:11:14 AM »
How beautiful.
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Healing Dreams / Re: Building a DreamLodge
« on: October 05, 2011, 10:08:38 AM »
Hi Dakota,
yes, I'd be fascinated to read your peice about how you walk the Medicine wheel.
Thanks
Matt
yes, I'd be fascinated to read your peice about how you walk the Medicine wheel.
Thanks
Matt
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Greetings / Re: Hello, I'm Mike
« on: September 29, 2011, 04:05:59 PM »
Hi Mike,
Just re-read your intro.
It's brilliant that you are asking such big questions and starting your explorations of self at this early age. To think that you're here now and have access to the information and the tools that Tony is kindly making available here makes me believe that you have the potential to live an incredibly fulfilling life. We all do, but most of us (like me) waste so much time!
Good luck, I look forward to hearing how you get on!
Matt
Just re-read your intro.
It's brilliant that you are asking such big questions and starting your explorations of self at this early age. To think that you're here now and have access to the information and the tools that Tony is kindly making available here makes me believe that you have the potential to live an incredibly fulfilling life. We all do, but most of us (like me) waste so much time!
Good luck, I look forward to hearing how you get on!
Matt
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Healing Dreams / Re: Building a DreamLodge
« on: September 29, 2011, 04:00:01 PM »
Hi Dakota,
What a fascinating post.
I ran a similar experiment with somebody who I was very close to. We had already had spontaneous shared dreams and on one occasion met each other in the void in what was a very ecstatic experience.
We wanted to take these experiences further and have them happen at will and we tried to create a place to meet using the very technique you describe and whilst I can 'feel' that it is there when I think about it (similar to the feeling I get when thinking about home when I'm at work) we never actually made it there in dreamstate / OBE / meditation.
We did this over a period of about 6-9 months, so perhaps it wasn't long enough?
A few years before all this, I also created my own personal sanctuary which again I never managed to reach in OBE state.
Have you got any tips for doing this?
What a fascinating post.
I ran a similar experiment with somebody who I was very close to. We had already had spontaneous shared dreams and on one occasion met each other in the void in what was a very ecstatic experience.
We wanted to take these experiences further and have them happen at will and we tried to create a place to meet using the very technique you describe and whilst I can 'feel' that it is there when I think about it (similar to the feeling I get when thinking about home when I'm at work) we never actually made it there in dreamstate / OBE / meditation.
We did this over a period of about 6-9 months, so perhaps it wasn't long enough?
A few years before all this, I also created my own personal sanctuary which again I never managed to reach in OBE state.
Have you got any tips for doing this?
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General Discussion / Re: Working in a group
« on: September 29, 2011, 12:17:41 PM »Have you seen http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/i-dont-believe-in-god-i-know-god/ ??
I have now!
Another very useful article - thanks.
During the session we had on Tuesday the issue of religion did cause some differences of opinion. One member of the group is very religious in a traditional kind of way (this person is also very aware on a non-physical level and has had some amazing experiences) whilst another is very scientific and logical and has a cynical view of religion (and this person also has had some profound non-physical experiences).
I observed an annoying trait in myself that I automatically sought to reconcile the two polarised view points where there was really no need to do so.
But I suppose religion is such a divisive force - the Christian churches in this country appear to have done so much damage to so many people that many people I know hold them in complete disregard. I did too for a long time, until I actually picked up Christian scripture and started reading it for myself, along with other religious and mystical texts from around the world. Then I realised it's not the religion, it's the institutions that adhere themselves to the religions that cause the problem.
The saddest indictment of a Church I have come across relates to a Priest who has a degree of clairvoyance and other mystical abilities but suppresses them for fear of what his bosses would say. For that and other reasons I still question whether our religious institutions are fit for purpose. But anyway, it really doesn't matter, and that question of fitness applies through all our institutions. What did you say to me about not being held back by qualifications that limit me? I suppose it's the same principal at work here. Humans over-intellectualise things and love to exercise control over one another.
Right - to get back to the point of the post...
What you write about the time it can take to 'connect' I find very reassuring. I'm hoping that it won't take me a decade!!
Last night, I started reading Mind & Movement and I asked for what is subconscious to become conscious and to be aware of the tensions I store in my body. And I got a result. I will write it up in another post as soon as I can.
Hope you're enjoying the beautiful weather.
Matt
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General Discussion / Re: Working in a group
« on: September 28, 2011, 12:58:35 PM »
Hi Tony,
I'm short of time right now, but just wanted to let you know that the first meeting of the development group was last night. It was great. Just a meet and greet really, but everybody appears to have a serious appetite for development, so I am looking forward to seeing how this progresses.
Thanks for all your help. I have got hold of "Mind and Movement" and its the next book on my reading list. I can't wait to get stuck in as I seem to be unable to 'be' (or even establish a connection with) my dream components / characters.
Hope you're well.
Matt
I'm short of time right now, but just wanted to let you know that the first meeting of the development group was last night. It was great. Just a meet and greet really, but everybody appears to have a serious appetite for development, so I am looking forward to seeing how this progresses.
Thanks for all your help. I have got hold of "Mind and Movement" and its the next book on my reading list. I can't wait to get stuck in as I seem to be unable to 'be' (or even establish a connection with) my dream components / characters.
Hope you're well.
Matt
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Questions about dreams / Re: astral projection
« on: September 15, 2011, 12:54:46 PM »
Crikey Tony - too many synchronicities going on here!
I've just started skim reading the article you linked too and see that you write about The Dweller. I was going to do a post about that very subject and just yesterday, via a facebook discussion group, I posted a link to this podcast all about the dweller:
http://chasinghermes.com/2009/11/04/13-guardian-on-the-threshold.aspx
I'll read your article properly and continue the discussion soon.
By the way, it has taken me 5 years to accept that some of my big OBE's were my own creation and not objective reality (not that there's any such thing).
I've just started skim reading the article you linked too and see that you write about The Dweller. I was going to do a post about that very subject and just yesterday, via a facebook discussion group, I posted a link to this podcast all about the dweller:
http://chasinghermes.com/2009/11/04/13-guardian-on-the-threshold.aspx
I'll read your article properly and continue the discussion soon.
By the way, it has taken me 5 years to accept that some of my big OBE's were my own creation and not objective reality (not that there's any such thing).
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General Discussion / Re: Working in a group
« on: September 14, 2011, 08:11:34 PM »
Hi Tony,
Thanks for taking the time and effort to provide me with such a valuable response. I feel very fortunate to have found your website and your work at this point in my life.
Yes, feeling almost obliged to be an authority figure in the group has been something of an obstacle in pushing on with these plans. I'm not an assertive character type and often feel frustrated that I seem incapable of action in this life, yet I'm also aware of a side of my character that craves the adoration and perhaps even dependence of others. However, my prime motivation for forming the group is to bring some routine to my own program of development and also to provide an arena for me and others to be their true Selves in a safe, non-judgemental place. And of course, prior to that, it was the lesson in the dream that inspired me.
It was actually reading one of your articles (the one where you quote from Matthew: 'where two or more come together in my name...') that prompted me to set aside my strange inner barriers and crack on. So again, thank you.
I like your comments about what lies at our core and your conclusion about our role in group work - it is the perfect antidote to the therapist/client, healer/patient, saviour/sinner paradigm that at times holds us all back.
I'm sure there's a very good reason you chose to recount that particular encounter with Fater Dan Li. I hear you.
Being in control of our emotions is important. In the system laid out in Franz Bardon's Initiation Into Hermetics - a book I'm currently reading, the first exercises are dedicated to the balancing of our character and I do feel this is really important. Have you got any tips?
Thanks again Tony.
Thanks for taking the time and effort to provide me with such a valuable response. I feel very fortunate to have found your website and your work at this point in my life.
Yes, feeling almost obliged to be an authority figure in the group has been something of an obstacle in pushing on with these plans. I'm not an assertive character type and often feel frustrated that I seem incapable of action in this life, yet I'm also aware of a side of my character that craves the adoration and perhaps even dependence of others. However, my prime motivation for forming the group is to bring some routine to my own program of development and also to provide an arena for me and others to be their true Selves in a safe, non-judgemental place. And of course, prior to that, it was the lesson in the dream that inspired me.
It was actually reading one of your articles (the one where you quote from Matthew: 'where two or more come together in my name...') that prompted me to set aside my strange inner barriers and crack on. So again, thank you.
I like your comments about what lies at our core and your conclusion about our role in group work - it is the perfect antidote to the therapist/client, healer/patient, saviour/sinner paradigm that at times holds us all back.
I'm sure there's a very good reason you chose to recount that particular encounter with Fater Dan Li. I hear you.
Being in control of our emotions is important. In the system laid out in Franz Bardon's Initiation Into Hermetics - a book I'm currently reading, the first exercises are dedicated to the balancing of our character and I do feel this is really important. Have you got any tips?
Thanks again Tony.
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General Discussion / Working in a group
« on: September 13, 2011, 11:57:28 AM »
Hi Tony
At the end of the month I will be hosting a development circle in my home. This was prompted from guidance received in a dream where I was told that energy increases exponentially with each additional sitter and that five would be an optimum number.
In a very natural and almost magical way, some really good people who are interested in these things appeared in my life and five of them who take their development seriously have expressed interest and the first session will be later this month.
After reading one of your articles on Lifestream and how it came about which I found fascinating, I wonder if you have any advice. I'm not used to group work - being a bit of a recluse and favouring alone time and introspection to spending time with friends.
Thanks
At the end of the month I will be hosting a development circle in my home. This was prompted from guidance received in a dream where I was told that energy increases exponentially with each additional sitter and that five would be an optimum number.
In a very natural and almost magical way, some really good people who are interested in these things appeared in my life and five of them who take their development seriously have expressed interest and the first session will be later this month.
After reading one of your articles on Lifestream and how it came about which I found fascinating, I wonder if you have any advice. I'm not used to group work - being a bit of a recluse and favouring alone time and introspection to spending time with friends.
Thanks
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Questions about dreams / Re: astral projection
« on: September 11, 2011, 11:01:04 AM »
I'd love to read Tony's answer to these questions too.
Based upon my own OBE's, Astral Projections and lucid dreams over the last 5 or 6 years, I conceptualise reality like this:
We have physical reality and our day to day waking consciousness.We are not hermetically sealed individual units of consciousness, even though it appears that we are.
When we sleep I believe that our consciousness dislocates from the physical body and in doing so is less restricted.
Now, this is where your idea of a sea of consciousness comes in handy because I believe that our 'regular' dreams take place within bubbles that we create within that sea of consciousness and that we create such bubbles to resolve our unresolved issues.
If we become lucid enough during a dream we can transcend the dream, or burst the bubble, so to speak. When we do this we may find ourselves within another one of our bubbles (another dream realm) or we may find ourselves in some other more exotic locale. I haven't got enough experience to say what lies beyond our own created dream bubbles, although based upon the limited number of OBE's where I've interacted with non-human intelligences, I would consider these to be less about the usual psychological processes that drive our dreams and their symbols. I'd be interested to know Tony's thoughts on this.
When we have an OBE and it appears to take place in the physical world, I actually think we're operating within an energetic copy of it. I say this because I have often seen subtle deviations from reality during these experiences. Robert Monroe gives a good account of this phenomena in his first book.
Based upon my own OBE's, Astral Projections and lucid dreams over the last 5 or 6 years, I conceptualise reality like this:
We have physical reality and our day to day waking consciousness.We are not hermetically sealed individual units of consciousness, even though it appears that we are.
When we sleep I believe that our consciousness dislocates from the physical body and in doing so is less restricted.
Now, this is where your idea of a sea of consciousness comes in handy because I believe that our 'regular' dreams take place within bubbles that we create within that sea of consciousness and that we create such bubbles to resolve our unresolved issues.
If we become lucid enough during a dream we can transcend the dream, or burst the bubble, so to speak. When we do this we may find ourselves within another one of our bubbles (another dream realm) or we may find ourselves in some other more exotic locale. I haven't got enough experience to say what lies beyond our own created dream bubbles, although based upon the limited number of OBE's where I've interacted with non-human intelligences, I would consider these to be less about the usual psychological processes that drive our dreams and their symbols. I'd be interested to know Tony's thoughts on this.
When we have an OBE and it appears to take place in the physical world, I actually think we're operating within an energetic copy of it. I say this because I have often seen subtle deviations from reality during these experiences. Robert Monroe gives a good account of this phenomena in his first book.
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General Discussion / Re: Consciousness
« on: September 11, 2011, 09:58:58 AM »
Yes, I'm inclined to think of consciousness in this way. In altered states I've 'been' other people, and I've enjoyed a shared out of body experience and shared dreams with somebody with whom I had a particularly close connection. Verifying the details of the dream with that person the next day was one of those spine-tingly moments of excitement and realisation that make life beautiful!
If you haven't seen it already watch Tom Campbell's lecture to The London School of Spirituality entitled My Big TOE, I think you'd get a lot out of it. You can find it on youtube.
If you haven't seen it already watch Tom Campbell's lecture to The London School of Spirituality entitled My Big TOE, I think you'd get a lot out of it. You can find it on youtube.
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General Discussion / Re: Witnessing ourselves outside of our egoselves
« on: September 10, 2011, 01:14:18 PM »
Thanks Tony that's incredibly helpful. I have had a few big experiences that I'm going to apply this technique to. Thanks.
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General Discussion / Witnessing ourselves outside of our egoselves
« on: September 08, 2011, 09:11:40 AM »
Hi Guys,
Last year I went through, or rather put myself, my family and a loved one through some awful emotional trauma. By Christmas 2010, some degree of normality had returned to all our lives and by Spring, the dust had settled fully.
In May, June, July I suffered a chain of illness - a bout of flu, a few weeks later severe tonsillitis and then a week or so after that, a chronic infection in my right testicle which led to me being hospitalised and nearly losing it!!!
I'm 32 and not in too bad shape, so to have all this illness was not something I was expecting! The docs suggested that it may have been glandular fever and whilst it may have been, I couldn't help wonder whether there was more to this period of illness.
So, upon returning from hospital and during the days off work recuperating that followed, I asked before going to sleep to be shown how to heal my self.
One night I fell to sleep pretty quickly - as I always do, but awoke within a fairly mundane dream where I was in a bedroom that I identified as my own, but which looked nothing like any of the bedrooms I've had in this life. Within the dream, I lay down on the bed and willed myself to have an out of body experience (I find it's easy to convert a lucid dream to an OBE and don't actually think there's much difference between the two).
I immediately accelerated into the abyss, guided by an unseen intelligence and found myself hovering over my body.
This wasn't my physical body - it had no blemishes, moles, spots or scars. I suspect it was my emotional body and it was writhing around in agony beneath me. I was able to touch this aspect of myself with my non-physical hands but I didn't know specifically how to administer healing to it. I felt that I was out of my depth, so I just stroked it, trying to soothe it, but it appeared completely unaware of my presence. It didn't even appear to have self awareness. It just lay there rocking back and forth clutching on to itself in anguish.
It was a fascinating experience even if it has left me with more questions than answers.
Last year I went through, or rather put myself, my family and a loved one through some awful emotional trauma. By Christmas 2010, some degree of normality had returned to all our lives and by Spring, the dust had settled fully.
In May, June, July I suffered a chain of illness - a bout of flu, a few weeks later severe tonsillitis and then a week or so after that, a chronic infection in my right testicle which led to me being hospitalised and nearly losing it!!!
I'm 32 and not in too bad shape, so to have all this illness was not something I was expecting! The docs suggested that it may have been glandular fever and whilst it may have been, I couldn't help wonder whether there was more to this period of illness.
So, upon returning from hospital and during the days off work recuperating that followed, I asked before going to sleep to be shown how to heal my self.
One night I fell to sleep pretty quickly - as I always do, but awoke within a fairly mundane dream where I was in a bedroom that I identified as my own, but which looked nothing like any of the bedrooms I've had in this life. Within the dream, I lay down on the bed and willed myself to have an out of body experience (I find it's easy to convert a lucid dream to an OBE and don't actually think there's much difference between the two).
I immediately accelerated into the abyss, guided by an unseen intelligence and found myself hovering over my body.
This wasn't my physical body - it had no blemishes, moles, spots or scars. I suspect it was my emotional body and it was writhing around in agony beneath me. I was able to touch this aspect of myself with my non-physical hands but I didn't know specifically how to administer healing to it. I felt that I was out of my depth, so I just stroked it, trying to soothe it, but it appeared completely unaware of my presence. It didn't even appear to have self awareness. It just lay there rocking back and forth clutching on to itself in anguish.
It was a fascinating experience even if it has left me with more questions than answers.
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General Discussion / Re: Healing dream
« on: September 08, 2011, 08:34:31 AM »
I've just read the articles linked to. Wow! 
I am very very interested in using the LifeStream process. Could you point me towards which of your books gives more information, or do you run workshops or one-on-one sessions?
I am very very interested in using the LifeStream process. Could you point me towards which of your books gives more information, or do you run workshops or one-on-one sessions?