Journeys Out of the Body

So, I started reading this book that's been on my radar for a few years now, about astral travel and out of body experiences. It's called "Journeys Out of the Body" by Robert A. Malone. 

Its primary thesis is that every living human being, besides having a physical body, also has a second non-material body, existing in the ethereal dimension of dreams. When you go to sleep, sometimes you are not just dreaming, you are actually traveling to real places in your sleep. Meaning, it's not imaginary, but is quite real. Except that when you travel this way you're like a ghost, and most people can't see you, but at the same time you might also see and interact with dead people, and with non-human entities as well. Also, when you go to sleep and travel outside of your body, you may travel to other planets and other dimensions, and may even travel backwards and forwards in time.

Reading this book reminded me of myself as a teenager in the 1990s, and how at the time I was obsessed with supernatural phenomena, ESP, time travel, parallel universes, the quest for immortality, and the ascension into higher realms and higher states of consciousness. I remember being 14 years old and discovering the authors Hermann Hesse and Carlos Castaneda, and the subjects of astral projection, lucid dreaming, and shamanism.

I haven't really thought about it for awhile, but there was a time in my youth in which I was a serious seeker. But somehow the responsibilities of adulthood have caused me to forget. Anyway, I'm reading this book, which narrates events that happened in my grandparents era, that of the 1940s to 1960s, about a man documenting the process of experimenting with astral travel to other dimensions in time and space. 

I woke up this morning too early. Like I'd been asleep for less than four hours, but I couldn't get back to sleep, so I read my book for a few minutes, and then shortly later went back to sleep, in which I dreamt of speaking face to face with an elderly white bald man without eyes, but having scars where the eyes should be, and all that existed to see was a small red slot over a scarred eye socket in which I stared intently into. I communicated with this man briefly, in which he told me that he knew the secrets for traveling to other worlds, and asked if I was there to learn them. 

I woke up, having no memory of anything else, but I think it will be something that I will explore further.

Eyesight, Foresight, and Dreams Remembered

 

It's very interesting that with some people if you say something positive about yourself that sets you apart from others, there are some people that will say that you are bragging, and will immediately dismiss you and undermine your worth.

It's so fucking odd. It's like imagine most people are sick, and you pronounce yourself to be healthy, there are actually real people in this world that will criticize you and will call you vain and narcissistic and stupid, simply because you are describing a reality that they are incapable of seeing. 

I've always had superior eyesight. When I was in high school and taking drivers education class, I had my eyesight officially tested and I tested at 20/10 vision. Which at the time I knew was very good, but had no idea exactly how good it was, like it's very rare, it's like the best eyesight in the world. My mother fed me a lot of carrots in my youth. Like when I was a kid, I ate carrots at every meal, and this went on for like at least 20 fucking years. 

I'm an honest person. Okay, and I'm also a good person. I'm not out for personal gain, I'm not about destroying people to make myself look better. I'm not someone who is out there trying to profit off of other people's misfortune. I'm someone who wants everyone to be happy and wants each and every single person to be the best that they can be. 

Anyway, I've always had superior vision. And I've always remembered my dreams. Believe it or not, there are some people in this world who go to sleep each night and never remember there dreams. I'm not one of them. I remember dreams I had when I was a little kid. Okay. Anyway, I'm going to get my eyesight tested again and I will post the results here.

Gemini Dreams and Insights

Metallic Toad Dream

I had a dream last night that I was sitting out on my patio and noticed a spider web up above me. It extended from a corner of the patio's ceiling with strands of webbing attached to some of the potted plants in front of where I was sitting. The webbing was sort of in the way, that someone could accidentally walk into it, so I cleared it away, just the bottom strands, and left the uppermost part of the web attached to the corner. Finally I see the spider curled up into a ball in the deepest shadow of the corner. It was white and large, with almost a squarish body, and my first thought was that it may be poisonous.

I looked away for a moment, but when I looked again in the same spot, instead of a spider, it was now a round silver coin, which appeared to be very old and of foreign currency, attached to the web. The spider appeared to have changed into a coin, or perhaps I had doubts about it having been a spider in the first place. As I'm thinking this, the coin turns around to its other side, and reveals itself to be not a coin, but a small metallic looking toad. Not a lifeless object, but a living creature. No sooner than revealing itself, or shape shifting into a toad, it quickly moves further into the shadow, and disappears completely into a hole in the wall. And that was it. End of dream.

Random Insights

I had these random insights a few days ago. The first one occurred to me while watching a movie. Just completely out of the blue, unrelated to the subject of the movie itself, I was looking at a woman on the screen and this thought spontaneously popped into my mind:

"The Body is a Spacesuit For the Soul"

Assumption being that there is a non-material essence underlying the fundamental being of each person. Perhaps you could call it a mixture of consciousness and spirit, spirit being the energy that animates the body, soul being the individual personality of the spirit, and consciousness being what links spirit to matter, as a self-aware being living among other self-aware beings.

Nothing too revolutionary here, and I'm sure anyone who doubts the existence of a non-material reality or spirit, would think the idea completely absurd and dismiss me as being a naive flake, but either way I thought it was interesting to think of our bodies as being like spacesuits perfectly adapted for earthly travel.

Just like astronauts can't walk on the moon without wearing a spacesuit, people can't walk on the earth without a physical body. But the body is more like a vehicle or a specially fitted outfit of clothing, than the actual person. The body as a tool essential to our survival in this environment, is an extension of our being, but it is not the source, or the fundamental substance of who and what we are.

"The Power of Will"

This other insight I had shortly before going to bed a few nights ago after having had a couple of beers. I was holding this almost empty bottle of beer in my hand and thinking about what was stopping me from throwing this bottle of beer against the wall. I had no intention of doing so, but just as a sort of thought experiment, the idea entered my mind. Well, of course, thinking about the consequences of it is what stopped me. The broken glass. The spilled beer. The mess. The noise. The anger it would cause my housemates. It would be a totally senseless act, with absolutely no good reason for doing so. But what was really stopping me? The power of the will, that's what.

The power of the will is extremely strong. It's like a superglue. Once an idea sticks, it's very difficult to get it unstuck. Thinking about this beer bottle and the choice not to throw it against the wall, got me thinking about the greater role Will plays in the physical laws of the universe, and to what extent Will is a defining ingredient in determining whether something is possible or impossible.

What role does will play in things like gravity, and not being able to walk through walls? What role does will play in the aging process, in what is considered to be the natural lifespan of the human being? Perhaps it is possible to change reality and to redefine the limits of what is possible and impossible, by changing and refocusing the power of the will. To walk through walls. To astral project your consciousness thousands of miles away without "physically" leaving the room you are in. The ability to see with microscopic vision, with telescopic vision, to see into the future and the past, and to do these things without the use of external technological devices like telephones and computers, but purely through the conscious manipulation of your mind and the power of your will.

The power of the will is not just a matter of thinking differently or trying to convince yourself of something, but is actually a matter of really believing it with all of your being on both a conscious and a much deeper subconscious level. You have to really actually believe it. As long as you "know" that it's impossible to walk through walls, either through personal experience or because all the scientific studies say so, your will shall reflect that impossibility. But as soon as a scientific breakthrough is made in that area to enable that to happen, it will revise your entire thinking on the matter, and what was previously considered impossible, becomes possible, because the information needed to support that idea, to confirm it in your will, has been modified.

Because the power of will is not just an individual matter, but is shaped in great part by the power of consensus, or collective agreement, reinforced by way of authority, popular culture, science, religion, and the law. The more people who believe in something and are told it is true, the more powerful and the more real this something becomes.

Addendum (added a few hours later):  The point of this insight, concerning the power of will, is that physical laws operate according to a similar principle, and that by observing the power and influence of your own will power in action, you can gain a better understanding of how the universe works. Or something like that. Just thinking out loud here, trying to retrace the line of thought going through my mind a few days ago, and writing about it here after the fact.