Well, aren't you? What in all what you have claimed so far isn't woo?
I'm not in disagreeance with you about the upsurdity of my claims. There was a time when I saw things much the same as you all do; difference being I was willing to explore the possibilities of magick for myself. From my current perspective, though, it isn't "woo" and the word "magick" is really not correct; what I work with is
energy, and the techniques are nothing more than precise control of your own mind and feelings to bring about a desired result - whether it be exiting your body, or materializing a caramel latte. It sounds crazy, and I admit that.
Why does it have to be private? Why can't you just present it here, so that more people can benefit from this enlightenment?
Start a new thread. The instructions are lengthy, and out of place in this thread. I'm not sure that I rank high enough in the forums to create a thread, so if someone starts it for me I'll participate enthusiastically.
Do you understand that you just contradicted yourself there? If you can fast forward or rewind time to wherever you want, then time does exist.
Time exists in our dimension. The other dimension exisits
above time. That is the fact of it. If you can take a few minutes and conceive of such a thing - that a place in the universe exists seperate from time, then you can understand. I can site references in many books by people like myself who have been there that explain the same phenomenon. There is no contradiction.
Does this mean you can see inside a box?
I've never tried. I'll give it a shot this weekend.
Why on Earth not? How much will it take? Are you having problems expressing yourself?
To explain the exact discipline necessary to stop your brain from interfering with this, would take a great deal of space. Simple explanation: you learn to shut your brain off. Your thoughts are non-words, or symbolic before they become words - you have to shut off the part of your brain that turns the symbolic knowledge into words and learn to just use the symbolic knowledge to think with. This, in turn, stops the part of the brain that fantasizes things and gets in the way. Once you have control of your thoughts then you can begin work. Mental discipline.
No, let's keep things out in the open. I am not looking to be your secret student, I am looking for your evidence.
Okay. But can I still send you a christmas card?
Why are your senses not playing tricks on you?
Mental discipline again. In order to do most of what I'm talking about you have to learn to shut off your senses. Your five senses flood the brain with information - itchy nose, sounds of the neigbors kids, smelling what the rock is cooking, etc... with all of that flowing into your brain your mind gets distracted - so you have to learn to shut off the flow of sensory input. I know it's not my senses playing tricks on me, because I know how to distinguish between what my five senses are bringing in, and what my sixth sense is bringing in. Also, with the figures of light that I see, you can tell that it's nothing you're imagining. It would be like me saying, "how do you
know that you see those people on the street?" when you can clearly see them.
It could. I've been there (to that time) a few times now. I'm not sure that I want to take that path through life.
You think that having experiences of your own past is evidence of these supernatural powers? Are you kidding??
No, it's not supernatural to have an experience of your past. But it goes beyond normal explanation when you can go to that event and experience it from a perspective that is outside of yourself, like from another camera angle almost; or recall parts of it that you were unaware of previously. The past is a bad example, becuase the skeptic can always argue that, "the mind can remember anything that it's seen or experienced," thus explaining the event through memory. If you do this meditation for yourself, you have no doubt about the reality of it though.
There are as many time lines through infinity as there are sentient beings to experience them. We all live in our own universe, that intersects partially with those we come into contact with, but it does not have to intersect completely. You don't know that I experience the same dimension as you do (and, in fact I do not), we only assume that we see and experience the same things as those around us. This is why Sylvia's predictions are always wrong, because there isn't just one time line that's going to happen; there are many, many time lines. The one that we collectively experience as the reality we share is the one that we all collectively agree on in our minds. Remember how I said that your doubt can kill my magick? Same thing here - you are projecting your own reality around you, and I share that job of projecting with you when I'm near you; if it's just you and I, then we decide the reality - it's our time line. If later on we both agree to change what we saw, no one else needs to be involved and we can change the past that you and I experienced. The universe takes care of the details that fall in between - there is no "Back to the Future," like effect to it where everyone and everything is effected.
But human perception can easily be fooled, even though you think you are a careful observer.
It's not about just being careful, it's about being positively sure of it. Like I said, you have to shut off your senses while you do this. Anything that disturbs the tranquility of the mind will cause the visions to cease and normal eye sight will return. Besides, if you saw what I saw you wouldn't doubt it!
Take a look at
this illusion. Can you, merely by observation, determine if A and B are different shades of grey, or if they are the same?
At first glance, using my normal eye sight they appear to be different. If I use the technique that I use for seeing, then the illusion vanishes. You should try staring blankly at the image until you can see it for what it is. I'm a film maker by trade, and I've seen many, many of these optical illusions before, they're useful for testing your abilities to see things honestly - not relying on the first impression that your brain gets when observing something. After a moment or two I can see the greys differently among all of the squares. A and B are the same shade.
You have to understand that personal experiences weigh very little on a forum for skepticism and critical thinking.
Something a little more spectacular, maybe. I sure didn't expect it to be somethink akin to what I read on the back of cereal boxes.
Read the book,
God Speaks by Meher Baba. What is in that book is the truth of the whole matter I'm speaking of about the meaning of life and such. I received that knowledge prior to getting that book from a friend (a few days prior), and was surprised at the fact that Meher had come up with the same explanations that I had heard. If it seems simple to you, maybe you should consider that. Life isn't really complicated, it actually is that simple. Just live, and have fun.
If this is just a joke, come out and say it now, and stop wasting people's time.
No joke. And I'm wasting my time here as well. There is nothing beneficial for me in doing this, and I don't get kicks out of razzing all of you. I'm interested in this forum because you have so few of us shamans who come forth to tell you science/skeptic types that there is something more to reality than what you understand of it. Carlos Castaneda wrote books about this stuff decades ago, and there are many people world wide that followed that path into the same understandings that I have acheived. You can train yourself to see with your own eyes the energy that new-agers are talking about, and it's possible for anyone to do so. Period.
"It only works if I'm alone. If there's a skeptic in the room, the effect disappears."
Would you accept this excuse of yours from someone who claimed to be able to conjure spaceships?
I see your point, and I knew that this would be a difficult side of the equation to explain. Let me think about it, and I'll try to come around to this in another way.
What is the difference between that, and "They are sending beams through my ceiling to kill my thoughts"?
Yes, that's what skeptics call the
Clustering Illusion.
I understand that principle. Crowley actually writes about this alot, and we students of the art are to check our work versus such chance-odds to see if we are making false conclusions. To make it clear, I consider this whenever I notice a result from my work.
Why not? That would be precisely the evidence you need, in order to convince other people.
Who said I'm looking to convince you of my power? I want you to awaken to the possibility of your own power; or, rather, I just want you to be
awake. *see Buddhism.
Who has an instant "manifest-time"?
Anyone in a higher dimension experiences instant manifest time. Those with
signifigant power on Earth would not reveal themselves to you; there would be no point in doing so. This brings up an interesting point though, becuase the reason we are on Earth is to experience the: contrast of wanting something, and not receiving it instantly but at a later point in time; the whole reason that we are here is to want, wait, then receive. I can site this being explained in many, many different religous texts - including the Bible where it is symbolically expressed in the story of the fall of Satan.
Before you went on to these bigger things, did you try moving things with your mind?
I'll give it a shot just for you guys.
Yes, it is. Because that's what you are trying to do here, e.g. when you invite people in for private lessons.
I want you to awaken to your own powers; what you do with them is your destiny. Would you spend your money on me to prove that you have money?
How do we know that you are closer to enligthenment than us? That these books are just books of clever sayings to you?
Should we trust your word?
No. You should never trust anyone, especially about these things. If you'd like to test my knowledge of buddhism, yoga, or magick then do your research and ask me any question you like. If you'd like to know about enlightenment, then ask.
