Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Monday, August 2, 2010

Out Of Body - Is It Really Possible?

By Indrani Khan

Have you ever seen yourself float out of your own body during sleep and then suddenly woken up? You may have thought it to be a strange dream but it might well have been the beginning of an out of body experience and you could be termed as being extremely lucky to have felt the sensation momentarily which thousands of people try to induce on themselves. This out of body experience in essence, involves you leaving your physical body like in 'autoscopy' and traveling to different astral realms as in 'astral projections'.

The various stages through which any out of body experience occur are those of withdrawal, paralysis, progression, freedom and re-entry. In the withdrawal stage, the physical body ceases to interact with the external environment, that is, it withdraws itself from the world. Your mind assumes a focused state while your body sleeps.

The second stage of the out of body experience involves the paralysis of the body. In this stage the body faces muscle rigidity and goes into a comatose condition where there is absolutely no interaction whatsoever with the external environment. Some common sensations in this stage involve intense vibrations, tingling, shivering, hearing of loud noises and sometimes sight through closed eyes.

The third stage of separation is perhaps the most important and crucial phase of an out of body experience where your perceptual existence separates and travels forth from your physical body. Still accompanied by strong sensations, it is the stage where people fail, the physical pull and emotional fears not letting the separation to take place. Remember that in case you are inducing an OBE, even the smallest of fear or anxiety regarding whether you can come back or not will result in your body pulling you back. Complete relaxation and letting your spirit loose can only achieve successful separation.

After your aura, spirit, soul or perceptual existence whatever term you wish to call it with, has separated from your physical body, you will still feel a strong pull back which will ultimately cease beyond a certain distance allowing free movement without any restriction. Thus, progression has taken place out of body, where you can view your body from outside while you travel to other astral planes and realms. Your spirit is free and your mind focused and in control.

The final stage of the out of body experience involves you coming back to your physical body. Either you will feel the perceptions to slowly fade away with you waking up from a dream like trance or it may also happen that sudden fear of going too far away from the body results in sudden 'sucking back' of your free self into the body once again.

An out of body experience, most often than not, is seen to occur in relation to sleeping or a near death experience. Most of the time OBE takes place before, after or during sleep, especially while lucid dreaming when the body sleeps but the mind is wakeful, focused and in control of the dreams. This is an extremely rare phenomenon but is highly conducive to out of body experiences. Moreover, near death experiences like drowning or road accidents also results in an OBE with the individual being able to watch the accident as if from a distance.

If you want to induce out of body experience then the two best techniques would either be mental or technological. The first instance includes meditation in increasing one's self awareness, control over conscious and development of the power to channel one's energy and control the mind in order to achieve whatever desired. Going to the technological perspective, the use of binaural beats have become quite popular in recent times. This consists of hearing two different sound vibrations in each ear which synchronizes in the brain to create a mental condition that is conducive to an out of body experience. It can be concluded that whatever the technique is, out of body sensation induction is difficult and requires heightened suggestibility of mind. However, once gone through with it, it is something that is unexplainable and an experience of a lifetime.

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