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?


Sunday, January 16, 2011

Past Life Reincarnation Not Such A New Thing

By Alistair Macdonald


Many people thing that with the New Age religions that are coming out past life reincarnation is something new. This is nothing of the sorts. Just the opposite is true. This idea that you were once something else and are now this human form has been around for quite some time. It started with the idea of Buddha.

There are two common religions that have warmly accepted this idea. These were the Buddhists as well as the Hindus. The biggest of believers are those with a Chinese background. However as the New Age movement is sweeping through nations upon nations, this idea is becoming even more widespread.

People of those cultures have a long line of ancestors believing this theory that you die and come back as something else. Many say that you come back because you have unfinished business. Others will tell you that you will come back no matter what. This means whether you have passed peacefully or not.

Others find this a little too good to be true. They think that once you are gone you are gone. They cannot fathom how someone could actually believe in this. Therefore, they question those who do believe to get the answer of how this could be. How do you know what you were? These are the true questions they ask.

For those who do believe, they take great comfort in knowing that this life is just the journey to another life. They look for ancestors everywhere they walk. The simplest tree could be a cousin who has passed. It's something like the Lion King. We all become something else.

If you feel that this has occurred, then they say that you need to really focus. That when you start to recall times of the former life that you once lived, this can help you through the hard times that you are facing in this time and life. For some, this is rather confusing. For others though, this is so normal.

For those who do believe, they commonly find that those who meditate can often remember as to who they were in a previous life. This is just a tip for those who feel that they do believe in this concept, but who might not necessarily remember what it was they were or the previous life in which they lived. For some people, their religion will help with this, if not there are tutorials out there that cna help you with such a task of remembering.

Whether you believe or not, this concept of reincarnation is becoming more wide spread. While there are many who don't bleieve in this and feel that the people who do believe in this only do so because they want something to help them through tough times, who are we to judge? It's nothing new. It's been around for a number of years, more are just accepting it.




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The Secret To Inducing Lucid Dreams

By David Axel


When during sleep you are completely aware that you are dreaming and in some cases even have the power to control the images that you see in your dreams, you are said to be lucid dreaming.

Thus, from what we understand from the above, if you know that you are dreaming and moreover have the power to dream about whatever you want and manipulate it as you wish then the ability for inducing lucid dreaming might be stated to be one of the best special powers or abilities anyone can possess. More so because with the knowledge that you are dreaming with the aspect of control, you can actually go ahead and do whatever you feel like in your dreams without any restriction since you know that once you wake up it can never harm you in real life.

In the light of all the above it can be understood why people so strongly want to develop the skill of inducing lucid dreams. It acts as a doorway in your life through which you can occasionally visit a world where you can do and enjoy whatever you want to and then come back to your normal life. Ability to induce lucid dreams can be developed by regular practice of the below mentioned five techniques.

Firstly, being able to recall your dreams is one primary and important aspect in inducing lucid dreaming. Even if you do experience a lucid dream but is not able to recall after waking up then there's no point at all. Hence, dream recall capability is to be developed first and the foremost. This can be done by regularly maintaining dream journals, affirming the mind in remembering your dreams, recording yourself saying what you dreamt about each day with an audio recorder are some of the things that you could do in this respect.

Secondly, the most difficult to develop and thereby the most rare is the WILD or Wake Initiated Lucid Dream, where the individual is fully awake and aware and in control of themselves while they pass from the state of wakefulness to that of the dream realm. Ability to do so mostly includes the ability to control and manipulate the dreams as well. Extremely difficult to achieve, it involves being awake during the hypnogenic stage which is the border between wakefulness and sleep. In other words, if you can keep your mind awake during this time simultaneously letting your body rest and go to sleep then WILD can be achieved. You can keep your mind awake and focused during the hypnagogic stage by visualizing yourself ascending a flight of stairs and counting the no. of the same, chanting in your mind or even counting your breadths.

Thirdly, the MILD or Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams technique in inducing lucid dreaming involves continuously affirming your subconscious mind about remembering a particular object in your dream. In this way, when you actually see it in your dream your mind will note it down, in the process giving you the knowledge that you are dreaming.

Inducing Lucid dreams can also be done by a alternate sleeping-waking exercise. In this case, you should go to sleep in the usual time but only for a few hours. Set your alarm and get up in between a deep sleep phase and then occupy yourself with something for 45mins to an hour or so after which you go back to sleep again. In this way, your mind or your brain will not be completely sure whether you are asleep or not, suddenly when you get up from intense sleep. This will help in inducing lucid dreaming when you go back to sleep again.

Lastly, it must be said that a discussion can never be complete without stating the techniques that technology has provided us. In this regard mention may be made of the binaural beat method which involves using a pair of headphones and hearing two different kinds of sound vibrations in each of your ears. This results in the synchronization of the different vibrations in you brain which in turn creates a mental state in which inducing lucid dreams can be much facilitated. Other technological objects include specialized lights or dream masks that can be used for lucid dreaming purposes. It can be concluded by saying that whatever the technique used, affirming the mind regarding remembering and realizing a dream and communicating the knowledge to you is what is most important.




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