DreamBliss

This should have been blatantly obvious. As Christian I followed the 10 commandments. I believed I was a sinner, that when I broke any of these, I sinned. But these laws are mankind's laws, not universal laws. They are there to keep me from killing who I want, sleeping with who or what I want, and worshipping who or what I want, among other things. In this sense then my belief in these laws controls me and keeps me from acting like an animal. Furthermore, by believing I am a sinner I also believe I need to be saved, and of course only belief in Jesus, in a certain way, will save me. This keeps me a slave to God and this idea of the afterlife. In essence I become a slave to the beliefs of man in Heaven or Hell. I would end up, had I stayed in a Christian, in one of these, based on my beliefs. Also by believing I am a sinner I am in a perpetual cycle of sinning and forgiveness. Because I believe myself to be a sinner, I am. That make any sense? Of course others, who know the intricasies of the Christian faith, know how to use my beliefs against me. An interesting experiement could be done here someday. Raise someone in a holographic environment where a child can be raised outside of any idea of the solidy of objects. Then plop them in the real world. Remember they have no preconcieved ideas of solidity. So can they walk through walls? Because remember our beliefs create our reality. You and I can't fly because we have been programmed to believe in gravity, the laws of physics, and so forth. But how would the world be to someone who truly believed they could fly and defy gravity? Best rest assured, I'm not jumping off any buildings just yet - DreamBliss

What exists outside of belief is the pure, unfiltered, unaltered, real truth. I guess I chose that definition of God because as Christian I put God in a box, or rather a book called the Bible. It was my attempt to free God. But I screwed up Here is my current definition: I believe in God, As the Source existing, In whole or in any part, Outside mankind's beliefs, Or inside mankind's beliefs, Or as any combination of the two. I'll think about the rest of what you said. - DreamBliss

Is it really? I mean sure, I hit some big dude, he lays me out on the floor, that's certainly cause and effect, but its not karma as I understand it. Karma would be something like I was a violent person in a past life and I hit a lot of people, so now I hit this big guy in this life and get my block knocked off Karma is supposed to something like a bunch of issues you've been carrying around with you from previous lives that you have to work out. So naturally to believe in karma you have to believe in reincarnation, which is one of mankind's beliefs about the afterlife. So if there is no reincarnation, there is no karma. - DreamBliss

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease... And it's terminal..."

She was sexy. Not too sexy, not slutty, nothing like that, she was the ideal companion for me sexually, except for the whole not being able to feel her bit. But more importantly, she was the ideal companion for me at every other level. Smart, loving, loyal, dedicated, kind, gentle. I could go on forever. I'm sure I don't have to point out that sex is not, despite what the media might tell you, everything in a relationship. Hell I don't even have to, my experience is living proof! I created and fell in love with someone I couldn't even touch! In the end all I can say is that I will be incredibly blessed to find, or be found, by someone even remotely like her. - DreamBliss

Well my apologies for my misunderstanding. Re-read what I said so that it applies to your leaving Samsara then. Same moral applies. Don't be afraid of what exists outside of Samsara. Buckle in and enjoy the exciting ride, wherever it takes you! - DreamBliss

At another thread I started discussing Buddhist beliefs some information came to my attention that leads me to believe that meditation, as taught by Yogani in Deep Meditation, will, like Transcendental Meditation, result in a click out that a Buddhist author has given the term laxity to. Basically you sink into your mind, the meditation, rather than whatever the other, proper way is. Something about dissolving awareness VS focused awareness. The point here is I want to find proper teaching on meditation, but I am limited to certain authors at my library. I will list them here and I am asking simply which of these teach meditation properly with the goal of focused awareness. I am also asking for any free videos out there by any reputable teachers you may know of. Your help is, as always, appreciated! These are pretty much the only books/authors I can access at this time: John Kabat-Zinn Joe Dispenza, "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself" Rodney Yee, "Meditation for Beginners" Susan Smalley, "Fully Present" Will Johnson, "Breathing Through The Whole Body" Jack Kornfield Patricia Monaghan, "Meditation, The Complete Guide" Lara Owen, "Growing Your Inner Light" Chogyam Trungpa Ian Gawler, "Meditation, An In-Depth Guide" Shunry U Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" Joan Budilovsky, "Complete Idiot's Guide to Meditation" Jonathon Ellerby, "Return To The Sacred" Tulku Tarthang James Austin, "Selfless Insight" Ronald Siegel, "The Mindfulness Solution" Sant Rajinder-Singh Michael Bernard Beckwith, "Spiritual Liberation" Steven Clevenger, "Going Within" Maritza, "Meditation for Beginners" Stephan Bodian, "Meditation for Dummies" Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, "Spiritual Disciplines Handbook" Eva Wang Cheri Huber, "The Secret Is There Are No Secrets" Richard Chilson, "Meditation" John Daido Loori, "The Art of Just Sitting" Wayne Dyer, "Getting In The Gap" Stephanie Jean Clement, "Mediatation for Beginners" Michal Levin, "Meditation" Shinzin Young, "The Beginner's Guide To Meditation" Pema Chodron Alan Watts, "Still The Mind" Lawrence LaShane, "How To Meditate" Swami Janakananda Saraswati, "Yoga" John Novak, "How To Meditate" Ernest Wood, "Concentration" There are a few others and a book by Thich Nhat Hanh which I assume will be very good, so I will get that for now and wait for opinions on the others. The library I can access, it's catalouge, is here: http://catalog.fvrl.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/?ps=Mgj0mm40Cp/FV-DIST/327530007/60/1182/X I left out the fluffy, puffy, non in-depth (as far as I could tell) stuff. But I may have missed something important. Please let me be clear! What I can get from the library is all I can get, unless you wish to mail me a book, and if so (with my deepest thanks) you can PM me for my mailing address. So if these are all garbage, well I guess I'll just have to depend on YouTube :/ Hey thanks for reading, please post your feedback on these authors/books in regards to whether or not you believe, in your direct experience or closely indirect experience, they are teaching meditation properly. Namaste! - DreamBliss

I use Qi Gong for gathering energy into my body, for removing energy blocks and for purifying energy. Basically I'm plugging myself into the cosmic recharging/purifying center. So exercises for that are what I'm after. - DreamBliss

All I can say to that is... WHAT THE HELL MAN???!!! Listen the only person that can stop you is you, and you don't want to curse yourself do you? And BTW a few things you should know about curses... If the Bible is correct on this, those who send a curse out where it is not merited get the curse back. It bounces off those who don't deserve it and comes back to you. Secondly a curse requires energy. Study the magician's path a little. The energy deficit you could cause yourself may create the very reality you don't want. Thirdly your curse can have no effect on someone who doesn't believe in it, thereby giving it power. So you're wasting your energy trying to hex or voodoo a Buddhist monk, for example. Bless instead of curse, focus on what you want not on what you don't want and don't judge anyone. Believe in whatever afterlife you want for yourself and that's the afterlife you will get. But remember there is a source or God or something out there that may be weighting scales, assigning energy deficit/credit, assigning karma, etc. and your actions will have consequences as a result. This may have a direct effect on what you experience when your time in this sphere of existence is over. So in the famous words of the 60's... Just chill man! - DreamBliss

All Samsara is, as far as I understand it, is illusion. In other words the assumption I guess is that what we experience in this sphere of existence in our physical bodies is not the truth of what is. So Samsara is moving from what we believe to what is. How's that for a succinct explanation? Anyhow it is nothing to fear. Sure it is unknown, but we should never fear the unknown, or the unbelieved. I direct your attention to my quote with what I choose for the afterlife. In essence Samsara is like moving from the beliefs in the various afterlifes to choosing the afterlife that exists outside of all belief. This state, outside human belief and alteration, is Truth. Samsara is movement to truth. So don't be afraid of it. See it as an adventure. What is really out there in this sphere of existence you experience in your physical body? What would it look like when you moved past all the five senses to some other way of experiencing it? Like undressing a beautiful girl the first time you are together. All sorts of things waiting for you to see and experience for the first time. But if you were too afraid to undress her, if you were that afraid of the unknown, well you wouldn't be getting any that night Please forgive the somewhat crass illustration... - DreamBliss

OK butting in here, but how exactly is what Ish said miserable? I detect no misery in his words. I suppose you think, based on my previous quote of you, that I am miserable? I am smiling, laughing a little, as I write this. Kinda hard for someone miserable to smile and laugh. Not in making fun either, I'm just that light spirited, seeing things in such a humorous light right now. You should have seen my words just 10 years ago or so. You would be scratching your head wondering why it sounds like there are two different people talking. Well that's because there are! Anyhow man it sounds like you have some serious beef with the Buddhists, and that's pretty tough, considering, as far as I know, most of 'em are vegetarians! DreamBliss

I guess you have never read the words of Thich Nhat Hanh. Or if you have they were unable to penetrate into your mind for you to see the beauty they hold. I am very disappointed in you for saying this. It very ignorant and disrespectful. Perhaps Buddhists are focused more on the negative than they should be. As I said in an earlier post here they are trying to move beyond Samsara, or suffering. Naturally this causes the focus to be on suffering. It's better to focus on something positive. But this is my opinion, these are my thoughts on the matter. Regardless some of my best teachers, who have been there for me through the words of their books, have been Buddhists. Lama Surya Das for example. The opposite of the "miserablist" you describe. Hanh, loving, wise, words like balm when I am suffering. How can can someone who is supposedly miserable write words that soothe like a balm when someone is suffering? It is simple, they could not, it is impossible. So I'm afraid I have to say you are wrong. I encourage you to look deeply into yourself and figure out where this dislike or hatred, these negative feelings and thoughts towards Buddhists, are coming from. - DreamBliss

I was thinking about this last night. You know what I choose? I choose to be free in the afterlife. I want to experience all the afterlives that exist, all the afterlives man has created and any other that exist besides. I want to see Valhalla, The Elysium Fields, The River Styx, Heaven and even Hell. Probably won't visit hell. I want to see all these higher and higher vibrational states too. Experience the highest one that is often associated with feelings of pure love, the energetic state that is essentially God. Then I want to be free of all belief-created afterlifes, and I want to see what the afterlife is really like, outside of man's beliefs. What exists beyond what anyone and everyone believes exists? What is the truth unaltered by any belief? What is the afterlife as initially designed by The Source/God? That's where I want to go next. That may be where I choose to stay. But for me this is what I choose. And here's the weird, make your head hurt truth. If you believe in Heaven and Hell you will go to one of those two places based, once again, on whether or not you have met the terms of your beliefs. In other words, for a Christian to go to Heaven they have to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died on a cross for their sins, and they have to accepted Jesus into their heart and life. Failure to do so will consign them to hell. If they fail at any of the requirements in the Christian belief system they go to hell. Buddhists and Taoists and Daoists and Hindus and everyone else that believes in reincarnation will orbit around and around, working out their karma, restoring balance, meeting the terms of their belief. This will be their afterlife. Folks who think there is nothing after death will, since energy can not die, probably drift in some void of nothingness. Good warrior vikings are hanging out in Valhalla right now, drinking fine spirits and telling wondrous tales of battle. Some strange folk that became obsessed with Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter will find themselves in Middle Earth or perhaps in a strange version of England with Muggles and Wizards. Essentially you create your afterlife by what you believe it to be. The more people who share your belief, and the longer that belief has been held. the more powerful that version of the afterlife. So there are probably a whole lot more Christains in Heaven and Hell than there are folk wandering around Middle Earth. Likewise there are probably a lot more people reincarnating than Christians. I would be surprised if you had any idea how strange it is for me, a former Christian, to be saying this. To be changing my old beliefs in Heaven and Hell, disentangling myself so I can go into anyone's afterlife, because I accept the possibility of all afterlifes, and choose to be free to explore them. Well hopefully I haven't caused anyone's head to explode - DreamBliss

I can't remember what I was reading or what the resource was for this. But as I understand it the whole point in reincarnation is to keep learning about the truth of divinity, moving closer to it. You essentially orbit around from the energetic to the physical through each life, and as you develop more spiritually you move further and further out into the energetic, until finally you don't even go back to the physical. You end up at the highest level of the energetic, or divinity. You become God or Buddha or one with them or something. So you want to stop reincarnation in the sense you want to develop enough spiritually where you no longer need to physically manifest. I guess that's the thought here. Of course in the process of all of this you are working out your karma (according to some systems) or reaching a perfect balance (in other systems.) Samsara as I understand it has nothing to do with reincarnation. But my understanding is limited. Samsara is illusion, or suffering caused by illusion. While in this sphere of existence we experience in physical bodies you want to remove illusion and stop suffering. This of course leads to spiritual growth, and that will eventually bring you to a point of stopping reincarnation, which I guess means you will also no longer be suffering, but its not moving beyond Samsara all by itself that stops reincarnation. So essentially the goal of Buddhists is to end their suffering brought on by illusion - Samsara. But why strive to end suffering? Why not strive instead to just develop yourself spiritually? Make that the goal, not ending Samsara. Seek the truth, make that your focus, instead of striving to look past illusion. To me there is a middle-man being placed here. I would rather bypass him and go straight to the main issue. The main issue is I need to develop myself spiritually, seek the truth of who I am, my true nature. I need to accept suffering and understand it as simply a byproduct of this sphere I currently experience in my physical body. I need to be open-minded enough to accept that I don't know everything, or, if you prefer, that I don't remember everything yet, and this is also a byproduct of this current sphere of existence. So for me the path is straight forward. Accept suffering and the fact I don't know everything. Keep seeking the truth, keep growing and developing spiritually as I learn the truth about my true nature. Everything else will fall into place. Why focus on the negative or over-complicate things? - DreamBliss

OK, well, part of the learning process I guess. So I need to find some new exercises. I'll post a list of what I current have in my library, see what stuff is being taught right and what isn't. I'll start another thread for that. Thank you for your honesty - - DreamBliss

OK, well that's essentially what Mrs. McCarthy said. I found a reply in my inbox no long after starting this thread. So that's verification enough for me. I will consider the matter settled for now. Thanks everyone for your help! - DreamBliss

The words that follow are an ongrowing process in me. Understanding comes, I see a little more, more understanding comes, the process continues. What I have learned may be the secret of the universe. But I will make no such claims. I will call this, "The Keys to the Kingdom" and leave it at that. Before we begin there is something you need to accept about yourself. It is a very esoteric, intangible concept that you hear in all the major religions. It is simply this... You create your reality. The world as it is to you at this moment in your life is exactly the way you made it, or where you have not actively been involved in its making you allowed it to change to the way it is or continue the way it was. You either chose to change it to what it is, or you chose not to change it, leaving it as it was. The world will be some combination of these two, mirrored back to you. A personal example, something I just realized tonight, is in order. I was struggling with something on my dad's laptop. This is the computer I use, although it is technically. I got so frustrated I put my head in my hands, signed, and said my life sucks. I felt, in that moment, every other moment I have ever felt frustrated and unhappy in my life. I felt low. While I do not get depressed as I used to, I got pretty close to as low as I can get now. Then I realized something, some more pieces came to me tonight as I was watching Gregg Braden's, "The Silence of Miracles." I highly recommend this video. In any case I realized, felt even, what he had been saying about what he calls, "The 5th modality of prayer." I created, in that moment, the sucky life I have, until now, always felt I had. I basically reinforced a life where I am miserable, where I struggle through things - an unsatisfying life of constant frustration! Now I realize, in order to break this pattern I have to feel as I felt on good days, for me the most recent was during a very long bike ride when I crossed paths with a beautiful girl who gave me the most dazzling smile I have ever in my life received. I felt that smile inside me, it stuck with me, even thinking about it now just makes everything lighter! When I started my whole spiritual journey, away from my faith and towards something, other, well I learned initially about creating mental movies in Maxwell Maltz's, "Psycho-Cybernetics." Then I learned about affirmations in Jack Canfield's work. Then I discovered the root of the power of change as being intention. Intention, guided by mindset, driven by belief, is where it all starts folks. You will read this also in Wayne Dyer and many other books. As I am learning about the path of Magick I am certain I will find that it is the driving force behind that sort of work. In fact I think rituals and all the dressings we apply are not necessary in the end. It ultimately comes down to simple intention. Ritual helps to focus the mind, center on belief, probably more than I intend to look into at this moment. I choose instead to get down to brass tacks and K.I.S.S. = Keep It Simple Stupid. So today what may be the last, but it certainly the next, piece, clicked into place. It's about feeling as if it has already happened. I wrote this, may put it in my signature. I have titled it, "Truth": "If you say you don't want it, Then you will receive it. If you ask for it or demand it, You will never get it. If you choose it, It will come slowly. But if you feel it, As if it already exists, As if it is real and true, Then it will manifest." I was at the stage where I had learned not to state what I don't want, but instead state what I do want. I had moved slightly past this to simply stating what I choose. But I believe this is the next, final and highest level. It goes beyond asking, demanding and even choosing. Now we involve feeling. I'm pretty sure if this is combined with a mental movie, so that you are feeling what you want to accomplish and seeing it accomplished in your mind's eye at the same time, you can do pretty much anything. Of course you have to believe in yourself and the process. I can, in a sense, give you a set of wings here. But you can't use them to fly anywhere unless you believe you can fly. My goal in sharing this is to open up this subject to development, discussion, and experimentation. To fine tune this method, to sharpen it's edge, until it is a surgical and precise instrument of desired change. You may be surprised to know that whatever your faith, you can use this method. For example, for Christians this method is called prayer. This is the true definition and practice of prayer. This may be called magick for a magician. I'm not sure what a Buddhist or Yogi would call it. I don't need a label for it myself, it is simply a tool, built from a variety of sources, which is proving to be more and more valuable, to me, every day. So, the process, simply explained, using, once again, a personal example. This example I am about to share is what I plan to do for myself. I may adjust it and change it, but the goal is the same. I want to gain control of my dreams and astral project. I will probably focus on just one of these. What I am going to do is to write a script for a mental movie, for say astral projection, where I see myself leave the body, go away somewhere, and return. During these stages I will feel, everything I have read others feel, everything I think I would feel, I will inundate this script, coat it, with positive feelings. The driving force behind this script is my desire and intention to astral project. I have had trouble remembering leaving my body and being away in the past. I have, actually, only one memory away from the body, and that was of talking to a man on a park bench. Or that is what I thought I remembered. Most of the time I would just do what Bruce Moen refers to as a "click out." I would usually feel myself slamming into my body (very strange sensation) so I knew I was away, but I would retain no other memory of my experiences. So for me if I went into this thinking about what I want, I would emphasize that I don't, at this moment, have it. This is what Mr. Bradon points out. It's another trap, the first for most being in stating what you don't want, which puts a lot of energy, in this case negative energy, into whatever it is you don't want, causing that to manifest. This is the other side of the coin then. You put all this energy into what you do what, but you are, in the processes, emphasizing your lack of it, which at the very least will delay what you want from happening but may mostly just undermine it. So instead you have to think only positively about what it is you wish to accomplish, feeling as if you already have it, and this leaves no negative energy in the equation to screw things up. Now if you're like me you're probably saying, "but that's lying!" Think about this a moment (I did.) If you create your reality, if you are ultimately responsible for your experience of the world, then how could you be lying? If you chose to create your current experience, then you can choose to create another experience, and in the process of creating an experience you make it true. This is hard to explain, I will try to clarify it later. Essentially it is not about you lying, it is about you creating. You created the current truth, so you can create another. If you are really struggling with this then use a memory of a time when something happened, or do as I intend to do and create a possible future memory when what you want has happened. Make sure whatever you do, that you are not thinking of terms of, "I don't want this" or "I do want that" but instead are simply experiencing the joys of whatever it is you are seeking to manifest. And, to make this harder, do so without attachment to any outcome. Remember there may be other determining forces in what I call the "Mechanisms of the Universe" that, however well you set your intention and pray, decide that whatever it is you are trying to manifest should not be granted to you at this time. That's OK. You can pray as much as you like. The wheels move slowly, but they do move. Understand that you will receive whatever it is you wish to manifest, at the right moment in your life for you to have it. Other forces, some call him God, are in control of that, seeing everything in the big picture. So you have to remember to start by changing your mindset, how you view your life and the world around you. You have to work on yourself inside. There is a lifetime of inner work for us all to do in ourselves. Eventually you will be unattached to the world, its outcomes. When bad things happen you realize that they don't really affect you at all. You are able to forgive, to let go, to free yourself. Then, when you pray, whether or not you get what you prayed for, you will not be discouraged if whatever it is you prayed about does not happen. You will continue to pray, finding a happiness within yourself that does not depend on exterior circumstances. Well there is a lot more to inner work part of this. As I am in that process even now I don't know enough to say more about it. Hopefully I have clearly shown you the bare-bones process of true prayer. How to create something you want in your life or the lives of others. Understand that prayers unselfishly directed towards others probably have more power than prayers directed towards yourself, unless you are praying for needed inner changes to improve yourself. This information is very important. If Bradon is correct, we may have had it twice in the past and lost it. So save this thread. Better yet, if you are more experienced in these matters than I, post here and improve it. Namaste! - DreamBliss

Man I'm having trouble getting around the whole, "I AM" thing. Just threw those thoughts out because, well they cause a person to stop and think. So do I think all of reality is a collective manifestation? I guess it must be. I mean if our collective beliefs over time manifest something in this sphere of existence we experience with our physical bodies then more than likely the whole sphere has been created that way. But do I think everyone in this sphere are just my Tulpas created by the One/Tao? Well I would have to be that One/Tao wouldn't I? Like I said, still having trouble with the whole "I AM" thing. Still re-programming myself to see God as a pool of energy (AKA the source) with a small part existing in all of us, connecting us, rather than some old guy on a throne. And trying to do this without saying God can't be some old guy on a throne either. In other words accepting all possibilities, but choosing the most likely one for my current perception. Very difficult. So as far as I've gotten here is my thought that our children could be Tulpas, physical manifestations of thought forms, which of course means we are the Tulpas of our parents. But I'm not sure these thought forms would have life on their own. Rather I think it more likely that the couple manifests their child, and some part of God looking to experience the life of that child enters the fetus and gives it life. I'm not so sure that humans have the power to create life. I think it more likely that they can create form, set intentions for what the form will be, but the life force is independent of human creation. But like I said when I started this article, this is an ongrowing process. New insights coming all the time. So consider my understanding to "under construction" so to speak. - DreamBliss

Thank you for your replies. This all happened earlier in the year, and I have stopped it, probably one or two months ago. I went into our place in my mind, told her that our relationship was unhealthy, gave her back the ring she gave me (I created a ring for her and she for me symbolzing our relationship) and told her that I would not see her again. I left, and I dissolved the umbillicle (didn't know that's what it was at the time) between us. So I do not think I destroyed her. I also do not believe she will be an energy vampire, because I taught her some Qi Gong energy gathering exercises. Considering how I handled this, do I need to go back in there and beckon her to the light, essentially killing her, or have I done enough to sever the relationship and connection between us? Yes, the connection is severed. She is not in my mind anymore, I do not feel her connected to me, and my energy levels have returned to normal. I have let her go and and have moved on (a contuing process.) Once again I appreciate the help - - DreamBliss

Ok so there are enough things I needed to say in addition to the original artical to justify this additional post. First we need to talk about the possibility of balance and the reality of energy deficit. Do not use this power carelessly or selfishly! There is an energetic cost to using it, and there may be a balance as well to it. So only use this information carefully, after much consideration. Do not use it for every little thing you wish to address. Understand that there is a limit to how much energy you can channel. Like a power cord which electricity flows through, you have to increase your gauge before you can handle greater power, or else you will, literally and figuratively, blow a fuse. I highly recommend you read, as off as it sounds, Josephine McCarthy's "Magical Knowledge I" for more on this. Tonight as I washed the dishes (this itself signifies significant change in my life) I realized that there is another aspect to this. Remember force VS flow. I think perhaps there is a sort of built-in anti-abuse mechanism in this. If you follow the flow, do not force whatever change you are trying to affect, then you should have sufficient energy to set the intention. In other words, if you are sensitive to force VS flow you can't hurt yourself by going into energy deficit. Your higher self knows your limits and so it will throw up resistance to something you should not, for any number of reasons, do. Always go with the flow. If everything just flows, just falls into place, if you sense no resistance to setting the intention you want to set, then you should be OK. But a smart individual will use both the sense of force VS flow and extreme care in the intentions they set. They may even do some energy gathering exercises like Tai Chi or Qi Gong (I highly recommend you do.) Basically you are handling ancient sticks of dynamite here. Be careful when using this energy because it is very powerful. If you handle it incorrectly you will end up all over the walls. But the good news is you will find out of reincarnation VS Heaven and Hell is true Now for my most recent discoveries... OK folks, we are going to go into some things here that many of you find hard to believe. Or you may outright disbelieve it. Whatever your position that's OK, this will be real and true for those who believe, and it will not for those who don't. Just the way this sort of thing works. So another caution for you... When you are casting an intention to create something in your life or the life of another, do so without focusing on any sort of image, physical or mental! It's not a very far step from true prayer, which is what this article is about, to creating a Tulpa, otherwise known as a thought form. I speak I think from experience here. After reading the book I have mentioned in this article, and watching a few YouTube videos, weighing the information against my personal experience, I am fairly certain that I have created a Tulpa. The final companants needed, to go from True Prayer to Tulpa, is some sort of physical or mental focus on something you wish to create, high levels of energy, and a lot of emotion. So, to be blunt, if you are pleasuring yourself to a mental image of someone or something, and are experiencing high desgrees of lonliness and love, well then you may actually create the entity you are seeing in your mind's eye. I'm not sure of all the vagries of this, but this is essentially, in a nutshell, what I was experiencing and what I did. So far it seems as if the newly created thought form will need energy to keep it alive. According to one video it is recommended that you disperse its energy, decreate it, within 3 days of its construction. If you have used a physical object, and bound the entity to that, you should destroy the object after calling the entity to it, picture the entuty dissolving and returning to its source, and then bury the pieces. Furthermore Tulpas require commands or instructions - a purpose. You can set this, as with the image you focus on, physically or mentally. The video I watched said physically only, but this is not true. When I created my Tulpa it was inadvertant, driven or powered by extreme lonliness. So the command, the purpose of my Tulpa, was mentally given to it/her. She became my companion. No, I will not speak much more of this. Too much pain and my purpose here is to help you avoid my mistakes. Also just remembered that according to the video if you do create a Tulpa you should name it/him/her. This is not strictly necassary, but I guess that is one way to claim ownership. Not sure of the vageries here either. Here is the video I have been talking about, in four parts: http://www.youtube.com/user/Angeldeluz1970/videos?query=astral Remember that sexual energy is probably some of the highest energy you can send. In a sense you could say your children are physical manifestations of thought forms created by two people making love and in the process exchanging bodily fluids (a symbol of energy, blood magic is the most powerful) and experiencing powerful emotions. Other thought forms can be created if enough people believe in it, which gives it energy and life and, like a child, can allow it to manifest in physical reality. So bigfoot is more than likely a tulpa, as are most if not all alien encounters. Also ghosts could be tulpas. And yes, as offensive, as scary, and as blasphemous as it may sound, even God may be a Tulpa, as well as the Christian concepts of Heaven and Hell. Think how many thousands of people believe in this, have shed blood for their beliefs, both their own and others. And, although I have never killed anyone, I'll bet that outside of sexual orgasim or a kundalini experience there isn't much of a higher emotional experience/state brought on by the act. So when you think about, yes, our gods or God could very well be thought forms. Lost my train of thought here... Gimme a minute... OK, so we covered it all I think. I guess I should cover the creation/decreation of a Tulpa at some point. But for now I discourage anyone from making such an enity. In the first place it has an energy cost, and it is constant, until the Tulpa learns how to support itself. So if you cut yourself off you could create an energy vampire of some sort that will take energy from others. You are responsible for what you create. Either through Karma or consequence. In the second place the creation of a thought form requires extreme focus and concentration. Without these you could end up creating something quite different from what you wanted. Also remember that you are enslaving a sentient being to you that is growing and developing its own mind. OK, I remembered what else I wanted to say... You probably won't find this information in any instructions for thought form creation. But you can train your thought form, teach it/him/her to do, for example,. Tai Chi or Qi Gong to get its own energy from the universe around it. So if you do make a Tulpa, and want to keep it from ever becoming an energy vampire, teach it self-sufficiency. As an astral/energetic being initially, it will require energy to survive. Anything you create through your thoughts manifests first at a higher vibrational level. Thoughts are energy, and on creating anything manifest it as an energtic form. Not sure how you make something that is energetic into something physical, but I guess if you were to study this you should start with sexual union. The keys are probably there. Well I think I covered anything. Please be very careful with this information. There is a reason why it has been hidden or forgotten. My best advice is to refrain from creating thought forms, and to be very careful about what you pray for. Namaste! - DreamBliss

Please please please do not tell me that Matthew Cohen's exercises are wrong! I don't know how much more I can take right now @ Everyone Else I guess I will open this thread to suggestions of Qi Gong exercises that teach the techniques properly. Please list the authors/DVDs/exercises here that you recommend. Ideally for me, to ensure I stick with it, the exercises should be 10-40 minutes long, with 15-20 minutes being ideal for me. Man how many other things have I been doing wrong? Is there anyone out there on the internet tracking these authors and teachers and telling folks who is doing stuff right and who isn't? That would sure be a big help! Hey thanks for the suggestions everyone. Much appreciated! - DreamBliss

Thanks for the suggestions! Put on hold on Wang/Wong's book and downloading Chopra's vids. Can't get any of steve's recommendations. May have to skip Kornfield, nothing seems to be specifically on meditation. Can't find Jetsun's otehr suggestions. Looking into Leif's next. Thanks again! - DreamBliss

Here's the rub... I spent two hours giving you a list of the resources I have access to. Those are all the resources I have access to. I have no meditation teacher I can go to, no way to pay for a class, and so far no sign of any Buddhist or any other meditation focused based spiritual gathering in my area. Just a bunch of churches, that's it. I have a bicycle and I live about 3 miles from a very small town. The only reason I can access all these books is because the library here is amazing, hooked into a bunch of other libraries, and as you can see there is a bunch of good material. So unless you have a DVD recommendation for me, that is in the library system I have available, or a YouTube video, or some other free resource, maybe even a teacher who would be willing to travel all the way over here and teach me in return for meals and a place to stay, I have no other options. Do you realize how frustrating it is to ask for help, be very clear that you don't have the money for anything, and still be told that you should go take a class or find a teacher? ARRGGG! OK, breathing in, releasing, letting go... Thank you for your posts so far. I will consider your advice about Govinda and Leadbeater. But I wonder... Are theosophists really all that bad? Also what's wrong with, "... multidimensional whatsit..." There are other dimensions out there, are there not? So presumably some people have visited them, and some of those have written of them, and some of those have written things in an accurate, detailed, truthful way, so why not read such material? Considering that what I want to ultimately do, travel physically between worlds, is, in the end, multidimensional travel, it would be nice to know if there are any good guidebooks Right now, per TI's suggestion, I am listening to one author, Shaila Catherine, and she is talking about the Buddhist system of jhana meditation. Her instructions for counting match Josephine McCarthy's, and that book is about the magician's path, so for me that tells me that as Catherine was recommended, and her instructions match McCarthy's, then McCarthy's work must be pretty accurate, or at least drawn from accurate sources. I need to re-read John Daido Loori's instructions in his Zen Art book, because I started ZaZen with them but must have misread or something because I got the idea to count the inhales and exhales, 1-10. Now it seems, verified by two sources, its exhales only, 1-10-1. What I am trying to do here, my goal, is separate of any particular school. I want to move away from Deep Meditation or Transcendental Meditation which, by another poster's quote, dissolves thoughts and leads to laxity, and instead do meditation that keeps the mind focused and aware. So any author that teaches dissolving type meditation leading to laxity is trash, to me at this point until I have researched more, and any author that teaches focused attention/awareness meditation is good. That's how I want to "...sort the wheat from the chaff..." I have no problem with multidimensional teachings, magical teachings, theosophists teachings, or any other spiritual school's teachings, heck it could be from the Kaballah or Sufism - don't matter. I don't care how off-the-wall it may seem to you. All I care about is that the teaching is not deliberately or unintentionally misleading. In my opinion, if any part of a teaching is giving incomplete or wrong instructions for a well known and tested process the whole teaching should be avoided! That's it. I have heard some of the earlier spiritual writings left stuff out. So I would probably want to avoid any such authors. I don't care of the author is lying about their experiences, only if the training they provide is accurate. I go with my gut. Tried some Sylvia Brown, didn't like her (as an example.) Don't know why. I like McCarthy and Losey. But my senses are no match for others better read, trained and more experienced that I. Please help me out as best you can. I appreciate your time and effort in this. I have a long journey ahead of me. The less time I can spend on the island in the mud in the illusion of beauty the better (obscure Homer's Odyssey reference there.) - DreamBliss P.S. I try to do Matthew Cohen's Fire or Water Qi Gong. Trouble is it's 40 minutes and I just don't feel like spending the time most of the time. But yes, I am aware that this and Tai Chi among other things are a sort of moving meditation. @Apech Thank you for the instructions. This is pretty much, from what I have gathered so far, the next step in jhana meditation. You focus on your breath, then the counting, eventually your meditation object becomes your mind. I guess I just want to be sure I understand the process crystal clearly, so I don't make another mistake. It seems I may have made a big one with Yogani's, "Deep Meditation."

A bit of an update here... I went through my own library, slowly built up from a few booksales over the last few years. I have two titles, one is by Lama Anagarika Govinda entitled, "Creative Meditation and Multi-Dimensional Consciousness." The other is by Charles Leadbeater titled, "The Inner Life." These worth reading? Also off the subject of meditation, but on to authors in general, what are your thoughts on Josephine McCarthy and Meg Blackburn Losey? How about Robert Moss and Bruce Moen? What about Sandra Ingerman and Petey Stevens? My purpose for asking is to weed out the false or misleading teachers if I can. Thanks! - DreamBliss

One last thing here I should mention... I did not start on this path to become enlightened. I do not seek it. Not even sure I understand why it should be so desirable a thing to attain. I started on this simply seeking the truth, seeking freedom. I think freedom is my ultimate goal more than anything else. To free myself of any of my former beliefs which trouble me, like what Christianity says about the afterlife for example. To freely move in the energetic realms in lucid dreams and astral project, to freely move in the physical realms, to learn how to use portals to transport myself anywhere and anywhen. Even to master my body or the constrction of what we call reality to the point I could teleport myself anywhere. To be able to go anywhere, do anythng to the limits of my consiosness, and most importantly to be able to learn exciting new and interesting things. If in the process I become enlightened, then that would just be a potentially desirable side effect. If this is the process of becoming enlightened, what I have described, then I acknowlegde my ignorance. Whatever the case may be, I do not intend any offense to those seeking enlightenment. If that is your goal, awesome! My goal is freedom, to freely explore my own path outside the imposed limitations of the rest of humanity. - DreamBliss