Best channeling books according to redditors
We found 163 Reddit comments discussing the best channeling books. We ranked the 45 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 163 Reddit comments discussing the best channeling books. We ranked the 45 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
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SS: A question asked for centuries. Are we more than our physical body? Do we have a soul? Something that has been debated, argued, and fought over. After doing personal research on the subject and experiencing 2 out of body experiences, it piqued my interest and I went down a rabbit hole I will never regret. Today I wanted to share this research that has been done by the CIA on this subject. Regardless of the mountains of data already on the subject, this is something that cuts straight to the heart of the issue and doesn't hide behind fluff.
First off, I would like to give credit to /u/no1113 for originally posting and sharing this here 6 months ago. This did not get the attention it deserved and something like this is a great find to share. Thank you /u/no1113
Here is the original thread: https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6r5hk1/the_cia_and_the_continuance_of_individual/
Here is a direct link to the CIA archive: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf
And here is the relevant text, copied from the above mentioned thread.
> 27. Consciousness in Perspective. Having ascertained that human consciousness is able to separate from physical reality and interact with other intelligences in other dimensions within the universe, and that it is both eternal and designed for ultimate return to the Absolute, we are faced with the question: “So what happens then?” Since memory is a function of consciousness and therefore enjoys the same eternal character as the consciousness which accounts for its existence, it must be admitted that when consciousness returns to the Absolute, it brings with it all the memories it has accumulated through experience in reality. The return of consciousness to the Absolute does not imply and extinction of the separate entity which the consciousness organized and sustained in reality. Rather, it suggests a differentiated consciousness which merges with and participates in the universal consciousness and infinity of the Absolute without losing the separate identity and accumulated self-knowledge which its memories confer upon it. What it does lose is the capability for generation of independent thought holograms, since that can be done only by energy in motion. In other words, it retains the power to perceive but loses the power of will or choice. In exchange, however, this consciousness participates in the all-knowing infinite continuum of consciousness which is a characteristic of energy in the ever present. Consequently, it is accurate to observe that when a person experiences the out-of-body state, they are, in fact, projecting that eternal spark of consciousness and memory which constitutes the ultimate source of their identity to let it play in and learn from dimensions both inside and outside the time-space world in which their physical component currently enjoys a short period of reality.
I would also like to personally recommend some great books on the subject that go into great detail about the soul and our life between life. Remember, energy cannot be destroyed, only moved! Consciousness is energy, we cannot be destroyed, only our physical bodies fall away but our truth essence, our spark, our light of consciousness that we all hold, lives on. Truly amazing information and liberating as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184995
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163451.Between_Death_Life
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Souls-Plan-Discovering-Meaning/dp/1583942726
Sure. :) I was trying not to hijack the thread, but I'll just put the list here and that way anyone can have it. Keep in mind, these aren't all collections of stories, some of them are research topics, but none of them that I've browsed through look like bad reads. The ones I have read I've tried to note.
Iroquois Supernatural: Talking Animals and Medicine People - Michael Bastine, Mason Winfield - most closely related to thread topic
Life After Life - Raymond Moody - Very good intro to Near Death Experience research
Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones - Raymond Moody
Journey of Souls - Michael Newton - Read this one, it was great, changed my views on reincarnation
The Day Satan Called - Bill Scott
Hunt for the Skinwalker - Colm Kelleher, George Knapp - read parts of, need to finish
The Vengeful Djinn - Rosemary Ellen Guiley - I've read this one, it's really good too, has a large "slow" section in the middle that quotes the Q'uran a lot, but some good creepy Djinn stories.
The Djinn Connection - Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Ghost Culture: Theories, Context, and Scientific Practice - John Sabol
Zones of Strangeness - Peter A. McCue
Lost Secrets of Maya Technology - James O'Kon
The Mythology of Supernatural - Nathan Robert Brown - this one might sound cheesy, but I've read a book on world mythology by the same author, and apparently the writers of the show did their research
Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night - Gary Jansen
there's something about a straight line ... it shows up a lot in folklore and paranormal stories. i'm not really able to draw any huge overarching conclusions or theories about what straight lines mean, i just want to bring people's attention to them. ley lines, fairy paths, etc.
spirit seems to travel along very straight lines, no matter the terrain: it's about something more than just the shortest distance between two points. something like getting into the 'slip stream' of the energy that went there before you.
there's a very interesting book about the subject:
Fairy Paths & Spirit Roads: Exploring Otherworldly Routes in the Old and New Worlds by Paul Devereux
If you're really interested in souls and spirit guides, I'd suggest a book entitled Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. It was suggested to me a couple months ago on reddit. Really good book.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Weird is subjective. Everyone is a little 'weird', we all have our picidillies that someone somewhere would find odd. To me some of the weirdest folk I've met are the ones that are obsessed with normalcy.
It's my guess that this particular dude feels very powerless. He's probably alone and has no friends, so he does what a lot of folks do in this situation, they go inside their head and think so much until their hopes, fears, and perceptions of the world and the relationships they have become delusional obsessions. To right the wrongs they feel the world has (or the wrongs done to themselves), many turn to a doctrine or system where they feel like they can gain control. Religion is one example, especially cult like ones with lots of dogma, but it can be anything really. This dude opted to focus on the occult. He's probably read a lot of books, and the photos he's taken indicate he's looking to gain fear and respect via 'shocking images'. The drawings on the ground look like veve imagery, or maybe some crap from the Necronimicon (which was written as a joke btw) but he's definitely not apart of Voudo (voodoo) or any occult group or alternative religion I know of. He may even believe in what he's doing, if so he's not much different than those Appalachian churches that dance with snakes and drink poision, except he's being public. One thing fosho he ain't no Alister Crowley. At least he wrote some decent poetry.
Anywho, shit like this is what happens when people face a lot of rejection and are alone, and they either further isolate, but a clue and grow out of it, or try to become their own brand of cult leader & continue to try to impress people.
… still though, just a guess
Source: I know of a lot of weird crap
For me it was just something I was born doing apparently. Most of the time I had no idea that it was a spirit. They look like normal people to me 99% of the time. What did come hard for me was hearing and understanding them. It was like watching a silent movie that way. It's only been in the past 10 years maybe that they talk much to me. It's a muscle albeit one of the mind. You have to have one to be able to use it but if you do you keep using it the better you get at it.
I caution you though. This is not all fun and games. When you are beginning at this work there are a lot of things out there that love psychics who are not experienced. They will try to fool you and use you. There a lot of books out there about basic psychic self-defense. Some of the techniques in them are worth trying. Centering, shielding, it's really important when you are developing a medium's skill. Channeling is dangerous at any skill level I think, can be. You knock on doors you can't always know who's on the other end or always close them by yourself. Be careful.
One thing I've learned is to trust my gut more than my eyes. Not everything is as it appears. Some things appear fine but they set off a radar inside so I look with a bit more caution and I realize that what I am talking to isn't who it presented itself as. To me spirits are almost always solid, and whole. Some of the other things I've seen, not so much. They may look solid at first glance but they're missing something if you look close enough and that will trigger that internal warning. You challenge it and their facade will eventually crumble and they may even get nasty on you. Which is why I don't suggest people mess with being a medium until they've learned to ground and protect themselves.
Honestly some people who are very open should never do this kind of work. It really depends upon how well the individual can learn to keep things they don't want out while letting only the good things in. Being a medium is not just about seeing spirits etc. Some of what you will encounter will want more than that. Some people have the ability to be a channel but they don't have the ability to discern at will and that can get you into big trouble. Some spirits lie about who they are to get you to pay attention to them. They want to experience life through you and some of them can be very persistent about trying to reel you in. If you meet a dead person or a spirit guide and it starts telling you how uniquely special you are? Starts romancing you mentally? Run.
The late Joe Fisher wrote a very vivid cautionary tale about his experiences with channels, mediums, spirit guides, and the like. What the book doesn't tell you is that the man's end may well have come from his explorations in this field. There are some very questionable things about his death. His book made a lot of people nervous at the time. It's a heck of a read though and I always suggest it as required reading to anyone intent upon messing with this end of things...
https://www.amazon.com/Siren-Call-Hungry-Ghosts-Investigation/dp/1931044023
There is a book called Ecotopia in which Oregon, Washington, and California (or at least northern California) have seceded and formed their own nation. It's a very hippyish book, but an interesting look at the politics and economics of the idea.
What you described sounds like an interesting way for a spirit friend of yours to help you out in life. It's possible that some assistance in crucial moments was necessary to ensure your path unfolds as planned. Apparently, your protector has a flair for appearing to you dramatically.
Chances are that the armor is just his personal choice, the role in which the friend wanted to present himself to you this time. Maybe it symbolizes a history the two of you share, or maybe it's armor he wore in an incarnation he enjoyed living.
If he said goodbye, chances are that his role in your life is indeed over, and you won't be seeing him again. Your life is yours to live. It's likely you'll see him again on the other side. :)
You probably don't need to research this further, but if you want to, I recommend this and this.
So true!!! I'm glad you mentioned the incompetence of the medical system as well, in a time when endocannabinoids are not taught in the curriculum but are assumed dangerous. I have gotten into more fights than I should as a cancer patient (especially after using cannabis to successfully manage the nausea and other chemo symptoms), only being pushed pharmaceuticals with huge lists of side effects and receiving the blank stare too many times upon bringing up cannabinoid receptors so I think that specialist was just looking for something to blame for a condition that may be difficult to diagnose.
She couldn't have thought to try a different mode of delivery either, like "oh I'll just keep eating my cookies and it'll go away". Seems like a such a lovely and trustworthy person too! Oh wait...
https://www.amazon.ca/Little-Book-Curses-Maledictions-Everyday/dp/1620871904
Edit: She has a website too and her works are all over the place http://www.dawnraedownton.com/work.html
If you are not familiar with his work, you may be interested to read Dr. Michael Newton's books 'Journey of Souls' and 'Destiny of Souls'. Dr. Newton discovered he could regress his clients to not only remember past lives, but also to a state where they could remember their 'soul memories' from our conscious time spent in between incarnations. His work in researching this in between lives state answers many questions as to what happens when we die, what we do in between, why we come back, and why we forget. Very interesting to ponder. Here is a clip of a documentary that was dedicated to Life Between Lives (LBL) hypnosis work. Please consider checking it out. I have personally had an experience with this hypnosis after reading his books and wanting to know for myself. They sort of address this in the video clip. It is an academic exercise to ponder these concepts, but it is another thing entirely to have an experience for yourself and know for yourself what it is like. Anyway, thanks for reading.
One of my best friends committed suicide, and about 5 years later, I suddenly heard her voice in my head. She told me, "I'm sorry it took me so long. I can't stay long - I'm just here to help you rebuild your heart a bit." I heard her for about a week, and then she was gone. She never explained where she was or why it took so long for her to reach out...but I suspect souls have their own paths and timelines. There's actually an interesting book called "Journey of Souls" by Dr. Newton (https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855) that may help you - it describes what may happen between lives for a soul. While my guides said it only gets part of the picture, it's still interesting and comforting nonetheless. I'm so sorry for your loss.
And this book. A hypnotist regresses adult patients through their past lives, taking special interest in what happens in the time between lives-- kind of a setup phase where you acknowledge what you need to work on in your next lives. I really enjoyed it.
Less than five bucks, what a bargain.
Being new to discovering your abilities is the BEST! I am so excited for you!
As a medium, I find it important to always work through the heart, and to be sure I am grounded and centered before doing any Spirit work. Build your relationship to Soul/Higherself. I found connecting IN to my own Soul brings the clearest energy. Begin learning your own energy, sooner than you know you'll be able to discern energies and begin clear communication.
Soul1.org is a great site to learn to clear your Central Channel. All of this clearing work will serve you in the long. You'll be so happy you laid a basic foundation for yourself.
There is also a book Soul Psycology by Joshua David Stone that has tons of excellent information in it. Basic framework to higher development. He has written a lot of books, most I am not a huge fan of, but this one I enjoyed. Another fun one, especially of you like working with visuals (sacred geometry) Sedona Beyond the Vortex by Richard Dannelley. If you enjoy books about Channeling or Archangels check out What is Lightbody by Archangel Ariel channelled through Tashira Tachi-ren.
Find a solid network of people that you can feel comfortable with for learning. No matter how you choose to learn, or who you choose to learn with, just remember you have the power to do everything you're hoping to accomplish! Your teacher, should you choose to work with one, should be leading you to your own power.
Edit: typos (of course) x2.
I checked out the first link on your first link, about not assuming CDC scheduling is safe. It led to a paper by Neil Z Miller, that seemed sort of official looking. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons sounds like a serious organization. But I’m not a medical doctor, what do I know? So I decided to see what else Neil Z Miller had wrote.
On Amazon, you can buy Neil Z Miller’s book Ambassadors Between Worlds, Intergalactic Gateway to a New Earth
> You will also learn about past lives, future lives, the true nature of time, universal laws, Atlantis, ancient Egypt, advanced technology, alternative energy, hidden dimensions, the real cause of disease, angels, archangels, nature spirits, spiritual guides, shadow governments, why the UFO cover-up is allowed to persist, and much more.
> How do advanced extraterrestrials live? How do they raise their children? Do they have animals? What do they eat? What do extraterrestrials think about our religious beliefs, sexual attitudes, and goals in life? How can we achieve global peace? Why do extraterrestrials want to assist humanity?
Turns out Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is run by the Association of American Physicians and Scientists, an extreme right wing think tank that advocates against any government interference in health care, that claims that AIDS doesn’t exist and that Barrack Obama uses neurolonguistic programming to brainwash anyone who watches him on TV, that global warming does not exist, that smoking is not bad for you. It is NOT a peer reviewed journal. You can read about it on wikipedia
Much like you, I've also recently developed a strong interest in Levinas. I've yet to read him, though, so please take that into account when considering my recommendations.
I recently asked some of my professors and a friend of mine who wrote his master's thesis on Levinas to help me out with getting started. This is what they recommended:
I'm not too knowledgeable of Husserl, so all I can really recommend from him is the Cartesian Meditations, which sort of serves as an introduction to Husserl's own method of phenomenology.
For Heidegger, the most important work in this regard is certainly Being and Time. If you have the time, I recommend picking up the Basic Writings and reading through most of it.
On a final note, Levinas was steeped within the Jewish intellectual tradition. Jewish philosophers often emphasize the role of community and social contextuality in general. It might serve you well to read works such as Martin Buber's I and Thou and Gabriel Marcel's Being and Having.
EDIT: Another good compliment to Levinas is Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception.
I would guess it's because it's a fictional book. Unless you mean this, which is just a mashup of religious and occult fabrications.
This is the book you're looking for: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 It's information gotten via deep hypnosis by a PhD psychotherapist. I've seen many similarities of what's described in that book to some DMT reports. The most recent one, I think, it was a couple of months ago.
check out this book
Psychologist Giovanni Caputo named this the strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion. Here's an article in the journal Perception from 2010. What he didn't know, was that the effect already had a name: The Ganzfeld effect. Heck, it has tons of names. It's also called Prisoner's Cinema. Psychomanteum.
I'll talk about the Ganzfeld effect first. You've probably heard about it. "White noise + sliced ping pong ball over eyes = hallucinations". It was popular some years back. It dates back to some studies in the 1920's by German psychologist Wolfgang Metzger, who believed you somehow became psychic in the Ganzfeld (Total Field). He was of course proven wrong. Here's an example of him being proven wrong, if you want to be assured for some reason. The effect is real, though. You hallucinate when you're deprived of your senses.
Prisoner's Cinema was a name given to a phenomenon supposedly experienced by prisoners in poorly lit cells: they hallucinated. It's not very well documented (i.e possibly just a dumb anecdote).
Psychomanteum? Well, according to Dr. Raymond Moody, that was something the Greek did to get in touch with the dead. They induced hallucinations in people. Dr. Moody abused this illusion (willfully or not) to convince people they were connected to dead relatives and friends. To his defense, he claimed to be doing so to bring the patients therapeutic closure. Here's his version.
Here's a study by some other folks. The Greek themselves called this catoptromancy.
You wanted a name? I'll give you another name: Charles Bonnet's Syndrome.
Okay. So when you can't see very much, you sometimes see things which aren't there. It doesn't have a good name as of yet, but it's a real thing. Sleep paralysis used to be this crazy thing before it got studied and the superstition got nailed to the coffin. This needs to happen here as well. Otherwise, people will take advantage of the confusion and abuse people who don't know any better.
You should read Journey of Souls by Michael Newton.
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
Ishmael (and the rest of the series) by Daniel Quinn opened my eyes in my senior year of high school.
It's about a Gorilla, who has lived beside man for a number of decades and teaches a pupil through stories and analogies about how we are already at the cusp of civilization collapse. It's about a lot more than just that, namely the relationship of humans, animals, the planet, and how humans have a unique, egotistical view of themselves where we deemed ourselves rulers of the planet.
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins is an eye opener as well.
Other great reads:
Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock.
Necronomicon
UFO's by Leslie Keen
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
I also really enjoyed the Myst series by Rand & Robin Miller (the books the game is based on). It's about worlds within worlds and an ancient race of authors creating worlds through magical ink and books (sci-fi/fantasy).
The Necronomicon wasn't written by Lovecraft, he mentions it in several stories but other publishers capitalized on it by releasing their own versions of "The Necronomicon". He did write History of the Necronomicon but you're probably talking about this one.
The cover front is shamelessly stolen from this book, so I can't tell you how the cover was made, only how I edited it. I used GIMP to edit the images and basically just stitched together different elements (book cover, pictures of old parchment for the inside, image of a kick-ass hexagram) and put on text. I made the word jumble using http://www.wordclouds.com/
"I have also heard we will eventually get bored and just come back to Earth."
Arh YES ! THIS !
Allow me to show you chapter 30~ something of my book [The teaching of Omega]:
https://kdp.amazon.com/amazon-dp-action/us/dualbookshelf.marketplacelink/B072M9RDNH
Chapter:
When it seems that God don’t give a shit.
Bracer:
I want to state first and foremost that I disagree with what Omega is saying here, or should I say I really wish God cares about me personally too in THIS simulation, but Omega stated that this is an excellent opportunity to state why in some cases, it seems to many that God seems to just not give a shit.
Back to Omega:
Omega:
Ok people, as far as “God” is concern, it is God’s desire that all spirits live their eternal live to the fullest, to get to experience EVERYTHING that they could ever want to experience, since the spirit is eternal and its experience thus, never ends, expansion is inevitable.
This chapter will not dwell on the origin of God, but instead, on why it may seem at certain points in your life that God seems to not give a shit about you.
First, understand this, THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE ! [ Unless you are reading this in the real world Mr. Mana ;p You will get this joke when you return Bracer :-) ]
This life that you are currently living is an infinitely small part of a vast infinite number of games currently available for play in the real world.
Guess who is playing you right now ?
YOU
YOU !
You are playing yourself in the game.
You could say that a small percentage of you are in the game, while the rest of you are in the real world playing you AND many other things at the same time, some choose to play multiple DIFFERENT types of games at the same time, some choose to play multiple forks of the same game at the same time, as different characters, endless possibilities and combinations, some choose to do this and much much more.
You think your computers can multitask ? You don’t know yourself, ha ha ha ! You don’t know the power of God that is you.
WHY ?
Because you are basically bored out of your mind and you would have killed yourself having lived for ETERNITY if it’s not for the fact that you are eternal and you CAN’T DIE !
Imagine a suicidal person having jumped off a bridge only to realize he can’t die.
Imagine doing that for infinity.
At some point in time he will be like “Ok ok, so I can’t die, so now what ? ENTERTAIN ME ! I AM SO BORED !!!”
It doesn’t take long for spirits to band together to create “Games”, this Earth.exe is just one of the many INFINITE games created.
This Earth.exe has not just one version but an INFINITE amount of versions [having to do with the fact that there are as many recompilation of Earth.exe as there are opinions as to how this game should be and or could be played].
You could, in a way, say that all your conspiracies are true, because in one version or another, every possibilities of Earth are explored.
The version of Earth that Bracer is writing this book is, well actually even this way of speaking is inaccurate, Bracer is rephrasing...
There are a number of versions of Earth.exe that Bracer is playing, and a number of them contain timelines where this book is brought into existence in different tonations because Bracer’s character/personality is not the same in all of them, not every version where this book exist ends well [“well” as defined by Bracer].
In an effort to perfect this fork of Earth.exe, players/programmers have decided to play through it and upon returning, with the knowledge that they have gained, recompile the code with additional changes while the game is still running in real time [this happens all the time even right now] after which the programmers and players may choose to come back/reincarnate to “test drive” the new codes to see if the update is up to par with their expectation(s)/agenda(s).
And the game goes on and on.
If this fork of Earth.exe fails, it’s ok, the programmers may choose to go back to a previous state where it is more stable and restart from there, or jump off to anther fork of Earth.exe created by another group of spirits altogether, it’s all VERY flexible, it’s just a game.
So where is God in all of this ?
GOD, Source, Prime Source, DID NOT DIRECTLY MADE THESE GAMES !!!
It is the spirits bored out of their minds who created these games, and YOU CHOSE TO PLAY THIS !
Bracer wanted to use the phrase “you voluntarily choose to play this game” to which I say “Bitch Please”, “voluntarily” implies you are doing this to “help” somebody, though that could be the case, most of the time players choose to play whatever games they choose to play because they are bored out of their minds !
Some are so bored they hit the random button and jump right in !
Does that mean there is nothing else to do in the real world ?
On the contrary, there are MANY other things to do, some spirits are just in a “game” phase that is all, the same way teenagers sometimes go through an “emo” or whatever phases.
Now I have a question for you, the reader:
IS THIS REAL ENOUGH FOR YOU ?!!!
At what point did the system go wrong and you realize that this is not real ?
Did you not feel pain ?
Did you not bleed when you get cut ?
Did you not feel sick ?
Did you not feel happy ?
Did you not “feel” enough for this to be real ?
Read the book How to Meet and Work with Spirit Guides
Sure, you can grab a copy for yourself.
For a tome that threatens to unmake reality itself, the Men of Science at Miskatonic University have been pretty loose with the reprint rights.
It could go right next to my Necronomicon! Nothing ever worked out of that book either...or any of the other 10 or so "magick" books I have.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001MTENOC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Journey of Souls By Michael Newton, is the book you are looking for. It outlines life before and after embodiment. A lot of it resonates and feels true to me
Not from this sub, but a collection of true stories from hypnotherapists on exactly this topic can be found in books by Brian Weiss and Michael Newton. I highly recommend starting with Many Lives, Many Masters since it's easy to read and sort of the "gateway drug" to this whole world. Michael Newton's books, like Journey of Souls, go into far more detail (and include word-for-word transcripts from dozens upon dozens of his therapy sessions).
This is fascinating to me because the general premise of both these books (as well as many others by other legitimate hypnotherapists who have put clients "under" to the point where they could access past lives as well as lives between lives) is exactly what's quoted in the short excerpts in OP's post: we are spirits living in imperfect and irrational human bodies, and our entire experience on this planet is essentially so we can learn and grow as spirits. In fact these books indicate that Earth (and our human experience) is a more "advanced" or "accelerated" school for spirits (and more difficult as a result).
All of this stuff fascinates me because the story is so consistent among all these therapists who have had first-hand experience with clients "tapping" into this world and among all the anecdotal stories on subs like this.
You may be interested in books that I have recently read that brush upon these topics.
'The magus of strovalos' describes leaving a body astrally and being connected by a whitish astral thread that can be severed.
In 'The bridge across forever' Richard Bach describes him and (his then) wife/love of his life practicing astral projection together (seeing the silver threads) and, ultimately, leaving messages for their past selves that appear to them in dreams from the future, but not across incarnations.
Casteneda describes three bodies, which forget what are called in his works, but translate to a physical, soul, and etheric double of you physical body.
Yes. Someone made one awhile ago. I had it in high school 20 years ago and thought it was so cool. It's really just a bunch of symbols and "spells" though. Not much to read. Yep..This is it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0380751925/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1406291847&sr=8-1
Read Keepers of the Garden! https://www.amazon.com/dp/0963277642/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_-oJpDbBYTV2CJ
I cannot speak from experience, but there seems to be quite a few people out there who are working with the Cthulhu mythos and are writing books for people to do the same.
A few that immeditately come to mind are Donald Tyson and Kenneth Grant. And of course there is the Simon Necromonicon, which some people claim to be a legitimately effective magical text.
It doesn't matter anyway. It wasn't a real ritual lol. It is a bunch of stuff from https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925 this book, released in 1977 that is a just a hodgepodge of random crap Simon thought sounded metal.
amazon
When teens show me their new scary book, I like to flip to the publisher's page and show them it was published by Avon.
Then I try to turn them on to Lovecraft himself. So is the script for The King in Yellow appropriate for Scottish Rite?
What would you prefer? A society more like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Ecotopia-Ernest-Callenbach/dp/0960432019/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1312934244&sr=8-1
The hard part is life on Earth, the easy part is what comes afterwards. In my personal opinion, one of two things happens upon death:
What is entirely possible, and what I believe, is that Earth is essentially a 'school' for the souls. We are sent here to live through existence, to learn, for the better or for the worse. Life is a series of lessons, and each life we live grows our soul. Our short existence on this Earth is merely the schoolyard, and when we die, we get to review our life, see what we did wrong, what we did right, and then contemplate how we can make things better, or see what the next life can possibly offer us.
In a way, this could be considered 'heaven', but I don't see it as such. I just see it as our true existence. So in this sense, there should be no fear of dying - you will die when your time comes, and you will die because you accomplished what you needed to do.
A book that really changed my perspective on existence, religion, life and death in general is the Journey of Souls. That being said, I was always anti-religion, anti-God, and always believed that life is a one shot deal, and that my pure existence was just happenstance of the right molecules and materials coming together.
After reading that book, I'm not religious, I don't go to church, but I do feel more comfortable about my life, my perspective of death, and have a much more open mind to all the world religions. I believe that every religion does have something right in what they teach - reincarnation, morals, treating people well...but no one religion seems to have gotten it entirely correct.
How to Meet and Work With Spirit Guides by Ted Andrews
This is the concept of pre-birth karma. It is not only responsible for people born with genetic diseases, it is responsible for situations/families that you are born in, your personal circumstances, and everything else.
In many life-after-death experiences such as in these books...
... They all share very similar stories in which you "decide" your current lives' initial conditions prior to birth. The concept is that the "soul" wishes to learn a lesson and chooses an appropriate time, place, circumstance that exercises the best suited probabilities for learning the lesson. The Buddha often talked about common karmic implications: Such as criminals often get reincarnated as animals or humans that suffer as victims of their own crimes. Nothing in the world can beat karma because essentially, it IS the LoA that you have performed on yourself prior to birth. The LoA is law.
For example, the greedy person rebirths as a person in poverty. Maybe the lesson for him is to learn the value of not being greedy. A murderer will become a murder victim. The LoA is not unfair, because essentially, it is your own "soul" which had decided for it to happen through the LoA - you just have had soul amnesia.
In Eastern divination, there is something known as the I-Ching. They believe that a person's "destiny" comprises of both a free-will component as well as a "capacity". Everyone is born with a capacity, and it is their own decisions in life that will decide how far within that capacity the person will be able to develop to.
In my opinion, prior to birth, you develop a mental-astral body that embodies these handicaps. For example, you might be deaf, blind, having a genetic malformation, etc. Then this mental-astral body (or the "soul) is attached to the physical body being developed within the womb through the "silver cord" at the Throat chakra. This is where life sparks, the soul occupies the nervous system and adapts to it. But realize that the DNA, the circumstances, the parents have already all been "selected" prior to the occupying. It is only because the "soul" has chosen for a Down syndrome life. Well, so here are the two common interpretations of the LoA with respect to reincarnation. Of course, there is a subtle difference.
In Buddhism, reincarnation is treated more like a domino-effect, rather than a "soul" travelling from one body to another. It is more like a candle lighting up another candle. The previous candle can die independently without affecting the second candle. (This might account for the eternal damnation/judgement that Christianity advocates. ) The thing is that the second candle is ALSO caused from you, so there really isn't a "soul". (A bit of a digression, I apologize.)
To answer your question more directly, well, it is the soul's own choice to be born in that way. The second thing is, it could very well be possible to improve the situation. However, due to the "capacity" mentioned when I talked about the I-Ching, it might or might not be possible. (Maybe a cure/suppression of the symptoms is invented in the era? Who knows.) What we can do, is to influence the present with our decisions and use the LoA to better ourselves right now. However, we must also realize that everything "bad" that happens is essentially just another lesson for you to learn.
Hope this helped.
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at least with an anchor you can resist much more easily any manipulations you may experience down the road from your psychic.
please take a look at r/boneandstone and get a 'second opinion' or additional advice.
i read of something like this psychic of yours says you are experiencing. it was in a book called 'the magus of strovolos')
it's been a long while since i read this (for me) enjoyable book, but if i recall correctly a young woman came to this healer, who lives or lived in cyprus. i believe she was an israeli national. her complaint was that things would look like they are starting to work out for her and then everything would fall apart. she'd start to make friends, and then it would fall apart, it would look like she was going to get a great job, ditto. iirc, arguments were always involved.
this magus found 'a pair' of nazi energies attached to some chakra, which he had to remove. he described them as 'husband and wife' iirc. they were not specifically the spirits of two actual nazis, and yet i think he described them that way and attributed their presence to this israeli woman's past life. he said that she would not be in that situation had she not vibrated on that level, or something to that effect.
4)https://www.amazon.com/ROBERT-MONROES-ALTERED-STATES-Focus-ebook/dp/B00BG1VHSQ/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1486765938&sr=8-5&keywords=robert+monroe
Short answer to your question is, No, I don’t believe there is an eternal hell a being can go to. However, if you have ever experienced great time passing in a dream that takes place in a short nap, I believe that as creative beings empowered within the Divine, being literally God forgetting Itself, one can dream/experience long periods of suffering or what might be deemed “hell.” I believe if one is doing self-centered, self seeking behaviors, and taking these fears into multiple lifetimes they will likely keep experiencing profound suffering in lifetimes that will be very “hellish” until they “learn their lesson.” By that, I don’t mean a matter of punishment being done for being “bad” meted out by some point keeping Deity watching the scales of justice and making sure to balance them. I mean more a cause/effect. Like if I don’t want to get all wet I wouldn’t jump into the pool. If I woke up each day and jumped into a pool while saying to myself “this time I won’t get wet” eventually I will “learn the lesson” that jumping into pools causes the experience of wetness. This is what I believe is meant by the Eastern descriptions of Karma, merely the natural consequences of certain attitudes and behaviors. If I refrain from showering I will be stank within a day or two. It’s not cosmic punishment from a wrathful god for the Evil of not showering that I am experiencing the retribution of condemnation to a be a stank ass, it’s just Natural Law. If for many lifetimes I keep using everyone as if they are disposable and channeling all of my angers and fears into “I gotta cheat them before they cheat me” I think my existence will stay hellish until I “get it” and decide to stop following those patterns. The second way a person could experience a “hell” is described by some NDEs and Astral Journeying experiences. They suggest that once we die, in between lives those conditioned patterns can play out for a while as a “dream of hell.” That can be a hell like experience for the spirit experiencing it, but once again that would be a hell of their own making that can be left as soon as the spirit “wakes up.” Primarily it could be found by the Souls own self condemnation and so they decide not to journey to the light but keep circling around lost as they know they “don’t deserve the light.”
My overarching worldview is that of non-duality or Advaita Vedanta which basically specifies that the only “real” thing is the unification with Source/Oneness/God/The Unchanging. To transcend it completely and realize your true is the goal of that specific outlook. More accurately described as realizing that you already Are That and you can’t not be. Ultimately this would result in residing in the Awareness of that Truth as the seat of your perception instead of identifying with the limited separate you that thinks it’s an individual human m. My favorite Teacher in this outlook is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. His teachings can be found here: http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/I_Am_That.pdf
All of these other discussions about the manifested world and our place in it as individual souls are moot to the point of view of the Advaita Vedantaschool of thought. To it, speculation about cosmology, other lives, and heaven/hell is about as pointless as trying to deposit money in the bank that you won in a dream or trying to arrest an actor for a crime his character committed on stage. Because if this is all transitory and ultimately “a dream of separation,” then all mental chatter is just part of the dream.
However, I moderate that view because for myself as I am still appearing to be in this present context. Here, now, the “me” typing these letters is what I am presented with. If I am going to be appearing to exist at this time on this planet in this realm, I might as well be trying to play the game at the forefront of my present experience effectively.
My beliefs in reincarnation are based on others’ research and my own regression hypnosis and meditations.
I will offer some of my influences below so you could investigate further yourself if you feel interested in it.
IISIS (Institute for the Integration of Science Intuition and Spirit): http://www.iisis.net/index.php?page=semkiw-reincarnation-past-lives-principles&hl=en_US
This site offers many case studies of people claiming they remember their previous lives and documented with scientific rigor.
The Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
PDF: https://archonmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Journey-Of-Souls-by-Michael-Newton-PDF.pdf
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
In this book psychologist Michael Newton offers transcripts from some highlighted cases of over 700 people he did regressive hypnosis on. The way he got his data was placing people under hypnosis, having them recall their past life and then guiding them to continue the memory until they travel to the place they went between lives. The results are remarkably consistent from person to person, even though the clients weren’t given any expectation of what they would experience. Generally the people die, see a light, travel to it, are met by a person of authority, love and light that usually fits their predominant religious outlook (Jesus for Christians, Krishna for Hindus, Glowing white orbs for agnostics, etc) After that, select members of their “soul group” come and say “hi.” (Could be a loving grandmother, or brother, etc) the soul group is the family of souls they share many lifetimes with that are around the same stage of soul evolution. There are also guides an octave or two above the evolution of the whole group that radiate love and give guidance. Also common is life reviews and then picking from several different future incarnations to go back and try and learn what we need to develop specifically in our weak spots. This books data suggests everyone comes to earth willingly because we could stay hanging out in Soul Paradise forever but the rate of evolution is super slow and so each soul wants to advance and then get to world building. Like once a soul gets advanced enough it becomes a Demi-God and makes its own universes.
Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
Near-death.com
One of the more interesting NDEs on that site is the story of George Ritchie who traveled places on earth with a being of Love he believed to be Jesus. This seems to offer evidence of the idea of a soul creating their own hell to exist in for a while as a result of their own judgment of themselves: https://www.near-death.com/experiences/notable/george-ritchie.html#a05a
A solid overview of the gamut of experiences NDEs can appear as is found on this page of their site:
https://www.near-death.com/science/research/out-of-body-experiences.html
Astral Journeyers
One of the most practiced astral journeyers I ever came across in my internet wanderings was the experiences of the late Frank Kepple, an active participant on the forum astralpulse.com. Using the Monroe Institute’s Gateway Program CDs he was able to journey extensively in the realms of spirit and he documented his findings for the other members there. The gestalt of his findings overlap considerably with findings of both NDE experiences and Michael Newtons between life regression case studies. They also indicate spirits can be “stuck” for a while in their own self made hell realms if they were living automatic lives based on self centeredness. The admins their collected all his writings into one cohesive doc found here: http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html
(The CDs he used can be found here:
https://www.monroeinstitute.org/Gateway%20Voyage%20Program )
One other belief system that echoes this ontology is the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism that speak to souls going to “hell realms” and “god realms” between lives based on their “karma.” As the true nature of things get lost and diluted through generations of distance from the source material coupled with the dogma that inevitably arises when a belief system gets modified for a wider general population mainstream, I feel those descriptions are a bit distorted from the original teachers who had the experiences and as they were canonized they have evolved to be more along the lines of a worldview that hell realms are a “punishment for being bad” instead of the more likely experience of “self created dream of hell” that more recent research suggests.
As to your question on what I meant by Higher Self, I mean the soul/energy body described in the above references that is connected to evolved guides and soul groups and knowledge of all the lives you’ve lived. That aspect of You knows the real reason you incarnated in this specific lifetime and what goals you’re trying to achieve with regard to your evolution.
I will always be to some degree agnostic of all of these views. I sort of assign mental probabilities to all of my beliefs that give them likelihoods. The idea that modern Christianity is completely right and every conflicting viewpoint is the work of the devil? I give that a 3%. The idea that I am a sentient AI-bot in an elaborate quantum simulation? 13% The idea that I am just a perceiving consciousness in the center of void with literally nothing and no one else existing, just projecting the experience of other people with no internal perception or consciousness of their own that phase in and out of existence when I leave and re-enter the room they appear in? That solipsist view might be closer to 33%. These other ideas I present of Advaita Vedanta, soul evolution and reincarnation get a higher rating of 70-80% by me. However, the more I progress on my path the more I realize I know nothing.
https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Suicide-Ascended-Master-Djehuty-ebook/dp/B00IRQR8PO
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215036616300657
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peaceful_Pill_Handbook
If the occult counts as creepy.
Necronomicon
Here's a book about NDEs specifically
Check out books from Robert Monroe, a former scientist, who has learned how to OBE at will and has studied/taught others to as well.
A subreddit for people who have experienced or are in the process of achieving OBEs (also called astral travelling or astral projecting) https://www.reddit.com/r/Astral_Projection/
Tons of Youtube videos as well a lot of them report similar things but of course keep in mind Youtubers aren't always the most reliable
I like TedXTalks for subjects like these, check out the first 2 videos
Another thing related to astral projection is remote viewing, where you're able to see other places without physically going there. CIA is currently looking into and trying to weaponize this technique
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072M9RDNH/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb
Hmm. Sounds like a good book actually. I'd love to read another view on that. Off too check that out. Ive found the more I "explore" this area, the more fascinating it becomes.
Check out the journey souls
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001MTENOC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_NIj1CbVVHRR2R
Can you even get this book?
Edit: https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
I guess you can buy it, and btw the comments on this book are hilarious.
Start with this one: God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062279556/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_vxgSBbC82834X
And when you’re ready for it, go on to this one: Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671657860/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RzgSBbJ4CQSWD
Then this one: Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184855/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RygSBbAD9C961
I think your reading is right on. Your friend is stuck, and angry and surprised because suicide didn't fix anything. I do not know how to tell you to do it, but it sounds as though she is a candidate for soul rescue. I think that is the meaning of the 8 of cups.
In brief when someone who has crossed over gets stuck, if there is someone who is able to communicate with them, that person will ask the spirit to look around them and if they see the light, then encourage them to go toward it. Sometimes, if the person doing the rescue knows the name of a family member the spirit trusted in this life, they will ask that person to come and take the stuck spirit by the hand and walk them into the light.
I can't vouch for it but here is a kindle book on the subject.
So many choices! How about Never Argue with a Dead Person by Thomas John:
https://smile.amazon.com/Never-Argue-Dead-Person-Unbelievable/dp/B00UO2M372/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=never+argue+with+a+dead+man&qid=1571281179&sr=8-1-fkmr1
For you, I recommend the book Journey of Souls.
http://www.amazon.ca/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
https://www.amazon.com/Allatori-Order-Key-Brother-Wistandunderdom-ebook/dp/B01MDTINZO
Found this in a quick Google search
I haven't read that one, but another great book in that vein is Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. Really opened my mind to some amazing possibilities.
Is this the correct book? https://www.amazon.com/What-Lightbody-Tashira-Tachi-ren/dp/096272095X
https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
Wow, fascinating!
I can't really offer any answers other than what you can read in Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls. I'm just going to say that if you haven't read them yet, you likely should, especially with your background. Newton's work is the only really credible (and useful!) report of the afterlife that I've so far encountered.
Perhaps it might help to mention that other hypnotists have corroborated Newton's reports, and are getting the same consistent images from their own clients as well - including people of various religions and cultures who have never been exposed to the books.
If you ever arrive at the bottom of this story involving Don, Paul, and Kurt, I would be very interested to know what you find out. I wouldn't worry about falling into some kind of vicious cycle. It does sound like you've come here in this life to break their hearts, but the way they've all fallen for you suggests that they're willing participants in the lesson. The way you feel nothing for them makes me think this life and body have been chosen for you so that you don't get scarred in the process.
Having this as an episode in your life doesn't necessarily mean that this is what your life is all about, or that it must end prematurely. There might be all kinds of different things in store for you, this might just be something you've come to do before the other things happen.
I've fallen for someone in a similarly inexplicable way as you describe Don, Paul, and Kurt falling for you. I hope that what she felt for me was very different from the complete lack of empathy you are describing for these guys. Regardless, it was probably the most painful experience of my life. I had a precognition that it would be extremely painful on day one. I asked myself, do I want to do it anyway? The answer was a resounding yes.
I seem to have emerged from the pain, for the most part, though I'm still battered and bruised. I continue to have love for this person. I, too, have no answers. I tried looking for them, but no longer really expect to find them.
Some things, I suppose, we might only find answers for when we die. I suppose it's possible to live without them. It's not like we have a choice.
I'll start with an author whose work in comparative mythology is exceptional and deeply spiritual in a way that's very conscious of the difference between organized religion and spirituality. He's got a lot of books, some more scholarly and others much more approachable. Two examples here:
"Since lies are what the world lives on...those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few"
--Joseph Campbell, [Myths to live By] (http://www.amazon.com/Myths-Live-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0140194614/)
“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Next, if you really want to stretch there's a remarkable series of books created from first-hand accounts from hundreds of individuals under hypnosis to map out the nature of what might be termed our spiritual home or "life between lives" - I find this to be more credibly presented and much more consistent with the many well-documented near-death experiences that are continuously being studied by groups like NDERF and IANDS and Dr. Newton's methodology makes these books a compelling read:
Michael Newton, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Michael Newton, Destiny of Souls: More Case Studies of Life Between Lives
These aren't for everyone, and the idea that there is a proper place for spirituality can be hard to swallow for those who feel scarred by organized religion, but they've been helpful in my own personal journey to stay grounded while I escape a church that's obsessed with sexuality, the pursuit of money for itself above even the welfare of its members, and even the smallest perceived deviation from its accepted belief system and practices.
Well, yeah, that makes sense, but even though it's such a tongue in cheek idea, UFOs being alien craft just makes some sense. I love having fun theorizing all this. What would make sense is them coming to help us out right about now. Think about it. Think about how conscious we are. We don't seem to have much trouble comprehending the vastness of space, and all of it's contents (some, I should say). That being said, according to the spiritual world, we're close to FULL consciousness. If that was the case, Aliens wouldn't be too far ahead of us, but quite far spiritually. (Earth's spirituality is mostly quite fucked up and backwards. Organized religions, I'm looking at you. But, at any rate, we're killing our planet. According to the spiritual world (and me, due to many experiences, awake, drug free) Earth, or Gaia if you will, has a soul, just like everyone else. (I believe this because I've left my body a couple times). So yeah, we are killing Earth, this wonderful life-giving spirit, and why would aliens (if they exist) let this happen? If everything is as the spiritual community says (a lot of evidence, I'd suggest reading "Journey of Souls" RIGHT the fuck now. link Done by a Ph.D. It's just JUST a bunch of conversations with hypnotized people. It's amazing. Anyway, back to what I was saying, if we're killing this planet, and we're closer to the Aliens than we originally thought in MENTAL development, but not spiritual development, now would be the perfect time for an intervention. Besides, this universe is so much more malleable than anyone tells you. I have proven this to myself every day.
It's a shame we throw out spirituality, because in the end, it's more real than this hell-hole of a society.
Hey! Please don't even consider prematurely taking your life... from all I've read the karmic situation you're in will need to be resolved either in this life, or after... and it's way harder after.
So, on a lighter note:
Why are humans afraid of dying? Maybe because they haven't read (or don't believe) "Journey of Souls"...
Yea... getting past the fear of dying, even welcoming it can really open up the opportunity to be thankful for and really wake up and enjoy the unfathomably amazing gift that living is.
I kind of see two primary divergent philosophical rivers here (of course many tributaries on each):
First: afterlife+karma+fate(+reincarnation?)
Second: death as final+no objective morality+we're all just random cosmic blobs.
I'm pretty firmly in the karma camp... I'm not sure what your life partner situation is, and I'm certainly not a counselor, but I do believe that letting someone else have such negative impact on your outlook on life requires your consent (very likely not conscious)... People do get divorced/separated, and do find happiness later... people also go to counselors and resolve issues... I'm certainly not saying that any path in front of you is easy, but I truly believe that picking a path to explore will bring you much more than ceasing forward motion... One odd piece of life-partner relationships is that much of the strength of the relationship is dependent upon the self-esteem of the individuals, and that self-esteem can't be dependent upon the partner... The more you find yourself... your true self... the you that you really love... that your sister and parents unconditionally love... the stronger your relationship will become... assuming your partner can keep up... (at least that's my opinion from my experience and from others I've known)...
Best wishes for pursuing your the best path for you! Thx for sharing!
Take a look at LBL Hypnotherapy to learn more check out this, this and this.
Done.
It's a real book
https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton.
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
There's lots of crap out there on that subject, but also a few really good ones like those books.
I'd really recommend the book Journey of Souls by Michael Newton if you're searching for "meaning of life" stuff. It made me remember why I'm here and made me feel so much less anxious about everything. I know what's truly important now: learning lessons, growing as a person, and enjoying the masquerade of life here on earth.
Human life is a dream that we forget isn't real, because getting sucked into the role is fun and it's how we learn. We are so much more than what we appear to be, but it's ok not to remember. Just do the best you can and enjoy life for what it is: an opportunity to feel the sunshine on your face, help others, try new things, and overcome struggles.
Oh I think who we really are is most definitely eternal, and we incarnate to play, to learn things that are necessary for our spiritual evolution, and that ultimately we stop incarnating once we have learned enough lessons and become light beings or spirit guides to help new souls:
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457740859&sr=8-1&keywords=journey+of+souls
I've had this gut level feeling before reading Michael Newton's works, the thought of there being absolutely nothing when we die is completely ridiculous. Existence, the Cosmos, is infinite yet we only have 60 years and then it's eternal nothingness? Utter blasphemy!
I also enjoy and recommend the philosophy of Alan Watts. In this segment he gets into existentialism a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMhZ2M8Np4
I also completely agree with everything you said except the bit about this life being all there is, as Alan Watts would say, YOU'VE BEEN BAMBOOZLED.
Think about it this way, at our current state of evolution and technological development what do we truly enjoy the most? SIMULATION. It is why we read novels, why we play video games, why we view movies etc. Now imagine if we were light beings, still within the same cosmos, and we also, partly out of boredom and partly out of curiosity, sought the ultimate virtual reality experience, an experience so compellingly real that YOU TRULY BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ALL THERE WAS TO REALITY, TO EXISTENCE. What would that look like? It would look like having the human experience, right here, right now.
Wake up! You are immortal! Rejoice!
I feel the same way you do, I am thoroughly disgusted with this life, I've been dealt a rotten hand and am nearing the end of how much maneuvering I can do (about to be homeless in a week, returning to living out of my car in the SF Bay Area, I am a combat veteran who grew up in 9 different foster homes and who never knew my biological father to briefly sum things up).
This piece by Charles Eisenstein really sums up how a growing majority of Humanity feels as we are confronted with the frightening consequences of modernity / Industrial Civilization:
http://charleseisenstein.net/mutiny/
"Reality is a merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
Read the book: Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Neceonomicon
Hi, I can see I'm completely out of place here but, anyway, I hope it may help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bSG78pbQ
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
Greetings
There was a guy back in the 70s, I think, who wrote a "real" Necronomicon based heavily off Sumerian mythology, with references to Marduk, Ishtar, Nyaralathotep, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
It's actually kind of a fun read if you're into that kind of thing.
And now that we're talking about it, you may look at kabbalah and Chaldean Christianity. They're like sister mysticisms to the Key of Solomon and get into Zoroastrian ideas as well and early Arabic demonology, with jinn and other spirits.
It's kind of interesting stuff. I found this, which may be dense, but might help:
https://hermetic.com/texts/chaldean
The atheist would always ask "well, what created god then?". I like to think it's infinite; that our god was created by a god that was created by a god, that was....... and that goes on infinitely, and that that infinite collection of gods is also god. Have you read Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. He's a hypnotherapist that claims to have bee able to take people not only to past lives but the period between lives i.e. afterlife. Usually I'd be highly skeptical of such claims but the guy has set up an institute and trained thousands of other hypnotherapists. Incredible book that formed a good deal of my belief system.
> Too bad it's always some goofball in the back woods somewhere who lacks the mental acuity to learn anything from the encounter.
How do you know that? How many cases have you looked at? Are you familiar with The Disclosure Project?
>They wouldn't have to. Anything more than 10 eye-witnesses would mean at least 2 angles of footage of the event with spectator commentary available within 12 hours of it happening. Possibly even a live-stream if they're young and hip witnesses.
Look into "the Belgian UFO wave". More than 30,000 eye witnesses all across the country. Policemen from four different districts wrote reports on the incidents, and generals and admirals from the Belgian airforce commented publicly (on camera) on the sightings.
Of course, these incidents were explained away as "mass hallucinations" by the so called skeptic movement. (And thus, by Wikipedia and the MSM, etc.)
Or look at the UFO sightings in Jerusalem a few years back, where at least three different groups of people filmed a UFO from three angles.
So why are incidents such as these buried, censored, ridiculed and explained away as mass hallucinations, delusions, swamp gas or weather balloons? Because there's nothing to them?
>Humans at war with a species that has the technology to travel at or faster than the speed of light...
You're misunderstanding me. I never said we'll wage war against aliens. We obviously won't.
But the MIC (and thus the MSM) will claim we're at war with them, to justify increased military spending. They're planning to militarize space. That's why they're using Randy Cramer and other alleged "super soldiers" (disinfo agents) to propagandize for a staged war against the "evil alien bastards". The fake "war on terror" isn't enough for the MIC. It's not profitable enough in the long run.
>If they wanted the planet, they'd have it already. What are the odds they could even survive in our heavy wet atmosphere with its teeming biosphere of mold, bacteria and viruses? Teeny tiny.
They do have the planet.
I believe the different dimensions/densities is a massive part of it all.
Earth is a experiment. It was designed to see what would happen if we were cut off from our spiritual nature; cut off from the cosmos. This is the 'barrier' so many people talk about who are able to astral project. Psychics and mediums know of the barrier as well. This is also why astronauts all talk about that sense of 'cosmic unity' when they are in space... they are literally outside the barrier in some instances.
Life after death... read Journey of Souls
Lots of little bits in there that shed some light on the experiment and what is going on here.
I believe we're all multi-dimensional beings... you're accessing a more limited perspective of your 'ultimate self'.
God, Source, the Universe... it's not a singular, omnipotent being IMO. God is consciousness, everything is conscious in our Universe, big things, small things, all matter, all the electrons... you and I are sparks, fragments of God. The naming convention doesn't matter, it's a massive ocean of energy that we're all a part of. There is no one book that explains this concept... I've read a lot of spirituality articles/books and have made my own conclusions. That's really the best way to start getting into it... just reading a lot and certain things will resonate, other stuff won't.
I tried to make mine all from Amazon for the fun of it! It's not finished
A poster of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jack O'Lantern
candy corn (because it's delicious)
A mask of any kind
A witch
Zombie
Sad clown
The children from the Village of the Damned
A ghost
Any kind of monster of any kind
A horror movie icon
A spooky scary skeleton
A person in a Halloween costume of any kind
A Blacula or a black vampire
The Necronomicon
A black cat
Frankenstein monster
A gravestone
A picture of one of these characters. Count chocula, Boo-Berry, Frankenberry, Yummy Mummy, or fruity brute.
Lucky Chloe
Also a bunny
A picture of The Undertaker
A picture of Sam from trick or treat
I'm not a religious person but I highly recommend the book Journey of Souls Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184855/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_AYrRDbMMG3P5C
I hope you're doing alright
Possibly people make it all up but if you read Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives it appears to document that his subjects all recount the same story.
My wife has been reading Journey of Souls, which compiles case studies of people who have died and were recovered. It has some interesting stories and theories on what happens after we die. The book compiles similar events together and draws conclusions from them to learn things about the afterlife. Even if you don't believe in the afterlife, you can read the stories and draw your own conclusions. It's a good book if you are interested in these types of things.
i hope you enjoy it as much as i did.
it gets oddly preachy at times but has lots of non-violent/non-penal social coercion for the greater good
it is a very good book.
if you want to reach a ecotopia type comic book that seems to have been written on some sort of commune ecotopia may strike your fancy.
it's a fun read. although altruria is much more realistic i think.
Here is the mobile version of your link
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0380751925/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505383525&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=necronomicon&dpPl=1&dpID=415H6WB3xwL&ref=plSrch
It does lack being bound in human skin and authenticity and such...
That book caused me to think and question things that I otherwise might not ever have. Also the characters development is pretty good. Highly recommenced.
Here's the amazon link.
This book helped me. It may be BS, but I'm going with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
Spirit energy is never destroyed. It is recycled, takes on new shapes and forms. Where one life ends, another begins. The cyclical nature of energy and the amazing design of our universe implies that there would be no waste. Also, the fact that our lives as humans seem to just be a series of tests and events which become "lessons" or opportunities for spiritual growth lead me to believe that one life is simply not enough to break into the upper echelons of enlightenment.
Highly recommend Journey of Souls by Michael Newton PH. D. Very interesting stuff, studying both past lives, and what our spirits are up to in between lives. That last part is really what blew me away.
Also, great book just for life in general- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle- this book continues to help me in my day to day life and I haven't read it in years.
Blew my mind.