Andrei wrote:

Yo guys

I'm excited to tell you about the situation with the phenomena on topic. For a long time these were undiscovered and speculated on a lot. Only few books would actually tell you what to do and all of them would suppress you with the philosophy (Castaneda, Laberge for a large part). But now there's guy who tells no bullshit, only actually working techniques.

He discovered a way to enter the "lucid" state (he calls it the "phase") and even developed the whole set of methods for entering this state, deepening it and maintaining it.
His book (http://aing.ru/files/sobt.zip ) is in two parts, the first contains techniques, the second personal experiences.

The only drawback is that the guy is Russian and the books are free, so his English isn't very good, but the explanations are generally intelligible. It's ironic that I've read the first book entirely in English believing that the author is an immigrant.
Give it a try

Andrei

Hi dudes,

Well, well, well... Interesting...

Actually, after having read both books, I decided to go for the indirect techniques's method, so as he explained you should begin by testing each indirect technique you intend to use at least 3 times (one time per day), 2 to 10 minutes when going to sleep, before you can make an informed choice about the 3 or 4 ones you're going to implement in the indirect techniques method (choosing the most efficient ones).

So it's been a few days I've begun doing this, starting with the 'observing images' technique. I experienced a few crispy sensations but nothing major; though I could feel some "progression" along my three attempts of this technique.

One important point is that, doing these as 'testing exercices', I don't actually seek to set the intention of entering the phase while doing them. However, I generally said to myself "well, just in case I would enter unwillingly, my first destination will be ...".

And it stands in 2 words: Earth's orbit.

Yesterday evening, I was switching to the 'listening in' technique, and maybe due to the fatigue of the day, I wasn't as "clear-cut" as usual in this "just in case" intention. The fact is, I didn't hear that much actually, I had the impression of hearing a couple of indistinct buzzing sounds but rather faintly, and being tired I was dangerously slipping into sleep... And then it happened.

So, let me try to describe the sensation properly. I think what happened corresponds more or less to what he describes as the 'levitating' technique, as my ... "phantom body" (let's call it like that, in reference to phantom limbs, cause I'd say it's most certainly very close to be the same kind of sensation/phenomenon, basically) so my phantom body began to rise, although in a most peculiar way. My phantom feet went up first and the rest of my phantomn body followed, except my phantom head which was sticking inside the usual one [like... "well, I'm fine right here dudes, where do you wanna go like that? I'm not even made up..." ].

Technically, I was in a state of mind similar to the dream state, but with a full awareness of where I was (in my bed), of what I was doing, and of the position of my phantom body, which was in an inverted vertical position, leaning against the wall at the head of my bed...

Then, I got back to my physical body, happy, and definitely convinced of the power at hand... (didn't think of attempring a separation technique anyway)

So, yeah... "what to do with such a thing?" is the question, and I got some ideas...

M'yeah, groovy...

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Edited By:  Scalino
Jun-29-10 21:38:04