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Originally Posted by crollbc
hey everybody,
Hey crollbc.
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im 17 and have recently become very interested in astral projection but i have a couple of questions i havent found on any site ive been to about projection.
1. if astral/etheric/real time, or whatever the projection is where you are said to be on the physical plane is real, how is it that that kind of thing hasnt been utilized for personal gain?
First of all, the Real Time Zone is the area in the astral plane that most resembles 'real time', or physically manifested reality. It is not however, the real thing, and I'm defining material reality as that which is perceived to be independent of the body. The ramifications or truth of that is another thread entirely. As to personal gain, the projector who suddenly finds him/herself out of body is usually so surprised that personal gain is the furthest thing from your mind. The seasoned projector however, is another story.
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what is to stop the government using it to spy on other countries? or people perving on one another? sorry if im a little misguided about the topic.
Belief. Most politicians don't believe in anything but material gain or power, so something as iffy as AP is not that easily controlled. So why spend their energy in something that isn't 'sure' to bring results, when they have things like war, money and marketing to accomplish their goals?
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2. if i were to hide an item somewhere in my house (i.e ruler), would somebody who was projecting be able to see the ruler and describe it to me the next day, or is astral projection more a representation of subcounscious mind as oppose to physical occurrences.
It's both and that's where the 'iffiness' comes in. Your subconscious stores memories. Your conscious discerns between fivesensory perception, memory and then stores it in the subconscious. Your superconscious receives information from all perception (not just fivesensory) and your subconscious gets to store all of it. When you project, if it's conscious, your energy body brings the information to your subconscious and it gets downloaded into your brain, so your conscious mind can perceive it. The problem is that your subconscious doesn't know the difference between your astral perception and your physical perception, and what your conscious mind processes is a mixture of both. So what you get is what you saw, based on what you permit yourself to understand/process. So you can see the ruler where your friend put it, but you can interpret it as something else (a stick, a snake, or something more abstract, like the picture of a president ("a ruler"). Hence, your memory of what you saw can have both elements of what is there and what you decide/expect/wish/interpret is there.
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I'm a little confused because i have seen people talking about "confirmations" or "proofs" or whatever that would prove their projections are real? is this true?
Yes, it does happen. In the thirty-odd years (don't make me calculate it) I've been projecting, I've had three or four confirmations that were undoubtable to me. Not that impressive, is it?
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thanks in advance for answering!
You're welcome.