Is a dry spell normal?

[CFTraveler]

From reading your other posts I think what you're categorizing as a 'dry spell' is a restructuring of how you project. I think for now, you should concentrate on meditating to deep trance, and then, instead of trying to go somewhere, you stay where you are and observe what is happening around you and then write down whatever happens.

[baby001]

I think it is a very good suggestion, I think I agree with you. But I am still very interested in hearing why you think it is a restructuring of how I project. coz I think I am restructuring it, I just don't know why I think like that.

From reading your other posts I think what you're categorizing as a 'dry spell' is a restructuring of how you project. I think for now, you should concentrate on meditating to deep trance, and then, instead of trying to go somewhere, you stay where you are and observe what is happening around you and then write down whatever happens.

[CFTraveler]

If you read many authors on OBE, you will find that all of them at one point or another change the way they project- Monroe is the first one I can think of- he went from going through the 'usual' vibrations, 'reaching out' to project, and 'old fashioned' RTZ OBE to directly phasing into the astral. IIRC so did Moen, and many others have gone through some change after they had established a specific method of preference and gotten some experience.
Many of us, at some point or another, find that all of a sudden they are not getting the same symptoms, or when they do exit the 'usual' way they don't end up in their room, or they bilocate, or they have dreams in their room, and they also find that their dreams become either precognitive or significant (in that they experience stuff that is happening somewhere else or in someone else's head) and other 'shared dreaming' type of experience.
As you practice and project and cultivate conscious exploring, you are changing how your mind works, and how your energy body works too, and thus at some point you find that things change, slow down or become dramatic- and this tells me that you are evolving as you practice- so that your experience evolves too.
That's why I suggested you deepen your meditations without the expectation of projecting- it'll develop your clair (voyance, audience, or whatever your natural predisposition is) and then you can decide what to do next.

I just don't know why I think like that.

I'm not sure I get what you mean by this.

[baby001]

I'm not sure I get what you mean by this.

Sorry that I confused you. I meant that I myself thought I need a change in terms of the way I project. But I cannot find exact reasons that can explain why I need to change, except that I know the old ways don't work any more.

Thank you so much for your explanations, they make sense!

[Korpo]

Hello, baby001.

I read your original post, and wonder if your intention has something to do with it:

I am in a dry spell. I usually have 1 ~ 2 OBEs every week. But recently I decided to get very serious about it and wanted to use my OBEs to contact the deceased relatives and get verifiable info from them. After I made that decision, I only had one short OBE and that is it

Your intentions can prime your consciousness to access the specific energy body needed to have the experience you're looking for. Depending on the information you're looking for or the stage of the afterlife you're trying to access, this could be somewhere in the astral or mental plane.

OBEs occur during trying to learn to use the etheric body (bedroom/RTZ OBEs) or astral body (farther-ranging OBEs and astral projections). A lot of them may actually be simulations for getting full use of the astral body, even though they mostly look like a "regular OBE" on the physical-etheric plane.

To visit the afterlife, you have to tune into the astral and mental planes. The deceased only stay on this plane for a rather short time. The various other areas they pass through are entirely nonphysical. In trying to reach for these higher planes you may have triggered a growth process that is not yet easily or fully recalled (you might even dismiss these experiences as dreams), not experienced as lucidly, evaporate your recall soon after waking and before you could analyse them or even do not get recalled at all.

From your point of view it might seem nothing is happening, or if your experiences have been reduced to next to nothing, when in reality aspects of your being are absorbing relevant lessons every night to honor your intention. It wasn't just any intention either. Usually such an intention to communicate with the deceased can be seen to put the displayed talent to good use, and that's why the intention is honored. People need to know about the afterlife, and there is a need for people that can connect there and come back.

It's a tricky phase to be in, usually, when such a switch occurs. There's frustration and confusion. Everything seemed to run so well. Results seemed more or less reliable. We actually often prefer that to the next step, where there are challenges, some frustration and new learning, especially if we're not knowing what is going on. It was really, really frustrating for me.

I go through these "dry spells" from time to time, and these shifts are necessary, I know they are. But I also know it often conflicts with my expectations and desires. What I do is trust the process now. It has taken me farther every time, even though I had no idea what would come up next each time.

Cheers,
Oliver

[CFTraveler]

Hello, baby001.

I read your original post, and wonder if your intention has something to do with it:



Your intentions can prime your consciousness to access the specific energy body needed to have the experience you're looking for. Depending on the information you're looking for or the stage of the afterlife you're trying to access, this could be somewhere in the astral or mental plane.

OBEs occur during trying to learn to use the etheric body (bedroom/RTZ OBEs) or astral body (farther-ranging OBEs and astral projections). A lot of them may actually be simulations for getting full use of the astral body, even though they mostly look like a "regular OBE" on the physical-etheric plane.

To visit the afterlife, you have to tune into the astral and mental planes. The deceased only stay on this plane for a rather short time. The various other areas they pass through are entirely nonphysical. In trying to reach for these higher planes you may have triggered a growth process that is not yet easily or fully recalled (you might even dismiss these experiences as dreams), not experienced as lucidly, evaporate your recall soon after waking and before you could analyse them or even do not get recalled at all.

From your point of view it might seem nothing is happening, or if your experiences have been reduced to next to nothing, when in reality aspects of your being are absorbing relevant lessons every night to honor your intention. It wasn't just any intention either. Usually such an intention to communicate with the deceased can be seen to put the displayed talent to good use, and that's why the intention is honored. People need to know about the afterlife, and there is a need for people that can connect there and come back.

It's a tricky phase to be in, usually, when such a switch occurs. There's frustration and confusion. Everything seemed to run so well. Results seemed more or less reliable. We actually often prefer that to the next step, where there are challenges, some frustration and new learning, especially if we're not knowing what is going on. It was really, really frustrating for me.

I go through these "dry spells" from time to time, and these shifts are necessary, I know they are. But I also know it often conflicts with my expectations and desires. What I do is trust the process now. It has taken me farther every time, even though I had no idea what would come up next each time.

Cheers,
Oliver

Just capturing this for posterity, as posterity allows.

[baby001]

Wow, your analysis is so interesting. It makes so much sense! It also sort of answered my question in the other post regarding contacting my guide. When I tried to contact my guide(s) for a regular retrieval, they always come. But when I asked them to come with the intention of leading me to a specific deceased person (I only asked to see one person), I got no response and I tried that many times. It really may be due to the person resides in a higher plane that is not reachable by me for now. (BTW, I seldom go to the RTZ when I project, I almost always ended up in some kind of astral plane. Even I wanted to be in the RTZ. That is sometimes frustrating too.)

I really hope I triggered the growth process and soon I will be able to project again.

Hello, baby001.

I read your original post, and wonder if your intention has something to do with it:



Your intentions can prime your consciousness to access the specific energy body needed to have the experience you're looking for. Depending on the information you're looking for or the stage of the afterlife you're trying to access, this could be somewhere in the astral or mental plane.

OBEs occur during trying to learn to use the etheric body (bedroom/RTZ OBEs) or astral body (farther-ranging OBEs and astral projections). A lot of them may actually be simulations for getting full use of the astral body, even though they mostly look like a "regular OBE" on the physical-etheric plane.

To visit the afterlife, you have to tune into the astral and mental planes. The deceased only stay on this plane for a rather short time. The various other areas they pass through are entirely nonphysical. In trying to reach for these higher planes you may have triggered a growth process that is not yet easily or fully recalled (you might even dismiss these experiences as dreams), not experienced as lucidly, evaporate your recall soon after waking and before you could analyse them or even do not get recalled at all.

From your point of view it might seem nothing is happening, or if your experiences have been reduced to next to nothing, when in reality aspects of your being are absorbing relevant lessons every night to honor your intention. It wasn't just any intention either. Usually such an intention to communicate with the deceased can be seen to put the displayed talent to good use, and that's why the intention is honored. People need to know about the afterlife, and there is a need for people that can connect there and come back.

It's a tricky phase to be in, usually, when such a switch occurs. There's frustration and confusion. Everything seemed to run so well. Results seemed more or less reliable. We actually often prefer that to the next step, where there are challenges, some frustration and new learning, especially if we're not knowing what is going on. It was really, really frustrating for me.

I go through these "dry spells" from time to time, and these shifts are necessary, I know they are. But I also know it often conflicts with my expectations and desires. What I do is trust the process now. It has taken me farther every time, even though I had no idea what would come up next each time.

Cheers,
Oliver