Dreams as closed spaces within consciousness

[Ksihkehe]

We shall leave LD'ing per se to Ksihkehe's thread  Consciousness studies 3 - Lucid dreaming. LD'ing is dreaming whilst asleep, and the out-of-body experience. LD'ing by the way has a lot to do with Remote Viewing (RV). At least from listening to RV'ers such as Joe McMoneagle and from what is written by the Monroe Institute.

So in this light, we can see a simple difference between asleep and awake.

There's most definitely a difference with the spontaneous or sleeping lucid dreams as opposed to moving into them from a waking state. This thread will probably end up being a decent intermediate step between parts 3 and 4 of my series, both for me and readers. I don't know if I'd call it dreams, but it's different. Easier to feel than to describe. You know when you got there, when you get there, if you remember the trip. I feel like remembering is the part that has no shortcuts. You either have a knack for it or you spend time working out how to do it, which involves time and effort.

Castaneda is a bit intense with his recommendations on open-eyed meditation in a totally dark room for long durations, but it's a clever use of Ganzfeld effect that also exploits the high sensitivity of the rods in your eyes. There's also a routine of what is sort of like shamanistic tai-chi movements. It has an analog in Eastern tradition. It may be a type of tummo, but I don't recall. It also fits under the Japanese definition of kata, I believe. Indian tradition has some variants too. I do recall an old video with a practitioner of one technique doing a "levitation" practice which amounted to leaping straight up in the air and then entering the lotus position before hitting the ground. Castaneda's physical work isn't that intense to my recollection, but it is done in the same totally dark space as the meditations.

McMoneagle hasn't offered much in the way of guidance that I know of. I think the most helpful thing he offered, for some people, is his method for distracting the frontal lobes with mathematics. I think that's a good technique in principle, but doing hard math in your head isn't something for everyone. It's not my idea of a good time, but doing intense visualization seems to have accomplished the same thing for me when I've been successful.

I consider it to be a sort of utilitarian twist on transcendental meditation. Emptiness meditation coupled with conscious intent.

Skywatcher is out on some branch of this tree with their psionics teams. I'm quite curious how they've assembled their psionics team, how they recruit, what they sign when they are brought on, and how they're going to monetize it... because they almost certainly hope to at some point. Greer already has with his CE5, but I wouldn't be surprised if Skywatcher tries to become a governing body for psionics practitioners at some point in the future. They also seem to be trying to position themselves as defense contractors, if they aren't already bankrolled by them.