Okay, so off we trot with the second newsletter. I was originally going to publish it at the end of the first and third week in every month, but for some reason I now think that sounds a bit odd. So from now on I will send the newsletter around the middle and end of each month as that sounds a bit more logical.
Before I get into the guts of it, firstly I want to say a big THANK YOU to Adrian for getting the Astral Pulse forum back on track after our recent virtual shutdown. If it were not for him then us gals and guys would never have met, so cheers Adrian for all your input in keeping everything running for us all.
There have been a few relevant posts on the Phasing Approach the past couple of weeks and I present a little digest of those below.
As regards the Virtual Classroom:
I have received a good number of enquiries and thank you to all who have expressed an interest. I am hoping to get this program actually started over the coming week to ten days. I'm going to give you a little explanation now about how things are progressing with that. So if you are not interested then scroll down past the next few paragraphs.
I don't want to disappoint anyone but I do stress that my saying it is strictly limited in terms of numbers is not some tacky marketing trick. I originally thought 15 people and I've received well over that in numbers of enquiries. I could perhaps stretch it to 20 absolute maximum, but cannot see myself being able to expand on that. I thought I'd perhaps create a list of people wanting to get on board, so if someone leaves then that would hold an opportunity open for someone else.
A few people have enquired if it would be possible to join for 3 months to get them over some hurdle or other, then take a break for a while and come back again. Yes, that will be possible. I have no objection to that and doing so would leave an opportunity open for someone else to join in the person's absence. But what I cannot do is 100% guarantee that a place will be available right away the moment you wish to rejoin. There may be a little waiting list.
I have thought about it all for a couple of weeks and, whatever happens, I will simply have to take all applications strictly on a first-come, first-served basis. I see no other fairer way.
Once I have the basic formalities organised in about a week to ten days I will write to everyone at exactly the same time and it will be open to the first 20 people who respond, following which I will place your application on a waiting list strictly in the order they are received. In the event you are placed on the waiting list then, of course, any monies you may have paid will be immediately returned to you in full.
Speaking about payment, I have been looking into methods of payment for the Virtual Classroom subscriptions, which will need to be via the usual credit or debit cards, of course. I have looked into various services but all are extremely expensive in terms of the commissions they charge for this kind of "online" business as they see it. It would appear that if you live in the USA then getting online Merchant Accounts is much easier. I was accepted by one company in France where I live but they wanted a hefty 10% commission plus 1.5 euro per transaction! This is just daft in my view. With 20 people in the class each paying 16 Euro a week for their teaching I would be paying around 140 euro a month in transaction fees alone! This may not sound a lot of money to perhaps many people, but as I said in the last newsletter, I live a very frugal life and 140 Euro keeps me in pasta for about 8 months!
Anyhow, after doing a bit of digging I discovered that PayPal's fees are quite reasonable for this kind of thing, so they are the payment service I will be using. To be able to accept credit and debit cards directly I need to open a business Merchant Account with PayPal and for that I will need to open a basic business bank account together with a Visa card so I can eventually "verify" the new PayPal account and get it all up and running properly. All this form-filling, financial stuff, registering new businesses, and all that jazz is a bit over my head. So after going around in circles the past couple of weeks, I have decided to place the whole thing in the very capable hands of a total financial wizard and great friend of mine, Jim Ashley, who shall be dealing with all the financial side of things on my behalf. I don't want to start getting embroiled in accounting and things like that. I want to concentrate 100% of my time advising people on what I feel is the best way forward in terms of their development. So Jim will be dealing with the PayPal, financial and accounts side of things from the UK.
This has taken a little while to organise but everything will be ready in about a week to ten days. Like I say, I live a very frugal life and I'm not really part of the capitalist machine, as it were. I don't have lines of credit and a wallet full of credit cards, loans and all that jazz. But Jim will soon have it all sorted and we'll be up and running in no time. Problem is, living in France as I do, the business bureaucracy in France is horrendous. I speak French good enough to make myself understood from day to day, but nowhere near good enough to understand the intricacies of French business legalities and procedures. Being English I have the right to set up the new business in England where everything is much more understandable, as it is a liberal market economy like the USA. Regulations tend to be fairly straightforward, so that's why I have decided to fiscally locate the financial side of things in the UK.
So to anyone who is thinking of joining the Virtual Classroom, I shall be writing to you in the next week to ten days offering you a chance to join.
Right, so now those formalities are out of the way let's get on with the next topic, which is a follow on from last month:
Remember I was talking to you saying that anything you wish to do, whether it was projection in a conventional sense or in a more modern-day Phasing sense that it was all within you and not "outside" of you. If you have just subscribed and you did not download the first newsletter then please do so now at: http://www.astralprojectiontruth.com/nbi.htm
I made this point of always looking within you on the AP Forum and here is what one member "mactombs" replied with, which is typical of the many responses I have received:
"This sounds like what Monroe talks about in his first book with his method, but less confusing, and more simplified. I also never thought about it as looking (with your mind) at a point inside your mind rather than outside. Thinking of things outside your body makes things much harder, IMO. Richard Feynman (famous physicist) talks about moving his awareness away from the spot behind his eyes in one of his books, too."
I have never heard of Richard Feynman but I am finding that the more people tell me about the more modern-day approaches, the more I am finding I have in common with these non-mystical researchers. You see, to the mystics, anything non-physical is all Astral. They seem to have no actual idea that consciousness is apportioned in terms of the tasks it was set to perform, in the sense of the actions in consciousness that typically take place within it. To mystics, all is Astral and all is weird and wonderful, an Alice in Wonderland type of place full of "higher beings" on the one hand, gods and angels galore. And at the other end of the scale are the realms of the demons, the devils and all that jazz. In my view, this is all rather silly and I am quite amazed that many people actually believe all this tosh. I think it is long overdue that science began taking this topic seriously and started cutting a swathe through all the mystical nonsense that has haunted this topic for thousands of years.
Mystics make the BIG mistake of thinking this Astral, as they call it, is an entirely separate place that you "travel" to. They don't actually see it as an extension of your own mind. They see it like it were another world. Unfortunately for their fanciful ideas, people are now beginning to study all this with an air of objectivity, and are steadily beginning to realise that this Astral is not a separate place at all. It is actually an extension of each individual's mind. The culmination of which forms what I call the Wider Reality. I myself used to use the term Astral, but when I really started making inroads into the Wider Reality, much of the "Astral stuff" just didn't add up. Nowadays, knowing what I now know, I reckon many of these mystics just make it up as they go along. After all, hardly anyone knows the truth of the matter. So all they need do is reel-off some Zen-style gobbledegook and people reckon that's what will solve their projection problems for them.
That is why again my goal now is to teach people how to access this reality for themselves, so they too can see the facts first hand and bring some real benefits into their lives as a result. Rather than just laying out time and money, going from technique to technique and never really getting anywhere.
The Wider Reality is apportioned into 4 Primary Areas that I label Focus 1 to Focus 4 inclusive. You can call them what you like. The actual label you place is irrelevant. For ease of understanding, however, we need to call them something simple and logical. Now, when I say that the Wider Reality is apportioned into 4 Primary Areas, this is not some weird and wonderful theory that I have come up with. I am saying it because that IS how it is! But I cannot objectively prove that fact. There is no experiment I can perform that says if the liquid in beaker "A" turns green when mixed with the powder in beaker "B" then I am correct, but if it turns blue then I am wrong. What I can do, however, is teach people about the wider reality properly, not in this weird and wonderful whacky way purported by the mystics as truth, but teach people in a real and down-to-earth sense. Then my hope is that people will begin viewing this reality, interacting with it and, as a result, start understanding it for themselves (as they are gradually beginning to do).
You see, mystics and gurus do not want the Wider Reality demystified. No one would send them money for a start! Gurus get fat off people sending them money. So it's good business to keep people confused, and to try to keep the subject complex and mystified. Then gurus can revel in their sense of self-importance, having all these people looking up to them thinking they are some kind of "master".
Many of these gurus live jet-set lifestyles, touring the New-Age seminar circuit. Some charge well over a thousand US dollars per person for a weekly course. These people, in my opinion, are nothing more than one-eyes in the land of the blind. But if people were not so confused then they would not keep going back to Mr One-Eye for guidance. But if they didn't get such bum guidance in the first place they wouldn't be so confused. They would be able to experience the wider truth for themselves, rather than relying on some kind of "middleman" to facilitate things for them (as if they could in any event, but people don't actually realise that). Fact is, these days, New Age is BIG BUSINESS and it helps to keep people in the dark as much as possible so the dollars keep flowing into the pockets of the publishers, the organisers, the gurus and the mystics. It is big business, make no mistake, and ordinary people are the ones that are being ripped off with bum information.
If people actually knew just how simple and straightforward the wider reality is set out, there would be no need for all these zillions of books that just waffle on about nothing in particular, parroting the same old nonsense that everyone else does. We've mostly left the flat-earth beliefs behind. Science has cut a great swathe through many of the dumb Dark-Age superstitions than many people used to hold dear. But with this topic, ever so many people are still wallowing in the Dark Ages. Believing in "possessions" and "psychic attacks" and such like. We've still got books being published advising people to wear garlic to ward off "evil spirits"... guys... perlease... this is the TWENTY FIRST CENTURY!!!
Right, so consciousness is apportioned into 4 areas. Someone asked me recently if there was anything beyond Focus 4, i.e. a Focus 5 or such like. The answer is, to my knowledge, within our particular system there are just 4 Primary areas. But consciousness doesn't end there. Consciousness is infinite. There may well be an infinite number of other systems either like ours or perhaps wildly different. But let's just concentrate on the structure of our particular system and get people projecting properly with that first.
I'll be talking more about these areas in consciousness in newsletters to come. In this edition I want to try and lay down some basics so you can begin picturing the core structure in your mind.
Okay, so here's one of the most important aspects you MUST understand:
When I say there are 4 Primary Areas in our Wider Reality, I want you to fully realise beyond any doubt that these areas are NOT places! They are FOCUSES OF ATTENTION along your very own consciousness continuum.
Monroe was a pioneer in this and he was the very first person, to my knowledge, who realised that these areas were actually focuses of attention and not places. Hence the term "focus" in the focus numbers that Monroe talks about such as Focus 10, Focus 21, etc. Why "focus"? You might ask. Well, that is the reason.
Now, our Wider Reality is apportioned into 4 Primary Areas and each person has what is called their Primary Focus. Anyone reading this within the physical (Focus 1) has their Primary Focus set to the physical. When we project, our Primary Focus does not change. We may shift our focus of attention, but our Primary Focus remains Focus 1. Think of your Primary Focus as your "home focus" if you like. Say you visit a friend at another address. For the duration of your visit, the address of your friend's location has become the address of your location also. But that's only for the duration of your visit. Your home address remains the same. It's just that you've changed address temporarily. And that's what we do when we project. Our Primary Focus remains the same, but we temporarily shift our focus of attention to another area of our consciousness continuum.
Throughout the time we are alive and kicking within the physical, our Primary Focus is Focus 1. Now, when a person dies, what we objectively view as "death" is an objective representation or translation of the person switching their Primary Focus from Focus 1 to Focus 3 of consciousness. You see, when you switch your Primary Focus, all subjective interaction with your physical body is stopped. In other words, the physical shell stops functioning as you shed it and go to live within Focus 3. This area is known as the Transition Area for various reasons that I shall go into in a later newsletter. Here I am presenting to you the basic structure, so you can try to get to grips with it.
Now, I just want to say again, that all this is not some weird and whacky theory I happened to dream up one day. What I am saying to you is how it is. Everything I am putting across to you I have experienced first hand. With a little effort and a little practice on your part, you can experience it too. There is no mysticism here, ignore those that claim you have to reach a particular "level" of "incarnation" before you can access the "higher" areas. These people simply do not know what they are talking about. We actually occupy ALL of consciousness ALREADY. Every one of us has the EXACT SAME subjective structure! Thing is, when you actually view all this for yourself, when you see the glorious simplicity of it all, when you know how it is, in truth, you will laugh your socks off at these mystics and their hordes of followers who claim they are in some way more "spiritually advanced". What these people fail to realise is we ALL have the very same subjective structure! There is no such thing as any one person being more advanced than any other. In fact, the people who have the hardest or most difficult time in Transition, tend to be the highly religious and deeply spiritual types. They just get bogged down in their own belief constructs and end up trudging through the Astral Mud, as I call it.
One of the great benefits of knowing how the Wider Reality is organised is when you die, you know exactly where you are and exactly what to do. Rather than end up floundering in the dark not knowing anything. But there are many other benefits you can gain from this too while you are alive.
So there are 4 Primary Areas and your current Primary Focus is Focus 1.
I want you to also think of these Primary Areas as being intertwined with each other. They are not strung out in a big long line. They are all continually intertwined and connected. Remember they are NOT places. For example, in the physical you may be in one town, then you travel down the road to the next town. These areas are NOT like that. They are all intermeshed and intertwined with one another. Because of this, it is perfectly possible to objectively experience 2 or more Primary Areas at once simply by tuning your focus of attention. You do NOT have to "travel" anywhere. Within the physical, we have Time, Space and Distance to contend with. But once you "step outside" the physical there is no Time, so there is no Space or Distance either. But that's not to say you do not perceive the idea of Space and Distance coupled with a semblance of Time passing. But these notions are mere legacies from having lived within the physical world and have no bearing in fact.
Many people ask me how I travel from one area to the next. I don't, because there is no Space to travel through. I used to have difficulty in navigating the Wider Reality. Then, one day, the penny dropped. The difficulties I was having were not because navigation is difficult. My difficulties were coming about through my failing to realise just how easy it was. I was trying to travel from point a to point b as in the physical. In other words I was trying to travel through Space over a Distance and there is no such thing. Everything within the Wider Reality is contained within the same point. So if you are at one place, you are at all places at the same time. Because there is no Space. That is why I say we each occupy all of consciousness already. The only difference is in your objective perception of your surroundings in terms of where, along your consciousness continuum, you are focusing your attention. And that comes right back to what I was saying on the outset: these areas are NOT places, they are focuses of attention.
Are you beginning to see now why these areas are NOT places?
So we all know Focus 1 of consciousness. It is the physical. Focus 1 incorporates what I call the Wider Physical. This would include the region mystics call the real-time-zone or RTZ. Personally, I dislike using the term real-time-zone as there is no such thing as "real" time and it is not a "zone". But, then again, I look at this with a scientific air and, in science, you have to be congruent as to the terms you use and get your definitions in order. Whereas mystics just make up any old sound-good blurb that will keep the money rolling in.
To be honest, I can't see the point of projecting into the RTZ (or the Wider Physical). Apart from the novelty value, there isn't much you can do and it would appear a LOT of effort for very little return. Because of that we will start with Focus 2 of consciousness.
Focus 2 of consciousness is what is commonly known by psychologists, as your "sub conscious" but there is nothing "sub" about it. Focus 2 is where most people do their dreaming, lucid dreaming, their "astral projecting", their meeting up with all manner of demons and devils, etc. Focus 2 of consciousness contains all manner of personal faculties such as your memory and your imagination. Without Focus 2 of consciousness we simply wouldn't be able to think rationally or create anything within the physical. It holds all our belief constructs that we happen to subscribe to. And it is this latter point that is rather interesting. You can actually project within Focus 2 of consciousness and objectively view representations of your very own belief constructs that you hold. However, taking on board the fact that people typically think that this area of consciousness (to them the Astral) is a separate place, the Astral will actually become whatever you believe it is! This simple fact, unbelievably, has been the source of thousands of years of confusion as regards the wider reality.
The problem has been simply that mystics have always thought they were projecting to some place outside of themselves. Yet what you are actually viewing, within Focus 2 of consciousness, are the objective representations of your very own belief constructs. So if you actually believe the Astral is packed full of demons and devils... then demons and devils you shall perceive. Because what you are actually viewing are the objective representations of your own beliefs. People have the idea that "the Astral" is a weird and magical place where you get all manner of Alice in Wonderland effects such as your thoughts coming to life. Mystics just accept this as a given and lead people into thinking they could possibly meet up with all manner of doom, gloom and danger.
But do these people ever stop to think, even for a moment WHY their thoughts come to life? WHY there is such a thing as an Alice in Wonderland effect?
It is only when you look at the situation from the point of view of a scientist trying to objectively make sense of it all that you realise the simple reason of why this effect comes about. For almost 5 years I battled with this question. I fought all manner of demons and devils and slayed dragons galore. Then, one day, the penny dropped. I realised that thought equals action. That was it! I was in a place where thought equals action. I remember the time distinctly even to this day around 18 years later. But it was only much later when I realised precisely WHY thoughts equalled action in this weird and wonderful kind of place called the Astral... WHY did thought equal action? Simple! It was because I was projecting into my own mind. In other words, I was offering myself the objective knowing of my very own internal subjective actions!
This simple realisation led me on an amazing voyage of discovery through my very own mind. It was truly fascinating as I learnt to know myself from the inside out, so to speak. Wow, if I had a problem, I could now step right into myself and find a likely solution. Plus, it was from this realisation that I got to know about the way the subjective and the objective translates both in terms of awareness and in terms of energy. This latter discovery has since helped me to make some very profound realisations about the Wider Reality.
Okay, that's it for this fortnight. I hope I've given you a few things to think about. Problem is it's no use trying to get on with any of the more "advanced" concepts until we've got the very basics done and dusted. There now follows a little digest of some of the more relevant Phasing posts together with my replies.
Questions and Answers
Question 1
My latest experience today with Phasing seemed to be snippets of focus 2. I seemed to have had lucid dreaming moments first person but they very short and quick then I would be back to focusing behind my eyes but still deeply relaxed.
My question is about imagination use. I have read that you should not create in your imagination. Is it really a bad thing if it keeps you focused so to speak? I noticed if I have created my world and I just hang out I begin to lose attention into it. This is when I may create a garden and start watering it or water flowers so that I can engage senses or I walk along and further create the world just so I am not going around in a circle so to speak.
I apologize if this has been covered. I have been searching and only read talk about not creating in your scenario.
In addition to what Major Tom has said, you need to be a little bit careful that you do not begin merely entering into a kind of creative visualisation action. This, in Phasing Model terms, would be an F1/F2 overlay.
For example, I have an extremely vivid imagination. I can sit here now and imagine all manner of scenes "in my head" so to speak. But this is not making what I call "the switch", which is the action of transitioning your focus of mental attention out of Focus 1 and into Focus 2 of consciousness.
Your imagination faculty is situated in Focus 2 of consciousness. This is the area of consciousness where most people dream and have their basic "astral projection" style experiences, lucid dream experiences, etc. Focus 2 of consciousness is also the region where people meet all their devils and demons, and whatever else besides.
Now, knowing that your imagination is situated in Focus 2 of consciousness, what we do is create a little mental rundown that engages our senses within the rundown to the extent where it captures our focus of attention. As it captures our focus of attention we make "the switch" and kind of, go to "meet" our imagination.
So the idea is not to just simply remain in the physical creating all manner of pretty pictures in our imagination. What we want to do is to actually "step into" our imagination. Not just lie back and view it as if from a distance.
Generally, if a person is losing concentration in their rundown then they need to make the rundown more engaging, more captivating. I mean, provided your physical body is fairly relaxed. You could make your rundown as captivating as you like, but if you were riding pillion on a motorbike then not much is going to happen in the way of making a transition. :)
That is why I tend to practice this only when my physical body is fairly relaxed anyway. After about 6 or 7 hours of sleep is my most common time and often I do it now about 2 hours before I would normally want to sleep.
If I want to be active, physically, then I get restless and give up. I can't be bothered doing it, I'll have a list of things to do and a full day and I want to get active and get on with it. So under those circumstances I would find it next to impossible because I simply want to be physically focused. But later on, when I've done all I can for the day, then that's the time to lie back, relax, and take a trip over to the other place and see what's what.
Yours,
Frank
Question 2
I made some more attempts to reach FoC 3, all of them failed
What usually happens is the following:
I'm at FoC 2 and decide to try to reach Fz, then usually the thought pops up, that I might just end up in F1. I try to stay calm and start to defocuse the dreamscape. the slats usually appear without much problem. I then zoom into the blackness and the dreamscape just falls away.
Now the trouble start: I usually find myself in a blackness (Fz?) but after a very short periode of time ( about 1 sec.) I start to feel my body lying in bed. this inevitably takes my focus back to F1 and the experience ends.
No chance I can fly around in Fz and explore the darkness, the feel of my physical body just pos up by itself. I tried to not focus on the physical, but I fail every time. What am I doing wrong?
Or maybe it would be better to try to zoom directly to F3 instead of Fz when leaving F2? Just defocus the dreamscape and focus on reaching F3? would that be the way to go?
I think you are not actually doing anything wrong. I think all you need is more practice. It sounds to me like there is some protective aspect of your awareness that is getting a little fearful or maybe you are getting too excited. I'm assuming that when you ended up back at the physical there was no problem like you needed to use the bathroom or you were too hot or something. Or there was not some kind of unusual sound or whatever that had disturbed you. Because the physical can often bring you back, so to speak, for all manner of niggling little reasons. It's just something you have to accept.
But in your case, as you do not mention anything specific regarding the physical, then I think a part of you is perhaps getting a little fearful or excited. Unfortunately, any kind of fear or excitement can put a spoke in the works. Maybe instead of zooming into the blackness take a little walk, or let the blackness come to you. In other words, slow down a little. You can attempt a direct transition and bypass Fz entirely. But that is possibly trickier than what you are attempting now. I say possibly because you can never always tell in any individual case. But the transition F2>Fz>F3 is normally the easiest route even though it would appear a slightly more roundabout way of doing it.
You can always try bypassing F2 altogether and making an F1>F3 transition, but that's typically even trickier still. Please realise in all this that people will have their individual stumbling blocks that may take a while for them to overcome. Some people may have difficulties in other areas that you may find straight forward and vice versa.
Yours,
Frank
Question 3
...was about searching in mind for that particular point that Phasing practice is designed to develop, and follows on from the last newsletter about going within you, not outside of you.
Steve:
Yeah, ultimately you are going through this process so you can develop/find/create that point in your mind that you can just relax and "look to" in order to make that transition. But that's a while away yet, I suspect. But don't let what I say stop you trying now and again. You see, people who are genuine "mediums" have that point in their mind already. But us guys who were born not so lucky, have to go through all this rigmarole in order to develop it. But it's a lot of fun and you can have quite a few good experiences while you are doing it. But I have reached the stage now where I can, more or less, find that place in mind.
The frustrating thing is that I cannot do it while entirely physical. I would love to be able to just look in mind and have a perfect F1 to F2/F3/F4 overlay experience. But realistically that's perhaps 5 years or more away for me.
One of the most popular "realisation" style of PM's and emails I get is from people saying, "Frank, I just read your post and it suddenly struck me about what you were saying and I get the same thing but I never knew what they were." That kind of thing. This I am finding is one of the big benefits of finally being able to offer people a "map" of the structure of the wider reality and the characteristics of the experiences you can have in the different areas. Because it allows people to catalogue their experiences and at least they know where they are in the general scheme of things.
Loads of times I've talked to people and they've just discounted something that's really important. So this is the main reason why I set out with the intention of trying to present people with a "map" they could understand. Having that they can at least know where they are in the wider scheme of things. They may not be able to fully control their experience, but at least they can recognise the various elements of what they are experiencing. Otherwise, you end up in a situation where you cannot control the experience and you simply don't know what's happening to you either. So it's all doubly confusing.
In your case it looks like your rundown leads you to an F1/F2 overlay experience. This is okay, it's one step removed from the front-line physical so it's a definite sign of progress. Once you detect this happening then let the overlay experience ride and try to step into the mental scene that way. So your route would be: F1>F1/F2ov>F2>Fz>F3. I know very well how much easier that was to type than it is to do. But you are making definite progress. A little more pushing in the right direction, coupled with a little patience, should see you at F2 before not too long.
Yours,
Frank
If you want to offer feedback on any of the issues raised in this newsletter, or if there are any other points that you wish to raise then please email: frank@astralprojectiontruth.com I welcome your thoughts, questions, etc., unless you are some rampaging mystic who is mad about having your precious beliefs debunked then save it for someone else. People have been deceived about the wider reality for far too long and it's time they were told the truth for a change.
I will do my utmost to incorporate all ideas and answers to questions in future editions of the newsletter. After all, this newsletter is for your benefit so I want to make it as beneficial to you as possible. And if you do write to me, please do not be offended at the lack of a personal thank you. My mailbox is getting fuller and fuller each day and I'm now at the stage where I'm unable to personally respond to everyone. Which to me sounds a little rude but there are only a certain number of hours in a day.
I've set up an auto-responder on the mailbox so at least you will know that your email has been received. If I've received it then you know I will read it and make careful note of what you have said.
So to anyone who does respond I'll say a big THANK YOU now for that.