Before I get into the guts of it this month, there has been a little misunderstanding regarding the Virtual Classroom service so I am going to mention about that first.
I've had a few people unfortunately under the impression that it was a live broadcast type of thing over the Internet, taking place between specific hours of the day, and if a person were outside of my European time zone then it would be impossible for them to access. I'm sorry for any misunderstanding and I have added more information in the details section of my website that can be accessed here: http://www.astralprojectiontruth.com/vcsub.htm
There are NO specific hours of actual contact.
Virtual Classroom subscribers are welcome to contact me at ANY time.
But what I was trying to get across is the fact that if you live, for example, in the USA then there will be natural delays caused by the difference in time zones. For example, if someone had a fairly straightforward question that came through to me at, say, 2 o'clock in the afternoon then chances are they would get a reply within a couple of hours. But if someone from the USA emailed me at 2pm their time then I would be answering their email normally the following day due to time-zone variations. But I cannot see that being a particular barrier, just a minor hassle at times, which I was bringing people's attention to.
Okay, so on with the newsletter...
People have been asking about the 4 Primary Areas in consciousness, how they relate to the Focus states presented by Monroe, and why Monroe didn't realise this, etc. Regarding this latter question, I have no idea why Monroe did not finally come to conclude as I have. A number of elements of his work indicate to me that he could well have done had he lived to explore another 10 or 15 years.
I came to these conclusions after having based all my earlier work on Monroe. So in that sense Monroe gave me a big head start. Monroe does talk about having experiences he simply could not put into words. In some parts I would gauge he was touching on Focus 4 of consciousness, but he found these kinds of experiences very difficult to quantify or put a label on.
The Wider Reality becomes like that the "further out" you go. Many times some kind of phenomena or event will come into your objective awareness and you simply cannot explain it. In a sense, by my introducing the Focus 4 concept, I am attempting to explain the previously unexplainable.
As I was talking about in the previous newsletter, consciousness is apportioned into 4 Primary Areas that are NOT places, but they are Primary Focuses of attention. Monroe thought of consciousness as one long continuum, and to a certain degree that is how I too explain it, as I agree with him. However, what he unfortunately did was set in mind this process of thinking that his focus states are "levels" and each number is a level "higher" than the previous number. Thus off you go, ad infinitum, to focus number 1-followed by however many trillion zeros.
Problem with all that is there are NO LEVELS in consciousness.
Here are the main Monroe focus states: C1, F3, F10, F12, F15, F21, F22, F23, F24, F25, F26 and F27. There later came an F34/35 but I want to put that aside and talk about it another time as it's not relevant to this discussion.
In the Monroe model, focus state C1 is what I term the "front line physical" or "awake and alert" in the physical, as Monroe would say. When you phase shift away from C1 you reach focus 3, which is quite a pleasant kind of relaxed meditative or contemplative state. I never do any kind of "meditation" and I'm not sure what it is exactly as it tends to have all manner of mystical or new-age kinds of belief constructs attached, which are just not my thing. But the thought has often crossed my mind that what people are calling meditation could well be the Monroe focus 3 state.
Things really start kicking off at focus 10 or the "Ten State" as Monroe calls it. I have a little theory that would suggest that where people are having difficulties in their progression (typically they believe they are at focus 10 and they are stuck) they are, in fact, at focus 3. Because in my interactions with people, I have found that what people are typically calling focus 10 is actually focus 3. Anyhow, from a true focus 10 you tend to naturally progress to focus 12. Problems typically begin to arise here because things start livening up a tad. But if you can stay calm and think your way through in particular ways then you will end up at focus 21. Keep going and you reach focus 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27.
The big difficulty with this is people get to thinking you are progressing to "higher and higher" places. And this then begins to sound very much like the mystics idea of astral planes Many times I have had people come to me claiming there is no difference really between Monroe and the traditional models of the mystics and their astral planes idea. They make the primary mistake of thinking the Monroe focus states are just astral planes only with different labels. This is way off the mark for many reasons. I shall not be going into much of that here because my purpose, in this edition of the newsletter, is to tell you more about the Monroe states in consciousness and how they compare to my Phasing Model.
But I will say, as you may have heard me mention before, Monroe was the very first person (to my knowledge) who realised these mysterious states of consciousness are not places, but they are focuses of attention. Hence the term "focus" as in focus 10, focus 12, etc. You are not "travelling" to a "higher" place. All that is happening is, as you widen or broaden your awareness, the more of your reality you can objectively encompass. Think of the physical as like looking through a very narrow angle lens. In this case you have a very limited range of events you can focus your attention on. Say I'm pointing it at a landscape. Right, I can see a tree, a haystack, a few wild flowers growing in some grass. So these events are all I can focus point my attention at.
So my Primary Focus would be my overall range of view, and my focus of attention would be whatever event I happened to be concentrating on, within that overall range of view.
Now imagine I can turn a lever and gradually widen the angle of the lens. Ah, there are some sheep, it's a field full of sheep and that single tree is actually a line of trees lining the edge of the field. Now I can focus my attention on all manner of things as my awareness has been widened. I haven't actually "travelled" anywhere. I have simply widened my awareness or detuned my focus. In doing so I can now point my attention at a greater number, or point my attention on a wider selection of events. In other words, I introduce other areas into my field of view.
The analogy is not that brilliant, admittedly, but what I am trying to get across is this idea of widening your awareness rather than people keep thinking they are "travelling" to a "place" on another "level".
People use the term "focus level" and I know I've used it in the past merely in a manner of speaking. But I now specifically avoid doing it and I suggest you do also. Because it just seems there is this almost magnetic tendency to quickly gravitate one step further in thinking and begin believing you are progressing to higher places. I have even had people tell me they fear they will never get their "energy high enough" to get to focus 27.
Problem is, to the mystics and the religious types, as humans, we are "low" and in the "other places", everything is "higher". So depending upon how these people are trying to manipulate your thinking, will depend on how they try to get you to "purify" yourself. In the old days, it was to get the mass of people subservient to the ruling elite, and to a degree it still is in some societies. With the more modern-day mystical guru types, it's usually to get your money.
Somehow, people have this idea in mind that to shift your focus of attention into another area in consciousness you need some mysterious kind of "energy". From what I can gauge, this appears to be a more modern-day mystical notion. In typical mystical fashion we all are currently "low" and, surprise surprise, the mystics have all the answers about how we can get this mysterious energy "high" in order to proceed to this other world they call astral-planes.
I suppose the idea of "energy" comes from the effects you get when concentrating upon various energy centres. It's a little tricky but if you practice attuning your mental awareness to any particular energy centre (there are several main ones mystics typically call Chakras). Note: I simply detest the word Chakra. Apart from the fact that it sounds like some brand of pretzel there are just SO many mystical belief constructs surrounding this word it is unreal. And if you flip through the websites everyone just parrots the other.
Anyhow, if you attune your mental awareness to these energy centres you can "ignite" them, as I call it. Doing this gives you a number of weird and whacky sensations like a kind of electricity flowing your the body. But this can come on with varying degrees of effect. These feelings can range from very mild tingling sensations in localised areas to the MAJOR head-on rush of having a complete turn-on of all the main centres. When this happens you feel this humongous blast of sensation that starts building around the base of your spine and it travels up through your body and rips open your head. Or at least that is what it feels like.
I think the mystics call this some kind of Kundalini effect. I'm not exactly sure why but they wrap it up with all kinds of things to do with snakes and stuff.
Having felt the sensations of this a number of times I can vaguely see where they are coming from. I saw the description once, "Serpent of Fire". Yes, I can kinda see that, how poetic. When I think of that description strictly in a figurative sense I agree it does very much feel like there is a localised ball of intenseness that begins at the base and starts emanating a feeling of heat, an intense energy. I suppose you could call it a fire, a sort of very intense, localised internal fire. After all, when you analyse an explosion it is essentially an extremely fast fire emanating from a core. As this "fire" builds and expands it starts snaking its way upwards and blasts open the top of your head.
Like I say, how poetic to call it a Serpent of Fire. But the problem in doing this is it merely adds to the mystique of it all. Plus, it's only a short hop from the serpent to the devil and it all goes downhill from then on, with people professing of the dangers and such like. But there is no actual danger. Simply imagine the sheer head-on rush of going on the world's biggest roller coaster, only you don't actually go anywhere.
I suppose that's the freaky thing about it.
With the roller coaster there is all manner of anticipation and stuff beforehand. You can see it and you know it as you buy your ticket. But I think nothing can prepare you for the effects of a similar kind of head-on rush that takes place while you are simply lying comfortably, not going anywhere at all and then BLAMMO! It hits you, wow. For a while you simply cannot move because of the sheer intensity of what has just happened. When it first happened to me I was giggling for several days as it was such a mind-blowing rush.
To the mystics nothing can be too simple as their very nature is to mystify and enthral people. Lure them into a mystical wonderland and all that kind of stuff. Once you get a person believing in all the mystical tosh, all you need do is get them projecting within "the astral" which as we know is largely Focus 2 of consciousness (your own individual areas in consciousness) then a person will begin to objectively view the very representations of those belief constructs that you have plied them with. So then the person becomes hooked on you and they become a source of money flow. Well, that's the theory and it works well in practice from what I can see.
The whole point in me telling you this is I want you to please start casting out all the ideas of "levels". Doing this just gets in the way and can be a big barrier to a person's progress. Plus, I've had a few mystics write to me complaining that, "Oh if only I knew what energy-work was then I wouldn't knock it". I'm not saying I don't know what it is. I know what it is I just don't do any of it. Not specifically I mean. I have said a number of times on the Astral Pulse forum that I do it now and again for my amusement, as I enjoy the weird and whacky sensations it brings. But none of this has to do with actual projection, or shifting your focus of attention into another area or areas of your consciousness continuum.
I tell you, I have lost count of the number of people who have written to me confused because they got "vibrations" yet they couldn't project.
Typically they ignite the energy centre in the region of the chest. I know because one of the most prominent symptoms of this is you get a feeling like your physical heart is racing, beating at a zillion beats a minute, that people always mention. It's not literally beating that fast, but that's what it feels like, and you get vibrations as well. With me I also get a sensation like my physical body has been expanded to about 4 times the size and it feels as if I am made of foam rubber. It's weird, it's whacky, it's wonderful... but it 'aint projection!
The person I told you about a little way above who thought they'd never reach Focus 27, as they'd never get their "energy high enough" is by no means an isolated example. Many people have asked me questions that have been along similar lines.
With the Monroe model, I have seen this levels idea pollute a person's thinking to the extent where they get to believe the "lower levels" as they see them, for example, let's take focus 3 of the Monroe model, are not worthy of any real kind of attention. In other words, they get to thinking this level is just too "low" to bother with. They want to reach the "higher" levels... as they think of them as being more appealing to their ego.
If someone were to ask me, "Frank, what is the most important state for a beginner to achieve?" I would say focus 10. Because I always say that things really begin to kick off from the focus 10 state. BUT: in saying that, the most important state to achieving focus 10 is undoubtedly focus 3. I can reach the focus 3 state quite easily. However, I do come across many people who THINK they are at focus 10 but they are not. They are at an early focus 3 state. Typically, a person will write to me saying they reached focus 10 and they are stuck. When we analyse it they were in a preliminary focus 3 state. With focus 10 you feel a definite kind of shift to your inner awareness. Whereas focus 3 is merely a deeply introspective state. As I said towards the top of the page, focus 3 is what I think people who follow the more traditional methods are calling meditation. Because when I compare it to the descriptions of meditation I have read about on the Internet then the two states appear (to me) to be rather similar.
I have also come across people who think they have made a shift to focus 21 and actually they made the shift to focus 10. Now and again people write to me confused because they think they reached the 3D-Blackness stage at focus 21 yet they can't perceive any 3D Blackness, yet they felt a definite shift. When I analysed it for them, they realised they made the shift to focus 10.
So how does all this compare to my own model?
Firstly, it doesn't matter which model you choose. One model kinda flows into the other. For complete beginners, or for people who tried all kinds of mystical, more traditional style "out of body" techniques, I tend to recommend the Monroe model focus states as a guide, coupled with my Noticing exercise. This is designed to take a person to the Monroe focus 3 state. At focus 3, your Primary Focus, or your primary area of focus in your consciousness continuum is Primary Focus 1 (PF1) the physical. But your focus of attention has become withdrawn from the "front line physical" as I call it. So you become introspective.
One of the main characteristics of focus 3, for me, is my breathing becomes quiet so I'm not aware of it. My body breathes totally silently and I have next to no input from my physical senses. In the preliminary stages, I am aware of the birds singing outside, for example, but I am not focused on them. All sounds become in the periphery of my awareness as I turn my focus of attention inwards. After about 10 minutes I sink deeper to the stage where I am merely looking within and noticing how my attention has turned inwards. Focus 3 is a very neutral, quiet, passive and introspective state that I use all the time, for example, when I am searching for inspiration on something. Usually when I am searching for a way of explaining something and nothing pops into mind, I will take 20 minutes or so, lay back and enter the focus 3 state and there will be my answer. Focus 3 is the state (from my communications with people having problems following the Monroe model) I would gauge many tend to confuse with focus 10.
My model of consciousness currently sets out only the Primary Areas within our Wider Reality. In order words, my model is simply designed to present you with a "map" of the Wider Reality. It doesn't actually list all the more individual focuses of attention within that reality. This is what the Monroe model attempts to do. Unfortunately, it breaks down "beyond" focus 27 for various reasons which are quite complex to explain. And this led me to the discovery of what I call Focus 4 and Focus 2 of consciousness.
The two models do correlate to a high degree, as you would expect.
Phasing Model Primary Focus 1: Area of physical common consensus reality.
This area incorporates Monroe's C1, which is what I call the "front line physical" or as Monroe would say, "awake and alert" within the physical. Point your attention inwards and you reach focus 3 and on the very "edge" of the physical is focus 10 leaning towards focus 12.
Although Monroe did not specify a focus 11 (well, not to my knowledge anyway) in my mind I always think of the actual "finish" of the physical as being halfway between focus 10 and focus 12 (all in a manner of speaking, of course). But please realise that there are no actual barriers or borders, there are only transitions between states and they are not absolutely distinct.
Phasing Model Primary Focus 2: Area of individual consensus reality.
This area incorporates Monroe's focuses 12, 15, 21 and 22. At focus 21/22 you are on the very "edge" of your own individual area of mind.
Phasing Model Primary Focus 3: Area of non-physical common consensus reality.
Incorporates Monroe's focuses 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27. This area of consciousness is also termed the Transition Area.
Phasing Model Primary Focus 4: Incorporates Monroe's focuses 34 and 35 of a fashion, but only of a fashion! There is in reality no direct correlation and I hesitate to make a comparison without an extensive explanation.
In short, I make mention of it here to present a degree of completeness at the risk of causing the misunderstanding that Focus 4 equals focuses 34 and 35 of the Monroe model... because they DON'T. It's just that there are some vague similarities that Monroe was touching on in his later work and I'd like to give him credit for that.
Now I've given you an overview, in next fortnight's newsletter I'm going to explain more about the 2 sets of numbers, what they mean, and why I felt I needed to develop my own model of consciousness. So more on that next time.
There have been a number of interesting posts on the Phasing side of things the past couple of weeks and I present a little digest of the ones I think are interesting for one reason or another, as follows:
Questions and Answers
Question 1
The notion of various experiential personalities sort of radiating through the FoC universe without regard for linear time is intriguing. But, why does it seem that most life regression does come through in a linear way? In other words, why don't regressions typically lead to observing personalities that are living right now, from the FoC1 perspective?
I continue to be somewhat perplexed by this notion of 'no time'. It appears to me that linear time is a requirement for activities like learning, growing, experiencing individuality, etc. This also goes to a rationale for reincarnation regularly floated - our FoC4 awareness (or higher self, God, whatever the individual favorite model calls for) expresses human incarnations in order to get experience and learn. But if this 'root' awareness is essentially time-free, then learning ("change") is not an option. Again, change implies 'then' and 'now', which necessitates some kind of passage of time. Not necessarily the same way that we have it here, but some kind of differentiation.
These are excellent questions that I must have overlooked on the other thread you mention.
I freely admit that I (for one) do not have the full answers. I will not get them until I can take in the full picture of Focus 4 of consciousness. I am not even sure whether it is actually possible for a physically focused individual to take in that full picture. Focus 2 and Focus 3 are easy by comparison, as they are so "earth like" or "human like" and people have usually just made something up for the rest. In the olden days they called it "god" in significance of all they couldn't explain. But technology moves on, our understanding widens, and this topic is no different.
Listening to some of the mystics anyone would be forgiven for thinking we were still in the Dark Ages. Dunking witches, burning people at the stake and wearing garlic necklaces to ward off demons. But today we are attempting to broaden our understanding and pave the way for the new paradigm. So here we are calling it Focus 4 of consciousness. An area in consciousness that we can now learn to experience for ourselves (with a little effort in the right direction, of course).
Now, anything involving Focus 4 of consciousness is completely mind blowing, and I do not say this lightly. It is an area I have not been able to "explore" as fully as I would like. It is my current challenge, you could say.
The BIG difficulty with Focus 4 is that it's an area of fully subjective reality. There is no notion of Time, so in turn there is no notion of Space either. Focus 4 occupies no Space at all and yet it encompasses the other areas, namely, Focus 1, 2 and 3. So our whole physical universe (and all the other universes besides, but let's put them aside for a moment) is encompassed by Focus 4. Yet "outside" of Focus 4 there is nothing because Focus 4 encompasses all that is within our system. Focus 4 occupies no space, yet it encompasses our whole physical universe. Okay, so that's the first hurdle. Problem is, to us, if something occupies no space then it cannot possibly exist. Reason being we are so attached to "things".
Second hurdle: to understand Focus 4 it is necessary to take on board an understanding of infinity. This latter aspect is perhaps the most mind-blowing of all. Because, in infinity, everything happens an infinite number of times. This means everything that has or will come about, has already happened.
From our somewhat limited linear-time perspective, we may consider a life began, it ended, and it began again. But from the perspective of Focus 4, nothing has begun and nothing has ended. All simply IS. The whole notion of beginning and end is a physical construct. From this restricted, highly limited viewpoint, people make far-reaching assumptions about the Wider Reality. Thus, constructs such as "reincarnation" come about. But when you actually look at the FACTS of the matter. When you actually step within Focus 4 and experience it for yourself, all begins falling into place. Well, that is what is steadily happening to me and I cannot be the only person in the world today who has stepped into Focus 4 of consciousness. I realise this kind of thing is quite rare and, hopefully, it will start to become more common as people begin duplicating my work.
Most "life regression" if you wish to call it that (I personally don't mind as I can see what you mean) comes through in the way it does, simply because people present themselves with the opportunities to notice what they choose to address. In that sense, people develop a tastefulness for certain aspects that resonate amongst us. We feel it "makes sense" so we believe it. But this phenomenon can readily occur entirely independently of the facts of the matter in hand; as it does in this case in the light of my hands-on experience.
When we project within subjective reality, each of us typically places ourselves in the position or anticipation of facing objects. But when you enter Focus 4, you cast off all notions of "things" and begin merging with the underlying subjective energy. That same energy, down the line, as it were, will ultimately split off here and there (again all in a manner of speaking) and create a "thing". That thing could be a soccer ball, a human being, a house, a plant, a giraffe, or whatever.
Now, in merging with energy, I do not mean you are merging into a vast pool of nothingness. On the contrary. Typically you are merging with a specific action of energy. I suppose you could say, in a very broad sense (and only in a very broad sense) you are merging with a "thing" but a thing in terms of its conceptualisation, or it's source in other words. And that source of all that is within our system is Focus 4 of consciousness.
So, ultimately, all "things" can be traced to an action in energy, the ultimate source of which is Focus 4. So you could say that Focus 4 is the area of the action of the thought before it is created. But again, only in a manner of speaking because, from the Focus 4 standpoint, there is no before. All simply is. The concept of "before" comes into it as the action is engaged further "down the line" as it were... and that is where the primary mistake is made regarding the notion of reincarnation and past-lives.
All our sense of objectivity revolves around a linear time framework. To the extent where it is, currently, virtually impossible for a person to "step out" of this mode of thought.
It is FAR EASIER to believe in the false notion of reincarnation, and so it becomes! (Better the devil you know, I suppose.) Myself, I am currently finding that disassociating myself from the notion of linear time is next to impossible and takes tremendous mental effort. Okay, maybe I'm just a bit thick and other people would get it more quickly. Either way, the pursuit of this type of experience is not to be sneezed at.
Naturally I am hoping that, at some future stage, a clear set of guidelines can be presented that would make it easier for people to encompass and understand the Focus 4 experience.
Yours,
Frank
Question 2
see what you say Frank. Its all about focus, but i still have some questions:
In a a very straight view, what do you mean its that people reeicarnate. Reeicarnate its just a word for "changing focus level". So, when i spoke about the childs that could remember their past live stheir were just remembering other levels of focus tha they had? Is that it. In very simple words we must say that they reeincarneted...can we say that (again, i am speaking in a very simplistic view)?
If we are just focus, we are always something that build itself in such a way that may seperate itself from the world. A focus can say or think "i am, you are", thus creating a seperation. This is the way we have to create ego. But a focus its always a focus. When we reach nirvana ego ceases to exist. What happens to focus when you reach nirvana (something about i can only theorize)? Do you stop being a focus or still being one, just observing and living the world in a diffeent way?
It seems that your focus levels are different from Monroe levels. I searched on the faqs about that and i found nothing about the levels that you ise...only the typicals levels that goes about level 30 (level 1, level 2..that sounds like dungeons and dragons game or RPG Pc games to me, lol). Where can i get info about the levels you speak? And information about how to reach such states?
Reincarnation is a religious/mystical belief construct and has nothing to do with focuses, "levels" or otherwise. I have said repeatedly that the focuses I present are NOT levels or places they are focuses of attention. There is a difference between a focus of attention and an individual focus personality.
A focus personality is a person who engages particular focuses of attention within their available consciousness continuum, and is an individual focus of their Primary Essence. But they are NOT the ONLY focus of their Primary Essence. We each have many, many individual focuses of our Primary Essence resident within many, many other physical-like dimensions including this one. Many of us will have a small number of either "parallel focuses" or "near focuses" resident within this dimension of reality. This is only normal.
In a very simplistic view, looking at it from the point of view of thinking within linear time constraints, I can see how the notion of "reincarnation" could have come about. But that is just mystics and other religious types making the same old mistakes of the past. To understand the reality of this issue entails a complete understanding of the functioning of what are known as Trans-Dimensional areas in consciousness. As I have said a number of times, I cannot yet provide a full explanation of the workings of these as the understanding of these areas is darned tricky and it is a subject I have been working on only for about a year. It's a Focus 4 thing and it would appear that anything to do with Focus 4 stretches the ability of people to explain in mere words. Little wonder Monroe left it alone.
I am hoping to provide some computer graphic simulations within a year or two that will explain things better than mere words. Well, this depends on other things falling into place. Last week the Frank Kepple Foundation was set up, but if no one subscribes to my Virtual Classroom and no one were to buy my book, then I'm gonna be stumped as I am not a wealthy person. I live a very frugal life and I am hoping to plough back the lion's share of any profits into further research for the benefit of all of us. In a few years time I am hoping that the answers to these basic questions will be known to a core group of us.
Essentially, you are a focus personality adopting particular focuses of attention. You never "cease to exist". There is NO TIME within subjective reality. As such, there can be NO beginning or end. I keep trying to stress this but people are SO transfixed with the idea of linear time they just cannot seem to step out of it in their thinking. As regards Monroe and the translation of respective focus states between my model of consciousness and his, I have posted on this a number of times but it is a subject I will be covering in the next edition of the newsletter due out at the end of this current month.
Yours,
Frank
Question 3
Frank, in your opinion what happens to us when we die? what happens to our soul or conscience?
I can do better than give my opinion, I can tell you exactly what happens as I've been to these places and met people who have done it. And this is why the whole thrust of my work now is to get people focusing within Focus 3 of consciousness so they can discover all this for themselves. It's no use messing about in the real-time zone, it's no use playing around doing "energy work" these are nothing but parlour tricks. If you want to learn the real truth about life, you need to get projecting within Focus 3 of consciousness.
Or in Monroe's terms Focuses 23 to 27 inclusive. This is why Monroe's work was streets ahead of the mystics. If you notice, his model virtually bypasses Focus 2 of consciousness. This is the area where most mystics revel in. This is where people have all their weird and whacky "astral projection" style experiences. In my model, I have actually brought Focus 2 of consciousness back into the general scheme of things, and introduced Focus 4. This latter area Monroe was touching on but could never quite get his head around it.
I have introduced Focus 2 because I believe the students of this art today will have the wherewithal, the sense of maturity, to realise the true nature of the place. As such, they will not become wrapped up in their own belief constructs to the extent where they become walking, talking self-fulfilling prophecies like the mystics and their followers of old. This is great, because Focus 2 is a handy springboard to the other areas. Plus, you can learn to manipulate your chances of success within the physical from within Focus 2 of consciousness, as we are a source/manifest reality system and Focus 2 is our source in that respect.
The notion of "soul" is a mystical and or belief construct that has come about because these people are forever fixated with "things". They objectify everything and turn it into a "thing". They talk about "separation" and "rejoining" for example, yet there is NO separation in consciousness! They talk about us being "part of a whole" yet we ARE the whole already! Ultimately, what befalls these people is they are completely blinded by BODY FIXATION and, as I have said repeatedly on this forum, a body is merely an objective representation of the accumulation of a particular set of expectations regarding the enactment of certain types of actions within particular areas of consciousness. It holds no other purpose!
We DO NOT die. We actually shed our physical bodies as a tree sheds its leaves.
I've said before a number of times that what we objectively view as death is the action of a person shifting their Primary Focus [of attention] from Focus 1 to Focus 3 of consciousness. There is NO death! We are NOT our physical bodies! Our body is merely a biological machine that contains various senses, motor capabilities and communications facilities that allow us to create the experience of being physically oriented. We point our focus of attention at it and we can experience wherever the body happens to be.
Due to the nature of the way the physical body is constructed, we must keep a subjective energetic connection with the body at all times. If we withdraw this energetic connection then the physical body will cease to function within about 20 minutes to an hour. Because of this necessity, there is a particularly strong attraction between the physical body and ourselves. More so, for example, between yourself and an "etheric body" you might happen to create while projecting within the "real-time zone".
Generally, when an individual focus personality wishes to experience a particular area of consciousness they create a "bodily vehicle" that is tailored for use within that particular area. When you focus within the real-time zone, you typically create what mystics call an "etheric-body". I agree but it is not strictly necessary as they always try to make out, and even go so far as to create weird and whacky "silver chord". I mean, as an aside, why silver? I once created a really nice thick translucent gold one with a red lining. It was gorgeous and dead sexy. Silver is BORING in my opinion. These mystics just have NO imagination! I reckon this comes about from them following all the deeply boring, staid and stale teachings from the times when we used to dunk witches and burn people at the stake.
Anyhow, for complete involvement within the RTZ you can create an "etheric body". When you refocus within the physical your etheric body then "dies" it dissipates, it's no longer required, and the experience is over, finished, etheric-body gone. Next time you want to experience the RTZ you simply create another one, experience what you want to experience and, when you have finished with the body you created it dissipates (dies) and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
The physical is NO different. Only the cycle of creation and dissipation is different in its effect because you are involving the act of creation and dissipation on a much wider scale of events. But the underlying principle is the same. You want a physical experience then you create a body with which to do it. You do not have to, but for complete involvement then you would want to, which we do. When the time comes to cease your involvement, you withdraw your focus and allow the physical body to dissipate. As you do so, you switch your focus of attention from Focus 1 to Focus 3 of consciousness and get on with your life there. You do not change at all. The you of you, as I call it, remains the same.
The only problem or spoke-in-the-works of this natural transition has been placed by religions and mystics who attempt to control people within the physical.
With religion, in the olden days, it was working hand in hand with the ruling hierarchy to achieve mass subservience amongst the general populace. Today it usually all boils down to money. Either in the pockets of the mystics and their hangers on, or religions like the Catholic Church funding places like the Vatican State, one of the richest places in the world.
Religions and mystics typically pitch themselves as an aid to the whole process, a boon that you can buy into while physical. Yet, anyone actually viewing the complete MESS their tacky beliefs have created within the lower branches of Focus 3 of consciousness will instantly see them as a barrier, not an aid. They are nothing but Psychic Frauds, in my personal opinion and I long for the day that people will start to see that.
Yours,
Frank
Question 4
I understand there is no wrong interpertation. what I seem to be having difficulty is keeping my body from interupting any progress I may have. Usually it is my eyes wanting to see things either in my imagination or F2 or something like that that keeps me grounded in F1... where as I am aiming for a pure F2 experience.
In the early days the moment I'd see an image in mind, my physical eyes would suddenly "wake up" and try to snatch a glance at whatever it was. Of course, that would zap me right out of the state I'd just spent 30-40 minutes developing. I've said before that often I'd feel like gouging my eyes out in frustration. :)
A key to all of this is getting the physical eyes to relax and soften. So you are not actually looking out of them anymore. When you first close your eyes, you'll still be looking out of them. So you need to let them relax so they just hold still in whatever position they feel comfortable. Mine tend to drift upwards and there is a point of rest that they naturally go to that is the same each time.
This relaxing of the eyes, coupled with the relaxation of the physical body is what allows the focus of attention to move away from the eyes so you can change your mental focus of attention into your mind. The physical is our Primary Focus so you need to try to seduce that focus of attention away from the physical, as I was talking about in a couple of posts over the past week. Once you break the connection to the physical, you are free to look into your mind. As I say, that is when the lights come on, in a manner of speaking, and all kinds of weird and wonderful imagery comes about at the beginning of Focus 2. If you wish, you can you pass through this stage and reach Fz, which is your gateway to Focus 3. Fz is Focus 21 of the Monroe model and Focus 3 encompasses Monroe Focus states F23 to F27 inclusive.
Yours,
Frank
Interesting Post
I was considering this the other day...as to why it is so easy to revert to a non-lucid state by getting too absorbed in wacky hypnagogic images and thoughts.
But then I noticed last night the rather obvious fact that this is how we fall asleep normally.
Then this morning I as talking to an old chap in the dream state who explained to me that the best way to avoid this non-lucidity is aim for these more self-centered transitionary stages of consciousness such as a well established F12, or FZ ("dwelling stages of consciousness" as he called it), where consciousness is crisp and clear, and yet no particular absorption into anything in particular has yet occured.
All fairly self-evident, but the goals one sets are very important whether operating in the background of the foreground of one's awareness, and it struck me that the intent to "go beyond the images" as Frank phrased it, is quite important for a succesful phase shift to a lucid intermedary state such as FZ.
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Major Tom
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In my book I call them recognition states, which is what you are terming dwelling stages. The somewhat wishy-washy hypnogogic states unfortunately absorb our focus of attention like a dry sponge soaking up water. The images present themselves as a kind of tantalising alternative, an exercise in attention seduction that leads us down that slippery slope to sleep. Somehow, the neophyte practitioner of the art has to find a way of mentally "looking beyond" the imagery in order to get a fix somewhere in the distance. Not that there is any distance in that state, but all in a manner of speaking. It's difficult to explain in words. One day I hope to develop some computer graphical simulations of typical experiences. But that's a couple of years away.
Yours,
Frank