Astral Projection Truth | Issue 4: 16/July/2005

Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth issue of my newsletter.

I have a treat for you this issue and there have been some good Phasing posts on the AP forum as well that I reproduce for you below. But first, three points I would like to mention before we get stuck in...

First: there are a few places available in the Virtual Classroom, so if you feel you could benefit from some one-on-one attention to your needs regarding the Phasing Model of consciousness or the Monroe Linear Focus model then you are open to subscribe. For full details of how to subscribe please go to: http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?Yt1Rm2gIgVKdLWbMIKwQjQ

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In response to quite a few of you who have hinted at such. Ha ha, I don't blame you, if you don't ask then you don't get, right?

Okay, okay, I give in... here is the offer...

Anyone who donates 25 British Pounds will receive a FREE copy of my up and coming book Astral Projection Truth. And yes, I will offer this in retrospect to all who have donated at least this amount already. You twisted my arm, lol. If you wish to make a donation, please click on the following link and scroll right to the end of the page and you will see the PayPal Donate button underneath the two Virtual Classroom subscription buttons: http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?Yt1Rm2gIgVKdLWbMIKwQjQ

There is one thing, though, in that I cannot yet give you a publication date. I insist on not publishing the book merely for the sake of it, and I was hoping it would be published by now, but everything appears to be taking quite a bit longer than I thought (Murphy's Law).

Third: I would like to say a big THANK YOU for all your kind comments that keep coming in, together with news of your experiences and so forth. I have tried to respond personally to as many as I can, but it's becoming impossible for me now to answer all the emails I receive with a personal thank you.

Some of the comments about your successes make me whoop with joy and I get so excited for you in your discoveries. It always takes me right back to when I was making these beginning steps and I'm ever so pleased for you all. Naturally, I continue to hope for the very best of success for each and every one of you who wishes to become accomplished at this art.

Right, so on with the treat I have lined up for you...

I received a number of requests along the lines of, "Frank is there any way you could publish details of how someone got going at this in your newsletter? Kind of like a real life story of someone's experiences, someone who started right from the beginning?"

So I'd just put my thinking cap on and was wondering who I could ask when I got an email from the lovely Sarah, who many of you know as Selski of the Astral Pulse forum. After having a little "light bulb going off in my head moment" I asked her if she would give a little recount of how she began for the newsletter, and she kindly agreed. Though I think she is a little nervous at the thought of being bombarded by questions afterwards, so please go easy on her!

One of the first things that struck me about Sarah is her thoroughness at her record keeping. She likes to write up all her experiences, and has kept an accurate record since the start. Doing this, she feels, gives her a number of worthwhile benefits, in particular, the ability to be able to look back, read through her experiences and to realise the progress she has made.

Sarah has progressed over two years from having mere memorable dreams to creating a successful mental rundown for herself. This has led her to the stage where it won't be too long before she is making a successful switch into Primary Focus 2 of consciousness, and beyond. A number of people have also duplicated her mental rundown for themselves and have used it to good effect.

You will note she prefers a simple approach to all of this. She gravitated towards the Monroe School as everything seemed very straightforward and was presented in a way she could readily understand. She hopes you will find her story interesting and she also hopes that it will be of benefit to people, particularly people just starting out.

So please offer a big hand for the lovely Sarah:

Here's how she began...

Hello, my name is Sarah and many of you will recognise me as Selski from the Astral Pulse forum. I was first introduced to "out-of-body" experiences some two years ago. Being an avid dreamer I was posting a particularly unusual dream on a website, hoping someone else could give me some pointers. While there, I noticed a link to lucid dreaming. I knew what these were as I'd had a handful throughout my life. I very much enjoyed the ones I had, so I clicked on the link.

While I was soaking up information about lucid dreaming, I spotted another link to something called "out of body experiences". It said that these types of experiences were very easy to have from a lucid dream. This piqued my curiosity. I clicked on the link and read with amazement about these wonderful experiences. Within a week, I had a lucid dream, and while doing so I remembered what I had read, and had my very first classic OBE.

As an aside, I never did manage to interpret the dream that started it all off in the very first place!

For about 18 months, I had OBEs on average of around once per week. These tended to "happen to me" rather than me knowing how to make them happen. I do know that I lived, breathed and ate non-physical reality during this time (and still do!). The experiences were short, very frustrating at times and fascinating other times. Overall, they were a lot of fun. I "played" with them, I tried to teach myself to fly, I looked in mirrors, and all that kind of thing.

I was diligent in writing down the details of my experiences as soon as I returned to the physical. Even if many of them were similar - I logged them all. Now, two years later, when I read back I realise how much progress I've made. This can be very encouraging for me when I go through stages where I feel I'm not getting anywhere.

I discovered a website in late 2003 called The Astral Pulse. After lurking for a few months, I became a member and read ever so many interesting posts. In particular, I was drawn to the posts of two specific members - Ginny and Frank. I read practically every post by both of them, and was fascinated by their accounts of something called "retrievals".

In October 2004, I had a semi-lucid dream where I carried out a retrieval. This changed everything for me. I realised that retrievals were something I really wanted to do. I was sick of "messing around" having short-lived and unsatisfactory OBEs - I wanted to do something serious and meaningful. But how on earth was I going to be able to consciously carry them out when my OBEs were so erratic and I had so little control over them?

This is when Phasing came into my life.

I had read all the Robert Monroe books, and any other books I could get my hands on about projection. Robert Monroe appealed to me the most, however, not because I was able to replicate his methods, but because he spoke in a language that was familiar to me. He didn't use complicated words that I needed to look up in a dictionary! And he seemed such a down-to-earth bloke.

I had contemplated purchasing the Monroe CDs for a while, but I had been put off by the cost. Eventually, I bit the bullet and purchased the first of the Gateway series of CDs called Wave 1.

I began using the CD and, with some guidance from Frank, I learnt how to create a mental rundown. Over the course of a few months, practicing almost daily (time allowing), my rundown became second nature to me, almost like a "second home". Also, a particular character I had created in the rundown actually became her own person, with a distinct personality, and started talking to me outside of my remit.

I would say that the CD is not strictly necessary, but it is a nice introduction to relaxation and mental rundowns generally.

Monroe gently takes you from C1, which is the state of being awake and alert within the physical, to focus 3, which is a very introspective state. Then you proceed to focus 10 where you "step inside" your own mind. Then things really start happening at focus 12 and you begin to discover the wider reality proper. All the while Monroe's soft voice in the background guiding. I found the CD to be a great discipline as I had paid a substantial amount for something, therefore, I thought I'd better get on and use it.

My advice would be that if you can afford Wave 1, and it really won't make a financial hole in your pocket then purchase it. However, as I said earlier, it isn't strictly necessary and it most certainly isn't a one-listen wonder that takes you off into "other worlds" upon first hearing. It is like an instrument and, of course, instruments take time, effort and patience to learn how to play well.

The mental rundown can be any scenario you choose.

I find ones involving activity and repetition to be the most absorbing. It can take some time in learning to use all the senses. I found it helpful to concentrate first on just one sense, say, sight. Then slowly incorporate a second sense (touch). Then, slowly over time, bring all five senses into play. What tends to happen is when all five senses are running together; I am SO utterly absorbed in what I'm doing, I momentarily find myself in the scenario that I have created.

Note: I say "momentarily" because as soon as I realise I am "there" I snap back out of it. But the ability to remain within the scenario will come to me with more practice. You see, that's the key to all of this, practice, practice and more practice.

My personal favourite rundown at the moment is trampolining!

I have had success with this, albeit briefly due to realising I was actually jumping up and down on a trampoline. This realisation again had the usual effect of zapping me back to the physical! But as I say this zapping back will go in time. The rundown is quite basic. There is a trampoline in an old-school type of gym, with climbing frames around the walls and a polished wood floor. The trampoline takes up most of space in the room. There are windows near the ceiling that you can't see out of unless you jump high. No one else is in the room.

Now, this may sound incredibly boring, but once I start using my senses it isn't long before I am practically there. The smell of the gym (remember that school polished floor/wood smell?) with the echo of my footsteps in the room. It is a large room and practically empty apart from the trampoline remember. Even just typing about it now takes me right there. The height of the edge of the trampoline, chest-high, the feel of the cool metal as I climb onto it, then comes the part where I roll over the ropes so I don't fall through. At which point I tend to look around the room and note the position of the windows and the climbing frames around the walls. I even lick my lips and taste the salt.

So there I stand, slightly unbalanced at first while just getting used to the not-so-solid material beneath my feet. Then it's hey presto! Let's jump!

Getting the jumps synchronised in my mind was rather tricky at first. I would be either going in slow motion... or going too fast! This did have a beneficial affect, however, in that my attempts to get the jumps perfectly timed meant I was concentrating on them to a great extent. As I was doing so, I was kind of automatically becoming absorbed in the rundown.

The great thing about rundowns is you can do them any time. You don't need to be particularly drowsy or have just woken up or anything like that. All you need to do is get yourself comfy, relax a little and away you go.

I also actively practice the Noticing Exercise by Frank.

This is a lovely exercise and one I always enjoy for what it is, regardless of any outcome. I find the best time for this exercise is early morning upon wakening, or when I'm a little tired, as long as I'm not too tired when I will simply fall asleep!

I don't get results when my head is full of physical stuff, though. I find I simply can't get the swirling colours in my mind's eye. But when I'm a little sleepy or very relaxed, the colours come and I enjoy laying back and observing them.

The noticing exercise also helps me OBSERVE rather than LOOK at what is in my mind's eye. I still feel very new to this. Unfortunately, at the moment every time I see something out of the ordinary in my mind's eye, instinctively, my physical eyes go to look and the image disappears. But I know that eventually my perseverance and practice will reap good rewards.

This is where I am in my phasing progress. It is early days but I feel I have come a long way from the fumbling OBEs I used to have.

Thank you Sarah for your insights.

As I said at the top, there have been a number of good posts on the Phasing Model of consciousness (and related Monroe work) just recently and I now present a little digest for you:

Questions and Answers

Question 1:

Hi Frank,

After reading a lot of posts about phasing I started to practice with some good results, I think I'm finally grasping the theory, things are finally making sense.

But there is something I would like to understand a little better. If I would like to focus my consciousness in our own world, lets say my own house for example (like if I was trying to have those traditional OBE experiences), so I have to try to experience this while in F2oC after the rundown or maybe even after the 3D blackness? If this is the case, since F2oC is "where" imagination and dreams occur, is there a way for me to know that what I'm seeing is in fact what there is in our physical reality without mixing it with some kind of my own mental rundown ? For example, If I try to create a rundown of my own bedroom to help me "start" the entire process, then I go to my living room and then to my kitchen, is there a possibility that I can see an object that in physical world I KNOW that doesn't exist in that place? And if that happen, do I have to change the kind of rundown or make something else?

Hi:

I'm pleased to hear things are starting to make sense to you because that is half the battle won. There is just too much misinformation on this topic, not on the topic of Phasing, I mean on this topic as a whole. In my Phasing Model, I try to keep things as simple as humanly possible while still keeping the approach effective.

If you wish to Phase to the RTZ then you will find it a LOT easier to do from Focus 2 of consciousness, typically speaking. You make the switch and step into your rundown. Now, the BIG problem with Focus 2 is all your thoughts start coming to life all around you. That has what has trapped people in the past. They just become wrapped up in their own belief constructs and blammo; they get nowhere but la la land, thinking they met the god of their dreams. Or they end up fighting their own fears. But now, people are steadily getting the message about Focus 2.

Okay, so once you REALISE where you are, and the nature of the area, then you know what to do, or, more importantly, what NOT to do. Once you know that you can then utilise Focus 2 as a handy springboard to the other areas... WHY?... simple! Because within this area of consciousness thought equals action (literally). So all you need do is simply THINK about what you want to do and, hey presto, you are doing it!

Right, so you find yourself in the midst of your rundown within Focus 2. So you immediately stop thinking about that, and so it stops. You remain entirely neutral, and so your surroundings remain entirely neutral. Then you detune your awareness of your surroundings, so your awareness of your surroundings is detuned. You place the intent to step into the RTZ, and so you do.

Okay, that's the theory. It'll take a bit of practice to do, as you will likely be flitting about all over the place at first. But that's the great reason why F2 is such a handy launch pad. Because as you think then so it becomes... literally... and so that is, of course, the big PROBLEM as well. But, like I say, now people are beginning to cut through all the mystical crud and get to grips with the true nature of this area, they are beginning to learn how they can use it to their advantage.

When your are within the RTZ it is likely you will have what are called "overlay" experiences, yes. Chances are you will see your room, but overlaid upon the scene of that may be circumstances like objects and things, or all kinds of distortions that you know are not "really" there, in the physical I mean. But this kind of thing is normal. Many people tend to describe this effect as "reality fluctuations" but I never describe it like this anymore as, against the background of the wider reality, it is a contradiction in terms. Your reality cannot fluctuate, your reality simply IS.

Yours,
Frank

Question 2

AP Friends,

Just recently I had six astral projections and in the last projection I had the opportunity to talk with this girl. I asked her name and she replied back and then asked me if I had any brothers or sisters. As I was getting ready to answer her I lost consciousness and returned back to my physical body.

I wish that I was able to communicate with her more and just get to know her and what she was about etc. The only thing that I did pickup before approaching her (Flying up to her). That it appeared to possible be amish, possible 20th Century clothing. Along with her was another girl and she didn't take too kind of me and left. They both were sitting on a wooden bridge with rope to hold balance and steps.

Has anyone here have had lengthy discussions with people, entities, angels, in the astral? Have you been ever able to verify upon return to the physical that they once existed here on earth.

Hi:

As regards people, yes, I have managed to make a number of verifications of people I met within Focus 3 of consciousness of my Phasing Model. This relates to focuses 23 to 27 inclusive of the Monroe model or the "Afterlife" region of the Bruce Moen approach.

Having said that, you cannot always speak to people and get verifiable information. I was speaking just yesterday to a very interesting lady called Mary who had built herself a wooden church and was waiting for "god" to come and bless it for her. You cannot help but have compassion for these people. She had held her faith all her life that one day she would be meeting "god" after she died and there she was, waiting for "him".

She asked me if I was waiting for god too, and if I was lost. I said I was a traveller passing through (as I do). She invited me in and offered to share what she had. Saying if I was lost then I could stay in her little place while waiting for "him" and he would bless me as "he" would her. Once I was "blessed" then off I'd go to "heaven" and all that jazz. I gave her my thanks and, once I was out of sight, Phased back to physical to make notes.

There are no easy answers to these kinds of situations.

To people who have never experienced Focus 3 of consciousness all tends to be cut and dried. A bit black and white you could say. But 99.99% of the time, you come across situations that there are no real answers to. But occasionally, very occasionally, you get this little nugget of info you can check and it becomes real. And the first time that happens to you, you will have a big silly grin on your face for weeks.

Yours,
Frank

Question 3

From what I've read so far, the phasing model seems to posit an awareness within a continuum, existing in all phases simultaneously but "focused" on a particular one more than others, e.g typically F1.

In this model, what happens to awareness when we sleep? Why doesn't this shutdown of attunement in F1 not transition into a full awareness of F2, etc? Is there a decoupling with memory? When awareness is "lost" in this model, where does it go? And why don't we go with it?

Curious...

Hi:

Dreaming is a particular action in consciousness that typically takes place within the area of Focus 2, in terms of the Phasing Model. Focus 2 is an area of individual consensus reality "next door" to the physical you could say. Every action in consciousness has certain characteristics that pertain to the action in question. It is a characteristic of dreaming that we typically do not offer ourselves an objective knowing of this action.

Such actions in consciousness have fairly powerful belief constructs attached that are linked to all manner of desires, intents, expectations and outcomes. We can offer ourselves an objective knowing of the dreaming action if we choose to. Though it is rather tricky overcoming the underlying beliefs that are determining our current circumstances surrounding the action. Keeping a dream-diary is one way of changing your beliefs in this area in order to create a different outcome through adopting the expression of a changed expectation.

Primary beliefs, desires, intents, expectations and outcomes are all inextricably linked in the same action-equation in consciousness. This means if you change one then everything changes to some extent.

Yours,
Frank

Question 4

Here's a rundown I've been playing with:

I imagine myself in 1st person at a neighborhood swimming pool I grew up near. Smelling the chlorine in the air, I walk across the concrete, feeling it on my bare feet, towards the diving board. I feel the steps on my feet and the course-ness of the board, and feel the metal hand-rails. I can feel the sun on me and a breeze that makes me a little cold from being wet. I run and jump off the end, hearing the bounce of the board and the splash of the water, then the quiet, mute underwater noises, pushing myself off the bottom towards the ladder, climbing up and doing it over and over again.

Is this what I'm looking for in a rundown? I haven't phased doing it, but it keeps my senses engaged and focused away from my physical body - that's the idea, right?

Hi:

A good rundown is something that captures the attention and engages the senses. Make it too simple and you'll get bored and give up or fall asleep. Make it too complex and you'll likely lose the thread of it, then get bored or fall asleep. Also, it would be helpful engaging the Monroe focus 3 state before initiating your rundown.

Yours,
Frank

Question 5

I just have one simple question. Is it possible that the vibrations felt during traditional OBE attempts are actually the feeling of something "your other body" 180 degrees out of phase.

Hi:

The classic vibrations are the energetic sensations felt from the various energy centres that act as an interface between the pure subjective energy of consciousness and the physical brain and body. People who specifically practice "energy work" regularly experience all manner of energetic sensations including vibrations of various types.

Practicing the Phasing approach can lead a person to feeling mild energetic sensations that are typically felt as a slight static-electricity type of feeling. Tingling and crackling sounds that can sound rather like the hissing of high voltage electricity pylons when it's damp and the air is very humid. But that's about it.

Yours,
Frank

Question 6

Hi Frank,

OK that was the insight I was needing, thank you very much. I was using the F2oC as the launching pad as you say, but once there, I was unsure about what to do next... Now things make a lot more of sense, so lets begin the exploring party!

Just one more thing: F2oC is "where" our dreams come true, literally, ok we know that very well. We can create anything we could imagine, right. The question here is: do we have this kind of ease while in F3oC? If we go to the area we know as Focus 27 in Monroe model of consciousness for example (The Park) can I create things like I do while in F2oC?

Thank you very much helping with this subject and everything related with phasing as well. I am one of those people ho have tried to have OBE for some time (2 years and a half in my case) with minimum results, and now I know I won over a big paradigm I had for a very long time, I'm seeing results, that's fantastic!

Hi:

Glad to hear you are making progress. Be careful though with the F2 environment, it can be a bit volatile. You will find there are different regions in F2 that you have apportioned to hold all manner of memories, beliefs, fears emotions and allsorts. If you happen to stray into a region where you are holding all manner of fear constructs then you are going to meet your worst fears head on, in glorious 3D Technicolor. :) That is unfortunately what happens to a LOT of people who subscribe to the old mystical demon and devil style constructs. They end up in Focus 2 and meet these constructs head on.

In the old days, generally, the explorers of the day didn't actually realise they were in an area of individual consensus reality. Unfortunately, some people today still do not realise this. In the old days, they thought they were actually "travelling" to a separate place they named "the astral". Whatever belief constructs they subscribed to about this weird and wonderful world, as they saw it, they met head on, of course. Whatever you believe that is what you see. And I really do mean "whatever". Unfortunately that is the big danger of the place. But once you realise that you are actually within your own individual area of mind then it becomes much easier to manage.

I say there are "dangers" but there are tremendous joys to be had as well. Myself, I love running through all my childhood memories, for example. Anything you ever felt, saw, experienced, etc., etc., in your life, you can "relive" again within Focus 2 and in stunning detail. Absolutely anything and everything your physical senses have ever experienced, and I mean that LITERALLY, is recorded by your senses and "stored" within Focus 2, plus all your dreams too.

Now, if you shift your focus of attention to Focus 3 of consciousness, please understand that you are still not in a separate place. You are still within your own consciousness continuum. But Focus 3 is an area of common consensus reality, so things are very much like the physical. Within Focus 3, you can construct whatever you like. I made a tree house in a dense forest that ran to the edge of a lake. I made an ocean and a lovely open-plan house with a veranda that led out onto the sand. I've created all manner of plants, grasses, fish and other animals.

Now, the great thing is, within Focus 3, once you create it, it remains until you choose to change it. So you can go to it whenever you like. People in the know, so to speak, construct a place for themselves so, when they permanently disengage in a physical sense, i.e. when they "die" that is where they go... to their own place within F27, or the upper branches of Focus 3 as I call it.

It's quite tricky learning to create things in F27. You have to merge with the underlying subjective energy. It is not like F2 where your thoughts immediately come to life. You have to concentrate a little harder. But there is a knack to it that you soon pick up and then it becomes second nature. If you get stuck, simply ask someone to help you. You'll find people are ever so helpful. Also, at focus 27 do not be surprised to get all manner of people who obviously know you very well, coming up to say hello. Yet you haven't got the foggiest idea who they are!

Yours,
Frank

Question 7

I left work yesterday, took the text of your post home with me, while I was having dinner I read it through several times, so as to get the words imprinted. Later on I got some time to try it out, went through the usual relaxation stuff, after about 1/2 an hour I'd gotten to the 'relax-the-eyeballs' point. This time round it was alot easier, tho I had to wrestle a bit with keeping them still and after about 10 mins they finally behaved. I was then mulling over what you'd been saying about focusing beyond the images(But without thinking too much), got the occasional image pop up, but made the concerted effort to ignore what was appearing and began pushing/pulling my mental focus to beyond where I'd normally see these images. I started to get a buzzing in my forehead and a kind of swirly sense of movement, thought "Whoa! Whoa! What's going on here!?" So I put the...err...brakes on, if that's the right word? (Felt like when you're rolling a car back, but a bit at a time to maintain control.) All the tension in the eyes and forebrain just dropped away and I'm in a dark space. When I say space it appeared like the inside of my head had become cavernous, what I could see as such were not lights as such, but like a negative image of white noise you see on the tv, when not tuned to a station. I thought to myself WOW! what an incredible sensation! I felt really free and relaxed, no sensation of body as such and the breathing had disappeared somewhere too... Ahem....Unfortunately then, after having about 10 mins of this the mp3 track I use stopped and I got blasted with one of the songs I listen to during the day, it snapped me out of it real quick!

So I guess this must have been focus 10? I suppose what I need to do is to fire up the imagination and picture a scene? to get to f2?

Now at least I know what I need to aim for, for the time being. Happy focus 10!

Cheers,

Hi:

The actual effects of the focus 10 state do vary from person to person. But the common factors are that you "become" within your own mind in a kind of twilight zone between the physical and the start of your own mind proper. The physical is "back there" somewhere. You are totally free of it and free to simply wander about in a kind of 3D space "within your head" so to speak. This is focus 10.

At focus 10, your body is NOT just very relaxed that you cannot feel it and you are perhaps seeing images in your mind that are grabbing your focus of attention. No, there is a definite shift, a definite withdrawal of your focus from the physical into your own mind. As your focus shifts, you feel it distinctly. The preliminary state, the feeling of being very relaxed and having your attention focused inwards is focus 3. At focus 3, you are still very much "in" the physical body but you have, in a sense, "forgotten" that you have one. Because what has happened is, your attention has turned inwards and you are now laying back looking at all the pretty patterns and things that a person typically offers themselves.

But at focus 10, there is a definite shift away from the physical. You are free to roam about within the 3D space within your mind. You have "stepped into" your mind, whereas at focus 3 you are in the position of looking into it after having turned your attention inwards. In other words, at focus 10 you have "stepped into" the area where you were looking at before at focus 3.

The other thing I think you are getting to grips with now is these focus states are something you have to mentally "reach" for. I think the modernism would be being "pro-active". You need to fuel it by looking ahead and anticipating with a high degree of expectation. But at the same time you can't force it. It's a tricky kind of mental balancing act.

Yours,
Frank

Question 8

Hello,

I'm just kind of wondering how can you tell if a person in the non-physical is real or if it's simply your imagination making it up? or is it one of those things were you just know it from instinct?

Hi:

This is one of the big benefits of realising there are primary areas in consciousness. Primary Focus 2 is an area of individual consensus reality. So here you are viewing your own constructs. The only "communication" possible within this area from the "outside" so to speak, is telepathy.

You can receive impressions or feelings, and such like, that you could say are not your own. In doing so, you can convert these mental impressions into images. For example, if you receive a telepathic communication from a close friend then, as the signal comes into mind, you may create a picture of your friend, and that kind of thing. But these images are your mind-created realities.

As you step into Primary Focus 3 then this is an area of common consensus reality much like the physical is. Here you can meet people in a totally objective sense exactly as you can while physical. Within this region it is obvious these people are not merely creations of your own imagination. It is as obvious as it is apparent that other people are not merely creations of your imagination within the physical.

Yours,
Frank

Question 9

hi, this is my first post here. I found this place because I am looking for someone to possibly help a little with my difficulties with expanding my consciousness. I'm not quite sure what 'expanding my consciousness' would exactly even be or feel like. Though it is a goal of mine to gain wisdom of who I am and the world I live in. I am not sure I am ready for astral projection so mainly right now I want to open up my creative and intellectual abilities to my fullest and to experience God and love.

I am using hemi-sync's The gateway experience Wave 1 Discovery. I am hoping that someone here might be familiar with it.

I have trouble with even being relaxed in Focus ten. Usually I lay there and my body does not feel asleep what so ever. I even have trouble with relaxing my eyelids and keeping them closed. It feels like nothing much is happening. The most I can think of is thinking I have heard weird sounds that weren't on the cd and possibly hearing other people talking but not being able to understand, sort of dreamy, like once you realize you hear it, it's gone. Well, sort of I guess. So the problem with Focus ten for me is that I do not feel like my body is asleep at all, it just feels like I'm laying there trying to be still and then becoming frustrated. Sometimes my body actually gets uncomfortable and I get really hot and I start to feel very frustrated. But when it is over my temperature and body seems to become more comfortable. It is hard to relax while trying to be in Focus ten and it frustrating because the cd talks as though I should feel extremely relaxed.

When I try to create my Resonant Energy Balloon, REBAL, I don't see anything or really feel much of anything either. Although there has been times I have felt safer after going through the procedure of creating it. Sometimes it seems more like I'm pretending I am creating it. I just did a session with it about 45 minutes ago and I noticed that I got really hot for the whole session soon after I did the resonant breathing and the procedure to create my REBAL.

I am still going to keep on trying but since I have never done this before nor have ever known anyone who has I am not sure if it is working. I have been using Wave 1 for like 2 or 3 weeks now. I am almost starting to worry I just can't open myself to it or that maybe it just doesn't work for me. Is this normal? Is there something else I should be doing? Will things progress as I keep listening to the cds? I have trouble relaxing my body and I don't know what to do about that.

Hi:

I cannot help you with the "god" thing but if you want some assistance with the Wave 1 CD, I reckon I could give you some pointers. :)

You say you are not sure what "expanding your consciousness" is. Firstly, you cannot expand your consciousness. You can widen your awareness but consciousness cannot be expanded. Consciousness is what moves us, what gives us life. Consciousness is to us as water is to a fish. Widening your awareness is all to do with offering yourself an objective knowing of the Wider Reality. In other words, gaining familiarity with other areas of consciousness in addition to the physical, rather than instead of the physical.

As regards your use of the CDs, I would suggest you take a BIG step back. You say you have trouble with being relaxed in focus 10. This is a contradiction in terms as focus 10 is the MABA (mind awake, body asleep) state. If you are not relaxed then you cannot be at the focus 10 state. It is useless trying to progress without being able to achieve the previous state. The CDs are an aid to achieving the various states. They in no way force the state upon you.

I always say that everything kicks-off proper at focus 10. So it's a bit of a milestone state is focus 10. The key to achieving focus 10 is achieving the focus 3 state. If you cannot achieve focus 3 then you will have problems achieving all the other states. You will simply lay back and nothing will happen (as is happening in your case). Personally, I say all you need is Wave 1 because once you can achieve a solid focus 10 that's it, you're off.

You are having difficulties relaxing your physical body for some reason. Your face and eyes need to be relaxed particularly, else you will never achieve focus 3. If you want creative inspiration then focus 3 is the state for getting in touch with this aspect of you. Any time I'm stuck for an idea I slip into the focus 3 state and I can usually get all the inspiration I need while in this state.

My advice is to put the CDs aside for a little while and spend a few weeks practicing the Noticing exercise I talk about in the FAQ section under the "What is Phasing?" topic. This little exercise gets you relaxed and looking within you and is designed to take you to the focus 3 state. Once you are comfortable with the idea of focus 3 then start with the CD and see how you go. I just feel that listening to the CD without any concrete results is simply going to frustrate you more than anything.

At the focus 10 state you "become" within your own mind in a kind of twilight zone between the physical and the start of your own mind proper. The physical is "back there" somewhere. You are totally free of it and free to simply wander about in a kind of 3D space "within your head" so to speak. This is focus 10. At focus 10, your body is NOT just very relaxed that you cannot feel it and you are perhaps seeing images in your mind that are grabbing your focus of attention. No, there is a definite shift, a definite withdrawal of your focus from the physical into your own mind. As your focus shifts, you feel it distinctly.

The preliminary state, focus 3, is a feeling of being very relaxed and having your attention focused inwards. At focus 3, you are still very much "in" the physical body but you have, in a sense, "forgotten" that you have one. Because what has happened is, your attention has turned inwards and you are now lying back looking at all the pretty patterns and things that a person typically offers themselves.

Yours,
Frank

Question 10

I have been busily reading posts, and just need to get something straight in my mind. What is the difference between meditation and astral phasing (I hope I've used the right terminology)?

I here people mention they visit different places in the astral plain and can come across beings that they can communicate with, etc when astral phasing - but this all sounds like what you do in meditation to me.

Someone please explain!?

Hi:

I, personally, don't know the differences because, as I have said a number of times, I'm not exactly sure what meditation is.

I tried to find out once but the descriptions vary depending on the beliefs of whoever was putting forward the description. If anyone has any links to particular studies, I mean studies of an objective nature, I'd be grateful. This is a topic I wish to cover in my book to help people who can already meditate, convert to the more modern-day Phasing ideology.

On one website, for example, one with a primarily Buddhist slant, they were talking about no less than 500 different types of meditation. I mean, that's just daft in my view. How can there seriously be 500 types? If each type took a person just 3 months to learn it would be 125 years before that person could form any conclusion as to which type was best for them. A highly impractical proposition. Anyhow, I gave up in the end.

I came to a kind of loose consensus about this and concluded that meditation is probably some kind of state similar to the Monroe focus 3 state. Only with a different balance of elements in the underlying action-equation in consciousness.

I note you use the term "astral" Phasing. In effect, it would depend on what you are calling "astral".

Astral is a label with mystical origins and Phasing does not incorporate any "astral" belief constructs. The term Phasing was brought about originally by the author Robert Monroe who went on to found the Monroe Institute. I named my model the Phasing Model of consciousness in honour of his work.

Monroe was the world's foremost modern-day pioneer at this art, and his work dispels many of the old mystical notions and assumptions... including that of "astral". He he, "astral phasing" that would have Monroe turning in his grave that would. :)

Problem is, to the mystics anything non-physical is "astral". They haven't yet realised that consciousness is apportioned into 4 Primary Areas.

It is now coming to light that the very early teachings from thousands of years ago would basically agree with the above. Plus, the more modern-day practitioners would agree also. It's just the mystics in the middle who remain at variance. But I guess even they might encompass this reality in a few hundred years or so. :)

Yours,
Frank

Question 11

I have been trying to astral project for about a year now with no success, I have been reading about phasing however and I am left confused.

When you astral project you are taken to the spiritual planes, where you can explore and blah blah blah.

I read a post on the astral pulse island which explained you can get there through phasing, but the island is in the spiritual planes?

So phasing and astral projection both lead to the spiritual plains? And if they do how so?

Hi:

When you "astral project" a person typically engages an action-equation within the area known as Primary Focus 2 of consciousness that incorporates a particular mix of the elements of Beliefs, Desires, Expectations and Intents for a given Outcome.

Phasing is also an action-equation in consciousness, but the balance of the elements that go to forming that equation are rather different. This is because Phasing is a term that represents an entirely different, more modern-day ideology. An ideology that does not incorporate any "spiritual" belief constructs, or any other religious or mystical belief constructs.

Your explanation presupposes a number of traditional, more mystical factors that are not simply not part of the Phasing Model action-equation.

The "astral plains" model is a more traditional model of consciousness where, in the formation of the model, people assumed a number of aspects about the Wider Reality that we are realising now don't quite add up. As such, there is often no direct correlation between the traditional models and the modern-day models of consciousness.

Phasing does not lead a person to any kind of "plain", spiritual or otherwise. Nor is Phasing about placing value judgements on any particular experience. Phasing, in a nutshell, is the action of a person shifting their mental focus of attention to a different part of their own consciousness continuum.

Yours,
Frank

Question 12

Hello Frank,

I find that your model of consciousness is very user-friendly. As of late, I have discovered that my mind is not located inside my head as I have usually placed it, but rather it lies elsewhere.

It is strange to describe, but I believe that you have put it into words as best as possible in describing it as a 180 degree change in focus. For me it seems that there is a screen "infront" of me that I can fix my awareness upon. Maybe, more accureately, it is a screen within that I fix my awareness upon. (something just past my thoughts, although those thoughts may imprint upon that screen)

However, I do have trouble. I often slip into a dreamstate, when I start to focus on this screen. I get caught up in those thoughts, which turn into a dream scenario. These dreams are especially intense in the morning when I first wake up and then go back to sleep. Ocassionally, I will achieve a lucid state, but only momentarilly. Then, I will fall back into the flow of my dream, without the realization that I am dreaming.

I know I have posted similar posts before and yet I have still to move beyond my current limitations.

Often, I will be fully awake and aware of my physical surroundings, yet I will also be aware of the dreamstate thoughts that I am having. Is this what you would call f1/f2 overlay?

I find it difficult to reach an f10 state without getting sidetracked into my thoughts and dreams. Is this a hurdle to overcome or is there something else that I should be doing in order to maintain the f10 state while these dream thoughts are taking up my focus?

I am curious, how does f3 different from f10? also, do you have any tips on how to avoid slipping into the dreamstate? I find it so overwhelming, in that I can not distinquish from dream and reality even though I may be trying to maintain my focus from a waking state to a f10 state.

Hi:

With the model, I tried to strip away everything except the bare bones that made it work, so to speak. Between my Primary Focus numbers and Monroe's more individual attention focuses, anyone should be able to get a good idea of what's what but in a more modern-day sense.

You are falling into the clutches of the Million Meanderings, I see. I know what you mean when you say you slip back into a dream without realising you are dreaming. This also happens to me sometimes. Especially if I'm feeling a little drowsy.

Yes, being aware of the physical, albeit perhaps with a reduced sensory input, and being aware of some "within" issue such as a dream, is an overlay experience. An overlay experience is where you are objectively viewing or otherwise experiencing more than one area of consciousness at the same time. So you could have an F1/F3 overlay, or an F2/F3 overlay, for instance. Note: I always put the dominant focus first. Generally, you will find in an overlay experience one focus will be more dominant than the other focus or focuses. It doesn't have to be between just two Primary Focus states. It is possible to have, say, an F1/F2/F3 overlay. He he, rather confusing but very possible.

At the moment, it sounds like you are in a solid Monroe focus 3 state. That is when you are viewing your screen or any other kind of pattern or image and you know you are in the physical, but with a reduced sensory input. Now, the next step is to "step into" that screen, or step into your mind. This is what you are doing, but, as you do so, you are engaging a dream action rather than the Phasing action of stepping within your mind with full conscious awareness.

Here is what I said about the differences between f3 and f10 in another post just recently:

Okay, so your attention has turned inwards and you are laying back looking at all the pretty patterns you are offering yourself. So as I say you are at a definite focus 3 state. But when you come to make that "shift" within yourself, you are engaging the wrong action, i.e. you are engaging a dream action. I think you are doing this out of habit. Perhaps try focusing "beyond" the screen or whatever other imagery is in the foreground of your inner awareness. It would appear that your focusing on the screen itself is seducing your awareness and leading you into the region of the Million Meanderings.

I would say that the stepping into yourself to enter the focus 10 state is perhaps the trickiest part of this stage. You have to walk a very fine line between falling out of the state or falling into dreamland. There is that centre road that tends to get wider, hence easier to proceed along, the more you practice. So as I say, try focusing your attention a little way "beyond" the foreground imagery. But you are definitely on the right track. Everything you talk about I recognise only too well. It's just that you are kinda walking a bit of a mental tightrope at this point. :) I'm sure it will come with practice.

Yours,
Frank

Question 13

What is the correct way to rotate a Chakra? Does anyone know? I'm not sure if it's clockwise or counter wise, or what the effects of doing so are.

Hi:

In nature, creative energies tend to spin clockwise as we would call it.

These energy centres are whorls of energetic movement, they are not fixed in stone. But you can imagine them as a kind of sphere in the approximate locations you see typically presented. They spin clockwise and are oriented such that they spin along the axis of the spine.

The further "up" you go the faster they spin. It starts at the root (red) and you could think of this red centre spinning at about 10 or 12 times a second. Then add that factor for each one going up. The strongest vibrational colour is, therefore, Purple. This energy centre has a strong directing influence on all the others.

They are translated as different colours, as colour has different vibrational qualities that are affecting, in terms of energy, in different ways. Colour is a Truth. Meaning, there is a representation of colour within all dimensions. Energy has specific qualities that objectively translate in particular ways, and one of those ways in which we objectively view these particular differences or translations is in terms of colour.

Each energy centre is affecting of various functions of the body. But this is to be thought of, again, as not absolutely fixed in stone. Because all the energy centres are affecting of each other to varying degrees. They are NOT acting in isolation, in the sense of each energy centre doing their particular bit (as I have seen many websites trying to make out). They are all influencing of each other and all work in combination. But there is a particular accent placed on each centre to the extent where a particular energy centre could be said to be more influencing of certain factors over another.

In the instance of "healing" oneself, for example, which is what I suspect you are thinking of, then the energy centre that is the most affecting is the 4th one up, which is the green or the heart centre as it is often called.

Yours,
Frank

Question 14

That's interesting stuff Frank.

What struck me was your comment about F34/35 being physical. This was in fact in accordance with some of the experiences mentioned by Monroe as it being conglomeration of physical and non-physical visitors surrounding the earth's atmosphere.

As far as authentication...I'm not sure about the best way to go about it.

Maybe the best authentication is something that the individual you're talking to would have to offer.

I'd be interested to know what take you had on the personality of the person you met.

I agree, very interesting.

In terms of the original model, it would be assumed that a focus state higher than focus 27 would be "further out" in terms of an area of mental focus. But it would appear that everything just becomes muddled with this focus 34/35 concept that I always said just didn't add up. Well, not for me at any rate as it simply did not concur with my experience.

In my experience, there is nothing "beyond" focus 27 in the sense of the continuation of a series of objectively oriented focus states that are in some way more profound or meaningful, let's say, than focus 27. Focus 27 is on the "edge" of that area in consciousness that "begins" at focus 23. It was my attempts to go "beyond" focus 27 that led me to formulating the view that the structure of consciousness was laid out into what I now call Primary Areas of Focus.

As you know I'm not religious at all but the very early teachings would appear to concur with this type of structure. That is, when you cut through all the layers of religious conditioning that has been laid on them by generations.

I studied Judaism in some detail and I have had a number of AP members who have come back to me saying how they have looked at other basic teachings. Now they know what to look for, they've been digging through all the mystical and religious conditioning that has been heaped on them over hundreds of generations and, sure enough, in the midst of all the flowery lingo many basic teachings from several sources appear to be talking of this 4-area structure of consciousness as well.

On the surface, then, it would appear that the whole religious "thing" that all these generations have been getting off on the past 2000 years or so, has been a mere distraction, a tangent to nowhere you could say.

Anyhow, getting back to the f34/f35 thing, it would seem this is not a focus state "beyond" focus 27 at all. But the label attached to a particular focus within the wider physical. Ha ha, no wonder I couldn't find it. But it still sounds a tad weird. All those little green men in flying saucers making meep-meep noises monitoring Earth changes. It all sounds more than a little far-fetched to me. But now I know where in the structure of consciousness this focus state is meant to be, I suppose I now have a better chance of checking it out.

The interesting aspect about his, for me, is to do with my investigation into the workings of these Trans-Dimensional areas in consciousness. There are many, many other physical worlds (could be an infinite number) and the weird thing is they all occupy the same physical space. The actual characteristics of the different dimensions can be wildly different but they all have this one thing in common, in that they occupy the same space. Anyhow, what "separates" them, if you like, are these Trans-Dimensional areas in consciousness that allows each physical universe to overlay on one another.

Now, I have it on good authority that it IS possible to "travel" between Trans-Dimensional areas. When I say travel I mean actual physical travel. It is also possible to do this non-physically as well I am told. So my theory is that these UFO sightings are, in fact, a kind of "bleed through" from another Trans-Dimensional area. An area that has people living within it who have already learnt how to design some kind of craft with the ability to travel between physical dimensions.

I also feel I am on the verge of solving the mystery surrounding the mystical notions of reincarnation, and this is wrapped up in the above I feel.

There is something about linear time that just doesn't add-up to me, there's something freaky about it that I cannot yet explain. So many times I have felt on the verge of a major realisation about it, but it won't come through into my area of objective knowing. I can experience it, as a concept, within Primary Focus 4 of consciousness, but I cannot bring it into my area of Primary Focus 2. Linear time could well be completely mind created and every aspect of our lives could actually be occurring at the same point in time. Plus, I'm getting to the stage where I'm becoming convinced that each person exists in his or her very own dimension of existence.

Anyhow, it's all early days yet but it is an exciting prospect (or it is for me at least) that the realisation or the knowing of how these Trans-Dimensional areas function, could hold the key to the eventual development of some kind of interdimensional craft. Not that I am saying that I personally could ever build one (perchance to dream!) but even to just get the theory down on paper would be a major step forwards.

Yours,
Frank

Question 15

This is the first time that I have posted a question (yes I have read the faq) so I hope someone can help.

First let me say that I have been trying to project for quite some time with limited success. The other day being quiet I thought I would try the phasing method, so I lay down closed my eyes and began relaxing and looking into the 2d darkness. Next thing I knew I had lost feeling of my physical body. The darkness had now taken on a kaleidoscopic effect with the colors all being black. My only thoughts at this time were 'that's odd, not seen that before, wheres the color' and then just as suddenly I was back fully aware and lying on my bed.

What I want to know is did I experience F3oc and is it ok or normal to skip F2oc altogether. Also how did I get there? When relaxing and looking into the 2d dark I tend to see yellowish grey blobs floating past and a lot faces flashing in and out of existence so I try to focus beyond the blackness. Mostly I fall asleep and I have only had maybe half a dozen OoBE over the past several years so this could be real progress.

Any input would be gratefully received as I hope to be sharing any future success with you all.

Hi:

It is okay to skip any number of inbetween states and directly transition to whatever area you like. It is not what you might call normal as, at first, people tend to make staged transitions rather than direct transitions. But as a person becomes more experienced the prospect of making direct transitions becomes more likely.

With beginners I tend to prefer talking in terms of the Monroe individual attention states. Simply because they are quite easy to understand and, with a little practice, they become immediately recognisable.

From what you say you were in the midst of achieving the Monroe focus 3 state, which I would say is a definite sign of progress. Your post also provides a great demonstration of a point I have been trying to get across for a while now about how pointing your focus of attention within you, tends to have the effect of "switching off" the feeling of the physical.

Yours,
Frank

Question 16

On several occasions I've recollected an AP upon waking that occurred during a dream. These APs seem the same as others that didn't involve dreaming, but were they a real AP or just a dream? Here's an example:

Last night, upon waking, I recollected the following: I was having a dream about being in a church with my wife and some others. It was time for bed and I was tired and so I went into a bedroom in the church to sleep. I was a bit annoyed that my wife, instead of coming with me, chose to stay up with the others. I drifted off to sleep and the next thing I know I woke to vibrations (was I really having vibrations or dreaming I was having them?) and I sat up and out of my body and floated out to where my wife and several others were having a conversation in the church. I floated into the middle of their group and they saw something and began freaking out a bit. I tried to explain that it was just me but they apparently couldn't recognize that it was me and couldn't hear me. I figured I had better go get back in my body and straighten the situation out with them. I went back to my body and woke up.

That's all I remember and I don't remember whether I woke up in the dream or for real in my bed.

So, did I actually AP or just dream of it? And is it possible to wake up (in real life) and then AP back into a situation you were just dreaming about?

Curious if anyone else has these types of experiences?

Hi:

Many people get these kinds of experiences and it is only natural to question the "reality" of them. The question that often comes about is the classic, "Was this real or just a dream?" In this respect, people are making the assumption that the physical is the "real" reality against which they judge the realness of any other experience they may happen to have.

But a person's reality is wherever they happen to focus their attention. That is why, these days, I especially avoid the use of the term "reality fluctuations". I have used it in the past in a manner of speaking, but I specifically avoid using it at all now, as it can be highly misleading regardless of the context in which it is used. Quite simply, a person's reality cannot fluctuate. A person's reality simply is.

It is, however, natural to question the validity of any particular experience and to ask all manner of other questions. This is something I do with myself ALL the time. In fact, I would say that this is what separates the genuine explorer of the Wider Reality from the mystics. For mystics, by definition, love to revel in mysticism. Asking questions and delving into the experience in order to uncover the facts, to discover the simple truth, to roll up your sleeves and get down to the plain and simple nitty-gritty... doing that is all to do with dispelling mysticism... which is an anathema to the mystic, as it is contrary to everything they believe in, against everything they stand for.

However, it is one thing to ask a question, and it is quite another thing getting an answer that makes sense. :) Your situation neatly exemplifies the difficulties people often have when trying to come to terms with, or otherwise make sense of these experiences. In a nutshell, it all boils down to a question of focus. This is something Monroe's work highlighted to a great extent. In truth, reality is a question of focus. Hence, where you point your focus of attention becomes your reality.

In the old days they would try to get this idea across by pointing out classic questions like, "If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Okay, stuff like that is a bit old-hat now because we know it does, we can record it on tape. But when these kinds of questions were first being banded about there was no such thing as recording. So I guess that in their day these questions were quite effective in getting people thinking along the right lines. I always chuckle at the modern-day variant that says, if a man does something wrong and there isn't a woman around to point it out, does that mean he's right?

Anyhow, these days the more modern-day practitioners of this art tend not to think in terms of certain kinds of realities being any more, or any less "real" than any other. They think in terms of "focus" and "attention".

Yours,
Frank

Question 17

Well Frank....A woman is now on the scene!!....but I won't try to dictate that you are wrong!

In this, I think that what you say is very provocative (which has a better than average chance of 'being right'!!...JK!) Your explanation certainly rings true, but is it really an explanation, or is it just a definition of terms?... I understand that to say --- "my reality includes" AP or Phasing or whatever we want to call it, as well as the many other things that I do thoughout my day --- is a correct and logical statement...for that is MY experience, hence, MY REALITY.

But, how do we explain, or account for, a living reality that is not as easily accessed as my car, for instance, and includes other entities that I have no sure, consistantly predictable, way of contacting--except through an altered state of consciousness? Are these experiences extraordinary dreams, or is our ability to claim this unique kind of reality as being our own just extraordinary circumstances?

Additionally, how do we account for 'the implications of a living reality' that is not shared by those around us? In other words, while my neighbors, family, friends and associates most definately share the more tangible aspects of my reality, they do not share this much more intimate aspect. More often than not, I feel as though I am straddling a chasm between, what seems to be, 'more than one world' -- 'more than one reality'. One of which I can share with others, and the other I cannot.

How do you deal with this Frank?

Hi:

My response was largely in answer to the specific question asked in the opening paragraph of the original post, namely, "...These APs seem the same as others that didn't involve dreaming, but were they a real AP or just a dream?" [my italics]

This "realness" question is a popular beginner's question, as it happens, and my answer is largely the same in each case, i.e. it all boils down to the basic rule that where you point your focus of attention becomes your reality.

Against the background of the Wider Reality there is no area of consciousness, or point of individual focus that is any more or any less "real" than another. Obviously, as we are all here, the physical is our Resident Focus. Being such it has the effect of capturing our attention to a high degree. This effect, I agree, can certainly give the impression that the area of the physical is perhaps more "real" than any other. But this is merely a distortion and all Resident Focuses tend to have that effect on a person. People who are normally resident within Primary Focus 3 have the same kind of magnetic attraction to that Focus as we have within the physical.

I can see where you are going with this in introducing the idea of different categories of reality and noting various differences, for example, in terms of accessibility. On that basis it could be argued that a reality that was more accessible, perhaps, was more of a "real" reality than something that wasn't. I would suggest the differences in that context are not in terms of realness of reality, but in terms of the meaningfulness or the convenience that the event, phenomena or thing, presents to the individual in question. There is, of course, the other aspect where it could be argued that a thing, such as the Empire State Building, for example, is a reality and that such a reality exists independent of anyone focusing upon it.

But then this comes back to the age-old question of the tree falling in the forest.

In the terms and the context in which my response was given, the concept of a person's reality is an all-encompassing notion that includes all minor categories and/or circumstances that an individual is focusing upon at any given moment. In other words, whatever that person happens to be focusing their attention upon becomes their reality. Individual reality, therefore, is a unique product of a person's perception that is highly dynamic and intrinsically focus dependent.

In closing you ask, "... how do we account for 'the implications of a living reality' that is not shared by those around us?" On the basis of my explanation above, an individual's reality is a unique and dynamic product of their perception and not something that can be shared in any event.

Your final explanations present me with a clue as to context and I feel you are talking in terms of there being a physical world, i.e. a physical reality, on the one hand, and a non-physical world, or non-physical reality, on the other. The knowledge of these two entities or "realities" some you can share with some people and some you feel you cannot share. But in this I feel we are speaking at cross-purposes. Again, I am specifically speaking in terms of individual reality, i.e. that part of a person's make up that is created by their perception at any given moment.

Yours,
Frank