From: mathew11@zoominternet.net   
      
   Part 1   
   Robert Bruce   
      
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         What is the Astral Dimension?   
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         Dreams   
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         Thought Forms   
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         Astral Vision   
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         Creative Visualisation Power   
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         The Alice In Wonderland Effect   
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         Melting Hands   
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         Created Thought Form Objects   
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         How Does Projection Happen?   
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         The OOBE   
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         The Astral Projection   
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         The Lucid Dream   
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         Astral Projection Or Lucid Dream?   
      
   What is the Astral Dimension?   
      
   The astral is the closest dimension to the physical. It overlays and   
   permeates the world like a huge mind net, catching and holding all thought.   
   Its contents are created by the collective consciousness of the world mind.   
   It contains all the thoughts, memories, fantasies, and dreams of every   
   living thing in the world. In it, the laws of sympathetic attraction, or   
   like attracts like, causes this ocean of mind stuff to strata and settle   
   into layers or pools. These pools of thought are more commonly called   
   astral planes, astral worlds, astral sub planes or astral realms.   
      
   The astral dimension is composed of astral matter and is aptly described as   
   mind stuff. It is extremely sensitive to thought and can be moulded into   
   any shape or form. These creations can be so perfect as to be   
   indistinguishable from reality.   
      
   The best way to explain this, mind stuff, is to draw a comparison between   
   astral matter and unexposed, high speed photographic film. When this film   
   is exposed to light, focused by the cameras lens, a perfect image of   
   reality is instantly burnt into the film by the chemical reaction of the   
   film to light. When astral matter is exposed to thought, focused by the   
   lens of the mind, a perfect image of reality is instantly formed out of   
   astral mind stuff by the reaction of astral matter to thought. The   
   complexity and durability of any creation in the astral dimension depends   
   largely on the strength of the mind doing the creating.   
      
   Dreams   
      
   This is how the subconscious mind creates dreams: By tuning into the astral   
   dimension during sleep, it can create any scenario it wishes. This is the   
   subconscious mind's way of solving problems and of communicating with the   
   conscious mind. It creates a series of complex thought form scenarios and   
   projects them into the mind stuff of the astral dimension, where they   
   become solid. The conscious mind then lives through and experiences these   
   created scenarios in the dream state. In a way its like a movie projector   
   (subconscious mind) projecting onto a movie screen (astral dimension).   
      
   Thought Forms   
      
   Any new object in the real world is assimilated into the astral dimension   
   over a period of time. A thought form representation of it first grows in   
   the lowest part of the astral, close to the physical dimension, becoming   
   more and more permanent as time goes on. As with all thought forms, the   
   more attention paid to it the quicker it grows.   
      
   The higher up in the astral dimension, or the further away from the   
   physical, the less thought forms, of the physical world, as we know it, are   
   found. Physical things have to soak in to it for a very long time before   
   they take shape, and are found, in the higher astral.   
      
   Have you ever tried to move around a strange house in the dark? You bump   
   into everything, right. But as you become familiar with it though, a mental   
   picture of your surroundings forms in your mind, and you can find your way   
   around it better. The longer you spend in this house the stronger this   
   mental picture becomes. This is similar to how things are assimilated and   
   grown, as thought forms, in other dimensions.   
      
   The generation of thought forms in the astral also works in the reverse. If   
   a physical object has been around for a very long time, it will have grown   
   a lasting thought form impression in the astral. After the object is   
   destroyed or removed, its thought form still endures. You may, for example,   
   in the astral, find furniture in your house you don't have, jumbled up with   
   your own. This is caused by the decaying thought forms of old stuff,   
   belonging to previous tenants etc, still being there, years after the   
   originals have gone.   
      
   Old thought forms do not follow their physical counterpart around when they   
   are moved. New ones begin to grow in the astral wherever it is while the   
   old ones slowly decay. The longer a thing is in one place, the stronger the   
   thought form will become in that place. This also applies to buildings,   
   structures and geological features. You may project into a park and find a   
   house, bridge, stream, hill etc that you know is definitely not there.   
   These may have existed in times past. The higher up in the astral you go,   
   the older the thought forms are, or the further back in geological time you   
   appear to be.   
      
   The rate of growth of a thought form depends largely on the amount of   
   attention paid to it. For example, a famous painting; loved, viewed and   
   highly thought of by millions, will have a much stronger thought form than   
   that of a common painting that hangs in someone's bedroom and is only   
   viewed by a few. The number of thought forms you find in the astral also   
   depends on how close you are to the physical dimension. If you are very   
   close, as in a real time projection or OOBE, very few thought forms, if   
   any, will be found. In a real time OOBE you are not quite in the astral   
   dimension but are existing as an astral form in the buffer zone between the   
   astral and the physical dimensions.   
      
   Astral Vision   
      
   In the physical body we have 220 degrees of vision, i.e. we can only see in   
   front of us, but not behind, above and below at the same time. In the   
   Astral body we have MORE than 360 degrees of vision and can see on all   
   sides at once. This is Spherical vision. During projection, habit forces us   
   to focus our attention in one direction only, where we feel the forward   
   part of our vision is. The view behind, above, below, left and right is   
   still there, and seen all at once, but it can not be assimilated by the   
   brain, all at once. This goes against the brains lifelong habit of frontal   
   vision. Spherical vision is like being one huge multi faceted eye that can   
   see in all directions, up, down, left, right, front, back, but all at once!   
      
   In the astral body you do not have any physical organs, i.e., eyes. You are   
   a non-physical point of consciousness floating in space. You are also   
   unaffected by gravity and other laws of physics. In this state there are no   
   ups or downs, backs or fronts, left or rights. It is only lifelong habit   
   that tries to force this perspective on you during projection.   
      
   It is important to understand spherical vision, if you are to operate   
   competently in the astral. This is especially so when you project, in real   
   time, close to the physical dimension. Spherical vision will often cause   
      
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