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Date: 2021-05-31 04:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] open_space
That actually sounds quite fun! Is that what happens to people that do hallucinogenics? Their minds get torn a little because of the substance and get in contact with the astral plane intensely? If so, technically they would not be hallucinating but from what I've heard you are kind of not in control of what parts of the astral you are attuning with, you are just tripping out where it happens to take you, and apparently it can be very little fun if it goes wrong.

Did you see that The Black Vault released a lot of declassified documents on UFO's just recently? Since you've written about the phenomenon I thought you'd find it interesting.

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Date: 2021-05-31 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
When I was a kid I asked my priest about the confusing visions that I had and he shouted at me to never mind that nonsense and stop wasting his time. So I did. It took another 30 years to find my way back.

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Date: 2021-05-31 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] robertmathiesen
Jealous for sure ... and maybe also scared shaleless by the possibility that such things might be real.

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Date: 2021-06-01 01:27 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] open_space
Thank you!

What sort of things can be done when one gets used to perceiving the astral plane clearly?

I've been giving free Tarot readings on my journal with good results, but doing them at a distance I can tell there is a slight difference so it occurred to me to do something similar to the method you gave in your book Atlantis but instead of visiting a place in the distant past people would visit my imaginal divining room, shuffle the cards there and record the time they did for me to go and pick up later. Do you see any problem with doing something like that? I tried it once with someone that does a regular banishing ritual but I am not sure if there are some other astral cleanliness considerations that I should take.

I've realized that my generation has been systematically prevented from growing up for the interests of other people. Do you know of some sort of old-fashioned manual or similar on how to become an adult?
Edited Date: 2021-06-01 01:30 am (UTC)

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Date: 2021-06-01 06:57 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] robertmathiesen
"Do you know of some sort of old-fashioned manual or similar on how to become an adult?"

I don't know of any such book. Most of the real adults whom I know got there by never avoiding the hard work they had to do in order to meet whatever hard challenges--there are always hard challenges!--life happened to throw at them. It's OK to fear hard challenges, but not to run away from them or ignore them. Being an adult is a highly active and foresightful kind of life, not a passive one or a lazy one. A life without hard challenges keeps one from becoming an adult. You can get tired of challenges, and rest from the labor of meeting them for a while; but then it's always "back to the kitchen sink and wash up the dirty dishes"!

For whatever it may be worth, I'm a member of the so-called Silent Generation. Lots and lots of my generation never really became adults, either, though I have the distinct impression that the percentage of such people has somewhat increased.

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Date: 2021-06-02 12:37 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] open_space
Many thanks Robert! I will take your advise and face whatever comes my way. I think you are right in what you say, and I've avoided way too many things in life, because I've had the opportunity to do it. The trick then seems to be to remove those supports and face life raw and square.

Believe me, the percentage has increased dramatically, at least in my circles and my generation (I'm 27) and I think it is due in part because big corp benefits from keeping them that way. Have you ever been or seen a tech company? It's like a playground, and those are the people in charge of a big part of our society.

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Date: 2021-06-02 10:33 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] robertmathiesen
I have, and it struck me the same way -- a factory-sized elaborate playground, with overtones of a nursery school for privileged toddlers and a luxury resort for the super-rich! Razor scooters everywhere, used to get from one part of the very large building to another--walking was much too un-hip!

My wife and I were given a full behind-the-scenes tour of Pixar by a friend of hers, back in the days when "Finding Nemo" was being put together, i.e., when Pixar still occupied the old Heinz factory in Emeryville. I just thought, at the time, that it was simply an off-beat environment designed to foster artistic creativity. In retrospect, it was much more than that. The most interesting feature was Steve Jobs' office, which was austere to the point of being a monk's cell, all done "down" (not "up"!) in black, and which stood in very striking contrast to everything else in the building.
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