HDRKid
Originally posted by Ralan@Aug 4 2004, 12:44 PM
Ah.
The thing is, I also believe that everything you experience during astral projection is a product of your own mind. How can your awareness leave your body to travel through time? Your awareness is produced by your brain, which is physically inside your head, relying on the blood being pumped around by your heart to continue working. I believe astral projection is the movement of your awareness away from the area controlling your physical body, similar to what occurs in dreams but more firmly, where, bereft of a body, it creates its own 'astral' body, completely within your own head, and an environment around it.
What I would find interesting, if I knew I knew they were true, would be HDRkid's experiences which his mind has managed to contrive. Most people during astral projection rarely have experiences so colourful and vivid as HDR describes, and it would suggest some imagination.
However, my worry is that he is really just making the whole astral travel thing up completely.
Ralan: By your own argument here, we are all delusional in this state anyway. HDRkid, at the very least, is being brave in describing and passing on the discoveries of this delusional time spent in alternate times and realities. For that, I applaud him.
So, therefore, his making the whole thing up is no crime, as the very essence of the argument states this to be the case, as anyone who Astral Travels is doing so in a contrived dream state.
The variety and disparate nature of the imagery from this state is subject solely to our subjective opinions from memory, maybe the imaginative HDRkid colours the image after the fact. I would colour in any picture from a child's colouring book differently from you, or HDR, that's the nature of the human brain and is not subject to any real world laws, guidance nor interpretation as to why this is so. It simply is.
Now, I am not having a go here, I am just saying that it is difficult to personally quantify such an individually subjectve experience. It is therfore difficult to define, nor argue with merit, such experiences as HDR describes. Better to go along for the ride I say.
The thing is, I also believe that everything you experience during astral projection is a product of your own mind. So is the world in general.
