Anyone else experiencing this?

[Dreamweaver]

I’ve noticed that when you tend to operate more out of your peripheral vision, you notice a lot more of what’s happening around you.

Certainly, not easy reading the label when your in the jar though.
As I said "switches"

 

[Joe]

I’ve noticed that when you tend to operate more out of your peripheral vision, you notice a lot more of what’s happening around you.

You're also more likely to walk into a tree right in front of you.

 

[Shorty]

You're also more likely to walk into a tree right in front of you.

Ha! It’s not that my attention is just in peripheral, it’s more that I unfocus my eyes, move awareness to peripheral and take in more information. I actually become much more aware of everything around me.

 

[Learner]

I had my share of "experiences" that are "out of the normal" as well, and they still do occur from time to time. They can make you feel special, especially when starting to wake up to many things. And of course, they can make you feel excited, like setting out on an adventure into hitherto unknown lands. But as others said, they can just be as much of a lure by certain forces to trap you for food. I once was given the advice to keep up a mental anchor in reality, or in whatever I have as an objective knowledge base at the given time when such things happen - to give them their due, but not to engage with them, becoming too enthralled with or terrified by them. Like water in a river that passes by without allowing you to get sucked in. Quite much like what others have been commenting.

And I had the thought that such things also might happen more often when we are in a state of increased vulnerability and want to escape from this world, this reality and maybe find "company" (i.e. in the form of certain "visits"). In my case I was in such a vulnerable state when waking up and had the one or other "mystical experience". It felt "good" at the time but in hindsight I am not sure if all (or any) of this actually was so. The predatory nature of certain forces compels them to take advantage of people in such vulnerable, naively open states. Just like 3D predators do maybe while masking as "masters" or "helpers" with unwitting or naive people who are involved in the so-called spiritual scene and seeking some solutions for their problems there.

Also, since the Wave is in full swing, much of these experiences could also be due to a 4D bleed-through - as the curtain between 3D and 4D is thinning and our realm changes.

Fortunately there's this network and the possibility to assess and discern all this stuff by acquiring information in an open way, thus gaining more knowledge and being able to make more sense of such experiences in general and what to make of certain ones. In my experience, more knowledge, conscious efforts for discernment and networking led to a diminishment of such experiences. Or maybe, rather, to stand back more and "watch from a distance", so to speak. Though sometimes, if they still occur and feel "good" or "interesting", I admit it's still difficult to distance myself from them.

FWIW

 

[Artemis Luna]

And who says the work here is all that the work encompasses? Seeking spiritual experiences? There aren’t many people that I’ve met that aren’t seeking I agree that external influences can affect your emotions, which affects your decisions and perceptions of your intuition. But, developing a balance between true knowledge, true feelings and true intuition seems to be a much better compass to navigate.

I have not endeavored to develop “psychic” or “paranormal” abilities. They just seem to be happening.
I have started the Wave series and am on book 4, currently. I’ve also read the Secret History of the World.

I‘ll add Darkness over Tibet to my list! Thank you for the recommendation!

"And who says the work here is all that the work encompasses? " - Splendidly said-)

 

[lainey]

Earlier this year I began experiencing what I have come to call “shifts.” These shifts are composed off what I call “downloads.” Mass amounts of compacted information. Some I’m able to unpack quickly, others take time. This has led to a massive shift in how I perceive and interact with everything. I’ve also experienced a continuing growth change in my sight. It’s hard to explain, but it’s like I’m starting to make sense of things that were outside of my limited sense of perception. Sometimes, it’s just seeing “energy” floating/mixing/puddling/shooting. Other times I see “distortions” in the air around me. Sometimes, it takes bodily shape, other times no discernible shape at all. There are other things that have happened like OBE, increased sense of intention reception (somewhat like telepathy, but not actual words), flashes of images and scenes from people’s life around me. I’ve also had interesting scenarios where seemingly “intuitive” people have sought me out when I’m out and about.
I’ve also developed an insatiable thirst for knowledge.

I know Shorty hasn't been active on the forum for a while, but this thread has come back just after I've finished my second reading of Hostage to the Devil and I thought I'd share a couple of passages from the 5th case in the book. Now, I'm not suggesting Shorty was possessed, but I wanted to show how such phenomenon isn't always positive and perhaps shouldn't be encouraged if you don't really know what you're dealing with.

In the book, Carl (the one who is being exorcised) experiences different psychic phenomena, astral travel, the ability to see energies or auras around objects, he can supposedly access past lives and do seances and exhibits telepathic abilities. If I remember correctly he was a college professor and ended up leading a group of students who studied his abilities i.e. he wasn't the only person he was involving in his "talents" and IMO was putting them in a vulnerable position too. Long story short, Carl is being possessed by an entity called "Tortoise" who gives him some talents and enhances others and is eventually exorcised by Hearty.

This is a short excerpt of the conversation between Hearty and "Tortoise":

H: "Were all Carl's psychic powers due to your intervention, or
because he was so gifted by nature?"
T: "Both." At this answer, Hearty concentrates again. Some force is
attacking his mentality. His mind is like a barred door with strong
hands beating insistently upon its panels.
H: "Let us take his reincarnation, his supposed reincarnations. Was this
your work?"
T: "We, belonging to the Tortoise, existing in his eternity, have all time
in front of us as one unceasing moment."
H: "But Carl spoke to people long dead. He knew their thoughts and
their surroundings."
T: "The living are surrounded by their dead. Those of the dead who
belong to us, they do our bidding. Everyone in the Kingdom) does our
bidding."
H: "And those who don't belong to you-"
T: "The Latter." It comes as a snarl, but also, Hearty feels, with a
certain note of craven fear. That fear impresses Hearty. Again he is
distracted, and again he pays the price.
T: "You too, c***-lover! Priest! You too will be afraid when you get
what's coming to you." The door of Hearty's mind is giving way. That
force is battering at him. He falters a moment, then regains
concentration in an immense effort. He goes on questioning.
H: "The astral travels of Carl? Did you engineer that?"
T: "Yes."
H: "How did you get him into such delusion?"
"Once spirit is confused with psyche, we can let anybody see, hear,
touch, taste, know, desire the impossible. He was ours. He is ours. He
is of the Kingdom."

Creepy stuff!

So, eventually after about 5 days Carl is exorcised and Tortoise is sent back to wherever leaving Carl in a very bad way. The poor chap is in a near comatose state for a good while and is a shadow of his former self, needing round the clock care! Which is understandable after exposing that part of himself as a lie and then "losing" a good chunk of that false personality and having to adjust back to being himself again. The interesting part I wanted to share was Carl's letter to his former students/friends after he comes back to himself which explains my misgivings about these kinds of phenomena much better than I ever could. For the TLDR version just read the bolded parts because it's a lengthy letter:

"I want to tell you the truth as I now see it, I was wrong in my personal
instructions to each one of you about your lives.
"All through my childhood and youth, I had an affinity with God.
Especially after my first vision.
"I'm certain God was there. Somewhere. But then came Princeton.
Stanford. Tubingen. Cambridge. London. After that, my guruship and
the efflorescence of the gifts I had. I became confused.. Somehow I lost
God. At the same time, I wanted to help. Really to help. To be of
service. All around me, I could see floating neon images of pain, of
putrefaction, of illness, of corruption. and decay. I saw strange people
who did not give a damn. Give a damn, please, I said. They took God's
name in vain. As I did. They were bright and cold and hard as storage
ice. They liked gratuitous evil and upholstered innocence.
"I signed a moral contract to change all that. I was young,
eager-beaver. I was determined to succeed. All up-tight, you might
say. I was going to be a good psychologist, an honest and conscientious
and understanding servant of mankind. Servant. Not slave. And then I
was going to be a good parapsychologist. And then a thoroughgoing
guru.
"I groped, even prayed, searched, never took no for an answer. And
I found that lyrical liar, the Devil.
"I knew with whom I had to deal, of course. But, first of all, the
Devil was not the Devil preached by the Churches. There was no
room in my universe for a principle of Evil. Not at that time of my life.
And, I thought, the bond and contract would be, could be temporary.
Of course, it could not be. But when pride gets hold of your mind and
heart, you cannot see clearly.
"Solemnly and of my own free will, I wish to acknowledge that
knowingly and freely I entered into possession by an evil spirit. And,
although that spirit came to me under the guise of saving me,
perfecting me, helping me to help others, I knew all along it was evil.
"After my conversations with Father F. [Hearty], I put everything
into perspective intellectually. And I must ascribe my liberation, or, to
speak correctly, my desire to want to be free (because I was not
allowed any simple desire to be free) I must ascribe all this to what
Father F. calls the grace of God and the salvation of Jesus.
"I never enjoyed astral body-travel, only the illusion of it. I never
achieved the privilege of a double-if that be a privilege. Bilocation
never succeeded, never was a fact for me. Of myself, I could not see
things happening hundreds of miles away, read the future, see the
past, peer with minute detail into people's minds. I could give the
illusion of these only by being prompted by someone who could see
from a great distance, could read the future, had a detailed knowledge
of the past, could peer into people's minds. Any idea of reincarnation I
championed was an attempt to trick. I was not a shaman. Just a sham.
"I never willed to be rid of possession until the day that Father F.
explained my basic error about consciousness and spirit.
"My central error, which was both intellectual and moral in
character, concerned the nature of ordinary human consciousness.
Like many before me and many others nowadays, I found that with
rigid and expert training I could attain a fascinating state of
consciousness: a complete absence of any particular object (in my
awareness). I found I could attain a permanency on this plane of
consciousness. It finally became a constant environment within me,
during my waking hours, no matter what I was doing. It seemed to be
pure and therefore sinless, undifferentiated and therefore universal,
simple and therefore without parts-and therefore incorruptible and
unchangeable, and therefore eternal.
"My error started when I took this psycho-biological condition of
life as the life of spirit. Consciousness basically means awareness, being
alert. And such awareness can be measured by certain physiological
data. It can be phenomenally described, because it is a phenomenon.
"If it were not for one further mistake, that initial error would, I
believe, have been corrected as time went on-simply because finally
the scientific imperative would have taken over and forced us to look
at the facts in the face.
"With the passage of time, I began to experience a further state of
consciousness. It is difficult to put it into words. Before that, I was in a
sort of state of suspension about my aware state. I was aware that I
was in awareness. One day, I realized through a faculty which I have
not been able to identify, that there was some other activity taking
place which was so refined and subtle that, while I was dimly aware of
it, I knew absolutely nothing about it-what it was, where it was, what
it accomplished, whether it began and ended, or whether it had always
existed, did then exist continuously, and would go on existing whether I was aware of it or not.
"It lay beyond all my developed capacity to reach. It was utterly
transcendent. Indeed, this was its mark; and this is how I realized its
differentiation from my other levels of consciousness. They, no matter
how subtle, were subject finally to my senses-at least to representation in images drawn from my sense-life. This further state of
consciousness was not so subject.
"But this was sufficient indication for me, I thought. I took this as
the absolutely spiritual state of my being. I took it for granted that
religiously speaking I was out beyond that Dark Night of the Soul
described by John of the Cross and well into something the Eastern
mystics had called by various names like satori and sarnadhi. The fact
that, at least in afterthought and reflection, I could measure and
quantify this state of consciousness never struck a warning note. And
that was crass enough on my part. What confirmed me in my error was
that I refused to take into account the fact that this state was in
complete disjunction from all historical religion-and without any
chance of linking up with historical religion. It was, in other words,
pure subjectivism. And from then on, the door was open to any
influence and any distortion. What crawled through that door was Evil
Spirit. Tortoise.
"I did arrive at part of the truth about spirit-the nether part, the
negative part. But in the flux of spirit life, that was the only part it
uncovered. And it necessarily attacked the human in me. For it is not
that I am part animal, part human. I am not a human animal. I am a
human spirit. We are of the spirit in its fluid, non-static, non-quantifiable existence. And, in matters of spirit, nether and upper, bad and
good, these are terms that refer to its approximation to or distance
from the source and stun of all spirit.
"I have been the subject of the cleverest of illusions: that spirit was
a static quantum of more or less determinable dimensions; that
Christian authorities had obscured the truth about the spirit; and that
only by parapsychology and preternatural gifts could one arrive at the
truth.
"The truth is that all along, despite my triumphal career until
Aquileia, since the advent of possession I had a sorrow I could not
shake. Such a deep sodden sadness. I looked for joy everywhere and
lived beneath a winter moon that made a carcass of all my days.
"My advice for all who engage in the study and pursuit of the
parapsychological is simple but vitally important: do not confound
effects with causes, or systems with what maintains the systems. Do
not take it that a photograph of Kirlian dots or auras is a photograph of
spirit. Do not accept the feats of seance mediums as results of spirit
from God. But do not, on the other hand, tamper with or treat of
parapsychological phenomena as if you could do this without ultimately impinging upon spirit. You cannot. And that fact will,
depending upon what you do, be to your detriment or to your
betterment-in spirit."

Reading that gave me some food for thought.