User: docileboy

I agree. But, beyond Astral Projection is Soul Travel. Astral projection takes one to the Astral Plane, but Soul Travel goes there and beyond to the Highest Levels of the Heavenly Worlds. Dream Study is important too. Go to www.eckankar.org if you want to look into things like this. I found it fascinating. Reincarnation, Light and Sound of God, and much much more. Good Luck.

Instead of looking at all the End Time scenarios, especially the Left Behind variety, let's look at the positives in life. We've deveoped a Global Economy and society. When disaster strikes in any remote area of the world, everyone knows about it and aid pours in (hopefully the local government allows the aid). People have been experiencing the 'end times' for centuries. The Dark Ages were a thousand times worse than anything that goes on today. Talk about crime in the streets. Every month a new marauding hoard would ride through. One never knew if it would be the Huns, the Hungarians, the Saracens, the Vikings or even the local king might decide to set up residence and eat up all the food. People either were killed, starved to death, or died of food poisoning. And I still haven't got to the Plague, yet! Everyone thought surely Jesus was coming back now, how much worse could it get? Yet, the result was...the Renaisance!! A whole new way of looking and thinking..a whole New World opened up. What with the two World Wars and all, I feel we're ready for a new Renaisance. All the factors are there...new Technology, new exploration, new Religious thought. I tell you, by the year 2060 we'll will have the greatest Society imaginable. It won't be easy getting there, but we will get there, mark my words.

It's the Religion of Divine Light and Sound. It studies include, Dream Travel, Soul Travel, past lives, healings and much more. It's goal is to help followers reach liberation from the Wheel of Karma and Reincarnation in this lifetime. As a Soul who has been on this planet since the days of the mastedons and before, I welcomed the opportunity to be free. The cost is minimal, and the rewards are maximal. It is a path where the individual proves spiritual insights for themselves. I don't believe in past lives because I read about them, but because, through my own development, I experienced them. It's a stay at home religion, though group study is available. If you're looking around, you might want to look this way..WWW.ECKANKAR.ORG Thank you, and good luck.

Mystics throughout the ages have seen and studied auras in people. They could tell exactly what the person was like, how honest they were, how spiritually developed or undeveloped they were. They could tell what area of the body was diseased and often what color might help heal that disease. Orange is usually a good color for healing the physical body. While Blue is a good color for healing the mind and emotions. Purple helps heal depression. White and yellow are over-all types healing Lights for the upliftment of the individual. Try this simple exercise...Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Gaze at the screen of the mind and imagine a White Light coming in from a Higher Place. Then, the Light hits a prizm and divides into different colors. Direct the Orange Light to the area of your body that needs a healing (or your whole body). Now, sing the word HU (pronounced HUGH) it's an ancient name for God (and the root word for Halleluah). Feel the orange light come in and commence to heal the affliction. Say to yourself, "Spirit, if it is spiritually right for me now, please help heal this affliction." Do the same thing with the Blue Light if it's your emotions or mind that needs the healing. Also, the white or yellow light is excellant for all purposes both spiritual and physical. A great book, if you can find it, is The ECK Vidya by Paul Twitchell. It has a chapter in it about the spiritual effects of colors. If you can't find it, go to WWW.ECKANKAR.ORG and you should be able to order it from there. Good hunting and good HUUUUUing.

I agree with Wise old man about God existing in a timeless state therefore IT ALWAYS EXISTED and did not, at some point, COME into existence. I also agree that life could not have evolved. It's way too complex for that. The evolution of species was actually the evolution of Soul Itself. Soul started out in atom form and began to grow more complex. As It did, God gave It greater and greater vehicles of expression, like a parent giving a child a tricycle, then bicycle, then car, etc. But, I have had many, many past lives (as far back as throwing spears at mastedons and before that). I have been villians, heroes, good and faithful servants and you name it. I did not burn in hell forever and ever. I am not lying the grave waiting for the One Big Ressurection, I am not sitting up there with the Lord. This world is a school not a mistake. Soul's destiny is to achieve Enlightened (Christ or Budda or any name you wish to call it) Consciousness. Then it will graduate and go to live in the worlds of PURE SPIRIT. The Garden of Eden was not in this world, but in the Worlds of Pure Spirit where Soul came from. It was kicked out, really sent out, because It couldn't grow there. It needed the worlds of adversity to grow the way a seed needs soil to grow, not a felt-lined box. There are billions of worlds in this Universe with life on them. God doesn't waste creation. There are more Physical Universes than the one we know. The main physcal universe has life on every planet from Mercury to Pluto, but the vibrations there are much nicer and more condusive to life. Most the UFO"s come from these places. God is not Male nor Female. Is Light male? Is Love female? Neither is Soul. Male and female are forms Soul inhabits here in order to have experiences of needing and loving others. Good luck with everyone's research. A word of caution, don't be too literal in your interpretation of any Holy Book. On one end of the spectrum is Literal, on the other end is Enlightened. How literal are you?