I enjoy questions! lol. it helps me get clear, the questions. I love to write. it's difficult to use the written word but will have to make do. heres your questions:
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Pretending (without seeing or feeling) would be using imagination? For instance, as a way to get perception started.
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pretending is like trusting. trusting is like to be a child with an open mind. at first as a beginner I did not feel much of anything while pretending. feelings seem to sneak up later. I do see an image but they are blurry at first. always have to ask, please clarity, then I assume assistance make it clear to me. I am aware now guides can place an image in your head, by thought transference. since I love myself, I am never afraid that I will be mislead, if that is any help to you in your explorations. love is like dispelling fear. too much fear inside of us, cannot see anything at all. yes, imagination gets things going in right direction, later on, you wonder, well, something happened that I did not expect. but you start with playing along with imagination, let yourself go with it. for instance, my favorite illustration how this works: was talking to my deceased granny, thinking I may be a little lunny tunes, but this is fun, so I will play along. pretty soon she start answring me but I did not have chance to ask a question yet! ha ha! slow down nanny I ask her! still playing along. so then she say ask your mother about the black brooch! black brooch? nanny, I say, I don't believe in wearing jewelry. so she say, never mind about your belief to not wear jewelry, just ask your mother about the brooch. scratch head. I went downstairs and said mom, what about a black brooch? mom sat there and got a red face. she didn't say anything for a long time. then she said in a tiny voice "oh, did she want u to have it?" turns out that then I remembered as mom helped me remember, nanny collected antique jewelry, tons of it. she had told mom which piece to give me a long time ago. mom had either lost the jewelry, or just didn't follow through with nanny's request for other reasons her own. nanny was trying to "fix" our relationship here. ha ha! at that moment I realized the value of "playing along" with the imagination, as I knew for certain nanny was guiding my mother from the other side so I thought I'd say hello in my imagination to her and got myself a whopper of a verification that it works.
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Seeing (either like physical seeing or only seeing black and white impressions) is like phasing?
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I see in black and white. sometimes I can see color in association with a chakra movement or if color is associated with a concept I need to understand. but black and white is where I am for the most part no matter what altered state I might be in. phasing is where we all are headed in the future my opinion. but I still can sense a buzzing vibration once in awhile when I'm doing the obe thing. the form I take can be like my own body stepping into a movie clip, and I know it's a movie I want to be in. sometimes I take the form of someone else, stepping into their shoes while guides direct the movie. they do this so I will learn. I don't know to call this phasing. maybe we can call phasing to be like a merge. we merge into the collective area, but still have a sense of individuality intact.
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Actually seeing and feeling like you are really there and having a body is OBE?
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my sense of really being there is part of the excitement, and is my motivation for sitting on my butt here; lol, (theres no where else I'd rather be than talking to you right now) this is a knowing thing, this is what we cannot share with another, and this is why skeptics do not believe that u know what u know, because they are still gathering their experience which is the only valid knowing that we can gain in an individual sense. but there will be varieties of obes. my opinion flying dreams, lucid dreams, are a degree of obe, connected to the development of going obe, like step one, step two, like that. then step 3 would be phasing, or like I mentioned once, a merging concept, to merge the sub with the conscious, so you are "always there." always in the now moment, with information at your fingertips if you desire that.
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What about "seeing" as knowing?
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some say "I see." some say "I feel" some say "I hear you." some say "I touch you." knowing is what we all want. we say we want to know the truth as the truth will set us free. so we have to define what is "knowing?" as I said, we cannot share what we know. but we can live our knowings. each person will get their own knowing basically through their life time. this is what we came here for and it's ok then not to know. it does not mean one is superior and one is inferior. we are all the same to want to know. seeing is not the same as knowing.seeing is perception and perception is limited viewpoint. experiencing is knowing. but we are pieces of one another, and we can put our pieces together and come away with a gain that way towards more knowing. so thank you to ask me, for you boost me up that way...to put your piece with mine, we will keep it safe that way, from those energies who would resist the shift in consciousness occurring. love, alysia