just wanted to add a few more thoughts to this thread before it gets washed away into the archives of infinity never to be heard from again

I remember some opening lines in Bruce's books about how he set off to find out who he was and what he was.  I was thinking YEA! YEA! thats what its all about. do u think it will take a whole lifetime? probably since I believe we never stop or have an end point to say its done.
now considering how threatening that can be or confusing..to have this overview where you're hearing yourself involved in five different conversations as five different viewpoints, or people. would it not obliterate who u think u are right here and now?
would u not be crashing on a daily basis maybe? possibly, but thankfully we have been given the means to blink out of those realitys and ground ourselves into our comfort zones once more.
I think experiences that give such an overview to who and what we are tend to cast our thoughts in the direction that we are more than we think we are. then if you keep thinking this way it leads into a mind that becomes the collector of such thoughts and opens us up to not the "less than" thoughts but the "more than" thoughts, like a rote, and it builds and to put it simply, if u don't make it, u know your baby will, thats a serene thought of love I think about sometimes.

and if I don't make it, whatever it is, that other me over there will.

Greetings, 
Yes, that does make me a bit angry.   
So then, why are you continuing to post questions here, OOBD?
And take advantage of people's time and interest?
Many of us consider the retrieval work to be an extension of loving others, resolving situations where previous love had not been adequately supplied. Have you tried it yet?
bets

Hi OOBD-
The question that some of us are asking is exactly where the "real world" leaves off and the "play time stuff" begins. Is the "interlife phase" a normally accessible interval that we generally have overlooked, or is it perhaos the core experience and we're stuck out here in neverland trying to get home?

For example, where does the "you" end? At the interior of your psyche? Or do "you" extend to fill your skin? Ot do you also include your clothing? And then maybe the vehicle you drive, or you home, or your city etc. Does the energy of your existence end at a neuronal synapse in your head, or does it exteriorize into the surrounding space, or does it continue to include everything that you have ever done and all the stuff with which you have interacted?

Then there's the questiojn about how it works. Do we live in a world defined by wholly physics, or are there some loose ends that allow unusual thngs, like Bruce's 5-viewpoint exteriorization that suggested to me a 4-vector generated out of everyday 3-space (the space is valid, it's actually the dual vector space to our 3-space plus its cross, rather than the M-E 4-vector - error on my part due to being excited etc). To discover this allows (in my own case) clinical applications that can deal with inner urges and past lifetimes more effectively than current materialistic behavioral psychology. (Besides, it's fun to upset the sacred cows of orthodoxy.)

And then there's the bottom line, that it's actually fun to rescue stuck souls an to poke about in the inner workings of the spiritual spaces surrounding us. Perhaps, were we able to understand them better, we could continue a normal lifetime  into a more elaborate world at the end of this life. Or maybe, as appears to be the case, we might simple merge back into the Creative Essence from which all this came, and not have to return.

I suggest that you can use this forum for any purpose you desire. And you'll notice that it has people of all levels of education, psychic skill and interest area.  Perhaps one of the most important things that it offers is a sounding board for each of us to use as we figure out the questions about life that we otherwise are unable to ask, because we lack a responsive audience. At the same time, this is a place where it is fully appropriate to question things - My discovery is that in every case, there will be someone who does something better, someone who does them worse, someone wiser, someone not as wise, and lots of peers who are muddling along in the middle ground.

So welcome - Enjoy.

dave

Lately I have focused on myself mostly in my meditations and what is getting stronger is the feeling, or the increasing certainty, that I'm free to do what I want here- no helper is telling me what I have to do, this seems to be a principle, at least in my case.  So, when one has no reliable source for telling one what to do, you just do what you like and what seems right, and that includes of course to not get obsessed too much in anything because it reduces the learning as well as the fun.

Meditation, exploring, to stick with this "etheric" stuff and transcendent things, as well as religion, is providing a framework to interprete the physical world. Everyone has such a framework, and it's just natural to work on this framework- the physical world alone "says" nothing, it's all about what it means to each of us.

Spooky