Thanks Spooky, that was good clarity for me.

gosh Steve, I love your exploration! brought up all sorts of things for me to think about.
I think your exploration has insight for all of us as for one thing, there's nowhere to go but into our own psyche as you say.

so thanks for dropping your story! I'll do my take it apart piece by piece to share what my connections were: first off OOBE style dreams is a good term. I think it's the best term for now, as I know there's supposed to be a difference between obe and dream but somehow, along the way, for me too, they have merged.

The memory combine world term is good too, it points to the authenticity of thought, memory (time) and experience as energy constructs which create personal reality, and collective reality. ok, simply put thoughts are things.

Asking the hostess, I think she acts as a guide here. about the rules. you seem to be asking about the protocol of exploring focus 27:

I looked up some definitions of protocol to see how that fits with what u were asking and receiving:
1) the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
2) an agreement between states
3) the plan for carrying out a scientific study
4) a set of rules governing the format of messages that are exchanged
5) Philosophy. a statement reporting an observation or experience in the most fundamental terms without interpretation: sometimes taken as the basis of empirical verification, as of scientific laws

the guide/hostess replies protocol is similar to monetary warning system.

I'm thinking what monetary means. if monetary is associated with money, money is associated with energy..like energy income and outgo system. the warning part feels like to me, your psyche's amount of energy you have to "spend" out there during your exploration period before you ground yourself back to C1.
C1 is called limited consciousness, where our shortages are experienced, one might say.

Unlimited being, is where you go when you obe/dream. or the concepts expressed provided opportunity to explore unlimited being.

next you get some valid info about Earth space station. My thought on that is to redefine "bad" to duality situation of obstruction, or opposite polarities.
my simple definition of that conversation exchange of worst places to live (I like that!) is the Earth is an ocean. Within an ocean exist automatons known as sharks. a shark knows only hunger and will injest a car tire or other nonorganic substance as they are scavengers. One must develop one's own shark repellent if one absolutely has to swim in shark infested waters. Alligators are not friendly either.
people can be like sharks. why, just yesterday I smiled as a heavily muscled man walked his bull dog, and spirit said to me, notice that they each have a similar build, and indeed I laffed out loud to observe their rear ends were sashaying exactly in rythym of tough attitude.

u had to be there.

next you make a leap. Symbolic of mental leaps. reminds me of Bruce's books where he is doing the same thing with his energy body making leaps and attempting to land properly without sinking into the water.
u make a huge effort. seems to be a key here as u r thrust into the blackness, again, reminds me of Bruce's 3D blackness.
I too have traveled through the blackness.
Next is real important info about your energy body, my pov, while you do your explorations and this relates to what the guide said about your energy levels.

you think a thought; you wonder about F27, how to reach it.

immediately then you get the image of the wild car driving on the sidewalk.

bit of a wild man are you? just joking. I think the car on the sidewalk represents the huge effort you r putting forth to find F27, when you may already be in F27 and this is how it looks for the moment. in other words, there is a slight urgency to get to where u r going, and this is producing a small amount of stress, thus the car driving up on the sidewalk..u may be after a breakthru, and at the preliminary stages of that.

all I have to say, good thing there's no traffic cops on the other side. wait! haha!
I did get stopped once on the other side for wearing no shoes, but it was just a warning. I tried to flirt to get out of the ticket, but the cop saw thru me, grinned, and said everybody does it and he was here just to make sure I was safely driving.

cool. thanks for sharing this great exploration. love, alysia

Also, I feel I should note that conversations were not in spoken word as I did not hear any voice, rather it was a telepathic exchange of concepts resulting in greater accuracy of the concept intended to be shared.

Saturday's great---I'll be there too!
We should start a new thread with that date on it to catch people's attention.

Love, Bets

I personally like the crystal as a starting focus in the mind only because a crystal is said to enhance thought power, or be like a resonation factor.

however, it is our intentions to meet up which is most important, so the locale becomes of 2nd importance as a focus point. which just means I'm open to suggestions of visual image. setting an intention which actually pans out is the first hurdle, which is why I suggest a 2 minute at the least, intention setting exercise.

for this u must make up your own intention setting ideas based on previous experience with intention setting. Bruce used to talk of the little finger bending exercise to set an intention. along with the finger bending idea, think of PUL.
my way of doing this is to generate the PUL with desire to meet up, and put that behind the little finger. 2 minutes of concentrating on the intention, plus you might use curiosity or sense of adventure, as other emotional content, perhaps a love of exploration this way, or a love of the other participants would work. two minutes, then quit and forget about it. go on about your daily tasks with an anticipatory feeling in the back of your mind. you are in the act of creating then, as you release all concerns for the outcome.

well, see y'all there I'm sure! lets sail this boat somewhere mates! love, alysia