Interesting article from Robert Bruce's Blog:

During altered state sessions, it is common to have brief visions. When ‘allowed’ to manifest, these are not vague things, but have full color. They can contain sound. They can be metaphorical, precognitive, or depict real life and real time events, etc.  This is clairvoyance…a visual psychic ability.

But it is common for such visions to be short lived…lasting only a few moments before you lose hold of it, before some invisible force shuts them out, like turning off a TV. It might just start building up, you start to see it…wow….and then it goes away.

Its almost like an invisible parent reaches out and shuts it off..saying…that’s not suitable for your viewing… And this is basically what is happening.

What I am about to say is incredibly important to anyone wanting to develop OBE or psychic abilities.
These visions appear in your mind because you are nudging the envelope through the altered state and energy work sessions.

Psychic abilities are peeking through your perceptual filters.

The moment they appear, and your higher self notices, it shuts them down according to your default settings.

Higher self filters out subtle senses and abilities, including OBE, by default, to keep us grounded here in the physical. Barring natural ability or faulty filters, this is the norm.

Here’s what I want you to do.

The next time you have a vision, closely observe your body with body awareness.

You will feel a subtle movement of energy through your stomach and chest, and in your head minds eye space.

You will feel a big part of your self cutting off the vision, pushing it away.

This is a direct movement and action by your higher self.

This feels like you are doing this yourself. But why….when you would love to have the visions and etc?
The only way around this is to ‘allow’ the ability.

All of us have perfect natural strong psychic abilities already. But these are not allowed by our default settings.

So, how do we change the default settings?

With intention.

And the best way to approach this is through verbal and silent affirmations.

We need to get through to higher self that we want these abilities, and OBEs. We need to express that we love these things and that we are okay with allowing them.

Every day, many times a day even, say out loud ‘I am clairvoyant’ ‘I see energy’ ‘I have visions’ ‘I love my visions’ ‘I see into the astral dimension’ ‘I see spirits’ ‘I see the greater reality’ ‘I have perfect psychic abilities’

and etc.

This works.

In time, as long as it takes, short or long, you will notice a weakening of the higher self hand that shuts these things out, a hesitancy. The visions will begin lasting longer and appearing more often.

Having visions is quite confronting, you will find. And this confrontation mirrors the feelings of your higher self. You will have mixed feelings, often tinged by fear of the unknown and etc.

Continue ‘allowing’ this and visions and etc will stop and start and stutter, but progressively grow stronger and more reliable.

Robert Bruce

Quote:
   "The next time you have a vision, closely observe your body with body awareness.
   You will feel a subtle movement of energy through your stomach and chest, and in your head minds eye space.
   You will feel a big part of your self cutting off the vision, pushing it away."

Yes, it's like a little shock running through my body, making me phase out of the vision.

Spooky

Ok, now talk about freaky, this is just what happened to me this morning.  I had woken up, and then relaxed into meditation (which is a great way to get into the focus 10 state without being too tired to maintain intent).  And then, I had an experience somewhere between OOB and a lucid astra state.  There was a long rectancular window in front of me, but I was looking out of another window, one that wasn't in the room (but was).  I saw plants, with exotic leaves and flowers growing, and morphing into the most beautiful living things.  The scene changed almost like a slide show, so that another bright, brilliant living exotic plant would take its place about every 10 seconds or so. 

I became aware that this was an altered state, and I was totally lucid at the time.  I was immersed in the mind fully awake/body asleep phase.  I don't recall seeing my astral body though.  I said to myself that I should maintain this window, and watch it develop.  It was sort of as if i said: "great, this is the state I always wanted.  Totally lucid, so now I will use the power of intent/will to delve deeper into the astral." 
However, within a few minutes, despite my best efforts, I phased back into the reality we all know and the window closed.

This happened by chance and then I saw this thread.  My conclusion is that while the altered state is happening, wanting it to continue is not enough.  It wasn't a matter of losing concentration.  It lasted as long as it lasted. 

I believe that R. Bruce may be onto something.  B. Moen on this site has said the same sort of thing.  That we have to set intent to lose our unwanted blocks, hindrances and belief systems.  Perhaps as we are relaxed before sleep, or even throughout the day. 

My only question is whether higher self is blocking us like a parent would a child.  I don't feel this for myself.  Rather, it is a block we in the earth-life-system willingly embrace by being incarnate.  I think our higher self can help us accomplish the removal of blockages when we are truly ready. 

Matthew

Matthew

I don't feel the higher self is acting as a protecting parent figure.  Rather, its purpose is to serve our conscious intents and beliefs.  As most are programmed to be focused in only C1, any experience contrary to this will be against these intents and beliefs, and the higher self will shut the experience down.  So when we change our intents and beliefs, higher self now has a new system to follow in regards to manifesting our reality, and will adjust accordingly.

Cool experience by the way!  When I enter an altered state such as this, I usually jump right into the scene and begin to explore.  It seems to happen naturally, rather than because of intent.  Perhaps its a matter of beliefs.  Do you truly believe you are able to consciously explore other dimensions OBE/phasing style?

I disagree with the Robert Bruce statement that our higher self is responsible for shutting things down.  He's got it backwards.  Our higher self is the thing that is giving us the information in the first place.

WE are shutting down the connection.  Our conscious waking mind is doing the shutting down, unbeknownst to us.

Vicky

It's true, WE are shutting down these experiences, due to our limiting beliefs.  However, it is through our higher self which these beliefs flow and form our reality. 

The reason why the HS shuts out the experience is because it goes against our programming- the HS is ultimately responsible for all of our perceptions, and these perceptions are dictated by our beliefs.  So the HS brings whatever perceptions into our consciousness which agree with us.  The HS knows if we are not ready to percieve something, and will end any given perception accordingly. 

We begin to percieve a vision, and we would love to continue having it, but beliefs contrary to this type of experience are deeply embedded into our subconscious, into our higher self's programming, that it is shut down, seemingly against our will.  Why can't I continue with the vision?  Why is it abruptly ended?  Like I said, our subconscious is programmed against it from an early age, and it is through our HS which this programming is manifested in our perceptions.  I believe this is what RBruce is talking about.  But it's all connected and interrelated.

Great Thread Dude! I believe our HS wants us to grow as fast as possible so once we open the door we get what we need and don't get what we don't. Some of my best meditations have not included any OBE type stuff but just major information that I could verify if it were important to me. Campbell's psi uncertainty principle is at work no matter how we believe or perceive. You get what you need when you need it. Asking is good way to get it consciously, however.

The way I see it, the higher self carries out all of our subconscious manifestations.  So if an experience is closed out against the conscious mind's will due to subconscious beliefs, then it must be said that this blockage is a part of the subconscious/higher self's process.  Ya dig?