_ _ _/B\_ _/W\_ (* *) Phrack #64 file 14 (* *) | - | | - | | | Hacking your brain: | | | | | | | | The projection of consciousness | | | | | | | | by keptune | | (____________________________________________________) Dead Underground, for this new Phrack issue, The Circle of Lost Hackers has decided to start one more new section entitled "Hacking you brain". We already hear you: "what the hell this subject is in relation with computer hacking???". Well, as we already mentioned in other articles, for us hacking is not only computer hacking but it's much more. The following article, as you will understand, talks about out of body experiences. By publishing this article in a magazine like phrack, we know that it will bring scepticism. The author, in this article, claims that such out of body experiences are possible. One of the main rule of the underground is to not be blind and trust everything simply because an authority claims it, to try everthing by yourself with criticism and a totally open mind spirit. It's why, for us, the unreasoning credulity is something more blameworthy than a presumptuous and septic guy who reject facts without examinating if they are real. Even if an out of body experience is interesting, what is more interesting is the new implication that it leads up. It's unrecognized by the current Science even if it's known for ages. If the following information are true - what we affirm - then it's revolutionary. Be able to live out of your body means that the dead is no the end but only one step that we all have to pass over. All these reasons make us think that publishing an article like that in Phrack is a good idea. Because before being a computer hacking magazine, phrack is dedicated to spread the occult knowledge, unrecognized and subversive. We let you discover - and experiment - by yourselves this fantastic phenomenon that are lucid dreams and out of body projections so that you can make up your own opinion. Have a good read. ---------------------------------- The projection of consciousness by keptune Since the Ancient times, as far as we know, humankind has been animated by the most impressive curiosity for almost everything, especially for this strange thing that is the Mind : something concrete although impalpable to the subject, yet invisible to the world. Some of the oldest carvings and paintings that have been discovered in Africa are full of dream visions and abstract symbols, most likely depicting chamanic inner travels. However, it appears that the .power. to investigate how the mind works and to retrieve pieces of information on the consciousness and its mecanisms has been monopolized early in History by a few ones. Call them chamans, sorcerers, wisemen, etc., they have gained a social position through the ages by grabing the exclusive rights of these investigations. Which might has been wise at first, as the initiations to these practices were mostly done from master to disciple in order to keep the teaching intact. But indirectly, it has led the majority to be ignorant of these subjects, almost fearful about the workings of the consciousness and what could modify it. When the time came for the brand new .modern science. to study the Mind, during the XIXth century, some would have thought that everything was about to change. But in place it was only the continuity of the past traditions, although by fathering new ones: psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists. Nowadays, if you do not have at least a master degree in one of these subject, you are simply considered ignorant by the scientists about the mind. That.s right, your . own . mind, your consciousness. You are just not .authorized. to talk about it, or mocked at if you try, like a child who would try to build a skyrocket . cute, but impossible. It is no more than another form of monopoly, to control the main dogma of materialism in our society. It is like saying that you are not intelligent enough to think about it, so just do not try, serious people are doing it for you and will tell you what to think and how to apprehend your own life. Meanwhile, just work, consume and enjoy. But guess what: these people, most likely unconsciously as they are being .manipulate. too by the main dogma, just want to make you think that you canno.t know anything about the mind, your . own . consciousness, without them. And you would be a fool to try in spite of this all-powerful fact. Which is just wrong. Seriously. In fact, you are the one who is all-powerful about his own consciousness. But you must use it, and bring it to unknown territories in order to understand it by yourself, which is the only way. Some might be thinking at this point: my mind is what it is, what is he talking about? Sometimes I am sad, or joyful, but my mind stays the same beneath that. Well, wrong. You just did not try to change it, to push it to it.s extreme. I am talking about something with the same subjective difference than the physical reality and a dream. Think Matrix, less the glasses, the robots and the giant killing computer. I am talking about a skill that anyone can develop: projection of consciousness, one of the most amazing faculty of the mind. What is projection of consciousness? Have you ever lucid dream? I mean, dreaming and knowing that you are dreaming? Realizing that the world around you is just an illusion created by your mind and you did not notice it at first? That is a type of projection of consciousness, the lowest one in fact. You are projecting your mind out of the feeling of your physical body, into another reality. Dreaming is a type of projection of consciousness, although non-lucid one are the lowests from the lowest, not very interesting for the real mind raiders. But it.s a good bridge to do some more serious projection activities. At this point of the article, I know that some are already thinking: whatever, dreams are not real. WRONG. That is a typical shortcut from the dominant materialistic, so-called .scientific., dogma, which considers that all that is not palpable is not real. Then your mind as a unity of perception and consciousness is not real, because guess what, even the best EEG canno.t find where the mind sets in the brain (if it is in the brain at all). All they do is record electrical signals here and there. For your mind, the dream is as solid and real as physical reality. That is why you wake up sweating from a nightmare, with you heartbeat at 200, and still all frightened during a few minutes. Or at the opposite, you wake up with a feeling of completeness after a really amazing and beautiful dream. Right? A dream is impalpable, but it is real nonetheless for the observer, you. And now think about this: about one sixth of your life is made of dreams. Almost an entire seperate life, which most people just disregard as unreal (=impalpable) and therefore uninteresting. That is just sad, when you know all the amazing possibilities of the mind, which can . and will . really transform your life by bringing your attention to a whole new dimension. Something noboby has ever talked to you about I guess. Something that is still mostly undiscovered, where you are a real pionnier. If you have never even lucid dream, you are situated right now at the first floor of a skyscrapper, ignoring that there is an elevator just behind you that could bring you in no time to a flabbergasting landscape and a whole new perspective. Seriously. You canno.t know what your mind, your consciousness, is made of unless you accept to explore it by yourself. The modern scientific method tends to analyze from an outside point of view, which just canno.t led to a full understanding. It would be like trying to understand how you watch works without opening it up at one time or another. I guess many are thinking right now about shrooms, pot and crack, salvia divinorum, entheogens, hallucinations etc. That.s on the exact opposite of what I am about to explain. You do not need anything more than yourself (and hopefully your mind too) to project in full consciousness. Plants have been used a lot by chamans to attain different levels of perception, but nowadays it is very unlikely that you know a chaman that could guide you into a safe practice using them. Taking some is therefore not recommended for projection of consciousness, as you need to be fully aware. Moreover, some might just think afterwards that it was hallucinations due to the drugs, which would ruin the whole point of the experience. So let us start. From my own experience (it is always important to speak by experience on this subject and not from books or theories, even more as the point is to gain a first-hand knowledge of all this), there are different levels of projection (the fact of putting your consciousness out of the perception of the physical universe, into another form of reality). From the lowest to the highest: - dreams - lucide dreams - wake initiated lucid dreams - full physical projection - higher projections Everyone knows dreams. Well in fact some people never remember their dreams, but everyone can after only a few days of training (thinking hard about the last image in mind just after waking up for example is a good way to progressively remember full dreams). I won.t talk about it here as everyone can achieve this state quite easily. Lucid dream is a type of dream that not everyone has experienced, or for some only a few times. It is dreaming and realizing that something is wrong, and eventually that you are in a dream. It opens up a whole new perspective to dreaming: have you ever thought of controlling the whole universe? Well, with some training, you can in lucid dreams. It is also a place to meet solidified parts of your psyche, your subconscious. Characters become interfaces with deeper parts of your mind. You can retrieve old of lost information or interact with your own mind by creating psychic anchors through them. You are like inside of you own mind, I mean . really . inside, the universe around you is a symbolic materialized form of what you thought was so impalpable in the waking state. You can go on the lowest levels of your mind .programs. (i.e. your personality etc.) and modify them. Or you can just create your own worlds, and enjoy the landscapes, the .people. you meet (parts of you in fact, with sometimes what seems to be a real kind of independent behaviour and own proto-mind). Something I am experimenting with lately is fusioning with the strongest .people. (part of my psyche) that I encounter. I just ask to fusion and our bodies melt into one. It is a really amazing experience each time, and I gain a lot of knowledge that I did not thought I had. It is like reunifying my mind little by little. Well, the possibilities are almost limitless, so just think about anything you would like to do, and you can! It is also a good place to face blocages and fight them. The result in the physical life is real if you win. Some have destroyed their OCD in this state, others have gained enough willpower to stop drugs or take control of their lives etc. Becoming lucid for the first time can be however some kind of a challenge. Fortunately, many types of training have been developped. Here are a few ones. I encourage you to google these for more information and technics: - Make your watch beep every x minutes. It can be quite annoying for other people though. However, this beep will progressively be integrated by your subconscious mind and will start to appear in your dreams after a week or two. What you must do (in physical reality) is check out your surrounding everytime your watch beeps. Do this seriously, it is really important to get totally involved into this verification of reality. Try to remember your whole day, and the past days, for chronological problems etc. Do not think that you are in the physical reality but really imagine that you might be dreaming. If you realize that there is a problem, well, congratulations, you are doing a lucid dream now. - Do some reality checks the same way when you see something strange, or on the opposite (which might work better for some) when you do something really basic, like washing your hands, or opening a door. Do it each time for a few days or weeks, and very seriously (at least for one minute). You will become lucid if you try this while dreaming after it becomes a habit (as it will be integrated by the subconscious mind). - Before you go to sleep, while laying down in your bed, feel the world around you, feel that you are lucid, fully aware of yourself. Repeat a few times .I WILL be lucid tonight, I WILL be lucide tonight .. while holding the feeling of lucidity. Do this until you start sleeping if you want. Once you become lucid in a dream, stay calm and enjoy. Repeat loudly every five seconds (to prevent you from risking to lose your lucidity and being caught back into a normal dream) that you are lucid, it will help you stay in this state. You can try to fly to move more easily into your created universe (lift your legs and even move your arms as if you were swimming might help at first), but do not try harder stuff like going through walls, teleporting or creating big objects from nothing before you have enough experience to stabilize entirely your dream. Indeed the mind does not like lucid dreaming at first and it will try to wake you up (in this case, if you feel that the dream is losing consistency and the image is disapearing, concentrate very hard on your five senses, touch the ground, look closely to some details etc. This will help to get you back into the dream but you might lose a lot of mental energy doing so so repeat actively that you are lucid after that otherwise you might lose your lucidity entirely), or to make you lose your lucidity (typically, by catching you back into a scenario . a naked member of the opposite sex (or same, depending of the sexual preferences) might appear, someone will tell you that something has happened to your house, a giant dinosaur might start chasing you etc., anything that would get you involved into the dream will be used, so do not get caught and stay focused! If you have imagination and willpower (which I am sure is the case), you will see changes in your everyday life and personality in a matter of weeks of practice. Your centers of interest might change, as well as what you feel is important in life, so stay aware of your needs and aspirations. However, this kind of dream initiated lucid dream is still not as powerful as a .full. lucid dream. What I mean by full lucid dream is a dream initiated from the waking state. Ok, some might think that dreams can only be initiated from this state, as we go to sleep etc. But do you ever remember the exact instant when you enter your dream? And moreover, being fully aware during the whole process? It is a really flabbergasting experience the first few times. It is like being suddenly propelled into another world. If you thought dreams appeared slowly, that is far from reality, as the transition from your black mind vision to the full-colored and 3D dream takes no more than a second. You suddenly feel a new body, into a whole new world surrounding you. The experience of a WILD (Wake Initiated Lucid Dream) is extremely joyful and what one would call .real.. Appart from what is happening (you are flying etc.) the world seems as real and solid as the physical world would. But it is more of an Alice in Wonderland thing going on. Doing a WILD is a bit more tricky than a dream initiated lucid dream, but nothing impossible to do fortunately. One technic that is very effective is visualizing (=imagining and feeling) yourself walking into a known place (a mall, a street in your neibourghood etc.) I think that it is important to visualize some place you know (and not an imaginary one) as this will stimulate your subconscious in a passive way: it is less demanding to the mind to remember things than to create them. I will also prevent you from daydreaming a scenario and eventually fall asleep without noticing it. So just lay down, close your eyes, relax for a few minutes and start visualizing without moving. It is important to really feel yourself in that place. Do not stop whatever you feel or happens. The transition will be really quick as I said. Once you suddenly find yourself propelled into a dream environment, concentrate on stabilizing your lucidity but touching things, watch closely whatever is near you etc. And then . Well, enjoy! About enjoying, by the way, some might want to trigger sexual fantasies in these states. Everything is possible here, remember, and all will look as solid as it could. In fact sex is even better most of the times, more intense. But climax will bring you back into the waking state, and before that you may lose your lucidity as you will get too involved into the scenario. There are much more interesting things to do while lucid dreaming, but I understand that some want to try different things. A higher type of projection has been mastered through times by a few ones. Originally, it was used by chamans and sorcerers in traditional societies to retrieve information on a member of the tribe or the village, i.e. his illness, or discover hidden things. This technic is called by some out-of-body experience, but I prefer the term physical projection. Indeed, although real, lucid dreams stay mostly in a totally subjective universe, there are you own creation. But the mind, our consciousness, are not limited by the physical boundaries. Crazy? Well everyone thinks that before he actually does it. What I am saying here is that it is possible to be in the physical world while not inside your physical body. How does it work? It is highly debated even amongst those who practice this. However, it works, which is the important point here. The easiest way to understand this is by trying it by yourself. One technic that I developped early in my experimentations with the mind was the physical projection initiated from a lucid dream. That.s right, a projection of consciousness inside another projection. It is really easy so even if you are a full-time skeptic, give it a try. Once you become lucid in a dream, following the technics explained hereabove, allow yourself to fall backwards without trying to catch oneself. This will trigger very powerful sensations, so be prepared to the shock of your life, really. Most of the times, this is what will happend: while falling backwards, the image of your dream will disappear as if you were losing consciousness in the physical world (it becomes black). A strong feeling of being pulled down will appear and you will hear some very loud noises, like if you were standing really closely next to an aircraft about to take off. It can be quite frightening, but stay focused. You might see some bright flashes of light, like being propelled at full speed inside a tunnel formed by black clouds during a storm at night. Suddenly, you will find yourself floating a few inches above your bed. You will most likely feel very weird, and might not see your body, although if you try to touch your hands you will feel them, but your body might be invisible (or more precisely like the predator in the eponym movie). The environment will be strange too: you room will be your physical room, but something will feel different. In fact, you will be able to get through every object, like a ghost mostly. However the environment will also be very permeable to your thoughts, so if you concentrate to see something it will appear until you stop to focus. You will feel very different than in any dream, even lucid, and will be in full possession of your memory. You should keep your first projection of this type short however, in order to keep vivid memories from it. You will soon understand first-hand the differences with dreams and how to act in this new state of existence. However, be very careful with what you think or do, as even if this type of projection is very stable (unlike a lucid dream), you can soon be sucked back into a dream-like environment, or your body (your might feel tingling sensations in your limbs at this point, and have painful areas on your body, but don.t worry). So stay focused. A test that many projectors like to do is putting a playing card on top of a furniture without looking at it unless they are in a physical projection, in order to check it later and confirm the projection. But even without that, you will soon be amazed to observe that you can verify a lot of what you see in this state. For example, this happened to me a few years ago : it was early in the morning and my girlfriend left the bedroom, to take a shower or eat her breakfast I thought. However I was very tired and soon get back in a very deep relaxed state. I pushed my consciousness frontwards and found myself hoavering above my body, fully aware. I floated through the room, then through the door, the hall, another door, and eventually was in the living room. I was surprised to see that my girlfriend was sleeping in a f.tus position on one of the sofas, in its left corner, her face against the back and my coat (which I had left in the hall) as a blanket. I felt a powerful force sucking me back inside my body at this point. I immediately checked what I have seen: everything, down to the slightest detail, was correct. This kind of thing has happened to me a lot since then. You do not have to be religious, of even believe in life after death to make this experience, just try it before you make your own judgement, but give it a try at least. As you read in the experience I shared just above, I did not project physically from within a lucid dream. Indeed you can project from full conscious state too, which is even more powerful. If you want to learn more about these technichs, I suggest you buy some books about this subject, like the trilogy of Robert A. Monroe, a classic written during 30 years of experimenting by an electrical ingenieur which found himself projecting without even willing it. There are many good books out there. However projecting from a fully aware state is much more difficult (but feasable of course), so be prepared to spend some time in training (usually a conscious projection can be attained in a few days for the gifted to a few months for the ungifted, like I was). It seems that there are higher states of projection, apparently in some all-mental levels, but in an objective, all-mental, universe. I have yet to get into these, but hopefully some of you will get there in a few years. Let the community of projectors of consciousness know your discoveries at this time, as it is all about sharing. Indeed, projecting your consciousness is even more than a life-changing experience, it is a matter of protecting your freedom, your freedom to exist as a mind and a body, and to use both to their extreme limits, and even beyond. Noone can take that from you, even locked into the smallest and deepest prison of all. It is not even about believing, it is about trying by yourself to push your limits out of the ordinary, out of the known into mostly or fully unknown territories, and discover your true nature doing so. See you in other levels of consciousness. K.