Roaming the Astral Realms

Hello, Merry Meet, and all that. It’s been a long time. Sorry about that. We’ve had computer issues since February 1st. First my HP Pavilion gave up the ghost, then Stephen’s computer got three trojans. I had a Linux machine for about a month, then I got this computer, which I hope to have serve me another 5 or 6 years. We’ve also been off creating new groups. But we decided to return to our old ones to post before forming any more new groups. What have all of you been doing in the astral realms? Tegwedd’s been exploring some new ground. She actually had an astral romantic encounter with a guy who wasn’t Doc. It was at a gathering, maybe Yule, and they started making out, Then she remembered she had her own room, so they went there. Nuff said. Have any of you had a similar experience? Are any of you aware that astral experiences don’t have to happen only in the night time? That they can happen in the daytime as well? Tegwedd usually has her dreams just before she wakes up in the morning. When you dream, you go on the astral. You don’t even have to be sleepy to go into the astral. When you daydream you go into the astral. One minute, you’re in a conscious state, the next the subconscious. When some people go into the astral, they see everything in a fog. Others see a silvery light around everything.

When you know that you have gone into the astral realms, you can then intensify the experience with special breathing exercises. One of these techniques is called pranayama. In case you just jumped off the turnip truck, pranayama is part of prana yoga, which is the yoga of breathing. Yoga is related to the word yoke, which unites working animals. Yoga means union in old Sanskrit. There is a yoga for nearly every healthy activity. Chop wood carry water is part of karma yoga or union through work. It is also used in Tibet, or was used before the Chinese took over. Some variation is also used in China and Japan. There are many variations of pranayama. Stephen uses his own special variation. He uses his favorite number with deep breathing. Inhale to the count of your favorite number, say three, hold for the count of your favorite number, then exhale for that count. Stephen learned it on his own, and Tegwedd learned it from NROOGD, only she learned to inhale for a count of 4, hold for a count of 4, then exhale for a count of 4. She was afraid she’d stolen Stephen’s thunder, but all she’d done was be unhygienic and steal it from his mind. You can also use visualization while using the pranayama. As you continue to do it, the visualization should intensify. Visualize your own body. Once you feel that the other you is fully realized, start to transfer your consciousness into your astral body. Once your consciousness has been transferred to the astral body, you should be aware now of the astral realms. At this point you can actually start travelling in the astral. We hope that you are keeping a pen or pencil and pad of paper by you so you can record what’s happening. Let us know about your experiences. Pay attention to colors, shapes, and smells if there are any.

The astral realms never close. They’re open 24/7/365-366, all astral all the time. But it’s also like faeryland. Time moves differently there. You can be there just a few hours and when you come back, you find you’ve been there over a year. Tegwedd thought she was asleep just a few minutes, turns out, she had been asleep almost 3 hours. In “True Blood”, they use this concept to the utmost. Sookie’s grandfather thought he’d been there only a few hours, turns out, he’d been gone over 20 years. Sookie thought she’d been there only a few minutes, turns out she was gone 13 months. If you eat anything there, you must stay there. Tegwedd has been meeting Doc on the astral for almost 3 years (it’ll be 3 years next Sunday) On the show it was light fruit. The fruit gave off light, and bound the person to that plane forever. To leave that plane meant a slow painful death from accelerated aging. But Sookie saw it lose its light and rot. Your body disintegrates into nothing. Not a very pleasant death. In Celtic myth and legend, you turn to an ancient age, your body totally decrepit and weak. Physically death occurs within a few days or weeks. This condition occurred if you got off your horse and put your feet on the earth. If you stayed on your horse, this wouldn’t happen. A lot of the time these horses were faery horses (characterized as being white with red ears) not earth horses, so this doesn’t affect them. There seems to be no remedy for this magickal aging. It seems to be a law of that particular realm that can’t be broken. If we’re wrong on this, please let us know. This is according to all the reading on the topic that we’ve done in the literature..

Here is a short list of just some of the otherworldly locations and astral realms: Tir-na-Nog the Land of the Ever Young, the Land Beneath or Beyond the Waves, the Celtic Otherworld, Land of the Blessed, Land of the Sidh or Faeryland, the Land that time Forgot, Hy Breasil (the mythical place that gave the modern land of Brazil its name correction: after extensive research, it is not the island that gave Brazil its name, but brazilwood, or emberwood, a bright read colored wood, important in Portuguese commerce), the Forgotten Realms, H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands, Yggdrasil, and those 9 realms, the Abyss, the Sephyroth, and the Tree of Life, Another Dimension, the City of the Great Race (the Great Old Ones Star Gods and Goddesses of the Cthulhu mythos), Earth’s Dreamlands (these are different from Lovecraft’s Dreamlands), the Great Hall of Celeno, Plateau of lang, R’lyeh, Yuggoth, the Astral Plane, the Etheric Plane, the Isle of Women (from the Celtic Book of the Dead by Caitlin Matthews). The Summerland is one of the major realms of the Celtic Otherworld. The Realm of Eternal Night or darkness, and the Realm of Eternal Light. Another one is that humongous library known as the Akashic Records or Library. We know there are countless more, but these were all we could think of. We’ve given you our ideas, now you give us yours. Which other realms have we not mentioned?

Who populates the astral realms? Max Freedom Long, H.P. Lovecraft, J.H. Brennan, Terence McKenna, Jon Dee, Edward Talbot Kelly, and all kinds of other dead people who were influential during their lifetimes on the topic of the astral realms, somewho are still alive such as R.J. Stewart, Also Uncle Al (Aleister Crowley), Snorri Snurlsson, who was an authority on the Norse end of the astral realms, There are also those who never lived on earth, but only in the minds of their creators, and later in our imaginations as we read their books and stories, such persons as Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and also the characters of stories that have yet to be written and published. Gary Gygax, Greg Stafford, Dave Hargrave, and Steve Perrin gave us many fantasy realms, peopled with fantastic characters and creatures. And now it’s it’s your turn. Who do you feel has contributed to our knowledge of the astral realms? So if you meet some characters who seem unfamiliar, they could be the characters of books yet to be written or published.

Tegwedd has her dreams just before she wakes up in the morning, at least these are the ones she remembers. Many different people and creatures populate the astral realms. There are people who taught us what the astral realms are all about. People such as Uncle Al, Terence McKenna, R.J. Stewart, and others helped us find our way around the astral realms. Historical personages such as King Arthur, or factional characters such as Harry Potter and his posse, or Sherlock Holmes, aliens, or characters of books yet to be written, all roam the astral realms looking for a place to settle. Be sure and stop in at our new website http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com , and at our other two websites http://abbottsinn.com/ and
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