Some Tips For Astral Travel
Posted by Kim Pitt | Filed under Self Improvement
According to studies and experiences of people who astral project, we know that some individuals can transmit themselves into the astral plane with more ease than others. For the rest of us, it may take several attempts before we have better control over the act of projecting. Regardless of how long it takes an individual to leave their bodies, there is no such thing as an instant result. Even the talented ones have to work at it.
The reason for this is quite simple. In order to initiate the process of your soul leaving your body, you have to be completely relaxed. Many people project while asleep, and it’s quite difficult to manage that level of relaxation while fully conscious. Sp if you would like to try and project while awake, you must unwind and calm your body and your mind. Meditation is suggested for both relaxing and beginning the route of projection. No one is perfectly composed at the moment they wish to project, so be sure you are in a soothed state of mind; otherwise, projection may not be successful.
If you’ve done this before, you will find that you might be able to project faster to a place you have already projected to in the past. Since you have been to the area previously and are familiar with it, it will not take as long to locate this area compared to how long it may take to locate a new place. The same could be said of traveling on a regular road. It may take you less time to reach a recognizable place than it would take to find somewhere you have never visited before.
As with most things, you must constantly practice astral projection in order to improve your ability to travel through the astral world. Do not expect to attempt projection for the first time and perform the feat perfectly; getting the technique right takes lots of time and effort. Such high expectations of a spiritual activity that requires immense thought and concentration may overpower your mind and its ability to remain placid, and may thwart your intention to travel.
Do not be disappointed if you’ve not made any noticeable progress after several endeavors. Whether or not you’re aware of it, you are advancing your skills with every session of practice. Only if you are prepared to put forth that effort will you have a chance at successfully projecting your soul into the astral plane.
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Tips For Astral Traveling
Posted by Timmy Shaw | Filed under Self Improvement
Astral projection is basically just another way of describing an out-of-body experience, but the two terms are not always synonymous with one another. What I mean by this is not all instances of astral projection are intentional; you might see several internet walk-throughs on how to execute AP with the complete intention of doing so. But, more often than not, astral projection occurs without the traveler actually consciously deciding to do so. What will be discussed here is a guide to astral projection, but more a guide to the various ways in which projection can occur spontaneously.
One of the most commonly known instances of involuntary projection occurs at the moment of death. Many people who were near the deceased before said individual passed on have reported seeing the nearly-departed person’s soul lifting out of the body - usually through the head - right before the person passed away. There have also been instances of souls projecting themselves into the homes of loved ones at the moment the owner of said soul has died in some way or another. This is to let the loved ones know what has happened.
Physical pain and illness may make cause the soul to project as well; the body may be in a decreased state of consciousness due to the physical impairment, which means a less firm grasp on the soul. In such a state of being, the astral body can depart the corporeal body with greater ease.
A similar effect can be experienced when under the influence of anesthesia the body is not conscious, so the soul may decide to take the opportunity to drift. This is why many people report looking down upon themselves being operated on, or knowing exactly what the doctors were discussing during the surgery that couldn’t have been known unless the patient was conscious.
Near-death experiences can also bring about out-of-body experiences nearly being run over by a car, or nearly drowning, for example. Even if you are technically ‘dead’ and brought back to life via procedures like CPR or heart massage, the soul may lift from the body until said earthly body is healthy enough for the soul to return to it.
And, of course, the most common manner in which the astral essence migrates from the physical body is when the person is asleep. Obviously, consciousness is limited, making the earthly body’s grasp on the soul not quite as strong. Just about everyone projects during their sleep, but they don’t remember doing so. If you’ve ever been awakened for seemingly no reason in the middle of your sleep and felt like you’ve been “jolted” awake, you were most likely projecting and your soul just had a rough landing when re-entering your body.
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Dementia Managing
Posted by Robert Sanders | Filed under Reference & Education
Part of the problem in finding drugs which may be effective for dementia is that our ideas about what constitutes dementia have been undergoing radical change in recent years. It had been traditional to distinguish between Alzheimer’s dementia, or senile dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (SDAT) and multi-infarct dementia (MID), which is theoretically caused by small strokes which insidiously pick off brain tissue to the point where an individual’s cognitive function is compromised.
It was originally thought that MID accounted for 60%+ of the dementias. Accordingly, early attempts to treat the dementias concentrated on the multi-infarct dementias. The initial hypothesis was that these multiple small strokes were being caused by a process of hardening of the arteries, sometimes called arteriosclerosis and sometimes atherosclerosis (although these terms refer to two quite different disorders) which impaired blood supply to the brain. The logical treatment, therefore, for this condition was to attempt to dilate blood vessels. This led to the use of a wide number of vasodilating drugs such as hydralazine.
It is quite rare now for such drugs to be used for this purpose. Arguably, if anything, such treatment may have made the condition somewhat worse in that a potential effect of vasodilators is the reduction of blood pressure and reducing blood pressure would mean that the brain would be less perfused with blood, as one of the functions of blood pressure in the first instance is to provide the propulsive force to send blood up against the force of gravity to perfuse the brain.
Stage 2
More recent attempts to treat the dementias have proceeded on the basis that Alzheimer’s dementia is the commonest form of dementia. For many years, the term Alzheimer’s dementia was reserved for dementias that came on before the age of 65 (for this reason it was also called persenile dementia), which were not obviously caused by strokes. It was conceded that there was another dementia that was like Alzheimer’s dementia, which appeared to come on after the age of 65 but this was thought to be less common. Distinctions on the basis of age have now collapsed and both dementias of the Alzheimer type are now called senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. The amalgamation of these two groups led to an awareness that Alzheimer’s-type dementia is the commonest form. The primary therapeutic focus in the field, therefore, has been on an attempt to reverse the deficits which are supposed to be present in SDAT.
In particular, it has been held that in Alzheimer’s, there is a dysfunction of cholinergic pathways in the brain, for which there are both historical and clinical reason. Historically, when early work in psychopharmacology began, there were only four known neurotransmitters - noradrenaline, 5-HT, dopamine and acetylcholine (ACh). Noradrenaline quickly became the neurotransmitter involved in depression and mood disorders. Dopamine was known to be involved in Parkinson’s disease, and, when it became clear that neuroleptics acted on it, schizophrenia, after which the psychoses in general came to be seen as disorders of dopamine neurotransmission. For the most part, 5-HT was associated with either depression or anxiety. This left ACh without a function. It seemed convenient to parcel it out to the dementias.
There was, in addition, some clinical evidence in favour of an association between the cholinergic system and dementia. Part of the reason for this claim can be seen in a number of the chapters of this blog, in which drugs with anticholinergic effects have been noted as potentially causing amnesia or confusion (see The Management of Side Effects & Side Effects of Antidepressants articles).
Stage 3
In the last 5 years, a number of other dementias have been described. A distinction has been drawn between cortical and subcortical dementias. The cortex of the brain is the area responsible for higher cognitive functions, such as speaking, reading, planning and executing actions, etc In the cortical dementias, memory is usually the function most noticeably affected but those who are affected also have problems with planning even simple functions such as dressing and they typically cannot read, draw or execute any complex tasks. Alzheimer’s and MID are cortical dementias. There are also subcortical parts to the brain which are common to humans and other mammals. They involve a number of what are termed midbrain and brainstem structures.
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Parents Of Balloon Boy
Posted by Carlo Mueres | Filed under Home & Family
This past week we saw the news media captivated by the idea that a 6-year-old boy, Falcon Heene had been carried off by a weather balloon. That is until the boy was later found in his own garage attic and shortly thereafter it was revealed on a television news show that the entire incident was likely a hoax. In replying to a reporter’s question, the young Falcon turned to his dad on camera and said, “You guys said that, umm, we did this for the show.” Oops.
The parents - Richard Heene and Mayumi Heene - have all along claimed it was not a hoax or a publicity stunt. Now, according to The New York Times, the parents will voluntarily surrender to police as soon as charges are filed, which is expected to happen on Wednesday.
While the truth continues to unfold, the police in the investigation have concluded it was likely indeed a publicity stunt: “We have evidence to indicate it was a publicity stunt done with the hope of marketing themselves to a reality-television show sometime in the future,” said Larimer County sheriff Jim Alderden on Sunday afternoon at a news conference in Fort Collins, Colorado.
So that leaves us with the inevitable question - what could possibly psychologically motivate parents to use their child’s very life in order to further themselves?
We see clues to the answer in some other information that’s trickling out about the parents. ABC News noted that former business partner Barbara Slusser - who chased hurricanes and other storms with the Heenes - that they parted ways when Slusser felt that the Heenes often put their kids in harm’s way. Slusser told ABC News, “The last straw for us was when Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike were heading toward the Texas coastline and Heene wanted to go back there and take the kids.”
So we seem to have a set of parents who already don’t quite understand the idea of how to raise children in a safe, responsible and thoughtful manner, thinking nothing of storm-chasing hurricanes and tornadoes with their young children in tow. Storm-chasing, of course, can be a very dangerous and unpredictable endeavor. One of the reasons adults do it is for the thrill of the unpredictability of the storm - putting oneself in harm’s way to experience a ferocious component of nature. But your children? They aren’t old enough to make such decisions for themselves - they trust their parents’ good judgment and experience.
But an account on Gawker by someone who worked with Richard Heene sheds even more light on the Heenes’ motivation - money and additional fame. This was a family that had been on the television program, Wife Swap, and they had already tasted celebrity. They wanted more of it.
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