Having watched all of your astral projection videos now, without any sycophancy, I can only send praise of your gnosis. Without wishing to be a nuisance may I relate my first real but unintentional projection when I was seven years old. Playing with a friend, suddenly in a fit of childish 'madness' he pushed me off a 10 foot wall. Luckily a trash can ( is that the correct American term for the British dust bin?) broke my fall onto a concrete pathway. However my physical body was knocked out cold. I found myself in a more colourful atmosphere than the Earthly one in a living presence which I now called the HGA. I could see my body. I saw my mother crying hysterically and my sobbing father holding my body. As an ex army man he never usually showed such emotion. In my astral state of feeling free I saw my friend lie to his father about the event. I saw the colours of his aura turn a horrible brown colour with a horrible yellow streak of light running up his back. I sympathised with him because he was very afraid that he had killed me. Back at home hovering over my body with my parents II heard clearly their tearful conversation. I did not want to return but their tears drew me back to my body, awakening to pain and a bloody nose. I related to them all that I had seen with my astral eyes. Their upset was replaced by fear and my father forbade me to ever talk about it. Their fear was that, in my father's exact words were, " people will think you are crazy." That is the big problem with humanity, worrying about what other people think. I must say with humour this method of astral projection is not recommended even though it left me with a 'loose' projection facility. In all honesty after initial terror I found facing 'the abyss' hilarious in later life. Thank you again Mr Christopher for your great work. I have no doubt you will be remembered as one of the greats along side the best of the Golden Dawn. It is amusing that the greats are appreciated after their death. But then they are truly without ego and have no need of hero worship like some of the well studied bogus magicians we both have seen. ❤from🇬🇧
35:56 I had the chance to spend time in Nunavut, Northern Canada, I noticed a significant increase in vivid dreams and astral perceptions. I believe the heightened geomagnetic activity, coupled with the extreme light cycles disrupting circadian rhythms, played a role. The isolation and natural purity of the region also seemed to amplify subconscious and astral experiences. Funny enough the place felt like being on the surface of another planet. I’d like to thank you Lyam for creating this channel and sharing your views on these topics it’s really fascinating
Hi Lyam! Thank you for the fantastic video! I've been studying astral projection for many years now. I was a more active practitioner a few years ago and got pretty good. I would like to note that there is a drastic difference between astral projection and lucid dreaming. I personally have had a more difficult time with lucid dreaming than I do with astral projection. My intuition tells me that it's because I'm a light sleeper, and for lucid dreaming you want to be in a delta state. With my very light sleeping habits, I'm closer to a theta state, which is more effective for astral projection. To clarify, the difference between the two, is that lucid dreaming is in a dream world where you can control/manipulate the environment. Astral projection is actually leaving your body, so you are in the "real" world, in "real" time. For instance, in my astral body, I could observe a friend's conversation, and upon returning to my body I could blow their mind by calling them up and reporting what they had discussed in that conversation. The environment in the astral world has a dark overtone visually, but otherwise just resembles wherever you are and you have no control over the environment, being that it is just the astral overlay of the physical world. I can recommend some fantastic books on it if you are interested. I am very grateful that I found this channel! Thank you for your wisdom! ✨️🙌✨️
For practitioners who aren't as proficient as you are, the distinction between lucid dreaming and astral projection doesn't offer much help. That's mainly because clairvoyance easily shifts back into lucid-dream mode when one begins to think about oneself and how one might benefit from the astral trip. Becoming self-conscious tends to put us back into the mode of "What's in this for me?" which will shift us back into the dream world. The Ego is, after all, a dream character.
After starting from part 1 and ending here I now feel confident to attempt lucid dreaming because you gave me all the tools I need to do so and I cannot thank you enough!
Try an inositol supplement at night. It's safe, a type of B vitamin. But only do this if your mind is peaceful and happy because if not, it can cause nightmares instead.
Have been keeping dream diary for over 2 yrs now. Got so I can usually recall most on waking, getting up for the day. I tend to write in as much detail as possible. Draw what Viz images I recall. Note feelings, moods, sounds etc. Had powerful NewMoon dream were she put her arm into my mouth, gently, tasting of jasmine. Sometimes conversations. Sometimes silence. Sometimes I'm just observing. Other times I'm actively involved, actions, events. Note my reflections on dream possible meanings. Can relate some to own anxiety, fears etc. Had most magnificent angelic feeling meetings too. Better than Netflix!
I really liked this video. I find it be really accurate. I remember astral projecting one time where it seemed like i blipped out and then reappeared in the astrals. I haven't been able to do it much, but this seems to make much more sense now. I also really like the blue blocking glasses you've talked about. I find it's really all i need to get good sleep. You mentioned trying to see if your dreams align with the lunar cycles also. Damien Echols has talked about the further you go in high magick, the less the effects of the zodiac, planets, and elements have on you. Theres a phrase he uses called "breaking the chains that bind you to the stars". You might find it interesting to talk to other adepts and see if they've had a similar experience tracing back their dreams to see if they align with the lunar cycles. I'd assume you're walking above the waves of consciousness so to speak.
Thank you for all your videos. I have lucid dreams occassionally and have done so a little bit more often this past year. Personally I can report that there is not much of a link between my sleeping position and dream lucidity. However when I sleep on my back I am virtually guaranteed to have a bad nightmare. Otherwise I hardly ever have nightmares.
I had a dream about my wife 2 and a half years before I met her. It was a very profound moment in my life. We overlap with the projections more than the words we have to describe them.
Sleeping on the back for me just works better for astral work because I stay conscious on my back... I have no clue why! Maybe just because it's less common and I have association with sleep and laying on my sides. Sleeping on one's right side sounds like it plays into the psychological model of lateralization (ie. different functions for different hemispheres), so the blood would flow to your (theoretically) more creative and non-verbal right-brain.
Thanks for the book suggestions, I started reading Dreams Of Light and it blew my mind, I was not expecting that, one of my favorite books now. I also remembered a dream I had, I was not lucid and I was chatting with some people, suddenly one of them said my real name, and immediately gasped and closed her mouth with her hands , while everyone else looked scare and disappointed at her for slipping up, she shouldnt have said my name they scolded at her, then the whole dream started collapsing and I woke up
in meditation sitting in a chair, i astral projected for 15 seconds, i ascended from the top of the head half of my astral body out and watched my body in the chair, but didnt want to leave completly, all looked a bit more green-blue, and i went "back in".
I appreciate that you found no correlations between lucid dreams and lunar calendar. I’m always skeptical when people find too many connections. lol. Objective bias. ❤️
Thanks for the vid! Lyam, would you consider doing a video where you discuss some of the works/occultists/influences that you feel were most important or influential in your development as a magician and why? Many will mention a particular magician or work, but rarely do they elaborate on WHY it was important to them or HOW it influenced their development. Aside from the works we study as part of KMGWST, were there any you look back and think, “yeah, that was DEFINITELY instrumental in my success as a magician!”
The next video will probably be about books. Or seemingly about books. It will actually be on the effects of those books--as you are so keen to point out.😉
I used to have very intricate, epic dreams while taking imipramine. It’s an old tricyclic antidepressant. The pharmacy printout it even says that it, “may cause intense dreams.”
I’ve had noticeable effects with mugwort under the pillow, I certainly dream very vividly. Drinking it not so much. I’ll try some of the others there too. On the topic of entering the dream gate or canal between worlds, it felt like a falling sensation for me (specifically for astral projection) but I was just unable to separate the conscience from the body, I could definitely feel that my physical body was asleep and that I had a sort of physical paralysis which was an interesting experience. Just before the falling sensation, there is a feeling of “high vibration” as described elsewhere, but for me it was more of a warmth and tingling sensation. I will make some more attempts soon. Very inspired by your work. Thanks for the share Lyam!
@@lyamchristopher2393 BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet) To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause-there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action
I think that sleeping on your back with your limbs slightly spread is very useful for lucid dreaming. One night I became lucid in a dream, but my physical body was in a position in which the legs where crossed one over the other, I couldn't walk in the dream lmao, I had to jump around because I couldn't separate my legs😂
First and foremost I send my respect and praise for your profound book 'the art of tranformation'. Your work on the four worlds and and sephirothic colours only hinted at by Israel Regardie and Violet Firth will be key in the future to younger generations. In one of your videos you summed up some of the modern day puffed up magicians as assholes made laugh in total agreement. I've seen some in all their theatrical attire not using their equipment as a first stage as a means to engage the necessary relaxed focus and concentration but merely a means to gain more followers who in the early stages cannot 'see' that they are being duped by first class hasnamuss (Gurdjieff) individuals. You sir, are a true magician. I hope you do not mind me sending these comments but my time is coming to an end having maybe 50% chance of 3 years left in this body as diagnosed by a Specialist Doctor. I have no fear of death but expressed to the aforesaid Doctor pain killers as the illness becomes worse. I certainly do not wish for any sympathy. I know that death is like ridding oneself of a heavy diving suit or coming out of Plato's cave and experiencing the real world. Once again I thank you for the help you provide for our future generations who hopefully do not have the dense 'concrete' of ego which seems to be the sad state of humanity today, who like the kabbalistic blind force of the sun portrayed by Sorath (666 - gematria) destroy the Earth. Warmest regards from 🇬🇧
Very kind of you. Thank you. To be clear, the Sephirothic Middle Pillar work in the Four Worlds was not just my work. As you imply, it has been a secret teaching of the Golden Dawn for some time. It's still pretty secret, don't you think? Simply writing about it doesn't appear to convey anything of great importance. It's the practicing of it that delivers the gold, and yes indeed, there are few who would dare delve so deep.
I have more lucid dreams or vivid dreams when the moon is in my first (AC), 7th, 4th, or tenth house. This works. I work with whole sign houses (4th house is the 4th sign from the ascendant).
@@lyamchristopher2393 it about 2 days. When the Moon is in Leo or Aquarius I tend to have more vivid dreams because that’s my AC-DC axis. Also, when the moon approaches the IC at the end of Libra or the MC at the end of Aries + when it is in Scorpio/Taurus I tend to have more vivid dreams. But of course, this depends on the quality of your sleep that night. If I only get 5 hours without downtime to get some melatonin, I suppose, in that case I don’t have any dreams.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I use whole sign houses, I don’t use Placidus or any quadrant house systems anymore because they are a bit hit and miss for predictions. The whole sign of Leo is the first house. I think the whole revival of traditional astrology made this popular and I found it works quite well.
Whenever there is a fictional scenario, we are in the Astral. All stress-response interpretations of the universe are fictional, and therefore they are astral. Sleep paralysis can be a special kind of astral experience, one in which we are invited to die to all stress-response interpretations of anything whatsoever. So one could say that sleep paralysis is a gateway OUT OF the astral. An opportunity to wake up and enter the physical world and see it as it is. Perhaps for the first time ever.
@@lyamchristopher2393 few weeks ago I had a strange experience, even though I'm very familiar with sleep paralysis from an early age, most of the time I was scared, but fast forward I even enjoy it now, I still haven't figured out how its working. But the gap between sleep realm and the awaken very powerful, like it's the gate to the subconscious mind or so. This time I had a very strange Astral or lucid dream, I actually knew it's a dream or unreal, I was trying to explain to to the people inside the dream but they didn't understand what am I talking about. I guess those people inside my dream was actually me ... thanks for the content very special and beneficial.
Wow! I'm from Romania- snowdrop flowers are everywhere here, pretty cool to see the flower I been seeing since childhood mentioned here lol. I have a question, how does time work in the astral plane exactly? I mean I get clocks don't work and that as a "structure" time isn't a thing there, what I mean is that if you sleep for 5 hours will that dream feel like 5 hours or is it possible for you to stay in yetzirah for what feels like 3 days when in the material world it's been only 5 hours? Thank you!
On any plane of existence, time does not really exist as something that "passes." A subject for a future video, I think. However, the experience of time apparently passing at different rates is real enough. I haven't really noticed much difference, but others have.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Oh I see. Time would be a very interesting subject! I haven't ever experienced recreational drugs personally but people said some drugs alter the experience of time for you. Like some guy had a trip where he lived a whole life of what felt like to him tens of years on salvia.
I would like to add my two cents on the subject. Before I do I want to make it clear that I am in no way suggesting I'm some great magician who can astrally travel at will. The fact of the matter is that I've only done it a handful of times willfully. I have had lucid dreams & I agree with everything you've said thus far about LD being a form of astral travel but I think there is a difference. Perhaps it's only one of "what level" you are projecting at, I don't know. The first time I tried I bought the Dennings & Phillips book & I was about 15 or 16 at the time, I'm 52 now. The truth is that I half assed using the techniques & I wasn't getting much result as would be expected for not following the instructions, I was trying to project every single night though. However, one night I was exceptionally tired, almost unnaturally tired & I literally said to myself, "if it happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't" & I went to bed. The moment my head hit the pillow I had this strange sensation that my whole body was violently vibrating or being electrocuted, it wasn't painful in any way just weird. I immediately sat up in bed or I thought I had physically sat up & instinctively I looked at my arms & hands. All I saw was an electric blue outline of them, much like blue sparks with gold flecks with in it. For whatever reason, it didn't dawn on me that this was unusual from a physical perspective. I then looked around the room & I remember so distinctly how unusual it was. Everything was very dark yet somehow I could see the whole room. I looked to my left where there was a bookshelf & I could see the books clearly with the words on the spines yet somehow I could not decipher the letters & read them. What was very unusual though is that when I looked at a particular book, & I don't remember which one it was, I was seeing not only in 3 dimensions but almost around the book. It was if I were looking through a bubble lens. In other words I could not only see the spine of the book but the cover, the back & some of the front edge of the book simultaneously. During all the strangeness it did not dawn on me that any of this was not normal. Maybe a little unusual but not abnormal. At this point I had the sensation that I was falling off the side of the bed & I tried to catch myself. It was then that I started floating on my back across the room getting higher & higher. Suddenly I realized what was going on & I tried to take control of it. When I did so It felt like I literally snapped back into my body. This was the first successful willful attempt but one could say it wasn't willful at all & they would be more or less right. The second time was terrifying & I was able to purposefully & consciously leave my body. I felt the layers of the roof as I passed through it, I looked down at the house & saw the trees around it, I even looked up at the moon which was out & everything just had a normal appearance except for the stars. They appeared as more or les the same but as much bigger points of light in the sky. Here is where it gets terrifying. All I did was look at one particular star & asked myself, "I wonder what is there". In an instant I was travelling toward that point of light at some unfathomable speed. It was like star wars where a ship jumps into hyperspace & the stars seemingly stretch out into beams. I felt this strain throughout my body but it was not painful. I could not take the experience & started saying "No! No! No!" & then I suddenly snapped back into my body & I was awake physically. I've had a few others, even one that confirmed the existence of a fence long gone that I had no knowledge of but none of them were dreamlike. Just as I can tell right now I am "awake" & when I am dreaming in my sleep. Anyway sorry for the length of this post.
......when you said we come from the "Astral" world and go back to the astral world. it leads me to thinking based on occult books i've read before like "Alchemy and the Alchemists" by Robert Swinburne Clymer, a Rosicrucian.....and also Paracelsus is that the Astral world or the Unseen world is the "microscopic" Mineral world in reality. if that is the case, and I believe it is then the entities are microscopic Particles with a connected consciousness....maybe millions of individual particles or Microbes I guess you could say, that form one collective consciousness in a way, and that is what can influence human beings, by entering into them....almost like an infection, some infections being more beneficial than others maybe. But this also holds true in Astrology as well I believe, there was an Experiment Jung talks about in his Book Synchronicity I believe, of a scientist who did an experiment on cows using electrodes to see the effects the conjunctions and retrogrades had on their brain, and he found clear evidence for it that it did...... but that's because the Planets are composed of different compositions of metals, having a greater amounts of a certain metals or elements, and when that planet which is barreling through space is say conjunct with earth, we are bathing in the trail of that planets minerals.......so say if we were conjunct Venus the planet mostly composed of copper, the effects of that planets mineral trail that we cross will have an effect on the earth, the people, the way we think, the plants, they way they grow and develop, the animals, the way they act. Which is why you have to collect certain herbs during certain times, and In alchemy prepare certain tinctures during certain times, because the influence or "energy" you need to be present in the tincture or herb has to be observed. during the times when we are in the trails of those planets would be what it's referring to. this visualization should give some insight into why during the great conjunction the world seems so unstable, two of the solar systems largest bodies are very close to one another, and we are crossing both of those trails of very rich energies, it's like we are being invaded by the energy of those two planets at once, it's no wonder the world goes bats during those times.
I have a question: What is it called when you project an imaginary form onto the screen of the waking world? Edited to add: I used to do this when I was younger and bored in church. I’d imagine a figure (while my eyes were open) walking upon the stage to the pulpit where the pastor was standing. I could “see,” superimposed onto the waking world, these characters doing different things. I directed all of it and animated the figures.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Thank you for answering my question. I was just curious if it was classified differently than “eyes closed,” visualization. I attend the Vedanta Society and when I was initiated we were given specific instructions to follow. I’ve been comparing the Advaita Vedanta ideas with the ones you present on this channel and find it very interesting! I am enjoying this channel immensely 😊👍
I think I’m in Briah in sleep literally I try to analyze my dream surrounding but it just makes no absolute sense and can’t be described, just analyzing ideas that don’t seem to correlate to reality , seems like nothing but thoughts.
There is no need to analyze the dreams. For the purpose of achieving lucidity, simply identify the things that could have clued you into the fact that you were dreaming. Let go of any apparent “meaning.” Analysis of dreams, if that’s what you want to do, is fairly easy. There is a formula to follow-which few people know.
Sir, Do you think that the qabbalistic magick practice can help a person who has been subject to stress, sexual overstimulation and anxiety. If yes how can he start
You might want to check the video about motivation. And pay attention to the need to DO something. Perhaps it would be better to sit and do nothing. Nothing at all. Not even "meditation."
You know, referencing the kinda tea is actually almost taking me out for a half-second. It's almost the same vibe as seeing the OG Ringwraiths in LotR and going, oh they're like "Death Eaters" from HP. 😑 I'd rather reference Dr Strange and a host of cooler more intriguing fiction, somehow! Needless rant but there you go. Inevitable ubiquitous reference, I guess...
Having watched all of your astral projection videos now, without any sycophancy, I can only send praise of your gnosis. Without wishing to be a nuisance may I relate my first real but unintentional projection when I was seven years old. Playing with a friend, suddenly in a fit of childish 'madness' he pushed me off a 10 foot wall. Luckily a trash can ( is that the correct American term for the British dust bin?) broke my fall onto a concrete pathway. However my physical body was knocked out cold. I found myself in a more colourful atmosphere than the Earthly one in a living presence which I now called the HGA. I could see my body. I saw my mother crying hysterically and my sobbing father holding my body. As an ex army man he never usually showed such emotion. In my astral state of feeling free I saw my friend lie to his father about the event. I saw the colours of his aura turn a horrible brown colour with a horrible yellow streak of light running up his back. I sympathised with him because he was very afraid that he had killed me. Back at home hovering over my body with my parents II heard clearly their tearful conversation. I did not want to return but their tears drew me back to my body, awakening to pain and a bloody nose. I related to them all that I had seen with my astral eyes. Their upset was replaced by fear and my father forbade me to ever talk about it. Their fear was that, in my father's exact words were, " people will think you are crazy." That is the big problem with humanity, worrying about what other people think. I must say with humour this method of astral projection is not recommended even though it left me with a 'loose' projection facility. In all honesty after initial terror I found facing 'the abyss' hilarious in later life. Thank you again Mr Christopher for your great work. I have no doubt you will be remembered as one of the greats along side the best of the Golden Dawn. It is amusing that the greats are appreciated after their death. But then they are truly without ego and have no need of hero worship like some of the well studied bogus magicians we both have seen. ❤from🇬🇧
Thank you for sharing. I had a similar experience as a child, having passed out after getting up out of a hot bathtub. 😮
@@lyamchristopher2393 I am sure Mr Christopher many would be comforted and enlightened if you would relate the full story. Thank you again. ❤️ from 🇬🇧
That's not crazy. It's normal. Everyone who approaches death has this happen, apparently.
35:56 I had the chance to spend time in Nunavut, Northern Canada, I noticed a significant increase in vivid dreams and astral perceptions. I believe the heightened geomagnetic activity, coupled with the extreme light cycles disrupting circadian rhythms, played a role. The isolation and natural purity of the region also seemed to amplify subconscious and astral experiences. Funny enough the place felt like being on the surface of another planet.
I’d like to thank you Lyam for creating this channel and sharing your views on these topics it’s really fascinating
just about touched on everything I have been working away on intuitively over the last 2 years. Amazing and very authentic.
I find topical Magnesium to be helpful for "entering the dream gate"...as well as for sore muscles!
How interesting!
Now my adhd brain might be able to get interested enough to watch the prequels.
Hi Lyam! Thank you for the fantastic video! I've been studying astral projection for many years now. I was a more active practitioner a few years ago and got pretty good. I would like to note that there is a drastic difference between astral projection and lucid dreaming. I personally have had a more difficult time with lucid dreaming than I do with astral projection. My intuition tells me that it's because I'm a light sleeper, and for lucid dreaming you want to be in a delta state. With my very light sleeping habits, I'm closer to a theta state, which is more effective for astral projection. To clarify, the difference between the two, is that lucid dreaming is in a dream world where you can control/manipulate the environment. Astral projection is actually leaving your body, so you are in the "real" world, in "real" time. For instance, in my astral body, I could observe a friend's conversation, and upon returning to my body I could blow their mind by calling them up and reporting what they had discussed in that conversation. The environment in the astral world has a dark overtone visually, but otherwise just resembles wherever you are and you have no control over the environment, being that it is just the astral overlay of the physical world. I can recommend some fantastic books on it if you are interested. I am very grateful that I found this channel! Thank you for your wisdom!
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For practitioners who aren't as proficient as you are, the distinction between lucid dreaming and astral projection doesn't offer much help. That's mainly because clairvoyance easily shifts back into lucid-dream mode when one begins to think about oneself and how one might benefit from the astral trip. Becoming self-conscious tends to put us back into the mode of "What's in this for me?" which will shift us back into the dream world. The Ego is, after all, a dream character.
@lyamchristopher2393 💯!! Thank you!
After starting from part 1 and ending here I now feel confident to attempt lucid dreaming because you gave me all the tools I need to do so and I cannot thank you enough!
Could you discuss your own experiences in a later video? Because you seem to play yourself down in terms of your abilities and it renders me curious.
Passionflower, Egyptian lotus & Valerian root all seem to help induce dreams too. At least for me
Try an inositol supplement at night. It's safe, a type of B vitamin. But only do this if your mind is peaceful and happy because if not, it can cause nightmares instead.
Have been keeping dream diary for over 2 yrs now. Got so I can usually recall most on waking, getting up for the day. I tend to write in as much detail as possible. Draw what Viz images I recall. Note feelings, moods, sounds etc.
Had powerful NewMoon dream were she put her arm into my mouth, gently, tasting of jasmine.
Sometimes conversations. Sometimes silence. Sometimes I'm just observing. Other times I'm actively involved, actions, events.
Note my reflections on dream possible meanings. Can relate some to own anxiety, fears etc.
Had most magnificent angelic feeling meetings too.
Better than Netflix!
I really liked this video. I find it be really accurate. I remember astral projecting one time where it seemed like i blipped out and then reappeared in the astrals. I haven't been able to do it much, but this seems to make much more sense now. I also really like the blue blocking glasses you've talked about. I find it's really all i need to get good sleep. You mentioned trying to see if your dreams align with the lunar cycles also. Damien Echols has talked about the further you go in high magick, the less the effects of the zodiac, planets, and elements have on you. Theres a phrase he uses called "breaking the chains that bind you to the stars". You might find it interesting to talk to other adepts and see if they've had a similar experience tracing back their dreams to see if they align with the lunar cycles. I'd assume you're walking above the waves of consciousness so to speak.
Thank you for all your videos. I have lucid dreams occassionally and have done so a little bit more often this past year. Personally I can report that there is not much of a link between my sleeping position and dream lucidity. However when I sleep on my back I am virtually guaranteed to have a bad nightmare. Otherwise I hardly ever have nightmares.
I had a dream about my wife 2 and a half years before I met her. It was a very profound moment in my life. We overlap with the projections more than the words we have to describe them.
Sleeping on the back for me just works better for astral work because I stay conscious on my back... I have no clue why! Maybe just because it's less common and I have association with sleep and laying on my sides. Sleeping on one's right side sounds like it plays into the psychological model of lateralization (ie. different functions for different hemispheres), so the blood would flow to your (theoretically) more creative and non-verbal right-brain.
Yes, I imagine it would work based on a built-up system of correspondences--not so much based on our default biology.
Thanks for the book suggestions, I started reading Dreams Of Light and it blew my mind, I was not expecting that, one of my favorite books now.
I also remembered a dream I had, I was not lucid and I was chatting with some people, suddenly one of them said my real name, and immediately gasped and closed her mouth with her hands , while everyone else looked scare and disappointed at her for slipping up, she shouldnt have said my name they scolded at her, then the whole dream started collapsing and I woke up
in meditation sitting in a chair, i astral projected for 15 seconds, i ascended from the top of the head half of my astral body out and watched my body in the chair, but didnt want to leave completly, all looked a bit more green-blue, and i went "back in".
I appreciate that you found no correlations between lucid dreams and lunar calendar. I’m always skeptical when people find too many connections. lol. Objective bias. ❤️
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Thanks for the vid! Lyam, would you consider doing a video where you discuss some of the works/occultists/influences that you feel were most important or influential in your development as a magician and why? Many will mention a particular magician or work, but rarely do they elaborate on WHY it was important to them or HOW it influenced their development. Aside from the works we study as part of KMGWST, were there any you look back and think, “yeah, that was DEFINITELY instrumental in my success as a magician!”
The next video will probably be about books. Or seemingly about books. It will actually be on the effects of those books--as you are so keen to point out.😉
Look forward to it!
Outstanding!!! 😊👏👏👏
I used to have very intricate, epic dreams while taking imipramine. It’s an old tricyclic antidepressant. The pharmacy printout it even says that it, “may cause intense dreams.”
I’ve had noticeable effects with mugwort under the pillow, I certainly dream very vividly. Drinking it not so much. I’ll try some of the others there too.
On the topic of entering the dream gate or canal between worlds, it felt like a falling sensation for me (specifically for astral projection) but I was just unable to separate the conscience from the body, I could definitely feel that my physical body was asleep and that I had a sort of physical paralysis which was an interesting experience. Just before the falling sensation, there is a feeling of “high vibration” as described elsewhere, but for me it was more of a warmth and tingling sensation.
I will make some more attempts soon. Very inspired by your work. Thanks for the share Lyam!
Interesting your description of afterlife, made me remember Shakespeare , the Hamlet monologue
From *The Tempest*?
@@lyamchristopher2393 BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet)
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause-there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action
@@lyamchristopher2393To be or not to be? That is the question. Etc
I think that sleeping on your back with your limbs slightly spread is very useful for lucid dreaming.
One night I became lucid in a dream, but my physical body was in a position in which the legs where crossed one over the other, I couldn't walk in the dream lmao, I had to jump around because I couldn't separate my legs😂
I've heard colloidal gold water works as a supplement too
First and foremost I send my respect and praise for your profound book 'the art of tranformation'. Your work on the four worlds and and sephirothic colours only hinted at by Israel Regardie and Violet Firth will be key in the future to younger generations. In one of your videos you summed up some of the modern day puffed up magicians as assholes made laugh in total agreement. I've seen some in all their theatrical attire not using their equipment as a first stage as a means to engage the necessary relaxed focus and concentration but merely a means to gain more followers who in the early stages cannot 'see' that they are being duped by first class hasnamuss (Gurdjieff) individuals. You sir, are a true magician. I hope you do not mind me sending these comments but my time is coming to an end having maybe 50% chance of 3 years left in this body as diagnosed by a Specialist Doctor. I have no fear of death but expressed to the aforesaid Doctor pain killers as the illness becomes worse. I certainly do not wish for any sympathy. I know that death is like ridding oneself of a heavy diving suit or coming out of Plato's cave and experiencing the real world. Once again I thank you for the help you provide for our future generations who hopefully do not have the dense 'concrete' of ego which seems to be the sad state of humanity today, who like the kabbalistic blind force of the sun portrayed by Sorath (666 - gematria) destroy the Earth. Warmest regards from 🇬🇧
Very kind of you. Thank you.
To be clear, the Sephirothic Middle Pillar work in the Four Worlds was not just my work. As you imply, it has been a secret teaching of the Golden Dawn for some time. It's still pretty secret, don't you think? Simply writing about it doesn't appear to convey anything of great importance. It's the practicing of it that delivers the gold, and yes indeed, there are few who would dare delve so deep.
I have more lucid dreams or vivid dreams when the moon is in my first (AC), 7th, 4th, or tenth house. This works. I work with whole sign houses (4th house is the 4th sign from the ascendant).
As a bonus, I have the wildest dreams around an eclipse.
Interesting! Those are brief periods of time. What is that? A little over two hours in each house?
@@lyamchristopher2393 it about 2 days. When the Moon is in Leo or Aquarius I tend to have more vivid dreams because that’s my AC-DC axis. Also, when the moon approaches the IC at the end of Libra or the MC at the end of Aries + when it is in Scorpio/Taurus I tend to have more vivid dreams. But of course, this depends on the quality of your sleep that night. If I only get 5 hours without downtime to get some melatonin, I suppose, in that case I don’t have any dreams.
@@alexcoltuneac Oh, you mean in each sign. Not each house. Yes, it might be worth noting what sign the Moon is in.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I use whole sign houses, I don’t use Placidus or any quadrant house systems anymore because they are a bit hit and miss for predictions. The whole sign of Leo is the first house. I think the whole revival of traditional astrology made this popular and I found it works quite well.
Question, does sleep paralysis is the entrance to the Astral?
Whenever there is a fictional scenario, we are in the Astral. All stress-response interpretations of the universe are fictional, and therefore they are astral. Sleep paralysis can be a special kind of astral experience, one in which we are invited to die to all stress-response interpretations of anything whatsoever. So one could say that sleep paralysis is a gateway OUT OF the astral. An opportunity to wake up and enter the physical world and see it as it is. Perhaps for the first time ever.
@@lyamchristopher2393 few weeks ago I had a strange experience, even though I'm very familiar with sleep paralysis from an early age, most of the time I was scared, but fast forward I even enjoy it now, I still haven't figured out how its working. But the gap between sleep realm and the awaken very powerful, like it's the gate to the subconscious mind or so. This time I had a very strange Astral or lucid dream, I actually knew it's a dream or unreal, I was trying to explain to to the people inside the dream but they didn't understand what am I talking about. I guess those people inside my dream was actually me ... thanks for the content very special and beneficial.
Wow! I'm from Romania- snowdrop flowers are everywhere here, pretty cool to see the flower I been seeing since childhood mentioned here lol. I have a question, how does time work in the astral plane exactly? I mean I get clocks don't work and that as a "structure" time isn't a thing there, what I mean is that if you sleep for 5 hours will that dream feel like 5 hours or is it possible for you to stay in yetzirah for what feels like 3 days when in the material world it's been only 5 hours? Thank you!
On any plane of existence, time does not really exist as something that "passes." A subject for a future video, I think. However, the experience of time apparently passing at different rates is real enough. I haven't really noticed much difference, but others have.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Oh I see. Time would be a very interesting subject! I haven't ever experienced recreational drugs personally but people said some drugs alter the experience of time for you. Like some guy had a trip where he lived a whole life of what felt like to him tens of years on salvia.
@frikazoed Wtf romani aici! Credeam ca sunt singurul :))
First, I think 💜💜💜💜💜
I would like to add my two cents on the subject. Before I do I want to make it clear that I am in no way suggesting I'm some great magician who can astrally travel at will. The fact of the matter is that I've only done it a handful of times willfully. I have had lucid dreams & I agree with everything you've said thus far about LD being a form of astral travel but I think there is a difference. Perhaps it's only one of "what level" you are projecting at, I don't know.
The first time I tried I bought the Dennings & Phillips book & I was about 15 or 16 at the time, I'm 52 now. The truth is that I half assed using the techniques & I wasn't getting much result as would be expected for not following the instructions, I was trying to project every single night though. However, one night I was exceptionally tired, almost unnaturally tired & I literally said to myself, "if it happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't" & I went to bed. The moment my head hit the pillow I had this strange sensation that my whole body was violently vibrating or being electrocuted, it wasn't painful in any way just weird. I immediately sat up in bed or I thought I had physically sat up & instinctively I looked at my arms & hands. All I saw was an electric blue outline of them, much like blue sparks with gold flecks with in it. For whatever reason, it didn't dawn on me that this was unusual from a physical perspective. I then looked around the room & I remember so distinctly how unusual it was.
Everything was very dark yet somehow I could see the whole room. I looked to my left where there was a bookshelf & I could see the books clearly with the words on the spines yet somehow I could not decipher the letters & read them. What was very unusual though is that when I looked at a particular book, & I don't remember which one it was, I was seeing not only in 3 dimensions but almost around the book. It was if I were looking through a bubble lens. In other words I could not only see the spine of the book but the cover, the back & some of the front edge of the book simultaneously. During all the strangeness it did not dawn on me that any of this was not normal. Maybe a little unusual but not abnormal.
At this point I had the sensation that I was falling off the side of the bed & I tried to catch myself. It was then that I started floating on my back across the room getting higher & higher. Suddenly I realized what was going on & I tried to take control of it. When I did so It felt like I literally snapped back into my body. This was the first successful willful attempt but one could say it wasn't willful at all & they would be more or less right.
The second time was terrifying & I was able to purposefully & consciously leave my body. I felt the layers of the roof as I passed through it, I looked down at the house & saw the trees around it, I even looked up at the moon which was out & everything just had a normal appearance except for the stars. They appeared as more or les the same but as much bigger points of light in the sky. Here is where it gets terrifying. All I did was look at one particular star & asked myself, "I wonder what is there". In an instant I was travelling toward that point of light at some unfathomable speed. It was like star wars where a ship jumps into hyperspace & the stars seemingly stretch out into beams. I felt this strain throughout my body but it was not painful. I could not take the experience & started saying "No! No! No!" & then I suddenly snapped back into my body & I was awake physically.
I've had a few others, even one that confirmed the existence of a fence long gone that I had no knowledge of but none of them were dreamlike. Just as I can tell right now I am "awake" & when I am dreaming in my sleep. Anyway sorry for the length of this post.
......when you said we come from the "Astral" world and go back to the astral world.
it leads me to thinking based on occult books i've read before like "Alchemy and the Alchemists" by Robert Swinburne Clymer, a Rosicrucian.....and also Paracelsus
is that the Astral world or the Unseen world is the "microscopic" Mineral world in reality.
if that is the case, and I believe it is then the entities are microscopic Particles with a connected consciousness....maybe millions of individual particles or Microbes I guess you could say, that form one collective consciousness in a way, and that is what can influence human beings, by entering into them....almost like an infection, some infections being more beneficial than others maybe.
But this also holds true in Astrology as well I believe, there was an Experiment Jung talks about in his Book Synchronicity I believe, of a scientist who did an experiment on cows using electrodes to see the effects the conjunctions and retrogrades had on their brain, and he found clear evidence for it that it did......
but that's because the Planets are composed of different compositions of metals, having a greater amounts of a certain metals or elements, and when that planet which is barreling through space is say conjunct with earth, we are bathing in the trail of that planets minerals.......so say if we were conjunct Venus the planet mostly composed of copper, the effects of that planets mineral trail that we cross will have an effect on the earth, the people, the way we think, the plants, they way they grow and develop, the animals, the way they act.
Which is why you have to collect certain herbs during certain times, and In alchemy prepare certain tinctures during certain times, because the influence or "energy" you need to be present in the tincture or herb has to be observed. during the times when we are in the trails of those planets would be what it's referring to.
this visualization should give some insight into why during the great conjunction the world seems so unstable, two of the solar systems largest bodies are very close to one another, and we are crossing both of those trails of very rich energies, it's like we are being invaded by the energy of those two planets at once, it's no wonder the world goes bats during those times.
I only lucid dream like once per 2 years and it lasts maybe 2 minutes then i wake up.
I have a question: What is it called when you project an imaginary form onto the screen of the waking world?
Edited to add: I used to do this when I was younger and bored in church. I’d imagine a figure (while my eyes were open) walking upon the stage to the pulpit where the pastor was standing. I could “see,” superimposed onto the waking world, these characters doing different things. I directed all of it and animated the figures.
To me, that's simply visualization. Is there anything unusual you'd like to point out about that?
@@lyamchristopher2393 Thank you for answering my question. I was just curious if it was classified differently than “eyes closed,” visualization.
I attend the Vedanta Society and when I was initiated we were given specific instructions to follow. I’ve been comparing the Advaita Vedanta ideas with the ones you present on this channel and find it very interesting! I am enjoying this channel immensely 😊👍
@@Pallasathena-hv4kp Thanks for the comment! Yes, the nondual perspective is inherent to initiates of all the mysteries.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Where I worship they call it Sanantana Dharma. Some call it the Perennial Philosophy. :)
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I think I’m in Briah in sleep literally I try to analyze my dream surrounding but it just makes no absolute sense and can’t be described, just analyzing ideas that don’t seem to correlate to reality , seems like nothing but thoughts.
There is no need to analyze the dreams. For the purpose of achieving lucidity, simply identify the things that could have clued you into the fact that you were dreaming. Let go of any apparent “meaning.”
Analysis of dreams, if that’s what you want to do, is fairly easy. There is a formula to follow-which few people know.
@@lyamchristopher2393 that’s good insight 🙏 I have just noticed a huge change in my dreams lately
@@lyamchristopher2393Could you make a video on analyzing them?
Sir,
Do you think that the qabbalistic magick practice can help a person who has been subject to stress, sexual overstimulation and anxiety.
If yes how can he start
You might want to check the video about motivation. And pay attention to the need to DO something. Perhaps it would be better to sit and do nothing. Nothing at all. Not even "meditation."
You know, referencing the kinda tea is actually almost taking me out for a half-second. It's almost the same vibe as seeing the OG Ringwraiths in LotR and going, oh they're like "Death Eaters" from HP. 😑 I'd rather reference Dr Strange and a host of cooler more intriguing fiction, somehow! Needless rant but there you go. Inevitable ubiquitous reference, I guess...
Ha! Well, no fiction reference there. Mugwort actually helps induce lucid dreams...in people other than me. 😉
I definitely agree with the mugwort tea, I also smoke mugwort, I grow it in abundance, and I also use it as one of the ingredients of flying ointment.
@@lyamchristopher2393 serves me to not be so high mighty blustering out of the gates! Note to self! Silliest rant I've ever done!
Nicotine patches caused me to have some wild vivid dreams. 🤔
@@WarpedWorldWeird ? Do you rely on it as the active ingredient your ointment? Or something else?
Not great,over analysing something quite straightforward,just takes practice,this guy is the worse type of modern occultist
Galantamine. Available in Canada?
Not over-the-counter, unfortunately.