I want to tell you about an experience i had almost a year ago and want to know your thoughts on it. I was at a fairly large folk festival camping out for the weekend. Around noon on the second day I ate some mushrooms and went to my tent to relax. I was sitting cross legged arms crossed with my eyes closed just thinking when I heard a female say "knock knock". i opened my eyes and went outside my tent thinking it might be my sister but no one was outside. I went back inside and continued meditating and again i heard the same voice say "knock knock", so i thought to myself "come in" and suddenly i was overwhelmed with this very strange euphoric feeling, a feeling much different from anything I've experienced from mushrooms. Suddenly i started hearing all these different voices commenting on parts of my life that I've never told anyone about, things only i know. These voices were distinctively different than my own inner voice. I starting thinking that i was going crazy and the female voice who initially spoke told me to stay calm and focus. All the voices started repeating the word focus and so i tried to keep my focus. The more i focused on staying calm and the voices the more euphoric i felt. Another voice asked "is this his first time?" and another replied "yes". My head started to ache so I started repeating stop over and over again in my mind and the voices all stopped. The entire rest of the day i couldn't stop thinking about this experience, trying to rationalize it, telling myself it was just a product of my own mind and psychedelics. Several months later i was eating at a restaurant with my family in a fairly noisy environment and i started zoning off a bit (having smoked a bit of bud this was normal) and again i started hearing voices coming from an unknown source. As i started focusing on them they grew louder,until they drowned out the chatter going on around me. This time they weren't directed at me, they seemed to be someones inner thoughts, thoughts that were not my own. One of the thoughts was criticizing the way someone wore their hair and upon looking around i think i found the person the comment was directed towards and the person making the comment sitting across from her. I'm in a good state of mental health, hearing voices in my head other than my own is not normal for me, I'm not suffering from Schizophrenia. I was wondering if anyone has had similar experiences or maybe some insight on this.
Congratulations penguin, you're embarking on the edge of a larger world. Telepathy is part of that world. At a deeper level we're all one mind, and what you're starting to experience is a superficial level of that underlying unity of all that exists. I've been having telepathic experiences on a regular basis for the past ten years or so. I know that it's real because the people I have telepathic communications with are fully aware of what's going on and have demonstrated its reality outwardly for me. Your first experience was quite a shocker for a "first time." I don't know why the spirits chose to hammer you like that - but there's always a reason for everything, befitting each person's spiritual path. Maybe in time you'll figure out why your path led you in that direction. In the meantime, enjoy the adventure...it could be a wild ride sometimes.
Is there some way i can try to practice this ability, an exercise or something? Both times this has happened to me it seemed completely random and I had no intentions of such a thing happening. Now I'm a bit intrigued and would like to have a bit of control over it.
Both instances you describe occurred during trance states. These are states where the veil of distinction becomes thin. In this instance you need soften your gaze as opposed to intensifying scrutiny.
You have a beautiful gift. My suggestion is do some research and don't do so many drugs. Although when I drink a lot more, I become more sensitive myself... But it's best to tap into during a sober state. Learning to relax and tap into it sober is a big accomplishment. You can learn more and have better control over a situation. I myself am trying to find others with special gifts and sensitivities. So If I find a forum that relates I will send it to you.
I don't have much control over my telepathic experiences myself, I must confess. But the previous two posts about relaxing are good. My telepathic experiences are most dramatic when I'm falling asleep or starting to wake up. I figure if I can get so I'm as relaxed walking around as I am when I'm falling asleep, it will probably help. And hopefully I won't fall asleep while walking through the train station...
I would point out that it is not necessarily reasonable to anticipate a degree of control during "paranormal" experiences that is not demonstrated during "normal" experiences. The degree of "control" actually turns out to be equal in all instances.
"Normal" experiences tend to look random on the surface, while at the the deeper, spiritual level "normal" experiences are far from random. The "control" viewed from that level isn't individual, but based on the harmony of the "individual" intention with that of the universe as a whole. And this is the source of the confusion in my mind when people talk about practicing any kind of discipline to increase "paranormal" experience: It seems to me that "paranormal" experience increases for an individual only when the universe is ready to create that experience, and has nothing to do with meditations or exercises. Is there some aspect to this concept that I'm missing?
That's sounds like a pretty incredible occurrence. But how do you know for sure that you do not suffer from any form of mental disease or schizophrenia?
We are dispersed by compartmentalization. We have home life, work life, leisure life, family life, private life social life. The constituents of each of these "lives" are only vaguely aware of the constituents of the other lives. The total awareness of the many aspects of ourselves is disrupted by this partitioning. As each voice vies for ascendancy, this is a picture of our confusion.
So...the "control" I strive for is the effort to maintain my individual identity as a being separate from the universe. The relaxation of that control brings me into harmony with the universe. So experiencing "paranormal" phenomena isn't about control really, it's about relinquishing control. And that's where discipline comes in. I think I see the light...
And the universe opposing me is a manifestation of my own internal division. So I work out my salvation with the aid of the material world cluing me in to my own struggle...
Well none of us can see in the dark. Love is all around, we need only remove the barriers we have erected to its' awareness.
This feedback loop is the single temporal advantage of metabolism. We were not sent to change or rearrange the world, but to discover what we are made of.
Study and learn telepathy as best you can if you wish for the skill to flourish. But if things ever turn dark, and the voices in your head multiply and criticize you, get help. good day,
haha i guess it would be possible i have a mental disorder but its highly doubtful as it doesn't run in my family and this has only happened to me twice. If voices start telling me to do things I'll seek medical attention lol.
I've heard that it's important to learn how to compartmentalize experiences. It's one way to prevent yourself from going nuts. Basically, be able to read experience without attaching yourself to it- and to be VERY skeptical about what you read. Always act as if you are a researcher in new territory- as a scientist you CANNOT jump to conclusions. That's just bad science. You cannot verify the experience, so no conclusion can be drawn. As it stands now, you had some interesting experiences, but you cannot confirm it- so it is wise to put a third perspective on this one. In my opinion, I'd say you had an adverse reaction to the drugs which caused a temporary psychotic state. This is debatable as to whether or not it was "adverse"- if it happens in your sober state, than I would be more concerned.
