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When human beings explore astral dreaming, they do not necessarily sense what this is.  As an astral dreamer, you will sense a different sort of reality and remember details that surprise you.  How often do you ask yourself why you would like to astral travel?

Any human being can learn astral projection.  Some people learn to project the body.  Others project consciousness.  Still either people learn to project either or both at will.  In all cases, your awareness is heightened and you sense differently.  You may create new points of reference.  You may also sense your mind is playing tricks on you. 

It is not uncommon for people to get a fright when they discover their fingers seem to be made of elastic and they can stretch them like taffy.  Some people even wonder if perhaps they are dead because their insight and perspective change and grow so much.

Like anything, if you set your mind to the task, you can train yourself, develop mental discipline and venture to places you had not even imagined during waking consciousness.  If you choose, you can engage in dialogue with people you haven't seen in a long time.  As you erase or move beyond expectations that emerge from what you have heard from other people about astral travel, you will move to create your own personal experience.

Redefine what it means to be "normal"

Human beings will tell themselves what is possible relates to what is common, typical or normal in the world around them.  As you evolve to compare and judge yourself, you reject, criticize and evoke repeated discomfort.  All your senses reveal useful things.

For example, if your dream is to be a model, to work in media, or in some other public role, yet, your self-image tells you that you do not have what it takes, you may lose faith in your ability.  You can also read your senses as encouraging new initiatives for self-growth.   What matters is you devote yourself to what you do.  Learn wherever you are.

If you do not feel you have much in common with anyone you know or have met, you may wonder whether you are coming or going, if you have a place in this world at all. Uncertainty and confusion may evoke more of the same.  All emotions, even anger, are raising your awareness of something.  You can view this as helpful.  Take it as you will.

The short answer is, of course you are meant to exist right now.  If you were not supposed to be here, you would not be alive now.   It is often easier to figure out what you are not, what does not feel right, what does not "jive" with your inner self or the people around you.  All of this offers clues and points you in meaningful directions. 

It can be tempting to search for a single recipe or answer to explain who you are or what you are here.  This is conditioned thinking.  When people around you are making certain choices, only you are equipped to decide what is right for you.  Different is beautiful.

Each opportunity to make a new decision is a way to learn about yourself.  Happiness is experienced throughout your life.  How you feel at a given moment is always a choice.  This empowers you to dream and define what is 'normal' for you. What about right now?

Why are you pretending?

Human beings readily pretend to be something they are not.  They are also unaware of what thye do.  How many times have you given into whatever a group of friends was doing?  When was the last time you put up a front to get a particular job, to get into a club, to be accepted or approved? Why do you choose clothes that do not fit, situations that do not suit you? An endless drama of events can be changed with consciousness.

You have the need to be loved and accepted by others, but this remains out of reach so long as you do not learn to love yourself. Why is it that you do not accept everything about yourself? What you dream and express constructs your world. How will that evolve?

In your personality and behaviour, you are telling people how you think and what you believe.  Each person is born with a degree of invisible, personal power.  This is strengthened or drained based on how you listen to or ignore your authentic views.  You also evolve to conditon yourself to believe ideas that go against your deepest self.

Each time you listen to yourself, you value yourself and you move away from pretending.  Each time you ignore how you truly feel, or each time you choose to speak against what you are thinking, this is pretending what you are not.  When yo utell yourself you are what other people tell you that you are, this is also pretending. Are you for real?

Grizzly encounters

Analysis of the week on dream submitted by Anonymous of Melbourne, Australia.

Dream- I looked outside the window of the breakfast nook in my parents' kitchen.  I saw grizzly bears wrestling on the lawn then vanish.  I went outside to rake leaves and picked up the bear's excrement. It was in the shape of prisms that shone light through my hand.  Then, I went into a sauna and was startled to encounter a grizzly bear. I exited.  A being reassured me and accompanied me back. I entered a hot tub and got out. I saw grizzly bears nearby.  They no longer worried me.

Predominant Emotions- fear, anxiety, engrossed, strained, troubled, increasingly relaxed

Interpretation-  Grizzly bears are an endangered species that feel confined in their limited habitat.  What does this say about the circumstances you have created for yourself?  An aspect of your life may be nearing an end or, a big transition.  You struggle with change.  As bears are viewed as aggressive creatures, this draws attention to overwhelming feelings and the impulse to fight back.  Reflect on the root cause of why you channel negative energy.   Rethink how you permit external events to vex you.

Prisms remind you of the hidden strength of your spiritual side.  When made of crystal, they reflect light rays of the specturm in order to disperse rays of light.  This is positive and uplifting energy that renews you whenever you reach for it.

Purging is a recurrent theme.  You desire to excrete what no longer matters or even to sweat something out of your system.  This may refer to getting rid of negative energy and opening yourself up to new perspectives that heal your heart or soul. 

To consciously get yourself into 'hot water' may be an experiment.  What do you seek to learn from a particular trial?  The whole experience is far less daunting than you lead yourself to believe. It is an exercise in teaching yourself about fear-based beliefs.  You are dealing with idas that need to be brought back under control.

Listen to the signs from the angels

More often than you realize, guardian angels make their presence known in your life.  What would it take for you to open up and receive their messages? The spirits encourage you to explore the mystery of yourself. They love and support you unconditionally, wherever you are in the dream of your life.  As you sense the signs, you will transform.

You may attribute 'close calls' to angelic intervention. How do you think when you just miss having a car accident?  What about when you seem to have just made a deadline as they say, 'by the skin of your teeth." Did a recent health recovery seem like a miracle?

You agree to believe angels surround you or, you decide they must be a figment of your imagination. Images exist in your mind that perpetuate how you view  everything.  The judge inside you has its own point of view.  Why do you strengthen or restore faith?

On the weekend, I had the pleasure of exploring Bruno's Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Marysville, Victoria, Australia: http://www.brunosart.com/index.htm

Amongst over 100 of his enchanting garden statues, I was drawn directly to an angel that stood behind a girl. She held a quartz crystal exactly like the shard I carried in my pocket.  Soon after sensing that sculpture, a man passed by and recommended I visit Rickett's Sanctuary. I had never heard of it.  He vanished and I felt the urge to find it.

A day later, I drove to William Rickett's Sanctuary in the Dandenong Ranges.  Again, I was drawn directly to a sculpture with the wings of an angel:  http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/cyberfair2002/Williamrickettssanctuary.htm

This was one among 92 sculptures called "The Earthly Mother."  The plaque beside it offers a poem to encourage reverence for life.: "Follow her light from the visible to the invisible within your innermost self...the vastness of your vision transcends the physical eye."

Near my parked car, a young girl got out of another car with her mother.  That little girl wore a hat on which was embroidered, "you are my angel."  Gratitude and love are energy.  Align with the signs around you.  The Divine touches your soul.  Will you sense it?