On dream travellers

David Duffy · 14 Feb 2011, 22:03 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: davidD at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:03:14 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) On dream travellers
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, James Wynn wrote:

> It is actually more complex than that, and somewhat to the contrary. The 
> astral body is not supported by the corporeal form during dream-travel. It is 
> robust and self-sustaining (without the NEED to take food). During 
> dream-travel it appears that actually the astral body temporarily becomes the 
> parent process and the corporeal form the child process (the unstable 
> dependent process). I say this because:
>
> * If the corporeal body dies, the astral body can continue to run on its own 
> without debility.
>
> * If the astral body dies, this is a catastrophic crash: You are left with 
> the astral corpse undestroyed (a "zombie" process) and the soul cannot 
> "reboot" on the corporeal side. The soul on the astral side is claimed by the 
> Increate.
>
> When the soul moves to astral form, the "system" erases the version on the 
> corporeal. This prevents identity confusion when the soul is re-integrated. 
> When the soul successful returns to corporeal, it is re-written to the 
> corporeal form before destroying the astral. This is why killing the astral 
> body is catastrophic but killing the corporeal body is not.
>

I think these sound similar to the properties of "real" astral travel, as 
per out of body experiences/Madame Blavatsky/Castenada eg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_body

The soul travels away from the corporeal body in a subtle body, and can 
get stuck. The descriptions I have read also involve light weight 
threading ;) [from subtle body to corporeal body].  Moving slightly off 
topic, does anyone else like _The Star Rover_?

Cheers, David Duffy.

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