tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post1975321974207447645..comments2024-03-28T03:03:29.329-07:00Comments on Blogos: Raziel - Ba, Ruach, Sleep ParalysisBlogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-12373499800771230312015-02-04T08:14:15.393-08:002015-02-04T08:14:15.393-08:00In an odd way -- although you've paid for it d...In an odd way -- although you've paid for it dearly with terrifying experiences -- you are actually somewhat blessed with whatever idiosyncrasies make you prone to sleep paralysis, and blessed to have had the pressures that triggered it. Through the unique constitution of your nature and the unique situations your destiny has led you into, you have received initiations into astral experiences that some people have to wait a much longer time for than you. I don't get sleep paralysis, but some of my practices have caused spontaneous projections in my sleep and periodic lucid dreams. <br /><br />The story of your crawl across the floor and struggling against the door being held shut by "something" strikes me as a classic "watcher at the threshold" experience. You were being tested to see if you were worthy of the insight you were on the edge of gaining. <br /><br />The distinction you make between the two types of astral experience are useful, but mostly for the understanding that doors and portals ("thresholds") are powerful tools that seem to connect to an ancient -- the most ancient -- functions of human consciousness. I can see it in Platonic terms: doors and portals existed in the world of ideals long before we human being began making imperfect images of The Portal in our physical world.<br /><br />Regarding the Ba: whenever I take the time to read about the Egyptian taxonomy of the subtle body, I get this uneasy feeling that we only think we know what the Egyptians meant by the words Ba, Ka, Akh, etc. I've taken the attitude that the non-physical world is a spectrum that can be divided in different ways. You can get the Egytians' five bodies, or the Hindu Yogis' five koshi's, or the Qabbalists' four worlds, or seven chakras, or whatever. On the other hand, instructions from Ratziel are different than reading in a book.<br /><br />Perhaps the day will come when the difference will be significant to me, but for now, all I care is that I am aware when my consciousness is non-physical and when I am living through the five senses. <br /><br />I plan to write a post on my blog based on the medieval concept of the aevum; a realm midway between the eternal world of God and the temporal world of the physical universe. When you are not in the body, you are in the aevum. You are not in the eternal world where there is no time or space, but that world has a very different relationship to time and space than the physical world. <br /><br /><br /><br />Theo Huffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11832438171790956528noreply@blogger.com