Sleep Paralysis Details

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Date:  Posted 7 years before Jul 30, 2018

MiBeloved 7 years ago

Quote (MiBeloved):

You are having sleep paralysis and astral experiences all in one. Sleep paralysis occurs when the astral body is not in sync with the physical one, so that you are aware of the physical body but you cannot move it because your will power is not properly connected to the physical nervous system.

That is different to having astral nightmares or entering astral levels which are negative.

These are two separate factors.

Jane Doe Inquired:

I think this appears to be a really good explanation.

Why do you say that there is an “astral experience” involved here? Just because it was a dream, or because it became a lucid dream? I ask because when this was happening to me, I was lucid a few times which seemed to trigger the paralysis, but not every time. Sometimes it was simply a big event that acted as the “paralysis within a dream” trigger, that occurred while dreaming, that appeared to have a strong impact on me emotionally (like seeing classmates that have died).

MiBeloved’s Response:

There is only one subtle body just as there is only one physical body. Hence the various bodies described by mystics are different phases of the same one subtle body. That body feels differently according to the energy level it is synchronized into. In fact we customarily think that the subtle body is just part of the physical body or is just the physical body itself when it is fused into the physical form.

Astral projection means that it has separated out of the physical body and has shifted out of the location of the physical body. But it can separate from the physical body in terms of vibration and when it does so, it may still be interspaced into the physical body and then we say that the person is lucid dreaming. So the technicality between lucid dreaming and astral projection is that in lucid dreaming the person is having subtle experiences while being interspaced into the physical one while in astral projection the person is having subtle experiences while being out-placed or displaced from the physical one.

It is the same subtle world in each case, but in one case, the person is still somewhat aware of the physical body, while in the other the person is only aware of the subtle body and is distanced from the physical one.

Lucid dreaming and astral projection are different to daydreaming in the mind or imagining something in the mind. That is a totally different state which takes place in the brain of the physical body and the mind of the subtle body at the same time and is a construction of the person’s imaginative powers.

Astral projection and lucid dreaming do involve one’s imaginative powers but they take place in a real subtle world, just as if you draw a diagram of a product you invent and then manufacture that product physically. In that case you were using your imaginative powers but the product is real nevertheless; while another person who just imagined the product and did not go to the extent of manufacturing it, just worked with her imagination only.

As there is a real physical world in which we have paved parts to make streets, so there are real astral dimensions in which lucid dreaming and astral projection take place.

Notes on Sleep Paralysis and Cataleptic Trance

Sleep Paralysis is usually confused with spirit possession and other spooky experiences. This is because when sleep paralysis occurs, others unpleasant psychic experiences may also occur, and the person may misidentify the paralysis with those experiences. One other thing is that when there is sleep paralysis, the person’s mind usually goes into a panic and fear is invoked automatically. Due to that the person’s astral body sinks down into a lower plane of existence and experiences the horrible realities there.

But the paralysis itself is rarely caused by any evil spirit or any other suppressive or ghastly force, even though such forces do exist in fact.

I have tested and re-tested sleep paralysis on myself for over 50 years, since I was about 9 years of age. My physical body is now 59 years of age. At about nine years, I used to have many sleep paralysis experiences and so I was determined to figure out the reason for it.

I teach meditation, teach kundalini yoga and have written books on related subjects. I spend years taking notes about my subtle experiences. My conclusions are as follows:

Sleep paralysis is a misnomer for the subtle body’s failure to synchronize properly with the astral body. It is not a paralysis of the physical body but it is the subtle body’s inability to move that physical body. That inability is interpreted by the person’s mind as a resistance to will power by the physical body, as a paralysis of it. In fact it is not in a state of paralysis. The problem is that the will power of the person which is housed in the head of the astral form is not connected to the nervous system of the physical body and hence when instructions are given to the physical body for movement, the instructions are not followed by the physical form and the person feels uncomfortable and feels deprived or being able to manipulate and operate the physical body as usual.

Normally when we wake up from sleep, it happens instantly without any hesitation of the physical body to respond to our will power, but in sleep paralysis this natural system is frustrated because the subtle body did not synchronize properly and so with the will power of the person not being lined up properly in the brain with the central nervous system, the person cannot move the physical body. Usually the person can move the diaphragm, can operate the breathing mechanism and can hold the breath and by that may cause the subtle body to jerk into the physical one and set itself in synchronization.

It is an unpleasant experience because we are used to just waking up as a physical body without any hesitation. In other words we take for granted the psychic mechanism or life force (kundalini in yoga books) which is in both bodies, and we feel that it should just operate properly no matter what, such that we should just get up from dream or from astral projection and be our usual physical self as usual.

The same thing occurs when the astral body and the physical body are about to separate. Usually that happens automatically without our participation and usually it works out okay for us without a hitch, such that we are out of it, then we find ourselves in a dream in the mind in the physical head or we find ourselves in a dream apart from the physical body.

So when the astral body and physical body separate partially and we find that we cannot operate the physical body and also we cannot be fully on the astral side, we panic. It all has to do with the synchronization of those two bodies. When they are partially in sync then we are unable to operate one or the other or both in the usual way and we panic. Fear comes into play and we enter lower dimensions and experience unwanted realities.

But those unwanted realities are not the paralysis experience itself but we may confuse the issues, due to simultaneous occurrence.

Bhagiratha 7 years ago

I forwarded this posting on sleep paralysis to a friend that wanted to know more about it.

She wrote back the following:

Natasha Odlum I wonder what is the mechanism of synchronizing the subtle and physical body?

Natasha Odlum oh i meant when the subtle body goes 'feteing', and wants to come back and connect to the sleeping body...what would the re-connective process be to effect full synchronization?

break down in clarity of communication here....not what i must do...but...what is the actual mechanical/chemical/biological whatever mechanism, that is involved in the actual hooking of the subtle to the physical....like a roof...you nail it down to the timber rafters with nails and bolts....so what is the actual nails and bolts of the connection between the subtle and physical body....

where and how are the pins that pin the subtle body to the physical body located? The connection...that's the interesting part in all this?

thank you

MiBeloved 7 years ago

Regarding the mechanism of synchronizing of the subtle and physical bodies, to ask about the mechanism which controls that is great but first we should probably consider that even if we know the mechanism, we may not be able to get into a position to control it.

The idea of knowing what the mechanism is, is loaded with a desire for controlling it but we have to be reasonable. For instance suppose you are the limb of a tree. You have grown out of the tree but then you do not like it because you are swaying against your will in the breeze. Then ask if it makes sense to investigate the source of the breeze and also to investigate how you came to be as a limb of the tree. I am sure you would agree that such an investigation would be interesting but totally impractical in terms of your doing something about what you are and where you happen to be existentially located.

It so happens that the mechanism of synchronization of those two bodies is not under the control of the person who uses the body. It was not under his or her control when the body began as a sperm particle in the father’s body and when it was developed into an embryo in the mother’s womb. In fact, the way this life is set up, the person is in an after-the-event position. And when you are located like that, obviously, nature has no intentions of handing over control to you.

Anyway to answer the question directly: the mechanism is controlled by the life force which is also known as kundalini. That mechanism controls the fusion into and fission from the physical body of the astral one.

So what can be done?

Well the only way to deal with this is the indirect way by making conditions favorable for kundalini to operate the mechanism. For instance, if you sleep in a room which lacks ventilation, you will end up breathing stale air, and that is one way of creating conditions for a de-synchronization. If the life force cannot get fresh air, then it malfunctions.

Another thing that affects this is intoxicants. These substances have various types of effects on the life force. Another aspect is viewing horror films. Though the films might be fiction stories, the images affect the performance of the mind space and the life force.

Weird injuries to the brain or spine can also cause the life force to malfunction in this way.

But again, the human body, in fact any creature form is separated out from the astral body anytime those bodies sleep. This is going on and we are not in control of it. For that matter this activity is out of our control.

Yogis practice kundalini yoga to get some relative (not absolute) control over the kundalini mechanism, but theirs is more of an observation of how the thing operates and finding a way to make conditions favorable for its higher functions.