From: dbsbanka@solomon.technet.sg (Teo Pit Koon)
Subject: TLR speaks (again) LAST
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:46:59 GMT


Greetings and Peace :-)-

	Well, again, break consists of some cookies, goodies and more sweet
gooey stuff, ...nothing quite like the sweet cake from India which Dr. Rampa
fancies.

	Now much relieved, the monks too are paying attention to this
last session of the day, entitled "LESSON NINE":

	"When you are in the astral stage consciously you will see colours
more brilliantly than you do in the flesh. Everything will shimmer with life,
you may even see particles of 'life' about you like specks. That is the
vitality of the earth, and as you pass through it you will pick up strength
and courage."

	Ahem, well,... the spectre didn't mean to be disrespectful at this
point in time, but he thought that an appropriate commentary or two will
serve nicely--like the icing on a cake. About the star studded specks, well,
the spectre thought that is indeed true, for having seen it himself, indeed,
it so reminded him nicely about the stars, which is why he decided to adopt
the name the star gazer...

	At several times in his life, too, the spectre thought he was able
to see the so-called "specks" of life floating by right before his eyes,
everywhere he looked. They seemed to come right up to the eyes, and disappeared
after some time, not knowing what to do with them...

	Back to you, Dr. Rampa.

	"A difficulty is this; you cannot take anything with you, you cannot
bring anything back! It is, of course, possible under some conditions--and
this comes with much practice only--that you materialise in front of a 
clairvoyant, but it is not easy to go to a person and carry out a diagnosis
of their health condition because you really need to be able to discuss things
like that. You can go to a shop and look over their stock and decide what you
want to go and buy the next day, that is quite permissible. Often when you
visit a shop in the astral you will see the flaws and the shoddiness of some of
the goods which are high priced! When you are in the astral and you want to
return to the physical, you should keep calm, you should let yourself think of
the flesh body, think that you are going to go back and that you are going to
get in. As you think this there will be a blur of speed, or there may even be
an instantaneous shift from wherever you were to a spot three or four feet
above your reclining body. You will find that you are there, drifting, 
undulating slightly, just as when you left the body. Let yourself sink down
very, very slowly, it must be slowly because the two bodies have to be
absolutely synchronised.

	"If you do it right you will sink into the body without a jar, without
any tremor, without any sensation other than that the body is a cold and
heavy mass.

	"If you should be clumsy and you should not exactly align your two
bodies, or if someone should interrupt you so that you go back with a jerk,
you may find that you have some headache, some almost migraine type of 
headache. In that case you have to try to get yourself to sleep, or force
yourself out into the astral again, because until your two bodies are back in
exact alignment you cannot get rid of the headache. It is nothing to worry
about because a quite definite cure is to go to sleep, even for a few moments,
or consciously to get out into the astral again.

	"You may find that back in your flesh-body you are stiff. You may find
that the sensation is much the same as putting on a suit of clothes which got
wet the day before and now is still wet and dank. Until you get used to it it
is not altogether a happy sensation coming back to the body, you will find that
the glorious colours which you saw in the astral world have dimmed. Many of the
colours you will not see at all in the flesh, many of the sounds that you
heard in the astral are quite inaudible when in the fleshy body. But never
mind, you are upon Earth to learn something, and when you have learned that
which was your purpose in coming to Earth you will be free of the ties, free
of the bonds of Earth, and when you leave your fleshly body permanently, with
the Silver Cord severed, you go to realms far above that of the astral world.

	"Practice this astral travelling, practice it and practice it. Keep 
away all fear, for if you have no fear, then there is nothing to fear, no
harm can come to you, only pleasure."

	With that, Dr. Rampa bows out.

	Curtain closes.

	(cl, clap, cl, cl, clap, clap, cl... ) Some monks were highly
elated with the instructions, others a bit confused. Well, that is life...

	Now that closes another glorious chapter of the wisdom from the
old man himself. The spectre thought that there may be perhaps certain
sections which would be of some interest to the monks gathered here,
perhaps later, if there is demand...

	For the time being, he thought to rest his fingers for fear they took 
on the typist's arthritis working on this clinky old keyboard.

	He hopes all monks reading the instructions will find it useful, and 
perhaps could report on their experiences too, if something does come out.

	The season of holiday is coming to an end too, so the spectre thought
he would perform a last act of magick, and vapourise himself out of the
electronic net, write-wise, perhaps to reincarnate again at a later, more 
appropriate time...

	Exeunt spectre.

The star gazer ***
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