Something I’ve been keeping my eye on for a while is Steorn.com. It’s an engineering company in Ireland, that claims to have discovered how to make a perpetual motion device. Now, of course that breaks the laws of physics :-). Nonetheless, they seem to be legit (or … at least more legit than your backyard mad scientist :-P).

They haven’t said how their technology works exactly yet - only that it is based on having magnets in a circle, and pushing an object around the circle using the magnets. They understand that people will be skeptic, so they have devised a way to prove it works — a long time ago, they took out an advertisement in a popular magazine, inviting scientists to debunk their device. The only catch is: if the device works, the scientists have to publicly state it works. Steorn had over 5000 applicants, and out of them, whittled the list down to 22 scientists with both the free time and academic background to properly investigate their device.

Pretty cool stuff! We’ll have to wait and see if it’s a hoax of some sort :-). If it is a hoax, Steorn has done an amazing job at fooling a lot of people. Check out this page on their website with two videos explaining the entire thing - and this page with their most recent video from April 13, 2007 (or you can just search YouTube).

We are all “psychic” — there is nothing SUPER-natural about it. It’s just natural. Now we might feel a little less special when we think of it that way, but we have to put our ego aside in favor of discovering truth :-P.  Maybe some of you are thinking, “Yeah, that’s great Sean, maybe you are psychic (or crazy), but I’ve never done anything psychic! So it’s easy for you to say.” Ok fair enough. Let’s take Out of Body Experiences, for example.

The basic description of an Out of Body Experience (OBE) is that you lay down, do some meditation or something, and then you find consciousness floating outside your body. Then you can fly around and do fun things.

Sometimes we become so discouraged by our practice that we feel we’ll never accomplish our goal. Hey, cheer up! While nothing has been “proven” about OBEs, a lot of authors in the OBE field, along with myself, believe that everyone has OBEs every night. Now don’t just glance over that idea — if you’re training for OBEs, then really digest it.

Imagine that you actually are leaving your body, every night. Every night, since you were born, you’ve been leaving your body. That’s a lot of experience. That’s a lot of OBEs. Imagine that just last night you left your body. And the night before. And tonight. Get it out of your head that you need to achieve an OBE. You’ve already achieved them!

So what do you need to achieve? Conscious awareness. Right now you aren’t consciously aware of leaving your body. You leave your body every night, but you are zonked out when it’s happening.

The question isn’t, “How do I have an OBE?” It’s not a question of techniques, or step by step procedures. The question you need to pose yourself is: “How do I become aware of this natural process?” Now, we can have some tips that you can try. But these tips are not full-proof step by step techniques. They are just tips (that I’ll address in future postings).

If you’re trying to have an OBE (or even if you aren’t, but are just curious about it), start by really digesting the idea that you have an OBE every night. Maybe you don’t believe it - that’s fine - but just give the idea a try in your head. It can change your focus.

I had a lucid dream last night. I have them just about every night.

A lucid dream is a dream where you are aware you are dreaming while inside the dream. I’ve had them ever since I was a little kid, and it’s the only weird skill that I really have a natural talent for.

My dreams follow a basic pattern: some authority figure telling me I’m going to get in trouble for doing something, then me discovering it’s a dream and laughing in the authority figure’s face… then usually flying off and having fun. Sometimes I’ll take time to teach my other dream characters how to fly, or how to walk through walls.

There are a lot of ways to have a lucid dream for yourself. I think the reason I have them all the time is because, when my mind wanders, it naturally starts questioning things. Whenever my mind starts to wander in a dream, I start to question my environment, and it turns into a lucid dream.

One technique you might want to try is to start questioning your environment in real life. Ask how something works (”What does the inside of that doorknob look like? How does it do it’s job?”), or why someone designed what you’re experiencing a certain way (”Does each floor in my apartment have the same layout? Did they build these stairs last, after everything else was done?”). Look around and pick out random things that most people would look over. Be aware of the movement of your body. Be aware of the thoughts in your head, and specifically how you react to situations around you.

How we perceive our environment from day to day is extremely important. For example, check out this post about how artists will look at pictures differently than a normal person. Interesting stuff!

If you want more lucid dreams, chances are you’ll have to change something :-). Where we are is a result of what we’ve done… if we want something else, we need to starting doing different things. Happy dreaming!

Hello!

Most (if not all) of you reading this are probably visiting because you enjoyed PsiPog.net when it was active in the past. I was working on ALW on and off for the past couple months, working with ideas, some video, designs, features, and stuff like that. Eventually I decided what I was doing was pretty dumb, and I should just get something online, and then work on things to add to that.

So that’s what I did. I got this simple WordPress blog up and running, with ALW’s theme, so that it looks nice and pretty. In the future, I’ll obviously be adding more stuff. But until then, at least this is better than nothing :-).

Thanks for visiting, and I’ll update this blog in the same manor that I updated my old blog on PsiPog.net. With time, I’ll improve things more. This seems like a good start though :-). Thanks for visiting, be sure to continue to check back!

~Sean