Jim_Smith
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Maybe folks can answer a couple of questions I have:
I've read the transcript of the interview and some of Jurgen's posts on facebook and I am not sure how he goes out of the body. Is it through meditation or via lucid dreaming while he is sleeping? I thought he wrote he goes out of the body in normal consciousness during meditation and that is why he believes his experiences are not fantasy, why he believes his experiences produce reliable information about the afterlife. So I am confused that now the experiences are being called lucid dreams.
I've had a few lucid dreams, but I am by no means an expert. In my experiences I realized I was dreaming and tried to "dream what I wanted to dream" and it worked to some extent. But I never felt it was anything other than fantasy like a daydream, a super-duper vivid realistic daydream, but fantasy nonetheless. I didn't think the lucid dreams were "real" in the same way I know a day dream is not real. It was something I created. So why do folks think lucid dreams are anything more than fantasy within one's skull. Why do folks think they produce reliable information about the afterlife? I understand that in the afterlife you create with the mind, and the line between subjective and objective is not like it is in the physical realm, but do you think the entire afterlife is 100% fantasy with each person having their own separate reality? As far as I know the frequency of veridical information is no different during lucid dreams than normal dreams - very low for most people, but not zero for many people, and high for a few individuals. Is there evidence contradicting that?
I've read the transcript of the interview and some of Jurgen's posts on facebook and I am not sure how he goes out of the body. Is it through meditation or via lucid dreaming while he is sleeping? I thought he wrote he goes out of the body in normal consciousness during meditation and that is why he believes his experiences are not fantasy, why he believes his experiences produce reliable information about the afterlife. So I am confused that now the experiences are being called lucid dreams.
I've had a few lucid dreams, but I am by no means an expert. In my experiences I realized I was dreaming and tried to "dream what I wanted to dream" and it worked to some extent. But I never felt it was anything other than fantasy like a daydream, a super-duper vivid realistic daydream, but fantasy nonetheless. I didn't think the lucid dreams were "real" in the same way I know a day dream is not real. It was something I created. So why do folks think lucid dreams are anything more than fantasy within one's skull. Why do folks think they produce reliable information about the afterlife? I understand that in the afterlife you create with the mind, and the line between subjective and objective is not like it is in the physical realm, but do you think the entire afterlife is 100% fantasy with each person having their own separate reality? As far as I know the frequency of veridical information is no different during lucid dreams than normal dreams - very low for most people, but not zero for many people, and high for a few individuals. Is there evidence contradicting that?
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