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Out of Body Experience by Heather Ifversen.

Does the world of astral travel and out of body experiences (OBE) originate with the divine feminine? I think so. Men (and all people) can have these experiences, too, but I believe they originate from the feminine side of consciousness.

I had some interesting astral travel dreams last night. I visited every apartment and home I ever lived in and they were all meshed into one giant place. Here I was able to wander from room to room and casually eat whatever occurred to my hungry self that I wanted to eat in my ‘home.’

I was surprised when I walked downstairs and saw a male and female couple living in this part of the dwelling. It was like an apartment beneath me and the stairs joined the units. But the man in the dream did not want to speak to me so I held my tongue. Instead I walked back upstairs to my space and wandered around some more.

I wandered around my rooms, which were extensive, and I found my two cats I used to have together. They are both deceased now, but I reached down to pet one and I felt his winter coat and his hind claws as they dug into my arm, like he used to do to show his affection for me. Cats use claws in a variety of ways, but this cat, MoMo, used his to show his love to me when I petted him by pushing his hid claws into my wrists. I woke up so thankful I had seen my cats. I had to rush into the bathroom and brush my teeth to convince myself the dream was not real.

When I returned to bed I was still traveling in my dreams to apartments and this time I met a woman. She was a little older than me and said her name was Rose. I was so pleased she lived in the apartment with me. She was cooking and talking to me like an old friend. I am convinced we knew each other though she was a stranger to me in life.   Rose told me many stories as I continued to wander through these rooms.

In real life, some of these travels are memories I cherish that live inside my mind.   I was able to wander through them with the help and guidance of my feminine side. When I approached my male side, it was mum. Simply put, this side of me does not help me to travel out of body (OBE), it keeps me enmeshed in the mundane world, which is needed sometimes (a lot actually).

I love to journey like this in my dreams and am able to mainly because I am sober when I sleep. This frame of mind helps me to experience the astral world more clearly then when I imbibed substances like alcohol and cannabis. It’s not that I feel these substances are wrong – they are just wrong for me at this point in my life. When I’m sober I feel a strong urge to travel astrally and visit places I cannot go in real life right now or ever. How could one put together a montage of former residences and visit them all in one night? Impossible! Yet the dreaming mind makes it quite possible indeed.

As the surrealist painters and poets knew, the dreaming mind offers a variety of experiences that are just not available to the waking mind. The landscape of dreams can change quite suddenly and the action changes, too. I find a comfort in embracing my OBEs when awake. I can contemplate them and feel a sense of familiarity or sometimes strangeness that is welcome. All of the feelings dreams bring are important to me and always have been.

I have been a student of my dreams since my 20s. I used to keep dream journals. The blog is my dream journal now. It’s a way of recording these important experiences. I’ve opened up my dream journal to the public, so others can peer into it easily.

Now my dreams are no longer private. It’s true I still am selective about sharing and writing about them. It’s not necessary to write about all of my dreams. I concentrate on those I find most interesting.   The dreams where color is bold and it is apparent I am traveling outside my body are what Carl Jung called the ‘big dreams.’ These are the dreams I strive to share with the public.

— Elizabeth Kirwin

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Blue Bear by Heather Ifversen

Last night I had fantastic full color dreams that I want to share. I am certain I traveled to Colorado, where I met some interesting women and men who showed me around. One woman in particular, the first I met, was a stranger to me. She entertained me in her home and when we were through, we took a walk with her dog. There were several dogs in the area, but I noticed a large black animal was there, too. It was a huge black bear! It stood out from the dogs as being a wild animal.

I was not afraid of the bear. This fear would be the usual approach for me spotting a bear in the woods. Instead, I took notice it had a distinctly blue glow surrounding it, as if it were marked as special.

Next the lucid dream took me to the studio of two men, who were obviously musicians. They were working on a project and I was watching their progress. I went looking for a drink in their refrigerators and found one. As I drank the beer it tasted awful, so I put it down and got another one. The second beer I put down again and lost it. This signifies I did not want beer as a drink. Since I am do not drink alcohol, I put it down and never tasted it again.

The two men showed me a large console that was rectangular and had a huge video and audio screen. It could be manipulated to produce video. I was fascinated with this device and as I played with it to figure out the function, the men just seemed to disappear. I was left alone with the device to use it myself.

Next I appeared on the doorstep of two women who were obviously a couple. They were happy to receive me into their home. I believe I traveled from New Jersey, where I live, to their home in Colorado. I was a guest and they were prepared to receive me. I saw their names on the mailbox but cannot recall them now.   Often text is introduced to me in dreams but it is hard to remember unless I write it down upon waking.

The home I was visiting was immaculate and well cared for, compared to the studio I just visited, which was a small mess. This was a study in contrast between how men live together and how women live in a much more orderly space (this is not always the case, but mostly plays out as such). The women had thoughts on Colorado to share with me, and I listened. They told me that the wilderness areas were full of wild animals and lots of surprise beasts, too. The women said I had come for a very special purpose of seeing the animals, and them, too. I found them both interesting.

When I left their home I took note of the names on the mailboxes and I vowed to return there.

The dreams concluded with me waking up.

I felt a strong pull towards Colorado upon waking and knew with absolute certainty that’s where I visited in my astral projection. During my life in reality, I spent 2017-2019 in Colorado and was able to travel widely in the state. I saw many things, including lots of wild animals while living in the Black Hawk and Nederland area. Yet I never once saw a bear! I saw two bobcats on the property where I lived. I saw a large brown moose run down a side street in Nederland. I also saw a lovely red fox on my way down the road from Nederland to Black Hawk. The fox revealed itself to me at sunset. I also saw a black moose running around the neighborhood at a friend’s house in Black Hawk.   In each instance I was enchanted by the animal sighting and loved watching them. Moose are considered dangerous in Colorado, because they charge human beings with all of their weight.   I am thankful I was in the car for the large brown moose sighting. For the black moose sighting I quickly went inside the house.

Large mountain lions also populate the Nederland area, making it unsafe for the locals to go out and walk their dogs on some evenings. The mountain lions show during nocturnal hours and are quite large. I heard stories about mountain lions coming into a trailer park and jumping from rooftop to rooftop. This was quite scary for the residents of the trailer park, as one can imagine.

In my astral projection/lucid dreaming about Colorado, the people were so hospitable and I was unafraid of the wild animals. I felt immune to any harm the animals might bring me, which is unusual. When lucid dreaming and waking in between, I always stayed in the same general area of Colorado and experienced more people. This amazes me, but I have developed a way of stationing myself in lucid dreams. I don’t move around on the bed but stay in the exact position on the bed when I briefly wake and recover the lucid dream. Then I deliberately set my intention to stay in the lucid dream and explore further. This seems to work for me as I continue in the dream narrative. Sometimes I switch locations in a minor way, but the thread of the dream remains the same. I am able to capture a moment in dreaming and direct the rest of my dream narrative towards that moment.

The Calling, by Heather Ifversen

In listening to female tarot readers, I often hear them speak about the Rise of the Divine Feminine as they read the cards. These are usually general readings geared towards the public.  I have also heard magical friends detail this Rise of the Divine Feminine excitedly.  This notion rings a bell in me and sets off my latent feminist principles.  It’s so telling that women are picking up on it.   I wonder if men, too, are realizing the Divine Feminine within themselves. I hope so.

At the risk of being called a womanist, I consider myself a humanist at heart.  This involves looking at the world from all angles, not just the female perspective.  So I think women’s perspective has been eclipsed until now.  The Divine Feminine rises in each one of us, not just women.  But it has a curiously female overtone to it.

Many women of my past are coming to haunt me in real life and in dreams.  I know I am actively dreaming a lot these days and I see I am out of my body quite frequently.  I received a call from an old friend I had been out of touch with. She says she dreamed of me 3-4 times in the past month.

I know I am actively hopping out of my body and going astral, because I wake up in the middle of lucid dreams. I could be anywhere on earth.  I suspect I have my favorite places. The dream realm is so nebulous.  Dreams have always belonged to the Divine Feminine for me. Long ago, I learned the difference between the garden variety dream and an out of body experience. The regular dreams are mundane and run like a film reel.  While out of body dreams are so vivid they feel like real life.  I at once experience the intensity of color. I am not a visual artist, though I admire them greatly.  I see color in an intense way in out of body dreams.  Then there is the feeling like I am actually there.  That’s right, I am physically present to the dream to the point where I can taste, touch and feel the person or people I interact with.  It’s like I am part of the film on screen. The reality of the dream life really grabs me and when I wake up I am still within it. I wake in a total sweat and my heart is usually pounding. My mind is a bit confused.  Am I home in bed or somewhere else? I have to reorient myself at first.

Once I assure myself I am home, in bed, it feels safer to go back to sleep and re-enter the dream.  That’s right. I don’t allow the dream to slip away, I replay the last part again and again in my mind and hold onto it.  Being briefly awake, allows me to now consciously re-enter the dream and do some lucid dreaming.  Let’s face it, some out of body dreams are so incredible,  you simply don’t want to let go and come back to the mundane world.  Plus there are hours of dreaming left and sleep comes easily. Yet I am not fully asleep.  My mind is awakened.  The sleep I experience post waking up is unsettled. There is no firm sleep just a feeling of being caught between the world of waking and sleeping.  Some have described this state as lucid dreaming.  It’s when the dreamer can now control the reality of the dream and direct the action.

Often I am dreaming of women.  That’s why I refer to this activity as the Rise of the Divine Feminine.  I am holding onto women as if for dear life.  Surely whomever is in the dream must feel me.  I have had others besides my long lost friend describe me as a character in their dreams. Having another’s perspective here is so valuable and fascinates me to no end.  I don’t always wake up, nor do I always remember everything.  Having another tell me what I did in dreams makes me realize the out of body lucid dreaming is real. Plus, when another tells me about my out of body travels, it validates the whole experience for me.

Most likely, the Rise of the Divine Feminine is occurring in my female counterparts.  We all fall asleep and dream.  The trouble is, when you abuse substances like alcohol and cannabis, you don’t remember your dreams as much. Getting sober and facing the evening brings about lucid dreaming for me.  I recently got sober and have felt more energy at night.  I believe the sober state brings about remembrance. Lucid dreaming is always possible. It is not always possible to remember our dreams.

I used to keep dream journals.  I have not had one in years. But when I wake from and out of body dream, the dream stays with me all morning and sometimes all day. There’s an impact the dream has on waking consciousness, that takes the out of body lucid dreaming act for real.  The body/mind continuum is activated in lucid dreaming.

I believe these dreams happen for a reason. In my case, the reason for out of body travel is quite obvious to me.  I have not been able to travel lately, due to life circumstances.  I am caring for an elder parent who really needs me. So I stay home rather than accept the invitation to travel.  It’s not easy for a lifelong traveler to stay home. So at night, I leap out of my body and travel anywhere I want.  I feel the conscious and unconscious mind can work together to create this happening.  Also, with the Rise of the Divine Feminine running tangential to my dream life, it works for me.   I get what I want, a traveling binge, and I am at home too, which is what I need at this present time.

I have not always been so complicit with the needs of others, but sometimes life changes, and one has to roll with the changes.  The benefits are that I get to practice out of body astral travel.  Not everyone has these talents. But I do. And I need to practice to get better.  Just like anything,  astral travel can become somewhat normal if one just practices it.  I don’t know why astral travel and lucid dreaming go together for me.  They just do.

Dream experiments are a prolific part of my night life nowadays.  Sometimes I wake up with a song that goes along with the dream in my head.  The song is quite obnoxious and won’t go away.  I let it play on loop in my brain until I am absolutely sick of it.  Then I replace it with a protective chant I developed for my lucid dreams.  I say, “Angels, spirits, ancestors and guides – give me divine protection.”   This mantra effectively chases the song on loop away.  It’s a way of saying to my unconscious mind – STOP with the song on loop.  If I don’t interrupt it the song keeps looping and it gets boring.

I believe, in my lucid dream state, I am calling out to other women whom I need to speak to, but for some reason cannot in waking life.  So I call out to them to converse on any variety of topics.  Night time used to be a time of loneliness for me, when I had no company, I set my mind to daydreaming.  Being a social person, COVID-19 really messed me up. I got used to being alone, or so I told myself.  I realize now when you bend space and time as a regular act, there’s no reason to be alone.  Plus I am never alone as I have my elder father with me 24/7.  But having a variety of company is what I miss most. So I seek out this variety in the dream landscape.  It’s fun and it keeps me amused and happy.

Do you have lucid dreams?  If so, get in touch.

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— Elizabeth Kirwin