Hearing Voices When Attempting Ap Options

I have taken up astral projection after falling away from it for a time -- biggest mistake ever. It's hard trying to get the hang of it again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/badmood.gif) Well, "again" might be misleading. I haven't had a full projection, rather I've had partial ones where my spirit was disjointed from my body. I could look around even though my eyes were closed and it was dark in the room.

Now that I have taken it up again and am staying cosistent, something strange happens ever once in a while. As I begin to feel the light/heavy sensations and vertigo, I'll hear my name called. Or I'll hear some strange speech I don't understand; whether this is a language I'm not familiar with or just gibberish I don't know. It's all Greek to me. Often, however, I'll hear my name followed by the gibberish, or my name in the middle of the gibberish, so I suspect it's actually a language. Whoever or whatever it is, it is speaking directly to me; I'm not merely overhearing a conversation.

What, or who, is this? What is going on? Is this a spirit guide or something else?

I was a bit hesitant to mention this before, but lately I've been using the Book of the Old Ones, a book that subscribes and relys heavily on the Cthulhu mythos of the Necronomicon. The book says that when using this system of magick, you'll become aware of shadows and beings following you around, which I have, and I've been having strange dreams, but I'm still not sure if these two developments are related.

Power of suggestion nothing more, imho.

You're reading a book that is surrounded in lore from the necronomicon and that gives it a psychic power to influence you. You read it has the ability to make you aware of such beings and so you start paying attention to see if you do - then you do.

These "shadows" could be thoughtforms.

Although I will say I have come across the concept of "shadow people" many times and I have to say that I do think there is a level of validity in such claims. That and I have my own experiences. And I certainly agree that practicing astral projection altogther can open one's awareness to other beings that exist throughout the various levels of the universe. But I doubt that the book you're talking about has the power, alone, to make you see such things. Possible, but more than likely just the power of suggestion.

This post has been edited by Acid09: Apr 30 2008, 06:13 PM