mad_banshee said:
As Ant says, finding a guide could help in several ways.
1) Having someone there to watch you may ease any fears of "leaving" the room unattended and controlling any "real" world situations...like having someone watch your back.
2) Just in the knowing that this other person has been there and survived quite well is an assurance.
and there are probably a lot of other reasons like someone to talk to about it etc....
I would guess that most people cannot go with full release of their fears to the experience at first. We have very repetitive monkey brains that have been drilled, counterbored, reamed and tapped with fear from society at large, and we have primal survival instincts that demand that we be in control else we get eaten by our predators. What has helped me to let go is to tell myself that being in actual control of my ( day, hour, moment) is pure illusion that we concoct in our minds anyway. There is already so much going on in our little brains and our world that we're just floating with the current anyway and grabbing onto any passing branches to stop is never going to do anything for us but give us a temporary feeling of security as a child with a teddy bear. Just as it took a while to muster the courage to let go of your ( teddy bear or blanket) when you were a child, do you remember the feeling of passage and independence once you did? I feel that this is much the same feeling of growth. You're not losing anything, you can still keep your teddy ( or temporarily abandon your well developed concious mind in this case,) but now you can step outside without teddy, knowing it will be fine and he'll be there when you come back.
I find it interesting that you say this. In fact if you looked at the way you PHYSICALLY moved through space and time, you would find that all your actions are like twigs that emanate from the central trunk/worldline of "YOU".
Trying to control a branch is missing the point entirely because it is not truly "YOU" but rather "you" at that moment in space and time.
Rather, one looks at the Source, and finds that the tree is planted in firm roots which is how it has given you life and even allows any such concept of "you" to exist.
The true "YOU" is the I-ness which is the trunk, the branches and eventually the leaves and the beautiful flowers of one's actions.
The thing is however, just as trees have vast interconnected roots underneath the soil, firmly planted in ground, our trunks also have vast interconnected roots that are our individual branch that vibrates in its own direction.
Each sub branch is also "YOU" but it is primarily "I" whereas just like a human body with cancer, parts of the "I" are subject to rotting and erosion as per the natural ebb and flow of things.
One must tend to their individual branches and twiglets and keep the tree of life healthy and beautiful because if one does not, then the entire tree feels an imbalance and it will send its messengers to take out the cancer and in a world dominated by imprecision, beautiful parts of the I will be swept away by the resulting tidal wave of unconditional healing.
We as humans are the flowers of the tree and our purpose is merely to feel our own beauty but also ensure that other such trees are allowed to live and feel their beauty in peace. Trees may reproduce in a different way but look at a family tree, it's not all different when you think about it. The interconnectedness is firm below ground but it is only there to allow complete interconnection above ground, even if the individual leaves are not going to all help out in the purpose of the reproduction of bliss.
