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How to set up a psychomanteum for meditation

Nightrain

Nightrain

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Has anyone considered setting up a psychomanteum as an aid to meditation? If so, what results have you achieved? And, what is your opinion of such techniques?

Dr. Raymond Moody has written extensively about this method of mirror gazing in two of his books, "Life After Life" and "Reunions", in which he detailed not only methods of setting up such a room but also the results of hundreds of people whom he personally escorted through the process.
The chamber is a very dark room -- maybe ten feet by ten feet -- with a mirror on one wall and a light behind a chair, providing just enough brightness in the room so one can see the mirror. The user of the chamber sits in the chair and looks up into the mirror. They will see nothing but darkness and a clear optical depth. The experience may last anywhere from 20 minutes to two or three hours. Some people experience something quickly, and others don't see anything at all.

Jim DeCaro of Trumbull, Connecticut, used Dr. Moody's psychomanteum chamber and had a provocative experience. DeCaro said, "Two things happened to me. First, the mirror started to go smoky and blurry. Then it started to get backlit red, and I saw rows of silhouettes of people -- just heads and shoulders, but they were rows deep. Then, on my second trip into the chamber, something flew out of the mirror and came straight at my head. I'm sitting there trying to relax and trying to get into it, and something flew out of the bottom of the mirror and swooped straight at my head. It was so real that I had to jump out of the way."

Dr. Moody claims that people who have had an NDE and who also went through his device say the experience of seeing departed loved ones in the chamber was just like the visions from their own near-death experience.
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I've never tried this but it does look rather interesting. Have you tried this and got any results yourself Nightrain?


It seems like it would be a rather scary experience by reading it. :D


I've heard people saying if you look at yourself in the mirror for long enough, you start to change dramatically in terms of what you're seeing. Is this a similar technique?
 
Kristopher said:
I've heard people saying if you look at yourself in the mirror for long enough, you start to change dramatically in terms of what you're seeing. Is this a similar technique?
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I think that all the psychomanteum really does is to expand the practice of scrying in such a way as to possibly make it more effective. What some people do with a bowl of water in a dark room with a flickering candle is very much the same, except that a mirror enlarges the viewing area. The use of a flickering candle instead of a low-watt bulb helps to trick the mind by producing spontaneous shadows and keeps the eye alert to any movement.


Some people like to look at their own reflection, while other choose to gaze into the darkness.


I personally have not yet gone to the lengths described by Raymond Moody in setting up a psychomanteum, but I have tried meditation using photographic darkrooms with no dramatic effect. I don't believe there should be any fear or concern about engaging in such a session, because I don't think the results are really as dramatic as described by Dr. Moody.
 
Take a picture frame pull the glass and cardboard out, then spray paint the glass and cardboard black. Realize that the effectiveness of the mirror,comes down to how well your own magic abilities are developed, as it does with any magic implements.


I personally do not like mirror gazing but if you do THAT you should use a real mirror and candles, in a dark room. That will work better! Franz Bardon has a whole chapter on making a magic mirror but I think for this type of thing (past life search) a normal mirror would suffice.


This is what I do; this may or may not work for you...


Sit yourself in a comfortable position and close your eyes, breathe and watch your breathing, imagine that your breathing in is giving you sustaining life and breathing out you die and with the new breath you are born again.


Now, imagine a figure of a deity, or Nature that you consider a main image of something sacred, Earth? It could also be the Sun, a fiery flame, Buddha, Jesus etc. Then, you focus on this image and clear your mind of all thoughts, then you focus on your top of your head and let go. Imagine, you are exiting your body and go upwards into space/sky whatever. Do this for a few hundred times. :D


You eventually, should lose "consciousness" in meditation the same way as you are in a dream. What differentiate this with normal dreaming is that while you are not "conscious" you are aware that you have left your body. You can see it sometimes. When doing so (and doing it right) you are out of your body in the Astral realm. You meet entities there and you can ask questions, confirm your thoughts, you can travel far or near. Much better than a mirror, IMHO.
 
Nightrain said:
Has anyone considered setting up a psychomanteum as an aid to meditation? If so, what results have you achieved? And, what is your opinion of such techniques?

Dr. Raymond Moody has written extensively about this method of mirror gazing in two of his books, "Life After Life" and "Reunions", in which he detailed not only methods of setting up such a room but also the results of hundreds of people whom he personally escorted through the process.
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Has anyone considered using a television, since the screen is black, reflective, and easily available?
 
Solange said:
Has anyone considered using a television, since the screen is black, reflective, and easily available?
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I've not attempted to do anything like that. But the comment on the blackness of a TV screen reminds me of something. About a week ago I was using a hand-held tablet to watch a film. During some of the darker scenes I could see my own face reflected in the black screen. For a few moments I saw the same impression of my present-day self as I have seen in old photos of my presumed past-life self. It made that connection seem just as strong as ever. I first noticed the resemblance decades ago and nowadays I don't usually see anything apart from present-day me when I look in a mirror, but the black TV did have that effect.

Something a bit different too, just one time when I was in my day job, sitting in front of a black screen with some computer code, I saw through the screen into a cave, where there were paintings of animals on the ceiling. I saved a copy of the screen including computer code to look at later, but could not recapture the effect, it was just a brief uninvited glimpse.
 
Kristopher said:
I've heard people saying if you look at yourself in the mirror for long enough, you start to change dramatically in terms of what you're seeing. Is this a similar technique?
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I did this as a kid, for no other reason than just exploring. I didn't like what I saw. I think after some time the eye gets tired and starts to fall out partially. I remember also distortions in the reflection of my own face, weird and unpleasant effects popping up. Feeling weird at the good side of the mirror as well, almost as if I switched back and forth between the two sides of the mirror. I grew up before the internet and much information, so I had invented this game myself. I've always considered this something not magical.
 
Solange said:
Has anyone considered using a television, since the screen is black, reflective, and easily available?
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I have tried to do it in the mirror several times a while back but I couldn't get too far into it because it got uncomfortable after a minute or so.
 
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