Part IV - My Personal Void ResearchLet me start out by using the list from Part I again concerning the 'usage' or 'purpose' of The Void from the astral projector's perspective. The fourth list item 'information' will certainly be my main focus, as you can already see by the length of it.
Possible Void Purposes / Usage
1. Hub, springboard, gateway for entering astral planes, 'pre-OBE' state
Like many or almost all other APers I also use the Void as a springboard. I also often had the 'involuntary' experience that I wanted to go somewhere and ended up in 'Exit Blindness' (Type A Void). Most often though when I go deliberately to the Void nowadays I 'automatically' project to the Type B Void (Swirls) which is kind of 'waiting for me'.
I cannot attest to a White Void (Type C) when I do this except for one experience where I tried to get to the Void (FZ between F2 and F3, according to Kepple) from a Lucid Dream (F2). Usually the Void for me is always dark (A) or with grey smoke or pinpoints (B). If it exists as a buffer zone, as described by e.g. Nick Newport or Frank Kepple above, then it happens very fast to go through because in my case I always somehow fade into the scene. It happens like s.o. turns on the light in a room slowly with a dimmer switch lamp and the picture gets clearer and brighter each second.
Most often, in order to get out of the Void (A or B) I use the hand rub or clap technique with my 'astral hands' together with a command. This 'body action' turns on your body feeling (chakras?) and thus you can finally 'anchor' yourself in a reality you want to go to. First you solely see your hands you 'look at' indeed and then the scene(ry) around you unfolds gradually (lightening up) by the second. More on entering or exiting the Void will be talked about with connection to (4.) information gathering.
2. Contemplation, meditation, self-realization
I admit I am always a 'busy' astral traveller and most of the times tried either to go somewhere (see 1. above) or to stay in the Void and use it for interaction, communication and information access (see 4. below). So my 'stillness' times are rare and restricted. I plan on doing a Void meditation session though in the future.
3. God/Source experience, 'going home' (?)
The God aspect is true for me and I myself even at times dubbed the Void 'The Godfield'. I dropped this term again but you might come across the expression in some of my earlier posts that I will link and quote further down. Especially the information access aspect of the Void is somehow 'godly' for me since the Void seems vast and 'all-knowing' indeed. I do not remember feeling Bliss and unity there, but I had this experience during an NDE-like experience, so I know how it feels. It just did not happen in the Void then. As a side note, I also do not remember that I was ever in a state of being fearful, shocked or afraid in the Void, just like many NDErs are. Maybe I somehow intuitively knew even as a newbie experiencing it for the first time that this is a natural state you can be in temporarily - or maybe even 'the most' natural? A homecoming (to 'Source' or 'God') of sorts. More on this 'Source'-discussion can be found in Part V.
4. Information gathering, 'akashic' access (past, present, future)
This became my hobbyhorse and that is why this section will be extra-long. I am personally an info nerd. I also tried to gather 'akashic' and past-life info via 'normal' astral projections and dream programming with some limited success. However the real 'breakthrough' I had was with a protocol I developed with(in) the Void. I was inspired by Tom Campbell in this talk from a presentation in NYC in 2011. That is why I came to call it 'Campbell Protocol'.
The link below starts at the section of his talk called 'Making Contact' where he begins to explain on how to communicate with beings or the LCS (Larger Reality System); it starts at 1 hour, 4 minutes and 53 seconds. The decisive part for me and my method starts at 1'08:09 when he talks about 'ask questions like a lawyer' which refers to those that can only (or predominantly) be answered by 'yes' or 'no'. This is about control and easy understanding and not being overwhelmed by too many impressions or information flow. It's just: Confirm or not. Of course, you must avoid pitfalls such as being too suggestive or being too imprecise in your wording. More on that later. In this very video he also proposes the visuals-based 'traffic light' method with red for 'no' and green for 'yes', which I then used for my own approach:
Video: Tom Campbell Simplified Communication ProtocolHere is the (only slightly edited) transcript of that core part copied from YouTube. I quote this here because it IS so vital for explaining my whole process and the reasoning behind it. For me it became the essential procedure for retrieving verifiable and at the same time not too overwhelming information:
And this is what I did! I 'interrogate' the Void. Like a lawyer. I thereby established the 'Campbell' communication protocol for the Void telling it with my intent to show me a green swirl for 'yes' and a red swirl for 'no'. Simple as that.
You might ask: Who or what answers then with the colours? The Void itself or 'someone' via the Void or just myself / the '(Subconscious/Higher) Self'? Good question. By now I am certain it is not 'me' in a strict sense. I will provide some evidence for that in the 'Void Facts' below. My working assumption is that I communicate with what Tom Campbell generically calls the 'Larger Consciousness System' (LCS). I also assume it is somehow connected to the concept of 'Akashic Records' but cannot be sure of it. I might of course also communicate to/with 'beings' in/via the Void which I do not see but give verifiable information. The so-called 'Higher Self' connected to the LCS or Akashic/Soul records is another strong possibility. I will resume this discussion in Part V ('Who is (behind) the Void?').
For the time being and for the sake of information gathering the (verifiable?) quality of the data and the method used is at this point far more important than what constitutes the 'source'. The aim is to have a simplified method for the effective gathering of veracious and in part even verifiable information. And from my experience this voluntary restriction to a kind of 'boring' protocol proved to me that literally 'less is more'. The data I received from my experiments with this simplified communication method in the Void so far shows me that it is indeed mostly or entirely 'true'. The details and examples of this endeavour will be described under the separate topical headers below.
The process for this 'basic' binary approach to information of course means that for detailed data or dates you have to first get around things and encircle them before you approach and finally get the solution. For example, for receiving specific past dates (year in our current Western calender or a 'how long ago' datapoint) I use a technique with 'before / after' or 'ago' and get nearer and so literally 'zero in' on the answer. Let me give you a fictitious example of a question I plan to ask but have not yet done:
'The Mars cataclysm happened over 15,000 years ago (red)? Okay, so it happened before 10,000 years ago (green)? So it happened before 5,000 years (red)?' (Hence from question 3 already I know it was between 10,000 and 5,000 years, if question 2 had been a 'no' (red) I would know it was between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago). And so on. Yes, this can be tedious at times. But rewarding for an information nerd like me - simply because it works!
One might object - especially if not familiar to the non-physical reality via AP - why go to all the painful length and not ask directly for the number, date, data point, etc. instead? Isn't this easier and faster - and more 'natural'?
Yes, I did this a lot in the past but avoiding mistakes and misreadings is key because very often it does not work to get the spot-on data point you want. 'Reading' ('being shown') or 'hearing' ('being told') numbers or dates in the non-physical is often vague and when you view them (e.g. on an astral plane) you get so-called 'reality fluctuations' (a term coined by Robert Bruce) which means you get several results at one attempt, let alone a multitude of differing results at several attempts.
Numbers there often start to oscillate even after a second or two when you look at them, sometimes even more if you try to focus hard, and likewise do dates or names, or anything written down. Yes, it sucks! But every projector has made these experiences, so this is not just a 'law' in my book. I created a GIF animation to show you what it is like:
Did you spot all of the numbers? There's four of them in fast succession: 3,6,8 and 9. Remember that your task in the non-physical in this example was to just read 'one' digit. The same applies to letters and whole words in written text.
This is the reason why the 'Campbell Protocol' is so much more precious for me than e.g. any channelled or dreamed or whatever info I get during astral projections. Not that I regard this is all as wrong or unreliable then. I also received and retrieved 'real' stuff by other means, especially dreams about future events, astral projections or dream programming and dream telepathy. However, this binary inquiry with y/n is a way to really get to the core of things when you want your own questions be answered at the most truthfully.
Yes, I am well aware that this is a daring proposition but again let me state that so far my data supports this. Moreover, information shown via e.g. colourful channelling or astral experience can be overwhelming. There is also the possibility of flaws in the communication channel leading to misinterpretations or misunderstandings, wrong memorising or even simply cheating by deceitful beings you communicate with. In my view many of these dangers can be avoided by going directly to the Void and retrieving it from there.
All of the mentioned common obstacles to retrieve untainted correct data in or from the non-physical constitute the reason why I use this more laborious and simplified approach as recommended by Tom Campbell. It is in my view a far more 'secure' method of encircling the 'right' answer by narrowing it down 'from left and right' via yes/no. And the result usually is not fluctuating! It seems to be free of communication errors and deception the more 'basic' and simple you keep it.
Moreover, you get the same answer also for the same (exact!) question again, although there are pitfalls to avoid which have to do with how you are formulating the words. I will get to this as well in a separate chapter below. The most important takeaway is that it is indeed possible to get to the 'precise' data point after a while. I have a nice transcript example of that below concerning a year of birth.
Sometimes though I 'broke protocol' and applied other kinds of vision apart from just getting red or green from the 'system'. Either it was due to a lack or loss of patience or also to the fact that a lawyer does not only ask the closed yes/no questions but needs to get 'new' information with more open questions (how, what, when, why, etc.). So that is when I was asking to be shown pictures at times. My two validations listed below are good examples. On other occasions I asked for audio data, so there was hearing / speaking involved. I did so while I was still lingering in the Void state. It did not always work though, either because the channel did not open or perhaps because it was just not deemed the right method at that time by the Void (see my chapter on 'refusals').
I did quite a few sessions over a longer span of time and always wrote the transcript later on when I was 'awake' again. There are other Void experiences before that without the 'Campbell Simplified Communication Protocol', of course. Since my lucidity is mostly very high in the Void (with one notable exception described below in the chapter 'Corrections') it was not so difficult to do the memory transcriptions since I remembered the dialogue well. Nevertheless please note that I do not claim that they all are perfect word-by-word minutes documenting perfectly what was said. The 'dialogues' are the best approximation of what was remembered. I have developed some techniques of remembering my experiences well for later logging in the physical. Explaining this here as well would go beyond the scope of this article though.
Without further ado, here you have my (Akashic) 'Void Facts' summarised under specific chapter headers. Note that this time I put the relevant links, most of which belong to my original entries of my journal called 'Lucid Diary = LuciDiary' on the AstralDynamics forum, in a separate section further below. However, also note that I stopped journaling there in October 2016. There were some unpublished transcripts from the Void after that time. So in some cases I might add a later Void experience marked as 'Private Journal' where no link exists. Moreover, the still existing links might be updated in the future because I am in the process of transferrig the most important journal entries to my '
Astralblog', but so far most of the posts are not yet there.
AKASHIC VOID FACTS
VOID Truth & Verifiability
No, of course I do and cannot claim that all I got is verifiable information to be proven right afterwards. E.g. how can I do this with certain bits and pieces of past Earth or past life info, especially about Lady Sinera, a female past life of mine in the 17th century? By nature most of this kind of information is not verifiable, except for some weaker 'indirect' ones done by comparing some of the info gathered or 'seen' (e.g. fashion, clothing) to historic pictures of that time, which I did with success. This then does not constitute absolute proof, of course.
Here is a playing card validation I did from the Void. Many projectors do this exercise. They draw 'blind' a card from a stack and place it on a shelf or table for looking it up later during an OBE in/from the astral. This was my third attempt at this. However, it was only the first I did in or from the Void (instead of going to the room where the card is placed). It was an immediate success! I find this quite telling.
Please note that this still happened before I developed my 'lawyer' protocol. So it involved visual communication by letting the Void show a picture and after that I even projected into an astral scene (which was not my actual room though) to view the card again from there. It also involved a helper or more who first confirmed telepathically that I saw the right card and later were met in that room. I cannot say if it was the same guide in both scenes. It is also notable that reality fluctuations - by showing me a second possible card - only started after I projected into that astral room where the card also was. They did not take place in the Void!
Being very satisfied with this result, I did not repeat a validation attempt with cards or anything else until some group 'Remote Viewing' experiments on the Roundtable forum years later. Once I already tried it for 2-3 rounds in 2016 without being able to use the Void (although one time I really reached it, see the 'Standby' example further below). Another time I did it for a few rounds with different techniques in 2018 where I used the Void one time. In this successful attempt, the actual centre object was not seen by me. However, the experimenter (Laron, who is also the forum/website owner) had placed crystals around the object in order to stabilize the tablecloth it was placed on due to strong winds since the table was outside. (He did so for the first time, not in prior experiments!). So I saw one of them 'flying' through the Void. Even the exact shape, type and colour was correct:
So again doing the validation attempt from the Void was the solution. I had other attempts using different methods (normal awake Remote Viewing, hypnagogic imagery, dream impressions) before this one, but all of them did not work. So the Void saved the day again at the first attempt. Again, I find it telling.
One can rightfully ask why it did not show me the centre target which it failed to do. I have no answer to that apart from the fact that maybe crystals are the best resonators for these kind of experiences and experiments? In all fairness I also want to say that I had another and even better success by using Lucid Dreaming in the experiment after this. You can read about it on
this Transients/Roundtable forum thread. Besides these 'direct' examples, there is another validating aspect I want to mention. The examples will be given under different headers below. It also has to do with assistance given by the Void or 'Void helpers' involved: It is the element of surprise and the element of correction.
If I would only give myself some answers wouldn't I only get the results I consciously or subconsciously expected anyway? This is almost certain. Several instances however proved to me that this was not the case as I often did get 'surprising' results counter to my possible expectations. This concerns data or dates as well as yes/no (green/red) answers. This has a 'validating' quality for me because it shows that 'someone' or something else (outside of 'me') is involved giving the answers and providing assistance. Also, being corrected with verifiable (!) facts afterwards when one was obviously wrong is certainly a very convincing experience. More on this will follow below.
VOID Assistance & Readiness
The Void did not just react with red and green but developed other variants of visual communication 'on its own'. Yes, this is astounding but correct. It was innovative and helpful on its own. I had never planned nor devised any of the following 'solutions' performed by the Void communication system for my benefit regarding assistance or improved response interpretation.
One occasion involved the year of birth of one of my past lives. I had already narrowed it down to between 1640 and 1650. Then the Void 'by itself' showed me the middle of it. It was not even a swirl but 'pefectly' red on one side (left) and green on the right side. It might either indicate that 1645 was already the right data point or due to the fact that the right side was green that the correct year was to be found in the second part of this 40ies-decade: 1645, 46, 47, 48 or 49. I had no further time to find out more due to my fading out but I was satisfied with the already very 'narrow' result. Below the quote of the transcript I add a picture of how it indeed looked, of course without the superimposed timeline ruler which I put there for a better understanding. As said, I had never thought of this kind of 'solution' myself and was really surprised by this time-saving 'innovation' from the Void as well as by the result (see below for this).
At another instance, a more 'technical' assistance was given. It was not the first time that I was shown by invisible 'helping hands' what to do and how to move, e.g. often I was helped out of the bed by 1 or 2 (usually not visible) helpers lifting me up when projecting into my room. However, this time it was different. I was already in the Void but wanted to perform a typical Roll-Out-manoeuvre, which is a common technique to 'get out of bed' when projecting into your etheric or astral 'bedroom'. This time I was hindered though. As I was lying on one side ready for a roll a helper held down my shoulders from behind me so that I could not move.
My interpretation: I was thereby shown that it is better to kind of 'teleport' or 'phase' or even 'stay' in the Void (maybe since I was already there anyway!). If you do a roll-out you are more likely to manifest yourself onto an astral plane. So the Void / helper already knew my intention and taught me how to do it by avoiding a mistake. The advice was clear: 'Don't roll for the Void!'. Stupid me did the mistake then anyway disregarding the helper. But the 'lesson' was learnt and memorised afterwards and applied to other successful 'exits' into the Void.
Another proof for the 'readiness' of the Void happened even one day prior to the don't-roll-lesson. Then I found the Void on 'standby' mode when I got there. It looked similar to this picture with a green swirl (spinning smoky 'galaxy') on one side and a red swirl on the other side:
This for me was like the Void saying (next to 'Hello'): 'Fine, we're ready, let's go, so what are your questions this time?' I admit over the years I had forgotten about the female voice greeting me. So we also had 'sound' communication. Don't ask me why I did not talk to 'her' then. A mistake for sure, not the only one I made; speaking of mistakes, see the following chapter about 'Surprises & Corrections'.
The Void also introduced a yellow-ish or orange-ish colour all by itself. See my comment on the traffic light and feedback corrections system in the section of 'Refusals'.
VOID Surprises & Corrections
As I explained above, it is an argument of mine that this type is another kind of validation. Giving surprising, 'new' and in part verifiable information, including even corrections of my own wrong preconceived ideas and expectations is evidence for the Void's possible function as a truthful ('akashic'?) information 'database' agent. At least for me.
I know that skeptics normally argue from a strictly psychological perspective that we 'ingest' so much information 'on the fly' during the course of our lives that we only consciously know so little and it is all stored away and forgotten in our subconscious until it is 'retrieved' in these cases, including 'corrections' because the subconscious just 'knows better' than the conscious. While I respect this kind of argument for some cases it is not really convincing to me from my research and the entirety of my experiences.
The examples that follow will show even more why. And you will see that once I even tried to somehow 'debunk' myself with a kind of poll I made on a forum. You see that I do have a skeptical approach to things, this is one necessary prerequisite of my research. However, the result of that poll was again convincing enough that I had learnt something 'really new' for me. Together with the other collected pieces of evidence (e.g. direct validations, helpers in the Void) I can conclude with some certainty that there is a kind of 'external' reality and consciousness at play. A final discussion about the Void 'personality' and 'who/what' is behind it will follow in Part V.
The first example I enlist here is the one I already mentioned above. Other astral projections and even one or two dreams had already given me some information about Sinera years before. I 'knew' her first name, her looks and the looks her relatives or people she knew and her country of origin.
I wasn't right all the time about the time she lived though. By some of the attire worn by her in dreams and projections I thought she was a middle- or even upper-class lady from the 1800s. The Void transcript above then surprised me with a much earlier date of birth. And indeed I later checked on the kind of dress she wore and the hairdo and compared it to portrait paintings of ladies of that period (17th century) in France or Europe. I could confirm for myself then that what I had seen fit that historic epoch even better.
Apart from the direct result of Transcript #5 (see above), the surprise and correction of my mistake was already given to me earlier in the first transcript, although back then my wrong conclusion was that her year of birth was maybe in the 1790s instead.
Another surprise and 'new' information regarding involved the use of sound in the Void. It was again about Sinera, this time I requested the number of her children.
My 'daring' interpretation which was also based on my following research explained further below is the following: Sinera indeed had only one child that made it through childhood. She lost two more children with infant deaths. This is a very common occurrence of that time, even til the 1800s it was very common and we can be sure even more in the 1600s.
I also do not exclude the possibility that I interacted with the aspects or incarnations either in a database recording or 'live'. I don't know. I believe I really heard Sinera and the moment she was either in agony crying over the loss of her children, which means I received a 'live' or 'replay' acoustic flashback from her life, or she was 'angry' at my question. It is not the first time I talked or interacted with her in the astral. She once kissed me on the forehead in a motherly gesture. It was a 'physically felt' (etheric) projection experience. Since it was dark then I assume it was also in the Void. So here you have another sense that was activated (touch). This example in the quote was just one of the times I heard her voice in the Void. The male voice might have been a guide or even - crazy as it might seem but I merely act on intuition here - her then husband (or father) explaining this to me.
I did now know the term 'banana bottle' and had never heard of it before. Even Wikipedia only lists 'baby bottles' and does not acknowledge this name in its
current article, although it shows a picture of one: They are double ended and banana-shaped. The reason is hygiene and it was a really important invention leading to progress in the prevention of early infant deaths for those children who were not breast-fed long enough. Many babies died early because of contamination of the vessels used for feeding. More info on the history of the historic 'banana bottles' can be found
here.
Before I wrote the post in my LuciDiary I checked on the same forum to find out how common the term was to the people of the English speaking world. 88% told me that they did not know the term at all. One said she might have 'an idea' what it could be. No one said they had known it before at all. In the Link List below you will find the link of the forum post and the poll and poll results I did before posting the experience itself.
This confirmed for me that it was not a well-known term at all. This also applies to the German-speaking parts of the world for 'Bananenflasche'. So I learnt a new term from this male voice and the object talked about really made sense in its interpretational context. Presumably two of her babies died because no hygienic bottles were used and / or they were contaminated. It all makes perfect sense.
Except for one problem: The time period does not fit. Banana bottles did not exist before the late 1800s. Since Sinera lived and gave birth to children in the second half of the 1600s this at first does not make sense somehow. So a kind of conundrum remains and I can only speculate:
Maybe communication is somehow faulty via voice transmission and banana-bottle was just one translation of it. Or he wanted to say that they died because hygienic baby bottles (including the banana bottle type which was the first of them) did not exist yet, so that is why infant deaths were still so common at the time. Or they did exist and we just don't know it historically and maybe in her household they were not just working or not cleaned properly? I will not solve this problem. As you might understand I also have more interesting topics to expore than just the history of baby bottles. Still, allowing for interpretational context and misreadings, the new information was somehow 'correct enough' for me and it was astounding to learn something really 'new'.
Another instance showed that I was not quite lucid when the Void 'corrected' a wrong assumption of mine which I would not have made in a fully lucid state. It might have to do with the fact that I had a dream about tennis that same night before I entered the Void. So this is why it was quite literally 'on my mind'. My lack of full lucidity is also shown by my forgetfulness about the fields of enquiry I had intended for the Void:
After waking up I did not even have to check on this because then of course I remembered that A.N. is a musician and one of the best in her field in this area. She is not a tennis star. So the Void was right - and highly lucid it seems - while I was flat out wrong. Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder so we can still argue or wonder about the answer to the second question (which is right in my view), but let's leave it to the mystery of the Void or the personality 'behind' it if it does indeed have a 'taste' or sense of aesthetics for human looks or if it just (correctly) mirrored my own view of (her) beauty. Live gracefully with uncertainty. Maybe it also has some sense of humour after all. I cannot discount this possibility since I already encountered a lot of humouros situations during communication with beings or even the LCS (Larger Consciousnesss System) in the non-physical.
Another example of a surprising result is this: When I queried the Void about Mars, it unexpectedly (to me at least) told me that then ancient ruins we can detect on the surface nowadays were not built by this ancient civilisation but another (following or invading) one. The quote will follow below in another header section.
VOID Stubbornness & RefusalsNot all things work in the Void. Or at least not all the time. Success for me is almost unpredictable from the outset or at least I have not yet found a fail-safe method. Actually all of the things I mentioned above do not always work or 'switch on' and become 'operative'. While the green/red screen is still pretty reliable to appear this applies mostly to the additional activation of different senses, especially sight (apart from green/red swirls) and sound. I did not yet experiment with smells or body touch too often since it as a matter of fact is not as helpful for getting information as our primary senses, namely audio and visuals.
So for example, I found myself often asking for 'someone' to 'talk' to me in the Void in vain. Sometimes I had to strangely wait for a longer time before someone answers. The 'sound/hearing' mode (chakra?) takes time to activate, at least this is my impression and conclusion. The same applies to sight which does not always appear when you ask for it in the way it worked perfectly for my card and remote viewing validations mentioned above.
It is my feeling that The Void actually receives my requests but simply 'refuses' to comply and thereby supposedly recommends to stick to my easy protocol of yes/no (green/red). It might even be a kind of teaching for me. Restriction can be rewarding in that it avoids the common mistakes, oscillations and information overloads described at length during my introduction above. So maybe the Void demands 'discipline' for success?
Especially reading text from a picture seems not allowed or popular with the Void at all. Of course, I explained already why this is so. But it is tempting to ask for something to be shown or read. Sometimes I could not resist. Here is some evidence for the refusal to comply: I once asked the Void (here in this log entry I addressed it as it 'Godfield') about the activation of different modes of communication such as reading text. This transcript is from a later log which I kept private and now copied from the spreadsheet file I use for journaling my dreams and OBEs:
This makes the data retrieval of names very difficult, of course. Maybe I should try spelling the alphabet down for the first letter waiting for green/red and then repeat it for all or most of the following letters. But this is time-consuming and ineffective. I might instead try sound again though on my next attempts because the Void at least 'agreed somewhat' to it. (In case you should wonder: Her first name was transmitted telepathically to me the first time via a projection to my 'astral portal' where I had turned on the TV set in my room to see a past life and saw her family. I just asked the name of my connected past life and was given the name. The name was later confirmed in the Void - see Transcript #1.)
A similar thing happened to the city or village name where Sinera was born. I asked the Void for the location to be shown on a map. It 'somehow' worked then. The area was shown pretty well, so I got to know at least where approximately her birthplace in France was. However, the maps then showed a flickering of town names that I could again not decipher. Here's the now slightly edited short entry I made in my journal in short notes form:
Maybe the towns were historic and do not exist anymore. Maybe it oscillated with other info, e.g. family names. The names look and sound a bit Basque and it is indeed a Basque area of France. I have no further information. I know she was French but I have not yet found out if she was a French Basque.
Next to my past life as Sinera the ancient history of Mars (civilisations) is one of my fields of interest. I was however refused to be shown a picture of a Marsian, but then other questions were answered again with the usual green/red modus operandi. The transcript of this Void dialogue will be found further below in connection with Void entries and exits.
Another example of a correction of my interview techniques is the already mentioned yellow/orange light introduced by the Void telling me to rephrase the question to be more specific in order to facilitate a clear yes/no answer.
To sum up, I suspect that all of these 'reading' and 'hearing' problems might be the reason for the frequent refusals and 'stubbornness'. The Void knows that I am just 'not good enough' to 'read' text (names, numbers, date of birth, etc.) in the astral or from pictures shown to me. On top of that it also tells me when a question is not good enough (yellow or orange colour).
I am not too disappointed or even 'offended' by this 'behaviour' but rather see it as a considerate and very helpful manner of the Void that seems to know my strengths and weaknesses. Gotta live with it.
VOID Mistakes & Literalism
Many projectors have also made the experience with helpers and guides that sometimes you have to be very specific with your requests for help or information because you can be easily misunderstood. Of course, in the non-physical communication is different and mostly non-linear. So even guides must be 'trained' to communicate with your human mind thinking in linear and simple concepts. This does not always work as it seems due to our limited capacities to understand or 'decipher'. All of this also applies to the Void.
One of the pitfalls I dubbed 'dumb literalism' referring to the answer given. However it also arises by the lack of specification in the question asked. Here's an example for being too unspecific:
I wanted to use the Void to get back to 'The Library' I visited over 4 years earlier on the so-called 'mental plane'. This long and wonderful experience can be read
here in my new Astralblog. I did not succeed because there might be countless kinds of ('akashic' or whatever) libraries in the non-physical. It is interesting what the Void then 'chose' for me as a destination. It is possible that I still 'ended up' in the Void somehow since the surroundings were very dark. The slightly shortened quote of the post also was my first 'longer' treatise of the Void which I then called 'The God Field'.
(Annotation: I added another similar graphic to this quote since the original picture is no longer available).
Another example can be read in Transcript #2. My query 'how old is mankind, is it more than a few thousand years old?' yielded only an inconclusive answer with that yellow swirl which tells me to rephrase and specify / narrow down the question. The same might have applied to the Starseed question before it.
To finish this chapter I give you an example of a successful 'fast-and-easy' type to illustrate what works best by avoidance of ambiguity. Of course, this is the type of unequivocal 'lawyer'-interrogation that the Void 'likes' and it gets you the best results. This is from an unpublished transcript again:
Of course, question three was kind of superfluous already since it was a logical conclusion from the two previous direct answers. However, I do these kind of control questions asking for confirmation to 'test' the Void. So far it did never contradict itself or 'revoke' something shown before. The seemingly notable exception is the 'banana bottle' issue explained above but this 'confusion' was supposedly due to the two early child deaths. So the question was maybe not specific enough but sometimes we cannot know these things in advance. It is all learning by doing, trial and error. You have to find the right phrasing of words and to narrow it all down in order to 'make mistakes impossible'.
Give it a try! Be as restricted and specific as you can. It really works doing it this way in the beginning. You can elaborate on the protocol later, including requests for sound and pictures. Start with this kind of easy yes/no-questions and the green/red signs. Then I am certain you will see mostly unambiguous results. If not then you might have to rephrase questions. Later you can try some other additional enquiries by voice / picture because sometimes they work, too.
Good luck!
VOID Entries & Exits
Entry:
I mostly enter the Void from sleep paralysis after an induction which happens for me after 3 hours of sleep already. This is more or less the so-called Wake-Back-To-Bed strategy, a term coined by Albert Taylor.
The best 'body exit' or 'Void entry' strategy is in my view akin to the method of 'Phasing'. I call it 'teleporting' or 'jumping' though. I was taught to use it instead of any kind of exit movement during my 'Don't-Roll-For-The-Void' experience (see above). So then I am in sleep paralysis or vibrational state (with or without vibrations) and just 'click' or 'teleport' into the Void. Normally, we all remember a short 'blackness phase' during each 'classical' exit technique, too, so this means we might go through the Void anyway (see more on this as a speculation in Part V). So this is just about using this common short window of opportunity to 'stop' there and stay in the 3D Blackness. Normally the view opens up quickly and I am 'there'.
In one experience I tried to enter it from a Lucid Dream. I tried to 'dissolve' the scenery (F2 according to Kepple) around me and affirmed to be taken to the Void. I ended up in a kind of light zone and it might in this case even have been the white Void although I cannot be sure of this. Since I was in an astral dream scenery before my entry into this white area this would make sense due to the White Void's closer proximity to manifested realities. I then asked a question and demanded an answer by sound. Indeed I heard an answer by a female voice but it was too low ('far away') to be understood. This can happen in the (dark) Void, too.
I will further work on this method and try to remember that I want to access the Void (or F3) from this area, too.
Exit:
I can leave the Void by different states of consciousness. I made some acronyms of the ones that mostly ocurred to me.
FOWAP - Fade-Out With Astral Projection (F3) (or Lucid Dream (F2)); also: VAP - Void Appendix Projection
FOWUP - Fade-Out With Waking Up
FOWULD - Fade-Out With Unlucid Dream
FOWUP is what happens most often to me. This is of course the most helpful type for journalling since you can immediately jot down your memories for the dialogue transcript.
FOWULD can happen but it is rare. It is the least conducive to bring back memories, as a matter of fact. Mostly it is 'normal' dreaming (so it happens in F2). It is possible with lucid phases, too. Then it would be more of a FOWAP (taking place in F2 or F3) for me.
FOWAP is also common. To make it clear: This does not include being shown pictures in the Void because the 'background' in that case is still the 3D Blackness or swirls (Type A or B). It rather refers to 'exits' from the Void and 'entries' into full astral sceneries instead. This is of course also the usual 'travel' or 'teleportation' mode by using the Void as a portal to reach an astral or mental plane. However, in these FOWAP cases the projections were helpful in answering a question posed in the Void before. So they were connected (or 'appended', hence my term 'VAP') via my intent to the Void experience.
The following two transcripts from two successive nights about my 'Mars past project' are a good example of a FOWAP in the second night. The fact that one of my known guides appeared is another indication of a kind of 'VAP' ('Void Appendix Projection') helping me to understand and further clarify a concept or piece of information given or asked before.
JOURNAL / POST LINKS:
LuciDiary - Void Transcript 3 (Sinera France)LuciDiary - Void Transcript 4 (Sinera forename)LuciDiary - Void Transcript 5 (Sinera YoB 1645)LuciDiary - Void Transcript 7 (correction, tennis vs. music)LuciDiary - Void On StandBy