A Dream come true!

Have you ever wondered if this is all a dream and in reality our dreams are our natural states? Well you are not alone (Lol that sounded really cliché) but Albert Taylor describes what can be called Astral Projection incredibly vividly in the latest (And randomly picked) book I am reading now, "Soul Traveler". He seems to enjoy the meta physical world which he can go into while he's half asleep by ways he learned through meditation (Yeah I know how it sounds). He was bothered as a kid because he would wake up in the middle of the night feeling his body frozen as if somebody was holding him down, and making him unable to move at his own will.

Eventually he researched into it enough to find out that he was experiencing what many people experience when they have a near death experience, but instead it was much stronger than that. In this state, you can sort of just separate your physical self, with your meta physical self and actually see everything in a new clarity, according to him. Astral projection seems like something out of a sci-fi movie to me and as much as I love the genre and I'm not discrediting him, but this does seem a bit far fetched. It's just a crazy notion to imagine that people have these abilities to be able to detach themselves from their physical body and roam the universe, so to speak.

Albert can fly, cross through physical objects, see through them as well, and in his astral state, he can even speak with those who have had their life passes revoked. I can make a connection and see that a lot of the experiences described in the book can be tied to something that has occurred to him in the physical state, or can easily be imagined during sleep. Only because the mind is such a powerful device and it can create the most wondrous situations while your asleep or construct the most terrible nightmare that would make Freddy Kreuger want to move out of Elm Street. Except the more I read about this stuff the more I scoff at myself and say what a bunch of crap this is! I know some people don't care but I mean why not fly to the Middle East and see where Bin Laden is hiding if he's still alive? I bet if I asked him personally there would be some type of bullshit "astral" excuse as to why he wouldn't be able to do that.

I believed it more at the beginning of the book because some of the things sounded a little bit more plausible. That is until he described that he was able to use his third eye to "see" through the wall and sense who was on the other side. Like I said I'm not calling the guy a liar because in a similar comparison, just because you can't see the oxygen you are breathing doesn't mean it's not there. But I can sure as hell use some type of equipment to measure the oxygen content in my room to make sure that it's there. This is pretty amazing but this is definitely one of those things that you have to experience for yourself to believe.

Tell me something I don't know...

How do you get information that you really need but dint know if the person your asking is lying or telling you the truth? The answer is Mathew Alexander (writing under a pseudonym of course) He's a former Criminal Investigator. In the book titled "How to break a Terrorist" there are a lot of elements explored. I know you're thinking why would I even bother reading this book? For me aside from the action spread throughout the entire book and the actual retelling of Matt's interrogations compelled me enough to keep reading. It was a view into peoples feelings and emotions on whats going on in their country and what they must do to survive. Don't get me wrong, I'm by no means condoning terrorism, but there are people out there with their back against the wall that joining a terrorist faction was merely a means to survive. The closest thing I can compare it to over here is kind of like when people join gangs just to try and get by. After finishing up the book it's definitely piqued my interest and made me aware about another culture that is only portrayed one way in the media today. This scenario runs through my mind... Imagine, you're in pathmark on the day when the items are on sale and the place is crowded... and all of a sudden somebody screams out "In God we trust!!" before igniting the C4 strapped to a vest snugly tucked under their white tee and flight jacket...The next scene is beyond words and only in your nightmares and bad Quentin Tarantino films have you ever seen so much gore. You see people screaming and running all around you but you only hear the ringing in your ear like the emptiness from space being swallowed by a black hole... and then you realize that your father and little sister are no where to be found, and a sudden wave of panic rushes over you as you struggle to regain your balance. You look around you and see your family a little rattled, but no serious injury!...This is the happy version of what goes wrong every day in the battle between the Sunni's and the Shiites. Broaden your knowledge of the on going war if you haven't already, my only regret about this book is that I dint pick one up like this sooner.