My Tibetan Cave

[Bill Ryan]

Dear Friends, I don't know if this really qualifies as a 'Remarkable Personal Experience'. But it's definitely an ongoing and developing experience that's both subtle and ever so gradually growing all the time.

Many readers may remember that I've shared now and then that for 1000 or so years I was a monk/Lama in Tibet, consciously deciding to reincarnate in the west in 1850.

During those centuries I attained a fair degree of spiritual development, which (as it always is!) is very hard, dedicated work. When I arrived in the west (with quite a crash landing! ) I lost access to all that for several lifetimes, and only in this one (as 'Bill Ryan') have I ever started to regain, or rehabilitate, some of it.

The title of this thread — My Tibetan Cave — refers to two things. When in Tibet, I would regularly send long periods of time alone and isolated in a high mountain cave, weeks or sometimes may months. It was the very rough Tibetan best-equivalent of a modern Sensory Deprivation Tank or Isolation Tank.

Though I could see and hear and feel with my physical senses, and observe the weather outside, there would be minimal sensory input or variety. And no other people at all, save for an assistant who would bring fresh food and water to the cave entrance (and with whom I never spoke).

Alexandra David-Neel, the celebrated French explorer, refers to this kind of extended personal spiritual experience in her marvelous book Magic and Mystery in Tibet (library copy here) an utterly fascinating and extraordinary book which I cannot recommend too highly.

Here's what this thread is really about.

I had always assumed that my experiences in those caves (in more than one Tibetan lifetime) were all about enhancing meditative experiences, a kind of spiritual 'deepening'. But just recently, here and now, I came to realize that it was actually more than that. It was an aid to enhancing remote psychic perception.

In my own present life here in Ecuador I'm in a modern-day equivalent – extremely diluted, of course — of the same kind of 'in my cave' experience. I'm on the internet here, of course, and I keep up with global news and developments. But I live alone with my dog, I'm not on any social media, I don't use a smartphone, and as many know I regularly hike (also alone, with my dog) in the high mountains surrounded by nature, at exactly the same high thin-air altitudes I lived in in Tibet.

And I rarely talk to anyone — literally, I rarely speak — unless I'm in town buying something or attending to some chores, in which case it's just a few polite words of Spanish. I do have wonderful friends and neighbors here — Gilberto, Myriam, Noam and Pema — and when they're at home I see them most days, even just for a quick hello. But they travel a lot, and sometimes for weeks on end they're not here at all.

So I'm also in my cave — really quite a lot of the time.

And what I've noticed is that my remote psychic perception is also gradually enhancing itself.

It really is. The prime purpose of this post is to try to describe this as best I can.

There are I think three aspects of this, or ways it's happening.

1) I'm highly sensitively attuned to nature, to everything that's living, even the tiniest alpine flower, insect, or blade of grass. I shared this back in 2023:

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Indigenous people know that when (e.g.) hunting and killing an animal, one gives thanks and honors the animal for its sacrifice. When I'm cutting the grass, about an hour beforehand I telepathically warn all the little creatures living there that I'm about to do it, and explain to the grass that I have to take this action, and assure it that it will grow back, and that I'm not its enemy. I really do those things.

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And since then, I've not cut my grass here for over a year. (It's very long!) But it's a whole micro-ecosystem of its own. I truly can't bear any more to disturb and destroy it so violently.

2) Starting in December 2023, I started to receive, but very intermittently, 'messages' (the only term I can really use) containing apparent predictions of the future. (Do see this thread.) Some have been fairly accurate, many are yet to be realized, and a few might be quite wrong. But the experience of this information somehow 'coming in' — as I tried to describe, rather like suddenly 'taking dictation' — is distinct and real. It's quite out of my control, but I know when it's happening, like a kind of 'window' suddenly opening from outside.

3) And here's maybe the most interesting thing. Only recently did I confirm to myself that this is (a) real, and (b) starting to grow. It's like I can start to 'look inside people's heads' when I'm physically near them. It's not so much like I 'read their minds', but I can feel exactly what they're feeling to a very marked degree.

And I've come to realize that this has been happening for quite a while now, but each time I unconsciously 'pull back' so as not to interfere or affect them in any way. It's like a psychic 'withdraw' reflex.

Not only that, but there's a self-protecting thing as well. If I really consciously 'opened up' to all this, I suspect it would become overwhelming and maybe sometimes even distressing. I've read accounts from others who (maybe after a head injury, e.g.) have found themselves drowned out by a cacophony of thoughts and feelings from passers-by in the street, and it's been almost impossible for them to cope with. I do think I'm in the very beginning state of this.

My suspicion is that this was an ability that our remote ancestors always had, maybe in the distant era before language, or before developed language. And animals have this too, to this day — of course.

I suspect that as language and tribal society gradually grew more complex, with more and more intensity of human interaction every day, we gradually lost this ability over the millennia. But some indigenous peoples — many Australian Aboriginals, for sure – still possess and quietly harness all this.

And now, in my modern 'cave' — or at least, a kind of partial cave — I'm starting to re-experience, and very slightly regain, all this myself.

I'm quite comfortable with this, and most intrigued and fascinated that it seems to be happening. So it's not in way any kind of a problem.

But I'm curious: can anyone reading this relate or easily understand?

[avid]

Thanks Bill for such an insightful post. Indeed, for the past few years I have become very reclusive, hardly talking to anyone. Such a relief after years of ‘lecturing’. My turn to have silence and freedom. I expect lots of folk experience the same need to withdraw….

[silver birch]

Thank you for opening up on this very personal matter.

When I read your third point, I can not avoid thinking of Ingo Swann, in one of his books describing how he trained his perception by sitting in front of a mirror-polished copper sheet for extended periods.
Just as you say, later he could not stand it as he could see people casting out emotional hooks, to catch passersby. He had to ask a friend for help to put an end to that sensitivity.


Regarding communication with nature, my take on that, after having studied animal communication from four books, and succeeding to have a short dialogue with a moose hit by a car, is that it boils down to sending and receiving with the heart as opposed to the brain.
And taking the time to listen for answers.

[arwen]

Yes. I can easily relate and definitely understand.

Different back story and life experience, but I am pretty much in the same place. I have some animals and an aging partner to care for - my last assignment for this life - but other than that, no interest in engaging with this world other than the bare minimum necessary, and observing the human Theatre of the Absurd playing on repeat - seen this movie so many times before. I rarely speak to anyone other than those I am caring for.

This could have been such an incredible planet if it were not occupied by humans and their Wetiko virus - had humans simply stuck to their role in Tending the garden and enjoying its delights - this would have been amazing.

Instead the poison everywhere has consumed everything and the worship of the false god of Money will hasten the demise of this world, polluting and poisoning everything. My own psychic abilities have been dulled a bit by the fact that I am currently living in a horribly polluted country. But they are still there, and I am using them to connect with where I want to go after this, rather than anything on this world. I personally, am DONE with this world.

So I find myself very Dreamy (that may also be because of the strong influence of Neptune and focused on the Universes I have full clear recall of where life was fun and games, the goal was creativity and originality, the code was love and happiness. Totally possible because I lived it somewhere and recall it so clearly.

This video gives an idea - a small idea - of what worlds are possible, and when I am done here, I am going back to worlds like this:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=exRbL3QzllI

[rgray222]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

My suspicion is that this was an ability that our remote ancestors always had, maybe in the distant era before language, or before developed language. And animals have this too, to this day — of course.

I suspect that as language and tribal society gradually grew more complex, with more and more intensity of human interaction every day, we gradually lost this ability over the millennia. But some indigenous peoples — many Australian Aboriginals, for sure – still possess and quietly harness all this.

And now, in my modern 'cave' — or at least, a kind of partial cave — I'm starting to re-experience, and very slightly regain, all this myself.

I'm quite comfortable with this, and most intrigued and fascinated that it seems to be happening. So it's not in way any kind of a problem.

But I'm curious: can anyone reading this relate or easily understand?

I think we all have similar experiences, maybe not to the extent that you are having them, but they are happening all the time. I think the universe is talking to us all, but we rarely take the time to listen to what is being said. I know that it sounds like esoteric speak, but we are all truly connected. Not just all living things but everything, the soil, water, air, man-made products and of course plants, insects, animals etc. The connection goes well beyond the social and emotional level it is at a basic soul level. We have yet to learn that our interconnectedness is our strength and our power to achieve great things. Our collective actions can solve virtually every problem on this planet.

The universe is talking to all of us all the time, the trick is to pay attention and not write it off as a quirky odd experience.

[Arcturian108]

Bill: You now qualify for my Soul Healing Course, an in-person course that I give every few years to highly psychic people who want to help humanity on the soul level. I am partly joking, but truly you are now in a position to help a lot of people, and institutions that need fixing.

Getting rid of wi-fi and cell phones is certainly a way to tune into the collective unconscious. As the human biome grows in size, now 8 billion and counting, our abilities to communicate without speaking grows as well.

There is a lot to unpack here, but I always like to be brief.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Very interesting. I would guess that it is part of the task of old age, as it applies to you personally - and an increasing orientation towards what comes after death.

[Johan (Keyholder)]

While I have some memories relating to Tibet, most of my cave-dwelling-memories come from medieval Ireland.
In this lifetime, I have been there many times - between 2018 and 2022 - and several places in the Donegal area were very familiar.
There was also a connection with the island of Iona (Scotland), which presented a "link" between Donegal and Iona (by means of St Columba).

Several things Bill has described happen to me as well. It probably "comes with age" (I am 67).
While Bill is in beautiful Ecuador, I am in "polluted Belgium". Still, somehow (for now) my place seems to be here.

It's a very interesting topic for sure!

[Rizotto]

Thank you Bill. As someone who's spent a lot of time alone in nature, I've experienced a lot of what you have described above.

[snoman]

I was listening to the Telepathy Tapes. Non--verbal autistic people are communing this way. Upshot of it all, when I listened closely to what they all seem to say, is that the frequency that allows them to hang out in groups, remotely, telepathically in a space they all refer to as The Hill, is LOVE. We are spiritual beings in physical bodies, but in their case with a neurology that means they cannot talk but only type/spell words. This is how they are letting us know that they are telepathic. The cave they live in is people's dismissal of their capabilities. They are the epitome of what you are referring to. Sounds very much like you have created such a silence that you might now develop this way of listening. Resonate to set your receiver. I think if you haven't already, you ought to listen to The Telepathy Tapes.

[Harmony]

I do understand to the degree that each of us can as we are all a little different. I was born that way and can remember experiencing all that before I could walk really and thought it was normal. Feel what others were feeling so I didn't speak as much to other people and they would say "she's shy". And the feeling of being connected to plants and creatures as well. It has always caused great pain and often shutting off because it can be too much to bear. But also great joy in connection as well. I think most are like that too, but the sheild of "dealing" with a world that doesn't seem to be in balance is very difficult sometimes.


What I feel is happening is that all that information is always available and it is our own vessel or interface that is open or closed due to numerous things. We are all wonderful spirits which we think of as less material in this realm, but it may not be in another place with different rules or parameters. I do wonder often if these "openings" more are experiencing are a natural progression, yet it seems we are intentionally being held back from fully opening or fully integrating with our "material" part of or unique selves by not fully understanding that part of our being.


It may all be part of a process that I don't understand but hope to "one day". I think many of us have "travelled" to those other realities where things are quite different, where that feeling of "love" is actual and each soul is in full trust and integrity of themselves and the consequences of their thoughts and actions on each other as though "it is themselves". Our shared soul energy is all the protection needed for safety as no "out of harmony" being can enter such a field.


There seem to be many now that understand that concept and are trying to learn those new ways of being and overcoming a lot of the noise, which isn't easy

[rgray222]

Posted by avid (here)
Thanks Bill for such an insightful post. Indeed, for the past few years I have become very reclusive, hardly talking to anyone. Such a relief after years of ‘lecturing’. My turn to have silence and freedom. I expect lots of folk experience the same need to withdraw….

[shaberon]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
It's not so much like I 'read their minds', but I can feel exactly what they're feeling to a very marked degree.

And I've come to realize that this has been happening for quite a while now, but each time I unconsciously 'pull back' so as not to interfere or affect them in any way...

Yes, I understand, it's hard to put into words because it isn't words.

The rest of your description about a primal ability more or less drowned out by modernity is accurate.

The most reliable way I have found it to work is a Lie Detector.

Keep in mind I'm not like you. I am that type of Buddhist who was brought in by the martial arts, and, I have spent almost my entire existence in numerous human embroilments from the difficult to the worst kind. The ability to enjoy a pastoral existence is the grace of fortune. Instead I spend most of my time in situations completely against what I personally believe. But, I have this nature, and that type of empathic response to Deceit has been next to infallible.

It's a form of clairsentience.

What you are talking about is the real "communication", and it is so not because it is words, but because it is the constant life of the heart.

That's what I, personally, try to "speak", however many humans shred it, and most are at best uninterested. Correspondingly, animals love it, and it is possible to find people that do. So, it is Animal Magnetism. I also understand it in terms we have posted on The Plasma Individual. Of course it is the Shakti of Yoga. Mme. David-Neel is exemplary on having gotten "extraordinary" effects from this. The only thing unique about me as an individual, that I would say is real, is this type of yoga. I know from experience it exists.

It communicates the same way. By doing this, I am reduced to the point where one of the few beings I could truly "relate" to was a Tibetan Nyingma Dzogchen master who literally had come out of a cave after twenty years. But, you know, it was an instantaneous recognition, before he introduced himself and started talking through an interpreter. Me and this person literally had no words for each other. It was just a knowing.

And yes, that is how the Buddhist Sangha works. You will keep coming back until you are done. It's the Bodhisattva Path. It's all I can recommend or actually suggest anyone do. I can talk to anyone academically about other Indian yogas, or plasma, etc., but I only do one thing. It is, of course, not the words of posts, but an actual palpable force you can choose to open yourself to.

Nice OP, I can relate to the intuitive part exactly, and the idyllic existence in my dreams.

[lunaflare]

literally, I rarely speak

This seems key to your heightened sensitivity and remarkable gnosis of the sentient world around you.

It feels very natural to talk sparingly and to live alone. Currently, I am caring for my 90 year old mother. But it is a dream...and it would be an immense relief.

I am reminded of the words written by Antoine de Saint Exupery in, The Little Prince. These words are said by the fox.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly (clearly);
what is essential is invisible to the eye

[RunningDeer]

Posted by snoman (here)
I was listening to the Telepathy Tapes. Non--verbal autistic people are communing this way. Upshot of it all, when I listened closely to what they all seem to say, is that the frequency that allows them to hang out in groups, remotely, telepathically in a space they all refer to as The Hill, is LOVE. We are spiritual beings in physical bodies, but in their case with a neurology that means they cannot talk but only type/spell words. This is how they are letting us know that they are telepathic. The cave they live in is people's dismissal of their capabilities. They are the epitome of what you are referring to. Sounds very much like you have created such a silence that you might now develop this way of listening. Resonate to set your receiver. I think if you haven't already, you ought to listen to The Telepathy Tapes.

Thread: The Telepathy Tapes

[Michel Leclerc]

If being silent is so important, if silence is so important – why then are we writing?

(Here or elsewhere.)

[JackMcThorn]

Ben Franklin wrote his 13 virtues [in his 2o's] that he says he spent time working on over his years. The 2nd virtue is Silence described as 'to not speak unless it benefits others or yourself - to avoid trifling conversation'.

So my best guess on interpreting this is to basically have the self awareness to be helpful in your communications which include writing. [He was a printer...] And I think some of these quieter people who post and write are indeed benefiting others and themselves to a point.

I cannot relate to the acts of 'remote viewing' or 'past lives' but I can relate to some matters of the mind and I understand the peacefulness associated with solitude and quiet.

[TrumanCash]

Hi, Bill. Do you recall when you were in your Tibetan cave what kind of meditation you did? Was it active meditation like visualization, for example. Or simply being and not thinking?

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by TrumanCash (here)
Hi, Bill. Do you recall when you were in your Tibetan cave what kind of meditation you did? Was it active meditation like visualization, for example. Or simply being and not thinking?

Thanks for the question! But I'm afraid I have no recall of that whatsoever.

[sylviawong]

For a period of time, I felt somewhat lonely and always kept myself away from the crowd. During that time, I visited a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Beijing and communicated with the Buddha statues through my thoughts. I said (without making a sound from my throat), "If you truly exist, then please grant me a wish to prove your existence." It was something with zero probability of happening, but nine months later, it actually came true. So, I began to believe in all of this—the existence of multiple dimensions, and that it's not just an illusion.