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Odd Assembledge Point Question

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

07:05 / 26.06.04

Now please bear in mind that I've never actually done much in the way of working with "Assembledge Point" as a concept. Bearing that in mind...

A few hours ago, I was driving through a rural part of town I rarely visit when all of a sudden I had this *weird* feeling. It started as an itch and developed into a cramp. The problem is that the "cramp" seemed to be, for all intents and purposes, around a foot to my rear. In other words, I felt a physical sensation outside the boundries of my body.

I occured to me, as the cramp worsened (it never quite became painful... just distracting and irritating), that it was situated where I'm led to believe the Toltec tradition places the Assembledge Point.

Any thoughts or ideas? I've never done any work with the Toltec system and my Chakra work is really weak. (Yes, I know I need to embrace physical workings in order to make any progress in other matters... but I've been off my game lately.)

Now, an hour or so later, I can still "feel" the... whatever, but it feels like a muscle that has just had bad cramps.

11:08 / 27.06.04

Exactly where did you feel this cramp? Try to locate it in relation to your real body, to enable us to better understand the feeling. Did you have any diferent experiencies before this cramp? Did you consume anything you do not consume usually? Did you do any martial arts or "energetic" movements (tensegrity, feldenkreis, tai chi...)?

15:28 / 27.06.04

I don't know anything about the Toltec system, but I have had the occasional random experiences of sensations not linked to my body. They tend to not be repeatable, but they're strong and consistent when they happen...

One example: I was getting ready to go to sleep and decided to do a "body scan" to get my mind quiet; focused all my attention on my left foot and discovered that the sensations coming from from my foot extended out about three inches from my skin. I could "feel" the angle of the sheet draping down from my foot to the surface of the bed and where the sheet made contact with the bed... I pulled my awareness up my leg and to my shoulders, and found that I had the same sense of "expanded self"; checked my right foot, found it to be the same, then kind of shrugged and went back to the bodyscan and just enjoyed the additional sensations.

I've never had that *physical* sense of extending past my body happen again, but I do get the feeling occasionally of an energy field that extends out about the same distance (probably corresponds with one of the energetic bodies in one system or another, and about the only thing it does for me is make me feel a little more claustrophobic in very dense crowds...).

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

19:11 / 28.06.04

It was about a foot behind and above my shoulder blades. I hadn't done anything out of the ordinary that night and I haven't done any energy or martial work in over a year.