Dear Vovin, << Nowhere have I read that the practice of IIH would lead to results like this... and I am only just beginning on Step II!!! >> I feel the same ...and I'm only at the middle of Step I. As mentionned in my previous post, a transformative process has already started - even before the conscious corrective effort of Step II, which I can hardly wait to start ...but it looks I'll have to wait for a few weeks before moving ahead (mirrors far to be completed + VOM quite short lived :-) << I wonder if anyone has any thoughts regarding consequences of practice such as these? >> Yeeep :-) In fact, people close from me already made comments "about a change". I've made decisions, taken stands and created new contacts using a way that I wouldn't even have considered 1 month ago - and I did so even without noticing it before the fact. Just after, I said "vaw !!" (no pun intended) "how did I do that ?". The Archaeous works wonder vis-à-vis the transformative process also. Strong balancing effect. When I'm in waiting rooms now, I "check up" with my astral body instead of jumping on a magazine, and I don't see the time flying :-) Reaching it goes faster and faster, independently of the inducing process. I have one little concern that I'll probably be able to address using IIH: a handicap I have suffered from for a long time is an excessive empathy : I start feeling ill/sad/angry each time ill/sad/angry e.g. people enter my office. And this occurs almost immediately after they enter. I generaly do not even know "it doesn't belong to me". Really believe I got ill ...etc. So my concern is that this handicap may even increase now that I have closer contacts with my astral body. This may now happen however, since said contact becomes conscious, and as I learn to know myself better : I may even be more able to detect "something external" trying to intrude. What do you think ? Thanks for your previous message btw (moving between thought control to one pointedness to VOM etc.): answered a question I was wondering about. I thought of doing so, but I hesitated because ...I did not know whether it was allowed technically speaking :-) Stupid and typical - but this is one of the things I'll enjoy to improve: I have gone through so many techniques and precepts which had to be obeyed "by the book" that I hesitate taking the liberty to improvise :-) Cheers NB __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/