Hi All of You,
I've gotten several good chuckles from reading this thread! I just received and listened to the AC CD for the first time yesterday. I too enjoy George's relaxing voice and unusual hybrid accent. My own dominant impression is that there's a lot of French in the accent.
I am normally very thorough, observant and detail-oriented, but I'll admit, I was one of those who at first only quickly glanced at the email I received about the AC CD, thinking I'd read it in more detail later, and I overlooked the attached instructions at the time. Since I was so curious to hear each of the meditations and eager to get started when the CD arrived, I just listened to all 3 of them in a row, without remembering that there were probably directions somewhere that I should read first.
(I, too, had to laugh out loud during the "Fard" part on the first meditation, by the way!
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I did feel slightly nervous (even though I knew it was safe) at the outset, so I asked for a guardian angel to stand on each side of me. In meditation 3, it was a bit confusing not having read the instructions first, and I had not prepared in advance yet, so I was as yet unclear about what I wished to work on first (though I began the process of pondering it at that point), so I basically said, "I'm just new here, just wanted to get a look around before I get started," and this seemed to work well enough.
I did see a fair-skinned male-looking entity with shoulder-length blonde hair, blue eyes, and a warm, yellowish feeling, glow or aura about him, as I ascended on the lift. I was not sure at first if it was a patient (my sweetheart as a young man) when I first began to see the hairline and the face, or a Celestial. Later though, as I got a better look at the entire Being, it seemed he had large wings and was wearing a robe that was sort of an iridescent white-to-very-pale-blue with a goldish glow around the edges. I too, at first, had the sensation of not being sure if it was my imagination or not. I tried to ask the Celestial's name (and thought perhaps I got Uriel, Ariel, or Azriel) but wasn't sure of that part, since this could have just come out of my memory of angel names from reading Doreen Virtue. However, I felt pretty certain that the other visual details were accurate, representing a genuine presence and not "just my imagination," since they were so clear, vivid and persistent (didn't shift or change much during the visualization). This angel simply stood there patiently the whole time without talking, while I just looked around the room, which was helpful since I wasn't prepared for a conversation yet.
It got a little scary at the point when George said, "Okay, you're on your own now," because I wasn't sure, not having read the instructions (and unable to remember if it had already been mentioned at some point during the meditation), whether or not he was coming back to walk me back out of this state, or how long it would be before he returned. So, at that point, I just said to myself, "It's okay, I can handle it. I've done self-hypnosis tapes before," and I took my time looking around and being in the presence of the angel for a while, then I said goodbye to him and walked myself back out past the shower, outside, over the hill, and back to my place in nature (which I still need to build up more too, since this was the first day I'd visualized it).
Once I got back to the nature place, I had a strange sensation of motion, of being propelled backward (or forward, I now can't remember which!) at high speed for several seconds. I haven't experienced this in meditation before, so, although it was a little scary, I just allowed it to be, and went with it. At some point I started saying out loud quietly to myself, "Okay, I'm going to return to waking consciousness at the count of 10," and counted slowly up from 1 to 10. In perfect timing, as if on cue, right at 10, George's voice came back! And I was relieved!
As soon as I finished the meditation, feeling positive, relaxed and energized, I went and looked back at these boards, and the email I'd received, saw the attached instructions this time, and printed them out. I'll read them in their entirety before doing this meditation again!
And I can also see the wisdom of doing meditation #2 for a while first, to really get the details of the place in nature down, and plan more what I'm going to do before going back into the AC, so that's what I'll do next. I am really looking forward to continuing with this process!
Thanks, and Blessings,
Debbie
P.S. Speaking of Arnold S., can you believe it, he's our governer ("the governator") here in California, USA!