Archive for September 2011
Getting the Best Travel Deals
Would you like to get the best travel deals available? Then get ready to be open-minded and flexible. Consider going to any one of several destinations, and going at different times than you may have originally planned on, and even doing different things once you get there.
Flexibility Buys The Best Travel Deals
Almost any travel destination has “seasons” which are more crowded and therefore more expensive. Also, airfare varies widely in price from month to month and even according to the day of the week or time of day. Finally, there many activities which may be marginally more entertaining yet cost much more.
Suppose you go on trips to several destinations over the years, using the usual strategy of “I want to go here now and do these things.” On some of these trips you’ll be at the height of the season, meaning it will be expensive for hotels. Airfare will cost a lot if you happen to choose the expensive days and times. With a fixed idea about your activities, you’ll also likely pay more than you need to have a great time. You’ll miss out on some real fun that could be much cheaper.
On the other hand, what if you go somewhere during the off-season, go on the day that has the cheapest plane tickets, and start with the interesting activities that cost less? Perhaps you spend just half as much on average, even though over those years you go to all the same destinations. The savings could mean even more opportunities to travel because of the money saved.
Years ago I went to Ecuador because it was an inexpensive destination. The February departure was chosen because I found plane tickets for $258 round trip from Miami. And though I hadn’t considered taking a tour to Mount Cotopaxi, I discovered that I could do that day-long trip to walk on the glaciers of a volcano for just $15, so I went. You create your own best travel deals if you are flexible and open minded.
Best Travel Deals – The Formula
Try this simple formula for getting the best travel deals:
1. Watch a few travel programs, read some travel magazines, and make a list of six to ten places you might like to visit eventually.
2. Look for the best time to go to each. This means when it would be interesting for you and cheaper than other times – an “off-season” that is still a good time for you to visit.
3. Gather information online. How much will hotels and meals cost? What is there to do and how much you are likely to spend on each of these activities. Take notes, of course.
4. Do an online search for plane tickets before you are ready to start planning. Experiment with different days of the week for departure and return flights to find the cheapest possibilities. This can change, so you’ll be doing this again when you are ready to actually start specific planning. For now you just want an idea of the days that are likely the cheapest.
5. When it’s time to travel, pick from among your listed destinations that are off-season and search all the possible dates you might travel, to find the cheapest airfare. Actually it’s best to do this before you arrange for time off work, so you can take advantage of the best possible travel dates.
6. Purchase your tickets, do some more research, and start packing and planning.
Here’s another tip for getting the best travel deals: Book a hotel only for the day you arrive, and then find your hotels(s) once there. There are many nice, less expensive hotels that you won’t find online, and in our experience, even good package deals are never as cheap as finding your own hotels once you get there, as long as you are not coming there at a busy time. Doing this also allows you more freedom, so you can change your plans as you go, taking advantage of whatever great deals come up.
Time Travel – Is It Possible? Part 2
I should point out that for purely practical reasons, space exploration by any kind of space vehicle from your planet will always be limited due to the time factors involved. You will never be able to travel to the past or future in a vehicle as in the “Back to the Future” movies, since the past or future do not exist in the physical universe. But the do exist.
Travel to the past, future and the furthest galaxy is possible through usage of built in characteristics that you, the human species already posses, and sometimes use unbeknownst to you. To some extent, these latent characteristics are not exclusive to the human species, and the animals and even trees view far greater expanses of the present than you do, since even the animals, flowers, trees and your cells posses a very generalized usage of telepathic communication and clairvoyance especially with the other cells, and include much more of reality in their present. Your present exists only for a moment before it becomes your past, but animals and plant life view of the present includes decades of your present time.
Most of these built in, latent abilities remain inaccessible to the conscious ego self (YOU) at this time, but you were not meant to remain ignorant of these abilities forever, and will rediscover and develop these senses that are yours by heritage, and that time in now. Animals, trees and flowers do not experience time as you do, so to them, the past, present and future exist in the now and their perception is not based on a series of moments or events as in your case.
Time travel is carried on quite regularly by you as you mentally communicate with past incarnated selves, with long dead relatives and sometimes even future selves in your dreams, but conscious recognition of these meetings is usually filtered out of the sanitized dream that is available to the awake ego self, making some dreams almost unintelligible or at best chaotic.
Of course, the methods of communication is somewhat different than you now use, depending on the immediacy of the personality you communicate with. Those who are by your standards, dead, quickly learn at first to communicate though the use of word oriented mental concepts. Later, through the use of concepts only without the support of accompanying words, dream symbolism that is meaningful to your sub-conscious, but not your ego self.
That is usually why you don’t remember details of your dreams, but your inner sub-conscious does remember and makes use of these messages and sends the appropriate ones to the proper areas of your sub-conscious where some of the most pertinent dream information is filtered up to the attention of the ego to be used in your daily life situations.
When you sleep at night you dream, but you also on occasion leave your dreams, your consciousness projecting from your dream utilizing your astral form and it is in those out-of-body projections where you are fundamentally free of the restraints of the ego and its dependence on time, while it is lulled into a resting state.
You are, depending on your abilities, able to visit locations that you are familiar with in daily life, sometimes in fact looking in on old friends unbeknownst to them since your body would not be materialized in physical matter and would be essentially invisible and transparent. There are occasions when your body could be perceived if the emotional connection with the visited party was strong enough. These projected forms are sometimes confused with ghosts and apparitions.
There is a great difference between dream locations and out-of-body body visited locations, and I want to make sure this is understood. In your dreams, you actually construct a particular location within the dream world or dream universe, and in your terms, this locations does not exist in the physical universe, but it does intrude into the physical world through your recognition of its reality. Distances experienced while traveling in dream reality do not exist in the physical world, but they are quite real and infinite in the dream universe.
When your dream ends, this dream location cannot be recalled or ended and it achieves independence and will continue to exist in the dream universe which also continues to exist even though you are no longer concerned with it when you are awake. You construct this dream location out of atoms, but atoms of a different nature, with definite form structure and duration, but without mass or bulk in much the same way that you construct the physical universe.
In an out-of-body projection, you are actually sending a certain portion of your consciousness out into the existing physical world to an actual location. These out-of-body projections can be achieved from the dream state, which is the easiest to attain, or the induced trance state, which usually requires more advanced skill and development.
Usually in these out-of-body projections, you are actually traveling in the physical world, the distances traveled, usually limited at first, can essentially expand to include travel to anywhere in the physical world, but not limited to it.
What I mean by that is, it is possible with practice to visit other realities within your own solar system in this out-of-body state, but the ability to visit other galaxies would be most difficult at this time until new abilities are formed.
Another consideration, usually when projecting in an out-of-body form, originating within the dreaming condition, you have very little control on where or what you will see, so there is usually some confusion or else no recognition at all that an actual projection really happened. You can influence these out-of-body travels by requesting a visit to someone close to you by ejecting your consciousness from the dream state.
Because of the chaotic nature of dreams, you would be hard pressed to differentiate between actually meeting a friend or an alien, a recently dead relative or visiting an alien planet or having a particularly lucid dream.
Now, some people have the natural ability to enter a trance state easily with definite purpose in mind. They can induce an out-of-body projection to a particular location and with prior agreement with another party, could in fact, meet at the desired location while both were still sound asleep at home in their beds. These out-of-body astral forms then temporarily vacate the physical body, taking their full consciousness along with them on their journeys and under favorable conditions can communicate with each other when they meet while in the out-of-body condition.
There are in fact, people that you know that you have never met physically, some from other realities that you have met in out-of-body of body situations. This projected form has some substance at times, through the use of a less than a less than complete materialization, but still, full conscious cognition is involved and full capacity to communicate through telepathy.
In other words, during this type of projection, the sleeping physical body is maintained by the “body consciousness” inherent in the cellular structure of the body itself, without the usual oversight and help of the organizing consciousness or true identity (You). These projections, purposely initiated, have sometimes been called “Remote Viewing” and was experimented with during the second world war by many governmental agencies by the United States, Soviet Union and other participants trying to ascertain conditions and information in other countries on the opposing side from afar.
This is the basis for future travel on your planet and beyond to distant galaxies. A future personality will be able to project his consciousness to a selected location or reality system. In order to be perceived by another being, a personality must materialize a physical body, no matter of what system you would be visiting. All physical reality systems here or alien, located on or near the outer fringes of the universe utilize atoms to construct their camouflage physical bodies and their camouflage environment even though they may not look like yours. You could simply visit an alien system with an out of body projection without materializing a body, but you would remain an observer, pretty much unable to interact since you would not be perceived and in order to be perceived and viable within that alien system, you would have to adapt your physical body structure to one corresponding to the prevailing rules of the reality you were visiting.
So, if you would want to utilize a physical body in the visited reality system, you would first have to project your consciousness to where you want to go, then, utilizing the atoms at hand there, build up a relevant physical body at the new location. A future person will be able to do this quite handily, and as I said, it is done even now to some extent from dream projections, without your conscious knowledge.
In reverie, if you think longingly of a favorite place at the beach on a misty morning, your actual consciousness could project to that location and if the emotional tie was strong enough, you might even smell the salty sea air. Under these kind of emotional connections, you may even be able to be seen by others in a transparent sort of way, as a wispy shadow in the mist.
What this would mean is that, your consciousness was actually there, not just a dreaming body, but to some extent a fully cognoscente conscious You, and you would have left your sleeping body home alone. As long as a materialized body is not a priority, and simple exploration of other realities is the primary goal, this all become much easier and in fact, is done quite often through spontaneous projections from your dreams.
Remember, in a dream, you create the people, objects and images, in projections, the people, objects and images are real, and the people you visit may remember the occasion.
A whole book could be written on this subject, and I fear I may have left you more confused than before we began the article, but I will elaborate as we go along.