Dr Silvia Hartmann writes: "Yes, it is the end of an era.

"For the last 15 years, since 1993 in fact, we have been playing Project Sanctuary in a certain way. The way we were playing demanded focus, concentration and was in a way exclusively limited to those people who already had a strong and active ability to use and control fantasy.

"Project Sanctuary was definitely a "secret weapon", something you didn't tell other people about because it gave you a huge competitive advantage in work, life and play.

"That however is all coming to a close now with the advent of The Genius Symbols."

"You know that it would be untrue ... you know that I would be a liar ... if I was to say to you ... girl we couldn't get MUCH HIGHER ..."

Is the desire to "get high" actually a bad thing? Perhaps it's not? Perhaps the Creative Order itself wanted us to get - much, much higher? How do we do it? And how can we get high - and save money, sanity and happiness in the process?

These and many other questions are good questions indeed. Read on ...

StarFields writes: On the Project Sanctuary forum, I set a "Game of the Week" every so often. Players can, if they want to, play the game, Sanctuary style, and some will post the results of the game back to the forum. This week's game was as follows:

"By whichever means you choose, travel to a different planet. Somewhere you have never been before. Let yourself be taken there and observe, do as must be done, then return. Travel broadens the mind :-) "

Mary Haines writes: I wanted to write a story for my god daughter Susy who was going to be 4. I wanted it to be just the right story for her. So, I set my intention before entering sanctuary asking my energy mind to give me a story. It is called "Johnny's Bad Day", and there's a link to see me reading out the story on Youtube.

One of the basic premises of Project Sanctuary is that stories "carry" more information than lists of dry facts, and are therefore, superior information transmission devices. Stories (as opposed to lists of facts or statistics of such) also work more naturally with the actual neurology of human beings - stories are more memorable, more impactful, and far more stable across time than any other form of human communication. I have used this principle to transmit extremely complex information in a wonderfully easy way, easy enough in fact for little children to engage with the information content. 121 special stories, and all are available free online.

Sometimes, very rarely, a project comes along that has a life of its own. It has a will of its own, a power and an insistency - you can't do anything else than follow THAT, do THAT, no matter how full the hard may be already. "The Soul Pilots" was one of those projects. The time was there, the time was right - and the first ever Project Sanctuary Masters in space and time (!) had just assembled for the first time. It was All Hallow's Eve, with Solstice just on the horizon, and so we got together to do Soul Pilot missions and to document them so that others can be amazed, and hopefully, inspired.

Silvia Hartmann writes: Fairy tales have an inordinate effect on human beings. They are very specific stories, set in a "timeless" dimension and they act on the neurology in a very specific way. "Embedded" when we are but children, and with their true messages quite hidden under the surface, fairy tales program a range of codes of conduct and behaviour specific to the societies that tell them to train their youngsters to grow up into good productive citizens. Fairy tales are the carriers for deep programming, as are other types of stories which function on the same timeless "once upon a time in a faraway land" principle and this programming is not just resistant to being undone later on with conscious interventions and decisions and willpower, but is actually structurally out of reach from attempts of the adult mind to free itself from these entrainments.

Simply put, to de-program a fairy tale, you need ANOTHER fairy tale. And nothing else will do.

Margreet Vink writes: So I waved and started my way up the mountain. It wasn’t hard to do in the beginning, but a bit later the path became less passable. I got to the part where there is less vegetation, and a bit later to the part were there is hardly any vegetation. I came to a valley in the mountains, and in that valley was a dragon.

A big, beautiful shining dragon.

His colours were yellow and orange and red. And although he was fire-breathing, I could see he was in pain. One of his beautiful wings was wounded. Because of his wounds he was irritated to see me, and spit some fire my way.

This Project Sanctuary story is an example how to use PS to resolve dreams. By resolving dreams, we mean that a conclusion or breakthrough on the topic from a dream is being reached, and a sense that this is now been moved along and to the next level. This is a particular fascinating dream about a flood wave, and drowning in the water.

Take Nanowrimo, for example - the National Novel Writing Month. It's not national, it's very international but the aim is the same: to write a novel of 50,000 words minimum in 30 days.

Project Sanctuary is a form of advanced data streaming from the energy mind, for those do not know that yet, and if you have some experience with it, it can be used for a great many things, as you get to consciously set the parameters of what exactly it is you want your energy mind to do for you. In this case, the parameters were as follows:

If you are looking to stimulate your imagination, open up new Sanctuary habitats or you just want to see some truly fantastic worlds fabulously rendered, then go and visit with world-renowned concept art director, illustrator and designer Philip Straub. In my opinion, he's also a traveller who can see the worlds beyond. Highly recommended!

Peter Shepherd writes:To open up our minds to new ideas, new challenges and new solutions - to think differently and be creative - well, we could all do with some help in this direction. Tools for Transformation is dedicated to introducing the best available personal development methods for transformation of body, mind and spirit - to free us of the shackles of the past by reawakening awareness of our true identity in the present. We have LOTS of free ebooks, a free self help course of 30 lessons, and the complete text of "Transforming Your Mind".

I once knew a man who was obsessed with lucid dreaming.

I can understand why he was obsessed with that.

Lucid dreaming is one of THE COOLEST experiences I know.

It's incredible. In a lucid dream, you have all the magic and mystery, reach and impossibility of the dream worlds at your command - AND you are fully aware and present and in the most profound state of clarity, awareness, logic and control.

It is absolutely the "best of both worlds" and a fantastic experience.

What I particularly liked about this were the human stories about the artists involved.

Silvia Hartmann writes:

To celebrate my 46th birthday, I have a brand new exhibition of abstract modern art online from August 23rd, 2005:

The 23 Exhibition by StarFields

Lots of fun colours, fun shapes and things to fire the imagination. Project Sanctuary players, find the Treasure Map and take a look - where do you think the treasure is buried ...? And what might be the scale of that map ...?

Silvia writes: When Project Sanctuary gets going, we have EXPERIENCES. These are "other than" simply imaginings; they are autogenic experiences whilst awake which are very much related to, and feel like, lucid dreams.

You could call them visions, if you wanted; the key thing is that these experiences have a numinous quality and the person who has them, KNOWS that they are of a different order than just visualisation, fantasy or day dreaming.