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Sunset on Mars.
On May 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.
This Panoramic Camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol.

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@Skarekrow
I prefer this approach to illness:

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over this:

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It's good not to be absorbed by your illness. But I think one needs to accept it, come to be compassionate with that part of yourself.
Refusing to talk, or think about illness is called repression. It will only insure the intensification of that illness. Only when you love the ill part of yourself will it no longer have a place in your consciousness.
 
@Skarekrow
I prefer this approach to illness:

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over this:

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It's good not to be absorbed by your illness. But I think one needs to accept it, come to be compassionate with that part of yourself.
Refusing to talk, or think about illness is called repression. It will only insure the intensification of that illness. Only when you love the ill part of yourself will it no longer have a place in your consciousness.

You are most wise oh good Sir.!
Yes, that is mostly how I’ve had to be with my own issues.
I’ve stopped fighting against it and have had to accept if for what it is and also for what it is not.
I think the second meme is basically saying - try not to let it define who you are.
Which is also true, though the details of going about that may be in dispute.
There is truth that sitting there all day thinking about that one thing as being extremely unhealthy in various ways.
Though when you have such issues, such as pain that is always there....it is a challenge to not think about it constantly.
It can be a feat to balance being open and compassionate with yourself and living in denial and repression like you said.
 
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~ Synchronized Swimming In The Quantum Sea ~

Consciousness
...Resonance And The Paranormal

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by Marie D. Jones

As a kid, watching the synchronized swimming competition of the summer Olympic games, I was always struck by how silly the sport seemed.

Not to mention how it looked!

Later, as a wise adult, I came to understand and appreciate both the degree of difficulty of getting human bodies to move in perfect unison, and the beauty that results when they do.

Humans often operate in synch with others.
I am reminded of groups of women who work or live together menstruating at the same times, as if their hormonal systems sought a certain resonance of unity and harmony, and adjusted the individual bodies accordingly.

But bodies are not the only things that resonate.
Quantum physics has taught us that there is no such thing as empty space, and that the so-called vacuum of space often called the Zero Point Field (ZPF), is teeming with quantum fluctuations that display a resonance, a vibration.

Nothing does not vibrate.
There is no such thing as zero, dead, still.

Everything that exists gives off some vibration of a certain frequency.
Every planet, every person, every particle.

Musicians know that when a guitar string is plucked on one instrument in a music store, all the other guitars in the same room will vibrate to that tone. Healers refer to this as “entrainment,” when two objects (or people!) in close proximity, vibrating on different frequencies, begin altering their vibrations until they are vibrating at the same, or nearly the same, frequency.

The Zero Point Field could act as a field of “entrainment” or resonance, where the vibrations of particles tune to specific frequencies, creating different forms of matter, energy and interactions.

Other scientists believe this field has different names.

In 1998, physicist Paul Steinhardt and his colleagues coined a term that would describe a mysterious field of what they believed to be dark energy, or a “fifth essence.”

They called it “quintessence.”

Based upon an earlier idea proposed by Fermilab physicist Chris Hill and colleague Josh Freeman, quintessence suggested that, like the cosmological constant of Einstein’s vision, this essence fills all of “empty” space with a form of matter-energy that is changeable in strength.

Some parts of space might have a thicker quintessence, others a thin “layer,” creating a field of invisible essence that has no direction, like a vector field, only magnitude, like a scalar field.

Described as kinetic energy by Tom Siegfried in Strange Matters, the strength of this field would be measured by how quickly it approaches the zero point.

Because quintessence is believed to exert negative pressure, it is said to be a slow rolling scalar field, one that does not change too quickly over a period of time.

Whether or not quintessence is the dark energy so eagerly sought by physicists will decide the fate of the universe itself, because of its relationship to expansion.

The presence of a negative energy in space would possibly stop the expansion.

Aside from the role quintessence plays in the outcome of our universe’s destiny, it may also play a role in the way matter and energy interacts, or resonates.

Nature is filled with signs of the importance of resonance and the beauty of synchronicity.
From the physical foundation of all musical composition to the intricate mathematical ratios of the natural world, there seems to be an element of “arrangement” that results in a visible pattern.

Physicist David Bohm believed that underlying the physical, tangible world, there was a far more mysterious, deeper order of “undivided wholeness.”

He called the visible world the explicate order, and that deeper world the implicate order, and used the analogy of a flowing stream to describe his realization of unbroken unity.

“On this stream, one may see an ever-changing pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc., which evidently have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow.

Such transitory subsistence as may be possessed by these abstracted forms implies only a relative independence or autonomy of behavior, rather than absolutely independent existence as ultimate substances.”

Those rather philosophical words came from Bohm’s Wholeness and The Implicate Order, which he wrote in 1980, and suggested the world of the implicate order was similar to a hologram, where the complex interference patterns appear to be chaotic and disordered to the naked eye, yet on a deeper level possess a pattern that is hidden or “enfolded” into the whole object.

Bohm even suggested the universe itself was like a flowing hologram, or “holomovement,” that contained order on an implicate level.

The explicate order would be the projection from higher dimensions of reality, and any apparent stability of objects and entities are really a sustained process of enfoldment and unfoldment.

Nothing solid is really solid at the implicate level.

Bohm also believed there was a superquantum potential, or a higher “superimplicate” order operating in the universe, and that consciousness and life were enfolded within, with matter appearing in varying degrees of “unfoldment.”

He even stated that the separation of matter and spirit is nothing but an abstraction, that the “ground is always one.”

All is Vibration

The study of music (and the patterns of sacred geometry) suggests an invisible, “implicate” vibratory nature.

Sympathetic Vibratory Physics is a term assigned to a “musical universe,” an interesting alternative theory of reality proposed by Walter Russell in A New Concept of the Universe.

Russell believes that there exists nothing in nature other than vibration.
He attempts to create a paradigm of reality using wave and vibration theory based upon the work of John W. Keely’s concepts of a sympathetic vibration that connects all things and energies, and that the harmony of these vibrations creates what we see.

Russell and Keely suggest that music can be thought of as a model of the order found in the universe, with organized vibration or sound following principles of structure and behavior that make sound into harmonies.

These principles mimic those governing other vibratory patterns in the universe.

Take the idea that everything is the result of a vibration, and even Zero Point Energy in the quantum vacuum has been shown to “jiggle” or vibrate. Everything has its “jiggle.” We can go on to say that different things have different “chords” or “vibration signatures,” and that is what makes one thing discernible from the next.

Sounds a lot like superstring theory, with tiny, vibrating cosmic strings at the very heart of existence.

Vibrations are dynamic, interacting with one another and their environment, creating different tones and chords and harmonics.
In a sense, vibrations are more fundamental to reality than the tiniest subatomic particle, because in a sense, that is what the tiniest particle is… a vibration.

The most exciting thing about this invisible vibratory field, no matter what form it might take, is the potentiality it contains.
Potential as a source of all other sources.

Potential as a pure energy field upon which all matter is created and thrown out into the explicate order.

Potential even is a doorway to other dimensions or levels of reality, where things like ghosts, UFOs and psychic abilities are the norm.

"Subquantum Kinetics" and "Morphogenetic Fields"

Physicist Paul LaViolette writes extensively about “transmuting ether” in his book, Genesis of the Cosmos - The Ancient Science of Continuous Creation.

This ether, which is the basis of LaViolette’s theory of “subquantum kinetics,” is described as an active substrate that differs from the mechanical ethers once considered in previous centuries.

LaViolette states,

“The concentrations of the substrate composing this ether are the energy potential fields that form the basis of all matter and energy in our universe.”

The ether reactions cause wave-like field gradients that emerge and form the “observable quantum level structures and physical phenomena,” including the various particles, forces, fields and electromagnetic waves.

Subquantum kinetics, which LaViolette proposes as a unified field theory that fills in the gaps conventional physics cannot, rests on the existence of this “primordial” transmuting ether present throughout space.

“The transmuting ether is the wellspring of Creation,” he states, adding that were its activity to diminish, everything physical would cease to exist, coming to a state of “multi-dimensional consciousness” from which the physical universe is generated.

A ground state, or Source of all Sources.

Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and co-author of The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination and Spirit refers to this vibratory field as the “morphogenetic field.”

This “M-field” (and there can be many M-fields) is an underlying energy field that acts as an organizing principle to give form to various levels of reality.
He also suggests there is “morphic resonance,” or the resonance of memories sort of like Edgar Cayce’s “Akashic field” or the “collective unconscious” of Carl Jung.

These memories shape our minds today, but subconsciously.

Sheldrake, who has experimented with psychic pets and animals, theorizes that the existence of an invisible field of influence, although unproven, could be the link between humans and their pets.

“Morphic fields also contain attractors, which draw organisms towards future states.”

This could explain how a dog might pick up a change in the morphic field that lets it know its owner is only a half block away.

The morphogenetic field itself could be made up of “morphic wavelets” of resonating, vibratory energy that differ in scale and frequency.
The wave could have a resonance that synchs up with the resonance of a pet, or a human, who then displays some “psychic” ability to predict a coming earthquake or disaster.

And if they are tapping into a field that contains memories of past, present and future, a time landscape so to speak, they could access any event throughout the space/time continuum.

Obviously, it’s not that simple, or we would all be seeing ghosts, aliens, strange creatures, having precognitive dreams, major déjà vu episodes, and reading each other’s minds.

But if even one small percentage of the claims of the paranormal is true, someone somehow is figuring out just how to do it.

Terence McKenna, psychedelic visionary and co-author of The Evolutionary Mind, points out:

“Once non-locality is accepted, some of the things we’re interested in are permitted - telepathy, information from other worlds arriving by the morphogenetic field, and so on.”

We know that experiments have proven non-locality to be a reality on the quantum level.
Two particles continue to affect one another at extreme distances.

The same actually happens on a macrocosmic level all the time.

The Synchronized Universe

Advanced physics tells us that an event at Point A in the universe does not cause an event in Point B to occur a little later.
Actually, both events occur at the same time.

Carl Jung used the term “synchronicity” to describe this same phenomenon on a human level.

In his amazing book Power Vs. Force, Dr. David R. Hawkins states that a,

“question can’t be asked unless there’s already the potentiality of the answer… there can be no ‘up’ without an already existent ‘down’.”

Synchronicities are evidence of an all-inclusive field that goes against the normal cause-and-effect rationale for events that occur that challenge our illusion of the line between subjective and objective reality.

Perhaps, the universe itself is based upon principles of synchronization.

Physicist Claude Swanson, educated at M.I.T. and Princeton, believes it is.
He even believes his “synchronised universe” theory leaves the door wide open for a variety of paranormal phenomena to exist in a reality where our own matter operates in synchronized fashion with everything else.

In his book, The Synchronized Universe, Swanson points out that parallel universes superimposed upon our own can differ in phase or frequency of their synchronization.

Basically, people can only access their own universal “sheet” of existence, and thus believe that is the only one that exists.
Same goes for anything moving around on all the other parallel “sheet” universes.

But alter the phase or frequency just so, and an object can disappear from one reality, and appear in another.
Like a ghost...

The synchronized universe theory could explain how UFOs can appear and vanish instantly, as reported in hundreds of sightings, and how teleportation might be achieved.

It could also explain the existence of “subtle energy,” which, Swanson theorizes, arises from the motions coupled across the layers of parallel universes.

Subtle energies, Swanson states, are the,

“coherent structure which crosses several of these parallel realities, and therefore is ‘higher dimensional’.”

The interesting thing about synchronization is that it allows every particle a fundamental frequency proportional to its mass, and also explains how particles can become synchronized, like those Olympic swimmers, at small scales.

This “synchronizing” of matter and energy would indeed allow for paranormal events to occur, and would no doubt explain why they might occur in transient, unpredictable ways.

Ghosts, out-of-body experiences, remote viewing, psychokinesis and poltergeist activity all may be the result of the synching of particles and matter between various levels of existence, creating a literal means for moving between dimensions of reality.

Swanson states,

“Paranormal effects and ‘subtle energy’ cause a synchronization across adjacent parallel universes. When this occurs, these adjacent universes become to a degree synchronized with ours. The interaction becomes more coherent, more in phase.”

When there is no synchronization, we experience the other universe or dimension as “random noise.”

Even teleportation fits into the synchronized universe theory.

Swanson points out,

“The behaviour and position of matter is dependent on its radiation field, which keeps it in place, gives it inertia and allows it to interact with other matter in the universe. If we shift the phases of radiation coming into the particle and coming out of it from the past and the future, we may be able to shift its position.”

This may be the key to a form of “hyperdrive” that causes teleportation.

An Explanation for Ghosts?

Physicist F. David Peat suggests that synchronicities are “flaws” in the fabric of reality, momentary fissures that offer those sensitive to them a brief peek into the implicate, underlying order of nature.

We know from the Law of the Conservation of Energy that the total inflow of energy into a system must equal the total outflow of energy from the system, plus the change in the energy contained within the system.

In other words, energy never dies.
It is converted into another form.

Ghosts, if they represent trapped energy, may move between parallel dimensions or universes by this process of synchronization (possibly using the ZPF as a vehicle for moving between the dimensions) and become visible in our world because they are still energy.

Many ghost sightings involve balls of plasma and changes in electromagnetic field measurements, as well as visible signs of energy manipulations.

Lights flicker or pop, static appears on radios and televisions, and people report the feeling of their hair rising on their skin or the back of their head. These are also widely reported elements of UFO sightings (stalled car engines, black-outs, phone interference…).

Obviously, energy is present, and affecting its environment.

Again, one is reminded of music.
When two or more notes are played together, they either create a beautiful harmony, or a noisy discord.

The notes that work well together create a resonance.
Those that don’t “make sweet music” together create a dissonance.

If paranormal events can only occur when the “right two notes are struck,” then something in the brain, or the body, is responding to those notes and “tuning in” to the phenomena that is otherwise beyond perception.

All of these frequencies exist in the field, and… even our brains seem to have access to this field of all possibility.

The Brain Works Like a Hologram

Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram spent decades pondering the secrets of the human brain and memory, and eventually discovered that the brain worked somewhat like a hologram, and that when you first see something, specific frequencies resonate in the brain’s neurons, which then send information about the frequencies to other sets of neurons, and the process continues until your neurons construct an image of what you are looking at.

That the brain seems to process information in wave-frequency patterns suggested that human memory could hold amazing amounts of information “in storage,” and, using the same holographic model, be able to access and recall a memory as a three-dimensional image.

The holographic model of the brain could allow for ESP and telepathy, then, by the same process, according to Swanson

“If the sender can cause energy or information to refocus at some other point in space-time using the 4-D holographic principle, then it can be received if a person is there to sense the thought-form.”

Pribram’s brain research didn’t stop with the holographic model and its implications for a variety of interesting abilities.

He also showed that the brain acted like a frequency analyzer that literally filters out unlimited wave information from the Zero Point Field, where all the information possible existed.

This allows the mind to take and use only what it needs, and not be overwhelmed with a bombardment of unnecessary frequencies trying to compete for some “brain time.”

Think about the simple experience of déjà vu, which may be our ability to access, albeit in very small doses, glimpses of ourselves in a parallel universe or dimension, or even the ZPF.

When you have déjà vu, you are remembering what is happening to you in the present moment.

That doesn’t make sense.
If it is happening in the present moment, how can you yet have a memory of it?

But if there exist parallel universes that have “branched off” each time we made a different choice, then it makes sense that we would, in many of those universes, be doing the same exact things at the same exact time.

Déjà vu may then be our successful attempts to find and synch up with another reality, even just for a minute or two.
Or perhaps we are accessing the Zero Point Field, which, like Edgar Cayce’s Akashic Record, supposedly contains the memories of every thought, action or event that ever happened or will ever happen in the universe.

If déjà vu, dreams and out of body experiences, including near death experiences, allow us to wander for a while in other realities, it begs the question - why can’t we easily access these other realities all the time, any time we please?

I might suggest that it is because if we could, we would go insane.
Information overload.

Our brains operate as information sorting machines, only bringing into our perceptive fields what we need to see, hear and know to survive, and hopefully thrive.

That does not prevent us from being able to, when we meditate or go into a trance or zone out at our computer, have a peek into other dimensions of existence.

People do this all the time when they dream, when they know who is on the phone after only one ring, when they get a “bad vibe” about a person they’ve just met.

Remote viewers may be tuning into a frequency upon which the information they are either sending or receiving is naturally “broadcasting,” as a psychic might pick up on similar frequencies when doing a reading or having their own clairvoyant episode.

If paranormal elements operate on a different frequency, again we must think of the dog that hears a high-pitched whistle that is soundless to us.

Many species of snake have organs that allow them to perceive the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum and “see” the heat of another living thing.

Sharks and eels are ultra-sensitive to changes in electrical fields, and some insects can see ultraviolet light.
These creatures are obviously observing things we humans simply aren’t built to observe.

Yet somewhere there are humans who can hear these whistles, and sense EMF alterations, just as there are humans that can see auras and other forms of light energy the rest of us cannot.

It could just be a matter, then, of the level of one’s consciousness or perception.

Whether energy is synching up, or emerging in a coherent pattern from the ZPF, or moving along a morphogenetic field, or even floating in a sea of quintessence, there is definitely fertile, dynamic ground for the movement of that energy between our world and the world of the paranormal (which could in fact be our own world, or one parallel to ours).

We are limited to our five senses: sight, smell, sound, touch and taste.
But what about this sixth sense?

Perhaps that is the sense, underdeveloped in most, yet present in all, which allows us to turn on and tune in to the frequencies that reveal the other layers of existence.

I think of years ago, long before cell phones, when I owned a CB radio and loved to listen to motorists and truckers chatter.
Occasionally, there would be some bandwidth cross talk from a nearby Ham radio operator.

Ghosts, UFOs, and other paranormal events may be cross-talk cutting into our normal bandwidth; chatter from another dimension, or universe, or somewhere in between.

We don’t normally hear it because it is usually operating on another frequency altogether, but sometimes signals get crossed.
Consciousness may be the key to knowing exactly which frequency to tune into to perceive paranormal phenomena.

Think about that the next time you listen to the radio.

Tune into the right frequency and you may find yourself face to face with a ghost.
 

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by Z


About the Author
Z, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of
Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man.
His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide awake view of the modern world.
His recent works can also be found at
Z’s Hub.





“Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.”
–Paulo Coelho

“Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. Purposeful solitude is both palliative and preventative. It is used to prevent fatigue and weariness.”
–Clarissa Pinkola Estes



Consider the double meaning of the word entrance, signifying an opening as well as a state of awe.

What is it about a door opening that so piques our curiosity?
Is it the child inside us yearning for novelty and entertainment?

Is it equal-parts fear and fascination?
It’s almost as though we need to be moved.

And in order to move we must “open the door” into the mysterium tremendum et fascinans (the awe-inspiring, mesmerizing mystery).

With closed doors there is no view, there’s no movement, but for the same old static motions of old.
With an entrance, however, there is a chance for reanimation.

There is a new “way” to go, a new Tao to juggle.

There is - hallelujah - something altogether new to be enchanted by.

Solitude as meditation is the preeminent psychological entrance, the perennial crossroads, the existential gap.
It can be an exponentially progressive spiral - a place where all roads begin and all roads end, where all doors open and all doors close.

In order to arrive there all one needs is to be awake and alone enough to take in one’s surroundings.

Being alone with nature is important.
Nature deprivation is overly rampant in the everyday click and hum of modern-day life.

Solitude allows us to reconnect with the sacred.
We are free to leave behind the hare-brained ferocity of civilization with the tortoise-mind serenity of nature.

Just as we take the world into our bodies, in the form of food, should we not dive deep into the world and let it swallow us, in the form of solitude?
In this way, through the two-way mirror of consumption, we become one with the world.

We eat the world for sustenance and then we balance the cycle by allowing the world to “eat” us in recompense.

This is the epitome of expiation; the pinnacle of cosmic respect.

“One of the least discussed issues of individuation is that as one shines light into the dark of the psyche as strongly as one can, the shadows, where the light is not, grow even darker.”

–Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It is during meditation and solitude where we are free to face our shadow, our bête noire: “black beast.”

It is here where we are allowed to wrestle with our doubt, with the arbitrariness of self.
The black beast is the hungry ghost inside us all.

But it is a ghost that must be fed, an unconscious beast that just needs to be thrown a bone.
And it is up to us, and only us, to feed it.

In the process of “feeding” it, we discover that our fear dissipates.

The ghost becomes Casper-like, friendly and championing us in our cause.
It becomes puppy-like, and grows up to be our best friend, standing by our side until the end.

However, feeding the beast is no easy task.

For is it not when we are alone, away from the billion blinking machines and distanced from the billion hollering mouths of men, that we feel the awesome weight of time upon our shoulders and the mercurial ache of loneliness in our heart?

Indeed, but this is no time for self-pity.
This is a time to fill in the blind spot.

This is a time to embrace despair, rather than dally with minimalizing it and pigeonholing it into a subordinate emotion.

Our despair is paramount, and must be allowed its space, lest we fool ourselves into believing in false hope.
Ironically, it is in the act of embracing despair that we discover true hope.

Not a childish hope or an immature gamble, but rather a rediscovery of innocence in the face of death.

It is a mature gambol, allowing for the cosmos to be as it is: impermanent and thereby meaningful and beautiful.

“Man,” said Blaise Pascal, “is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges as the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

But when we embrace our own despair, through solitude and meditation, our third eye opens.

From this new coign of vantage we are able to see the nothingness for what it is, just as we are able to feel the infinity in which we are engulfed.
We realize that, out there in the “great loneliness,” though we are just a mere grain of sand in an endless desert, we give that desert meaning simply by perceiving it.

And suddenly we are not so small.

We are each of us a microcosm within a macrocosm.

This is the great lesson of loneliness.
We can no more separate the micro from the macro than we can the human from the natural.

Both are needed to put the whole into holistic.
If we live too long without giving recognition to our despair, to our eternal suffering, we risk turning our lives and our reality into a bureaucracy.

It is only in suffering our smallness that we can actualize our greatness and finally accept that our mere presence, albeit miniscule and a mere flash in the pan compared to the greater infinity, is a mighty catalyst for the evolution of the cosmos.

Solitude and meditation, especially upon suffering and despair, turns the tables on the universe; where instead of trying to possess our life, we are possessed by it.

Like Kierkegaard said,

“The pupil of possibility receives infinity.”

“You exist, but do you live?”

– Graffito​

In our inert world, where spiritual disorientation and groundlessness prevail, we are crippled by the great crisis of modernity: disenchantment.

We try in vain to force-feed enchantment to each other, through television, sports, and movies.
Our disenchantment, however, is not regarding a lack of entertainment, but rather a lack of self-permeability, a lack of connection with the cosmos.

We are so ecologically impoverished that we experience a deep sense of alienation; not only within society, but within our own skin.

Meditating on “the great loneliness,” is an escape from this disenchantment.
It is a kind of reprieve from the spiritually estranged clockwork of society, a place where we can lose ourselves so as to be reoriented and grounded with the cosmos.

In a sense, those who cannot really feel themselves lost can never truly be found.
Losing oneself in solitude is a means to the end of finding oneself in meditation.

Fools do not strive for self-discovery because they are too self-centered and believe that they have all the answers.

The wise do not strive for self-discovery because they already have it.
It’s only the people in between - the majority - that are vulnerable and lost, drowning in the daunting eternity of it all.

Meditating in solitude brings forth the gift of feeling lost.
It is a gift because only with it can we ascend to a state of being “found,” to becoming, once again, enchanted.

Enchantment develops when we are, all-at-once, trumped by, and triumphant over, the greater cosmos.

And then lost and re-found and lost again in the continuing cycle of the human leitmotif.
It is exactly this sense of inner-lost-and-found - this balance of self-exploration and self-negation - that keeps us adventurous, curious, and open to the many vicissitudes of life.

Indeed, it is this that transforms us into autodidacts armed with open-mindedness, spiritual plasticity, and a hunger for the unknown.

Meditation and solitude are “entrances” into this hunger for the unknown.

If allowed infinite transgression hunger for the unknown eventually actualizes itself in the concept of fallibilism, where essentially there are no answers, because even if there were they could always be questioned, ad infinitum.

Ascending to a state of being found is the realization that all things are infinitely unfounded, and all the more joyous and enchanting because of that fact.
 
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The Trance State

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A trance is a very simple and natural state of being, the state entered when the physical body goes to sleep while the mind stays awake.
Very simply, the frequency of brain waves changes in response to the changed level of mental activity.

The less mental activity, the deeper the level of trance.
Normal levels of consciousness cause a lot of bioelectrical activity, which is associated with the awake activity of the surface mind, called the beta level.

When the trance state is entered, this activity is significantly reduced, causing many peculiar physical and mental sensations.
Changes in brain-wave activity are measurable with an electroencephalograph, or EEG, machine.

The human brain has two halves, two hemispheres, each side associated with different physical and mental functions and abilities.
The left side of the brain is the rational and logical problem-solving part, while the right side is the more emotional, creative, and intuitive part.

I believe the trance state causes these two hemispheres to begin working together, synchronizing more strongly than they are able to in the normal waking state.

The more time spent in the trance state, the stronger the bioenergetic connections between hemispheres become, and the more easily the two hemispheres can work together.

While the two hemispheres are linked, the mind becomes calmer, stronger, more whole and balanced.

This enhances the quality of thought, making it more profound and open to inspiration, while providing great clarity of mind - albeit in an altered state of consciousness.

A deeply relaxed physical body with a clear mind holds this connected trance state longer than would naturally occur.

We all experience this every night, even if only briefly, while falling asleep.
Most people don't even notice this when it happens, but everyone knows how good it feels.

Who does not enjoy falling asleep?
Similarly, who does not enjoy entering the trance state?

Trance is a delightfully blissful, comfortable, stress-free state of being, like submerging yourself in a pleasantly warm physical/mental spa or bath.

While falling asleep you will find, if you observe closely, that you begin losing yourself among rambling half-thoughts and impressions.
Your body starts to feel heavy and warm and cozy and your thoughts become silly and meaningless.

This happens right on the borderline of sleep, just before you lose coherence altogether and fall into the seeming oblivion of sleep.
The heavy-body sensation is the sign you have entered the trance state.

The mental incoherence (in the case of entering the trance state while falling asleep) is caused solely by mental and physical tiredness.

Once the physical body falls asleep, the center of waking consciousness transfers into the etheric body.
This is best thought of as a type of inner-body projection.

The heavy-body feeling of the trance state indicates that the center of waking consciousness has shifted one step away from its physical body and into the first of its subtle bodies, its etheric body.

This takes consciousness one step closer to the real-time projectable double.

Next time you are falling asleep, hold your forearms vertical with your elbows resting comfortably on the bed surface.
This will keep you awake a little longer than normal.

Observe what happens while you are falling asleep.
You will experience the trance state for at least a few moments longer than usual before falling asleep, and for still longer if you are not too tired and can stay focused.

If you relax and use the breath awareness technique while falling asleep, instead of allowing your mind to drift and ramble, you can drag out the falling-asleep process and stay in the trance state even longer.

As a part of projection training, it is necessary to learn how to put your body to sleep while remaining mentally awake and in control - in other words how to enter the trance state and stay awake.

This can be a little tricky at first, but is not at all difficult if you follow the correct procedure and get some regular practice in.

The physical and mental tiredness that naturally causes the trance state while falling asleep can be replaced by a deep level of physical relaxation and a clear surface mind.

If you allow yourself to react to distracting sounds during trance work, you can develop a habitual response to them, becoming easily distracted and irritated.

This can seriously affect your ability to enter and hold the trance state.
It may cause you to use artificial aids like music or tapes to create just the right conditions for you before you can trance effectively.

This will make your trance state dependent on those conditions.
A dependency like this is an unhealthy trance habit, as it makes the habitual foundations of the trance state weak and sensitive, rather than strong and resilient.

If you are a beginner with no trance habits, please heed my advice on this.
Accept sounds and let them wash over you, without tensing, reacting, or mentally complaining about them in any way.

Accept and tolerate sounds kindly and without irritation.
Look upon unavoidable distractions as valuable opportunities to test your powers of focus and concentration, as sound waves crashing gently over you.

This problem will progressively ease with time and patience.

The need for total quiet denies the pleasure of trance meditation outdoors, amid all the many wonderful distractions of life: water gurgling over rocks, animal sounds, wind and storm sounds, rolling waves crashing on beaches, children's sounds, and the sweet morning chorus of bird song.

These are nature's gift to us all, and all can be better appreciated in a tranced meditational state.

Different Levels of Trance
I have divided the trance state into three basic levels, and have used sensation descriptive names (rather than the more commonly used technical terms like alpha, beta, theta, and delta) for simplicity's sake, and to help avoid confusion while working in these levels of trance.

This will enable you to tell what level of trance you are in simply by noting the sensations you are experiencing.

The three basic levels of trance given here are meant as a basic guide for beginners only.

Light Trance
Light trance is the first level of trance, very similar to the daydream state.
While relaxing, your physical body starts feeling warm, cozy, and lethargic.

Your eyelids suddenly feel heavy and your eyes begin to glaze over and droop.
A mild wave of heaviness and warmth flows over you.

Your mind takes on a mildly fuzzy quality and tends to begin drifting.
You have some slight difficulty focusing thoughts, especially if you are mentally tired and need sleep.

Patterns of light and color (hypnagogic imagery) are seen occasionally during the light-trance state.
Mind's-eye visions may also be seen if natural clairvoyant potential is present.

Cobweb-like tickling is occasionally felt in the facial and neck areas, caused by energy movement through the energetic support structures of the brow and crown centers. (The trance state on its own causes an increased flow of energy, hence the resulting sensations.)

With this level of trance comes a mild, whole-body feeling of warm comfortable fuzziness and a slight dissociation from the physical body and the surrounding environment.

Time appears to slow down a little and sounds appear to be slightly louder and from further away than they really are.
Once light trance stabilizes it is easily held for long periods of time.

Great internal mental clarity can be attained with it, as long as tiredness is not a problem.
This is the trance state most usually attained during early-light meditations and led-group meditations.

If this level of trance is accompanied by a deep-enough state of physical relaxation, conscious-exit projection becomes possible.

This level of trance, while easily held, is also quite delicate and easily broken.
Physical movement, even walking and talking, must be slow and deliberate to hold the light-trance state.

Full Trance
The full-trance state has many similarities with light trance, but trance sensations are more pronounced.
Entry into full trance is marked by a quite noticeable wave of bodily heaviness and a very slight falling sensation.

This comes on fairly quickly, like a warm, heavy wave flowing through you, seeming to sap your physical and mental strength as your body falls away into sleep.

Concentration and mental focus are needed at this point to stop the mind from following its body into sleep.
Your sense of time changes, slowing down or speeding up, depending on your level of mental tiredness.

If you are tired, time tends to speed up; otherwise, it tends to slow.
You become noticeably dissociated from your physical body and its environment.

Your sense of background atmosphere changes noticeably the moment you enter the full-trance state.
The room around you feels like it has suddenly become much larger, thicker, and emptier.

Background sounds take on a muffled, faraway quality, something like they would if a cardboard box were gently lowered over your head without touching or disturbing you.

You may feel a muffled, bone-deep tickling sensation in your arms and legs if you move them to ease your physical body during trance, similar to how it feels when an arm or leg falls asleep, but not at all painful.

Some physical movement is still possible, but takes more effort and feels like it's happening in slow motion.
If you manage to stand during full trance (no mean feat, but still possible), you can hardly feel your legs at all.

If you can manage to walk (also possible), it feels like you are walking on two huge pillows that used to be your legs.
Any kind of physical activity tends to erode the depth of trance, unless done in a slow and dreamy way.

Sharp sounds cause an uncomfortable sensation in the stomach and solar plexus that can feel almost like a physical blow if you allow yourself to react to it. (This sound sensitivity can be reduced only by experience gained through regular trance meditation.)

Your thoughts begin to feel different, more sluggish than normal yet extremely clear.
This is caused by the surface mind shutting down and revealing a more profound level of mind.

Holding your mind clear and focused is the real trick to staying awake and mentally functional.
If you do not concentrate and stay focused, you will tend toward fantasizing and drifting off among weak and meaningless thoughts.

When you first start experiencing trance states, you need to concentrate, forcibly holding your mind awake without allowing yourself to tense up physically or mentally.

Hypnagogic imagery is seen behind closed eyelids, in the mind's eye, as are occasional visions.
REM (rapid eye movement) activity happens sporadically; when it does, fragments of dream imagery occasionally intrude into the mind's eye.

This can indicate a sleep deficit, meaning the physical mind lacks energy, has fallen asleep, and is now dreaming.

Ignore REM as best you can if it starts.
It normally comes and goes in bouts of a few minutes each, sometimes longer.

REM feels like the eyes are fluttering and buzzing beneath their eyelids.
This can be very distracting when it occurs in the trance state.

If it becomes a problem, gently rub the fingers and thumbs of each hand together and take a couple of deep breaths, stretching and moving your body slightly and resettling it.

This slight physical activity is usually enough to stop REM and shut down the dream mind, while allowing trance and development work to continue.
This procedure also helps reduce the level of trance.

When REM stops, cease all physical movement and continue with your trance meditation.

You will be spending most of your time somewhere between the light-trance and full-trance states.
As you gain ability and experience, this level will vary.

The ability to put yourself into a full trance is very progressive, like most developed abilities.

It has to be worked at, but with regular practice can be reached quickly and easily.

Deep Trance
Deep trance starts with the symptoms of the full-trance state, which become noticeably more pronounced as you fall into a much deeper level of trance. There are many odd sensations associated with deep trance, felt in many combinations: with whole-body coldness and a continual falling sensation being common.

The deep-trance state is not dangerous.
It cannot hurt you any more than deep sleep can.

It is very difficult to get into the deep-trance state, even deliberately. It could not reasonably be expected to happen spontaneously or accidentally to one who has not yet mastered the full-trance state.

But the symptoms associated with deep trance are often so strong that they can be frightening if you do not know what is happening.

If you are ever worried that you might be going too deep, simply feel yourself moving upward, slowly moving your head, mouth, fingers, and toes, progressively restoring movement to your body until you can pull yourself out of trance completely.

If movement is extremely difficult, or if you feel totally paralyzed, you have most probably projected but missed the exit out of your body; you may even have experienced vibrations earlier.

In this case, concentrate on moving a single big toe.
Ibis will pull back your projected double and end paralysis.

If all efforts to pull out of deep trance fail, do not panic.

Simply allow yourself to fall asleep and you will wake up shortly after, well rested and none the worse for wear.

Trance Requirements
Entering the trance state requires three things: deep physical relaxation, a clear surface mind, and a mental technique.
  • Deep Physical Relaxation: Do the full deep physical relaxation exercise (see chapter 15) until you are as physically relaxed as possible. Some preliminary physical exercise to get the kinks out of tense muscles, followed by a hot bath or shower, is advised for all beginners.


  • Clear Surface Mind: Allow your thoughts to wind down and settle while doing the relaxation exercises, then clear your mind by focusing on breath awareness. You may find this easier to achieve if you deal with any pressing thoughts your mind may throw up at this time. Simply consider and deal with these for a few moments each and then let them go. This will greatly ease their clamoring thought pressure.


  • Mental Technique: A mental falling technique speeds up the time it takes to enter the trance state, rather than waiting for the body to fall asleep of its own accord. Focusing on this also helps to occupy and hold your surface mind clear and awake.
In all the mental falling exercises given below, use your imagination to construct the falling scenario and feel as if you were there in reality.

Produce the strongest internal whole-body awareness sensation possible.
Call on a memory of yourself doing something similar, or borrow a scene remembered from a movie.

Use this memory to re-create the feeling of yourself performing that same action with your imagination.
Feel the falling action; don't just think about it or try to see it in your mind's eye.

Once you attain a level of the trance state, heralded by a wave of bodily heaviness and warmth, relax and breathe slowly and naturally.
Keep your mind clear - thus holding on and settling in to the trance state X by focusing a small part of your mind on breath awareness.

If you need to deepen your level of trance, continue with the mental falling exercise until you attain it.

I have given several variations here.
Please try them all and find the most effective one for you, or the one you most like.

When you find one that suits you, stick with it.
This helps to program your subconscious mind to react to the technique, helping you shift into the trance state easier and faster each time.

You do not need to overdo the imagined details of scenarios used with mental falling exercises.
The rock wall in the elevator shaft below, for example, only needs to be an indistinct blur moving upward.

It is the downward movement or falling sensation constructed by your imagination and felt in your body awareness that causes your brain waves to slow, thereby forcing it to enter the trance state.

It is not the imagined scenario in itself that does the trick.

Deep physical relaxation and a mental falling technique basically trick your subconscious mind into beginning the sleep process earlier, while you are still wide awake.
  • Elevator
    Imagine that you are in an elevator with one side of it - the side you are facing - open to bare rock. Feel the elevator start moving down with you in it. Imagine you can see the rocky sides of the elevator shaft passing upward as you move ever downward, falling deeper and deeper into trance as you go. Imagine that this rock shaft has an irregular texture and features you can easily see, moving upward past you as the elevator carries you down, down, down.

    If you like, imagine you can see a large number as you pass a floor every few seconds, and count these as the elevator moves deeper and deeper. Call on the memory of the last time you were in an elevator, or go and ride in one and memorize the sensation. Remember the slight feeling of vertigo it caused in your stomach as it started going down. Re-create this feeling; feel it in your body awareness. Keep imagining and feeling this, while making sure you do not allow your physical body to tense up.

    Feel your body letting go and sinking deeper and deeper into the trance state as you ride the elevator down, down, down...


  • Ladder
    Imagine that you are on a ladder. Re-create body-awareness feelings of remembered arm and leg movements, and slowly begin climbing down. Move one awareness foot and its opposite hand down one rung. Then move the other foot and its opposite hand down another rung. If this is too complex, imagine you are holding on to each side of the ladder and climbing down only with your feet, with the sides of the ladder gliding easily through your hands.

    Continue down the ladder one rung at a time. Feel your body moving down the ladder. Imagine a rock face or brick wall in front of you, close to the ladder. Imagine this textured face moving upward past you as you climb further and further down the ladder. Feel yourself climbing downward and falling deeper and deeper into trance with every downward step you take.


  • Steps
    Imagine that you are standing at the head of a long flight of steps with a high stone wall on either side. These steps are large, imposing, and steep. Lift one imaginary foot at a time-carefully feeling yourself doing it - and take the first step down. Feel your body move downward as your feet move one at a time onto the lower step.

    Repeat this action and take the next step down, then the next and the next. While you are moving down the stairs, imagine you can see the textured stone walls on either side moving upward past you as you move one step at a time down the flight of steps. Continue this, slowly and deliberately, feeling yourself moving downward and falling deeper and deeper into the trance state as you go.

    Count the steps if you like, slowly, as if you were counting your breaths, "Oneeee, Twoooo, Threeee", etc., taking one step down with each exhale.

  • Climbing down a Rope
    Imagine that you are hanging by your hands from a strong rope and have your legs wrapped securely around it. Your arms are very strong and there is no chance of falling. Move one imaginary hand down, then the next, climbing down the rope hand over hand, with the rope sliding easily between your legs. See the textured rope moving upward past your face as you climb down it. Continue this, feeling yourself climbing downward and falling deeper and deeper into the trance state as you go.

  • Feather
    Imagine that you are a feather and are gently floating down from a great height. Feel yourself gently falling, re-creating a falling sensation in your body awareness every time you breathe OUT. Feel yourself holding position and floating in midair as you breathe IN. Feel the atmosphere around you; imagine strands of textured clouds moving upward as you fall gently through them. Continue this, feeling yourself floating gently downward and falling deeper and deeper into the trance state with your every falling breath. IN and OUT can be reversed to whatever feels most natural.

  • Smoke Rings
    This versatile old favorite of mine can be done from any position, even while walking. Imagine that your feet are in the center of a dense smoke ring as thick as your arm. Imagine and feel this smoke ring rising up over your body and disappearing overhead. The smoke rings are very dense and move close to your body. Imagine that you can feel them moving over your skin as they rise. Imagine that you can see these smoke rings as they move past your eyes. The smoke rings should repeat about two seconds apart, but this can be varied to suit the individual.

    Feel the rising smoke rings with your body awareness, puffing regularly up over your whole body. Feel an internal falling sensation as the imaginary smoke rings rise upward. Feel yourself falling deeper and deeper into the trance state with the caress of every smoke ring as it rises up over your whole body, over and over, from feet to head.

  • Personalized Trance Technique
    Imagine any scenario that you are familiar with that involves going down, or any kind of downward movement or falling sensation. This can be anything: an escalator, a water slide, a fireman's pole, a parachute jump, mountain climbing, scuba diving, high diving - anything that could induce a natural falling or downward sensation of movement in your body awareness.


  • Trance Litany
    Many people find it helps to repeat a simple litany or mantra, said over and over in their head, as an accompaniment to their mental falling trance technique. This also helps keep the mind clear and well focused, and in time you will become conditioned to react to the litany. It will program you to start falling into the trance state whenever the litany is used. Repeat: "Down, down, down... deep, deeper, deepest", or something similar, slowly and calmly and meaningfully. Say this over and over inside your head and feel yourself falling down, down, down as you say it.

    You can make up your own litany, but keep it simple and downward meaning and stick to the same litany all the time. The longer you use the same litany the more effective it will become and the more conditioned you will become to it.


Common Trance Problems
Most common trance problems stem from the three main problem areas given below.
These come mainly from our modern Western lifestyle.

They must be addressed and overcome before you can successfully operate in the trance state and hold it strongly enough to achieve conscious-exit projection.

Falling Asleep during Trance
This very common problem is usually caused by a sleep deficit.
Although you may feel fine, there is always a possibility you have not been getting enough sleep. (Most people don't.)

If you have a sleep deficit, you normally have very little trouble entering the trance state, even if you do not attain a state of deep physical relaxation first, because you are mentally overtired.

But you usually have trouble maintaining mental coherence and operating in the trance state once it is attained.
Your mind will lack mental vitality and will be unable to hold itself together.

You will tend to lose control very easily and will often just fall sleep for the main part of your trance meditation.

It may be easier to induce the trance state when the body and mind are tired, but mental coherence and control during trance are very limited if a sleep deficit is present.

The oblivion of sleep is the ever-present companion of the tired trance.
Overtired-ness can easily cause a natural trance state all on its own.

Trance, after all, is an extremely natural thing that everyone does while falling asleep.
Because of the lack of mental vitality, in this case the trance state is too unstable to allow the operator enough control to do any kind of serious work.

Many people, when they meditate, find their meditations naturally end after a set period of time.
They usually have very little awareness of the passing of time, or even of what takes place during the major part of their trance meditations.

They remember falling into trance and feeling totally blissful for a while, before coming back to earth later, feeling relaxed and refreshed.
After entering the trance state, they simply have had a pleasant trancelike nap.

The obvious solution is to get more sleep, then return to trance practice wide awake and refreshed.
If this is difficult, try changing the time of day you practice trance exercises.

Doing trance exercises in the morning, or just after a refreshing nap, will usually solve most sleep-deficit-related trance problems.

Many people wake an hour or so early each day for this purpose.
They get up, do a little exercise, shower, then do their meditation, trance and energy work.

They find trance meditation far more successful when done early in the morning, due to a combination of natural deep physical relaxation and the mentally refreshed state of mind brought on by a good night's sleep.

Deep physical relaxation and a clear, fresh mind are essential ingredients for successful trance work.

For these same reasons, projection attempts are also usually more successful at this time of day.
Some people find projection easier if they go to bed early and set their alarm to wake them during the night.

They wake up, holding on to the deeply relaxed state induced by sleep, and immediately attempt a projection.
In this case, all preliminary exercises can be skipped, with the projector going straight to projection technique - usually with good results.

This points out just how important to projection deep physical relaxation and a stable trance state are.

Inability to Enter Trance
An inability to enter the trance state is usually caused by an insufficient level of deep physical relaxation, and/or by poor concentration and mental relaxation skills.

Whatever your trance problem, examine it and identify weak areas.
Then, return to the relevant sections of this book and repeat the necessary exercises until these problems are rectified.

Practice, practice, practice, is my very best advice here.
If you have worked through all the exercises in this section but find you still cannot get into the trance state, please don't give up.

Go back to the beginning and start over again if you have to.
Redo the lessons and exercises one at a time and don't rush them.

This may seem a laborious process, but you must be patient with yourself.
Everyone has a different psychological makeup and it is impossible to generalize, or to compare one person's progress with another.

Do not measure your progress against the progress of another.
Take your time and work at your own speed.

Some people take to trance work like a duck to water, while others find they really have to work at it to achieve the levels of relaxation and mental clarity trance requires.

But' you can master the trance state if you learn the individual skills and practice regularly.

Falling into Trance Too Easily
This is an occasional side effect of long-term development work.
If a person spends a lot of time in trance, the trance state eventually becomes second nature and is then very easily attained.

People with this tendency can find themselves accidentally sliding into the trance state many times each day, at the drop of the proverbial hat.
If not checked, this can cause frequent dissociation from reality, which is an unhealthy way to live.

This can become a serious psychological disorder and may require professional treatment if it is not addressed.

A sleep deficit will compound this problem.
The best way to stop accidental trance is to be aware of it and to watch out for it, especially at the times it is most likely to occur, e.g., while driving, watching TV, waiting, traveling, etc.

Be ready to work against this, pulling yourself out of trance the moment you feel it coming on.

Physical and mental activity focusing on the world and people around you is the best way to avoid accidentally falling into the trance state.
If this problem arises, my best advice is to take a break from all development exercises and meditation, especially trance work, for a few weeks.

During this break, concentrate on physical life and activity, catching up on your sleep, and doing all the odd jobs and visiting you have been putting off till later.
 

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A portion of the book ‘Astral Dynamics’ on Astral Projection by Robert Bruce
I will include a few more chapters later.
If you have any questions or want specific sub-topics about this let me know and I will find the appropriate info for you.
Enjoy and have fun projecting!
(Pictures added by yours truly)

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Preparations for Projection

Consciously projecting out of body is nowhere near as difficult as is commonly believed.
It is simply a matter of deeply relaxing the physical body, clearing the mind, then triggering the projection reflex with an exit technique.

Most people, if they are prepared to put a little time and effort into developing the necessary skills, will have no trouble accomplishing this, right up to the actual exit phase of projection.

What happens from that moment onward depends greatly on their energy, self-control, balance, attitude, and intelligent planning.

Trance and Deep Physical Relaxation
I have found that the majority of people who fail conscious-exit projection either have a problem with the trance state (too light, too deep, or too little control) or they have neglected to fully learn and practice deep physical relaxation - more usually both.

It is quite possible to enter the trance state without having a deep level of physical relaxation, just as it is possible to fall asleep with muscular tension still in the physical body.

This, in itself, can cause enormous problems for projectors during the exit phase.
Many people hurry through or skip the deep physical relaxation exercises, often believing they are physically relaxed enough simply because they can get into the trance state fairly easily.

They do not understand that the trance state, plus tiredness resulting from a sleep deficit, can override deep physical relaxation as a requirement for entering the trance state.

They go on with projection attempts thinking they are doing everything correctly, while actually not fulfilling the requirements for conscious-exit projection.

This can be extremely frustrating, with unsuspected physical tension ruining what might otherwise be a string of successful OBEs.

Time and again I tell people - and time and again they don't seem to hear me when I say - "The real secret to projection is deep, deep, deep physical relaxation!”

Too simple a solution, you might say, but it's the simple truth.
A light-to-normal trance combined with a deep level of physical relaxation is the best combination for a smooth and successful projection exit.

A lighter level of trance than most people usually seem to attain during projection attempts allows for greater clarity of thought.
This makes the exit easier and provides better control during and after the exit.

Many people go way too deep into the trance state, usually because of a sleep deficit, then experience heavy REM (rapid eye movement) activity, cobwebs, and other heavy trance-related energy-movement sensations, all of which can be very distracting during the exit.

The Projection Reflex
When the energetic balance between the physical body, the expanded energy body, and the mind reaches the critical point where projection can occur, a built-in energetic event that I call the projection reflex triggers the full generation and extrusion of the projectable double.

The first requirement is for consciousness to reflect itself into the expanding etheric body, as happens when the physical body falls asleep or enters the trance state.

This causes an internal shift of consciousness into the first level of subtle body, the expanded etheric body, as it is internally generated.
Normal sleep takes awake consciousness right out of the projection equation.

With the awake mind out of the way, safely asleep, the natural generation and projection of the real-time double occurs gently and swiftly.
The projection reflex is thus triggered naturally and causes no heavy exit sensations that might awaken the sleeper.

But if the awake mind holds itself coherent long enough, in a deeply relaxed and tranced state, it can trigger this reflex with a projection technique.
Once triggered, the projection reflex makes the rest of the exit automatic, and even difficult to stop.

Separation Pressure
To consciously project out of body, it is necessary to shift and hold a strong point of body awareness outside the bounds of the physical body, strongly enough and long enough to trigger the projection reflex.

All projection techniques, if you analyze them, are designed to shift body awareness outside the physical body in some fashion.
Logically, the stronger and more direct an awareness action is, the more pressure it will exert on the projectable double.

The more separation pressure exerted, the more quickly and easily will the projection reflex be triggered.

One of the most popular projection techniques today involves reaching out for the vibrations.
As you attempt to project you reach out with your mind, imagining or visualizing yourself doing this, trying to find the vibrations somewhere outside your physical body and imagining yourself trying to pull these vibrations into your physical body to cause projection.

This is reasonably effective, although I consider the idea that the vibrations could exist apart from the physical body to be illogical.
What causes separation pressure is the exterior body-awareness action of reaching out for something and pulling on it.

It does not matter what is being reached out for, as long as something is being reached for and pulled on with body awareness.

The vibrations technique, however, is not as effective as techniques based on tactile imaging, such as the rope technique and others given in the following chapters.

Tactile imaging can be used to mimic any physical action with body awareness alone, both inside and outside the bounds of the physical body.
The simpler the action, the easier it is to focus on, and thus the stronger its effect on the projectable double.

Hand and arm actions are the easiest and hence the strongest actions to mimic with body awareness.
The ease of use and sheer effectiveness of simple awareness hands actions is shown in the training units given earlier in this book.

Most meditation and trance-induction techniques exert some degree of separation pressure on the projectable double.
Whatever the mental technique, they are all designed to induce some kind of inner movement away from the physical body, causing dissociation from the physical body and loss of normal levels of waking consciousness.

This is usually done through some kind of imagined or visualized falling or downward motion.

Any internal downward-moving mental action will cause body awareness to shift slightly outside the confines of the physical body.
This causes gentle separation pressure over a wide area of the body.

These actions are usually the reverse of what is needed to trigger the projection reflex.
This is more like trying to get the projectable double to fall out of its physical body under its own steam, rather than to project out.

These types of actions will bring on the trance state, but will not usually trigger the projection reflex unless it happens spontaneously.

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The Famous Vibrations
In my opinion, the famous vibrations are not the cause of projection, but a symptom of the energetic activity associated with the internal generation of the projectable double.

When energetic conditions are ripe for projection, the physical/etheric body begins to internally generate its projectable-double aspect.
This causes some pretty major energetic activity, felt throughout the body as vibrations.

But even though the buzzing sensation of vibrations is strongly felt in and by the physical body, no detectable physical vibrations are present.
The physical body does not actually vibrate or buzz.

This indicates that these vibrations are felt from within the etheric body only, or from within the projectable double as it is being generated, not from the physical body.

Often, the vibrations start well before projection actually occurs.
Vibrations often are localized to parts of the physical body, which indicates that only parts of the projectable double are being generated.

For example, if only the legs and lower torso are vibrating, then only the legs and lower torso of the projectable double are being generated at that time.

At times like this, projectors will often feel their legs or arms floating loose and moving about outside the bounds of their physical body.
When vibrations are felt in only part of the body, those vibrating parts only have reached the deeply relaxed and energetically excited state required for projection to occur.

The parts that are not vibrating, therefore, must be suspected to be unready for projection, possibly due to hidden physical tension in those areas.

Many people find themselves stuck to a part of their physical body during the exit.
They also often experience pain and discomfort in these stuck areas if they continue trying to force themselves out of their body regardless.

I would suggest here that a lack of whole-body deep physical relaxation is the major contributing factor to this common problem.

Health, Fitness, and Projection
While physical fitness is most definitely not a necessary precursor for conscious-exit projection, it can be a big help.

A reasonable level of fitness makes it easier to attain and hold a deep level of physical relaxation and the trance state.
A healthy physical body will generally have less discomfort caused by coughing, cramps, and circulation problems.

Problems like sleep apnea can also be caused or made worse by a poor level of fitness, and anything like this can have a negative influence on projection ability.

Poor health and fitness do not prohibit conscious-exit projection.
Some illnesses may even make projection easier.

Projection techniques may need to be modified, especially the resting position used, to compensate for an illness.

For example, if coughing is a problem, a more upright projection position will help ease the trouble.
If poor circulation is a problem, more attention will have to be paid to bed or chair padding.

For muscular or spinal cramps, the position and padding used during projection attempts will need modifying to provide better support.
If a health or disability problem is severe, it may be wise to consult a medical doctor, physical therapist, or chiropractor.

You don't have to say why you are seeking increased comfort.

You can merely cite the desire for deep physical relaxation.

Position and Comfort for OBE
The resting position of the physical body during projection attempts can have a great effect on what happens before, during, and after a projection.
Lying prone on your own comfortable bed in your natural sleeping position is not the ideal scenario for conscious-exit projection.

We are all conditioned to start falling asleep when we get into bed - which increases the likelihood of falling asleep and losing shadow memories if projection does occur.

I recommend either using another room for projection, or changing the position of the bed being used.
If change is not possible, relax with your head at the other end of the bed.

It is also possible to condition yourself for projection by using a low-wattage colored light, with perhaps a favorite incense.
If you use these only when a projection attempt is going to be made, you will soon become conditioned to them.

I always recommend a sitting or semisitting position for projection, if at all possible.
It is not only easier to project from a sitting position, but it is also easier to recall a projection after the event.

Sitting helps overcome many shadow memory loss problems caused by falling into too deep a sleep too early during a projection.

If you have ever fallen asleep in a chair, you will notice that you do not sleep as deeply or as soundly as you would in your own comfortable bed.
It is also much easier to wake up from a sitting or semisitting position, just as it is easier to stay awake while holding the trance state in the sitting position.

This also makes it easier, if you have accidentally fallen asleep, to notice and react to the energetic sensations that herald the return of the projected double during reentry and reintegration.

There are several ways to adapt the sitting or semisitting position to your situation and needs.
Keep in mind that you are preparing for a projection, not settling down for a comfortable night's sleep.

While comfort is important, the ability to deeply relax the physical body while holding the mind awake is far more important.
A little discomfort can be a good thing for projection.

An armchair or recliner works well for projection, as long as it has good back and neck support and you put a pillow under your feet.
If you use a plain armchair, I suggest putting a telephone book or brick under the front of the chair to angle it slightly backward.

This stops your head from rocking forward onto your chest and helps avoid breathing problems.

Use pillows or cushions to make sure your neck and lower back are correctly supported.
You can also place pillows under your arms and hands to increase their comfort.

If the back of the armchair is too low and provides no neck support, position it against a wall and place another pillow behind your head to support it. Wear loose and comfortable clothing and loose socks - depending on the local temperature, of course.

An oversized tracksuit is ideal.
If the room is cold, it is better to use a heater than to pile on heavy covers.

If insects are a potential problem, spray the room thoroughly first or use mosquito netting and insect repellent.

If you cannot use an armchair, you might use a folding pool-side recliner with arms and a full-length foam mattress.
Use pillows to increase the comfort of your arms, legs, and neck.

Probably the easiest and most convenient method is to prop yourself up as if you were about to have breakfast in bed.
You don't want to be too upright, as this can be uncomfortable.

Neither do you want to lie too flat.
I suggest that you try an angle of approximately 45 degrees, and then vary to suit yourself.

A hospital bed with an adjustable back would be perfect, if you could acquire one.
Bedcovers should not be so heavy as to cause discomfort.

Use several pillows to prop yourself up in bed, or use a dense foam bolster and a few pillows.
Cut a foam wedge-shaped bolster to size (quite cheap from most foam suppliers), or use a bean bag.

It is important that your body be well supported and not tend to sag or slide or cramp up while deeply relaxing.
Bad posture causes tension and will eventually lead to distracting pain or may require movement to ease cramps and circulation problems, either of which will break the deeply relaxed state.

Disconnect your telephone or turn down the volume, or take it off the hook or set an answering machine to take calls in silence.
Most background noise can be overcome by using "white noise”.

Simply turn on on a radio or TV and tune it to an off station.
Turn up the volume until the hiss of white noise covers background noises.

I do not recommend that music be played during projection attempts, as music is generally distracting and can cause emotional responses and tension, which can ruin a projection attempt.

But long-play recordings of rain or surf sounds, etc., are an acceptable alternative to white noise.

(Skarekrow - As I have said before...binaural beats, specifically around 4hz seems to work best for me personally,
but white or pink noise is great as well)

Comfortable earplugs or headphones also help eliminate noise.
Practicing trance exercises in fairly noisy places - say while watching TV - will, with practice, enable you to totally ignore any distracting noises, making projection possible even when total quiet cannot be achieved.

Finally, since fear caused by the lack of suitable lighting is a major contributing factor to projection failure, I suggest that you use a night-light or lamp with a low-wattage bulb.

Many people find themselves in gloomy darkness once they get out, and abort their OBE soon after the exit, simply because darkness makes everything appear sinister.

Even a mild fear of the dark, added to the natural trepidation caused by being in the experientially unknown out-of-body environment, is a recipe for anxiety, fear, and a failed OBE.

The very best way to overcome it is to project during daylight hours.
Early morning, just after dawn, is probably the most suitable time for most busy or working people.

By the way, the physical body's eyes must be kept closed at all times during OBE exercises and projection attempts.
This may sound obvious to most people, but I've had a large number of queries over the years on this point.

The projected double will gain real-time sight just before or during the exit.

There is no need to open the projected double's eyes or do anything else after leaving the physical body.

OBE or Lucid Dream
The resting position of the physical body can affect not only the ease but the type of experience that will occur.
This does not affect everyone, but it is definitely worth a mention.

Many people, including myself, have difficulty projecting while lying curled up on their side.
I must be either lying on my back or sitting in a chair, or any variation between these.

For projection, I much prefer a recliner laid back about twenty-five degrees from the vertical.

If I curl up on my side, in bed or on a recliner, I either fall asleep or have a lucid dream.
For some reason, my body needs to be flat or upright for easy projection, although it does not seem to matter if my head rests straight or slightly to either side.

I suspect the physical position needed for lucid dreams and OBEs may vary from person to person.
This may play a significant part in early projection attempts, especially if the strength of this effect is unknown.

If the resting position affects you as it does me, this could stop you from projecting.

I suggest that you vary your projection position slightly after repeated failed attempts, or if falling asleep is a problem, just to see if this has any effect.

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Projection Technique


Achieving conscious-exit projection requires learning a delicate mental and physical balancing act.

This can be likened to a baby learning how to walk.
A baby has to learn how to cope with gravity, body weight, and balance, and must coordinate many undeveloped muscles, nerves, and skills, all at the same time.

The first few times babies try to stand, they totter and fall over because their brain does not know how to coordinate everything.

Similarly, during early conscious-exit projection attempts, would-be projectors attempt to hold a deeply relaxed physical and mental state while trying to exteriorize their sense of body awareness, while also trying to deal with some pretty major energetic sensations.

There are so many new things to do and adapt to, and these must all be done just right while so much else is happening, that it is very easy to lose control and fall back into the full waking state.

Applying the skills that make up projection can take time.
The brain learns to coordinate multiple tasks best through applied effort and regular practice.

The more time spent trying to project, the better the brain will get at coordinating everything and the easier the whole exercise will become.

Before you attempt any of the projection techniques in the following chapters, consult the training and development units earlier in this book.
All the required terminology, background, and techniques are there.

Projectable Body Loosening
Projectable body loosening involves temporarily shifting body awareness outside the bounds of the physical body with simple awareness exercises.
The following exercises are all designed to loosen up the projectable double.

They also get the projector used to exterior body-awareness actions during a deeply relaxed and/or tranced state.
While deep physical relaxation and trance are recommended for these exercises, they can also be done from a lightly relaxed state only and still make for good practice.

The exercises are very easy to do and are capable of triggering an OBE on their own, so be prepared.
If this does happen, or a partial projection is achieved, use the exercise that caused this as the basis for your main projection technique, or adapt and combine this with a similar method.

With projection, if you do something that works, stick to it and build on it, as what works... works!

Bounce Loosening
Put yourself in the required state for projection with a deeply relaxed body and mind. Ideally, use the full-body deep physical relaxation and trance-induction techniques, then use the full-body energy circuit for a couple of minutes.

Leave your primary centers alone for this exercise.
Feel the room around you with your mind and imagination, and build a picture of it in your mind's eye.

Using your memory, take note of how everything would look from your position if your eyes were open: where doors, windows, ceilings, walls, and furniture are.

Take a good look and memorize everything before starting.

Start a full-body awareness bounce action from head to feet, arms resting comfortably at sides.
Continue this until you are settled into a comfortable bounce speed and rhythm.

Next, extend your point of awareness - the part of your awareness you are bouncing through your body - out past your head and feet until you are bouncing your awareness from the wall above your head to the wall below your feet, if lying down.

If you are sitting, bounce from the floor, through your body, to the ceiling above you, then back down through your body to the floor.
Repeat this as a continual bounce action.

Adjust the angle of the bounce action so it is directly in line with your torso.

As your awareness bounces off the wall, ceiling, or floor, use your memory-based imagination to sense what each surface would look and feel like close up.

See this as if you were really there, right up close to it.
Try to momentarily feel your new spatial position as it would be if you were actually there.

Be aware of the spatial change and of the new position, of where your physical body, walls, doors, windows, and furniture are for that single moment as your awareness bounces off each surface.

Create a snapshot of this new position in your mind's eye each time you bounce your awareness off a surface.

Feel yourself being there, out of your physical body for just a moment.

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Fig. 23.

Two bounce actions for loosening the projectable double


If you have trouble with this, stick small targets to the ceiling and walls and memorize what it is like to be up close to these targets.
Re-create the image of these with your imagination in your mind's eye during these exercises.

Before starting this, if you like, get up and place your face against these targets so you can really get the feel for each position.
Memorize what it feels like to really be there.

Momentarily re-create mis feeling at the end of each bounce.

Once you get the bounce action going, pay more attention to bouncing your awareness off the wall or ceiling than to feeling your awareness passing through your physical body.

Once your body awareness is at work outside your physical body, the feel of your physical body must be allowed to slide gently into the background.

The next stage is to bounce your point of awareness away from your body in line with your face, in line with where your eyes would be looking if they were open and looking straight ahead.

If lying down, repeatedly bounce to the ceiling above you, then back down through your face to the floor beneath the bed.
If sitting, repeatedly bounce off the wall opposite you, then back through your face and to the wall behind you.

Again, once you get this bounce action going, allow the feel of your physical body to slide into the background and concentrate on the exterior bounce action.

As I said, this bounce technique can trigger the projection reflex on its own.
Bounce techniques are also useful for getting the look and feel of projection without actually getting too close to the exit.

The bounce technique momentarily shifts your point of awareness outside your physical body, causing something like a brief, low-powered projection each time your point of awareness bounces off a surface.

Repeat this exercise for as long as you wish, before continuing with an actual projection attempt.

Breathing Loosening
Put yourself in the required state for projection.
Feel the room around you and take note of its spatial layout.

Concentrate your awareness in your breathing action and feel yourself breathing slowly and naturally IN and OUT.

As you breathe IN, feel yourself expanding outward as your lungs fill to capacity, as if your physical body were rapidly expanding outward like a balloon. Feel the room shrinking around you as you expand to fill it.

At the end of the IN breath, try to feel your awareness filling the whole room to capacity.

As you breathe OUT, feel yourself shrinking into yourself like a collapsing balloon.
Feel the room around you expanding rapidly away from you as you get smaller and smaller.

At the end of the OUT breath, briefly feel the spatial coordinates of tile entire room as being far, far away, as if you were a minute point of consciousness, a tiny spark in a giant, oversized room.

Repeat this exercise for as long as you wish, before continuing with a full projection attempt.

Spin Loosening

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Fig. 24.

Spin loosening action


Any body-awareness action that holds a point of awareness exterior to the physical body is extremely difficult to hold if kept in one place only.
It is, though, fairly easy to hold a point of awareness if it is kept moving.

Movement tricks the mind into momentarily accepting an exterior point of awareness.

Put yourself in the required state for projection.
Bounce your point of awareness, at eye level, back and forth to the wall or ceiling directly in front of you a few times.

Move your point of awareness clockwise around tile room, briefly touching each wall, ceiling, and floor surface in passing.
Circle the room continually, taking one to three seconds for each circuit.

This speed can to be varied to suit what feels natural.
As your point of awareness circles the room, feel it sliding and brushing gently over the interior surfaces of the room.

Stay aware of your changing perspective in the room as your point of awareness spins around you.
Feel yourself and your point of awareness spinning around the room.

Try to feel your spatial coordinates changing around you, exterior to your body, as you spin.

Feel yourself spinning inside your body, and feel the room around you moving as you spin.
Settle into a steady spin at whatever speed you feel most comfortable with.

If you continue this, your mind will at some point be tricked into believing you are actually spinning outside your body.
When this happens you will feel a momentary falling sensation inside yourself, a brief sensation of vertigo that will usually happen many times while using this technique.

This technique can trigger the projection reflex, so be prepared.

(Skarekrow - There is also the looping rollercoaster technique. Basically you imagine yourself in an endless loop on a rollercoaster...the size is up to you. I have not jumped out with this one, but those who use it claim it quite often “launches” them unexpectedly up and out into the space of the astral realm...some claim quite far, lol.)

Loosening with Imagination
Please take your time over the following exercise.
Do it slowly and thoroughly.

Put yourself in the required state for projection.
When you are really settled into yourself, imagine yourself as slowly getting out of your body and floating to the door of your room.

Feel and be aware of your body still being in bed or sitting behind you as you float away.

Move through your door, as if you were really projecting, and feel yourself floating away from your physical body and moving around the house, imagining as much detail as you can as you proceed.

Look into a few rooms, then leave the house and walk farther afield.
Go as far as your memory will take you with some accuracy.

This imaginative view does not have to be perfect.
Stop and briefly examine points of interest along the way.

As you move, try to feel yourself actually being away from your physical body, being aware of where it would be in relation to your imagined remote location.

This is difficult to hold, I know, but the movement helps, so keep moving your imaginary double at all times to ease the mental pressure.
Moments will occur during this exercise when you will suddenly experience the feeling of actually being where you are imagining yourself to be.

This will cause a momentary falling sensation, often accompanied by a trickle of energy up through your stomach and chest.
This is a very good sign and shows you are successfully exteriorizing your awareness and are exerting a great deal of pressure on your projectable double.

The trickle of energy indicates that the projectable double is being generated.

Once you can imagine yourself as being out of body, you can also imagine yourself flying or instantly projecting to other familiar but remote locations, to other houses or towns.

Imagine yourself floating up into the air and flying around.
Imagine what this would feel like and what the world would look like from way up there in the sky.

Imagine yourself instantly projecting to another place.
Feel this new location, anywhere, appearing around you.

To finish this exercise, see yourself projecting back into your room and watching your physical body as it awaits your return.
Imagine yourself floating up to and reentering it.

As you do this exercise, work on feeling yourself as being away from your physical body, and of seeing your imaginary re-created world as it would be through your projected double's eyes.

This exercise can also trigger the projection reflex.
If this happens during this particular exercise, you may feel projection sensations only remotely, as if from a distance.

You may also feel nothing and just suddenly find yourself in your projected double, at the remote location where you are imagining yourself to be.

Rope Projection Technique
If you have worked through all the core skills and energy-work training units in this book, you will have learned how to use your awareness hands very well.

Now is the time to put into practice all that you have learned, and use your awareness hands to climb out of your body.

The rope technique optimizes the use of mental energy resources and enthusiasm by shortening the time needed to trigger the projection reflex during a projection attempt.

A key ingredient to the rope projection technique is an imaginary rope hanging down from the ceiling.
This rope is used to exert strong and continual pressure at a single point on the projectable double.

The hand-over-hand awareness action of climbing the rope tricks the mind into accepting and holding a point of awareness exterior to the physical body. This stimulates the projection reflex more strongly than any other projection technique I have come across.

The first step is to imagine a large, strong rope hanging down in front of you, just above your chest, in a natural position for you and for the position you are in.

If you are lying down, imagine the rope end hanging over the center of your chest within easy reach of your hands.
If you are sitting, imagine the rope hanging just in front of your face, with the rope end being firmly attached to the ceiling.

The rope is within easy reach of your hands.
Vary the position and angle of this imaginary rope to suit yourself as to what feels most natural.

Center your awareness hands in the middle of your chest.
Reach out with both of them and grasp the rope.

Climb hand over hand strongly up the rope.
Pull the rope to your chest with each climbing hand action.

Feel yourself, in your projectable double, moving up the rope as you climb it.
Stay aware of your physical body remaining behind as you climb out of it.

Concentrate on the climbing action, but don't let your physical body respond or tense.
Breathe naturally and do not hold your breath or allow it to become ragged.

Hold your mind clear and focused solely on climbing the rope.

Try to develop a powerful, natural, two-handed climbing action, just as you would if you were actually climbing a rope in real life.
One hand reaches out while the other hand holds on.

Both hands work together at all times.
As one hand pulls on the rope, the other hand should be reaching out to grip the rope above it, ready for the next pull on the rope.

Try not to use only one hand at a time.
Using both hands together makes the rope technique easier to do and more effective.

Vary the speed of the climbing action to what feels easiest and most natural for you, but do not climb too slowly.
Just as with a bounce action, increase climbing speed until resistance is felt, then back off to a more comfortable speed.

I find varying my climbing speed from about a half a second to one second for each completed hand action (reaching out and pulling rope in with each hand) is best for me.

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Fig. 25.

Rope technique


Feel your awareness hands as very strong and feel yourself climbing effortlessly and powerfully up the rope.
Try to feel your projected double, your body, moving upward as you climb the rope.

It is the exterior awareness of the climbing action that makes this technique work.
The climbing action also provides a natural upward and outward movement away from the physical body.

Some people may have difficulty bringing awareness hands all the way back to their chest with every pull on the rope.
Some may find that one or both of their awareness hands do not obey orders.

If this is the case, just do the very best you can to keep your hands moving and climbing and scrambling up the rope in any way you can.
Ways of getting around many common rope-climbing problems, plus alternative projection techniques, are given in coming chapters.

Many people have found it helpful to pin or tape a length of ribbon or string to the ceiling above their beds or chairs, hanging within easy arm's reach. Touch this occasionally until you get used to its position in your mind.

The position and feel of the rope will grow in your awareness memory, making it easier to imagine yourself reaching out and climbing it with your awareness hands.

Position your rope aid at the most natural and easy to imagine position for you.
(This aid has one added bonus, if you are an animal lover - cats absolutely love it!)

Rope Pressure Symptoms
The first sign that the rope technique is working is a peculiar dizzy feeling, a localized energy-movement type of trickling vertigo in the pit of the stomach and in the chest.

If you feel this sensation, the rope technique is exerting good pressure on your projectable double.
Keep climbing and you will trigger the projection reflex - as long as you stay physically relaxed enough to allow the generation of the projectable double.

As an experiment, try this short exercise now: close your eyes and take a few deep breaths to settle yourself, nothing more.
Feel yourself reaching out and climbing strongly hand over hand up an imaginary rope for twenty seconds or so.

Concentrate and really feel your awareness hands doing the climbing action as you do this.
Use your memory and imagination to re-create the actual feeling of what it would be like to actually do this.

You should feel something happening fairly quickly: a slight, localized dizzy sensation or trickle of energy in your stomach and chest.
This is similar to the feeling you get when an elevator you are in suddenly starts moving downward.

This slight vertigo and trickle of energy are symptoms your projectable body is coming under pressure from the exteriorized rope-climbing awareness action being used.

When your body and mind are deeply relaxed and you are fully prepared for projection, the pressure caused by this action will be greatly increased and have a far greater effect.

First Rope Projection - Experience
For interest's sake, here is an account of my very first rope experience:

I lay down on my bed in the early evening, just after sundown, thinking about the new rope technique I had been working on.
I had been asked to develop a projection technique that blind people could use, specifically for people who had been blind from birth.

I used the sense of touch as the foundation for the new technique, as touch and tactile perceptions are highly developed in blind people.

I had, theoretically, discovered a new way of using this sense - tactile imaging, I'd called it - to exert enough pressure on the projectable double to trigger the projection reflex.

It was just a working idea at this time; the next step was to road-test the technique myself to see if it could be made to work.
The theory was sound and the technique should work, but was it practical?

I did not do any relaxation, trance, or energetic stimulation work.
I just wanted to see if the new rope technique would exert any noticeable pressure on my projectable double.

I lay there for several minutes, mulling all this over in my mind while I relaxed and settled myself, ready for a short nap.
Then I thought "what the heck", and decided to try the new rope technique out in earnest.

The enthusiasm of discovery flared within me and I formed a very strong intention to project and give this new technique my very best shot.

I reached out with my awareness hands and re-created in my awareness what a strong rope would feel like in my hands.
I did not bother with fine details, just the bare-bones feel of holding on to something like an imaginary rope.

That done, I began climbing the rope hand over hand in earnest.
I immediately felt a strong sensation of vertigo in my stomach and chest.

I also felt a bone-deep, tickling, dizzy type of sensation deep inside my body, most noticeably in my arms and legs.
I cleared the excitement from my mind and focused all my attention on the rope-climbing action.

It really seemed to be working!

As I climbed, I felt a kind of energetic pressure building up inside me.
I felt my body grow suddenly very heavy as I quickly slid into a solid level of trance.

This was all happening way, way faster than usual.
My head and chest were already starting to lift free, trying to go up the rope and follow the line of pressure I was exerting.

I had never before experienced an exit quite like it!

I kept climbing and my heart center began throbbing and vibrations started coursing throughout my body.
I was simply amazed!

I had been climbing rope for less than a minute!
I kept climbing strongly and, quite suddenly, the projection reflex kicked in and my real-time double buzzed free, coming to rest floating near the foot of my bed.

This had all happened so fast, I barely had time to register the changes in my body as I projected!
The heaviness of entering trance, the heart center thrumming and then racing, the full-body vibrations, the exit, it all happened so quickly!

I returned to my body soon after the exit and excitedly recorded the experience.
This was definitely the easiest, fastest, and smoothest exit I had ever made.

I tried the rope technique several times, that night and the next morning, and had no trouble leaving my body each time.
It wasn't so much that the idea of climbing a rope as a projection technique was new - it's not.

But the deliberate use of body awareness and the application of tactile imaging was something new.

It was understanding how this worked that made it so important to me at the time.

Projection Sequence
It is not advisable to have only one projection sequence.
Everybody has different levels of experience and natural ability.

Circumstances also change; what helps one day may hinder the next.
For this reason, I give three flexible rope sequences and suggest that these be alternated to suit the time a projection attempt is being made.

For example, you might wake up early in the morning (the very best time for easy projection) and want to go straight to the rope technique.

At other times, more work may be required to put yourself into a relaxed and projectable state.

Full Sequence
The time spent on each part of this sequence should be varied to suit ability, experience, and circumstances.
Do not spend too long on each part if falling asleep is a potential problem.

At least several minutes, however, should be spent on the deep physical relaxation part at the start - longer for beginners.
I cannot overemphasize the importance of deep physical relaxation to the projection process.

If you have never had a conscious-exit projection before, but have made several unsuccessful attempts, I recommend spending thirty minutes or more on deep physical relaxation.

The secondary and primary energy work recommended in this procedure is an enormous help to novice projectors, especially those who have not yet made a conscious exit.

Its practice makes projection much more achievable.
The primary-center work can be dropped by more experienced projectors, if desired, but projection experiences will then tend to be weaker.

With projection, energy is everything!

Do the full deep physical relaxation exercise - ten minutes minimum.
Pre-stimulate hands and feet and use the full-body circuit for a few minutes.

Clear your surface mind and induce a light- to full-trance state.
Raise energy and stimulate each primary energy center (don't overdo this).

Return to raising energy with primary and secondary circuits as needed during the attempt.
Loosen the projectable double with an exterior bounce technique (optional).

Use the rope (or an alternative) projection technique and go for the exit!

Quick Sequence
The quick sequence is handy if you feel you have the energy to project but don't have the time or mental energy to go through the full sequence.
Pre-stimulate hands and feet and use a full-body circuit for a few minutes.

Run through the deep relaxation procedure only once.
Induce a light-trance state only.

Use the rope (or an alternative) projection technique and try for the exit!

Instant Projection
Instant projection is best used when you awaken in a deeply relaxed state, when vibrations are being felt, or when everything feels just right and you know you have a good chance of projecting.

A good time for an instant projection attempt is when you have partially wakened in the middle of a nap, during the night, or in the morning, and are thus already deeply relaxed.

Hold on to that deeply relaxed state, form a firm intention to project, and start using a projection technique.

Whenever you feel vibrations - partial or whole body - immediately use your projection technique and try for the exit, no matter what you are doing or at what stage of your projection sequence you are.

Whenever vibrations occur, especially whole-body vibrations, it is possible to project quickly and easily.
All you need to do is make a firm decision to project, then use your projection technique.

Put everything you have into this and you should get out of body very quickly.

Remember to keep the projection experience ultrashort!

Motivation
The most important ingredients for any successful projection are enthusiasm and motivation.

Without these, there will not be enough mental energy to succeed; you will either fail the exit or give up and fall asleep.
It is thus very important to keep the preparation time for any projection attempt as short as possible, so it is not lengthy and mentally exhausting.

One thing a new projector has in abundance is enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is pure mental energy.

One thing that stands way out from all the success stories I have received is the word resolution.

Resolution + Action = OBE Success.

A great many people have e-mailed me over the years with projection success stories.
In every case, they have been practicing the rope technique when they have suddenly decided to really do it!

They have put everything into their exit attempt and in the majority of cases have succeeded in having their first major conscious-exit projection, often on their very first attempt.

This type of resolution can make that all-important difference.
Make a firm decision, be brave and resolute, and just... do it!

This will focus all your mental energy into a single, powerful, one-pointed effort, for a single purpose: to project out of your body!

Tips and Summary Notes on the Rope Technique
The feelings of localized dizziness, pressure, and energy movement caused by the rope technique should be carefully noted.

Adjust your rope-climbing action with this in mind so it can be fine-tuned to have the maximum effect.
If you have trouble with any part of the rope method, find the related training exercises and problem-solving sections in this book and review or practice them until you overcome the problem.

Concentrate on maintaining a calm inner balance at all times during a projection attempt.
Focus on climbing rope to the exclusion of everything else.

Put everything you have into the climbing action and tune everything else out.
Do not analyze or think about what you are doing!

Watch your breathing and do not hold it or allow it to become shallow or ragged.
Do nothing but climb the rope until you get out of your body.

When the vibrations start, they may be localized to just one part of your body.
If you focus your awareness on these vibrations, you will find you can move them, and may often be able to intensify and spread them with your awareness hands.

The vibrations will respond to and follow body-awareness actions.
I do not advise this during a projection attempt, however, as this will draw your attention away from the rope-climbing action.

Stay relaxed and concentrate on your projection technique and the vibrations will spread naturally.
They can be especially strong during early attempts - be ready for a huge buzz when they hit.

Be ready for the racing-heartbeat sensation.
This is a major event.

It can be incredibly strong during early projection attempts, terrifying many people into aborting their long-sought-after first exit.
Totally ignore this.

It will not hurt you in any way.
The heart center races to provide energy for the projecting double.

It is not the actual physical heart that's racing.
Also ignore sensations like head and brow pressure, no matter how strong or uncomfortable.

The sooner you get out of your body, the sooner they stop.

Ignore any noises or voices you hear before or during a projection attempt - no matter how real or loud they may appear to be.
These are a type of auditory hallucination with no real substance.

(Skarekrow - IMHO the sounds are not hallucinations but rather a moment where you are able to hear the jumble of unfiltered collective consciousness, possibly even hearing the voice of your unconscious mind as a true auditory-sounding voice or noise...maybe both...I DO think that for just a second you are hearing reality on a massive scale and it can be loud and frightening, breaking concentration very easily until you get used to it. Google: Exploding head syndrome)

If you feel anything touching you or tugging at you, or even hands grabbing at you, ignore them.
These are a type of tactile hallucination.

None of these hallucinations can hurt you, but they can distract you - can break your nerve and focus - and lessen your chances for a successful projection, if you react to them.

Keep all early successful projections ultrashort.
Ten seconds out then jump straight back into your body.

Please trust me on this!
Your chances of recalling that projection will then be dramatically increased.

A ten-second projection remembered is worth a thousand all-nighters forgotten!

In many cases, just when the projection reflex is about to kick in, you might feel a sudden energetic surge rising through your stomach and chest area. This feels like a huge body rush of excitement.

This sensation marks the moment of separation between the physical/etheric body and its projecting double.
The projection reflex has been triggered and you are teetering right on the verge of the exit.

You may or may not have experienced vibrations before or after this moment.
Stay calm and try not to react to this sensation when it hits.

If not handled carefully, this will throw you completely out of trance and back into the full waking state.

If the above happens and everything just stops cold, leaving you groggy and tired, or maybe even partially or fully paralyzed, it is a pretty safe bet you have already projected.

You have missed the exit due to the mind-split effect.
Stay calm and keep your mind awake and clear; wait for your projected double to reenter.

Return to the secondary full-body circuit at this time.
Use this to keep your mind clear and occupied and awake until your projected double returns.

The wisdom of keeping early projections ultrashort will now be demonstrated to you - if your projected double pays heed.

If you feel vibrations but they just go away, and you find yourself groggy or paralyzed, again, chances are you have already projected and have missed the exit due to the mind-split effect.

It then becomes a matter of trying to stay semiconscious until your projected double returns.
It should not keep you waiting for too long, not if you kept the projection ultrashort.

Be patient and try to recapture the projection during reintegration by keeping your mind clear.
Full memories of the projection experience will flood into your mind during reintegration, if everything goes according to plan.

Keep in mind that in some cases it is possible to find yourself buzzing out of body, or flying up a tube-type structure, with only very mild exit sensations being present, if any.

In the majority of early projections, though, these sensations will be present and they will be major, so always be prepared for them.

Some people have problems with the rope technique because they cannot stop visualizing the rope in their mind's eye.

Some say they find themselves bumping up against the ceiling and cannot go any farther.
Some feel a great pile of rope building up beneath them.

The solution to any problem like this is simple: if visualization is causing a problem, then use visualization to create a solution.
For example, imagine that a small hole beneath you is swallowing up the used rope.

Or, imagine you are climbing through the ceiling and up into the sky instead of hitting the ceiling.

Technique Variations

This chapter offers solutions to some common projection-related problems.
It also offers rope technique modifications and alternative projection techniques that may suit some people better.

I also find it helps new projectors if they try several different projection techniques during each projection attempt.

This not only provides a much-needed variety of exercise for awareness hands actions, but helps prevent boredom.
Using the same projection technique for long periods of time can become a trifle monotonous and may cause some projectors to lose interest or fall asleep.

Also, the relaxation, trance, and energy work exercises can be done separately from an actual projection attempt.

Go through the full sequence right up to the projection technique, then get up and take a short break to relax or refresh yourself.
During this break, try to hold on to as much of the deeply relaxed physical and mental state as you can.

Return to your bed or chair and spend a few minutes resettling and re-relaxing yourself, both physically and mentally.
Once you are settled and ready, use the quick or instant projection method.

If climbing the rope has a strong effect on you, the rope technique can be used on its own as a viable alternative to other trance-induction techniques.

This can speed up the preparatory work required for a projection attempt.

Variations on the Rope Technique
  • One-Handed Rope: If one awareness hand does not appear to obey or feels weak or uncontrollable, the rope technique can be done with one hand only, using the hand that is most responsive. If you can manage it, have the weaker hand just hold on to the rope (as if the rope were slipping through the grip of the weaker hand), while the stronger hand does the real climbing. Feel the strong hand reaching out and pulling the rope toward your chest, then reaching out and pulling again, in a continual one-handed climbing action. Try reaching out much farther than your physical arms could.

    Imagine that your awareness arms are made of rubber and feel they are stretching way out as you climb up the rope.
  • Chasm-Crossing Rope: Instead of a rope hanging down from above, imagine a strong, taut rope running across the ceiling of your room, in line with your body and just above it, within easy reach of your hands. This rope is firmly attached to strong brackets mounted on two opposing walls of your room. Feel your hands reaching out and feel yourself climbing along this rope, dragging yourself across the room toward the wall behind your head and out of your body. If you have a wall behind your bed and this puts you off, either change ends in the bed during projection attempts or imagine you are climbing through the wall.
  • Hanging Rope: Another way to get around weak or uncontrollable awareness hand actions is to reach out and feel they are hanging on to a strong rope coming from above. Don't try to climb this rope; just feel yourself hanging on to it. When you get used to this, imagine you are being slowly winched upward by a helicopter, dragging you up and out of your body. Feel yourself being lifted and sliding out of your body, moving higher and higher. Feel yourself slowly leaving your body behind you. Feel your spatial coordinates in the room changing as you rise up and out of your physical body and through the ceiling.
  • Water Ski Rope: Instead of a rope hanging from the ceiling, imagine you are holding the handle of a ski rope attached to a powerful speedboat in front of you. Feel yourself hanging on tightly to the handle of the ski rope, as if you were floating on your back, ready for a deep-water start. Adjust the angle of the ski rope to whatever feels most natural. Imagine you can hear the engine revving up, the excitement building, then suddenly the boat takes off and drags you out of your body in a flurry of astral spray.
  • Rope Cargo Net: Imagine that you have a large rope cargo net hanging down in front of you, similar to the heavy rope netting used on military assault courses that is hung from poles to make a short, high rope fence that trainees have to climb. If sitting, imagine this heavy rope netting hanging in front of you within easy hands' reach. If lying down, imagine the net hanging from above you.

    Climb the rope netting in the same manner as described for the normal rope technique. With this method, it does not matter where your hands go, as they will always find a piece of rope to grab. Scramble up this net any which way you can, using hands and arms and legs and feet in any way that works to propel you upward and out of your body.

    This technique solves many awareness hands control problems, where they appear to have a mind of their own and flop and slide all over the place.

Alternative Exercises and Techniques
  • Washing Hands Exercise: Hold both awareness hands out in front and perform a washing action, as if washing your real hands and forearms with soap and water. Vary the speed of the washing action from slow to rapid and keep it at arm's length from your body.
  • Steam Engine Exercise: Hold both awareness arms out in front of you. Imagine a circle whose diameter is the distance between your chest and hands. Circle your awareness hands around each other, following the outside diameter of this circle (something like the hand and arm actions if you were playing at being a steam engine).
After a short time, the action will settle into a rhythm.
Now, here comes the difficult part: after doing it for twenty seconds or more, stop and reverse the action.

The awareness action momentum will force this circling to continue in its original direction, making it difficult to stop or change it.
If you concentrate, you will find this can be achieved with effort.

Don't worry if you fail to do this the first few times you try.

Keep at it and you'll succeed.
The difficulty of this exercise shows its training value.

If you practice this regularly you will quickly gain better control and strength with all awareness hand and arm actions.
This benefits all stimulation and energy-raising actions, including those used with projection techniques.

This exercise can also trigger the projection reflex on its own.

Look on this as a muscle-building workout for your awareness arms and hands.
  • Big Wheel Method: An extension of the above method is to imagine yourself holding a large bicycle wheel upright in front of you. This wheel should fill the room, with its center hanging in space in the middle of the room between your physical body and the farthest point of the wheel from it.
Prepare for projection.

Feel a single point of awareness moving out from your body, from your head area, and flying upward and away from you.
Push this point of awareness up and over the top part of the circumference of the big wheel, moving it all the way over and down and around and back to your body.

Feel this point of awareness moving up through your body, through your base center and up through all other primary energy centers until it moves out through your head.

Feel this point of awareness as being heavy and solid.
Move your point of awareness around and around this big wheel until you build up a steady rhythm.

As with all bounce-type actions, vary this speed until you find the most natural speed for it.
Feel the heavy point of awareness tearing upward through your body each time.

You will notice as it passes through your body that this action slows, then speeds up again as it moves away from you each time.
This momentary drag is caused by the awareness resistance factor that is encountered with any awareness bounce action through the body.

It shows that this action is stimulating your etheric body as it passes through it.

This method is quite powerful and will easily trigger the projection reflex if you can hold it reasonably steady for long enough.
It does not matter if your point of awareness wavers or wiggles a bit from side to side as it circles the big wheel, as long as you keep it roughly under control and circling.

Keeping it steady can take a bit of effort, but as with the above steam engine exercise, it is also invaluable for training the will to control exterior body-awareness actions.
  • Ladder Method: A good alternative to using a rope is to imagine a strong ladder hanging from the ceiling. The lowest rung of this ladder should be within easy reach of your hands, or whatever feels most natural. Climb this ladder hand over hand, feeling yourself moving up the ladder toward the ceiling. Feel the room changing around you and your spatial coordinates changing as you climb. Feel yourself moving higher and higher up the endless ladder. If you imagine yourself reaching the ceiling, feel yourself climbing through it and beyond as if the ladder were infinite in length.
  • Point Shift Method: Point shift is the most direct and powerful projection technique of all, although it can be somewhat difficult to learn. It requires a great deal of concentrated mental effort, in that projectors must hold their whole-of-body awareness image exterior from their physical body for some time in order to trigger the projection reflex. This is the technique I first learned and used for most of my early conscious-exit projections. Its difficulty accounted for many of the projection-related problems I had at that time. Despite this, it is extremely effective when mastered. It is well worth the effort of learning it; some people will find they'll take to it like a duck to water.
I currently use a combination of rope and point shift for most of my projections.

I start by using point shift, then when I am partly out, I include rope.
I generally switch back and forth between these techniques many times during an exit.

I find alternating techniques like this makes the exit easier and quicker.
If I am projecting from a bed, I also use the rolling-out method (described later) to finish off the exit.

First prepare yourself for a projection attempt in the usual way: Go through the relaxation, trance-induction, and energy-stimulation techniques, as per the full-, quick-, or instant-projection sequences - whatever is required.

Feel and become aware of your whole body.
Feel your body's spatial coordinates in relation to the room around you.

Run your mind over where the doors, walls, windows, and furniture are in your room.
Build a spatial map of this with your imagination, in your mind's eye, in your perception of yourself and the room around you.

Using imagination powered by whole-body awareness, feel yourself rising or stepping out of your body, then floating or standing just out of arm's reach from your physical body.

If you are lying in bed, feel yourself as floating at arm's reach above your physical body, staying in line with it and facing the ceiling.
If you are using a chair, feel yourself as standing three feet (one meter) away from your physical body.

Imagine, feel, and perceive as strongly as you can what it would feel like to actually be out there in front of your physical body.

Hold your whole-body awareness firmly centered in your imagined exterior body in its new location.
Do not try to see or feel your double as being above or in front of you; feel yourself as being above or in front of your physical body, from your projected double's perspective.

This is tricky but will get easier with practice.
Concentrate on sensing the changed spatial coordinates of the room around you from this new perspective.

Feel and be aware of your physical body waiting behind or beneath you.
Imagine and feel your projected double as already having separated from your physical body.

Concentrate on holding your point of whole-body awareness inside your imagined projected double in its new location.

Feel the pressure of your physical body trying to pull you back into it.
Feel yourself fighting this pressure.

Concentrate and use your strength of will to force your projected double to strain and fight against this pressure.
Fill your mind with the single-minded, determined intention to project free of your physical body.

Use maximum willpower, but do not allow your physical body to tense or respond in any way.

If you are projecting from a bed, mentally grit your teeth (without tensing) and feel yourself slowly but forcefully rising away from your physical body.
Force yourself to rise an inch at a time.

Roll your projected double's shoulders one after the other and try to shoulder yourself higher and farther away from your physical body a bit at a time.
Try to feel yourself rolling away toward the center of the room if that helps.

If projecting from a chair, mentally grit your teeth (without tensing) and take one small but forceful step at a time away from your physical body.
Step away an inch at a time, struggling against the force binding you to it.

Feel this force steadily weakening in response to your efforts!
Feel your imagined projected double's shoulders hunching and heaving and your head straining forward as you slowly but steadily tear through the force binding you to your physical body.

Hold the above actions strongly enough and they will trigger the projection reflex very quickly.
Do not allow your physical body to tense up while doing any of the above - this is the real trick to point shift.

These are all imaginative body-awareness actions.
  • Steam Method: Prepare for a projection attempt as normal. When you are ready, become aware of your whole body and of where it is in relation to the room around you, as in the above point shift technique. Imagine yourself becoming lighter and lighter, as if your body were turning into steam. Steam expands and rises. Feel yourself becoming bigger and lighter and, slowly but gently, rising up and out of your physical body.

    Feel your perception of the room changing as you rise higher. Stay aware of where your physical body is beneath you as you float free. Feel your whole-of-body awareness centered firmly inside your steam body and feel this as being just above your physical body and slowly floating free of it. Do not hold your steam body rigid. Encourage it to gently bob and sway about wherever it wants. This slight floating movement makes the steam method easier.
  • Rolling-Out Method: Rolling out of body is a popular and reasonably effective projection technique. It makes use of a natural whole-of-body awareness movement - that of rolling over or out of bed - something you have done thousands of times. This method is especially useful if a spontaneous projection has already started, or if you find yourself partially stuck to your body during an exit attempt.

    When used as a main projection technique however, it leaves a lot to be desired, as it can be difficult to cause a projection with this method from scratch. I consider this method best suited to assisting with difficult projections or for finishing off projections.
Feel yourself rolling to the side, as if you were rolling over and out of bed.
Repeat this action as many times as necessary.

Get a whole-of-body awareness feeling into the body roll as if you were really doing it.
Do not allow your physical body to tense or respond to this action in any way.

Alternatively, if using a chair, feel the rolling action as if you were curling up and rolling out of your chair.
Feel your perspective of the room changing around you as you roll.

This technique is definitely worth a shot as a main projection technique if other methods have failed you.

I find the rolling-out action also helps during difficult projections, say if I find myself glued to a part of my body, as occasionally happens if I have not prepared myself correctly.
  • Rocket Method: Prepare for a projection attempt. When you are ready, imagine you are lying flat on the tip of a very large rocket. The bulk of the huge rocket is hidden deep inside a subterranean tube beneath you. Your bed or chair is firmly attached to the tip of this rocket and enclosed by an impenetrable glass nose cone. The ceiling and walls slowly fall away, disappearing all around you to reveal the stars.

    Feel the rocket rumble and tremble beneath you as its enormous engines fire and it slowly lifts off, taking you with it. Feel and imagine yourself slowly rising toward the stars with the great engines thundering beneath you. Feel the rocket's vibrations coursing through you and feel yourself rising out of your body and room and toward the stars. Stay aware of your physical body remaining where it is as you rise.

    Feel these vibrations increasing and spreading and coursing through your whole body, as the rocket blasts off and roars into the star-filled night.
  • Boomerang Method: This technique uses a one-pointed bounce action from the brow center. It neatly overcomes the difficulties encountered when holding a point of body awareness exterior to the physical body, by using an awareness bounce action. This causes you to feel and see a brief flash of a new spatial location in your mind's eye at the end of each outward bounce action. This tricks your mind into accepting a momentary shift of a point of awareness to an exterior location.
First, pick a target on the ceiling above your bed, or high on the wall opposite you if using a chair.

This can be a light fixture or picture (anything) or you can affix a small paper target there instead.
Stand on your bed, or stand on a chair (be careful not to fall!) and get the feel of what it's like to be right up close to this target.

Lock the image of this target in your mind's eye.
Get the feel of how the furniture, windows, doors, and bed all look and feel like from there while you are facing the target.

Memorize what it feels like to be at the target area.

Lie down or sit and prepare yourself for a projection attempt.
Spend a little extra time stimulating your brow center, using the extra brow center stimulation method given earlier.

Hold your point of awareness firmly in your brow center, in your mind's eye.
Bounce your point of awareness away and feel it touch the target, then rebound it back to your brow center in your physical body.

Try to see this happening in your imagination, in your mind's eye.

As you bounce outward and your point of awareness touches the target, for that single moment, briefly become aware of being at that location, as if your face were right up next to and facing the target.

Feel this with your awareness and see it in your imagination, in your mind's eye.
The details of this action do not have to be precise: A vague blurring feeling, the room changing and feeling yourself bouncing off the target, being there, with this perspective being momentarily highlighted in your mind's eye, is all that is required.

As you rebound your point of awareness back to your physical body, feel your perception of the room suddenly change back to your brow center.
Briefly try to see in your mind's eye your target across the room, as from the perspective of your physical body, from within your brow center and mind's eye.

Once under way, this action causes a blurring in the mind's eye, with the target being seen and felt briefly from two different perspectives, from the physical body's brow and then from up close to the target, alternately.

It is not necessary to keep close track of what happens between these points in the mind's eye.
Feeling this change in your awareness and seeing it in your mind's eye is enough.

Each bounce, in or out, should take about one second each way, but this speed should be varied to suit what feels natural to you.

Repeat this process, continually bouncing back and forth between your brow center and your target, until the projection reflex is triggered.

If you feel close to projection during this but it does not actually happen, change to another technique like rope or rolling out, to finish the exit.
  • Driving Method: If you have ever been on a long drive, or spent a long time on a computer driving game, you may have noticed that later a shadowy but animated image of your long drive will be impressed into your mind's eye. This imagery will be much clearer if you are overtired as well.

    When you close your eyes and relax, the view you had, of that long road, and the scenery on either side unwinding toward you, continues to play in your mind's eye for some time. This often lasts for an hour or more if you have spent several hours driving. This effect can be used to trigger the projection reflex.
All you have to do is relax and let this scenario play itself in your mind's eye while you deeply relax and allow your sense of body awareness to move along the road toward the horizon.

Use the scenery to hold your mind clear of thoughts, aided by breath awareness if necessary.
See the road and trees and buildings moving toward you and feel yourself moving toward them as the scene unwinds.

In the back of your mind, feel your physical body being left behind as you drive toward the horizon and away from your body.
If you can feel this forward awareness movement strongly enough, it can trigger the projection reflex fairly quickly.
  • Two-Person Remote-Eye Projection Method: It is possible for a type of projection to occur while the physical body and mind are still partially awake (see chapter 5). To re-create a remote-eye projection under controlled circumstances requires some preparation and dedication. You must allow yourself to become extremely overtired, by missing a night's sleep, or by staying up very late until the wee hours of the morning, then waking your controller for the projection attempt.

    What is needed is not a normal level of tiredness, but a deeply relaxed state, both mental and physical, caused by overtiredness, the kind of tiredness that can make you literally fall asleep on your feet. Coffee and other stimulants should be avoided during the preparations for this experiment.
When you are tired enough, lie or sit down in a comfortable position.
You must not be disturbed by anything other than your controller.

For that reason, this experiment is best done fairly late at night - with the telephone off the hook.
The other person, the controller, must talk to you and keep you just awake, but they must not overdo this or break your delicate mental state.

The controller must also monitor you for REM (rapid eye movement) activity.
The REM state is an important sign, because it indicates that you are entering the dream state while still awake.

The REM state is easily detected by a continual flickering motion disturbing the eyelids.
You must be gently kept awake and reasonably coherent throughout the entire experiment.

The controller should gently wake you if you fall asleep, by talking to you and rubbing your arm, or even by lightly shaking you awake.

You can aid this process by deliberately stimulating your brow center before and during this process.

This same thing also happens if you force your tired eyes to stay open for part of the time, but your eyes must also be allowed to regularly close.
If everything goes to plan, you should soon begin seeing things behind your closed eyes: patterns of light, colors, images, pictures, and scenarios.

These will be hypnagogic images, lucid dreams, or clairvoyant visions, or a mixture of these.
You must try to describe everything you see so that the controller knows what is happening.

At some point, a part of you will project out of your body, and you will be able to give a running commentary of a projection as it happens.
The mind-split will occur at the moment of separation, and your mental coherence will tend to weaken from this point.

The controller must work on keeping you just awake and coherent enough to talk, but not so awake that your delicate relaxed state is altered.

Perspective will often flicker back and forth between your projected and physical bodies, and even the dream state may become involved here.
The heavy trance state (caused by deep overtiredness, brow center stimulation, and the partially awake state being forcibly held) can enable you to maintain a fairly stable visual connection with your remotely projected double.

Once you manage to connect with your projected double, you will become aware of seeing through your double's eyes, but will not be aware of actually feeling yourself at that remote location, unless your physical body and mind are allowed to fall too deeply asleep.

I suggest a tape recorder be used and turned on as soon as you begin seeing hypnagogic imagery.

One of the best times to attempt a remote-eye projection is after a lengthy period of lovemaking, when a couple finds them selves deeply relaxed, maybe even exhausted, but still awake enough to be talking together in the early hours of the morning, when everything is quiet and there are no distractions.

This is when spontaneous remote-eye projection is most likely to be experienced.
If both partners lie talking in the near dark, with their eyes gently opening and closing, they can keep each other awake and both try for a remote-eye projection.

The first one to succeed should become the subject, and the other the controller.

Helping Other Projectors Out
While I have heard many rumors to the contrary, I do not believe it is possible to directly assist another person out of body.
I have tried many times and it does not seem to be feasible.

In my opinion, if this is remembered at all by the subject, it will be sense-interpreted as a direct psychic attack, which is extremely unpleasant.

(Skarekrow - If that is true...I wonder if any of my experiences throughout my life were a misinterpretation of what was taking place?
Interesting to consider, and to consider why would there be someone trying to get my attention, who? For what end? Opens all kinds of new questions.)


It is possible, however, to awaken sleeping real-time projectors while they are out of body.
When natural sleep projection occurs, the real-time body drifts out of its physical body and hovers just above it, often mimicking its sleeping position.

The real-time projectors in this state are asleep, just as their physical bodies and minds are.
A helpful conscious projector can then try to help by gently waking the person from real-time-zone sleep.

Sleepers who can be made to focus and realize they are projecting could then interact with or become a travel partner for the conscious projector.

Whether awakened projectors remember their experience or not after the event will remain to be seen.
All the factors that make projection difficult to remember are still there, and still need to be overcome by awakened projectors.

Without the skills necessary to project under their own steam, remembering an experience like this will be a difficult proposition at best.

The best chance for success would be if the awakening comes before the sleeping projector has fallen into a deep sleep.
The original projector can then instruct the other on how to maximize chances of remembering that projection.

But this is still a very hit-and-miss thing.
I have tried this many times with sleeping real-time projectors and, while I have managed to awaken and travel with quite a few, none so far have remembered it after the fact.

As a side note, over the years many people have reported feeling hands dragging them out of their bodies, or touching them in some way during spontaneous projection exits.

I suspect these people were already at least partially out of body at this time, hovering close to their sleeping physical bodies without realizing they were already out.

The hands they felt may have originated from overzealous friends or even from helpful spirit beings; it's very hard to say for sure.
This may also be a tactile hallucination generated by the projector's own subconscious mind, which I think is the most likely scenario.

If anything like this happens during a projection (and this is quite rare, I might add), I suggest that you clear your mind of fear and go on with your projection regardless.

Conscious-exit projections are way, way too precious to waste, especially in the early days while you are still learning to get out and about.
You must not allow yourself to be fooled or tricked into aborting successful projections for any reason.

As with all common astral noises and voices, once out of body nothing will ever be found that might have caused the original worrying sensations or problems.

Look upon this type of event - as worrying as it may be at the time - as a true test of bravery.

If you don't like what you find when you get out, you can always turn around and dive straight back into your physical body.
This is not only the fastest and easiest way to abort a projection, but it also gives you firsthand experience with the conscious exit and reentry, which is invaluable.

It also helps to keep firmly in mind during the exit - spontaneous or deliberate - that nothing can truly hurt a projected double.
The original copy of mind and all memories are always safely tucked away inside the physical/etheric body, which cannot be destroyed and is not vulnerable to interference or possession merely because it is projecting.

In my opinion, the physical/etheric body is far more protected during an OBE than in the awake or normal sleep state.

There is really nothing to fear but fear itself.

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Calling and Meeting Other Projectors

Many people have asked me how to project to, or meet, other people or projectors.
I have found the most reliable way is to call the target person just before the exit.

When you are in the trance state and/or close to the exit, imagine your target person.

Everyone has a distinct essence of personality.
This feeling can be used to tune in to and locate other people.

Hold the image of your target firmly in mind and call his or her name several times, voicing this strongly in your mind.
If the target person is asleep or out of body, he or she will usually hear and appear just before the exit, or be waiting close by when you finish getting out of your body.

He or she will often reply audibly.

( @Wyote - Gonna have to try this with you...muhahahaha...seriously though, I’m gonna. ;) )

This is not an actual voice, although it sounds real, but is a telepathic transmission that is heard with a kind of clairaudience, or astral hearing.
If you have real-time or astral vision at this time, you may also see him or her in the room waiting for you, usually a little perplexed about why he or she is there, often not realizing he or she is out of body.

If this fails, repeat the above process after the exit out of body.
First, move at least twenty feet (six meters) away from your physical body, then call out to the target person aloud.

Another way to target people is to tune in and project to them using the instantaneous-travel method.
Simply tune in to them and feel yourself moving toward them.

This will cause you to shift to where the target persons are.

None of these methods will be truly successful if you do not know the target person fairly well.
Do not expect to be able to project to famous personages or to people you do not know well.

On that note, it is also extremely difficult to project to people you do not like, or who do not like you.
A certain level of harmony is required to make an astral connection and rendezvous.

The target does not have to be living, but projecting to a deceased person's spirit is far more difficult than might be expected.
If a spirit person is targeted, you may find yourself shifting to an astral level, usually one of the spirit worlds, where you can interact with your target.

Your energetic makeup, development, and projection skills will have a lot to do with whether or not you are successful.

Alarm Clock Aid
Many people find it easier to project if they set their alarm clock an hour or two before their normal waking time, then attempt a projection.

The physical body is already deeply relaxed and heavy with sleep - trance state - making projection much easier.
(If you have to get up for work at a set time in the morning, I suggest using two alarm clocks to avoid oversleeping, one for projection and one for work.)

Another use for an alarm clock is to use the snooze button for short projections.
This is also a handy way to get around some mind-split effects by limiting the time of a projection.

Set your snooze button to gently wake you at ten- or fifteen-minute intervals.
When the alarm goes off, hit the snooze button and attempt a quick projection, going straight to your projection technique each time.

Every time the alarm wakes you, hit the snooze button and try to recall a projection, in case one occurred, then repeat the projection attempt.
The longer you do this the more chance you'll have of scoring a hit with a remembered projection fragment.

As soon as you remember something, write it down.

It helps if you have the alarm clock, pen, and notebook within easy reach, so you will not have to disturb your relaxed state too much while using them.

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Second half...


Projection Exit Problems

The problems besetting new projectors are many and varied.

With any recurring OBE exit problem, it is important to isolate the cause and take remedial steps sooner than later, or interest may flag and the goal of wake-induced OBE never be realized.

Taking prompt action also avoids the possibility of becoming negatively conditioned by a problem, making the exit more difficult than it should be.

Out of the thousands of projection exit problems I have advised on over the years, it is clear that several main problem areas exist.
The following sections offer some advice on overcoming these.

Climbing Problems
Some people find they have difficulty using awareness hands climbing actions.
Usually, one awareness hand will seem weaker and less controllable than the other, and will continually slip away from the rope or ladder, which makes everything more difficult.

This problem may also affect stimulation and energy-raising actions.
Persevering with awareness hands and energy-raising actions will progressively help overcome this type of problem.

The more often awareness hands are used, the stronger and surer they become.
Alternatively, some projection methods given here require no complex awareness hands actions.

Find what works best for you and what has the strongest effect on your projectable double.
Stick to what works and build on it.

Using a combination of techniques that do not require awareness hands actions is probably the best way to overcome climbing problems.

Torso Energy Surge
The torso surge is not unpleasant.
It is much like the surge of emotional energy and excitement you'd get if you suddenly won a million dollars.

But it can be very distracting.
Just as the projection reflex begins to kick in, a strong falling sensation combined with an energetic body rush surges upward through the stomach and chest area.

The strong energy-movement sensations caused by the torso surge appear to come mainly from the lower primary energy centers.

My theory is that the moment the projection reflex is triggered, some primary energy centers strobe powerfully, temporarily creating a delicate network of new energetic connections throughout the physical/etheric body.

This new network creates the energetic conditions that allow projection to occur.
Energy flares throughout this new network as the projection mechanism internally generates the projectable double, before its expulsion out of the physical/etheric body.

The torso surge is not to be confused with the racing-heart sensation or the vibrations that are also commonly experienced during the exit, although these appear to be energetically related.

The torso surge is an extremely visceral sensation and can be very difficult to overcome.
It is felt within the physical body as if it were a physical sensation.

It causes an immediate tension response within the physical body that causes a breach of relaxation and trance discipline, and hence projection failure.

Expect this sensation to hit right on the verge of the exit.
Stay calm and do not allow yourself to react to it.

The physical reaction can be controlled, as long as it is not too strong.
This sensation is a perfectly normal part of the projection process, and will not hurt you.

The surge is far stronger during early projections, and progressively eases the more often you attempt conscious-exit projection.

A side effect of projection attempts, even failed ones, is to cause widespread energetic development, as well as development of the projection mechanism.

If the energetic surge is too strong to ignore, and leaves you gasping and wide awake every time, spend more time raising and working with energy during regular training sessions.

This work is best done separate from actual projection attempts.

If the problem continues, it would also be worthwhile to familiarize your body with a similar sensation.
Seek out a highspeed elevator and spend some time in it, getting used to the sudden falling sensation every time it starts down.

Close your eyes and relax while doing this and allow the sudden movement to catch you by surprise.
Another way would be to spend some time on amusement park rides, especially roller coasters.

For the more adventurous, skydiving, high diving, bungie jumping, or water slides may help.
The physical body quickly becomes accustomed to anything it experiences regularly.

The effects of the torso surge will then be lessened as the sudden tension response of the physical body to it will be reduced.

(Skarekrow - I have personally always enjoyed the “torso surge”...maybe this is not what he is talking about, but it’s a pretty good description..I think he is not directing his energy in the right manner *wink wink* )

Cobwebs - Energetic Sensations
Cobwebs are a very common and well-known sensation - a serious problem for some people - associated with trance and energetic development.

This sensation of localized tickling, itching, or stinging is usually felt on the face and neck, varying in intensity from a slight tickling or itching to a more intense stinging sensation on the skin.

The most common place to get cobwebs is on the face, especially around the mouth and nose.
In rarer cases, cobwebs can be experienced in other places and over much larger areas of the physical body.

You can expect to get cobweb sensations at some time or another.
Severe cobweb problems are quite rare, and appear to be symptoms of energy blockages and narrowed energy pathways in the connecting circuitry on the surface of the energy body, felt in the skin of the physical body.

Cobwebs are caused by energy movement through the myriad smaller energy centers and connecting pathways that cover the entire body.

The most common cobweb sites correspond with acupuncture points and major nerve endings in the facial area.
Cobweb sensations will normally reduce only gradually as the energy centers and their connecting circuitry develop to handle the greater flow of energy caused by the trance state and projection attempts.

Some cobweb activity usually is present in people with a strong or more than usually active brow center, even if the brow center is undeveloped.
The face contains a powerful and complex energetic support structure for the brow and crown centers.

Any increased energy flow through this structure causes at least some cobweb sensations to be felt there.

The stronger the energy flow in this area, the stronger the sensations it causes.
This continues until the support structure develops enough to handle the increased energy flows required by these higher centers.

Even if the facial support structure and the brow and crown centers are all fairly well developed, some cobweb activity is usually still felt, especially when these higher centers are being actively used during the full-trance state.

The NEW secondary system helps to reduce cobweb sensations by progressively developing the circuitry of the energy body.
Specific problem areas such as the face should also be targeted and deeply massaged with a suitable awareness action, brushing or wrapping, to nurture the development of those areas.

Keep in mind here that rectifying serious cobweb problems can take time. Please be patient and work through this problem until it improves, and don't give up on OBE just because of it.

I recommend that cobwebs be ignored as far as possible, but if they become unbearable you can scratch them.
If you do, take care to move slowly and deliberately, and scratch them in a dreamy, relaxed way, so that you do not break your relaxed physical and mental states.

When I get cobwebs, I look on them as a test of my concentration and ignore them totally.
They usually fade after a few minutes, but occasionally I have had to scratch an intensely itching or burning one, just in case it is a feeding mosquito, which has often been the case.

It is therefore wise to spray your room before trance sessions and projection attempts, to eliminate this possibility.

I have come across very few people with really bad cobweb problems.
In rare cases, cobweb sensations can cover the entire surface of the body.

This feels, or so I have been told, like a horde of insects crawling all over your body, which sounds unbearable and probably is.
Conscious-exit projection becomes impossible under these circumstances.

I suggest concentrating on relaxation techniques, meditation, and energy work until the blockages in the energetic circuitry clear.

Once these areas are more developed, cobwebs sensations will lessen.

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Primary Center Pressure
Mild to intense pressure sensations are sometimes felt in the head as a result of primary energy center activity and energy movement during trance work or projection attempts.

These are natural sensations, caused by some of the higher functions of the brow and crown centers, as these grow out of dormancy.
Ignore pressure sensations as best you can.

They are a good sign that these energy centers are responding to the stronger energetic flow caused by development exercises and projection attempts.

Pressure sensations, especially when localized to the brow center, indicate clairvoyant potential.
Pressure is rarely intense enough to cause actual pain, but it will often be extremely uncomfortable.

Intense episodes of pressure are unpredictable and infrequent.

They are more often experienced by novice projectors who have done no significant energetic development before their projection attempt.

Localized Pressure
Localized brow center pressure feels much like a thumb being firmly and steadily pressed into the center of the forehead.

This is felt either in a small area in the center of the brow or in a larger circular area covering the whole middle of the forehead.
This can vary from mild to intense pressure, and can last for several minutes or longer.

More rarely, a small area of intense thumb-like pressure is felt in the center of the top of the head.

This last sensation is related to crown center activity and development.

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Tight Band around Head
This feels much like a leather belt tied around the head being slowly tightened.

Pressure is felt around the entire circumference of the head, in a wide band level with the brow, and all over the whole top of the head, including the whole forehead, as if the whole head were bandaged too tightly.

This top-of-head pressure sensation is caused by crown center activity.
Brow and crown pressure sensations are related and will often occur together.

More rarely, the facial area will also be involved; this feels like the entire skull is coming under pressure.

Energy center pressure can be quite uncomfortable, even painful at times.
Although this is rare, it can spark strong headaches, even migraines if you are prone to them.

Actual pain will be more frequent if the brow and crown centers are being worked on more than the rest of the energy body, which I do not recommend.
If pain becomes a problem, the best solution is to stop all stimulation and development work.

Take a break and allow everything to settle down.
This may take several days or more.

You can work around problem areas with energetic development exercises, but this may still cause some pressure pains to occur.
In all the cases I have come across like this - including my own experiences - crown and brow center pressure pains progressively reduced once regular energetic development exercises were undertaken.

You must stimulate the brow and crown centers very gently in the early stages of development.
It is very important not to overwork them, especially if strong pressure sensations are being experienced.

A lot of time and patience may be required to gently and safely bring these centers out of dormancy.

Breathing Problems
Pressure is sometimes felt in the chest and throat and feelings of choking or even asphyxiation can result from this.
This can feel like you are not getting enough oxygen, or as if you are forgetting to breathe during a projection attempt.

The chest and throat pressure is normally caused by primary energy center activity, but the lack-of-oxygen sensation often has another cause.

Sleep apnea, a fairly common sleep breathing disorder, causes a person to stop breathing many times while they are asleep, and to gasp for air when their lack of oxygen becomes acute and wakes them.

This problem is not caused by projection attempts, but is a preexisting medical condition that has not been noticed.

During trance work or a projection attempt, the physical body is put to sleep while the mind stays awake.
Any sleep breathing problems become much more apparent during this time because the mind is awake and thus notices them.

One possible solution to this problem, if it is not too severe, is to adjust your trance work or projection position so your head is tilted further back and your airways are held more open.

Even a slight change in position can make a big difference with breathing problems like this.
Please consult a medical doctor if you feel you have any type of sleep breathing disorder.

These conditions, while treatable, can be dangerous if left unattended.
Smoking, drinking, and being overweight worsen them.

Improving the health of the physical body usually cures the condition.

Stuck to Body during Exit
Some people at times experience feeling themselves glued to a part of their body during an otherwise successful exit, usually at their stomach, head, or legs.

This appears to be caused by an incomplete projectable double being generated, resulting in only a partial projection.
There are several possible reasons for this.

Heavy protein meals eaten before projection attempts appear responsible for many partial-separation problems.
It takes a lot of energy to digest food; the heavier the meal, the more energy is diverted into bioenergetic digestion processes.

The energy body will virtually shut down for an hour or more after a heavy meal of any kind.

After this time, just having a large amount of undigested heavy protein in the stomach can cause energy centers in that area to become sluggish and unresponsive to the projection reflex.

The sub-navel storage center is also situated near the lower stomach area, and energy flowing to and from this important center may become restricted while the stomach is busy digesting a heavy meal.

Trying to force primary energy centers open during a projection attempt in this case can cause varying levels of discomfort, cramps, and even pain during the exit.

This is easily overcome by not eating such a heavy meal so late, and by cutting down on the amount of heavy protein eaten, especially in the last meal before bed.

Exit Cramps and Pain
I have had many reports of varying levels of cramping and pain, from mild to severe, in the stomach or chest - and more rarely, in other areas - during projection exits.

I have also experienced this myself on several occasions.
The action of pulling yourself out of body using a climbing technique can sometime cause internal cramping and tugging sensations, as if the stomach, heart, or lungs were twisting and cramping.

This is directly related to the projection attempt.
For example, each pull on the rope can be found to cause a painful internal tugging sensation that stops as soon as the climbing action causing it is ceased.

This can be quite uncomfortable, even painful, if you continue trying to force yourself the rest of the way out of your body at this time.

This problem appears to be caused by inactivity in a single part of the energy body.
This interferes with the generation of the projectable double in a single area.

There are many possible causes for this.
One possibility is continued projection efforts after a successful separation has already occurred.

Continued projection efforts after projection has occurred is likely to cause problems for the etheric body, which cannot normally leave the confines of the physical body.

The solution is to stop and look for projection-related symptoms.
If you've felt vibrations or the torso energy surge, or if partial or full waking paralysis is present, or if some degree of real-time or astral sight is present, the chances are you have already projected.

You must now await the return of your projected double.
If this appears to be the case, it is worth trying to contact your projected double.

Reach out with your feelings and attempt to feel yourself inside your projected double, imagining you are already out of body.
This will often result in a telepathic connection and an instantaneous transfer of memories from the projected double.

If you manage this, remember to still keep the projection short.

Try to reenter your physical body well before it can fall into the deep-sleep state.

Jewelry and Watches
Gold, jewels, and other solid metal objects can interfere with the generation of the projectable double.
I learned many years ago, through experience, that wearing watches, rings, or neck chains caused me problems during the exit, as well as during trance and energetic work.

I have also had many reports of jewelry and watches causing problems and pain during otherwise successful projections.

One young man reported severe pain in his tongue during several otherwise successful projection attempts.
He was a fairly experienced projector and had never had problems before this.

The pain always started as pressure in his tongue that quickly became painful and spread through his jaw and neck, becoming more and more painful as he continued toward the exit.

The pain became so bad it caused him to abort each projection during the exit.
I questioned him thoroughly and it came to light that he had recently had a gold stud inserted through his tongue, with the wound not being quite healed.

He did not see how this could possibly interfere with projection, but, on my advice, removed the gold stud and successfully projected later that same night with no recurrence of the pain.

Along similar lines, a young female projector recently reported to me that she had experienced intense pain and pressure in her chest during a conscious-exit projection.

She was forced to abort her projection attempt.
On her return, she found her pet rat asleep on her chest, where it normally slept.

The presence of the pet rat on her chest appears to have been the cause of the pain and pressure she felt during the attempted exit.

The projected double can pass through solid metal and gem-stones with ease.
The presence of them on the physical body during projection attempts however, appears to interfere with the generation of the projectable double, which causes the projecting double to become stuck to its body at that area.

For some reason, this also causes pressure and discomfort during the exit.

(Skarekrow - Goddamn cats! *shakes his cane*)

This appears to affect some more than it does others, but every thing points to the presence of gold, jewelry, and other items on the physical body causing problems during the exit.

It is possible that gold fillings, false teeth, and other solid items may also cause problems for some people.
If you feel localized pressure and pain during projection, it is worth taking a good look at the affected area to see if any item is present that could possibly be causing it.

The variable energetic makeup and levels of development of individual projectors may cause a wide range of seeming inconsistencies, with particular projection-related problems affecting some projectors and not others.

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Magnetic North
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The direction the physical body faces during a projection attempt does appear to have an effect on the ease of the projection exit for some people - and every little bit helps.

I prefer to have the top of my head pointing north if I am lying down, but if I am sitting up I like to be facing either north or south, although this may just be a foible of mine.

But I have projected many times while facing east and west, lying down and sitting up, and experienced no noticeable difference.
While direction does seem to have an effect on some people, it does not affect everyone equally and will not stop a determined or experienced projector.

I suggest that new projectors experiment with the direction they face and see for themselves whether it makes any difference.

Lunar Cycle
The lunar cycle also seems to have an effect on projection exit difficulty levels, as well as on the frequency of spontaneous projections.

I find the best time for OBE to be the week surrounding the full moon, with the first night of the full moon being my prime projection time.
Although I have projected on every day of the month, all year round, I feel the urge to project more strongly during a full moon.

Some people appear to be more affected by the lunar cycle than others.

I suggest that projectors check the lunar cycle against their successful projections, especially spontaneous ones.
It is also worth checking this against lucid dreams and patches of vivid dreams, as opposed to uneventful dreamless nights.

This will give a clear indication of the best time of the month for them to project, and whether or not the lunar cycle is affecting them.

The moon factor may also contribute to or cause many common projection difficulties like cramps and pains and partial exits, especially when there is no moon at all.

Saliva Problems
Many people have problems during trance, development work, or projection attempts with either an excess of saliva, necessitating continual swallowing; or a lack of saliva, causing a dry throat and mouth.

Both conditions can be very distracting and will interfere with conscious-exit projection.

If your mouth and throat tend to become dry during development exercises or projection attempts, first make sure you have had enough to drink before beginning so you are not becoming dehydrated, especially if you live in a warm climate.

The only other thing that could cause dryness is breathing excessively through the mouth.
The solution is to breathe more through the nose.

Make sure the nasal passages are clear by blowing and clearing them beforehand.
A slight change of position may also help if your mouth tends to fall open naturally.

Snoring can also cause dry mouth and sore throat problems.

When the physical body is put to sleep during the trance state and projection attempts, it often begins to snore on its own, even though the mind of the projector is wide awake.

In many cases projectors will not be fully aware of this, especially if they are having problems and drifting in and out of the sleep state.
The solution is to restore the sleep deficit so that falling asleep is less likely, and to change the resting position of the physical body until a position is found that does not promote snoring.

If excessive saliva tends to build up, try not to think about it.
Thinking about it causes you to become more aware of your mouth and tongue, which, in itself, can cause an increase in saliva flow.

Avoid sweet drinks, tea, or coffee, and anything that leaves a flavor residue in your mouth that may cause saliva to flow.
Brushing your teeth and using a saltwater mouthwash, then rinsing with fresh water, helps rid the mouth of unwanted tastes.

Prop yourself up slightly higher if lying flat; this will help slow the tendency for saliva buildup at the back of the throat.
Keep your mind off of it; swallow normally whenever you have to, in a relaxed and dreamy way.

Swallowing, or moving the body to ease it, must be done at times, even during trance work and projection attempts.

Minor movements like this can be done without breaking relaxation and trance disciplines, as long as they are done slowly and in a dreamy and relaxed way.

Sexual Arousal
Sexual arousal is a less common problem that is related to energetic activity in the lower primary centers, specifically the genital primary center.
This can be very distracting, for obvious reasons.

(S - No problems with it here)

The solution is to spend more time raising and working with energy, separate from projection attempts, so the energy body can develop to the point where an increased energy flow from or through the genital center will not cause arousal.

If a sex partner is available, having sex before a projection attempt can help alleviate this problem.
If a sex partner is not available, imagination can be used to serve this purpose.

Many people have asked whether having sex before a projection attempt will interfere with it or not.
Some worry that sex may drain the energy body and make projection more difficult until it has replenished itself.

In my opinion, sex before a projection attempt has more positive than negative aspects to it.

Sexual fulfillment greatly eases physical and mental tension by promoting energetic balance and deeper physical and mental relaxation.
It causes a lingering warm energetic glow and a state of well-being, which can be a great help with projection, especially with early attempts, as energetic balance and deep physical and mental relaxation are essential ingredients for successful projection.

The main reason people think sex is energetically draining, I think, is because most people have sex at night before going to sleep.
The deeply relaxed state experienced during the aftermath of sex, especially if people are already tired, will usually tend to make them fall asleep very quickly. If this is the case, I suggest you use the quick or instant projection methods to take advantage of the situation before the need to sleep becomes too urgent.

In some cases, however, sex energizes people and they have trouble falling asleep for some time afterward.
In this case, sex may be temporarily detrimental to projection.

On the other hand, this is a very good way of temporarily overcoming tiredness so a projection attempt can be made before the onset of sleep.

When projecting after sex, though, remember to keep the projection very short, as the physical body will tend to fall into the deep-sleep state much more quickly than usual.

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Defective Astral Vision
Defective astral vision occasionally causes problems during or immediately after the exit.
I'd say about ten percent of all new projectors will encounter some kind of vision problem during their first few exits.

(S - Yes...very true!)

The most common vision problems are blurred vision; one eye not working; having to squint and strain to focus; tunnel vision; partial blindness, and full blindness.

The cause of all OBE vision problems is a lack of energy flowing into the projected double from the physical/etheric body.
The projected double is pure energy, generated and maintained for the entire projection by the physical/etheric body.

The energy flowing into it gives it life and greatly affects its functionality and abilities.​

The most effective method I have found to overcome vision problems is to draw energy directly from the physical/etheric body during the projection.
This is quite simple to do and very effective.

Use your awareness and feel yourself drawing energy from your physical/etheric body.
If you can, use your imagination to see a flow of sparkling energy coursing into you.

You don't have lungs and do not have to breathe while out of body, but you can use the remembered feeling of breathing to aid with this process.

Re-create the feeling of breathing IN and of drawing in energy, feeling yourself sucking energy from your physical/etheric body and feeling energy flowing into your projected double.

This will create a strong energetic demand in your projected double that will cause a flow of energy from your physical/etheric body to fulfill it.

Once you get the hang of the energy-drawing action, you can draw extra energy into your projected double anytime you have need of it.
Keep in mind here that the more energy the projected double has to operate with, the stronger and more vivid will be its experience, and the stronger and more vivid will be its memory.

Here are a few more ideas and solutions that have helped other projectors with vision-related problems.

All of these are done while out of body.
  • Ask for your sight, speaking aloud if possible, and you'll often get it.

  • Use your creative ability to imagine and feel light all around you.

  • Create a lit torch or a lamp and use it.

  • Use the instant travel method and shift to a well-lit destination.

  • The room you are in may actually be dark, so move to a well-lit room.

  • Leave a lamp or nightlight on while you are projecting.

  • Leave a lamp on in another room and shift into it after the exit.

  • Project during daylight hours.
Disorientation and Subtle-Body Misalignment
Weakness and disorientation are sometimes experienced after an OBE, especially if it has been too lengthy or has been abruptly ended.

This can happen even if the conscious exit has been missed and the projector has become aware some time after the exit.
This malady is popularly believed to be caused by some kind of subtle-body misalignment, where the projected double has not correctly realigned itself within its physical counterpart during reentry and reintegration.

Many people today believe the projected double is a perfect copy or template of the physical body, containing a subtle copy of all internal organs.
The "body inside a body inside a body" theory is popularly used to illustrate the way subtle bodies can separate from the physical body and hold consciousness exterior to it during an OBE.

This illustration looks good on paper and does effectively show part of what happens, but it is not a workable theory when applied to some of the more complex energetic aspects of projection.

Subtle-body misalignment is not, I think, a reasonable or logical explanation for weakness or disorientation following a projection.

According to my understanding, the projectable double is internally generated by the etheric body, then extruded as an energetic point of consciousness that contains within it a reflected copy of consciousness.

The body of the projectable double, when observed, is created and shaped by its own sense of whole-body self-awareness, but only when it or parts of it are deliberately observed.

When the projected double reenters, it reintegrates with its original physical/etheric self, downloading its shadow memories in the process.
The energetic substance of which the projected double was composed then effectively dissolves back into the physical/etheric body.

It turns back into the raw energy from which it was made.

This raw energy is instantly reabsorbed back into the vitality storage areas of the etheric body.

It is believed that the astral body is simply enmeshed within the physical body during its waking state, and that it is released to pursue an out-of-body astral existence whenever its physical body sleeps.

Some people even claim that the astral body is capable of becoming misaligned with its physical counterpart while in the full waking state.
The reasons stated for astral-body misalignment are many, but usually involve improper or too-abrupt reentry.

Some psychics and healers actually blame a patient for having OBEs at too early a stage of development, even though this may be spontaneous and totally beyond the patient's control.

I think this line of reasoning has spawned a blanket excuse - astral-body misalignment - that is used whenever a psychic or healer cannot work out what is actually wrong with his patient.

A more reasonable blanket explanation would be bioenergetic conflicts involving the etheric/physical interface.
My reasoning here is that any subtle-body problem capable of affecting the physical body must logically stem from the etheric body.

This is the closest subtle body to the physical body, energetically speaking, and therefore has the greatest effect on it.

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Overcoming the Mind-Split


A lifetime of projection experience, exploration, and research leads me to believe that mind-split effects are the largest contributing factor to OBE memory failure.

This problem is complicated by many subtle factors, many of which can be overcome fairly easily with a little understanding and preparation, plus a few tricks.

I call memories gained during any kind of out-of-body experience shadow memories.
They exist for some time after reintegration, in energetic form, waiting to be triggered through mental associations into living memories.

While in the shadow state, memories are extremely delicate and are easily lost, behaving much as dream memories do.

If shadow memories are not downloaded into accessible levels of consciousness during the reintegration of the projected double with its physical counterpart, they cease to exist; it is as if the experiences that caused them never happened.

Remembering an OBE is the most fickle part of any successful projection.

To reiterate: When the mind-split occurs, a full copy of consciousness and memory stays resident inside the physical/etheric body at all times.
This, the original master copy, is fully capable of independent thinking if it has the energy and training to hold itself awake.

But it normally becomes semiconscious and falls asleep soon after the mind-split occurs.

The copy of consciousness that was reflected into the projected double is completely independent.
It is energetically generated, projected, and maintained, exterior from the physical/etheric body.

Once the mind-split occurs, it records its experiences separately.

But even though the real-time double has successfully projected and is awake and aware, the physical body is left lying there, also fully aware, but usually unaware of its successful projection out of body.

The projector just lies there, disappointed and heavy with trance, often partially paralyzed and pondering another seemingly failed projection attempt, maybe even going on with projection attempts that all too soon give way to sleep.

The short time spent pondering a seemingly failed projection attempt is enough to form a solid memory in the physical brain for that time period.

This memory thus becomes the strongest resident memory for that time period.
During reintegration, shadow memories for that same time period will have a hard time overwriting these.

The resident memories may be very short, dull, and boring, perhaps only a couple of minutes' worth, but these will easily replace hours of exciting shadow memories.

The physical/etheric body's memories have a much stronger and more immediate connection with the physical brain.
Its memories are automatically recorded as they happen and thus make more of an impression upon it.

When the dream mind becomes active, it tends to weaken the integrity and coherence of the projected double.
The etheric body then has to energetically support another functioning copy of consciousness, its physical body's dream mind.

This causes a general weakening of all exterior copies of consciousness and all energetically recorded shadow memories.

This can have a pronounced effect on the shadow memories of the real-time and astral doubles, which seem to be last on the list during reintegration. Dream memories can be very strong and immediate, and will often overwrite or mix with real-time and astral memories.

Because of this, shadow memories for most people are usually remembered only as disconnected bits and pieces floating in a sea of unrelated dream fragments.

Fully conscious out-of-body projection requires the physical/etheric body to be in a light-to-normal sleep state, or in the trance equivalent.
Successful reentry and reintegration requires the physical/etheric body to at least partially awaken, or the projected double becomes effectively locked out of its physical body until its physical body wakes, which may take all night.

During the several hours or so that a projected double can be locked out of its physical body during a normal night's sleep, it too will eventually fall asleep, as its higher-dimensional aspects are projected or become active.

These higher aspects operate at much higher levels of consciousness than the physical mind or its real-time double does, and these higher aspects may only be vaguely aware they even have a physical body to return to.

The thought of returning to the physical body in an attempt to salvage high-level shadow memories may be an extremely low priority to these higher aspects.

As I said in the beginning of this book, I believe that the key that allows for reliable, planned, and repeatable projections out of body lies in the relationship between OBE and physical memory storage at the base level of consciousness.

My research points to the key factor for successful shadow memory downloading being a small and previously unrecognized element of the trance state, something that happens naturally in those hazy few moments between the sleeping and waking states.

This element is a simple flickering of consciousness.
This flickering happens when the projector's almost-awakening consciousness briefly flickers between the sleeping and waking states before waking completely.

This flickering can allow shadow memories to successfully download into accessible levels of memory during reintegration.
While consciousness is flickering between these two states, the physical brain's memory storage vaults lie wide open, waiting but not recording.

This provides a brief window through which the physical brain can receive a full shadow memory download.
Miss this window and - chances are - no shadow memories at all will be downloaded into accessible levels of the physical brain.

The projector then has to rely on something triggering the shadow memories before they vanish completely.

Some people seem to have a natural inborn OBE memory key and can download a higher-than-average percentage of their shadow memories with very few problems.

These lucky people, however, are few and far between and cannot tell us how they do it.
Neither can they tell us why others fail when they diligently copy what appears to be the very same process.

A well-controlled and stable trance state is not the key.
The nature of physical memory storage in the human brain is to record only one set of memories for any single time period.

An active mind, even during a controlled trance state, will block the shadow memory download from the projected double during reintegration.

Tantalizing clues to solving the OBE memory download problem can be found when it is considered that deliberate reentry into the physical body can be extremely difficult, if not downright impossible, once the physical/etheric mind falls into the deep-sleep state, or enters the trance equivalent of it: the deep-trance state.

The key to unlocking and using mis briefly open memory-download window lies in knowing exactly how long it will be before a projector's waking consciousness starts to flicker.

Reentry and reintegration should be timed to coincide with this hazy flickering moment.
Shadow memory loss can be minimized by creating this flickering state deliberately, by causing consciousness to flicker at regular intervals during the course of a projection.

This provides brief windows through which potential shadow memory downloading can occur.

It is quite difficult for the average person to re-create this flickering state without losing control and falling asleep.
Synchronized timing is the best way to overcome this difficulty, done from both within and without the physical body.

The projected double and its physical/etheric counterpart must work together.
An attempt can then be made to coordinate reentry and reintegration at times when this window is known to be open, with the mind being artificially caused to flicker at prearranged times.

The bottom line here is that the key to a successful and reliable OBE is for you to develop the ability to work with your projected double during planned projections, rather than leaving shadow memory recall to the fickle winds of chance.

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Working around the Mind-Split
You can do several things to work around the mind-split and minimize OBE shadow memory loss.

All tricks aside for the moment, improving and exercising the ability to recall dream and OBE memories is an important step in this learning process.
The physical brain is capable of recalling significantly more shadow memories if it has some practice at doing this.

The more often shadow memories are recalled, the easier recalling them becomes.

Shadow Memory Trigger Phrases
Recalling dream memories trains the mind to recapture shadow memories.
Doing this is quite easy and takes only minimal time and effort.

Each morning, as soon as you wake up, spend your first couple of minutes pulling back the previous night's shadow memories.

Sit up on the side of your bed with your feet on the floor, or sit in the bathroom, and reach out for shadow memories and pull them back.
Set your mind in search mode, as you would for some small fact you have temporarily forgotten.

Keep searching and trying to pull them back, even if your mind feels a total blank.

The memories are there, they just have to be triggered and dug out.
Use the trigger phrases given below, over and over.
  • I felt these awesome vibrations and then...?

  • I buzzed out of my body and then...?

  • I floated across the room and then...?

  • I passed through the wall and then...?

  • I looked at my hands and they...?

  • I was just about to...?

  • I was inside...?

  • I was talking to...?

  • There were lots of...?

  • I was flying over...?

  • I was with...?

  • I saw a...?
You can make up many more phrases yourself.

These must be related to something you are likely to be doing while dreaming or projecting.
After a planned projection, use trigger phrases related to primary mission goals.

You may think you failed the OBE mission, but there is a good chance that you succeeded and just lost the memory during reintegration.

Push the trigger phrases with your mind.
Reach out and feel for shadow memory fragments in your memory as you say them to yourself.

With each trigger phrase, imagine yourself doing what the trigger suggests.
Adopt the attitude of having forgotten something you know well and are scanning and searching your memory for.

Confidently expect it to pop into your mind at any moment.

Try to imagine what it would be like to come out of your body while still awake.
Imagine the vibrations, the rapid heartbeat, the falling sensation, then floating up and out as you buzz out of your body.

Put some effort into this, and re-create it in your mind's eye as if it had really happened, because chances are it did.
Say the trigger phrases out loud if you like, as this can help with the recall process.

Once you can lock onto a single fragment of shadow memory, you have the key to finding and unlocking many more.
This fragment may be of a projection, a lucid dream, or a dream.

All are valuable, and any type of shadow memory recall makes for good practice.
Concentrate on these fragments.

With a little effort, your mind will start finding more and more shadow memories associated with them.
Soon, the memories will start flooding back into your mind.

They might be garbled and disjointed, but now they are real memories.
You can sort them out and deal with them later.

Some shadow memories are always accessible!
You just have to trigger them, lock onto them, and drag them back, sometimes kicking and screaming.

If you practice daily, your shadow memory will become progressively stronger and its memories will become easier to recall.

After the initial recall attempt, for the next few hours keep a small part of your mind searching in the background as you go about your affairs.
Real-life events, words, and thoughts will often provide mental associations that will cause shadow memories to surface.

When a shadow memory fragment is triggered, write it down, then spend a few moments pondering and strengthening it, trying to expand upon it and find other shadow memories related to it.

Keep a small notebook and pen handy.
If you do not write them down or pay attention to them immediately, shadow memories usually vanish again fairly quickly.

Persevere, be patient, and work at this over the long term for a few minutes each day.

This is especially helpful if you seem to be continually missing the exit, with projection sensations just fading away at the last moment.

Recording Keywords
It is important to record keywords and phrases as soon as possible after locating shadow memory fragments.
Recalled shadow memories can feel vivid and substantial and you may think, "Wow, I'll never forget this!" but most likely you will, a few moments later.

Shadow memories are transient by nature and are very easily lost.

Immediately record shadow memories as soon as they surface.
It is not necessary to write a complete account, as this may take too long and cause you to forget more than you record.

The first thing to do when you locate shadow memories is to vocalize the experience immediately, mentally or out loud.
This will help hold them long enough for you to write them down.

Keep talking until you get the keywords down.
Just jot down a few words and phrases to cover the memories.

Once this is done you can relax and flesh them out later, using these fragments to trigger more associated memories.

The more often you work at recalling and recording shadow memories, the better you will get at it.
Eventually it becomes second nature.

I advise you to make this a lifelong daily habit.
I have been doing this for more than twenty-five years.

When I wake each morning I can now skim through most of the OBEs, dreams, and visions I've had during the night, and choose any important and interesting ones for recording.

Apart from the incalculable spiritual life path value I have gleaned by monitoring my dreamtime, I frequently dream innovative solutions to current real-life problems.

I have learned to depend on this for guidance and inspiration.
I also occasionally dream movie-length sagas.

Apart from being thoroughly enjoyable (better than the movies), I have recorded some of the more interesting ones and plan to write novels based on them one day.

Reentry Trigger Words and Phrases
It is a great help if the projected double holds the memory of its out-of-body experience strongly in mind during reentry.
To help with this, use a trigger phrase or a keyword that represents the projection experience.

Pick a couple of the most memorable and interesting events from the projection and make up a short phrase to encapsulate the experience.
Hold this trigger phrase firmly in mind and shout it during the reentry into your physical body.

For example, during a short projection you watched your hands melt before passing through a wall, saw its inside structure, then flew over your house in the rain and came back through your roof and reentered your physical body.

This can be represented by the keywords wall, rain, flying, roof, or by easier-to-remember theme trigger phrases like melting hands, flying in the rain, through the wall, or over the roof.

Holding a single trigger phrase strongly in mind and literally shouting this during reentry will greatly facilitate the downloading of shadow memories into accessible levels of memory.

Position and Comfort
The position and comfort of the physical body during a projection directly affects the ease of staying awake and aware, and of sleeping only lightly if sleep does come.

Sitting in an armchair or being propped up in a bed with several pillows, you will find, does not encourage deep sleep, or will at least slow down its onset. Being very slightly uncomfortable helps to hold the mind more alert during projection attempts.

This also helps lengthen the in-between sleeping and waking state, creating a flickering semi-waking state for slightly longer than usual, which is invaluable for early, ultrashort, conscious-exit projections.

Trance State Familiarity
It is important to develop the ability to hold a comfortable level of trance and to be able to function within it.
This must be done without falling asleep too often or too deeply, and without falling into too deep a level of trance.

The longer you can hold your physical/etheric mind awake in the trance state after a successful projection (which may seem like a failure at the time) the longer your projected double can stay out of your body.

This also makes the projected double stronger during this time, making for stronger and more vivid experiences and shadow memories.
This alone increases the chances for successful shadow memory downloading during reintegration.

If you tend to fall asleep quickly after a projection attempt (which can be quite lengthy and exhausting during early attempts) you will usually fall into a deep sleep fairly quickly.

Your chances of remembering a projection are then sharply reduced.
If you can hold yourself semi-awake, flickering for just a few minutes longer, you can use this time with good effect.

If, when you get out of body, you discipline yourself to return and reenter your physical body fairly quickly, knowing roughly how long you are able to hold yourself semi-awake, and both you and your projected double work along with this, you will have more chance of a successful reentry and a full shadow memory download for that experience.

Even a brief conscious-exit projection lasting ten seconds is an extremely valuable accomplishment.
It provides firsthand experience and makes projection real!

The length of subsequent projections can be gradually increased, but the first successful, deliberate, conscious-exit projection and reentry is the most important one of all.

This is the one that gives you something real to build on.

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Astral Sight Exercise
Experimenting with astral sight is very interesting and valuable.
Apart from its developmental value, it helps keep you awake and aware in the physical/etheric body for an extended period of time after the exit.

Some degree of real-time or astral sight (seeing through closed eyelids) usually manifests just before or during a successful projection exit.
If the physical/etheric body perseveres after a projection attempt, even if it seems to have failed, it also often gains this ability.

The resulting point of view can be moved to observe the entire room without any corresponding physical movement.
This is not only a fascinating exercise of the etheric body, but it also enables the use of another shadow memory reclamation technique: using astral feedback to download shadow memories directly into the physical brain.

Concentrating on observing the room around you through closed eyelids and on improving your control over this ability helps keep you occupied and awake enough to help with reintegration.

The use of real-time or astral sight improves steadily with practice.
Even if you can't see much of the room around you through your closed eyelids, you will usually see something.

This can vary from hypnagogic imagery to complex astral visions.
You may see nothing but faint sprinkles of light.

Whatever you see, observe it and play around with the focus of your eyes behind your closed eyelids, trying to bring whatever you see into sharper focus. This will help activate and improve astral sight, or at the very least occupy you until your projected double returns for reintegration.

Never open your physical body's eyes or move your eyelids to check if your eyes are open or closed.
Relax and trust that they are closed.

If they are open your eyeballs will quickly dry out and you'll be forced to blink every few seconds.
If you do not feel the urge to blink, trust that they are closed and that you are seeing with real-time or astral sight.

Conscious Reentry
I've noticed over the years that successful reintegration with a full memory download works much better if reentry into the physical body is done consciously and deliberately by the projected double.

This must be done before the physical body falls into the deep sleep state.

During an OBE most projectors become so engrossed with their new state of being, and with exploring the potential of their new environment that they forget all about their waiting physical body.

They never think about reentering their physical body until they are reeled back into it when it finally wakes up, usually several hours later and with no shadow memories.

They assume that they will never forget the powerful and memorable experience they are having.

Assuming that an OBE will be remembered - forgetting the mind-split and the fickle nature of reintegration - is a sure-fire way of losing the memory of an experience altogether.

Ultrashort Projection
A consistent factor in the majority of OBE success stories I have received from people I have coached is that these projectors have listened to a simple but extremely important tip I have drummed into them.

They kept their first projections ultra-short.
They made a deliberate reentry into their physical bodies shortly after their exit.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance and effectiveness of this.
Novice projectors simply must return to their bodies before their physical/etheric mind loses track of things and falls into a deep sleep.

This is the only thing that will overcome the beginner's lack of skill, discipline, and experience.
That first successful fully conscious exit and a fully conscious reentry, even of an ultra-short ten-second projection, is of paramount importance to all beginners.

It makes OBE achievable and experientially real to them.
It fuels enthusiasm for future projections.

This knowledge and firsthand experience significantly affects their personal belief system, making a lot of other things possible, empowering all aspects of future training and development.

It takes a lot of mental energy to hold the mind of the projected double focused during an OBE.
Most projectors only have a few short minutes, if that, before they lose focus and control over their experience and miss their prime chance for downloading shadow memories.

Every minute that passes during an OBE makes it harder for the projected double to focus and function coherently.

Discipline yourself to return to your body very soon after you achieve the conscious exit.
For a first-time projection especially, get out, move twenty feet (six meters) away from your body, and get your sea legs; breathe in what it's like to be out of body, take a quick look at your hands and watch them melt, then dive straight back into your body - shouting your trigger phrase as you do!

Then, get straight up and write down what happened.
Lock those precious shadow memories into your brain!

A successfully remembered ten-second projection is worth a thousand all-nighters forgotten!
The most important thing for all struggling beginners is to experience that first fully conscious exit, to feel what it's like to be out of body, then to experience a fully conscious reentry.

Nothing else matters!
Do not attempt to do anything else the first few times out of body!

Please trust me on this point and keep your early projections very, very short.
You can slowly increase OBE time as you get better at making conscious reentries and downloading shadow memories.

Counting Koalas
Counting koalas (or any other animal or item of choice), "One koala, two koalas, three koalas, four koalas", etc., can be a great help during early short projections.

The physical/etheric mind must begin counting as soon as it experiences projection-related symptoms, like vibrations and rapid heartbeat, and suspects that a projection may be in progress.

The projected double must plan to do exactly the same thing. It must plan to reenter its physical body at a predetermined count, say at a twenty-koalas count - no longer with early projections.

The physical/etheric body and its projected double must work together to make this method work.
All the projected double has to do is float or dive back into its physical body at the agreed-on count.

The rest of the reentry is a reflex action.
The projected double must firmly hold its OBE success in mind and shout a trigger phrase as it makes its move for reentry.

I suggest that the physical/etheric mind be allowed to relax and flicker, be allowed to start falling toward sleep when it gets to the twenty count, ready for reintegration.

This will keep the physical/etheric mind focused and awake for the required length of time, and create a strong relationship between physical and OBE memories.

Both aspects of the projector will be counting in sync and both will be attempting or expecting reentry and reintegration at around the same time.

Both must work together on this.
The physical/etheric mind will be expecting its projected double to return shortly after the twenty-koala count, so it can watch itself carefully for the torso energy rush and slight falling sensation that signal the reentry of its projected double.

At the twenty count, the physical/etheric mind should stop counting and relax, holding its mind clear with breath awareness, while allowing itself to drift toward the sleep state.

This creates the flickering of consciousness needed for a successful reintegration and shadow memory download.

This flickering state should hold the physical/etheric mind aware just long enough for it to feel the energetic reentry sensations when they occur.
These sensations will jolt it back to full awareness, hopefully with a full load of shadow memories.

Once this has been done successfully, the koala count can be steadily increased to the limit of the ability of the physical/etheric mind to hold itself awake while counting.

Keep in mind here that the projected double's memories may, or may not completely replace the physical/etheric memories, for that time period during reintegration.

If projection is successful and this appears to have occurred, there may be no memory at all of the physical/etheric side of this joint projection effort.
If the projection is successful, take it as read that this technique worked. If the projection fails, try to work out what went wrong, and keep trying until you master it.

It is also well worth using the memory-recall trigger phrases and putting your mind on search after an apparently failed attempt, in an effort to pull shadow memories back to a conscious level of memory.

Running Commentary and Affirmations
Another valuable device that aids shadow memory recall is to keep up a running verbal commentary during projection.
Talk all the time during the OBE, describing every little thing being done, seen, and experienced.

This commentary helps strengthen shadow memories and makes them easier to recall after reintegration.

It also helps if, at the end of the description of each item, action, or scene, you regularly reaffirm that you will remember everything.
Firmly say, "I will remember all this!" as an affirmation to help cement that memory into the subtle energetic brain of the projected double.

Planned Missions
Plan projections and get into the habit of sticking to your plan.
Have primary, secondary, and tertiary mission goals, and focus on these during the projection.

Make these mission goals achievable within a realistic time frame so time out is not overly long.
Apart from making projections more productive, this also gives the projected double something definite to focus on during each OBE, and gives the physical/etheric mind some idea of what its projected double has been doing during each projection.

This last is a significant help when trying to recapture shadow memories, allowing far more specific trigger phrases to be applied to the trigger-phrase recall process.

Working with the Mind-Split

There are a few ways to use the mind-split to advantage, to help cement shadow memories into the physical brain during a projection, especially during reintegration.

Three energetic effects are strong enough to be useful for this purpose: astral feedback, reentry torso energetic surge, and the reentry falling sensation.

Astral Feedback Download
To use astral feedback for a memory download, discipline yourself, once out of body, to attempt an immediate connection with your physical/etheric counterpart before it drifts away into sleep.

Both sides must work together on this, and agree that the projected double will stand or float in a particular place in the room near the physical body, but no closer than seven feet from its physical body or it will usually get sucked back into it.

It must try to telepathically and visually connect with its physical counterpart.

The physical/etheric aspect must also reach out and try to connect with its projected double, using real-time or astral sight if these abilities are present, or reaching out with its feelings if these abilities are not present.

The physical/etheric side must trust that its projected double will cooperate and be in the target area, and must reach out with all its available senses.
Its projected double should be in the target area doing exactly the same thing, if everything is going according to plan.

The projected double is out there somewhere nearby.
With connection, all its shadow memories will come flooding back into the physical brain.

An emotional connection, if made first, may cause an uncomfortable feeling of presence and anxiety on both sides.
Stay calm on both sides and this feeling will not escalate.

If it becomes too strong, the projected double should leave the immediate area, putting some distance between itself and its physical/etheric counterpart. It can return and try again as soon as astral feedback pressure subsides.

The best way to develop real-time and astral sight is to use it as regularly as possible, so that even if this connection fails it is still a beneficial exercise. Keep in mind that, once located, the projected double may look quite different from the physical body.

It is usually younger and slimmer than its original, but it may also look a little ghostly.
Once both sides of the mind-split connect, projected and physical memories transfer both ways.

If all goes well, this causes dual but solid memories for that single time period.

Once a connection has been made, the projected double must back away from its physical counterpart within a few seconds or risk nauseating astral feedback.

A connection will energize both physical and projected minds.
This energy will allow a longer-than-normal projection while still enabling good control and strong shadow memories.

Still, keep the rest of the projection fairly short, under two minutes, or risk losing the memory of the second part of the experience entirely.

If contact can be managed without adverse side effects, with astral feedback being used to download shadow memories into physical memory storage, the projected double can return regularly during the course of a projection - say every couple of minutes - and reconnect with its physical counterpart.

This will allow the duration of a projection to be lengthened considerably.
Regularly reconnecting in this way allows the physical brain's memory to be topped up with the latest set of shadow memories each time.

These memories will be stored in the physical brain as solid and easily recallable memories.

As soon as the projected double begins experiencing reality fluctuations, I suggest an immediate reentry.
This is a sign that the dream mind is becoming active and that the physical/etheric body is falling into a deeper level of sleep.

If the projected double tries to weather severe reality fluctuations, it runs the risk of losing the experience from that moment onward.

It may also miss out on making a conscious reentry, which is a real buzz in reverse.

Reentry Torso Energy Rush
When the projected double returns and reenters its physical counterpart, it causes a quite noticeable energetic surge upward through the physical body, especially strong in the stomach and chest.

If the physical/etheric body is even partially awake during reentry, the energy rush will jolt it back to full awareness.

It is an upwardly moving, surging, tingling, energetic sensation very similar to the torso energy surge felt during the exit.
It starts and finishes very quickly, taking from one to three seconds depending on the speed and smoothness of the reentry.

A tingling adrenaline-type of energy rush moves rapidly upward through the legs and lower body, then spreads rapidly up through the stomach and chest before stopping abruptly.

If you have felt projection-related sensations earlier, the reentry sensations are a certainty that the projected double has returned and reentered its physical body.

This is the prime time to reach out and reclaim shadow memories.

Reach out with a strong feeling of having just forgotten something, and use the shadow memory recall trigger phrases.
If you are lying prone in bed, sit up, put both feet on the ground, and put some real effort into recalling the projection.

The memories are there, just beneath the surface.
You just have to reach inside and trigger them.

Once you locate a fragment, a whole set of shadow memories will flood back into physical memory.

If the projected double reenters the physical body deliberately, it can do a great deal to help with a successful shadow memory download.
As with the exit, one of the biggest problems with reentry is that the projected double feels a huge, tingling energetic surge.

It tingles with energy and feels a dizzy falling sensation as it is drawn rapidly back inside its physical body.
These heavy sensations can easily break its concentration.

In a way, it momentarily blacks out as it gives way to these sensations at the critical moment of reentry.

The projected double must hold its awareness of being out of body very strongly in the forefront of its mind during its reentry.
When it begins the deliberate reentry process, it must not give in to the wave of energetic sensations associated with reentry and reintegration.

It must continue thinking and concentrating on being aware of what it has been doing, which is projecting out of its body.
I always suggest, for every conscious reentry, that the projected double hold a trigger phrase firmly in mind and shout this as it dives back into and reunites with its physical body.

This vastly improves the chances of carrying shadow memories back into conscious levels of the physical brain.

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Reentry Falling Sensation
People often feel noticeable falling sensations while they are trying to fall asleep.
This may happen several times before falling asleep, and will often cause people to gasp and catch the sides of their bed, as if to stop themselves from falling.

It happens to most people who spend any length of time hovering on the verge of sleep, flickering between the waking and sleeping states.
This sensation is caused by a brief projection exit and reentry.

If great heaviness and lethargy are felt immediately after the falling sensation, or if real-time or astral sight becomes evident, then a projection has most likely occurred and is in full progress.

If you catch the side of the bed and come immediately awake, a full reentry has most likely been experienced.
There are often no other noticeable projection-related symptoms associated with this type of semi-sleep type of projection.

The projected double slips out very easily if conditions are just right.
This is a natural type of sleep projection exit and the conscious mind is not involved, being briefly asleep and out of the equation.

No heavy exit sensations are therefore generated by this type of projection exit.

If the falling sensation is felt, know what has caused it and immediately use shadow memory recall techniques in an attempt to recall the OBE.
Hold the intention firmly in mind that if you find yourself out of body, even if only briefly, you will immediately dive back into your body, shouting a trigger phrase as you do.

This might only yield a brief memory of a spontaneous OBE, but it's an easy way to gain some type of projection experience, and is definitely a very good start if you are new at OBE.

If you are prone to the falling sensation, you might want to experiment by holding yourself awake longer than usual, hovering and flickering between the waking and sleeping states.

An easy way to do this is to hold your forearms straight up, elbows resting on the bed.
Your hands will start falling to the bed whenever you fall asleep; this will wake you up each time.

This extends the time spent falling asleep and the number of times you will fall asleep.

This increases the chances of capturing the memory of a brief out-of-body experience of some kind.

Return and Reentry
Many people worry about getting lost, or of not being able to get back into their physical bodies after a projection.
According to my experience and all that I know, the silver cord cannot be severed, and the projected double cannot be permanently held or locked out of its physical body while the physical body still lives.

The projected double can usually return to its physical body at any time during an OBE, simply by feeling for its body and the room around it.
This transports the projected double back into or close to its physical body.

However, there is one notable circumstance that can make reentry into the physical body difficult, if not temporarily impossible.
If, when the projected double returns, the physical body has entered the deep-sleep state, the projected double can find itself temporarily locked out of its body, which can cause it serious anxiety, as it may believe its physical body has died during its absence.

I have experienced this myself, and have advised many people to whom this has happened.
This is the only circumstance, as far as I am aware, that can interfere with the automatic reintegration process.

It can be a terrifying experience.
The physical body will feel cold, clammy, and lifeless to the touch of its projected double.

In all cases where this type of experience has been recorded, some physical event or noise - e.g., an alarm clock or telephone ringing - has caused the physical body to awaken soon after the projected double has begun to worry.

This event wakes the deeply sleeping physical body, thereby reactivating the reentry mechanism and allowing the projected double to successfully reintegrate.

Shadow memories from cases like this always contain a strong emotional content (often terror) that immediately floods into the physical mind as it flickers into wakefulness.

This forces the complete recall of a very unsettling experience, of the type most projectors would much rather forget - which is quite ironic, really.
This type of experience usually leaves the projector emotionally unsettled and disturbed, often with a long-lasting or permanent dread of any type of OBE.

The very best advice I can give to anyone finding themselves temporarily locked out of their body is to trust that this is quite normal and will not hurt you. Go exploring or return to the astral planes and enjoy the time you have left out of your body. You may not remember much later, but that doesn't matter, so enjoy it while you can.

The most important thing here is that you don't panic.

Death is a fairly extreme event, to say the least.
Even if you had died peacefully in your sleep from a heart attack or something, you surely would have been at least momentarily awakened while taking your last gasping breath.

If you have indeed passed away during an OBE, then there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it.
However, staying calm will help you a great deal if you really have suddenly deceased.

This will spare you a lot of torment and distress and will make your passing easier for you to deal with.
If you look around yourself, thinking you might have died, and see no religious figures or angels, spirit friends, or deceased relatives, and no tunnel of light or anything out of theme with a normal real-time projection, chances are extremely high that your physical body is just in a deep sleep.

If this is the case, it will wake up shortly none the worse for wear, as long as you don't panic and make things worse for yourself than they really are.

Flicker Tape Reentry Technique
The flicker-tape reentry method was designed with an eye to applying mind-split theory to overcome mind-split problems.
This is particularly useful if early projection attempts are continually failing, with projectors falling asleep and having no way of knowing whether they were successful or not.

I recommend that you record a simple tape to wake you very gently.
This works much better than any other type of alarm.

Tap a pencil lightly on a table once per second for five seconds and record the sound.
This is the first level of awakening noise.

This should be followed by a ten-second period of silence.
Follow this with a slightly louder tapping-noise segment, once per second for five seconds, then another ten seconds of silence.

This should be followed by a light chinking noise, created by tapping a pen on a glass or china cup once per second for another five seconds, then another ten seconds of silence.

After this, progressively increase the level of noise, varying its source (table, china, glass, metal, etc.) in five-second segments with ten second gaps of silence, until you are rapping a spoon onto a metal saucepan fairly loudly - loud enough to definitely wake you up.

A child's xylophone or recorded bird songs - anything you like - can be used to create a more interesting flicker tape.
Once you have this tape made, the volume can be set to what is just right for you.

To find the perfect level of noise that begins to wake you, have someone else wake you using tapping noises, as shown above.
Get them to monitor your reactions carefully, especially facial expressions and movement for signs of waking, for the signs that you are flickering between the waking and sleep states.

This will give them some idea of what level of sound is required to wake you.

Recording this process will yield more accurate results, as this information can then be applied to making the real flicker tape.

Projected Double's Part
Once out of body, stay at least twenty feet (six meters) away from your physical body, if possible, to stop yourself being accidentally reeled in.
If you feel pressure dragging you back into it, fight it and force yourself to move quickly away.

Alternatively, have another clock in a nearby room that is synchronized with the one next to your physical body.
Watch this clock and move back to reenter your body at the appointed time.

Carefully keep an eye on the time and make sure you return to your body in ample time to watch the clock as it nears alarm time.
Be prepared for a conscious reentry the moment it goes off.

Be aware that your physical counterpart has probably fallen into a light-to-medium sleep, possibly even into a deep sleep.

A successful, deliberate, and conscious reentry is now entirely up to the projected you.
One clock should be placed in such a position that the projected double can easily see it while standing or floating near the foot of the bed or chair being used, without it having to get too close to its physical body.

When the alarm goes off and the first set of tapping noises begins, you should be waiting nearby, ready for reentry, with a reentry trigger phrase being held firmly in mind. You must be poised and ready, waiting to feel the first tugging sensations that signal your physical body is beginning to flicker awake.

Once you feel this first tugging, you should immediately slide back into your physical body, shouting your trigger phrase exuberantly!
Be ready to take control as you reenter and force your physical body to wake up, remembering all, then write down your experience.

Always have a notebook and pen beside you.

Physical Body's Part
When you, in your physical body, first hear the tapping of the flicker tape and begin to awaken, you must try not to wake up immediately.
Try to ignore the noise and allow yourself to doze and flicker.

Try to fall back to sleep.
Waking your physical body is your projected double's job, not yours.

The flicker tape will continue its tapping at regular intervals, slowly getting louder each time, with ten-second gaps of silence.
Keep an eye out for the torso surge or falling sensation, either of which are signs that the projected double is reentering.

When you feel either of these sensations, know that your projected double is in the process of reintegrating.
If you miss this moment and just slowly come awake with no apparent memories, put your mind on search, and use OBE recall trigger phrases to pull back shadow memories.

The memories are there, you just have to reach in and trigger them.

The ten-second gaps of silence between each waking segment can be increased if the waking physical body does not have enough time to flicker back into a light sleep after a tapping segment has started the waking process.

It must be able to flicker or fall back into a semi-sleep or very light sleep for this technique to work properly.
In time, if you practice this technique regularly, you will become programmed to respond to the noises on your flicker tape by flickering in and out of the sleep state.

This will maximize your chances of a successful planned projection and reentry with a full shadow memory download.

One last way to use the above flicker-tape technique is with no projection technique being used at all.
Set the flicker tape alarm for fifteen or twenty minutes after you calculate you will fall asleep.

Simply set the alarm and allow yourself to fall asleep as normal, noting the time at which it is set to go off.
Using the flicker-tape method is then entirely up to your projected double. It is solely responsible for waking you up and forcing a full shadow memory download by watching the clock and using the shouted trigger phrase reentry technique.

When the tape wakes your physical body, allow yourself to flicker for a while, but if you come fully awake with no projection memories, use the OBE recall phrases to assist with shadow memory recall.
 
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@Wyote - Gonna have to try this with you...muhahahaha...seriously though, I’m gonna. ;)

I feel like within the last few weeks in particular I've been able to sort of tune in to your actual being if that makes sense. Like I have a better sense of the textures of you as a person.
 
I feel like within the last few weeks in particular I've been able to sort of tune in to your actual being if that makes sense. Like I have a better sense of the textures of you as a person.

Hmmmm...that is interesting...how about I first tell you when I will be, and then I don’t tell you and see if you pick up anything either time?
Tomorrow I will be meditating and purposefully targeting you for part of the time...between the hours of 11am and 2pm Pacific standard.
Let me know if anything happens to happen, lol.
 
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The memories are there, they just have to be triggered and dug out.
Use the trigger phrases given below, over and over.
  • I felt these awesome vibrations and then...?

  • I buzzed out of my body and then...?

  • I floated across the room and then...?

  • I passed through the wall and then...?

  • I looked at my hands and they...?

  • I was just about to...?

  • I was inside...?

  • I was talking to...?

  • There were lots of...?

  • I was flying over...?

  • I was with...?

  • I saw a...?
This, well all of it, was very helpful! Thank you.
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This, well all of it, was very helpful! Thank you.
:<3violet:

Oh...I have more... ;)
Lol
Just ran out of space and patience yesterday editing it and adding pictures/gifs.
There WILL be more on the subject!
Glad you liked it!
 
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