astral projection technique collection

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Technique 1: Visualisation

Visualize yourself out of body. Lie down on a bed so that you are facing the ceiling and

straighten your arms and legs so that they are aligned with your body and relaxed.

Next close your eyes and let yourself become completely relaxed until you have

reached the stage between waking and sleeping. Even though you are now into this

hazy in-between zone of consciousness you should still have full control over your mind.

After a few moments begin to visualize yourself outside of your body, imagine yourself

standing several feet away and looking back at your body lying on the bed. If you can

keep this visualization strongly in your mind, and for long enough, you may suddenly

find yourself projected into that position and able to view your own body asleep on the

bed. At this point, if you wish to remain projected you should move away from your

physical body as soon as possible, as it has the tendency to pull you back in if you are

too close.

Technique 2: Enter the Double

Lie down and relax as described in the technique above. Now visualize a phantom-like

double of yourself hovering about five feet above your physical body. Be sure that the

double is a stable visualization and that it is lying parallel to your body on the bed.

The next step is to transfer your consciousness into the double, by strongly imagining

what it would really feel like to be in that position, five feet up in the air. Imagine the

sensation of floating and how the room would look from this new viewpoint. Try and keep

your mind inside this second body without letting it flip back and forth to the body lying

below.

After a short while of doing this you may discover that your consciousness has actually

transferred over to the phantom body and you are now able to perceive the room from

its perspective. Without thinking of your physical body, willyourself to move away, in

order to weaken the chances of an unwanted return.


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Technique 3: The Ring

Make sure you are lying down and completely relaxed; your eyes should be closed and

your mouth slightly open.

As soon as you think you are deeply relaxed imagine a large glowing ring of pure

energy six feet above your body. It must be large enough to pass easily over your body

from head to toe.

Once the vision is firmly fixed in your mind, imagine it slowly descending towards you;

try and feel the energy entering your body and causing it to vibrate as the ring passes

over you. As soon as you begin to feel the vibrations, strengthen them by repeating the

step over and over until countless rings have passed over you.

If done correctly your entire body will eventually be gripped by a powerful surge of

vibrations and you may even sense a mild separation. When this happens strongly, will

your astral self to rise upwards and away from your body.

Technique 4: The Dot

Lie down on your back, eyes open, and keep them fixed upon a single point on the

ceiling above your head.

Now, without moving your eyes or your head, visualize this point of concentration to

move to the right; imagine it as a dot slowly crawling across the ceiling towards the wall.

When it has reached the wall, visualize it crawling down to the floor, passing you as it

does so. Remember not to move your eyes and don't break the vision of the dot's

journey - otherwise you will have to start again. Once it has reached the floor, visualize it

moving across and under the bed upon which you are lying.

At this point you may start to feel dizzy as you attempt to force your astral body to turn

over inside the physical body. Continue to move the dot from out the other side of the

bed and up the opposite wall back to the place that you had started. Repeat this

exercise until you reach the peak where your astral self will be forced out of your body.


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Technique 5: Flying

If you have the ability to visualize strongly and do not like complicated techniques, then

this may be the one for you.

Simply lie down, relax, and begin to visualize yourself flying (superman style). Imagine

what it would feel like to be able to walkto a window on the second floor of your house,

or to step up onto the windowsill and launch yourself off into the air of the great

outdoors. Imagine as vividly as you can travelling through the air, flying high above

rooftops and the surrounding countryside. Try to feel the cool air rushing past your face,

and the sensation of your clothes as they flutter about in the wind.

You may like to place an electric fan (a quiet one) in a position where your body will

receive the force of the draught, increasing the belief that you are really feeling the

outside air rush past you as you fly. Prolonged use of this visualization may encourage

the separation of the astral body.

Technique 6: Self-Induced Trance

Assume a comfortable position and then begin to concentrate on an imaginary door

within the mind.

Breathing should be deep and rhythmical, and eyes closed but rolled upward. Soon you

will begin to feel a slight numbness that starts in the feet and travels up the legs until it

eventually spreads all over the body. A muscular rigidity will then set in, along with a

mounting pressure in the head.

After a while you will soon achieve the effect of being able to see through closed

eyelids, and the room will appear to be illuminated by a pale, golden radiance. At this

point you may become subjected to the appearance of apparitions and terrifying

sounds. These must be ignored as much as possible as they can be very efficient in

interrupting your concentration and breaking the trance.

And now you will be experiencing the peculiar sensation of having two bodies: the

painful physical one and, imprisoned within it, a fluidic body. The next step would be to


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try and force this subtle body through an imaginary door in your mind by a strong effort

of will. If you are successful, you will have the extraordinary sensation of passing

through the door and hearing it click behind you. (Why this can be heard is unknown.)

From here you can then step out of your physical body and walk away.

Technique 7: Staring

For this technique you will need an armchair, a candle, an orange-coloured cardboard

disc (one inch in diametre) and a large mirror which should be hanging from a wall.

Position the armchair in front of the mirror and attach the cardboard disc to the centre of

your forehead. After having lit the candle (which should have been placed nearby),

switch off the lights and sit in the chair so that you are facing the mirror. Make sure you

are comfortable and able to relax.

Now that you are able to see your reflection in the mirror, begin to stare at the disc on

your forehead. You must do this for at least five minutes without ever blinking once. If

you find yourself blinking, start again. This may sound difficult to begin with, but with

regular practice you will be able to increase your time from one minute, to two minutes,

then three and so on.

After having practiced this for some time, you will begin to notice your consciousness

flickering back and forth to the image in the mirror. One minute you feel yourself sitting in

the armchair, and the next you're in the mirror. If you can keep this going for a few more

minutes you may eventually find yourself projected into the mirror and out through the

wall on the other side.


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Technique 8: Rolled Eyes

This method can be done lying down or sitting up in an armchair. Make sure you are

comfortable and completely relaxed, your eyes closed and your breathing deep and

rhythmical.

Roll your eyes up so that they are focused upon the point at the centre of your forehead.

If you can keep them held there awhile you should begin to notice the increase of

consciousness building up in that area, and the lack of feeling in the rest of your body.

Continue this until you feel that the whole of your being has collected together in the

centre of your forehead and you can no longer feel your body. When you have achieved

this you must then force the centre of consciousness out of your head by a supreme

effort of will.

This technique can be a terrible strain on the eyes but is one that has been found to be

very effective.

Technique 9: Shock Yourself Out

The title for this technique just about says it all. This method requires no concentration or

deep relaxation procedures, but unlike all the others, it will need the assistance of a

second person.

Warning: This method can be dangerous to those with a weak heart, so consider this

wisely!

Whoever you choose to assist with this technique must have a certain degree of

patience as they will have to watch you from the point of settling down to the point of

almost falling asleep.

The method is quite simple. All you will be required to do is lie down on your back and

hold one forearm up in the air so that your elbow is resting on the bed, then remain in

this position as you attempt to drift off to sleep. Your assistant, who should be sitting

quietly nearby, is required to watch your arm as you start to fall asleep and notice how it

starts to sway as you lose consciousness.


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As soon as your arm has fallen onto the bed, that person will then have to shout out in

your ear, "GET OUT!" or "JUMP OUT!"

The idea of this is to make you jump out of your skin, literally. If you have any other

people in the house at the time, ie, family members, it's usually a good idea to tell them

about the experiment before you start!

Technique 10: Auto Suggestion

For this technique you will need an alarm clock. Set the alarm to wake you two hours

earlier than your usual time, then go to bed as normal. When the alarm wakes you in the

morning you should still feel tired enough to easily fall asleep again.

Before you do, say to yourself, "when I fall asleep I will leave my body" or "the next time I

fall asleep I will have an out of body experience". Repeat this over and over in your mind

until you fall asleep. At some point after having fallen asleep, you may find yourself

projected.

Technique 11: Shape Visualisation

This is probably best done sitting comfortably in an armchair. If you sit fairly upright with

good head support and your arms along the arms of the chair, you should be able to sit

for quite a while without falling asleep or being uncomfortable.

With your eyes closed visualise a simple circle being drawn in the space in front of your

closed eyes. At first itll be a bit wobbly, but continue to practise until you can mentally

draw a perfect circle. Then begin to draw the circle in other areas of your mind. You

dont have to move your eyes you can just stare straight ahead (with your eyes closed,

of course) and you have an entire universe to draw in.

With practice you'll be able to draw that circle perfectly anywhere you choose.

This technique takes a lot of practice, but its good for those of you who have strong

visual appreciation. Once youve mastered the circle begin to include a cross inside it.

This circle with four segments is the ancient symbol of the North American Hopi people,


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youve got some in the house! One projector tried this technique for many weeks and

reported absolutely no success at all. When questioned she admitted that she didnt like

oranges and never ate them. Please use your initiative. If you dont like oranges swap

the orange for a chocolate bar or a cup of fresh brewed coffee or whatever it is that

gets your taste buds going.

Technique 13: Movement Visualisation

You can follow all the same principles as in the previous two techniques, but this one

relies more on the visualisations of movement.

Imagine, in your mental space, a disc. It can be any colour you like flat and round and

face-on to you. Imagine it spinning. Start it off slowly and let it build up speed. Once it

has started to spin fast all the colour will bleed away and youll have a spinning disc of

pure white. Allow all your imagination to go out into that spinning blur of white let it

draw you out of yourself until you are out.

Technique 14: Counting Breaths and Beats

Adopt a relaxed position and place your left hand palm-down on your chest so you can

feel your chest rising and falling as you breath. Bring your right hand round so that you

can grasp your left hand by the wrist. Move the fingers of your right hand until you are

taking your own pulse. When you can find and feel the pulse in your left wrist you are

ready.

Begin by allowing yourself to relax completely. Let your breathing and heart rate slow

down until they are as slow as theyre going to get. Let your left hand feel your chest and

count the breaths you take. When, and if, you can keep concentration until you have

counted up to twenty without losing count, youll be ready to move on to part two of this

technique.

At the same time as you are counting breaths, start counting heartbeats. You have to

hold both counts in your head at the same time. Its difficult and youll keep losing count

or concentration.


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A good tip to help you is to take a breath only every so many heartbeats try ten to

begin with. Once you get into a rhythm and this one is very difficult to begin with

youll find that theres a curious sensation that accompanies this technique. Its as if you

can feel the heart beat of the universe, or the breathing of the cosmos. Once this

happens and youll be in a pretty deep meditative state by the time it does its easy

to slip out into the pulsating rhythm of the universe.

Technique 15: Lucid Dreams

Most of us know that we have a source of dreams where things seem real and yet we

also know that we are dreaming. Well, you can induce them. A lucid dream is one where

you actually wake up into your dream, and the dream can be used to spark off a

projection. There are three ways to induce them.

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If you should wake immediately after a dream of the normal sort (this is best if it

happens in the early hours), get out of bed at once do not delay for a moment. Walk

rapidly around your bedroom while you mentally replay the dream you just had. Keep

thinking to yourself that when you get back into bed youre going to have the same

dream over again and this time youll be awake in it. This technique has a great success

rate. When you lie down to sleep you may well find yourself up and out fairly quickly.

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During the day keep thinking: Tonight Im going to have a lucid dream. Remind yourself

of this all day long. And and this is the important part keep asking yourself during the

day Am I dreaming now?

This may all sound too easy, but if you can go one day without forgetting Id be

surprised. You need to develop a technique to remind you such as writing a large D

on your hand with a felt-tip pen (D is for dreaming) or tying a small piece of string round

your little finger. Every time you see either of these two visual aids it will remind you what

youre supposed to be doing.

When you get into bed hold the string or touch the D as you fall asleep and, hopefully,

youll have programmed your consciousness to induce a lucid dream. Once youre in it


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you can be aware that a lucid dream is an attempt by the mind to rationally explain a

projection. In a lucid dream youre already out.

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Set your alarm for a time in the early hours (yes, I know this ones hard). As you go to

sleep recite over and over to yourself: When I hear the alarm Ill be out, or When I hear

the alarm Ill have a lucid dream. That will programme yourself in advance. You can

even try banging your head on the pillow just before you go to sleep and saying, as you

do so: Ill be lucid dreaming when the alarm goes off. You should do this the same

number of times that youve set the alarm for set it for four oclock and bang your head

four times and repeat your instructions four times.

Technique 16: Energy Raising

Lie down and become completely relaxed. Imagine you are composed of pure energy.

Let that energy vibrate in your imagination, slowly at first, and then gradually speeding

up. Keep going back over your body checking that each part is humming. Let the

energy gradually build up until you can feel your whole body vibrating very fast. You

dont have to move a single muscle this is all done in the imagination. If you find that

you are actually physically moving you are doing it wrong.

When you can imagine this fast energy vibrating throughout your entire being, you can

suddenly release it direct it like an arrow let it explode out of the top of your head in a

great stream of pure consciousness and youll be out.


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Technique 17: Chakras

According to the traditional view of yoga we have seven chakras or energy centres

situated throughout the body. These chakras need to be fully open for us to project.

This technique involves opening them. They are:

1 Base or seed chakra situated at the base of the spine. This chakra called

Muladhara governs our instincts and genetic encoding. Its symbol is the yellow

square.

2 Pelvic chakra situated at the genitals and known as Swadhistthana. It governs our

sex drive and energy. Its symbol is the white crescent.

3 Solar plexus chakra situated at the naval and known as Manipuraka. It governs our

sense of personal power and its symbol is a red triangle.

4 Heart chakra situated over the heart and known as Anahata. It governs our emotions

and its symbol is a blue hexagon.

5 Throat chakra situated at the throat and known as Vishuddha. It governs our ability

to communicate and its symbol is the white circle.

6 Brow chakra situated between the eyebrows and known as Ajna. It governs our

intellect and its symbol is the white triangle.

7 Crown chakra situated on top of the head and known as Sahasrara. It governs our

spirituality and its symbol is a white lotus flower.

Various systems of yoga will give slightly different symbols or colours or even names.

At this stage its not important: we are using the chakras only as a tool for projecting.

You need to lie down in a relaxed position. Imagine that each chakra you have a small

bag or pouch drawn tightly shut with a draw string. Slowly visualise each chakra

starting with the base chakra and imagine the bag being opened. Imagine the string

being loosened and the bag being pulled fully opened and that the chakras symbol

emerges from the bag and sits above it. This technique opens the chakras. Once they

are open and they should be opened in the correct order starting with the base chakra

and finishing with the crown chakra there is a stream of energy released that will slowly

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the crown chakra at the top of the head. This stream of energy should carry your

consciousness with it and youll be out.

Whether you get out or not, it is important to reverse the process prior to getting up

again. Imagine each of the symbols being put back in the bag, and the bag being

drawn tightly shut again.

Technique 18: Heavy/Light

Lie down and allow yourself to become completely relaxed.

Imagine as you lie there relaxing that you are slowly becoming enormously heavy.

Concentrate every fibre of your being to this one thought. You are heavier than youve

ever been feel every muscle, every limb, every part of your body weighed down with

heaviness.

Just when you can tolerate no more heaviness suddenly reverse the process and

imagine that you are suddenly and dramatically lighter than air. Imagine you weigh

nothing at all. You may well find that your consciousness simply rises up and out.

You can liken this technique to being in a lift you know how heavy you feel as the lift

ascends rapidly and then you feel very light, as if you could float, when the lift suddenly

stops.

Technique 19: Questioning

For this one you can lie or sit. Wait until you are completely relaxed and in a dreamy

state, thinking about nothing in particular. When you have reached this state you can

ask questions of yourself. These are the important questions: Who am I?, What am I here

for?, What is the meaning of my life?

If you ask these suddenly and with great meaning it has been found that it can so

confuse your consciousness that it short-circuits and promptly leaves the physical body.

This technique seems to work best with younger people those who are asking these

questions of themselves anyway. Older people may well have worked out some answers

they may not be the right answers, but they stop the person asking any more.


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Technique 20: Trickery

There are several ways to try to trick your consciousness out of your body.

Fast moving and stopping You can try running fast and then suddenly stop, and see

what happens to your consciousness. It may well continue on its own for a few moments

before it realises youve stopped.

The mirror Find one of those shaving mirrors which grossly magnifies. If you stand at

the right distance away you can see yourself upside down. Spend some time looking at

yourself and try to convince your consciousness that it is the wrong way up. Sometimes

it comes out to reverse the process and put itself back where it thinks its supposed to

be.

Turning round If you stand up and remain still for a moment, and then suddenly whirl

round so that you are facing the other way, you may find your consciousness so taken

by surprise that it fails to keep up with you and gets spun out.

Giddiness You can try the Sufitechnique used by the Whirling Dervishes. Simply twirl

around fast until you are completely giddy, and then suddenly stop. You may fall down,

so be careful, but you may also find your consciousness continues to twirl after you have

stopped.

Im out, youre in Simply concentrate hard on the thought that you are already out.

Convince your consciousness that its in the wrong body it may try to switch bodies.

You dont have to use any visualisation: merely thinking about this hard enough will do

the trick.

Hammock swinging If youve got a hammock you can suspend yourself upside down

in it. Let yourself go completely limp and relaxed and let the hammock swing gently. You

wont need much imagination to feel yourself flying. At the end of each swing try to

imagine that you continue on and dont go back with the hammock. If youve got a

garden with a large tree you could always try rigging up a swing from it a large

wooden board on two ropes and lying across it face down to see what effect you can

get.


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Technique 23: Exploring Your Home

Lie down and relax. Allow your imagination to wander through your home exploring and

examining every detail of every room. Try to spot something youve never noticed before

this is easier than youd think: we rarely look that closely at anything. Once youve

spotted something unusual or not previously noticed you can go and check it out in

your physical body of course after youve finished. Its surprising how often this one

works. Sometimes were out and dont even realise it.

Technique 24: Raised Arm

Adopt the usual relaxation position, but this time lie down and raise one arm. Keep this

arm raised no matter what. As you forget what you are doing it will drop and that will

remind you. The effort of keeping it up will grow intolerable after a while, and it is at this

point you may well find yourself out if only to escape the discomfort.

Technique 25: Back To Childhood

This one works only if you had a happy childhood, as you need to imagine you are back

in your childhood home. Use your imagination to explore every room. Remember all the

little details of where you once played. Its quite common for the nostalgia of such a trip

to trigger something in you, and youll find yourself out. Try not to be too disappointed if

you find yourself back in your childhood home and its been redecorated nothing

stands still for ever.


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Technique 26: Audio/Visual Aids

One of the most successful methods of inducing an astral projection is through

hypnosis. However, we dont all have a trained hypnotherapist living next door, so we

must try to hypnotise ourselves. Youll need to make an audiocassette with all the

relevant instructions. If you record the details of a good relaxation technique, youll end

up in a completely relaxed state just listening. Then you can record such instructions as:

You are now leaving your body, or you feel your consciousness slowly slipping out of

your physical body.

Youll need to leave a blank space on the tape for being out and then you can have

instructions like: You are now re-entering your body, or Its time to come back now.

For getting out you could try counting yourself down: Ill now count down from ten to

one, and when you hear one youll be outtennineeight

Some people find music a useful tool for projecting others find it a distraction. If you

find it easy to get lost in music you could try projecting while listening to something

suitable. Rachmaninovs SymphonyNo. 2 has been found to be useful. There are many

New Age tapes on the market and many of these are suitable. Try to avoid any that may

distract you with unexpected noises l ike sudden rainfall or whale songs. The Japanese

composer, Kitaro, has produced several cassettes that have been found to be most

helpful for this type of experience. Try his album Silk Road.

You could try staring at a yantra. A yantra is a complex pattern that draws the eye in and

enables you to get lost in the design. Many New Age shops sell them either as posters

or cards. They hold the mind and, by staring at them, you can find your consciousness

slipping into them, through them, and out.

You could try using a mantra a repeated phrase or word that you say over and over

again to yourself internally. Try I am astrally projecting now, or I am out. Whatever

phrase you use it should be short, positive and meaningful. Its no point saying Ill be

projecting in a minute, or I think Im projecting. You have to be firm with yourself.


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Technique 27: Meditation

There are several meditation techniques that help achieve successful results.

Visible breath Relax and allow yourself to be completely at peace. Concentrate on

your breathing until it is slow, shallow and regular. You may like to try this by breathing in

through your nose and out through your mouth. As you breathe imagine that you can

see your breath leaving your mouth. Imagine it as a white misty stream. Imagine that this

breath contains your consciousness and, as you breathe out, so your consciousness is

leaving your physical body.

Abdominal breathing Bring your breath down so that you are breathing using your

abdomen. You can rest your hands on your abdomen and feel your stomach gently

rising and falling. As you feel the rhythm you can imagine your consciousness swelling

and retracting with each breath. Imagine your consciousness swelling and rising

beyond your physical body and into the surrounding air. With each breath imagine it

going a little further.

Third-eye meditation Relax with your eyes closed and imagine that there is a spot of

light within your mind situated just above your eyebrows in the centre of your forehead

and about an inch inside your head. This is the location of your third eye the pineal

gland. You can concentrate on this tiny spot of light and imagine it as your

consciousness. Let it expand until it fills your whole mind and see what happens. You

may find that this dot of light changes colour and shape, and develops patterns. It may

well change to a pulsating ball of dark blue. By concentrating on this ball of blue you

may find it possible to encourage your consciousness to move with it, and move outside

of the physical you.

Closed circle meditation As you relax allow your body to feel like a ball of energy. Use

your imagination to see your consciousness right in the centre of this ball. Let your

imagination allow your consciousness to expand until it fills the ball, and then let it over-

spill. Imagine your body being surrounded by the aura a misty envelope of energy all

around you. Let this aura expand until it is several feet from you and your consciousness

fills it.


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Vibration meditation You need to be sitting in your armchair for this one. Sit and

become relaxed with your hands lightly folded in your lap. When you are completely

relaxed you can begin to rock gently backwards and forwards. Youll quickly find that

youll discover your own rhythm. This rocking should be barely perceptible. When you

have found your rhythm and feel at ease with this rocking, you can begin to speed it up.

As you go faster and faster you may find that your consciousness is unable to keep up

and is being trailed slightly behind each movement. Once you can feel this shift your

consciousness is actually out of sync with you youll be able to push it further and

further until it is out.

Technique 28: Sky Bathing and Stargazing

Try lying on your back out of doors for these techniques. If you can, find a hill where you

can lie on the top and thus not see any surrounding countryside. Go through the usual

relaxation routine, but keep your eyes open. Stare straight up at the sky a warm cloudy

day is best. As you look up, imagine that you are floating free looking down. This

technique should obviously be practised somewhere where youll be undisturbed.

Someone walking up to you or a puppy jumping on you would be terribly distracting,

and could even be quite a shock if you were out.

You can try the same technique on a warm starry evening. Looking up at the stars you

can imagine you are up amongst them floating free. Imagine you are looking down at

you physical body. You can extend this technique try it lying in a boat idly drifting

down a gentle river, or if you are a passenger in a car, or on a train.

Technique 29: Altered Viewpoint

You know how it is when youre a child you crawl under tables, climb on the furniture,

and make camps under the beds. Well, as an adult we stop doing this, but this

technique allows you to play again. Get a chair (or a stepladder is best if you can trust

yourself to use one without falling off it) and put it in the furthermost corner of your

bedroom. Stand on the chair and see your bed from an altered viewpoint. Have you ever


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seen your bed from this angle before? Your viewpoint should be higher than usual.

Imagine yourself lying in bed. What would you look like? Could you imagine being out

and seeing yourself from this angle?

This technique works best if you can get as high as possible. Study this new viewpoint

until you know it well. When youre ready, go and lie down on the bed and close your

eyes and imagine that youre back standing on the chair, or whatever, and looking down

at yourself. You may well find you are.

Technique 30: The Body of Light

Like everything else, the Body of Light technique requires practice, but you are not

asked to hold yourself balanced in a hypnogogic state or take control of your dreams. all

you are asked to do is use your imagination.

Begin by finding a comfortable chair in a room where you will not be disturbed. Then

relax, using any method you find works for you. Deep, trance-like relaxation is definitely

not required. Simply let go of your worries and muscular tensions so you can

concentrate on the job at hand. Now imagine you are no longer seated in your chair, but

standing in the room at a spot about six feet away. Try to visualize yourself standing

there as clearly as you can. Make a real effort to paint in detail. Don't just settle for a

vague, imaginary shape. Try to 'see what you are wearing. Imagine the scuff marks on

your shoes. Count the buttons on your jacket. Note the way your hair falls over one eye.

Examine the expression on your face. Visualize in colour and in depth. (Muldoons mirror

exercise is a really excellent preliminary to this technique since it familiarizes you with

your own appearance.)

It is perfectly acceptable to visualize yourself as you are in reality i.e. dressed in

sweater and jeans, or whatever but some romantic souls find it easier, or possibly just

more fun, to see themselves as a mysteriously robed and hooded figure. That is okay

too, but pay attention to detail mysteriously robed and hooded figures do not all look

the same.

Spend as much time as you need to build up this imaginary figure fully. A good idea is

to set aside a particular time each day for the exercise and devote 10 to 15 minutes


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daily to it for a week or more. Avoid rushing this preliminary stage: it is actually the most

important part of the whole exercise, the creation of the Body of Light after which it is

named. As you practice, you will find the visualization becomes progressively easier

until a simple effort of will is enough to call it up in its entirety. Once you have reached

this stage, proceed to phase two of the exercise.

Phase two involves you imagining that you are rising from your chair and walking around

the room. Close your eyes and try it out. Remember how the room appears from the

viewpoint of your chair, close your eyes and try to visualize that same scene. If you find

the details difficult, open your eyes again for a refresher. Keep working at it until you are

perfectly capable of describing the room in detail with your eyes closed.

With this achieved, imagine yourself rising from your chair and walking slowly round the

edges of the room in a clockwise direction. Try to see in your minds eye how the

perspective of the room changes as you move. Try to remember those small objects and

ornaments which were not necessarily visible from your chair, but which you know to be

in the room nonetheless.

If you have difficulty with this part of the exercise, open your eyes, stand up physically

and walk clockwise around the room. Then sit down, close your eyes again, and try to

duplicate the journey in your imagination. Keep working on it until your visualization

becomes easy and vivid. Now try the same walk anti-clockwise.

After a time and how much time varies with the individual you will discover the

visualization no longer requires much effort. When this happens, try visualizing yourself

in another room, again walking around it first clockwise, then anti-clockwise. Select a

room you know well, but try visualizing without first visiting it if at all possible.

You should find your mental pictures of the second room come faster and easier than

the first since you are, of course, exercising your visualization ability. When you have

thoroughly explored the second room, mentally extend your range and visualize yourself

wandering throughout your entire house.

Many people visualize extremely well and have little difficulty with any of this. If you are

not so fortunate, keep trying: there is no time limit on the exercise and practice will

eventually bring it right. Just dont devote more than, say, 20 minutes each day to the

practice: this is more than enough, so long as you practice regularly.


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At this point, try exploring a totally unfamiliar area while in this imaginary body, then visit

the same area when you get back into your physical body. (Which, incidentally, you do

by reversing the initial process: from the viewpoint of your new body, simply visualize

how your room looks from the physical body sitting on the chair.) Do not be too shocked

if you discover that the scene you saw while in your imaginary body is confirmed in

every detail when you visit the spot in reality.

What, you might reasonably wonder, is going on here? If you have successfully followed

the technique all the way through, it seems fairly obvious that you have managed to

project your consciousness into a second body, that you have, in essence, created a

phantom. But while this body can take you anywhere you want to go and pass through

solid walls in the process it is equally evident that there are substantial differences

between the experience and the sort of projections described by people like Monroe

and Muldoon.

Where, for example, is the separation of one body from the other? In this exercise, you

did not actually separate anything from anything you simply imagined a second body

standing in the corner. And where was the peculiar state of consciousness apparently

so necessary for etheric projection, the hypnogogic borderline between sleep and

waking? Where was the physical incapacity? You were in a perfectly normal state

throughout and if you want to move your physical body you could do so with no trouble

whatsoever.

Whatever the similarities, you might be tempted to conclude you were not projecting

your etheric body at all. And you would be right. The Body of Light technique brings you

closer to something even more exciting than stepping out in your etheric body. It

introduces you to astral plane projection.

Extracted from J.H. Brennan's book

"Discover Astral Projection - How To Achieve Out-Of-Body Experiences"


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MONR OE TECHNIQUES FOR ASTRAL PROJECTION

Note: After having studied many methods of Astral

Projection, I have found that this is the easiest to do.Monroe teaches these techniques in a week, but they can beeasily done in a day, with proper devotion. I feel that thistechnique is superior to others because it doe not requireintense visualization, which many people cannot do.enjoy!

(Taken from Leaving The Body: A Complete Guide to AstralProjection, D. Scott Rogo, prentice Hall Press)

One of the chief barriers people learning to project face is

fear. Many are afraid that they may die, or be harmed in someway as a result of their projection. Nothing could be fartherfrom the truth. The Canterbury Institute, renowned for itsoccult studies, executed an experiment in projection involvingover 2,000 people. None of them were hurt in any way by this,and now, three years later, none have complained of any newlyarising problems.

Once you are aware that you cannot be harmed by projecting,you should begin monroe's techniques, step by step.

Step one:

Relax the body. According to Monroe, "the ability to relaxis the first prerequisite, perhaps even the first step itself"to having an OBE. (out of body experience) This includes bothphysical and mental relaxation. Monroe does not suggest amethod of attaining this relaxation, although ProgressiveMuscle relaxation, coupled with deep breathing exercises(inhale 1, exhale 2, inhale 3.... until 50 or 100) are knownto work well.

Step two:Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the

hypnagogic state. Once again, Monroe doesn't recommend anymethod of doing this. One way is to hold your forearm

up, while keeping your upper arm on the bed, or ground. As youstart to fall asleep, your arm will fall, and you will awakenagain. With practice, you can learn to control the Hypnagogicstate without using your arm. Another method is toconcentrate on an object. When other images start to enteryour thoughts, you have entered the Hypnagogic state.Passively watch these images. This will also help youmaintain this state of near-sleep. Monroe calls this ConditionA.


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Step three:

Deepen this state. Begin to clear your mind. observe yourfield of vision through your closed eyes. Do nothing morefor a while. Simply look through your closed eyelids at theblackness in front of you. After a while, you may notice

light patterns. These are simply neural discharges. Theyhave no specific effect. Ignore them. When they cease, onehas entered what Monroe calls Condition B. From here, onemust enter an even deeper state of relaxation which Monroecalls Condition C-- a state of such relaxation that you loseall awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You arealmost in a void in which your only source of stimulation willbe your own thoughts.

The ideal state for leaving your body is Condition D.This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced from arested and refreshed condition and is not the effect of normalfatigue. To achieve Condition D, Monroe suggests that you

practice entering it in the morning or after a short nap.

Step Four:Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important

part of the technique, and also the most vague.Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset

of projection. They can be experienced as a mild tingling, oras is electricity is being shot through the body. /theircause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body tryingto leave the physical one.For entering into the vibrational state, he offers thefollowing directions:

1. Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touchingyour skin.2. Darken the room so that no light can be seen through youreyelids, but do not shut out all light.3. Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with yourhead pointed toward magnetic north.4. Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you areslightly warmer than might normally be comfortable.5. Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when,there will be absolutely no noise to disturb you.6. Enter a state of relaxation7. Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember

all that occurs during the upcoming session that will bebeneficial to your well-being. Repeat this five times.8. Proceed to breath through your half-open mouth.9. As you breath, concentrate on the void in front of you.

10. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then changeyour point of mental reference to six feet.

11. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginaryline parallel to your body axis up and above your head. Focusthere and reach out for the vibrations at that point andbring them back into your body.

Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you

will know when you have achieved contact with them.


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Step five:Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice

controlling them by mentally pushing them into your head, downto your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body,and producing vibrational waves from head to foot. To producethis wave effect, concentrate of the vibrations and mentally

push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body.Practice this until you can induce these waves on command.

Once you have control of the vibrational state, you areready to leave the body.

Step six:Begin with a partial separation. The key here is thought

control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the idea of leavingthe body. Do not let it wander. Stray thought might cause youto lose control of the state.

Now, having entered the vibrational state, begin exploringthe OBE by releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body".

Monroe suggests that you extend a limb until it comes incontact with a familiar object, such as a wall near your bed.Then push it through the object. Return the limb by placing itback into coincidence with the physical one, decrease thevibrational rate, and then terminate the experiment. Liequietly until you have fully returned to normal. This exercisewill prepare you for full separation.

Step seven:Dissociate yourself from the body. Monroe suggests two

methods for this. One method is to lift out of the body. Todo this, think about getting lighter and lighter after

entering this vibrational state. Think about how nice itwould be to float upward. Keep this thought in mind at allcosts and let no extraneous thoughts interrupt it. An OBE willoccur naturally at this point.

Another method is the "Rotation method" or "roll-out"technique. When you have achieved the vibrational state, tryto roll over as if you were turning over in bed. /do notattempt to roll over physically. Try to twist your body fromthe top and virtually roll over into your second body rightout of your physical self. At this point, you will be out ofthe body but next to it. Think of floating upward, and youshould find yourself floating above the body.

Monroe suggests you begin with the lift-out method, but

argues that both are equally efficacious.

If, after all this, you still can't project, I recommendpurchasing Leaving The Body, by R. Scott Rogo. It only costs$7.95 and contains another eight or so techniques. Not alltechniques work for everyone, but chances are you'll find onethat works for you in this book. Good luck!

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